Rights Bill Showdown Shapes Up In Atlanta
United Press International reports a showdown looms between African Americans and Atlanta restaurant owner Lester Maddox who defied the civil rights law by chasing three Black men from his Pickrick with a pistol. A Supreme Court justice refused to intervene. a three judge court order took effect. Also notes Moreton Rolleston will comply and Black and the court support Black’s decision. elsewhere, tests at motels and restaurants in St Augustine and other civil rights actions unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Atlanta
Supreme Court
Lester Maddox
Pickrick
Maddox
William Alexander
Moreton Rolleston
Heart of Atlanta
Hugo Black
Special Court
St. Augustine
Fla
Greenwood
Miss
Harry Belafonte
Sidney Poitier
Court Hears Objections To YMCA Lease In Raleigh County
The County Court heard opposition to leasing the Soldier and Sailor Memorial Building to the YMCA starting Sept. 1. About 12 residents urged preservation of the memorial’s original purpose while the court approved precontract restrictions and considered alterations. Veterans affairs chief Basil Sweeney declined basement relocation but pledged cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Christian Association
Memorial Building Board
Soldier and Sailor’s Memorial
YMCA
D. E. Spellman
Kinzer Street
Beckley
Spellman
Raleigh County
H. G. Farmer
M. H. Hedrick
Post 32 American Legion
Hedrick
American Legion
Mercorial Board
Basil Sweeney
Veterans Affairs
City Hall
Sweeney
Dr Sheppard Undergoes Hospital Operation
Dr Sam Sheppard freed last month after nearly ten years in prison for a 1954 slaying was admitted to Brentwood Hospital for a 90 minute operation on a slipped spinal disc. Chief of staff Dr Theodore Classen performed the surgery and expected to keep him hospitalized about ten days. He will recuperate at home in Rocky River for several weeks. Mrs Sheppard said he preferred Classen as he is the family physician and trained by Sheppard's father.
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Cleveland
UPI
Sam Sheppard
Ohio Penitentiary
Sheppard
Brentwood Hospital
Theodore F. Classen
Rocky River
Classen
Richard Sheppard Sr
Wasp kills man in Annecy garden mishap
Oliver Verguay, 40, died in Annecy France after swallowing a wasp while working in his garden. Doctors said the sting caused throat swelling leading to suffocation.
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Annecy
France
UPI
Oliver Verguay
Deaths and Funerals in Summersville and Alderson
Services for Mrs Helen Mc Clung 66 Summersville at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Mount Lookout with burial in church cemetery She died after a long illness Survived by daughter Dorothy Evans Oak Hill Born Beard Sept 9 1897 Member Mount Pleasant Church Body to church an hour before service Waters Funeral Chapel Summersville RNS Services for Vern D Holcomb 84 Alderson at McElhenny Presbyterian Church burial in church cemetery Died at Oak Hill nursing home Survived by daughter Catherine Paralles Beckley Retired merchant and farmer Grassy Meadows Baptist Church Born Grassy Meadows April 27 1880 Lobban Funeral Home Alderson RNS Others include daughters Zella MacGier Spokane Louise Clough Eagletown Okla Anna Martha Deil Melbourne Fla three sons Selden Jacksonville Fla Troy Edward addresses unknown several grandchildren great grandchildren four sisters Adah Burgess Armstrong Eula Bibb Oak Hill Alma Perry Charleston brothers Lee Oak Hill Allen Homestead Fla Okey Mount Hope RNS
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Helen McClung
Summersville
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Lookout
T. W. Carte
McClung
Dorothy Evans
Oak Hill
Jim and
Farn McClung Wood
Beard
Mount Pleasant
Waters Funeral Chapel
Vern D. Holcomb
Alderson
McElhenny Presbyterian Church
Ray Perkins
Elwin Roberts
Holcomb
Catherine Paralls
Beckley
Grassy Meadows Baptist Church
Grassy Meadows
Lobban Funeral Home
Zella MacGier
Spokane
Louise Clough
Eagletown
Okla
Anna Martha Deil
Melbourne
Fla
Selden
Jacksonville
Troy
Edward
Adah Burgess
Arm‘strong
Eula Bibb
Alma Perry
Charleston
Lee
Allen
Homestead, Fla
Okey
Mount Hope
Mrs Minnie Colanero Dies After Stroke At 74
Mrs Minnie Colanero aged 74 of Monongah died at 9 am Monday in a local hospital after an apparent stroke. The body will be moved from Webb and Neal Funeral Home to Fairmont for completion of funeral arrangements.
