Federal and State Wiretaps Target 390681 Conversations
Court records detail a 128 page AOUSC report listing wiretaps and hidden listening devices across the United States last year. Federal approval covered all West Virginia eavesdrops. Nationwide conversations from homes, businesses, cars, and streets led to 1912 arrests with Michigan showing the largest count at 22526. A Southern Appalachian Center was cited in connection with Antioch College surveillance in Yellow Springs Ohio.
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Washington
West Virginia
Administrative Office of
U.S
Michigan
Huntington (Ap
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Southern Appalachian Center
Endowment Fund Drive for Journalism Launched in Huntington
A 10 cent annual drive by the Journalism Endowment Fund group aims to raise at least $50,000 for a new endowment. The drive, tied to West Virginia University journalism ties, follows a spring meeting that elected officers including Lifelong Morgantown resident Lar ness Hadley as president and Paul Atviving as vice president.
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Elizabeth Moore
Bentree
Clay Morgantown
Virginia University
Par
Millerburg
Ohio
Combs Fu jAlumni Asm
Neral
Gauley Bridge
Ethel Morris
Ethel Bonham Morris
Ravinia Rd
Montgomery Generall
Larness
Iry Hadley
Charleston
St.Jof
Charlottesville
Daily Johns Episcopal Church
Sur Progress
Paul Atviving
James Elkins
WVU
Kert Morris
Robert L
David A. Morris
Wiley
St. Johns Epist
Treasure Opal Church
William Er. Kirkland
Mountain View
Cemetery
Simpson-Chandlers
Gilbert Love
Funeral Home
The
Pittsburgh Press
J. Richard Toren
Pennsylvania
United Press International
Frank M. Kearns
Benedum
Donovan Hy Bond
Morgantown
Fayette Man Held in Death Of Visitor
Fayetteville details a murder charge after Glen Jean man Donald Lee Treadway allegedly shot 43 year old Casios Edwards Worley at Treadway s residence around 8 p m Worley a Carius Tool Co employee from Cleveland died at Tyree Funeral Home in Oak Hill Worley s family includes widow Velma Worley son David and daughters Connie Rhonda plus several siblings The case was waived to the Fayette County grand jury following a preliminary hearing before Justice R C Godsey
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Fayetteville
Glen Jean
Theilan Jal Thero
Casios Edwards Worley
Donald Lee Treadway
Worley
Treadway
Works
Glen, Jean
Justice of the Peace
R. C. Godsey
Fayette County
Grand Jury
Price Hill
Carius Tool Co
Cleveland
Velma Kaylor Worley
David Worley
Minden
Connie
Rhonda
Ida Smith Worley
Oather
George
James
Virgil
Thelma Greene
Prince
Ella Greene
Bumpass
Nomar Ruff
Juanita Worley
Tyree Funeral Home
Oak Hill
Joint Service Set For Crash Victims
A joint service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday for Gauley Bridge workers Leroy Bill Adkins 26 and James Ray Adkins 24 killed in a one car crash two miles north of Fayetteville on US 19. Stephen Stone 22 and Wibes Johnston 25, also of Gauley Bridge, were uninjured. James Adkins believed driver. speeding cited. Survivors include mother Stella Kauff and half siblings. Leroy Adkins widow Sharon Ann and son John Frederick. Burial at Dickinson Cemetery, Alta. services by Beckley Presbyterian Church.
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Gauley Bridge
Oak Air State Police
Sak
Leroy Bill Adkins
James Ray Adkins
Fayetteville
US Ot
Sephen Stone
Wibes Johnston
Gawe
Beckwith
Viola Cox
Florida
Leroy Adkins
Sharon Annami
John Frederick
James Adkins
Wilda
Raleigh
Beckley Presbyterian
Far Sadler
New Providence
Clyde Bush
Kemmedy
Keyser-Bryant Funeral
Johnson
J. W. Johnson
House of Delegates
Students push new school to teach Appalachia history
Student Charles Costigan says the proposed school will teach community empowerment and social activism while stressing Appalachian history and the people who shaped it. The center sits in a downtown Huntington building.
