Old System To Be Scrapped Election Of UMW Chiefs Scheduled
United Mine Workers will abandon its 25 district provisional system in favor of elected presidents for each unit. The shift, urged by Labor Secretary Wirtz to comply with Landrum Griffin Act provisions, affects Districts 29 17 and 31 with District 50 remaining autonomous. Titler of District 29 is among impacted leaders and noted the ruling changes nothing for him. The union will act at its Miami Beach convention on September 1 to implement the plan.
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United Mine Workers
Washington
George J. Titler
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Landrum-Griffin
UMW
Labor Department
Miami Beach
Fla
Titler
District 29
Harlan
West Virginia
Glen View Man Missing In Prince Street Disappearance
Lester Adamini a 47 year old Glen View resident was reported missing. His sister Mary Kennedy said he had not dressed to go out when he vanished a week ago after being seen at Nan's Place on Prince Street Saturday. He is described as 6 feet tall with dark brown curly hair greenish blue eyes and about 175 pounds. He recently received his pay and had roughly $100 on him. Call 253 9442 if you have information.
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Lester Adamini
Glen View
Adamini
Mary Kennedy
Kenney
Nan
Prince Street
Cuba Faces Pressure Amid Food Trade Highs and Credit Woes
Bank sources say Cuba's dire economy stems from crashing world sugar prices, poor credit handling, and high overhead. Experts warn sugar markets are collapsing and Cuban debt to creditors remains unclear and overdue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Dan Worley Has Lots Of Luck All Of It Bad
Dan Worley of Horn Lake Mississippi lay in a Memphis hospital after a gasoline explosion while lighting a cigarette. He suffered second and third degree burns over half his body and had earlier been injured in a separate accident with 10 broken ribs. He recalled a past mustard gas exposure at a Huntsville weapons plant. What’s the answer he asked.
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Memphis
Tenn
UPI
Dan Worley
Worley
Horn Lake
Miss
Huntsville
Ala
Syncom-3 In Stationary Orbit Near Pacific
Syncom-3 rests at 22,300 miles awaiting alignment to stay fixed over the equator. NASA officials said final positioning will enable Olympic broadcasts from Japan to the United States between Oct 10 and 24, using gas jets to fine tune the orbit as COMSAT prepares a commercial stationary satellite next year.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
America
Pacific
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Greenbelt
Earth
Japan
United States
New Communications Satellite Corp
Comsat
Deaths and Funerals Felix Graves 64
Funeral arrangements incomplete for Felix Graves a retired coal miner of Killarny who died Thursday at 10 p m in a Beckley nursing home after a long illness Born in Cleveland North Carolina he was son of the late John and Mary Graves He was a member of East Gulf Tabernacle Baptist Church Surviving are his wife Mary Jane Graves three half brothers five sisters and other relatives The body is at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlors
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felix Graves
Killarney
Beckley
Cleveland
N. C
John and Mary Graves
East Gulf Tabernacle Baptist Church
Mary Jane Graves
William
J. D. Wood
Salisbury
Sonny Wood
Daisy Niblock
Maggie Gerter
Rosa May Wood
Eldora Cowen
Greensboro
Ruth Wallington
Annapolis
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Final rites for Mrs Mary Elizabeth Mullins in New Richmond
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Mullins 77 of New Richmond will receive final rites at 2 p m Sunday at New Richmond Chapel with Rev Si las Burks and Rev Ronald Adkins officiating. Burial is in Jackson Cemetery. She died Thursday in Mullens hospital. Survived by husband Van Buren Mullins four sons and six daughters, 58 grandchildren and 56 great grandchildren. Body to be moved from Sam Foglesong Funeral Home to residence Saturday.
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Mary Elizabeth Mullins
New Richmond
Silas Burks
Ronald Adkins
Jackson Cemetery
Mullins
Mullens Hospital
van Buren Mullins
Kelly
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dewey
Polly Perdue
Sam Foglesong
Mullens
Final rites for Mrs Linda Short held in Davin
Mrs Linda Short 85 of Davin dies in Man hospital. Funeral at 1 p m Saturday in McNeely Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Boyd Sparks officiating. Burial in Cook Cemetery Cyclone. She was Wyoming County native born May 31 1879. Survived by six daughters and four sons and 44 grandchildren. husband Leroy Short died 1963.
