Spade Can't Recall Details Of Shooting
The jury in 28-year-old Jack Leslie Spade’s murder trial hears summaries by counsel after both sides rested. Spade’s memory gaps are noted as he testified about the fatal night at the Little Beaver Bait Shop between Shady Spring and Hinton, his alleged statement, alcohol use, and the gun in his mother’s bedroom. Rebuttal witnesses include a Department of Public Safety chemist and a funeral home employee who heard Spade say to officers that he shot his father.
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Jack Leslie Spade
Shady Spring Marine Corp
Spade
Marine Corps
Little Beaver
Shady Spring
Hinton
Cpl. C. G. West
Department of Public Safety
James Brownlee
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Jack Spade
Pike Scare Ends as Chemical Load Identified and Cleared
A truck collision on the turnpike prompted emergency action as crews identified four chemical types aboard, all less volatile than gasoline. Earl Smith of Nitro was unharmed and later joined responders. Ralph Pierce of Ryder Tank Lines coordinated with Union Carbide to confirm contents. Traffic was restored to two-way flow by 8:30 a.m. and the wreck was cleared.
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Earl Smith
Nitro
Smith
Ralph Pierce
Ryder Tank Lines Inc
Union Carbide Chemicals Co
South Charleston
Carbide
Turnpike Commission
African police clash as crowds defy work boycott
Nighttime disturbances across settlements saw buses stoned and buildings damaged as agitators pressed for a work boycott. Three Cato Manor columns advanced, but police with armored cars and rifles halted two. A Negro policeman died from stab wounds amid the clashes, the second police death reported. White police then dispersed about 1400 marchers near Hermanus after a warning, with crowds refusing to disperse.
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Cato Manor
Johannesburg
Hermanus
Cape Town
Key Club To Help Easter Seal Society Lily Parade
The Easter Lily Parade will be led by the Key Club starting at 9 a.m. Saturday. The club will sell lilies to benefit the Easter Seal Society.
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Key Club
Easter Seal Society
Hubcap thieves strike West Mullens widow again
Mrs Brenda Tabscott widow of ex police officer R L Tabscott reports four hubcap thefts in recent months. At 10 15 pm Thursday two men tampered with her 1969 sedan behind her home. Police arrived but the culprits fled dropping two hubcaps. Tabscott says the nerve strain matters more than cost and laments lack of leads.
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Murphee
Loomer Sisk
Si Cline
Tabscott
Wyco
Wendell Cook
Sisk
Ater
West Mullens
Central Plains Hit by Flood Belt and Dust Storms
Overnight weather disrupted the central Plains with flood belts and hail. Winds kicked up dust across eastern New Mexico into western Texas and parts of Oklahoma, while thunderstorms rolled through the Valley and Gulf States and spread toward the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys and into Atlantic coastal states.
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Central Plains
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Valley
Gulf States
Tennessee
Ohio Valleys
Atlantic
Registrars to Sit For Precinct 10 Registration
Registrars for Precinct 10 at East school building will sit from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to register new voters and correct existing registrations.
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East School
Meeting Set Today by Heroines of Jericho Court
The Queen Ester Court will hold a meeting at 5 30 p.m. today in the Heroines of Jericho Lodge Hall located at 121 G Street.
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Jericho Lodge Hall
G St
Deaths and Funerals Philip H Wilson
Funeral services for Philip H Phil Wilson 67 of 307 Mankin Ave will be at 2 PM Sunday in the Keyser Bryant Funeral Home Chapel. Interment in Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum. Wilson died 1:20 PM Thursday after a heart attack. He was a registered professional civil and mining engineer, long time city official and Beckley city engineer. A WWI veteran he served overseas 1913 1927 and worked on Luzon Island survey 1915 1918. He went to France 1918 with the AEF and saw action on Argonne and Lorraine fronts. After the war he was with the Polish Relief Expedition 1919 and occupa tion forces in Germany until 1922. He moved to Tucson Ariz in 1955 for asthma, then returned to Beckley in 1959. Survivors include wife Barbara, daughter Phyllis Ann at WVU, and three sisters Roberta Farley Fred Thompson and Toe Alice Wilson of Harper s. Body to be taken from the funeral home to his residence 11 AM Saturday, then back to the funeral home one hour before service. Pallbearers George Piper S C Ballard Verlin Walker Clyde Law H E McMillan J B Decksband Sidney R Wilburn. Also listed are Millie Hall Mer bus Ohio and four sons Alfred E Louisville Arnold J Beaver Frank W Edward R God of Daniels two brothers C W Hodge Elk Knob and Harvey Hodge Princeton, 39 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The body will be removed to the residence of her son Frank at 2 PM Saturday. Pallbearers Lewis Berry Douglas Lilly Phillip Johnson Clarence Lilly Charles Johnson Charles Richmond.
