Lively WV science camp holds lectures and field trips
The second annual camp near Pocahontas County features lectures on computers and natural resources, wildlife demonstrations, and trips to the Green Bank observatory and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Wayne Balley, J. W. Findley, and R. D. Sneger lead sessions with two students from each state selected for the National Youth Science camp.
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Bartow
Union
Powell
Wayne Strains
West
Fire Hurts Woman. Smoking in Bed Sparks Marmet Blaze
Eva Peters 49 of Astford Boone County suffered second and third degree burns to both forearms and hands after a cigarette ignited a bed fire at Len Barnette’s home on Lens Creek Road Marmet. Neighbors alerted Marmet Fire Department around 7 p.m. The home sustained about $100 in damage. Barnett slept on the porch while Mrs Peters was inside.
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Charleston Memorial Hospital
Eva Peters
Astford
Boone
County
W. B. Pendleton
Marmet Fire Department
Peters
Len Barnette
Lens Creek Road
Marmet
Pendleton
Barnett
Coast Guard Abandons Search For Two Navy Men
HARPSWELL Mains Coast Guard search for two Navy men presumed drowned after their boat overturned near Ore's Island in Upper Casco Bay. Robert Keith Sampson 26 of Cameron West Virginia and Roy Murray had visited Jett Read's Cove for a day of pleasure fishing. An overturned craft was found but no trace of the men. Two old-boot Coast Guard boats skindivers and a Brunswick Naval Air Station helicopter aided operations over the weekend.
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Harpswell, Msinere
Coast Guard
Ore's Island
Casco‘ Bay
Robert Keith Sampson
Caméron
W. Va
Roy Murray
Brunswick, Naval Air Station
Two Planes Collide Off Bermuda Killing Five
Two aircraft collided during Gemini space project pararescue training off Bermuda. Seven men survived after rescue efforts by coast guard cutter and Navy craft. five bodies recovered as planes, HC97 and HC84 variants, went down in the sea near Kindley Air Force Base. Search continued as weather and nightfall hindered recovery.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Cot
Kindley Air Force Tsion
Air Force
Ana Pune
Louisville
U. S. Army
Contracts signed across Kanawha Valley with multiple unions
Contracts directing several thousand workers in Kanawha Valley West Virginia were signed between construction unions and contractor associations led by Earl Browder Kanawha Valley Builders Alan. The survey across Greater Charleston shows asbestos workers union the only group failed to reach an agreement. Union official James F Wilks Milton noted disputes over insulation contractors limiting members to shop work. Some jobs paused awaiting resolution. Other unions including carpenters electricians bricklayers and laborers signed new deals with wage increases said not substantial. most terms similar to prior agreements. A related note mentions a fatality and family condolences in the public notices, with James Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Kanawha Valley
West Virginia
Earl Browder
Alan
Greater
Charleston
Asbestos Workers
James F. Wilks
Milton
Inssulation Contractors Association
Wilks
Kentucky
Ohio
Teamsters
Brother
Pat
West Logan
Edly
Ed Baldwin
Peach Creek
Former Clay School Board Member Amos Morris Dies
Amos M. Morris 76 of Ivydale Clay County dies after a long illness. Service at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Ottervale Advent Christian Church near Big Otter with Rev. Carl Morris. Burial in Adams Cemetery near Tvydale. Survived by two daughters, a son, a half sister, two brothers, four grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Body to be moved from Wilson Funeral Home to the home of Mrs. Boggs and to church before service.
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Clay
Amos M. Morris
Ivyiale
Clay County
Carl Morris
Ottervale Advent Christian Church
Big Otter
Adams Cemetery
Tvydale
Morris
Clay County Board of Education
Reo Sirk
Lakewood
Ohio
Alvira Boggs
Dallaz
Ivydale
Ittiel
Moundsville
Floyd
Press
Stinson
Wilson Funeral Home
Logan County Girl’s Service Set for Drowning
A three year old Logan County girl who wandered from her parents and drowned Sunday in the Guandatte River near Justice Mingo County will have a funeral service Wednesday at Crooked Creek Church of Christ at 1 p.m. Rev. Sam Crandell will officiate and burial will follow at Highland Memory Gardens in Godby.
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Logan County
Guandatte
Justice
Mingo County
Minerva Ang Myera
Ronald Myers
Peach Creek
Sam Crandell
Crooked Creek Church of Christ
Highland Memory Gardens
Godby
Sister Juana Castro Breaks With Fidel Cuba Regime
Juana Castro Ruz Fidel and Raul Castro's sister says she is breaking with the Cuban regime in Mexico City on a TV program. She states she realized since 1960 Fidel abandoned the ideals of the Cuban revolution and believes he turned Cuba over to Russia and communism.
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Mexico City
Fidel Castro
Juana
Juanita) Castro Ruz
Castro
Fidel
Raul
Cuba
Guillermo Vela
Revoluton
Batiste
Russia
Injuries Kill Ex-State Man in Peoria Hospital
Frederick Glen Trimble, a Cedar Grove, West Virginia native, died Monday morning at 4 in Peoria General Hospital from injuries suffered in a Sunday evening auto crash in Peoria. He had worked the past year for Caterpillar Tractor Co. in Peoria. Surviving parents are Everett Glen and wife Buster of Cedar Grove, five brothers William E John R Larry Rodney and Michael all at home, two sisters Rose Mary and Dorinda at home, half sister Michaelene Wade of Cleveland Ohio, and maternal grandmother Mrs Vernia Clendenin of Miami. Body en route to Cook Funeral Home in Cedar Grove, expected to arrive Wednesday morning.
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Reoria
Cedar Grove
W. Va
Peoria Hospital
Peoria
Frederick Glen Trimble
Caterpillar. Tractor Co
Everett Glen
Buster) Tritable
William E
John R
Larry
Rodney
Michael
Rose Mary
Dorinda
Michaelene Wade
Cleveland
Ohio
Vernia Clendenin
Miami
Cook Funeral Home
Warren Commission requests FBI probe into Oswald diary leak
The Warren Commission on Monday asked the FBI to investigate a newspaper publication of the Oswald diary. The Dallas Morning News ran copyright stories over the weekend quoting the diary Oswald kept from arrival in Moscow in October 1959 to his departure from Russia in 1967 after being refused Russian citizenship.
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Washington
Warren Commission
FBI
Marvel Oswald
Dallas Morning News
Oswald
Moscow
Russia
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International Business Machine
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Davie Foster
Georgia
Neil Olsen
Florida
Victor Lovell
Arkansas
Robert Wilson
Connecticut
Jeffrey Loesch
Colorado
David McQueen
California
Frank Wilkin
Pocahontas County
Ken Powell
Kindley
Lasses
Azores
Hach
Dikson—Guitats
Vega—Banios
Harmony —Ukeleles
Sarlseton
Guthrie & Beane Music CO
Quarriee
Dickingon
Clay School Board
Logan
Gazette-Mail
Mostvar
Mont Chateau
Yugoslavia
West, Virginia
Morgantown
Charleston National
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System Capitol
Quarrier Streets
Coleman's and
Federal Square
Quarrier and
Taidley Streets
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