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Shu Lune
Aacy Upesege
Charles Costigan
Appalachia
Costigan
Huntington
Tolbert Rites Held for WV Editor William Frank Tolbert
Williamson WVWilliamson Daily News editor William Frank Tolbert died Monday in Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital after a long newspaper career starting in 1927 as a reporter and sports editor. Survivors include his son Wil Wyrheid Circleville Ohio, a stepson Edward Hurt Jr Norfolk VA and a sister. Rhino complaints in Wyrheide Africa report mention pipes crushed by trampling animals.
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West Virginia
Williamson Appalachian Regional
Williamson Daily News
Mingo County
Ohio State University
Wil- Wyrheid
South Africa
Miriam Frank Jr
Elizabeth
Umfolozi
Mary Ruth
R. A
Evans
Circleville
Ohio
Edward J. Hurt
Norfolk
Obituaries for Newhouse Riggs Roop and Williams in West Virginia
Oscar Newhouse 78 of Sissonville died Wednesday in Charleston General Hospital. Retired farmer survived by wife Mollie, sons Elmer and John, daughters Stella Jordan and Thelma Sigman, sister Ernie Fisher. Callers after 6 p.m. at Long Fisher Funeral Home Pocatalico. Lester Riggs 90 of Joker died Wednesday in Spencer. Retired store operator, former postmaster, church member, survived by widow Ethel and several daughters and a son, service at Bryner Chapel United Methodist Church Joker with burial at Church cemetery. Callers at Stump Funeral Home Grantsville after 7 p.m. Walter Roop 88 of Jodie died Tuesday. Service 2 p.m. Friday at Comics Funeral Home Gauley Bridge, burial Clench Cemetery Cannelton. Ambrose Jackson Williams 39 of Bradley died Tuesday in Beckley hospital. No known survivors. Service 11 a.m. today Calfee Funeral Home Beckley burial Mount Tabor.
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Clara Upal Burnside
Jackson General Hospital
Rip’ Fey
Fortier Putnameo
Gauguts
Alma Lovejoy
Bloomdale
Ohio
Delores Coulter
Alice Beisford
Apopka
Fla
Alice Carpenter
Raeford
Luther
Hurricane
Ada Terry
Huntington
Elsie Johnson
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Homer. Curry
Church Cemetery
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Funeral Home
Hubbard
Anna Cragel
Russia
John
Youngstown
Joseph
Lansing
Ill
Mary Kelley
Huntersville
Rosie Wheeler
Anna Heywood
Helen Zenevich
Jennie Cragel
Santa Clara
Calif
VanReenen
Marlinton
W.va
Maynard Crawford
Mountain View Cemetery
Fenwick
Joseph Carrigot
Nicholas County
Sacred Heart Hospital
Richwood
Italy
United States
Gertie Weese
Fenwick Mountain
Mamie Taylor
Ida Boggs
New Hope Baptist Church
Gene Collins
Taylor
Simons-Coleman Funeral Home
Dora Bell Casto
Putnam County
Wanda Smith
Grandview Ridge
Church of God Mission
Gay/ Boggess
Hometown
Lucy Blake
Red House
Ollie Bailey
Nitro
Asbury Caste
Buffalo
Freda Harrison
Melbourne
George
Curtis Bailes
Robertsburg
William Bailes
Leon
Ira Bailes
Rt. 1
Poca
Gatens Funeral Home
John W. Curnes
18Th St. Dunbar
Thomas Memorial Hospital
Weimer Lumber Co
First Baptist Church of
St. Albans
Order of Mechanics
Kanawha County
J. Waverly Curnes
George C. Curnes
Dunbar
J. Roy Pierson
Charleston
Keller Funeral Home
S. Robert Weaver
Cunningham Memorial Park
Ramsey
Pierce Oland Cole
Fayette County
Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital
Clifty Methodist Church
Anna Harper
Barbara Cole
St. Petersburg
Clara Caridio
Cleveland
Woodrow
South Charleston
Annie Cole
Clara Gwilliams
Lanark
Roy
Clyde
Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home
Ansted
Hollywood
Nancy Ellen Davis
Union
W. Va
Union United Methodist Church
Gladys Clemens
Danny
Oak Hill
W. E. Jr
Fannie Garrett Jrs
Fannie Dell Garrett
Kelly Rd
Tyler Heights
Kanawha Valley Hospital
Community Chapel Church
A. G. Garrett Sr
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Janice Groom
Collingswood
N. J
Clive Cobb
Community Chapel
Tyle Heights
William Layne
