West Virginia Negro population declines outpace whites
West Virginia official Joseph Adler of the Human Rights Commission reports a 35.6 percent decline in the black population from 1950 to 1970 versus 11.8 percent for whites. The losses are concentrated in four southern counties with shifts toward urban areas including Charleston and Morgantown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
State Human Rights Commission
Sys
West Virginia
Joseph Adler
The
Commission
Adler
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Hunting‘ton
Morgantown
Martinsburg
Wyoming County
McDowell County
Fayette County
Mingo County
Raleigh County
Mason County School Official Charged Again
At a special Mason County school board meeting Edward Grimes led a call to study 10 new charges against School Superintendent I Brooks Smith. The board voted 41 to study the charges, seeking possible dismissal after prior board dismissals were overturned by the state Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
UPI
Mason County
I. Brooks Smith
Edward Grimes
Smith
Citizens
State Supreme Court
Board of Education
Police-Community Trust Stressed By Mrs Bickley
Mrs Bickley argues for rethinking police training to improve race relations and officer self awareness. She links Civil War era enmity to today’s policing, notes low pay harms recruitment, and says uniforms trigger authority urges regardless of race. D. Paul Camiletti doubts the reporting adequacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Paul Camiletti
Wheeling
Chicago Gang Leaders Indicted Over 927 Thousand Fraud
UPI reports 23 Black P Stone Nation leaders in Chicago indicted on 132 counts of conspiracy to defraud the federal government of 927,341 via an antipoverty job training program. Nine indicted, including Jeff Fort, already jailed on other charges as arrests continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
UPI
Black P Stone Nation
U.S
William J. Bauer
Jeff Fort
Stones
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Woodlawn Organization
South Side
Bauer
Stone
Hospital Union Hearing Resumes In Beckley
A National Labor Relations Board hearing on electing a collective bargaining agent for Beckley Hospital maintenance and service staff resumed in the Beckley Post Office civil service room. Board members questioned Albert M. Tieche about staff categories to determine voting eligibility. The AFL-CIO Local 1199 union filed for an election in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Labor Relations Board
Beckley Hospital
Civil Service Room
Beckley Post Office
Albert M. Tieche
Afl-Cio Union of Hospital and Nursing Home
ARC official clarifies junked car bounty proposal
Washington UPI reports Appalachian Regional Commission co chair Donald W. Whitehead says he only suggested a 15 dollar bounty for junked cars on roadsides. He admits the plan likely won t be implemented and cites misinterpretation and dealer concerns over lower payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Donald W. Whitehead
Appalachia
Federal
Appalachian Regional Commission
House
Whitehead
ARC
Allies Propose Neutral Country For POW Repatriation
In Paris, the United States and South Vietnam urged neutralization or repatriation of long-held Indochina War prisoners. Pham Dang Lam presented the plan, with U.S. Ambassador David Bruce affirming support. The Communists offered no reply.
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Paris
API
United States
South Vietnam
Pham Dang Lam
U.S
David K. E. Bruce
Republic of
South
Bruce
Nixon
Morgantown P olice Pay Hike Proposed
Morgantown finance committee proposes pay raises for all city employees. Police officers would gain 66 more dollars monthly and firefighters 50 more monthly. Increases to be financed by a 2 percent utility tax law enacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
UPI
Soviet Supreme Soviet Ends Session With Loyal Verdicts
The 10 day congress wrapped with praise for Brezhnev Kosygin and Podgorny as nearly all Politburo members were expected to be confirmed unanimously. It endorsed two foreign policy appeals to end Indochina War and secure a just peace in the Middle East and urged disarmament talks and a five power meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Soviet
United States
Middle East
Ino
Troika
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Brezhnev
Kosygin
Youth Charged With Shoplifting Faces Juvenile Court
A 16 year old from F Street is to appear before Juvenile Court Judge Harry L. McCreery after a Wednesday arrest by City Police on a shortlifting warrant. He allegedly took four flashlight batteries worth two dollars from the G C Murphy Co. store. In transit prisoner Gary Leitson was lodged in Raleigh County Jail at 7 15 p m Tuesday by Florida authorities and later released to Florida police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F Street
Harry L. McCreery
G. C. Murphy Co
Gary Leitson
Raleigh County
Florida
Walter Edward Zimbo
Fairlawn Ave
Edward C. Murphy
South Fayette St
Murphy
Beckley Drunk Driving Charge After Three Car Crash
A 32-year-old Beckley man, Jacky Dale Shadrick, was charged with drunken driving after a 3:10 p.m. Wednesday crash at Marshall Avenue and Eisenhower Drive involving three vehicles. Shadrick’s car rear-ended Helen E. Stevens's auto pushing it into Leander Miller’s car. passenger Barbara E. Holt Shadrick sustained minor injuries. Damages were $750 for Shadrick’s car, $650 for Stevens’s, and $300 for Miller’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckleyan
