Theatrical troupe offers to lease state Showboat Rhododendron
West Virginia Theatre Company head Herbert J. Rogers proposed Gov Smith lease the Rhododendron for one year at $1 to avoid leaving the state. The troupe would operate it as a floating stage, handle maintenance, and seek a federal grant to expand next summer. Ravenswood bid $50,001 but failed to meet down payment requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkins
UPS
West Virginia
Hulett C. Smith
Herbert J. Rogers
Robert E. Maxwell
West Virginia Theatre Company
Rogers
Pittsburgh
Ravenswood
Clinton
Iowa
Clarence Johnson
Consolidation Coal to Sell Out to Continental Oil
Stockholders of Consolidation Coal Co voted to liquidate and sell out to Continental Oil Co. Nearly all favored the deal, with Sept. 15 closing. Shareholders will receive about $68.25 per share on Oct. 21 plus $46 to $48 cash from coal reserve assets and will split Chrysler and Continental stock as payment. The IRS approved, drawing criticism from Sen. Gore. chairman George H. Love noted taxes will be paid as capital gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Oil Co
Continental
Wilmington
Del
Consolidation Board
George H. Love
Consol
Chrysler Corp
Internal Revenue Service
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Love
Powell Offers Broad Plan to Rebuild Urban Ghettos
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell told a Senate subcommittee the war on poverty is in a vacuum and proposed a $35 billion ten year program for urban rehabilitation. He urged expanding manpower training and public works with Humphrey as CEO, Shriver to resign, and McNamara or Wirtz handling the actual work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Adam Clayton Powell
Johnson
Senate
Powell
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Shriver
State Department
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Labor
W.willard Wirtz
Watts
Chicago
West Side
Harlem
Cleveland
Hough
Floods Displace Thousands in Northern Mexico and Border Areas
Flooding driven by Rio Grande rains leaves at least 2,000 people homeless in north Mexico. The hardest hit stretch lies northwest of Big Bend National Park with spillover effects to the southern Pacific coast. President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz orders government food supplies trucked to homeless villagers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Rio Grande
Big Bend National Park
Pacific Coast
Gustavo Diaz Ordas
Seven-year-old dies after vehicle collision in West Virginia
Charleston UPI reports John Donnelly Jr., age 7, died from kidney failure after a car struck him near his home in Jaeger, Mc Dowell County. He was hospitalized in Welch and then transferred to Charleston for further care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
John Donnelly Jr
Jaeger
McDowell County
Welch
Elm blocks Maple in Farmington windstorm incident
A windstorm knocked an elm across Maple Street in Farmington New Mexico causing a brief traffic blockage on Tuesday. United Press International reports the disruption ended after crews cleared the tree and re opened the roadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmington, N.M
UPI
Farmington
Maple Street
Grapes Pickers Vote On Union In Delano Election
About 1,100 Delano grape pickers cast ballots in a union representation vote supervised by the American Arbitration Association. The contest paired the AFL CIO affiliated UFWOC and the Teamsters as observers expect a regional setback for the losing side in one of California’s largest farm labor drives. The count was to be announced today with 80,000 farm workers in California affected.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
San Joaquin Valley
Delano
American Arbitration Association
AAA
Afl-Cio
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
UFWOC
Independent Teamsters Union
America
Delano Area
Red Guards raid Sacred Heart School amid cultural revolution
Reports say Red Guards ransacked Sacred Heart School in Peking housing children of foreign diplomats. Youths roamed cities singing Communist slogans and carrying Mao posters while China pushes discipline and new tactics to curb violence. Nuns with French order reached Hong Kong border exhausted after a week of turmoil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart
Peking
Red Guard
China
Mao Tse-tung
Peking People’s Daily
Red Guards
Communist Party
Central Committee
Red Army
Hong Kong
Lown
Labor leader plans WVU picket over Labor Day classes
Miles Stanley of the West Virginia Labor Federation said he will picket West Virginia University Monday if classes fall on Labor Day. WVU officials explained the calendar requires a one day Thanksgiving break and final exams on December 23, with Labor Day not rescheduled. they said classes will be held and the holiday will be observed in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
Miles Stanley
West Virginia Labor Federation
West Virginia University
Stanley
Afl-Cio
Harold Shamberger
WVU
Morgantown
Shamberger
Saigon reports 34 Viet Cong killed as air force eyes F5 jets
Saigon said it killed 34 Viet Cong and captured two, with light U.S. casualties. Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky announced South Vietnam would soon switch to F5 Freedom Fighter jets from Skyraiders. The 7th Fleet Constellation-based strikes hit North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Tonkin Gulf, leaving one burning on the shore. The Viet Cong and Liberation Front warned of terror campaigns to disrupt elections on Sept. 11, including threats against officials and voters.
