Ansted Man Waives Hearing and Bond Set
Calvin Linkenhaker of Ansted waived preliminary hearing and is free on a $1000 bond as Fayette County Grand Jury considers a bastardy warrant from a 14 day old child born after a claimed rape. Prosecutor plans to present rape charge at the May Grand Jury session for a new indictment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
ANS
Calvin Linkenhaker
Ansted
Fayette County
Grand Jury
Linkenhoker
State Tax Take Drops Behind Estimates
State tax take last month reached about 2.7 million. Other revenues trailed estimates for the nine month period with liquor profits down 2.3 million and racing fees down 1.26 million.
Hinton group eyes federal highway route through New River Gorge
Lawyer Sawyers leads a Hinton based effort to study funding and creation of a new highway to boost Blue Stone Park and Grandview State Park. The group welcomes area participation and may form a committee with a future name. Explorer Post 230 volunteers map the gorge trails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sawyers
Hinton
J. L. Pennington
Prosperity
Explorer Post
Explorer
New River Gorge
Geological Survey
Bluestone Park
Grandview State Park
Shortening The News in Free World and Miss Confederacy
Shortening The News reports a freed captive from ten years in Communist China into the free world in Hong Kong. Doctors call his condition grave as he is rushed to a hospital. Hartsville’s Jane Walters Coker will be Miss Confederacy during Civil War Centennial events in Charleston. State Briefs note Col Charles E Morrison dies at 95, Rex M Smith to be interim state school superintendent, Thomas Shamblin Jr fined for theft, John Morrow Davis, veteran newspaperman, dies, a $150 million electric plant to start by next March, and a county rabies quarantine in Jackson County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
China
McCann
Jane Walters Coker
Hartsville
S. C
Charleston
Charles E. Morrison
Parkersburg
State Board of Education
Rex M. Smith
Thomas E. Shamblin Jr
Kenova
John Morrow Davis
Fairmont Times
New York Herald Tribune
Cleveland
Davis
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New Cumberland
Stony River
Grant County
Jennings Randolph
Jackson County
Trials End in Life Sentences for Finch and Carole
In a long verdicts case with Finch convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to murder, he received life terms. Carole Finch, his mistress, was sentenced for conspiracy and second degree murder, with the jury urged to ignore the five to life auto sentence for the latter. The judge warned of Supreme Court appeals as both trials concluded after more than ten months and significant public cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finch
Carole
Supreme Court
Bringgold
Carole Finch
Maxwell Keith
Four Verdicts Considered in White Oak Robbery Trial
Raleigh County judge listed four possible verdicts for Matthew McCutcheon after closing arguments in the mid February White Oak Grocery and Post Office robbery case. The charges include guilty as charged, grand larceny, petit larceny, or not guilty. co defendant Robert Collins pleaded guilty prior to trial with Collins to be sentenced April 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
McCutcheon
Robert Louis Collins
Collins
McCreery
Colins
Wreck Kills Three. Hitchhiker Survives With Injuries
A head on crash near Fairdale killed Edgar Greer and Drema Perdue and left 17 year old hitchhiker Michael Kinder as the sole survivor. Kinder, recovering at Beckley Memorial Hospital, says Greer planned to drive him home from John's Drive In when the car left the road and struck a bridge abutment. Coroner reports indicate both Greer and Perdue died from neck injuries. the car was found in water with bodies recovered nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairdale
Edgar Greer
Glen Rogers
Lee Perdue
Sabine
Michael Kinder
Bolt
Beckley Memorial Hospital
J. E. Asbury
John
Rt. 15
Greer
Kinder
Perdue
Marsh Fork Creek
Passlersby
Miss Perdue
Raleigh
S. A. Ford
Glen Rogers High School
Raleigh County
Rector Charles Ferguson to lead Union coal safety talk
About 1 000 attend the conference as rector Charles Ferguson of Washington D C discusses the Union s Role in Coal Mine Safety on day two. Other speakers include F R Boyles and E W Henry of U S Steel Corp mines at Gary Island Creek Coal Co GM N T Camicia and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ferguson
Washington, D. C
F. R. Boyles
E. W. Henry
U. S. Steel Corp
Gary
Island Creek ,Coal Co
N. T. Camicia
Ray J. Nelepovitz
Allied Chemical Company
Moundsville
Dunbar
Lawrence Barker
Cecil B. Dodd
Weirton
Charles Hopkins
Charleston
W. R. Park