Marshall Avenue
Eisenhower Drive
Jackie Dale Shadrick
Shadrick
Helen E. Stevens
Glen Jean
Stevens
Leander Miller
Beckley
Shadrick Auto
Barbara E. Holt
Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital
Miller
Trash Fire Reported at 108 Jefferson St Beckley
Beckley firefighters extinguished a trash yard blaze at 108 Jefferson St after a 7 40 p m call on Wednesday. William D Young 23 Mabscott was remanded to jail on a drunken driving charge with $75 fine plus costs after an appearance before District Magistrate Lorena Wallace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Fire Department
Jefferson St
William D. Young
Mabscott
Lorena Wallace
Newark Board Rejects Mediated Pact in Long Teacher Strike
Newark Board of Education voted down a mediated settlement amid racial tension and community opposition. The proposed agreement would have kept binding arbitration and reassigned nonprofessional duties to teachers. Police guarded Symphony Hall after two nights of clashes and arrests, while the strike continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N.J
UPI
Board of Education
Vincent Russell
Newark Teachers’ Union
NTU
U.S
Charles A. Bell
Bell
David’Barrett
United Community Corp
Symphony Hall
Donald Westbrooks
FBI Severs Jobs Over NPAC Work Claims
Three FBI clerks fired after supervisor cited political activity by working evenings at NPAC offices. Janca and Hoomes resigned rather than quit the antiwar group, while a third woman, Janice Bush of Nunda, indicated she might join the suit. FBI offered no comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janice Bush
Nunda
N.Y
Miss Janca
J. Allison Conely
FBI
National Peace Action Coalition
NPAC
Washington
San Francisco
Conely
Miss Hoomes
World Today drives at 1.5 million for new facility
Today’s World campaign aims to raise 1.5 million toward a new facility. A proposed 15 million 266 bed hospital is planned for completion by the summer of 1973. Union electricians in two suburban Cleveland counties agree to cut wages to boost residential construction, slashing rates from 8.50 to 4 per hour for single and two family homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Cleveland
Fire Sweeps California Univ Office at UCSC
A midnight blaze engulfed the University of California at Santa Cruz Central Services Building destroying the chancellor's office and student records. The FBI was asked to investigate as investigators labeled the start as likely not accidental. Chancellor Dean McHenry watched as students records and accounts burned. 50 plus firefighters fought the two hour fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Cruz
Calif
UPI
University of California At Santa Cruz
FBI
Dean McHenry
Three Men Plead Guilty in Raleigh County Cases
Three Raleigh County men pleaded guilty before Judge Harry L. McCreery in the March term. Ayers of Lanark admitted theft of a Dr. Pepper Co. truck and received not less than one nor more than 10 years after credit for prior jail time. Penn of Pax confessed forgery of a Lucas General Tire Co. check and drew a sentence of at least one year and up to five years. Bell pleaded guilty to unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and faced six months in the Raleigh County Jail with a probation request denied but credit for three months already served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Raleigh County
Harry Burton Ayers
Lanark
Dr. Pepper Bottling Co
Beckley
Ayers
Roy Penn
Pax
Lucas General Tire Co
State
Ronald Bell
Charles Howard Jr
Raleigh
Bell
McCreery
Two Killed As Club Bombed In Saigon
UPI reports a 40 pound plastique blast rocked the CBC nightclub in Saigon’s waterfront district killing a U S Air Force serviceman and a Vietnamese bar girl and wounding up to 20 Americans. Gunfire followed from across the Saigon River as officers fled the wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
UPI
U.S. Air Force
CBC
My Canh
Mekong River
USS
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Katie Foy John Q Cooper
John Q Cooper 68 of Coal City died at 5 a m after a long illness born Summers County Dec 11 1902 son of William L and Florida Griffith Cooper a long time resident taught Raleigh County schools for 40 years survived by wife Hope Winebrenner Cooper son Gene Q Cooper daughter Helen Grubb two sisters and three brothers five grandchildren and a great grandchild funeral 2 p m Sunday Williams Funeral Home Chapel burial at Jonden family cemetery. Also funeral arrangements incomplete for Mrs Katie Foy 83 of Lester died at 6 30 p m Wednesday born June 6 1887 in Winston Salem NC survived by three daughters a son brother and sister many grandchildren and great grandchildren body at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor private graveside rites for Dr Dean F Hill 61 Beaver held 1 p m Friday at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Prosperity with Rev William W Dougherty and Melton Mortuary has viewing tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Q. Cooper
Coal City
Summers County
William L
Florida Griffith Cooper
Cooper
West Virginia University
Concord College
Raleigh County
Hope Winebrenner Cooper
Gene Q. Cooper
Helen Grubb
Marty M. Cooper
Goldie Langletz
Baltimore
Parish
Woodrow
Chicago
J. W. Cooper
Williams Funers Home
MacArthur
Jonden
Katie Foy
Lester
Winston- Salem
N. C
Will Hayes
Galilee Baptist Church
Beechwood
Hattie F. Long
