President Johnson to Meet Pearson on Campobello Island
President Johnson plans a non-political swing through New York and New England culminating in a Sunday meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson on Campobello Island off New Brunswick. They will attend the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park dedication and lay a cornerstone at the visitors pavilion. Johnson will also visit Buffalo and Syracuse for pollution cleanup talks and a speech, then Kingston Rhode Island to receive an honorary degree before returning to Washington.
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Auto safety features set for 1968 cars
Congress moved toward strict safety rules with a 371 to 0 House vote approving padded dashboards shoulder harnesses recessed knobs and land safe brakes for new models. A companion measure seeks 270 million over three years for highway safety programs while a Senate bill would spend 465 million. Two battles on second collision and first collision injuries drive the push.
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War Declared On Mosquitoes Bombing Friday
Dallas health officials ordered three Air Force planes to spray deadly insecticide Friday to combat the St. Louis encephalitis epidemic spreading across Dallas County. Three deaths, at least 64 cases, and as many as 88 suspected, prompted the action. Officials warned the disease has no cure and early signs include headaches and severe lethargy.
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Kanawha Kiddies Protest Captain Kangaroo Show Change
Kanawha Valley mothers oppose WCHS TV decision to drop Captain Kangaroo for Secret Storm in early morning. They call Kangaroo an educational home nursery, noting the valley also lacks Ding Dong School and worry protests would recur after any schedule reversal. Charles Moyer of WCHS-TV expects complaints to follow any change.
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Deaths And Funerals In Area Trails Of Loss Across Counties
Complete funeral plans follow the deaths of Mrs. Lou Bessie Roberts 66 of Glen Jean and Mrs. Winnie Pendry 65 of Pineville. Details list survivors including spouses children siblings and grandchildren with locations in West Virginia Kentucky and Georgia. Graveside and church services are planned with local funeral homes and reverends officiating.
Funeral Rites for Rev Louis Levice Held at Lester
Funeral services for 69 year old Rev Louis Levice of Lester were set for 1 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Lester with ministers J W Carter Elmer Day and B F Furge in charge. Burial follows in Greenwood Memorial. Levice died Monday in a local hospital after a short illness and will be moved to the church one hour before services. Funeral arrangements also include a separate service for Charles Janis Nary at 2 p.m. Saturday at Price Hill Freewill Baptist Church with Reverends Ernest Barley Bradley and Johnny Spencer in charge. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens at Prosperity. Nary, 65, died Wednesday in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. he was a coal miner and a member of Price Hill Baptist Church and the United Mine Workers of America. He leaves a wife Lowsie Shifflette Nary, two sons Noah and Charles Jr., a daughter Eleanor Rogers, grandchildren C J Rogers and Eleanor Skiff, nieces and several siblings and others. Friends may call Mount Hope Home of Funeral Directors Friday 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., then taken to his home at 4 p.m. RNS
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Pineville
Rockcastle Baptist Church
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Harry L. Stevens
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Crab Orchard
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Saulsville
William and
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Wyoming County
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Virginia Lowe
Beckley
Ruby Tolliver
Longmont
Sally Saunders
Orlando
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Betty Houck
Mullens
Janice Vanney
Lucy Bennett
Miami
Lucy Pendry
James Hackworth
Dayton Ward
Boone
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Louis Levice
Lester
First Baptist Church
Charles
Charlie) Janis Nary
Route 1
Mount Hope
Price Hill Freewill Baptist Church
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Bradley
Johnny Spencer
Mabscott
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
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Nary
Price Hill Baptist Church
United Mine Workers
Funeral Rites for Van Bur en Dickinson Held in Eccles
Funeral services for Van Bur en Dickinson 75 of Eccles were held at 3 30 p m Friday at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Ernest Barley officiating Burial followed at Sunset Memorial Park Dickinson died at a local hospital Wednesday after a long illness Born June 18 1891 in Alabama he was the son of the late Thomas and Elizabeth M Hubbard Dickinson His wife Jenny K Dickinson died in 1961 He was a retired coal miner and a member of the United Mine Workers Local 17 Survivors include son Howard E of Woodstock Md daughter Mrs George Mildred Hipkins of Perryville Md 13 grandchildren and 7 pallbearers Friends may call after 1 p m today
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Eccles
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Ernest Barley
Sunset Memorial Park
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Alabama
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Elizabeth Mhubbard Dickinson
Jenny K. Dickinson
United Mine Workers of America
Howard E
Woodstock
George
Mildred) Hipkins
Perryville
Hershell Wilson
Bob Roberts
Moore
Leonard Webb
Gene Cozart
Arnold Boggs
Defense bill shift lets Johnson call up reservists for Vietnam
On Wednesday the Senate approved 66 to 21 a rider granting the president power to call up individual reservists and national guardsmen for Vietnam duty. About 132,000 reservists with only training duty through June 30, 1968 could be mobilized. The Defense Department is barred from diverting funds in the bill to buy F111B planes, the Navy version of the controversial TFX, under McClellan's amendment.
