NEA Leader Attacks Nixon Plan for Private School Aid
Donald E. Morrison, incoming NEA president and San Diego teacher, denounces Nixon proposed federal funding for private schools as irresponsible. He urges focus on K-12 needs and predicts more teacher strikes, while pledging continued political action within the union. Morrison takes the NEA helm after the 109th convention opening, with Helen Bain stepping down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Waugh
Detroit
National Education Association
Nixon
United States
Donald E. Morrison
Morrison
San Diego
Calif
NEA
Helen Bain
Area Deaths And Funerals Highlights Local Obituaries
Obituary items list Theodore Smedley 65 of Kimball and Rev. Burton DeBusk 76 of Abingdon among multiple services to be held. Other notices include Mrs. Sue Brewster, Clyde Kessinger, Muriel Fannon, Birdie Justice, Rexie Jennings, and W L Byrd Gilbert with funeral details and burial plans across Virginia and West Virginia communities.
Princeton Man Burned in Mercer Street Gasoline Fire
Randolph Pendleton suffered third degree burns over about 30 percent of his body Sunday afternoon after a gasoline explosion in a Mercer Street basement. Fire officials suspect fumes ignited by a hot water heater. the home owned by John R. Pendleton sustained extensive smoke damage. Pendleton was listed in satisfactory condition at Princeton Community Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Mercer Street
Princeton Community Hospital
Randolph Pendleton
Marvin Hyatt
Pendleton
John R. Pendleton
Hyatt
Randolph Urges Fast Track for West Virginia Roads
Senator Jennings Randolph pressed for accelerated highway construction in West Virginia noting a 2.9 percent rise in vehicle registrations despite population decline. He argued federal funds are being withheld and impounded, hindering interstate development and overall road building in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Congress
West Virginia Democrat
Graveside rites for infant son Comer Jr.
Graveside rites for William Allen Comer Jr infant son of Mr and Mrs William A Comer will be held today at 2 p m at Neely Cemetery on Princeton Rt 4 with Rev Jerry L Key officiating Davis Funeral Home at Oakvale is in charge of arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Allen Comer Jr
William A. Comer
Neely
Princeton Rt. 4
Jerry L. Key
Davis Funeral Home
Oakvale
Obituary of Mrs Cora Compton Shortridge of Grundy Virginia
Mrs. Cora Compton Shortridge 83 of Grundy Virginia died Saturday in a Charlottesville hospital after a long illness. She was survived by five daughters, three sons, four brothers, 42 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the family home with Rev. Mitchell Shortt officiating and burial in the family cemetery near the home. The body was moved from Grundy Funeral Home to the residence Sunday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Smedley
Kimball
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Roanoke
Alabama
Lessie Smedley
Mollie Smedley
Mount Nebo Baptist Church
Kimball Town Council
UMWA
Gary
Mary E. Smedley
Serenthia Smedley
Donald Smedley
Washington, D C
Leonard Smedley
Seat Pleasant
William Smedley
Bolling Air Force Base
Washington, D.C
James Wormley
Garden of Devotion
Restlawn Memorial Estates
Littlesburg
Larry Lipscomb
Samuel Hazzard
Henry Wingfield
Sam Darden Jr
Oscar Tidmore
Joe Russell
Missionary Society of Mount Nebo Baptist Church
Friends Friends
Kimball Funeral Home
Burton F. DeBusk
Abingdon
Bristol
Holston
The
Methodist Church
Rosa Simcox DeBusk
Stella Stephen
Louise Taylor
Keen Mountain
Margaret Jackson
Charlotte Yarbrou
Clyde O'Dell Kessinger
Wilmington
Del
Princeton
Marshal and
Mae Dowdy Kessinger
Carolyn Kessinger
Marvin Kessinger
Harvey
Ruby) Sentman
Muriel Fannon
Sherwood Forest
Bassett
Bluefield
Alderson
Martinsville
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Earl Fike
Monte Vista Park
Garfield
Lelia Bass Davis
Sue Turner
Trinity Methodist Church
Lerner Shops
Wanda Fannon Perry
Turner
E. G. Puryear
Thelma Hodges
Armon Pittenger
Jenkintown
Carl Lee Davis
Richmond
P. D. David
Harry A Davis
Detroit
Mich
Paul Lee Davis
Covington
Penmar Avenue
Mercer Funeral Home
Birdie Johnson Justice
Pawpaw
Grundy, Va
William E. Justice
Sarah Scarberry
Linda Scarberry
Holly, Mich
Geraldine Kinder
Moutheard
Teddy
Larry
Jeffery
Stevie Justice
Ray Johnson
Bill Bishop
Premier
Stella Adkins
Joyce Prater
Hurley
Garland
Julius
Lloyd Johnson
Elwood Johnson
Spragg
Britt Jackson
Edward May
Coleman Cemetery
Grundy Funeral Home
Grundy
Rexie Edward Jennings
Pamplin
Petersburg
Houston
Ada Mack Jennings
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Flora Trigg