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Nguyen Cao Ky
Tonkin Gulf
Constellation
Ames
Saigon
Viet Cong
Communist Liberation Front
U.S
Rescue Call At Court House Ends With Taxpayer Sickness
Beckley fire rescue squad answered a first aid call at the Court House shortly before noon today. Loraine Lilly of Blue Jay reportedly passed out while waiting to pay taxes and was taken to a local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Deaths And Funerals John L Waters 71 Huntington
John Leslie Waters 71 of 810 N Oakwood Ave died at 11 30 p m Tuesday in Huntington hospital after a brief illness Born December 18 1894 in Fayette County he was son of the late Arch and Mae Blake Waters A member of Advent Church of Christ and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Survivors include wife Daisy Stevens Waters three sons John Leslie Jr Sherman Woodrow and Benjamin Ernest three step sons Charles Daniels Dilmer Daniels and George E three daughters Mrs Phillip Walker three brothers and three sisters 16 grandchildren and three great grandchildren The body is at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Leslie Waters
N. Oakwood Ave
Huntington
Fayette County
Arch
Mae Blake Waters
Advent Church of Christ
Brotherhood of Railroad
Daisy Stevens Waters
John Leslie, Jr
Statesville
N. C
Sherman Woodrow
Baltimore, Md
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Funeral services for Arnold Wyant in Huntington
Arnold Wyant, longtime Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. superintendent of construction, died in Michigan while vacationing. He would have completed 30 years with the company on Sept. 14, after 16 years of service in Beckley. The body lies at Chapman Mortuary in Huntington. viewing after noon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold Wyant
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Baptist Temple
9Th Ave
21St St
Huntington
Michigan
Beckley
Chapman Mortuary
Funeral services for Mrs Lillie Mae Lusk
Mrs Lillie Mae Lusk 68 of Alpeca dies after brief illness in Beckley hospital. Services set 1 p.m. Thursday at Bud Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Deward R Frazier and Rev B H Stevens. Burial in Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens Princeton. Survivors include husband Linden four sons Eugene Paul Bill Jackie three daughters Carrie Toliver Wanda Lusk Naomi Coffman two sisters Ella Hensley and Nanny Lusk two brothers Dewey Virgil and Jesse 13 grandchildren. Body to be moved from Sam Foglesong Nease and Neeley Funeral Home Mullens to home at 4 30 p m today. Pallbearers listed. (RNS)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Mae Lusk
Alpeca
Bud Missionary Baptist Church
Deward R. Frazier
B. H. Stevens
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Linden
Eugene
Paul
Bill
Covel
Jackie
Matoaka
Carrie Toliver
Maben
Wanda Lusk
Cincinnati
Ohio
Naomi Coffman
Dublin
Dewey
Columbus
Virgil
Bud
Jesse
Piney View
Nanny Lusk
Final rites held for Basil Omer Ratliff of Hinton
Basil Omer Ratliff 70 of Hinton died Monday in a Beckley hospital after a four year illness. Funeral services were held at E M Meadows Funeral Home in Hinton with Rev. Fred Dillon and Rev. Bob McCoy officiating. Burial followed at Restwood Memorial Estates. Ratliff was a World War I veteran and member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was born September 28 1885 in Raleigh County, son of the late John and Lucy Moten Ratliff. Surviving are his wife Tina a son John of Hinton three daughters Lucille Brownell of New Berlin New York Louise Hellems of Ypsilanti Michigan sisters and brothers listed and nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basil Omer Ratliff
Hinton
E. M
John
Lucy Moten Ratliff
Tina
Lucille Ratliff
Billie Jo Brownell
New Berlin
N. Y
Louise Hellems
Ypsilanti
Mich
Claire
Beckley
Thomas
Petersburg
Sherman
Bradley
Jack
Orville
Sheby
Roscoe
Madison
Robert Beasley
Graveside rites for infant Clark Smallwood held today
Clark Smallwood 17 month old son of Fred and Lila Lambert Smallwood of Eccles died after a two month illness. Graveside services conducted by Rev Charles Plybon at Sunset Memorial Park at 11 a.m. today. Survived by parents two brothers maternal grandparents paternal relatives. Arrangements by Melton Mortuary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Plybon
Clark Smallwood
Fred
Lila Lambert Smallwood
Eccles
Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley
Fred, Jr
Lester
D. H. Lambert
Henry Brown
F. W. Smallwood
Crab Orchard
Melton Mortuary
Troy Cole Jr. Dies In Fairdale Auto Accident