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Linda Short
Davin
McNeely Funeral Home
Man
Boyd Sparks
Cook
Cyclone
Ioie Napier
Monaville
Lake Cook
Hattie Garten
North Carolina
Vada Walls
Ona Toler
Lina Dillon
Raymond
Cortney
John Bradley
Denver
McDonell
Syncom-3 Deluge Hits Brooklyn Family With Calls
New York reports carry Syncom-3 above the Pacific while a Brooklyn family, the Schlosser's, endures a three day flood of calls about the satellite. They have 14 year old son and no answers, as area code mix ups plus Smithsonian dial-in confusion drive the nonstop inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Pacific
Ocean
America
Times Square
Schlosser
Brooklyn
Schlossers
Smithsonian
Washington
Seey- Schlossers
Namb
Johnsons odds seen improving for big victory in 1964
The piece notes Johnson's optimism and perceived Democratic edge over Kennedy in 1964 and a potential 20 percent Republican cross over. It cites Democratic strategists who believe a large Johnson win is possible if they energize voters while dampening Goldwater backlash among ethnic groups with the remark that many will trade venom for income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Kennedy
Goldwater
Combat Star Joins Miss United States Beauty Pageant
Rick Jason star of Combat will MC the semifinals and finals at Memorial Field House in Huntington next week. Other celebrities announced include Little Joe from Bonanza Elly Mae from the Beverly Hillbillies and a Lawrence Welk trio with Jimmy Rogers and Joe Feeney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
UPI
Rick Jason
Jason
Memorial Field House
Keith Black
Little Joe
Elly Mae
Beverly Hillbillies
Lawrence Welk
Jimmy Rogers
Joe Feeney
Two Local Inmates Freed and Transferred in Raleigh County
Dorothy M. May of Arlington Virginia was released from Raleigh County Jail at 9 30 a m after serving a drunk driving sentence. James Mike Ayers of Beckley was released after paying a fine on a petit larceny charge. Roy L Spangler of Roanoke Virginia was moved to Kanawha County Jail at 11 50 a m to face a mail theft charge.
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Dorothy M. May
Arlington
Virginia
Raleigh
James Mike Ayers
Beckley
Joe Rodriguez
Roy L. Spangler
Roanoke
Kanawha
Thursiday
Fugitive Sanitation Operator Arrested After Tip
A fugitive who ran a private sanitation operation while not employed by Wheeling's sanitation department was arrested Thursday at an auto repair shop after an anonymous tip linked to a civil suit over a $7,000 missing sum. He had briefly returned to Richmond for visits and took a wife’s vacation there last summer. He previously avoided arrest for years, including a 1955 Wheeling traffic stop, fearing fingerprints would reveal him.
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City of
Wheeling
Marshall
Richmond
Boy Scout Operations Topic At Beckley Civitan Meeting
Dr. R O Gale president of the Appalachian Council BSA spoke on the full scope of Boy Scout operations in the area at the Beckley Civitan club meeting. Attending were Al McGann from Washington DC and Jack Lewis of Bluefield, executive director of the Appalachian Council.
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R. O. Gale
Appalachian Council
Boy Scouts of America
Beckley Civitan Ab
al McGann
Washington, D. C
Jack Lewis
Bluefield
Daniels Man Jailed For Grand Larceny
Cecil Meador, 17, of Daniels, was returned from Pontiac Michigan to answer grand larceny charges. He is accused of stealing 180 dollars from the Kaye Service Station in MacArthur on June 1 and was booked at Raleigh County jail at 1 20 p m before certification to Magistrate Joe Rodriguez's court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Meador
Daniels
Pontiac
Michigan
Meador
Kaye
MacArthur
Raleigh
Joe Rodriguez
Claude Anderson Services Planned in East Rainelle
Claude Anderson 70 of Quinwood will be laid to rest Saturday in Wallace Funeral Home Chapel East Rainelle with Rev Homer Piercy officiating. Burial follows at Wallace Memorial Cemetery Clintonville. He died Thursday of a heart attack. A retired electrician born February 28 1894 in Bluefield he was the son of the late John M and Mary Pack Anderson. He is survived by sisters Mrs John P Bonner Mrs Lucy Hawley and Mrs Don P Wolf of Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Anderson
Quinwood
Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home
East Rainelle
Homer Piercy
Wallace Memorial Cemetery
Clintonville
Anderson
John P. Bonner
Lucy Hawley
Don P. Wolf
Beckley
Bluefield
John M
Mary Pack Anderson
Missiles Plans and Budget Cut Prompt Congressional Rift
The MMRBM was described as small enough to be truck mounted with deployment on land vehicles or surface ships. Congress slashed the MMREM request from 110 million to 40 million, signaling an end to the project and triggering mutual recriminations with the Defense Department over failures in the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Defense Department
Department
Rotary District 755 Area II meeting gathers nine cities
Rotary clubs from nine surrounding cities attended the Rotary District 755 Area II meeting in Beckley at the Municipal Building. The 755 District serves 36 cities and towns in Southern West Virginia, reflecting regional business and professional leadership. Rev. Byron W. John of Marlinton, newly elected District Governor, presided the session.