Eta Bowling
Harry Jennings
Russell Mack
Bland and Reed Funeral Home
Farmville
W. L
Byrd
Gilbert V. L
Byrd) Gilbert
Columbus
Ohio
Richlands
Wardell
Whitewood
John
Rebecca Goss Gilbert
Richlands- Wardell
Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation
Jacqueline Jackson
Pounding Mill
Bernard H. Gilbert
James Gilbert
Raymond Gilbert
Myrtle Buskill
Kathryn Mulkey
Laura Dales
Edd Gilbert
Lawrence Gilbert
Clarence Gilbert
Jewell Ridge
Hurst- Scott Funeral Chapel
Cora Compton Shortridge
Charlottesville, Va
Ocie Poppins
Orpha Shortridge
Alta Perkins
Ollie Casey
Emma Breeding
Morristown
Tenn
Earl Shortridge
Oakwood
Lawson
Roscoe Shortridge
Lundy Compton
Alvis Compton
Noah Compton
Hatfield Compton
Louisa
Mitchell Shortt
Funeral services for James Ebb Beavers killed in Chicago
Funeral services for 47 year old James Ebb Beavers of Squire will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hurst Scott Funeral Chapel Richlands with ministers from the Lowe family cemetery near Cedar Bluff. He was born in Sawyersville a WWII veteran and survived by his mother Stella Pruett four sisters and one brother. Visitation after 5 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Ebb Beavers
Squire
Chicago
Ill
Hurst-Scott
Richlands
Roy Baldwin
Kenneth Wilson
Lowe
Ravens Nest Branch
Cedar Bluff
Sawyersville
Stella Beavers Pruett
James Doak Beavers
Death notices for Woodrow W. Keiser of Salem Va
Woodrow W. Keiser, 56, of Salem Virginia died Sunday morning in a Salem hospital. He was the son of J. H. Keiser and Gertrude Powers Keiser. Survived by brother Eddie Keiser of Northfork and sister Mrs Basil Hedrick of Crumpler. Funeral arrangements incomplete at Bennett Funeral Home in Northfork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow W. Keiser
Salem
J. H. Keiser
Gertrude Powers Keiser
Eddie Keiser
Northfork
Basil Hedrick
Crumpler
Bennett Funeral Home
Obituary: John Hunter Culliney of Bluefield Dies in Oregon
John Hunter Culliney 72 a former Bluefield and Charleston resident died of natural causes in Medford Oregon. A World War I veteran he served with the West Virginia National Guard on the Mexican Border in 1916. He worked for the N and W Railroad and Dupont in Charleston. Survived by wife Margaret Ogle Culliney daughter Mrs Brian Mullin Medford sister Mrs Mable Culliney Cole Mullens brother W H Culliney Mullens and two grandchildren Funeral arrangements will be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hunter Culliney
Bluefield
Charleston
Medford
Ore
Beaver High School
West Virginia National Guard
N&w
Dupont Chemical Company
Margaret Ogle Culliney
Brian Mullin
Mable Culliney Cole
Mullens
W. H. Culliney
Welch nurse Violet Musser Doss dies after heart attack
Violet Musser Doss 67 of Radford Virginia formerly of Welch died en route to a Radford hospital after an apparent heart attack. She was a registered nurse at Doctors Memorial Hospital Welch widow of James A. Doss. Survivors include a sister and two half-sisters and a half-brother. Services were held today at Richardson Funeral Home Christiansburg with burial in Sunset Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violet Musser Doss
Radford
Welch
Doctors Memorial Hospital
James A. Doss
William H. Smith Jr
Roanoke
Joyce Thomas
William Hall
Salem
Ross Musser
Richardson Funeral Home
Christiansburg
Sunset Cemetery
Edgar G Farley dies after long illness in Beckley nursing home
Edgar G Farley aged 85 died Sunday afternoon in a Beckley nursing home after a long illness. Survived by nieces and nephews. Services conducted at 11 a.m. at Ronald Meadows Funeral Home in Hinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar G. Farley
Beckley
Ronald Meadows Funeral Home
Hinton
Garland Jackson Hoops Obituary In Bridgeton
Bridgeton New Jersey resident Garland Jackson Hoops aged 42 died in a Bridgeton hospital late Friday night death listed as natural causes Funeral arrangements are pending at Shumate Newman Funeral Home in Pocahontas
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garland Jackson Hoops
Bridgeton
N. J
Shumate- Newman Funeral Home
Pocahontas
Agnew Presses Odyssean Korea Visit Amid Nuclear Talk
Vice President Agnew aims to sustain strong ties with Korean leaders as they discuss Vietnam deployments and a possible transfer of U S tactical nuclear weapons from Okinawa to Korea. He attends President Park’s inauguration and travels with a U S delegation including Rockefeller Harlow and Rep. Havgan among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Okinawa
Vietnam
Agnew
South Korea
South Vietnam
Korea
Nixon
Park
Air Force Two
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansas
Bryce Harlow
Samuel Devine