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Philip H
Phil) Wilson
Mankin Ave
Keyser- Bryant
Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum
Wilson
Stephens Episcopal Church
Beckley
Luzon Island
Philippines
France
Argonne
Lorraine
Germany
Tuscon
Ariz
Barbara Wilson
Phyllis Ann
West Virginia University
Roberta Farley
Fred Thompson
Alice Wilson
Harper
George Piper
S. C. Ballard
Verlin Walker
Clyde Law
H. E. McMillan
J. B. Deck
Sband
Sidney R. Wilburn
Millie Hall
Merbus
Ohio
Alfred E
Louisville
Arnold J
Beaver
Frank W
Edward R
God of
Daniels
Elk Knob
Harvey Hodge
Princeton
Webb and Neal
Frank
Lewis Berry
Douglas Lilly
Phillip Johnson
Clarence Lilly
Charles Johnson
Charles Richmond
Funeral services for Mrs William J Ralsten in Charleston
Mrs. William J. Ralsten 94 mother of Dr M M Ralsten of Hill Park Drive will have funeral services at 10 a.m. Saturday at Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church Charleston with Dr Joe B Overmyer in charge. Graveside rites follow at 2 30 p.m. at the family cemetery Union. She died Wednesday at the home of daughter Mrs R E Woodrum 1508 A Lee St Charleston after a short illness. Surviving: another daughter Mrs William P. Stman of Charleston one sister Mrs A S Black of Charleston eight grandchildren four great grandchildren. The body is at Barlow Bonsall Funeral Home Charleston.
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William J
Sally) Ralsten
M. M. Ralsten
Hill Park Drive
Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church
Charleston
Joe B. Overmyer
Union
Ralston
Henry Williams Funeral Rites Held in Artie
Funeral services for Henry Williams 80 lifelong Artie resident were set for 2 p m Saturday at Advent Christian Church with Rev Ernest Barley. Burial will follow in the family cemetery at Artie. Williams died after a long illness at 2 15 p m Thursday at his son Clovis Dorothy Nancy’s home in Artie. He leaves four sisters, three brothers and grandchildren. The body will be moved from Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville to his son’s Dorothy home today.
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Henry Williams
Artie
Advent Christian Church
Ernest Barley
Williams
Clovis
Dorothy
Nancy
Ronda
Janet
Florence
Thhe Armstrong
Whitesville
Lilly Funeral Services for Beckley Man Held Pending Details
Harry Reynold Lilly age 55 of Beckley was found dead in his parked car on Sullivan road near noon Thursday. State Police and county coroner officials reported he died of a heart attack. Lilly, a World War I veteran and former barber, belonged to the Loyal Order of Moose and Barbers and Beauticians Union. He was born October 1904 in Raleigh County. Surviving are two brothers L V Lilly of Cincinnati and B C Lilly of Chicago.
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Harry Reynold Lilly
Beckley
Sullivan Road
Caffee Funeral Home
Jennings Martin
Sullivan
S. A. Ford
Lilly
The
Loyal Order of Moose
South Oakwood Avenue
Rn Barbers and Beauticians
UN- Lilly
Raleigh County
L. V. Lilly
Cincinnati
Ohio
B. C. [Lilly
Chicago, Il
Mrs Sally Daniels Rites Planned in Beckley
Funeral services for Mrs Sally Daniels 76 of San Antonio Texas and formerly Beckley will be held at 1 p m Saturday in Kingdom Hall Beckley with Rev Claude Hudson in charge Burial will follow in Harrah Cemetery Backus Mountain She died Sunday at her daughter’s home in San Antonio Survivors include husband Phillip Daniels two sons Fred Smith of Beckley and Tilden Smith of Chicago one daughter Mae Bailey of Orange California The body will remain at the Glen ean Funeral Home source says.
