Rusk Warns SEATO on Communist Threat to Southeast Asia
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the SEATO Council that Communist subversion and aggression remain a major threat to peace in Southeast Asia. He vowed U.S. resistance "wherever they arise" with Britain and France backing a firm line, citing South Vietnam's fragile independence and the need for Laos investigations and Geneva agreement compliance. He praised Thailand's vigorous counter-subversion efforts and warned of ongoing, protracted struggles toward eventual victory.
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Paris
UPI
U.S
Dean Rusk
South East Asia
United States
Rusk
South Viet Nam
de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
France
Maurice Couve de Murville
Western Alliance
Britain
Seato Council
Pompidou
SEATO
Lord Home
Southeast Asia
Couve de Murville
West
Far East
Asia
Europe
Laos
Pathet Lao
Laos International Control Commission
Viet Nam
Thailand
Absentee Ballots Ready For City Levy Elections
Absentee ballots for the Steph en's Lake levy election set for April 15 may be voted in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk's office Monday through Thursday this week. City election ballots may be voted at City Hall and hours are 8:45 a.m. to noon and 2:45 p.m. Ballots sent by mail must be dated no later than Thursday.
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Stephen’s Lake Levy
Raleigh County
C. Harold Hanks
Circuit Clerk
30th Accident Occurs At Same City Location
A 25 year old driver Bobby Jean Ward of Lawton wrecked a 1958 car at Johnstown Road and Vance Drive at 1 20 a m Sunday, flipping onto its top after skidding 237 feet total. Damages were about 700 dollars. Ward posted 102 cash bond at 11 15 a m for a City Police Court hearing on reckless driving tonight. No injuries reported. 164 foot skid then 73 foot skid. Ward jailed Raleigh County Jail at 2 a m.
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Johnstown Road
Bobby Jean Ward
Lawton
Vance Drive
Ward
Raleigh County
Final Mullens PTA meeting set for 7 p m
The Mullens Parent-Teacher Association will hold its last meeting of the season at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Mullens Grade School. Officers will be selected. Jack Feller, chairman of the semi-Centennial and Centennial celebration in June, will discuss plans for the event.
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Mullens
RNS
Mullens Parent-Teacher Association
Jack Feller
Burial Insurance for Birth to Age 90 Ad
An old advertisement promotes burial insurance for birth to age 90 with a $1,000 policy. No medical exam required from OLD LINE LEGAL RESERVE LIFE INSURANCE. It invites readers to tear out the ad and send name, address, and year of birth to Central Security Life in Fort Worth Texas.
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Legal Reserve Life Insurance
Central Security Life Dept
West Rosedale Fort Worth
Texas
Ellis To Head Trial Lawyers
The West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association elected Robert O Ellis of Huntington as president to succeed Stanley Preiser of Charleston. New board members include Preiser and others. five regional vice presidents were named. About 550 attended the seminar as Justice Tom C Clark praised the jury system and was named an honorary Mountaineer by Gov. Barron.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
Robert O. Ellis
Huntington
Stanley Preiser
Preiser
Col
James Pyles
New Martinsville
Kermit Mason
Morgantown
George Daugherty
Robert Godby
Walter Burton
Princeton
Tom C. Clark
U. S. Supreme Court
U. S
W. W. Barron
Body Of Girl Found Dead In River After Suicide Note
The body of 11 year old Nancy Billiter was recovered from the Ohio River in New Cumberland. Officials say the girl apparently killed herself after failing to return from school last Friday following a note indicating self harm. No foul play suspected. father is dead and mother remarried.
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NEW Cumberland
UPS
Nancy Billiter
Ohio River
Hancock County
Hechler Urges West Virginia GOP Unite for APW Restoral
Rep. Ken Hechler urged Rep. Arch Moore and GOP chair Howard Corcoran to back a $500 million Accelerated Public Works program. Hechler cited a House vote to restore the funding after Appropriations Committee members killed the allocation, urging allies to support more employment and community projects in West Virginia.