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Minnie Colanero
Monongah
Webb and Neal Funeral Home
Fairmont
Funeral services for Nathan Horner in Piney View
Funeral services for Nathan Horner 88 of Piney View will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with Rev Gene Hall officiating. Burial will be in Hill Top Cemetery Oak Hill. He died at 630 a m Monday in a Minden nursing home after an extended illness. The body is at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home where friends may call after 2 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Horner
Piney View
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Gene Hall
Hill Top
Oak Hill
Minden
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Final rites for Mrs Effie Brooks Settle in Spokane
Mrs Effie Brooks Settle 74 of Spokane Washington died Friday after a long illness in a Spokane nursing home. Final rites were held Monday in Spokane with burial in the Gier Family Plot. She was a daughter of the late W D and Martha Ann Brooks of Oak Hill. Survivors include.
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Effie Brooks Settle
Spokane
Wash
Gier
Two suits filed in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk’s office
Beneficial Finance Co. of Clarksburg sues Burhl Strother and Thelma L. Strother for 780 dollars on a promissory note of 800 dollars dated February 29. Jay Woods, assignee, sues King Pettry Jr. and Peggy Pettry for 857.70 for goods sold and delivered under a written agreement and open account. Counsel for both plaintiffs is Truman L. Sayre.
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Raleigh County
Beneficial Finance Co
Clarksburg
Burhl Strother
Thelma L. Strother
Combs St
Beckley
King Pettry Jr
Peggy Pettry
Jay Woods
Walter S. Brooks
Raleigh Wyoming Mining Co
Truman L. Sayre
Khrushchev’s Push to Reform Soviet Politics
Moscowdispatch describes Nikita Khrushchev hinting at reforms in the Soviet system. He signals a November plenum to debate farm specialization and a world Communist party congress, marking a shift away from Stalin era secrecy and tactics.
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Moscow
UPS
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Kremlin
Nikita S. Khrushchevy
Khrushchev
Communist Party
Warning 77 Power Outlines Raid Timing View
Moore said he believed North Vietnamese radar interior and did not think they heard the American planes when Washington announced the raid. Admiral questioned whether the Reds knew of the raid before the President’s statement.
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Moore
Washington
Mrs Almond Fined In Police Court For Destruction Of Property
Mrs. Almond, 31, of 105 Meyer Ave., fined $10 in City Police Court for destruction of city property after allegedly backing over and smearing paint from a sign near a school zone. She pleaded not guilty. Other locals faced assorted bond forfeitures and dismissals, with totals reaching $299.50 for six drunkenness cases. A note explains township size in the public land survey system.
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Fred Almond
Meyer Ave
Almond
Sonia Speir
Meyers Avenue
Theodore A. Crook Jr
Cool Ridge
William R. Forbes
Garfield St
James L. Wiseman
Orchard Ave
Edward G. Michael
Hull St
Bob L. Willis
Crab Orchard
Donald Blankenship
Beckley
Jack R. Cooper
Box
Glen Daniel
Polly L. Murdock
Sophia
Hoffa and Henchmen Seek New Trial in Pension Fraud Case
Attorneys for James R. Hoffa and six co defendants filed motions for a new trial in the $25 million union pension fund fraud case. They allege juror impartiality was compromised by housing jurors at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, framing the trial as special. Hoffa faces possible 20 years if convicted and also appeals Chattanooga jury tampering convictions.
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Chicago
UPI
James R. Hoffa
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Offa
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tex Rifle Club Triggers Secret Service Near Johnson Visit
Two Centrum Rifle Club members caused a scare for Secret Service agents guarding President Johnson by firing on a practice range less than a mile from Bergstrom Air Force Base where the Johnsons were boarding a plane. The riflemen claimed they did not know the President was nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin, Tex
UPI
Centrum Rifle Club
Johnson
Bergstrom Air Force
Washington
Lbj Ranch
Sanitation Seminar Set in Athens with U S Speaker
William J. Page Jr. of the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare will be the keynote speaker for a week long Interstate Sanitation Seminar in Athens. About 250 sanitarians health officers and sanitation workers from West Virginia Virginia North and South Carolina and Maryland attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
UPI
William J. Page Jr
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Washington
West Virginia
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Maryland
Youths Trial Delayed Again in Assault Case
In magistrate court a 16 year old Negro youth Raymond Daniel faces assault charges after a 10 year old playmate testified. The hearing, delayed for a second time, featured attorney Hugo Payne objecting to rulings and urging dismissal while Daniels and the boy described the incident as part of play.
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Hugo Payne
Joe Rodriguez
Raymond Daniel
Daniel
Rodriguez
Payne
Federal District Court of
West Virginia
NAACP
Oes
Thomas Wooten
Wooten
Carolyn
Raymond
Tragic coincidence claims two in Blackpool family
In Blackpool England, five minutes after her husband Harry Bower died of a heart attack, 60, Mrs Terence Bower 56 fell down stairs at their home and was killed. They were husband and wife.
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Blackpool
England
UPI
Harry
Terence Bower
Chinese typewriters reach 4500 characters in Guinness record
The Guinness Book of Records notes that Chinese typewriters offer up to 4500 characters and require a skilled operator who can type only three or four words per minute.