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Mt. Hope
Paul Steinbicker
Beckley
Steinbicker
Libbey Owens Ford Glass Co
Auto Sales Up In March Show Optimism Across Firms
Auto sales rose overall with Lincoln leading at 40 percent above last year. Executives Walker Williams Studebaker Packard and L E Minkel noted steady spring gains. Roy Abernathy American Motors and Edward Cole Chevrolet forecast a robust spring market. Chrysler announced a 28 percent March gain and planned 168000 Q2 production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Walker A. Williams
Lincoln-Mercury
L. E. Minkel
Studebaker-Packard
Minkel
Roy Abernathy
American Motors Corp
Edward N. Cole
Chevrolet
Chrysler Corp
Congo Political Crisis and Lumumba Faction Rift
Gizenga Kamitatu claimed interim leadership citing Kasavubu's incapacity while Lumumba loyalists reject federation. Gizenga seeks a centralized state with himself as premier. In Elisabethville Tshombe backs down after UN talks, suspending hostility and easing tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kamitatu
Gizenga
Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
Patrice Lumumba
Katanga
Elisabethville
Moise Tshombe
Kennedy Macmillan Hold Seven Hour Laos Talks
Kennedy and Macmillan conferred for more than seven hours on Laos policy with 11 a.m. to nightfall sessions. They reached agreement on expanded NATO cooperation to counter Soviet pressure, and stood firm against U N secretary general Hammarskjold’s removal. They shelved immediate Red China admission debates and agreed to align economic aid for underdeveloped areas via the Paris development group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Macmillan
White House
NATO
Soviet Union
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
New
Paris
Pinecrest Mills Announces Transition Plan for Eye and Hager
Pinecrest Mills states Eye will be replaced by Hager with Eye graciously agreeing to stay on through month end to assist in training his successor. The move aligns with ongoing leadership changes as Hager prepares to assume duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills
Eye
Hager
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Elizabeth Brown Services Held
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Brown 45 Detroit Mich formerly of Hinton were held recently in Detroit after a short illness. Born in Hinton she was daughter of Mrs Annie Lilly Olean NY and the late E W Lilly. She was an accountant for Central American Hardware Co Detroit 15 years and first vice president of the Society of Women Accountants. Surviving: her mother her husband W T Brown two sisters and a brother. Beckley area relatives attended including Mrs Amos Epperly Beaver an aunt Chester Bennett Beaver and Miss Pearl Sweeney Ghent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Brown
Detroit
Mich
Hinton
Brown
Annie Lilly
Olean
N.Y
E. W. Lilly
Central American Hardware Co
Society of Women Accountants
W. T. Brown
Carolyn McPhillips
Rochester
N. Y
Janet Beck
Brockport
Edwin Lilly
Greeley
Cole
Beckley Area
Amos Epperly
Beaver
Chester Bennett
Final rites for Joseph Smith of Keyrock Saturday
Joseph Smith 51 of Keyrock will be buried in the family cemetery after services at 10 a.m. Saturday at his mother's home in Keyrock. Rev. Roy Lester will officiate. He died Wednesday at his home of pneumonia. Born December 11, 1909 in Habersham, Tenn. Surviving is a brother, Ace Smith of Newport News. Body at Evans Funeral Home in Oceana, then to the home an hour before services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Smith
Keyrock
Minnie Smith
Cox
Roy Lester
Smith
Habbersham
Tenn
Alt Smith
Ae Smith
Newport News
Evans
Oceana
Funeral notices for Hogan and Greer in Bluefield and Glen Rogers
Lewis L. Hogan 44 of 318 Allen St Bluefield died at Beckley VA Hospital after a two month illness. Edgar Paul Greer 24 of Glen Rogers killed in car crash near Fairdale after 10 p.m. Wednesday. services set at Glen Rogers Community Church with burial at Sunset Memorial Park. bodies to be cared for by Lugo and Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Homes. Greer survived by parents John and Emily Greer and siblings Seldon Dennis and Carol Greer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Leon Hogan
Allen St
Bluefield
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Lugo Funeral Home
Edgar Paul Greer
Glen Rogers
Glen Robinson
Cameron Lilly
Sunset Memorial Park
Greer
Fairdale
John
Emily Laxton Greer
Seldon
Dennis
Carol Greer
Conniewingo
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Obituary for Brenda Gale Hopkins of White Oak