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Washington
GOP
House Appropriations Committee
Kennedy
West Virginia
Hechler
Driver Posts Bond on Drunkenness Charge in Raleigh County Jail
Forrest Cook of Naoma furnished bond to Magistrate Louis Gall Jr. for his release from Raleigh County Jail at 6 a m Sunday on a drunk driving charge. Two area drivers paid 5 fines and costs each to Magistrate W A Burke on expired inspection sticker charges. Farland Toney of Beaver cited March 30 on Routes 19 21 and Paul Wilson of East Beckley cited March 30 on Route 21 by State Police.
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Forrest Cook
Naoma
Louis Gall Jr
Glen Daniel
Raleigh
W. A. Burke
Farland Toney
Beaver
Paul Wilson
East Beckley
Eastern college women take up pipe smoking study note
Some Eastern college women have begun smoking pipes. The article argues that female smokers may experience more illness than male smokers, reflecting early 20th century selective views on gender and health.
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Eastern College
Deaths and Funerals In Mount Hope and Glen Fork
Funeral services are set for Mrs Pearl Lively 71 Mount Hope at 2 p.m. in Tyree Funeral Home Chapel with burial in High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill She died Saturday night after a long illness Survivors include husband Biddle Lively two daughters six grandchildren and two great grandchildren Call after 4 p.m. today Other obituaries note Wilbert Bailey 76 Glen Fork final rites Wednesday at Russell Baptist Church burial in Glen Fork Cemetery and Frances M Campbell 90 Beckley with funeral today at Keyser Bryant Chapel burial Sunset Memorial Park She was member Beckley Presbyterian Church and widow of Edward H Campbell Details list children and grandchildren with locations
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Pearl Lively
Mount Hope
Tyree
Grady Morgan
Harry Dias Jr
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Lovely
Hilltop
Garland Williams
Raleigh County
Roseville
Miriam Circle
Biddle Lively
Athylene Pettry
Pax
Mary Kathryn Powers
Bluefield
Ira Williams
Emerson Williams
Beckley
Willie
California
Mazie Lively
Tyree Funeral Home
Wilbert Bailey
Glen Fork
Russell Baptist Church
Walter Norman
Wiley Brooks
Bailey
State Road Commission
Mullens
McGraws
Madison
Mary Bailey
Ollie Browning Bailey
Edgar Ackleson
Des Moines
Iowa
J. W. Tilley
Sidney Bailey
James
Matheny
Franx
Roger
Robert
Luther
John
Green Bailey
Brenton
Alice McMillion
Jesse
Evans Funeral Home
Oceana
Frances M. Campbell
Booth Ave
Keyser-Bryant
James W. Witherspoon
Sunset Memorial Park
Benjamin
Mary Jane Jones Bright
Beckley Presbyterian Church
Edward H. Campbell
J. A. Gott
Princeton
Michael Vamos
B. H. Hopkins
J. R
Prosperity
E. L
Miami
Fla
B. C
Summersville
R. J. Lucas Jr
Tom Durrett
Tony Lusk
A. K. Minter Jr
George Pugh
Don Hodson
Goldwater backs exile training and Cuba airlift plan
Senator Barry Goldwater urged U S aid to train Cuban exiles and mount an American airlift for attacks on Cuba while endorsing an OAS sponsored invasion if needed He called Kennedy policy timid favored an economic embargo and exile training for sabotage espionage or assault He doubted invading now and warned Cuba would be a major issue in 1964 campaigns.
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Washington
UPI
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
United States
Goldwater
Kennedy
Organization of American States
Cuba
GOP
NBC
Issues and Answers
U.S
Russia
France
Canada
Mark Twain PTA Boosters Meet Tonight
Mark Twain Parent Teacher Association meets at 7 30 p m to discuss ways to improve the school and plan a spring outing or pot luck supper Refreshments served by Helen patrons Band Boosters Club gathers at 630 p m in the music room with plans for a Bluefield trip May 3 4 and consideration of sponsoring a girl and a boy to Girls and Boys State this summer
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Stotesbury
BNS
Mark Twain Parent-Teacher Association
Helen
Charles Gregory
Bluefield
Free Will Baptist Church to distribute commodities at Sprague
Commodities will be distributed at the Free Will Baptist Church at Sprague on Wednesday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday 8 a.m. to noon. All eligible persons are urged to bring containers, per agent Mrs. Ora Mejias.
