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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1967
Page
3
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In Cleveland, IRS experts reopen 1964 to 1965 tax returns for Alice Bolka and grant additional refunds after discovering medical expenses paid for her late mother. The sister had not claimed the medical deductions, but will receive about 500 dollars for 1964 and around 529 dollars for 1965, plus six percent interest on the corrected refund.
Mt Hope and Mrs Dan R Crawford of Hinton visited Saturday in the home of A A Oschlager Monroe Street. Virgil Dillon and family of Virginia were weekend guests in the home of Virgil Dillon Sr. on North Mountain Street. Mildred Waycaster and children from Roanoke were with her brother and sister in law E Dinkler in Roanoke. Robert Yost Jr. and wife from Huntington stayed with her parents and grandparents. Pat Pino and family visited relatives in Washington DC. A L Walker and family vacationing in Myrtle Beach area.
Eight women seven children and two men were crushed to death as about two thousand Hindus surged toward a temple of Lord Venkataswaram in Madras police said today.
The annual church picnic of the First Methodist Church of Mullens is set for Tuesday at 6 p m Weather permitting it will be at the city park otherwise at the church Attendees should bring their own meat and utensils The Women s Society of Christian Service sponsors and will provide the rest of the food
Pax PAX Mrs. Marie Widdoes and children from San Jose California visit her parents the Livelys and Craddocks in Maple Fork. Weekend guests at Walter Humphrey’s Packs Branch home include Delmas McClung and Glen Humphrey families from Washington DC and Mount Hope plus Patsy Humphrey of Oak Hill. Additional guests in Williamson include Carl Cheek Paul Rose Drema and Betty Vance and Nattie Vance with Ada Avis of Gatewood. Carrie Waybright from Colorado visits W L Kincaid and relatives at Packs Branch. Rexall Williams hosts Russell Williams and families from St Charles Missouri and Airman Keith Williams from Charleston Missouri. Airman Williams also visits Jasper Buttrick family in Solphia.
A State Health Department mobile chest X-ray unit will visit Fayette County under the local health department. People aged 17 and older may receive a chest X-ray. Schedule includes Fayetteville August 22 and Mount Hope August 23 among several sites through September 1 with multiple daily time slots.
A head on crash between two buses near Ayazin in Central Aran killed 38 people and wounded 33 Sunday. The report notes accompanying details and names of local campers and staff at the Washington Carver 4-H Camp in Clifftop.
Mrs. Robert Akers will head the Arts and Crafts Department for the Fayette County Fair to be held August 17 to 19 in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building Fayetteville. Entries from Fayette County residents must be displayed August 17 between 9 and 11 am with name and address on the article.
Fayetteville, Sunday. David Peraldo, 21, of Fayetteville, reportedly fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his 1962 model car into Bernard L. McClung’s parked vehicle in front of McClung’s home. Both cars were declared total losses. Peraldo escaped serious injury. Investigation continues with no charges yet filed.
Fayette County grand jury returns a long list of felonies and misdemeanors. Names include Akers Bailey Basham Combs Butner Blethen Treadway Thompson Blevins Calvert Comer Falbo Gibson Klosski Nicholes Neff Spangler Williams and others with charges such as breaking and entering grand larceny arson rape malicious wounding and forgery.
Mrs. Net ie N. Cottle of Fayetteville and Mrs. Myrtle N. McDowell led a tour group from July 15 to August 8 visiting Erie and Niagara Falls, Toronto Parliament Buildings, Expo 67 in Montreal, New York City landmarks, Charlottetown and Halifax in Nova Scotia, Acadian Country at Grand Pre, Bar Harbor, and Washington D C among other sites including the SS Bluenose crossing and a Bay of Fundy view.
West Virginia faces limited educational growth due to tax revenue shortages. Miles C. Stanley of the West Virginia Labor Federation urged developing human services industries to combat unemployment at an anti poverty meeting at Concord College sponsored by Appalachian Volunteers. The piece ends with a door to door salesman quip about total costs.
Fayette County Mental Health Commission plans an August 30 hospital tour and launches Operation Draperies. Volunteers will canvass for women’s clothing hair curlers pictures lamps records magazines books and more to furnish patient spaces. Call 574 0553 for details and to offer help with the special records project.
Charles F. Slaughter 34 a Hopewell resident and former West Virginian will have final rites in Hopewell today. His body was recovered from the James River near Claremont Virginia after he drowned Monday. He was a native of Montgomery County West Virginia and had lived in Charleston and Oak Hill West Virginia.
Short column lists names and phone numbers for reporters in multiple towns. The fragment notes Pax Eileen Kessler Pineville Mrs Jack Martin Ravencliff Sabine McGraws Glen Fork Saulsville Miss Elizabeth Williams Rhodell Mrs Edith Flinchum Rock Creek Mrs Maude Parolari Whitesville Sophia Mrs Russell Pegram with incomplete phone data.
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