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Rotary Clubs
Beckley
West Virginia
Byron W. John
Marlinton
Desegregation Steps Begin in Jackson Schools
In Jackson Mississippi forty two black first graders applied Thursday to attend previously all white schools in a registration process described as the first move toward public school desegregation in the city. In Live Oak Florida two black men and a girl were held on an open charge after an integration incident in which a revolver was allegedly waved at whites following denial of service at a restaurant. Chicago police withdrew barricades in Dixmoor after rioting earlier in the week left sixty injured and eighty arrested.
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Jackson
Miss
Live Oak
Fla
Chicago
Dixmoor
American C130 Airlifts Congo Troops To Bukavu Fight
An American C130 transport airlifted Congolese troops to Bukavu as the army reported encircling rebel forces. U.N. and State Department officials named three missing U.S. officials and urged concern for their lives. Troop movements backed by reports of battles in Bukavu and surrounding towns, with Congo forces pushing rebels from the European sector and preparing operations toward Albertville, Manono, and Stanleyville.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
UPI
Bukavu
ANC
United Nations
Kivu
U.N
State Department
Washington
Lewis B. Macfarlane
Seattle
William A. Dodds
Donald B. Rattan
Alexandria
Raddan
Dobbs
Macfarlane
U.S
Richard C. Matheron
Congo
Bibiano Osorio - Taffal
Elisabethville
Moise Tshombe
Albertville
Katanga
Manono
Stanleyville
Orientale
Parole Board Policy Statement Sparks Intra-Party Critique
The Parole Board abandoned its policy statement and included Underwood's name amid criticism from Thompson who denied the policies existed during the Underwood administration. The Daily Mail cited Statehouse sources claiming the board sought a strong defense but the governor's office pigeonholed the statement. Barron reportedly feared entangling a state agency in a public dispute with Thompson. Board members include Democrat Roy Chambers and J Holt Byrne, a former Republican newspaperman from Elkins.
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Underwood
Thompson
Statehouse
The
Daily Mail
Barron
Creasey
Roy Chambers
Williamson
J. Holt Byrne
Elkins
Lions appoint fund raising committee names
The Crab Orchard MacArthur Lions appointed a fund raising project committee on Thursday. Members are Bill Cole chairman Beckley W T Riffe Haven Clay Dennis Shrewsbury and Okey Mills Crab Orchard.
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Crab Orchard
MacArthur Lions
Bill Cole
Beckley
W. T. Riffe
Haven Clay
Dennis Shrewsbury
Okey Mills
Dad Thrown Out as Boy Steers Brakeless Truck
In Santa Ana California a 12 year old Rudy Luna Jr faced a runaway 1 1/2 ton flat bed truck after his father was thrown out while steering toward a construction site. Unable to brake the boy shut off the ignition and steered the vehicle for 300 feet to safety. The father sustained a shoulder injury when a trailer wheel ran over him and was listed in fair condition at Santa Ana Community Hospital.
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Rudy Luna Jr
Rudy
Luna
Santa Ana Community Hospital
Does Your Baby Burp Big It Might Signal Leadership
London reports capture Dr Milton Berger proposing that aggressive burpers may become leaders such as presidents or prime ministers. The idea, cited via an English nurse, says strong burping marks the future leaders while milder burpers form the masses. Some newspapers mocked the conference theories.