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Free Will Baptist Church
Sprague
Ora Mejias
Obituary for Enos Gay of Huntington and Chillicothe
Enos Gay 8 Sophia died Saturday in Huntington hospital after two years as a patient. Retired miner son of the late John and Sara Alridge Gay. Survived by son Robert stepdaughter Mrs Anna Hand and a granddaughter, all of Chillicothe Ohio. Funeral 11 a.m. Wednesday at Kincaid Mortuary Huntington. Burial Spring Hill Cemetery Huntington. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
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Enos Gay
Sophia
Huntington
John
Sara Alvridge Gay
Robert
Anna C. Hand
Chillicothe
Ohio
Kincaid Mortuary
Spring Hill
Funeral services for Rev J B Jasper in Fayetteville
The Rev. J. B. Jasper 47 of Harlem Heights will have funeral services at 2 p m Wednesday at Second Baptist Church Fayetteville conducted by Rev. A L Simms and Rev F C Dorcas. Burial follows in Cunard Cemetery. He died in a Montgomery hospital after a short illness. The body will be moved from Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor to the church one hour before services.
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J. B. Jasper
Harlem Heights
Second Baptist Church
Fayetteville
A. L. Simms
F. C. Dorcas
Cunard
Montgomery
Ritchie and Johnson
Tunstalle Returns To Hospital For Treatment
Romanceles Tunstalle, held at Raleigh County Jail since March 19 on murder charges in the Hudson Woodson case, was returned to Raleigh General Hospital April 1 for treatment of a leg wound alleged to have been inflicted by Woodson. He is reported in satisfactory condition.
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Romanceles Tunstalle
Lillybrook
Raleigh County
Hudson Woodson
Raleigh General Hospital
Woodson
Many Clinics Set This Week in Raleigh County
The Raleigh County Health Department schedules multiple clinics this week including typhoid and dental clinics plus a cancer tumor clinic. Typhoid clinics occur Tuesday at Cittsville Elementary 10 am and Sullivan Elementary 1 pm, Wednesday at Odd Elementary 10 am, RMI Elementary Raleigh 1 pm, Glen Daniel Elementary 10 am, and Thursday 10 am to 2 pm at Sophia First Baptist Church. The Food Handlers School is Wednesday at 2 pm in the Health Center. Tumor clinic by appointment Tuesday at 3 pm via Raleigh County Cancer Association at 107 Barwood St. Regular dental clinics are planned for Clear Creek, Lincoln, and Central Elementary schools Wednesday and Thursday.
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Raleigh County Health Department
Cittsville
Sullivan
Odd
RMI
Raleigh
Glen Daniel
First Baptist Church of Sophia
Raleigh County Cancer Association
Barwood St
Clear Creek
Lincoln
Central
Biggest Tree Continued From Page One
The State Road Commission places three signs near Randolph county white oak area to aid the public. West Virginia forests support over 13,000 full time jobs with an annual payroll of 43 million dollars. Forest products yearly value exceeds 100 million dollars. farmers sell about 2 million dollars of forest products from woodlots. Each county holds commercial forest land, from 89 percent in Mingo to 18 percent in Jefferson, with the value ranking in the millions.
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Marion Morgan Rudy
Clay
Leatherwood
Putnam
Buffalo
Webster
Hacker Valley
Putnam — Morgans Museum
Weston
Frank Hinterer
Grady Fork
Brushy Fork
State Road Commission
Randolph County
Mingo County
Jefferson County
Clergy man recounts gun surrender and suspect’s daze
The Reverend Davis described handing over the guns and talking with the distressed man until police arrived. Investigators said Hansen appeared dazed when arrested and claimed no knowledge of the shootings.
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Davis
Hansen
Legion Post Plans To Sponsor WW Team
American Legion Post 70 to sponsor a Warren Williams League junior baseball team. Leo Gilbert chairs the committee with Gene Scott Carl Dodson John Jones and commander Douglas N Marshall assisting. Also discussed funding two boys for Boys State during the summer at Jackson's Mill.
