Wampler Nominated as Ninth District GOP Meets in Abingdon
Ninth District Republicans will nominate William C. Wampler of Bristol for a second term at a convention in Abingdon. About 1000 attend to vote including 653 delegates. Roy V. Wolfe Jr. delivers keynote. Gerald Ford set to speak at 2 p.m. and Emory Widener likely reelected as district chair. Delegates allocated by county and city based on past governor and presidential votes.
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William C. Wampler
Bristol
Wampler
House
Gerald Ford
Michigan
Miami Beach
Republican State Central Committee
Wolfe
Roy V. Wolfe Jr
Scott County Commonwealth
Virginia General Assembly
W. Pat Jennings
Marion
Emory Widener
Tazewell County
Buchanan County
Bland
Giles
Wise
Smyth
Russell
Dickenson
Norton
Lee
Pulaski
Scott
Washington
Wythe
Widener
Modern Arms Costly Contrast in Vietnam Effort
Air Force pays 2.4 million for a rescue helicopter in Vietnam while WWII B17s cost 190 000 and B29s 635 000. Hearings reveal procurement strains as Navy torpedoes cost 30 000 and New Jersey ammunition 20.3 million. Officials cite 51.8 million yearly for aerial targets amid Johnson budget pressure. The new helicopter is larger and faster than the Jolly Green Giant.
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Washington
Air Force
Vietnam
Germany
Japan
Defense Department
House Appropriations Committee
Johnson
Navy
New Jersey
State Asks Shortage Claim Be Dropped
Charleston AP The State Welfare Department asks the U S Justice Department to drop its claim of a 170000 shortage in surplus commodities. Civil Division had alleged missing 170000 dating to 1963. Welfare Commissioner L L Vincent said about 70000 resulted from accounting errors and the rest 100000 from errors in the accounts.
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Charleston
State Welfare Department
U. S. Justice Department
Civil Division
Justice Department
L. L Vincent
Vincent
Local News Rates and Publication Notice in West Virginia Paper
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions by mail in West Virginia. The notice outlines pricing at $26.00 per year and mentions rights to use or publish all news and local items.
Deaths and Funerals In Bluefield and Surrounding Areas
Multiple obituary notices for Mollie Shaver Hilton 81 of Lindside. Myrtle Holdren of Elgood. Harry Watson 57 of Columbus Ohio. Elizabeth Dodson 56 of Bluefield. Ella Neal 79 of Richlands with funeral details, churches, and burial sites. Includes survivors, service times, and calling hours.
Local Obituaries Notice for Princeton and Bluewell Residents
Benjamin Czechowski 86 of Lilly Grove Princeton died Friday at 1 p.m. in an Oak Hill nursing home after a long illness. Body at Seaver Mortuary awaiting funeral arrangements. Abraham Lincoln Addair 50 of Duhling died at home Friday at 11:30 a.m. Body at Cravens Shires Funeral Home Chapel Bluewell awaiting funeral plans.
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Benjamin Czechowski
Lilly Grove Addition
Princeton
Oak Hill
Seaver Mortuary
Abraham Lincoln Addair
Duhling
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
Funerals for Myrtle Wilson and Leonard White
Myrtle Wilson 75 of Raven Va to be buried at Wilson Cemetery Swords Creek with services at Raven Assembly of God Church at 2 PM. Leonard White formerly of Princeton Md to be memorialized at Memorial Funeral Directory Princeton with burial at White Cemetery Oakvale Road. Mercer County Veteran's Council pallbearers listed.
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William
Myrtle) Holdren
Elgood
Elgood Methodist Church
Calvary Baptist Church
Bluefield
James B. Calfee Sr
Raymond Tolley
Elizabethton
Tenn
Pat Holdren
Norfolk
Roy Comer
Princeton
Luther
Ward White
Donzie Harvey
Roy Martin
Walter Reed
Warren Sifford
White, Leonard
Baltimore
Oakvale Road
Leonard Repass
Clayton Jones
White Cemetery
Mercer County Veteran’s Council
Cousins
McDowell Vocational Gets $50 723 Grant
Appalachian Regional Commission approves three supplemental grants totaling over 350000 for West Virginia projects. McDowell County Vocational Technical Center in Welch receives 50723 for equipment purchase. Morris Harvey College in Charleston gets 50000 for PE building expansion.
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Charleston
Appalachian Regional Commission
West Virginia
Fairmont General Hospital
McDowell County
Grant Reserved for West Virginia State College Dormitory
A grant of 1 975 000 has been reserved by HUD for West Virginia State College. Funds will finance construction of a dormitory to house 261 male students 245 female students and two house mothers. Aides to Senator Jennings Randolph said the grant will be awarded when funds become available.