Mullens
Betty F. Craig
Adean Webb
Christiansburg
J. N. Haynes
Lexington
Bandelia Holdsclaw
Helen
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Dean F. Hill
Beaver
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
William W. Dougherty
Melton Mortuary
Elmer Richards
Covel
Covel Baptist Church
Leonard Repass
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Ricards
Mullens Hospital
Dana Stump Richards
Don
Seabrook
Harry
Alexandria
William
Milam Infant to Be Buried in Odd Cemetery
Graveside rites for Robert Keith Milam infant son of Theodore and Sheryl Davis Milam of Coal City were set for 2 p.m. today at Odd Cemetery with the Rev. Jim Bowers officiating. The baby died shortly after birth Tuesday at a local hospital. Williams Funeral Home, Sophia, handled arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Keith Milam
Theodore
Sheryl Davis Milam
Coal City
Jim Bowers
Williams Funeral Home
Sophia
Death notice for Roger Moore of Raleigh and Beckley
Roger Moore 38 of Raleigh and formerly Beckley died at 3 a.m. in a Clarksburg hospital after a short illness. Born June 12, 1932 in Raleigh, he was a Korean War veteran and member of Faith Chapel AME Church. Survived by wife Dora, two sons Roger E and Raymond, two daughters Sandra and Anita, a brother Thomas of Lorain Ohio, five sisters Vertina Starks Betty Clement Joan Jean and Alice Badger of Freeport New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Moore
Raleigh
Beckley
Clarksburg
John
Memphis Moore
Faith Chapel
A.M E. Church
Dora Stewart Moore
Roger E
Raymond
Sandra
Anita
Thomas
Lorain
Ohio
Vertina Starks
Betty Clement
East Beckley
Joan
Jean Moore
Alice
Badger
Freeport
N. Y
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Final rites for Waymon Robinson in Brooklyn
Waymon Robinson 80 of Brooklyn New York, formerly Beckley, dies Sunday in a Brooklyn hospital. Final rites set for Friday at 2 p.m. in Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor Chapel with Rev Edward Abram officiating. Burial in Greenwood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the funeral parlor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waymon Robinson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Beckley
Ritchie and Johnson
Edward Abram
Greenwood Memorial Park
Conservancy Wins Otter Creek Appeal
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a temporary injunction blocking mining and timber cutting in Otter Creek within Monongahela National Forest. The court also orders Judge Maxwell to decide promptly if the injunction should become permanent, noting the conservancy’s strong public interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
State liquor stores to stay open on Good Friday
Acting ABC Commissioner J. Richard Barber announced that all state liquor stores will open on Good Friday despite the holiday for other state employees and will also operate Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
ABC
J.richard Barber
Funeral Services for Charles Clyde Wilcox in Crab Orchard
Funeral services for 72 year old Charles Clyde Wilcox of Crab Orchard are set for 1 30 p m Friday at Oak Grove Christian Church with Rev William H Booth presiding. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. He died at 530 a m Wednesday in a local hospital after an apparent heart attack. The body is at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home with visitation from 5 to 10 p m today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Clyde Wilcox
Crab Orchard
Oak Grove Christian Church
William H. Booth
Sunset Memorial Park
Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home
Infant Linda Bailey to be laid to rest in Odd
Funeral services for Linda Sue Bailey 12 day old daughter of Jackie Lee and Nadine Bailey of Odd will be held Friday at 1 p m in Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel. Burial will follow in Odd. She died after arrival at a local hospital Wednesday. Born March 26 1971 in Beckley she is survived by two brothers and two sisters and two grandmothers with services at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linda S. Bailey
Linda Sue Bailey
Jackie Lee
Nadine Bailey
Odd
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Beckley
Darrell Lee
Danny Eugene
Darlene
Vicki
Deannie Lou Blevins
iMrs
Violet Foley
Mullens
Final rites for Mrs Ima Lola Hall Greene
Mrs. Ima Lola Hall Greene 73 of Shawnee Mission Kansas formerly Beaver died at 5 50 am in a Merriam nursing home after a long illness Born August 22 1897 in Lewisburg daughter of William Fred Hail and Addie G Hail resided Beaver since 1944 married to John William Greene who died 1949 Surviving Ralph H Shawnee Mission daughter Elsie M Greene Beckley foster son John W Lowery Shady Spring sister Carmen Nichols Cass two brothers Orlan and James Hall Pallbearers listed Funeral arrangements set at Melton Mortuary Chapel with burial in Sunset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ima Lola Hall Greene
Shawnee Mission
Kan
Beaver
Melton Mortuary
Virgil C. Cook
Sunset Memorial Park
Merriam, Kan
Lewisburg
William ‘Fred
Addie G. Hail
Wendell Lilly
W. E. Massey
Stewart
Robert Cook
Aiden Gurnee
Fred Jenkins
Earl Hurt
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Finland
W. Va
NEW AC
Bank America TO
Soviets
Newark School Board
California
Univ. Office
Robert K. Milam
Conservancy
Otter Creek Appeal
Charles Wilcox
Mrs
Ima H. Greene
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