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London
UPS
Milton Berger
New York
International Congress of Psychiatrists
the Daily Herald
Soviets Block Chinese Plans For Retaliation
London dispatch reports Moscow refused support to China amid U S attacks on North Vietnam. Peking urged restraint as China cools after Sino Soviet rift, with Izvestia quoting Chen Yi that the 1950 treaty is a scrap of paper. Moscow’s reluctance to aid Beijing is seen as proof of Chen Yi’s claim.
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UPI
China
United States
U. S
North Viet Nam
Tonkin Gulf
Peking
Moscow
Chen Yi
Izvestia
Russia
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Pei King
UF Unchanged In Raleigh Co
No new beneficiaries of the United Fund of Raleigh County were approved at Thursday’s admissions committee meeting. Of three inquiries, the American Social Health Association lacked sufficient information, the National Travelers Aid Association will get further study, and a teen activities group withdrew. Budgets from Raleigh County Cancer Association USC Mental Health Salvation Army Dental Health Council Children Inc Camp Galahad Red Cross Raleigh YMCA and youth groups were reviewed for the coming year.
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United Fund
Raleigh
Guy Amato
Amato
American Social Health Association
National Travelers Aid Association
John W. Kern
Alan Susman
Raleigh County Cancer Association
USC
Raleigh County Association For Mental Health
Salvation Army
Raleigh County Dental Health Council
Children, Inc
Camp Galahad
Raleigh County ‘Chapter
The
American Red Cross
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
Beckley-Raleigh County
YMCA
Barry Goldwater backs 5 percent Social Security hike
Senator Barry Goldwater endorsed a 5 percent increase in Social Security cash benefits for about 20 million people while opposing the administration's Medicare program. He urged a strengthened Social Security system but criticized funding hospitalization and nursing care benefits through higher Social Security taxes as overburdening the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
You Take Her Friend Playa Del Rey Tragedy Ended In Suicide
Four Polish refugees who met in Germany and formed a close group and planned to emigrate to America. Andrew Starnowski, 27, who married Gizela, the group’s only girl, fatally shot himself in his apartment. Jerzy Burezwyk, the third member, told authorities Starnowski killed himself after Gizela left with the fourth member, John J. Lewandowski, three weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Playa del Rey
Calif
UPI
Germany
America
Andrew Starnowski
Gizela
Jerzy Burezwyk
Starnowski
Burezwyk
Clyde Fitzpatrick Class Reunion Held at Crab Orchard Baptist
About 85 people attended the Clyde Fitzpatrick Class reunion of the Crab Orchard Baptist Church on Sunday at the church Lands. Out of town guests included Earl Karnes and children of Cincinnati Ohio Mr. and Mrs Jimmy Beckett Lynchburg Virginia Mr and Mrs Alan Hill and children Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mr and Mrs Orville Riffe and children Raleigh North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Fitzpatrick
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Baptist
Congress Aecess Today For Convention
Washington lawmakers plan a recess to attend the national convention and return in 10 days to tackle state legislative reapportionment and elder care expansions in Social Security. The House votes on the Appalachia program, while Dirksen’s court-reapportionment proposal stalls Senate action and a liberal standoff delays measures. Representative Gallagher warns Americans are becoming a nation of snoopers as a House subcommittee launches privacy investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
House
Cornelius FE. Gallagher
D-N.j
Gallagher
Randolph To Oppose Dirksen Amendment
Sen. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia states the constitution assigns original Supreme Court jurisdiction over legislative apportionment suits. He opposes congressional efforts to block or alter this via legislation and rider forms. He will discuss further after Senate reconvenes and plans to vote against the Mansfield-Dirksen substitute and the Tuck bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Supreme Court
Congress
West
Randolph
House
Senate
Senator Randolph Watchs Johnson Sign Anti Poverty Act
Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia observed the White House signing of the Economic Opportunity Act. He helped manage the measure in the Senate and has collected 25 presidential signing pens across several ceremonies this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stolen bicycle reported on Hull Street
Amos E. Quesenberry of 307 Hull Street reported Thursday that a blue and white Huffy bicycle was taken from in front of his home. He said he hoped to locate the bike before his son returns from vacation and noted the name Mike is written across the crossbar.
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Amos E. Quesenberry
Hull Street
Quesenberry
Mike
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