FDA Builds Rules for Vegetable Meat Imitations
The FDA began drafting rules for textured vegetable protein products designed to mimic meat and cost less. A coalition led by General Mills and Archer Daniels Midland submitted a standards proposal to require minimum nutrients and label products as textured protein.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
General Mills, Inc
Minneapolis
Ogden C. Johnson
Johnson
Daley Predicted Chicago Winner in Last Campaign Day
Chicago mayoral race centers on Richard J. Daley seeking a fifth term with a margin possibly exceeding his 1967 plurality. Challenger Richard E. Friedman campaigns as an independent Republican, appealing to liberals and independents while criticizing Daley's record.
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Chicago
UPI
Richard J. Daley
Daley
Richard E. Friedman
Friedman
Ruane
Better Government Association
Vic Damone quits Godfather over Italian defamation claims
Vic Damone an Italian American singer withdrew from the film The Godfather arguing the script defames Italians. Producers subsequently removed Mafia and Cosa Nostra references after his departure. Damone stated he could not continue in the role as an American of Italian descent.
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New York
UPI
Vic Damone
Mafia
Cosa Nostra
Mario Puzo
Damone
Bowl Down Cancer nets $884 for Raleigh Cancer Crusade
The week long Bowl Down Cancer event at Bowl Wick raised 884.08 for the local Cancer Crusade. Bob Shelton earned 664 pins in regular play while Elmer Lester led the handicap group with 734. Awards were presented by Mrs. Virgil A. Sarrett, with Mrs. Douglas Ball and Beckley Woman's Club noted for sponsorship.
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Bowl Wick
Bob Shelton
Elmer Lester
Virgil A. Sarrett
Raleigh County
American Cancer Society
Douglas Ball
Woman’s Club of
Beckley
Mental Health Leaders Urge Special Session Funding
West Virginia officials press for $515000 in supplementary appropriations for Colin Anderson Center Weston State Hospital and other facilities. Dr Mildred Bateman warns 2115 patients may face starvation without funds while Gov Moore seeks line item transfers and targeted grants to cover food drugs and clothing costs.
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Charleston
UPS
Mildred Bateman
Arch A. Moore
Bateman
Weston State Hospital
Colin Anderson
St. Marys
Weston
Wheeling
Spencer
Huntington
Barboursville
Mason County
Moore
Wroney
Lakin
Food Stamps Stolen in West Virginia Welfare Office
Wood County authorities investigate the first major food stamp theft in West Virginia in over a year. Welfare Commissioner Edwin Flowers reports about $8,679 in stamps stolen late Thursday night or Friday morning from a Elizabeth office as merchants and banks are alerted. Previous major thefts in 1969 prompted serial numbering and a new mail distribution system.
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Elizabeth
UPS
Wood County
West Virginia
Edwin Flowers
Flowers
Brooke County
Barbour County
Armstrong Improves as Palm Sunday Brings Small Feat
Louis Armstrong, 70, in Beth Israel Medical Center since March 15 for a heart condition showed slight improvement. A hospital spokesman said he improved during the day and has begun asking for food while still receiving IV nutrition. He remained awake and alert earlier and asked for a palm when told it was Palm Sunday.
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New York
UPI
Louis Armstrong
Beth Israel Medical Center
Armstrong
Pit River Indians pursue rights and damages over land
U S District Judge Robert Peckham dismissed a suit in October seeking return of ancestral lands to the Pit River tribe. The Indians still press a civil rights suit against Shasta County authorities for alleged mistreatment during evictions from lands owned by PG E. They also filed a $5 million damage claim against PG E for harming sacred earth. The petition to the FPC argues Pit River Indians are uniquely qualified to protect public interests in licensing proceedings.
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Pit River
Indiana
Newark Teachers Extend Strike Amid Ratification Rebuff
About 1,000 Newark Teachers Union members voted to continue the strike into a 10th week defying Mayor Kenneth Gibson. They cheered a rally after rejecting a contract settlement proposed by a state mediator and demanded the reinstatement of 347 suspended strikers.