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D-Ark
Senate
Mrs Maude Robinson Rites Planned After Death at 65
Mrs Maude Robinson 65 of 102 Dock St died Wednesday at 6 45 p m in a local nursing home after a long illness Born in Cullin Va March 3 1901 she was a daughter of William and____ Lawson and a member of New Hope Baptist Church Survivors include step son Paul Robinson of Stotesbury two sisters Annie Woodson Beckley and Mary Lawshee Whitby The body is at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
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Glen Jean
Vanceburg
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Buck Roberts
Joe
Carrie) Jones
Pearl Hanson
Alexandria
Cecil
Nellie) Grubb
Chicago
Ill
Nola Ratli
Geneva Stover
MacArthur
Sweeneysburg
Joel and
Mary Tyree Edmonds
Raleigh
Summers Counties
Edward F. Thompson
Charlie Stover
Jake
Novel
Stove
Maude Robinson
Dock St
Cullin
William Lawson
New Hope
Robert T. Garrett Burial in Clifton Cemetery
Funeral services for 78 year old Robert T. Garrett of Maxwelton will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Clifton Presbyterian Church with burial in Clifton Cemetery. He died Wednesday in a Clifton Forge nursing home. He was a retired building contractor and a deacon of Clifton Presbyterian Church and a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Lewisburg. He was the brother of Allen Garrett of Mount Hope. Born June 25, 1888, son of Benjamin and Jane Garrett. Body at Jack K. Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg.
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Maxwelton
Clifton Presbyterian Church
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Clifton Forge
Allen Garrett
Mount Hope
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Jane Garrett
Free and Accepted Masons
Lewisburg
Jack K. Wallace
Giles R. Charlie obituary funeral service details
Funeral services for Charlie R. Giles, 62, of East Beckley, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday in the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor Chapel with Bishop David Smith presiding. Burial will follow at Greenwood Memorial Park. Giles died Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. from gunshot wounds. He is survived by one sister, Cora Wright of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one step-...
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East Beckley
Ritchie and Johnson
David Smith
Greenwood Memorial Park
Giles
Cora Wright
Pittsburgh
Obituary: Elmer Byers Editor Of Marion Advertiser Dies
TIGERTOWN Wisconsin reports Elmer Byers editor of the Marion Advertiser from 1906 to 1946 died Wednesday after an apparent heart attack at age 85. In Columbus Ohio, Prof Edgar Furniss Jr OSU political science author on foreign policy died Wednesday after surgery complications at age 48.
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Ohio State University
London’s Suspect Armed and Dangerous in UK Manhunt
Britain's search for the scar-faced suspect in the detectives’ murders intensified as about 5000 armed police and bloodhounds swarmed Epping Forest east of London. A portrait of 30-year-old Harry Maurice Roberts was released, with officials warning citizens not to confront him. Roberts may be disguised as a camper or hiker and fled after the Friday killings in West London. two other suspects, John Duddy and John Witney, were already in custody.
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Orbiter Begins First Major Moon Mission From Pasadena
The Lunar Orbiter satellite launches its first major task by snapping Moon photos on its 26th orbit at 7:42 a.m. PDT. It targets the east rim site zero, with transmissions expected to reach Goldstone Station about five hours later. Networks planned live telecast as images relay to JPL.
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Truman Letter to Writer Critics Margaret Sings Hit
The White House released full text of Harry S Truman's sharp reply to Washington Post critic Paul Hume who panned Margaret Truman's singing. The letter, printed by Variety, mocks Hume as an eight ulcer man and a guttersnipe in a tersely worded rebuke from the president.
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Washington Post
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Bridgeport, Conn
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Leonard J. Horowitz
New Haven
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Westbrook Pegler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Committee aims at punishing antiwar groups tied to Viet Cong
A Congressional committee hearings sparked pandemonium with arrests of 17 demonstrators and several lawyers, including Arthur Kinoy, as clashes over witness rights and procedural rules intensified. Kinoy faces local trial. a suit by the ACLU challenges the committee’s constitutional authority, delaying a scheduled hearing.
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American Civil Liberties Union
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