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Washington
West Virginia State College
Department of Housing and Urban Development of Housing and Urban Development
Jennings Randolph
W-W. Va
Security measures keep convention calm in Miami Beach
Tough security continues as Miami Beach plans hedges around a fence and sealable causeways for the August convention. Officials insist the fence is the first line of defense and reject a police state, aiming for an orderly peaceful gathering expected to draw at least 40 000 attendees.
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Pomerance
Jay Dermer
Washington Avenue
America
Dermer
Miami Beach
Prince Otto Reed Dies After Long Illness
Prince Otto Reed of Route 2 Bluefield died Friday morning in a Veterans Hospital at Oteen North Carolina after a long illness. The body is at Mercer Funeral Home Bluefield pending funeral arrangements.
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Harry Watson
Columbus
Ohio
Bluefield
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton
Smith Funeral Home
Ella Neal
Richlands
Marion
Prince Otto Reed
Route 2
Veterans’ Hospital
Oteen
N. C
Mercer Funeral Home
Tunnel Strike Talks Halted at Big Walker Mountain Site
Negotiations between AFL-CIO Local 980 and contractor Langerfalder-Raymond at the Big Walker Mountain tunnel site in Wythe County Virginia stalled for a third day. About 385 workers are idle as a picket line blocks Virginia Route 717 and no violence is reported. The $25 million interstate project will connect Wythe to Bland County on I 77 once finished.
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Union
Company
Big Walker Mountain
Wythe County
Roanoke
Robert Myers
Afl-Cio
Langerfalder - Raymond
Myers
Langerfalder-Raymond
Virginia
Virginia State
Wytheville
Warren Says Dissent Is Good
U S Chief Justice Earl Warren, retiring after 15 years on the Supreme Court, says dissent is healthy and criticizes attempts to discredit the Warren Commission findings as unjustified. He notes no facts have emerged contradicting the commission that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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Sacramento
Calif
U.S
Earl Warren
Supreme Court
Warren
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
KFBK
KOVR
California
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Commission
Tucker Named Head of Virginia College
Peters burg Virginia AP Dr James F Tucker AU Labor Department official was named president of Virginia State College by the boards visitors Friday He becomes the sixth president of the 86 year old predominantly Negro college He succeeds Dr Robert F Daniel who served from 1950 until his death last January Walker H Quarles Jr has been acting president since Daniels death
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Petersburg
James F. Tucker
A. U
Labor Department
Virginia State College
Tucker
Robert F. Daniel
Walker H. Quarles Jr
Daniel
Murder Plot Denial Ties Church Worker to Gangs
Charles LaPaglia a social worker for First Presbyterian Church on Chicago's South Side denied involvement with the Blackstone Rangers gang and said trips and actions were part of leadership training and community service. He accused police and senators of harassment and dismissed charges as a sham against a federally funded education project.
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Washington
Charles LaPaglia
First Presbyterian Church
Chicago
South Side
Blackstone Rangers
United Presbyterian Church of the United States
John R. Fry
Senate
Permanent
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Congress
Office of Economic Opportunity
Rangers
Devil’s Disciples
LaPaglia
Michigan
Chicago Police Department
Gang
Chicago Theological Seminary
Ranger
Martin Luther King Jr
Cleanup bill for Resurrection City cited by Interior Dept
The Poor People's Campaign site at Resurrection City cost the federal government nearly a quarter of a million dollars in security and cleanup. Police overtime and holiday pay totaled 144 989 dollars, with 61 210 dollars for dismantling the site and 13 514 dollars for DC assistance. The hut city was removed by 429 workers using 79 machines after eviction on Monday. An additional 14 607 dollars covered police and cleanup for the June 19 Solidarity Day March from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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Washington
Interior Department
Resurrection City
West Potomac Park
District of Columbia
Poor People’s Campaign
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Cattle Sale at Narrows Market Features 60 Cows and Calves
Today's sale at the Narrows Livestock Market begins at 1 30 listing sixty cows and sixty calves from a single farm comprising Anges and Hereford stock.
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Narrows
GOP Conventions Set for Five Mercer Districts
The Mercer County Republican Executive Committee set July 12 8 p m for five magisterial district delegate nominating conventions at district courthouses and venues. Each district will elect delegates to the State Republican Convention in Charleston August 14 with a total 65 delegates and assign temporary chairs and district officers.
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Mercer County
Republican Executive Committee
Princeton
Charleston
Harry West
West
Homer H. Wade
Bailey Funeral Home
Matoaka
Plymouth
Jack Stafford
Athens
Martin’s
Camp Creek
Virgil Shrewsbury
State adds 124 Commerce Department workers to Civil Service
Gov. Hulett Smith announced Friday that Civil Service coverage now applies to 124 employees in the State Commerce Department. The total number of state government employees protected reaches 7,775, with 304 added in the last month.