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American Legion Post 70
Leo Gilbert
Gene Scott
Carl Dodson
John Jones
Douglas N. Marshall
Jackson's Mill
B'nai B'rith Considers Bowling Team Plans
About 14 members of B'nai B'rith at Beth El Temple discussed organizing a bowling team and shifting Sunday morning meetings to evenings in the summer. No action was taken.
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B'nai B'rith
Beth el Temple
Magisterial District Meetings Planned To Explain Lake Status
A series of meetings in magisterial districts will explain the Lake Stephens levy plan to voters ahead of the April 15 election. Steering Committee members, with engineer Robert L. Davis, will answer questions about fund use and lake development begun in 1959, with pamphlets distributed by the Seneca District Boy Scouts. Fourteen people attended the morning session. next gathering set for 10:15 a.m.
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Stephen's Ice
John M. Gates
Lake Stephens
Ward
Kansas
Oregon
Maine
Naoma Man Held For B and E and Larceny
Virgil White of Naoma was jailed at 5:50 a.m. by state police on breaking and entering and grand larceny in a case at Stovers Appliance Center Glen Daniel. Two radios valued at 40 each and batteries and Easter baskets were taken. entry by breaking a glass window. An accomplice is suspected.
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Virgil White
Naoma
Raleigh County
White
Stover
Glen Daniel
Lake Maxwell
Rhodell
Okey Osborne
Beaver
Joe Rodriguez
Roger Rutledge
Princewick
Raleigh
United States
Washington, D.C
Maj Brown Named New NGA Chief in West Virginia
Maj James E Brown of Martinsburg was chosen to lead the West Virginia National Guard Association succeeding Lt Col Frank W Haught of Pt Pleasant at a weekend meeting. Lt Col Leo E Falkenstein of Fairmont was named vice president and Maj Paul R Martin of Charleston as secretary-treasurer. In his remarks at the association banquet Under Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes urged Cuba to refrain from attacking another nation and lauded Defense Secretary Robert McNamara for leadership while stressing analytical decision making.
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Ailes
Defense
Diefenbaker Vote Marks Canadian Election Day
Canadians vote in 265 districts as 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. polls determine if John Diefenbaker’s Conservatives or the Liberals will lead in the next Parliament. Polls show Liberals as slight favorites with two minor parties holding power balance.
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Ister
John Diefenbaker
Christopher Sotos
Diefenbaker
Europe
California
House of Commons
Lester B. Pearson
Social Credit
Socialist New Democrats
Ney
Liberals
Social Credit Party
New Democrats
United States
Dog Ordinance To Be Enforced By City Police
Police Chief M E Tyree warns residents the dog ordinance will be enforced. Dogs must stay on owners premises or be on a leash or under control at all times. Unrestrained dogs roaming streets may be destroyed if pickup is not feasible. Violations can incur fines up to 200 dollars, with each day a separate offense.
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M. E. Tyree
Tyree
Four Die In Head-On Crashes In Georgia And Texas
Five people died after a head on collision near Eatonton Georgia on Sunday. Three others were injured in a separate crash northwest of Lubbock Texas when a car and a pickup collided on an open road Sunday night. The wrecks added to a weekend with multiple fatalities.
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Lubbock
Tex
Eatonton
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Council of Ministers
Mullens Pta
Stevie
Moore
Corcoran
Raymond
Fayette St
el Chico Cafe
Cosmetic
Mrs. Pearl Lively
Mrs
Frances Campbell
Barry
Mark Twain
Boosters
Tunstalle
Charleston, W. Va
Piedmont
Cincinnati
Roanoke
Ashland
Columbus, Ohio
Piedmont Airlines
Beckley City
Toni Martin
Vero Bedh
Florida
Legion Post
B‘nai B'rith
Beckley Loan CO
Neville St
Naoma Man
B&e
Maj. Brown
NGA
NATO
Robert N. Thompson
US State Department
Caracas
Venezuela
Lake Maracaibo
Creole Petroleum Co
Armed Forces of National Liberation
FALN
Zulia
Amuay
Falcon State
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