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Newark, N.J
UPI
Newark
Kenneth Gibson
Newark Teachers’ Union
NTU
Multiple Weekend Fatal Crashes Claim Six Lives in West Virginia and Nearby States
Fatalities Sunday include Alfred G. Taylor 47 of Charleston and Ernest J. Weiford 48 of Marlinton in separate Interstate and state highway crashes. Gregory B. Reimer 25 of Warrensville Heights Ohio died after a guard rail collision on Interstate 77 near Fairplain. John Armstrong 49 of Buckeye Pocahontas County died in a motorcycle car collision south of Marlinton on U S 219. Henry A. Smith 24 of Terra Alta Preston County died in an out of state crash on U S 50 near Oakland Maryland.
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Alfred G. Taylor
Charleston
Ernest J. Weiford
Marlinton
W. Va
Monterville
Randolph County
Gregory B. Reimer
Warrensville Heights
Ohio
Fairplain
John Armstrong
Buckeye
Pocahontas County
U.S. 219
Henry A. Smith
Terra Alta
Preston County
U.S. 50
Oakland Md
Jolo man arrested in fatal Sunday stabbing on school court
State Police arrested 35 year old Jerry David Stuart at 11 p.m. on a felonious assault charge connected to a Sunday stabbing that left 22 year old David Leon Justice with chest wounds in Mullens. Justice is in fair condition at Wyoming General Hospital. Stuart awaits arraignment before Town District Magistrate Joe Rodriguez. The two men argued on the basketball court at the old East Gulf Grade School when the stabbing occurred.
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Jolo
East Gulf
David Leon Justice
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Raleigh County
Beckley
Jerry David Stuart
Joe Rodriguez
Old East Gulf Grade School
Stuart
Justice
Preparation H Relief Promised for Hemorrhoidal Inflammation
Doctors tested hundreds of patients and found Preparation H relieved itching and swelling of hemorrhoidal tissues caused by inflammation. Many physicians use Preparation H themselves for treatment and relief.
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Hun
Deaths And Funerals In Beckley Area
Funeral services are set for Mrs. Dorothy White Evans of 215 Westmoreland Beckley at Ebenezer Baptist Church with burial in Highland Cemetery Huntington. Samuel H. Crook 73 of Upper Bellpoint burial at Valley View Powleys Creek after death in Hinton hospital. Bennie R. Bruney 20 of Sprague to be buried Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens after long illness in Charleston hospital. Multiple survivors and details listed for Townes Chambers Russell Adkins and others with various services and burial plans across Raleigh county and surrounding areas.
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Dorothy White Evans
Westmoreland St
Beckley
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Corey
Mitchell
Highland Cemetery
Huntington
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Samuel H. Crook
Upper Bellpoint
Ronald Meadows
Hinton
A. L. Neely
Dean Pack
Valley View
Powleys Creek
Waller
Myrtle) Pack
Cool Ridge
Bennie R. Bruney
Sprague
Melton Mortuary
Ernest Barley
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Charleston
James N
Blanche Davis Bruney
Woodrow Wilson High School
Rollyson Volkswagen Inc
Carl
Baltimore
Shelby Reeves
Oak Grove
Janie Bostic
Rockville
Sarah Berg
W R. Davis
Roger
Ritchie and Johnson
Martha Jane Townes
Glen White
Cullens
Shady Grove
Walter
Leonard
Vercell
New York City
N. Y
Cordell
Norfolk
Robert L. Chambers
Cameron
Don Ellis
Rosco Morgan
Chambers
Same
Viola Cook
Raleigh County
Methodist Church
Blue Masonic Lodge
AF & AM
Pineville
Logan
Hattie Riffe Chambers
E. H
Flossie) Bruce Jr
Sandston
Robert L
Elkton
Henry Russell
Santa Ana
Calif
Glen Rogers
Bethel Baptist Church
Fairhaven
California
Dublin
Ireland
United States
Illinois
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Raleigh- Wyoming Mining Co
United Mine Workers Local Safety Committee
Beckley Aerie
Order of Eagles
Blanche Marrical Russell
John Dober
John H. Marrical
Arthur Sweeney
Harry Thomas
Glen Burnie
Wilborn Marrical
Silver ‘Spring
Jay Lindt
Memphis, Tenn
Forrest Marrical
Fayette
Wyoming Counties
Oak Hill Men Named Presidents of Oak Leaf Coal Co
Donald C. Tully of Oak Hill and Everett Hannah of McConnell were elected presidents and general managers of Oak Leaf Coal Co a unit of Sherwood Diversified Services Inc New York The two longtime surface mining leaders join Oak Leaf after nine years with Ranger Fuel Co Beckley They have over 22 years in West Virginia coal and will oversee existing and expansion sites following resignations of Philip M Greenberg and Glenn Trent Greenberg left to run his own firm while Trent remains as nonadministrative Oak Leaf expanded by acquiring 8000 acres in Mingo County West Virginia and Pike County Kentucky
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Donald C. Tully
Oak Hill
Everett Hannah
McConnell
Oak Leaf Coal Co
Logan
Glenalum
Oak Leaf Coal
Sherwood Diversified Services Inc
New York
New Oak Leaf
Ranger Fuel Co
Beckley
Oak Leaf
West Virginia
West
Glenn Trent
Greenberg
Trent
Crash toll and battles widen in Indochina report
Report details two crashes near Hue and Phu Vinh with one American injured and nine Vietnamese soldiers killed in the second. Cambodia’s high command notes Communist attacks on four government posts including Kompong Russey, 60 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, with one position abandoned.