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Sally Daniels
San Antonio
Tex
Beckley
Kingdom Hall
Claude Hudson
Crab Orchard
Harrah
Backus Mountain
Fred Smith
Tilden Smith
Chicago
III
Mae Bailey
Orange
Calif
The
of Funeral Home
Glen Ean
Funeral services for Mrs. Wilburn held in Raleigh County
Funeral services for Rosa Bell Wilburn were held July 17, 1892, noting she had lived in Raleigh County since 1919. Survivors include her husband and other family members.
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County
Raleigh County
Speed of new drug products in the 1960s impact sales
The 1960s will bring rapid product introductions with drugs not yet on shelves accounting for 5 07 percent of 1965 retail sales. Daily newspapers reach 82 percent of Americans aged 12 and over, and the pharmaceutical industry spent about 24 million dollars on medical advertising in newspapers last year.
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U. S
Pharmaceutical
Charles J Bowling Funeral Services Held in Hinton
Funeral services for Charles J Bowling of Hinton were held at 2 p m Sunday at Brooklyn Methodist Church near Hinton with burial in Restwood Memorial Estates. Bowling, a former brake man, died after being struck by a train in Montgomery while performing a switching operation. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway officials investigate. He was born in Brooklin Raleigh County son of Nathan E and the late Mrs Bowling and a World War II veteran. Survivors include his wife Keith two daughters Sandra and Brenda and brother Nathan E Bowling Jr. of Hinton.
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Charles J. Bowling
Hinton
Brooklyn Methodist Church
Restwood Memorial Estates
Bowling
Brake
Montgomery
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Brooklin
Raleigh County
Nathan E. Bowling
Hinton High School
Brooklin Methodist Church
The
Brotherhood of Railway
Keith
Sandra
Brenda
Nathan E. Bowling Jr
Ronald Meadows
Funeral arrangements for Bernard L. Morgan announced
Bernard L. Morgan endured a three week illness. The Cunningham Funeral Home in Charleston will handle arrangements.
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Cunningham Funeral Home
Charleston
Shortening The News Briefs Mix Of WV Stories
State briefs report two prisoners who abducted a taxi driver near Moundsville must serve five more years after a judge ruled. Marlington residents approved a liquor store in a local option vote by a margin of 2M to 249 against. A WVU Sigma Delta Chi chapter will be installed in Morgantown with 13 students and one graduate. A five year old Huntington girl saved her baby sister and two brothers from a burning home while parents were away.
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State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Uniontown
U. S. District Court
Herbert P. Sorg
Marlinton
West Virginia University
Sigma Delta Chi
Morgantown
Huntington
Mary Ann Crawford
Dennis
Charles
Susan
Injured At Work At Lewis Chevrolet Body Shop
Russell Bryant of Second Ave an employee of Lewis Chevrolet suffered an injured right leg Thursday when struck by a car in the firm's body shop He was treated at Beckley Hospital
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Russell Bryant
Second Ave
Lewis Chevrolet
Henee
Beckley Hospital
Weather satellite prototype with polar orbit plans
An official described a weather satellite design to observe global patterns. The device resembles a hatbox with 9000 solar cells powering batteries and four bottom transmitting antennas plus a top receiver. It targets a 400 mile circular orbit covering latitudes 50S to 50N and a wide 800 mile by 800 mile photo area with a 30 mile magnified center image for cloud analysis.
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Santa Cruz
Argentina
Montreal
Canada
Ohio Flood Warns of Limited Damage as Crests Rise
Ohio overflows force Wheeling Island residents to lift furniture to upper floors while Wheeling Steel Corp prepares for possible furnace shutdowns at Steubenville and curtailments in Benwood Martins Ferry Yorkville and other plants. The Weather Bureau forecasts crests above flood stage along the Ohio River with Point Pleasant near 44.5 feet by Monday evening and East Rainelle the hardest hit with dozens evacuated.
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Wheeling Steel Corp
Steubenville
Ohio
Benwood
W. Va
Martins ‘Ferry
Yorkville
Wheeling
Weather Bureau
Point Pleasant
Gallipolis
Huntington
Ashland
Greenup
Rainelle
Engineering updates on dam project delays and surveys
Davis outlined progress and challenges for a 3,000 acre dam site. Surveys of three Stevens Branch sites, land deeds on 21 tracts, subsurface rock and coal seam data, and a determined high water line are being prepared. Weather and funds hinder work. county cooperation remains strong to advance the project economically.
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Davis
Stevens Branch
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