Deaths and Funerals for Raleigh Man James Lowe
Funeral services for James Douglas Lowe 75 of Raleigh are set for 2 30 p m Wednesday at First Baptist Church with Dr Kenneth Swank and Rev Shirley Donnelly officiating Burial will be in Hill Top Cemetery Oak Hill Lowe died Monday after a long illness He was born March 4 1890 in Nelson County Virginia and was a retired mine foreman Survivors include his widow Ethel King Lowe three sons and several daughters and grandchildren The body will be at Webb and Neal Funeral Home after 6 p m today and later at Melton Mortuary after 5 p m Friends may call kt Heck's Funeral Home Milton Wednesday The Pallbearers include Henry Woody W W Bragg and others
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James Douglas Lowe
Raleigh
First Baptist Church
Kenneth Swank
Shirley Donnelly
Hill Top
Oak Hill
Lowe
Nelson County
James
Martha Lowe
Ethel King Lowe
Douglas D
North Stonington
Conn
James D
Donald A
Beckley
William
Ruth) Loving
Joel
Ann) Conner
Fayetteville
Brent
Iron Gate
Herbert
Beech Grove
Robert
Salem
Otha
Afton
Webb and Neal Funeral
South Charleston
B. E. Notter
Huntington
Annje Locke Smith
Richmond
E. A. (Iva) Taylor Jr
St. Augustine
Fla
Iva E. Waite
Deland
Melton Mortuary
Heck
Milton
Henry Woody
W. W. Bragg
J. B. Kline
Paul Harshbarger
Jesse Nicngias
J. E. Otte
Kek
8B. Moore
Johnathan Lowe
Lloyd Taylor
H. E. Jackson
Braddus Ball
G. A. Blake
W. F. Rowsey
G. F. Radar
John Slovak
Bradley
St. Anthony Catholic Church
Kilsyth
Leo Werner
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Slovak
Beckley Hospital
New River Coal Co
Oswald
Michael
Trenton
N. J
Steve
Anna Barron
Cleveland
Ohio
Helen Lepto
Tyree
Mount Hope
Fred Noce Dies at 87 in Mabscott Hospital
Fred Noce, 87, of Mabscott, died in a local hospital at 10 10 a m. The body is at Webb and Neal Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Fred Noce
Mabscott
Webb and Neal Funeral Home
Raymond Tincher dies. funeral set at 2 p m Wednesday
Funeral services for Raymond Earl Tincher 43 of Crow will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Calfee Chapel with Rev E W Powers officiating. Burial follows at Blue Jay Cemetery. Tincher a Navy veteran of World War II and Beaver Baptist Church member died after a brief illness. He was born January 17, 1921 at Blue Jay, son of Ethel Hall Tincher and the late Charles Tincher. Survived by his mother wife Glor ed Delores Hayslette Tincher. two sons Gary and Glenn. brothers Alfred Beckley and Charles Beaver. Pallbearers named. Body at Calfee Funeral Home.
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Raymond Earl Tincher
Crow
E. W. Powers
Blue Jay
Tincher
Beaver
Beaver Baptist Church
Ethel Hall Tincher
Charles Tincher
Geraldine Delores Hayslette Tincher
Gary
Glenn
Alfred
Beckley
Charles
Jim Scott
Tom Morton
James Hunt
Paul Morton
Jack Delp
Gene Johnson
Calfee Funeral Home
Oliver A. Locke Funeral Services in Milton
Funeral services for Oliver A. Locke 85 will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Milton Baptist Church with Rev. O A Singer officiating. Burial follows in Milton Cemetery. Locke died Monday in a local nursing home after a long career as Milton postmaster for 30 years. He was born May 7 1879 in Mason County and taught in Mason Cabell and Kanawha counties. He was survived by another son James R. of…
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Oliver A. Locke
Beckley
Kermit A. Locke
Milton Baptist Church
O. A. Singer
Milton
Locke
Mason County
James and
Malinda Locke
Marshall University
Mason
Cabell
Kanawha
James R
Neal Meade Services for Man Dies of Gunshot Wound
Neal Meade, 41, of Black Eagle, died from a personal safety related gunshot wound at his home Sunday. Funeral services set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Sam Foglesong Funeral Home Chapel in Mullens, with Rev. Harold McVey and Rev. Lonnie Blankenship officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park, Beckley. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon.