Brenda Gale Hopkins 10 daughter of Marvin and Anth ella Hopkins White Oak died after a two month illness at a local hospital. Born June 12 1950 she was a fifth grade student at Shady Spring Elementary and member of Daniels Community Church. Survived by parents two sisters Betty Jane Bailey and Ella Pearl Hopkins and a brother Billy Jean. Funeral services Saturday at 2 30 p m with Rev Les Garten and Rev Wade Webb officiating burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Services arranged by Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brenda Gale Hopkins
Marvin and
Anthella Elkins Hopkins
White Oak
Shady Spring
Brenda Gale
Daniels Community Church
Betty Jane Bailey
Lakewood
Ohio
Ella Pearl Hopkins
Billy Jean
Cleveland
Les Garten
Wade Webb
Sunset Memorial Park
Rose and Quesenberry
Ed Zwilling Dies at Home Near Oak Hill
Ed Zwilling of near Oak Hill died at his home shortly before noon today. The body is at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home pending completion of arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Zwilling
Oak Hill
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Drema Perdue 17 Dies in Sabine Car Crash
Funeral plans for Drema Lee Perdue 17 of Sabine follow a fatal crash near Fairdale when the car she rode in struck a bridge abutment and she was thrown into a creek. She was a Glen Rogers High senior, daughter of Frank and [unnamed] Perdue, with several survivors including five half sisters listed in Radford and Sabine. The body lies in Mullens at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drema
Lee Perdue
Sabine
Fairdale
Corvie McGuire
Elizabeth Hackney
Radford
Phyllis Tilley
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home
Mullens
Funeral services for Sadie C Haley in Mount Tabor Church
Sadie C Haley 69 of Eccles dies after a year long illness. Services at 2 p.m. Friday at Mount Tabor Baptist Church with Rev. Albert Ostrander presiding. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Survived by daughter Mrs. Boyd Stanley of Harpers Road, son Charles A. of Morgantown, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Pallbearers listed as Ivan Lowery Homer Hutchinson Robert Stanley Homer Roark Walter Patton Warren Patton Winifred Burleson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie C. Haley
Eccles
Mount Tabor Baptist Church
Albert Ostrander
Sunset Memorial Park
Haley
Boyd Stanley
Harpers Road
Mount Tabor
William H. Haley
Clifton
Stanley
Charles A
Morgantown
Melton
Ivan Lowery
Homer Hutchinson
Robert Stanley
Homer Roark
Walter Patton
Warren Patton
Winifred Burleson
Mrs Luella Martin Final Rites In Lewisburg At 1 P M
Final rites for Mrs. Luella Flo Martin 66 of Lewisburg will be held at 1 PM Friday at Wallace and Wallace Chapel Lewisburg with Revs Thomas Laing and A K Whiteside officiating Burial will follow at Wallace Memorial Cemetery Clintonville She died Wednesday morning at her home Surviving are her husband Jess Howard Martin four sons James of Ronceverte Jess Milton of Lewisburg Wallace of Melrose Park Ill and Charles stationed with the Air Force at Hampton VA three sisters Tixie Pinnelle Beckley Wilsie Cart Lookout and Jinnie McCellan Rainelle and three brothers Henry Wil ford both East Rainelle and Wilson Eagle Lookout RNL
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luella Flo Martin
Lewisburg
Wallace and Wallace
Thomas Laing
A. K. Whiteside
Wallace Memorial Cemetery
Clintonville
Jess Howard Martin
James
Ronceverte
Jess Milton
Wallace
Melrose Park
Ill
Charles
Air Force
Hampton, Va
Tixie Pinnelle
Beckley
Wilsie Cart
Lookout
Jinnie McCellan
Rainelle
Henry
Wilford
East Rainelle
Wilson Eagle
RNL
Maxwell Hill Man Sentenced
A Maxwell Hill man was sentenced to six months in Raleigh County Jail and fined $90 in costs on three driving violations by Magistrate Joe Rodriguez. Carl Blankenship, 20, was fined and jailed for reckless driving, driving without a state license, and failing to stop when signaled. He was remanded to jail at 5 30 am. Thomas Lynch, 19, Sprague, forfeited bond for petit larceny after being accused of stealing two floor mats from a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell Hill
Raleigh
Joe Rodriguez
Carl Blankenship
Thomas Lynch
Sprague
Rodriguez
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Prince Hinton
Fama’s
Hopkin's Meat Mkts., Inc
Valley Drive
Pete & Bob's Drive-In
Rath
Black Hawk
Monthru
BLADE
Llan
George Ballard
W. J. Bradley
Bradley
McCutcheon and Collins
Hitchhiker
Gizenga Okehi
Laos
Nations Committee
Pinecrest
United Press International
Lewis L. Hogan
Luella Martin
John Brown
Waynesboro
Ollie Brown
Wickham Ave
Tyree and McDowell
Bertie Brown
Afton
John H
G. L. Fox
Vernon Critzer
Afton, Va
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