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United Press International
Young Democrats Club to Choose Delegates at Courthouse Meeting
Raleigh County Young Democrats Club will pick delegates for the state convention in Charleston September 10 to 12 at the Raleigh County Courthouse Thursday at 7 30 p.m. Deputy Sheriff Ken Larabee, club president, urges attendance and membership card brings. delegate numbers depend on club membership with 20 members yielding four delegates. Patty Browskey named secretary to replace Janice Davis. officers asked to attend a brief 7 p.m. session.
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Young Democratic
Raleigh County
Young Democrats Club
Ken Larabee
YDC
Charleston
VDC
Larabee
Patty Browskey
Janice Davis
Tom Canterbury
Democratic Executive Committee
Health Director Announces More Clinics
Raleigh County Health Director Dr Ross P Daniel announced an extra general immunization clinic for school children starting Wednesday, held each Wednesday and Friday from 1 30 p m to 3 30 p m until school starts, while the regular Saturday clinic from 9 a m to 11 30 a m remains. Dr Daniel noted state law requires all children entering school this fall to receive diphtheria pertussis tetanus and small pox vaccination before school begins.
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Ross P. Daniel
Raleigh County
Health Department
Daniel
Cyprus tensions rise as Makarios tours bombed villages
Archbishop Makarios toured Greek Cypriot settlements on the northwest coast amid heavy shelling by Turkish jets. Officials reported dozens dead and many wounded in Kokkina and surrounding areas, with Turkish denial of air attacks and Greek Cypriot demands for withdrawal remaining unresolved.
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Makarios
Cyprus
Turkey
Jude Transferred From Mount Gay to Walter Reed
Willy Ray Jude 23 of Mount Gay, a patient at the VA Hospital, was moved by Army plane to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC at 10 30 a m today for further treatment after a two car accident at milepost 38 on the West Virginia Turnpike Saturday. He is listed in satisfactory condition.
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Willy Ray Jude
Mount Gay
Veterans Administration Hospital
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D.C
Jude
West Virginia Turnpike
County tax collection hits 97.66 percent, $50,000 outstanding
Ra se County Sheriff’s Office reports 97.66 per cent of 1963 real estate and personal property taxes collected as of August 1, with $49,824.29 remaining. Since 1960 collections have risen steadily. $2,076,580.53 has been collected this year, including $1,262,332.21 in real estate and $809,429.01 in personal property taxes.
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Rase County
R. C. Stewart
Two Sentenced In U S Court
In Pocahontas County Howard A Craimer 53 of Slat ey Fork pleaded guilty to four counts of receiving unauthorized benefits under the Railway Unemployment Act and was placed on one year probation on each count. Roy Linwood Spangler 44 was ordered committed to the attorney general for a classification study after a postal theft charge. Spangler has a long criminal record including highway robbery kidnapping grand larceny assault and auto tampering. Jurors were dismissed until 9 30 a m Thursday.
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Pocahontas County
Pg Uhm
Howard A. Craimer
Slatey Fork
E. M. Payne III
Craimer
Payne
George Beter
U.S
Roy Linwood Spangler
Spangler
Keystone
Northfolk and Western Railway
Bluefield
Columbus
Ohio
Welfare Dept's Caseload Drops in West Virginia
The State Welfare Department reported June payments totaling 4,593,284, a 51,000 drop from May. distributions covered work and training, aid to dependent children, medical benefits, old age assistance, and disability aid. Overall caseload fell 544 to 49,047, with 156,621 people receiving surplus food commodities in June.
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Charleston
UPI
State Welfare Department
West
Health Department Nurses Transferred to State Immunization Program
Mrs. Naomi Cole RN and Mrs. Linda Harris RN have been transferred from the Raleigh County Health Department to the State Immunization Program per Dr. Ross P. Daniel, the department director. They have not been replaced though replacements will be discussed at the Board of Health meeting this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomi Cole
Linda Harris
Raleigh County Health Department
Ross P. Daniel
Daniel
Board of Health
Two Men Hospitalized After Separate Accidents
Two area men were admitted to Appalachian Regional Hospital on Monday for injuries from separate accidents. Wilbur Vandall, 51, of Bradley, arrived at 1:50 p.m. with scalp lacerations from a fall at L. and B Coal Co. Mine. Albert Mann, 43, of Hinton, checked in at 12:10 p.m. with injuries to his left leg from a timber accident. Both are listed in fair condition.
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Appalachian Regional Hospital
Wilbur Vandall
Linden Ave
Bradley
L. and
Missing Man Found Safe Near Colton Mountain Area
A 71 year old Elkins man Guy Findley reported missing Sunday night was found about 12 miles from home Monday afternoon. About 75 volunteers and state police joined an intensive search, and Findley was located in fine spirits near Colton in a mountainous region.
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Elkins
UPI
Guy Findley
Fine Spirits
Colton
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W. VA
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