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Charleston
State Commerce Department
Hulett Smith
Job Protection Agency
South Vietnam Pressures for Peace Amid Mobilization Law
Viet Namese authorities insist on a total military victory over the Viet Cong with no NLf coalition. Calls arise for talks with the NLF from some newspapers and Buddhist and Catholic groups urge prisoners release and de escalation. A Sai Gon student group criticizes the mobilization law as political suppression while Thieu urges parties to strengthen against the Viet Cong.
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Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
NLF
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Thich Tri Quang
Hoang Quynh
Vietnam
Siagon
Youth delegates walk out at NAACP convention
More than 250 youthful delegates stormed out of the NAACP convention in Atlantic City after a failed bid to form an autonomous youth group inside the organization. Roy Wilkins dismissed it as baloney, as the main meeting continued with about 1,000 delegates present.
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Atlantic City
N.J
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Appears in Chapel Court
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan enters the chapel courtroom under guard, able to walk despite injuries from his capture. He confirms his identity and asks to substitute counsel Mr Parsons as public defender, while counsel seeks a three week recess. Judges appoint Dr George Abe and Dr Eric Marcus to join the examination, with Dr Stainbrook declining.
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Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Mr. Parsons
Public Defender
Parsons
Edward Stainbrook
Schauer
George Abe
Eric Marcus
N and W Extends Lines to New England and Canada
The Norfolk and Western Railway will extend its network into New England and Canada as the Delaware and Hudson Railway joins its system. The move results from a 1967 ICC order requiring inclusion of D and H and two other eastern roads as a condition of the N and W merger with the Chesapeake and Ohio. The Erie Lackawanna joined in April. the Boston and Maine has not yet accepted.
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway
New England
Canada
Delaware and Hudson Railway
N&w
D&h
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Erie Lackawanna
Boston and
Maine
Demonstrators Arrested at Capitol During Protest
Police arrested 77 people on Capitol grounds including 30 Quakers as they demonstrated for poverty relief. Rev Ralph Abernathy remains jailed on a 20 day sentence. Hosea Williams and Rev Norman Davis are among those detained with Williams freed on bond after Resurrection City seizure.
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Washington
Capitol Steps
Society of Friends
Capitol Plaza
Capitol Grounds
Ralph David Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hosea Williams
Norman Davis
Detroit
Williams
Resurrection City
Lincoln Memorial
Reporter jailed and fined for contempt over confidential police report
Wheel ing reporter Don Daniels received a suspended 10 day jail term and a 300 dollar fine after refusing to reveal the source of a confidential police report used in a 1967 Wheeling Island fire story that killed seven children. Patrolman Leonard Prezkop was fired and Willard Jarrett suspended. Daniels argued moral conscience. the judge called it contempt of court.
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Wheeling
Ohio
Ralph Pryor
Pryor
News Register
Don Daniels
Daniel
Wheeling Island
Wheeling Police Civil Service Commmiss
Leonard Prezkop
Willard Jarrett
Daniels
Prezkop
Commission
Six heart transplant patients survive large international series
Six heart patients remain alive after operations performed Friday. Gaetan Paris in Montreal and Maria Elena Penaloza in Valparaiso, Chile, joined the living list as the world’s 22nd and 23rd recipients. Earlier transplants include Philip Blaiberg on Jan 2, 1968 in South Africa Everett Thomas on May 3 in the United States Charles Boulogne on May 12 in France and Louis Fierro on May 21 in the United States.
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Gaetan Paris
Montreal
Maria Elena Penaloza
Valparaiso
Chile
Philip Blaiberg
South Africa
Everett Thomas
United States
Charles Boulogne
France
Louis Fierro
Johnson Flies To Tennessee For Dam Dedication
The White House confirmed President Johnson will fly to Nashville on Saturday for dedication ceremonies at the J. Percy Priest Reservoir and Dam on the Stones River. The trip was first reported by Rep. Richard Fulton and the Tennessee governor's office.
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Washington
White House
Johnson
Nashville
Tenn
J. Percy Priest
Stones River
Richard Fulton
D-Tenn
Tennessee
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Mollie Shaver Hilton
Lindside
Hugh Shaver
Pembroke
Charlie
Sallie Davis Shaver
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Spruce Run
Letha Cooper
Fostoria
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Harold Cox
Hertzel Mills
Raymond Booth
Bradley Cemetery
Sidney
Sam
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Hubert Shaver
Cecil Raines
Howard Comer
Broyles Funeral Chapel
Peterstown
William Holdren
Elizabeth M. Dodson
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Audrey Evans
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Effillen Byrd
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Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
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