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Hue
Saigon
Mekong Delta
Phu Vinh
U.S
Cambodia
High Command
Kompong Russey
Phnom Penh
Railpax plan may delay May rollout six more months
Railpax faces a halt expected before the House Interstate Commerce Committee that would push the May 1 start date back six months. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers says 16,000 workers including 4,000 firefighters would lose jobs under the revised system, leaving only 184 passenger trains. Railpax Chairman David W. Kendall calls the government backed network a milestone in American transportation and says it could bring hundreds of thousands back to rail travel.
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House Interstate Commerce Committee
Railpax
Brotherhood of Locomoitive Engineers
David W. Kendall
Name Change Approved and Dismissal in Circuit Court
Raleigh County Circuit Court approved a name change for Donna Lee Richmond to Donna Lee Cook and dismissed a sui in orders. A Dearing Brothers suit against James and Ida Mae Fuller was dismissed as settled over a jeepster trade dispute encumbered by a lien.
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Raleigh County
Donna Lee Richmond
Daniels
Donna Lee Cook
Dearing Brothers
James
Ida Mae Fuller
Mount Hope
Fueller
Bureau of Mines Official To Speak At Rotary Meeting
Henry P. Wheeler Jr deputy director of health and safety for the U S Bureau of Mines will speak to the Beckley Rotary Club on May 7 at 6 p m at the Black Knight Country Club His topic is the proposed mine health and safety institute at the Raleigh County Airport.
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Henry P. Wheeler Jr
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Beckley Rotary Club
Wheeler
Raleigh County
Black Knight Country Club
Raleigh County Jury Report Delayed To Thursday
The Raleigh County Criminal Court jury, moved from Wednesday to Thursday, must report at 9 30 a m. Judge Harry L McCreery said cases set before Thursday are disposed or continued. A Lonnie Ray Linkhaus arson trial at Shady Spring supermarket was to be heard.
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Raleigh County Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Lonnie Ray Linkhaus
Shady Spring
Investors Acceptance Corp Sues Atlas and Thelma Davis
The Investors Acceptance Corp. files in Raleigh County Circuit Court alleging Atlas and Thelma Davis of Lanark owe 1563 dollars on a promissory note in default. Arthur J. Recht of Weirton represents the plaintiff.
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Atlas
Thelma Davis
Lanark
Investors Acceptance Corp
Raleigh
Arthur J. Recht
Weirton
Juror Urges Public Pause After Calley Verdict
Maj. Harvey G. Brown, one of six jurors who convicted Lt. William L. Calley Jr., called on Americans to stop and assess the situation. He urged calm and reason amid national anger over the My Lai massacre verdict and life sentence. Brown noted juror families have faced threats and harassment.
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FT. Benning, Ga
UPI
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Maj
Harvey G. Brown
Calley
Gallup
Brown
Soviets Endorse Brezhnev Platform With Unity Rally
The Soviet Communist Party Congress approved Brezhnev's five year policy program and gave him a 90 second ovation. The program calls for a world disarmament conference and bans on nuclear weapons by a fifth power, while pledging higher living standards and improved relations with the United States and China.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Communist Party
Brezhnev
United States
Red China
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