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Neal Meade
Black Eagle
Harold McVey
Lonnie Blankenship
Sam Foglesong
Mullens
Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley
Death of Willie Thompson in Shady Spring home
Willie T. Thompson 69 of Mount View died at 10 p.m. Monday after a long illness in the home of his daughter Mrs Arnold Thompson in Shady Spring. Born May 12 1895 in Floyd County Virginia, he was a retired timberman and a son of Thomas and Mary Frances Trail Thompson. He is survived by his widow Minnie O. Thompson and two other relatives.
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Willie T. Thompson
Mount View
Arnold Thompson
Shady Spring
Floyd County
Thomas and
Mary Frances Trail Thompson
Minnie O. Thompson
United Nations Plans and Council Composition Outlined
The article describes the UN structure with the five permanent members United States Britain Russia France and Nationalist China. It lists Economic and Social Council members including the United States twelve African and Asian states five Latin American nations three Eastern European states including the Soviet Union and six Western states. Johnson called the resolutions realistic and equitable while the United States abstained in the December 17, 1963 General Assembly vote.
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United States
Britain
Russia
France
China
Economic and Social Council
Soviet Union
Europe
U.N. General Assembly
Johnson
Fraud Case Vs. Levy Dismissed
Ka nawha Intermediate Court dismissed a fraud charge against Oscar Monte Levy who posed as Dr Luis F Menendez while head of Denmar State Hospital. Levy, who pleaded guilty to a bigamy charge, was recently sentenced to 1 to 5 years. The real Dr Menendez was found practicing in Florida and said his certificate was stolen.
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Charleston
UPI
Kanawha Intermediate Court
Oscar Monte Levy
Cied
Denmar State Hospital
Levy
Luis F. Menendez
Menendez
Florida
Pocahontas County
Kanawha County
Vietnamese Air War Quiet Near Hanoi After Raid
Viet Nam Nam’s small Soviet MIG force waited near Hanoi as 66 U S Air Force and Navy planes struck targets beyond the 17th parallel Monday. No enemy fighters appeared but one F105 Thunder chief jet was shot down by anti aircraft gunners. the pilot was rescued.
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Nam
Hanoi
Conant urges fifth year for teachers at university
Dr James B Conant president emeritus of Harvard urged teachers be required to return for a fifth year of college after one or two years teaching. He spoke at a conference of 130 educators in University Park noting some districts are too small and a single board should not govern more than 250000 people.
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University Park
UPI
James B. Conant
Harvard University
Conant
Singleton To Run State Pavilion On Aide's Pay
Julius Singleton leaves the West Virginia Statehouse for six months to head the State Pavilion at the New York World's Fair while remaining paid as administrative assistant to the governor. He will report directly to the governor and took over the pavilion director post last year after E L Montgomery resigned.
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Charleston
UPI
Julius Singleton
Statehouse
West Virginia
Singleton
E. L. Montgomery
Benton Harbor Hairspan Madman Sought in Slayings
Police in Benton Harbor Michigan hunted a reported madman accused of killing four women and a girl over two months. Bodies were found nude and mutilated in a field near Watervliet and a burned house. a tire-print cast and a description of a heavyset dark man in an old car guided investigators.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
UPI
Watervliet
Hich
Merle C. McCarroll
Diane Carter
Amelia Boyer
Mary Esther Seagin
Mary
Beckley Tem State Area Promoted for Plant Sites
A promotional feature touts Beckley tem and nearby state parks as ideal for industry, highlighting Hunting, fishing, skiing, boating, cultural life, and a campaign to contact Commissioner Roder Collison for plant site information. West Virginia’s central location, skilled labor, coal, natural gas, timber, water, low power costs, and good transport are pitched as advantages.
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Collison
West Virginia
Cave divers trapped as rescue efforts unfold in Ozark forest
Clay Center Kansas native Thomas who earned a 1961 Navy citation for diving operations off Long Island fell during a cave rescue at an Ozark cave near Russellville Arkansas. Spectators were cleared as doctors treated him and other divers, including Hugh Shell Mile Hill and Hogan Bledsoe, while four Navy divers and cave society volunteers worked to reach the exit blocked by rising waters.
