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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1962
Page
2
Obituary notices list survivors including spouses children and siblings for multiple residents. Funeral services are scheduled across Bluefield Oceana Rainelle Huntington and Oak Hill with churches and funeral homes handling arrangements. Names include Nunn Grimmett Deegans Milam and others with details of venues dates and burial plans.
Charles Henry Higginbotham 77 of MacArthur dies after a heart attack. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Regular Baptist Church Johnstown Road with Rev. Everett R. Shafer. Burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Survivors include wife Annie, five daughters, four sons, four sisters, 41 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. He was a retired coal miner, member of UMWA Local 7086 and Free Will Baptist Church. Body to be moved to residence from Webb and Neal Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon. nephews to pallbear.
Funeral services for Ocal Doss Lilly will be held at 2 30 p m Wednesday in the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Peace Chapel with Evangelist Freddy Dinkler in charge Burial will follow in Wildwood Cemetery Lilly 62 of Hilltop died Sunday at his son James Lilly s home in Chicago Ill while visiting Arrangements note his birth January 24 1900 in Summers County as the son of Walter Lilly and Dorothy Cox Lilly He was a retired coal miner Surviving relatives include his wife Leona Lilly now deceased five daughters Mrs Frank Cristy Oscar of Beckley Mrs Lacy Sally Foster of Minden and Mrs Cleve Stella Wood plus Mrs Forest Vivian Ogden of Bradley and five grandchildren The body will arrive at the funeral home 6 am Tuesday with visitation after 1 pm Tuesday
Miss Mary Alice Nunn 107 Chestnut St Bluefield will be laid to rest in Sunset Memorial Park Beckley at 1 p m Tuesday. She died Saturday in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness. A longtime employee of Appalachian Power Co she belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Bluefield and was born in Franklin County.
Mrs Elizabeth Con ley Cook 86 died at 7 10 p m Sunday at the Pineville home of her son in law and daughter the Rev and Mrs Virgil Shannon. Surviving are her husband Robert L Cook who died 11 years ago a son Elmer W Cook of Northfork two daughters Mrs Nannie Harper of Clearmont Florida and Mrs A Tschantre of Cambridge. The body is at Evans Funeral Home in Oceana.
Mrs Ardis Ruth Pittman Vicars, 28, of Myrtle Beach South Carolina, died at 445 AM Sunday at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base Hospital from a heart condition. Her body is being returned to Tyree Funeral Home in Oak Hill.
Edward W West Jones 65 of 1324 South Ave Princeton died Sunday morning in a Bluefield hospital after a heart attack. Retired employee of the West Virginia State Road Commission he was born September 9 1896 a son of the late William and Rachel Jones. Survived by daughter Mrs Bennie Maxwell Spanishburg. Body at Memorial Thiat Directory in Princeton.
NETCONG New Jersey Frederick I Cox 91 former ICC member dies Saturday resident Budd Lake for 30 years funeral services set Tuesday in New Jersey. Brussels Belgium Miguel de Ghelderode dies Sunday after long illness. Santa Monica California J D Jake Funk 64 Monica Evening Out Look general manager dies Saturday cancer. San Diego California Edwin A Walter Sr 86 former Idaho state legislator and judge dies Friday funeral today. Chicago Illinois Mary Dickerson Donahey 85 former newspaperwoman and author of 20 children books dies Saturday private funeral. St Louis Missouri Claude I Bakewell Jr 18 Yale freshman and former national indoor doubles champion dies in auto crash Saturday funeral today.
The City Recorder issued the first April building permit to F. D. Spencer of 511 Broadway St for a garage construction costing 300 dollars.
A congressional subcommittee report on the Texas Tower disaster assigns partial fault to the Air Force, design engineers Moran Proctor Muesser Rutledge, and builders J Rich Steers Inc Morrison Knudsen. The radar tower No 4 collapse killed 28 seamen off New Jersey in 1961. The panel faulted lack of safety responsibility and forewarned weather could trigger evacuation plans.
Five defendants in a Raleigh County case pleaded guilty or faced sentencing for grand larceny and related charges. Ronald Lee Hickman 20 Beckley admitted involvement in the Valley Drive attack and theft of $79, with sentencing set for April 16. Others including Shirley Blankenship 17 and Carlos Blankenship 20, Paul Adkins, John Toney, and Elwood Dow faced subsequent actions on petit larceny and burglary charges with various remands and bond statuses.