William H. Lapham
Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens
Cooke Pauley Funeral Home
Mary A. Hall
Piedmont Rd
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Raleigh County
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Port Amherst
Mabel Hodge
Campbells Creek
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Cocoa Beach
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Sissonville
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Ernie Fisher
Long Fisher Funeral Home
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Joker
Calhoun County
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Bryner Chapel
Clarksburg
Maxine Duskey
Baryberton
United Methodist Church
Glendon McKee
Stump Funeral Home
Grantsville
Walter Roo Jodie
Walter F. Roop
Comics Funeral
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R. L. Morris
Harmon Gray
Clench
Cannelton
Mr. Roop
Jodie
Bradley
Ambrose Jackson
Williams
Leigh County
Beckley
Sandlick
Missionary Baptist Church
Calfee Funeral Home
John Richardson
Calfee
Mount Tabor
Ambrose Williams
James Owen Rule obituary at age 77 in Oak Hill
James Owen Rule 77 of Oak Hill died Wednesday at Treadway Nursing Home Beckwith He was a disabled employee of Ford Motor Co He was a native of Ronceverte Survived by brother A L of Oak Hill and sisters Mrs Ella Miller and one more unnamed sister
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AK Hill
James Owen Rule
Oak Hill
Treadway Nursing Home
Beckwith
Ford Motor Co
Ronceverte
A.L
Ella Miller
Former NIH Chief Rolla E. Dyer Dies at 84 in Atlanta
Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, longtime director of the National Institutes of Health and early linker of smoking to lung cancer, died in Atlanta after a heart attack. He served in the U S Public Health Service from 1916 to 1950 and led NIH from 1942 until retirement. A pioneer in typhus research, he helped uncover the rat flea transmission and aided vaccine development.
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Atlanta
Rolla E. Dyer
U. S. Public Health Service
National Institues of Health
Dyer
The
Health Service
National Institutes of Health
Funeral notices list numerous services across West Virginia
A long column lists funeral arrangements for many individuals in West Virginia and surrounding areas. Entries include names like Florence Ballard, Eva Barker, Erma Barrett, and Ada Irown, with service times, funeral homes, cemeteries, and officiants across Fayette, Raleigh, and surrounding counties. The notices reflect widespread local customs, church affiliations, and burial sites from Dodd-Payne to Montgomery Memorial Park and beyond.
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Ballard
Florence May
Fire Calls Chronicle Charleston Department Runs
The Charleston Fire Department logged Wednesday runs including a false alarm at 1900 East Washington St at 11:04 am, an investigation at 30 Ruffner Ave at noon, a light damage car fire at 634 Garrison Ave at 2:52 pm, a light damage at Piedmont and Elizabeth streets from a trash fire at 8:01 pm, and a trash fire at Cohen Drug Store Patrick Street Plaza at 8:32 pm. The report also contains a reflective quote about striving for perfection and social justice.
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Ruffner Ave
Garrison Ave
Piedmont
Detectives raid two Dryden Street clubs arrest four
City detectives raided Roscoe's Club on Dryden Street and seized 50 bottles of tax paid whiskey. Irene's Place on Dryden Street yielded 17 bottles and two people were charged with soliciting prostitution. Roscoe Crockett and Irene Fridley faced illegal whiskey charges. Gerry Whitestone and Judy Jenkins were arrested for solicitation.
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Roscoe Crockett
Ilrene
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Bud" Hatfield
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