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Ing. Thomas
Clay Center
Kan
Navy
Long Island
Texas
Steve Wilson
Arkansas Tech
Russellville
Thomas
Hugh Shell
Batesville
Ark
Mile Hill
Arkansas College
Spelunker
Hogan (Hogie) Bledsoe
Navy Diving School
Washington
Ozark National Forest
National Speliological
Cave Exploring) Society
Elizabeth II Invites Mrs Kennedy To Tea
Queen Elizabeth invites Mrs John F Kennedy and her two children to tea at Windsor Castle on May 14 after inaugurating Britain’s memorial to the late President at Runnymede. The tea will be private in the Queen’s Tower, less formal than state rooms, and it is unclear if others in the Kennedy family will attend.
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London
UPI
Elizabeth
John F. Kennedy
Windsor Castle
Britain
Historic Runnymede
Buckingham Palace
Windsor
Queen’s Tower
Great Castle
Kennedy
Caroline
John
Teacher Quits After Criticizing Suburbia Teens
Douglas Sarff, a 30 year old English teacher at Wayzata High, quits citing “living death” of suburban teen culture. He blasted students in a full page ad in Wayzata weekly, calling their life a cycle of pizzas, dances, convertibles and social calendars. He described peers as producing mediocrity for those whose judgments are protected from higher standards.
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Minneapolis, Minn
UPI
Minneapolis
Wayzata
Douglas Sarff
Sarff
Wayzata High
Berlin Parly Meeting Sparks Transit Blockade by Communists
Berlin authorities report military vehicles blocked at both ends of the main highway into Berlin. Officials say the move was retaliation for a West German parliament meeting planned in West Berlin on Wednesday, though Communists cite war games as the pretext.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Julie Andrews Rex Harrison Triumph at 1964 Oscars
Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison won best actress and best actor for Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady. My Fair Lady topped with eight awards, Zorba the Greek three, and Yesterday Today Tomorrow won best foreign language film with Sophia Loren.
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Santa Monica
Calif
UPI
Julie Andrews
Rex Harrison
Miss Andrews
Harrison
Eliza Doolittle
Henry Higgins
Higgins
Warner Bros
Audrey Hepburn
George Cukor
Zorba
Lila Kedrova
France
Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
Richard
Robert Sherman
Italy
Sophia Loren
Marcello Mastrianni
Weather Chaos Hits Midwest and Plains
The midsection faced a witch’s brew of weather with steady rains in the Midwest, hail in Kansas, wet snow across the Northern Plains, and squall lines from Ohio to Texas. The Vermilion River overflowed Hastings Minnesota flooding homes while hail battered Kansas City and towns in Texas. Two tornadoes touched down over the Missouri Ozarks with no injuries reported as cold rain and snow spread from the Dakotas to Wyoming.
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United Press International
Midwest
Kansas
Plains
Ohio
Texas
Hastings
Minn
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Topeka
Kan
Cotulla
Buda
Tex
Missouri Ozarks
Dakotas
Wyoming
Suit Filed Against Wheeling Steel for 2 Million
The K. Ferguson Co of Cleveland files a $2 million suit in Cuyahoga County Ohio against Wheeling Steel Corp claiming $1.8 million unpaid for work on a basic oxygen steelmaking plant at Steubenville and a hot strip mill at Mingo Junction. Ferguson president Ralph Olmstead resigned from Wheeling Steel board last November.
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Wheeling
UPI
the . K. Ferguson Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Wheeling Steel Corp
Cuyahoga County
Ferguson
Steubenville
Mingo Junction
Ralph Olmstead
Wheeling Steel
Congress Medicare Under GOP Attack In Rules Panel
In Washington, House Republicans pressed the Rules Committee to challenge President Johnson’s elderly health plan. Rep. John W. Byrnes led as first witness on a GOP alternative while the panel began hearings on a broadened Social Security bill containing Medicare for those over 65, likely to pass the Senate and proceed to a floor vote later this week. The package totals 6 billion dollars and funds compulsory hospital care, a voluntary insurance program, and boosts Social Security benefits by 7 percent. it also raises the earnings cap for benefit eligibility. Other actions include final approval of a $1.3 billion school aid bill by the Labor committee, and discussions on National Guard consolidation with the Army reserves, plus voting rights legislation drafting. Freeman leads farm hearings on the administration program.