Snow totals reached two inches in Chester New York over six hours Sunday night while reports extended to Tennessee and Maine. Mount Carroll Illinois recorded seven inches. Bainbridge Georgia reported five inches rainfall causing a restaurant roof collapse with no injuries. Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood Florida measured rainfall around 2.65 and 3.03 inches with New York 1.22 inches and Eastport Maine near three. Philadelphia 1.45 and Boston 2.02 inches. Falmouth Massachusetts 2.75 inches in six hours. Tallahassee Florida saw nearly seven inches causing flash flooding on Main Street. Cold Canadian air pushed into the midlands lowering temperatures toward zero in the northern plains.
In Moorstone England a fox leads the local hunt into an unused mine after the hounds fail to catch it. Harry Weldon waves his trumpet and candles stay lit as the pack wanders. hunters call it the oddest event in their 127 year history, with the fox navigating the area.
Jerry Thompson twelve was listed in serious condition at Wyoming General Hospital Mullens after flames from gasoline fed fire burned his clothing and caused second and third degree burns to his face neck and body. His grandfather Isaac Thompson and cousin Dennis Thompson were treated and released for burns on hands and arms while helping extinguish the blaze. The boy, son of Russell and Mrs. Thompson of Woodbridge Virginia, is visiting Corinne, Wyoming.
Syria set supporters in Homs as the first violence report follows the army overthrow of President Nazim el Kudsi’s government. The Kudsi regime had been installed after a coup ending Syria's 342 year union with Egypt in the U.A.R. last Sept. 28. Cairo Radio broadcast a U.A.R. aid offer if Syria is attacked. King Hussein of Jordan offered help after Damascus Radio reported Israeli border concentration.
Three people died and five were injured in a snowstorm head on crash near Banner Illinois. Another three fatalities occurred after a car swerved into oncoming traffic near Eureka California. A separate accident in Rica Georgia left three dead and five injured.
Union representative Wesley Vanover questioned a special meeting for approval. He said the progress in talks was very minor and unlikely to prompt a membership vote.
The Parkes claim Mrs Parke suffered head lacerations, bladder injury, pelvic fractures and infection after being struck by a car driven by Mabel on Sept 24 on a Beaver highway near the Church of God. Attorneys allege three acts of negligence and seek damages for medical costs, pain and loss of companionship. jurors viewed the crash site as testimony proceeds.
Miss Elizabeth Bowling announces another in a series of meetings of the Beckley Area Labor Council Women’s Activities Division. The Tuesday night session at 7:30 will elect officers, assign committees, and include a workshop. GLEN ARMSTRONG and Benjamin Skeen will address attendees as area women are urged to bring friends and prepare to register before the Primary.
The Legislature's two main interim committees, the Joint Committee on Government and Finance and the Commission on Interstate Cooperation, meet in Charleston for the first time since the 1962 session adjourned. William L. Coffman, 51, assistant state budget director, is hospitalized with a fair condition after a heart attack. The Public Service Commission moves to cut intrastate tolls by about 436000 a year from Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co, with options for voluntary rate reductions or a May 9 hearing.
State Toll reports that Virgil McComas was husband to the deceased and they collided with another auto driven by Kenneth Rose, 50, of Huntington at a Huntington intersection. Another fatal weekend death was George H. Cox, 33, of Rawson in Jefferson County, who died from injuries after a wreck on West Virginia Route 51 near Charles Town on Saturday.
Jurors originally ordered to report Tuesday must now report at 10 a.m. Wednesday as ordered by Judge Harry L. Mc Creery. In Raleigh area news, Police Chief Fred Hammond was admitted to Beckley Memorial Hospital at noon for major surgery scheduled Tuesday.
Desegregation advocate Emile Wagner Jr refused a registered letter from the Archdiocese of New Orleans saying he is not on a correspondence basis with the archdiocese. Mrs Gaillot reports letters sent to others at old addresses. SON members picketed the archbishop's residence citing biblical support for segregation with signs such as God demands segregation.
The Cuban trials followed a failed invasion as Castro's government clashed with anti-Communist forces. The Hoy newspaper claimed U S backing and named Kennedy Eisenhower Nixon and Johnson as morally on trial as war criminals. Proceedings began last Thursday with no fixed end date and officials saying all defendants pleaded guilty.
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