Ohio
D. Elliot Hagan
D-Ga
James Luckley
R-N.y
Seoul
General Continued From Page One on Hooked Smoking
Quotations from GIs discuss how long it takes to get hooked on smoking with varied views. One says it depends on the man and his smoking, sometimes days or weeks, another insists they won’t be hooked back in the United States due to cost and a wife who is a pusher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
States
Union Girl To Compete For Dairy Crown
Miss Debbie Jane Leach of Union will represent West Virginia at the 17th Annual American Dairy Princess Contest in Chicago from today through Wednesday. The 18-year-old Concord College student has blonde hair and blue eyes and seeks a dairy farm background. The winner earns a $2,000 scholarship with the runner up receiving $500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Debbie Jane Leach
Union
West Virginia
Chicago
Ill
Debbie
Concord College
Dairy Farmer
American Dairy Association
The
Drug Seminar Set At Elkins
The National Council of Juvenile Court Judges traveling team will sponsor a one day seminar on drug related problems in Elkins West Virginia Monday Randolph County Circuit Court Judge George R Triplett coordinator says the three panel members will be Arthur J Rogers Rod Ciceri and Ted Glenn all noted experts from New York San Francisco and the University of Nevada respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkins
W. Va
National Council of Juvenile Court
Randolph County
George R. Triplett
Arthur J. Rogers
New York State
Rod Ciceri
Haight - Ashbury
San Francisco
Ted Glenn
National College of Juvenile Justice
University of Nevada
Shrimp Dressing Served Chilled With Dill and Almonds
Serve chilled prawns with a dressing of dairy sour cream chopped hard cooked egg dillweed and toasted slivered almonds for a light seafood salad.
Autopsy Ordered in Pike Death on West Virginia Turnpike
A North Carolina truck driver, 40 year old Thomas James Fontaine of Ellerbe, died Sunday night after his tractor-trailer exited the West Virginia Turnpike and flipped over rocks north of here. Authorities authorized an autopsy to determine if death was caused by the accident or an illness or attack. Fontaine was driving a produce load in a truck owned by D. P Gallimore and Sons Inc of Pompano Beach Florida.
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North Carolina
West Virginia
Here
Thomas James Fontaine
Ellerbe
N.C
Mercer
David Knight
Fontaine
D. P Gallimore and Sons Inc
Pompano Beach
Fla
Two Huntington men remain critical after Charleston fire
Still critical at the Burn Center of the Medical University of South Carolina are Carl Persinger 44 of Milton and Dave Johnson Jr. 46 of Proctorville Ohio. Both were burned in an industrial fire a week earlier and were airlifted Wednesday by a National Guard medical evacuation aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S.C
Huntington
W.va
Medical University of South Carolina
Carl Persinger
Milton
Dave Johnson Jr
Proctoryv'le
Ohio
National Guard
Human Rights Counsel Picked for West Virginia Agency
Charleston AP reports State Attorney General Chauncey Browning Jr. has appointed Andrew A MacQueen III as assistant attorney general to serve as legal counsel for the State Human Rights Commission starting July 1 He will advise on enforcing the West Virginia Human Rights Act prohibiting employment discrimination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
Chauncey Browning Jr
Andrew A. MacQueen III
State Human Rights Commission
Commission
Russell van Cleve
MacQueen
West Virgina
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Rev. Burton F. Debusk
Sue A. Brewster
Arlington
Tazewell County
Mullins Funeral Chapel
William Robinson
Armes
Baptist Valley
Harley and
Lou Belle Patterson Armes
Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church
Patricia Lynn Chmura
Harl Bundy Brewster
Memphis, Tenn
Jeanette Elliot
Norfolk
Mae Jewell
Falls Creek
Bailer Armes
Bandy, Va
Clyde Kessinger
Mrs
Birdie Justice
NATIONAL /EATHER SERVICE
NOAA
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Carolinas
Florida
Texas
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Dakotas
Utah
Colorado
Randolph
Cora Shortridge
Miles
Louisa Compton
M. T. Shortridge
James E. Beavers
MR. Persinger
Persingers Cafeteria
Princeton Ave
Violet
Warrenizing
Associated Press
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Albuque
Amarillo
Anchorage
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Rita
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First Federal Savings
Loan Association OF Bluefield
Bland & Ramsey
Bluefield, W.va
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