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Washington
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Johnson
Senate
Winston P. Wilson
Pentagon
National Guard Bureau
House Armed Services
Defense Department
Army
National Guard
Senate Judiciary
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
House Agriculture Committee
Woman 102nd Highway Fatality in West Virginia
A South Charleston woman, 49 year old Sue Kes singer, died after a tractor trailer plowed into her compact car on U S 60. Rescue workers spent 40 minutes freeing her. she died at Thomas Memorial Hospital where she worked as a switchboard operator. Driver Harry Wylie of Pittsburgh said he could not avoid the collision as she turned into a housing development.
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South Charleston
UPS
West Virginia
Sue Kessinger
Thomas Memorial Hospital
Harry Wylie
Pittsburgh
U. S. 60
Spies Trial Ties April 15 Date to Soviet Conspiracy
The 11 year spying case links Vitaly Ourjoumov once posted at the Russian Embassy in Paris to alleged agents Johnson and Mintkenbaugh. Johnson began spying in Berlin in 1953 and recruited Mintkenbaugh to smuggle U S defense secrets. Both received up to $300 monthly and used code names Vaula Felix Yuri. Johnson, a Pentagon ex employee, disappeared for six weeks last fall, later turned himself in and faced a court martial for absence without leave. His wife is in a mental institution. their two children are in foster care. Mintkenbaugh, from Saint Bernard Ohio, was discharged in 1956 but aided Johnson in relay of secrets to the Soviets.
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Paris
Soviet Union
FBI
Johnson
Berlin
Mintkenbaugh
Europe
United States
Vaula
Felix
Yuri
Pentagon
Reno
Nev
Farmingdale
N. J
Staunton
Saint Bernard
Ohio
Cincinnati
Roosevelt Yorty In Mayor's Race In Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a mayoral election shapes up with Democrat Samuel Yorty seeking a second term against Rep. James Roosevelt and six other contenders led by Republican Patrick McGee. The $25 000 a year post may go to a candidate with a majority, else a May 25 runoff between the top two. Roosevelt, 58, and Yorty, 55, are both Democrats in this non partisan race.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Samuel Yorty
James D. Roosevelt
Patrick D. McGee
Jim Bolger
Socrates Chispheris
Oscar G. Coover
James A.W Ware
Joseph W. Hawthorne
Hawthorne
City Civil Service Commission
McGee
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yorty
Norris Poulson
Fourteen Bond Forfeitures In Beckley Police Court
In Beckley Police Court Monday night bond forfeitures totaled 698 dollars for 14 defendants on various charges. Among those named were William D. Holiday Jr. for reckless driving, Allen Geoffrion for drunkenness and assault, Charles Reed for soliciting, James Ray Carter for speeding, Lorraine Marks for disturbing the peace, and Mary Doe for permitting a dog to run at large. Drunkenness bond forfeitures amounted to 152 dollars.
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Beckley
William D. Holiday Jr
Crab Orchard
Allen Geoffrion
Geoffrion
George L. Ballard
Charles Reed
Skelton
Charles Matheny
Kilsyth
James Ray Carter
Mount Hope
Glen Smith Craven
Sophia
Teddy Ford
Mike Melillo
Pine Beach
N. J
Paul Bailey
Bernard J. Pettigrew
Fairlawn Avenue
Neil Benson
Washington, D. C
James Earl Rice
South Kanawha Street
Lorraine Marks
Heber Street
Mary Doe
Alabama civil rights protests prompt jailings and voter registrations
In Camden Alabama groups of Negroes staged noisy but nonviolent demonstrations over the use of the old county jail as a registration office. Police used five smoke bombs and a tear gas grenade to disperse them. Ten jailed were released after leaders promised calm. In Wilcox County 46 Negroes were registered to vote, with more expected. Rev Daniel Harrell said demonstrations would resume Wednesday as SCLC plans a mobile civil rights drive next week. At Selma 155 Negroes took registration tests and many signed an appearance sheet.
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Camden
Ala
UPI
F.R
Reg) Albritton
Wilcox County
Daniel Harrell
Mobile
Harrell
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Selma
Seaboard Plans Cut In Wholesale Gas Prices
The Federal Power Commission said Atlantic Seaboard Corp. has filed a wholesale natural gas rate reduction totaling about 2.1 million dollars annually. The proposed cuts would take effect May 1 and affect 11 utilities delivering retail gas in Virginia Maryland the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Wilson Suffering Flu Amid Paris Visit
London reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson has a flu like cold picked up during a Paris visit last week. His wife Mary Wilson is also affected by the same bug.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
Paris
Wilson
Mary
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