Troy Buddy Cole Jr., 20, of Fairdale was killed in a late night auto accident in Fairdale at 12 30 a m today. He was born in Fairdale son of Troy Cole and Ruth Sanger Burelson. He attended Trap Hill High School and worked with his father in the timber business. Surviving are one brother Stanley Cole of Fairdale one sister Mrs Faye Mallett of Kentucky three half sisters Phyllis Marie Blankenship Betty Jo Blankenship of Fairdale and Arvedella Allen of Crab Orchard paternal grandmother Mrs Cuttie Cole of Fairdale and maternal grandfather Sam Sanger of Crab Orchard. The body is at Melton Mortuary pending funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Buddy) Cole Jr
Fairdale
Troy Cole
Ruth Sanger Burelson
Crab Orchard
Trap Hill High School
Stanley Cole
Faye Mallett
Kentucky
Phyllis Marie Blankens
Waldron Faces Hearing In Florida Murder Case
William Henry Waldron Jr., a Huntington, West Virginia attorney, will appear today before a justice of the peace in St. Petersburg for a preliminary hearing on charges of murdering his Florida wife, Phyllis Waldron. Arrested August 21, he is held without bond in Clearwater after authorities found Phyllis dead from a blunt force injury in a Madeira Beach cottage. Waldron, who used the alias Robert Coleman Johnson, faced past trouble including a 1950 embezzlement indictment and multiple marriages with later deaths or separations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Fila
UPI
William Henry Waldron Jr
Huntington
W. Va
Justice of the Peace
Florida
Waldron
Phyllis
Madeira Beach
Robert Coleman Johnson
Gulf Resort
Clearwater
West Virginia
Palm Beach County
De Gaulle in Cambodia for Viet Nam talks
De Gaulle arrived in neutral Cambodia after an Africa trip to meet Truong and Sihanouk. Maurice Couve de Murville joined talks and Ho Chi Minh sent greetings. Truong, newly named Hanoi diplomat, travels with Hanoi aims amid press criticism. De Gaulle to speak in Phnom Penh on Viet Nam with new proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Couve de Murville
Perot
de Gaulle
Ho Chi Minh
Sihanouk
de Gaulle-Truong
Cambodia
Africa
Phnom Penh
Hanoi
Truong
Riots and Curfews Stress Chicago Area Violence
Police report Tuesday night disturbances as youths rioted in multiple towns near Chicago. Benton Harbor Mayor asks Gov Romney for National Guard. Waukegan imposes and then lifts curfew on its Negro district amid three weekend nights of rioting. Civil rights demonstrators plan return to picket Judge Cannon’s home in Wauwatosa for the 12th time, aided by a church council declaration against segregated groups. Cicero grants a permit for a race equality march amid guard concerns and prior King threats ending in open housing talks.
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Benton Harbor
Wilbert Smith
George Romney
National Guard
Waukegan
Chicago
Wauwatosa
Robert C. Cannon
Order of Eagles
Greater Milwaukee
Congress of Racial Equality
West Side Organization
Oakland Committee For Community Development
Martin Luther King
Cicero
Funeral Services Held for Mosley Father and Son
Benjamin Mosley aged 48 and his son Van Lewis Mosley aged 15 of Glen Jean will be honored with joint funeral services at 1:30 p m Thursday at First Baptist Church Glen Jean with Rev G C Gilbert presiding. Burial follows at Green Memorial Park Beck ey after they drowned while fishing on the New River Sunday and were recovered near Thurmond by the Thur mond Rescue Squad on Monday. The bodies will be moved from the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor Greenstown to the church an hour before the service. Friends may call this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Mosley
van Lewis Mosley
Glen Jean
First Baptist Church
G. C. Gilbert
Green
Memorial Park
Beckey
New River
Thurmond
Ritchie and Johnson
Greenstown
Levy votes split in WV two biggest cities
United Press International reports West Virginia voters in Huntington defeat a proposed three year capital improvements levy by a 3 to 1 margin 9200 to 3300 for resurfacing streets and fire department upgrades. Charleston turnout favored the annual levy 2200 to 350 against while officials seek legislative action to end yearly votes due to a $15000 election cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
West Virginia
Huntington
Charleston
Infant Derick Robinson Rites Held at Harlem Heights
The Rev. Walter Harris will lead graveside rites for Derick Robinson infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robinson at 11 a.m. Thursday at Harlem Heights Cemetery. The child died Tuesday evening at 6 30 and is survived by one brother Frank Lemar at home. The body lies at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Harris
Derick Robinson
Frank Robinson
Harlem Heights
Frank Lemar
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Funeral set for Elijah Davis at First Baptist Cunard
The Rev Archie Johnson will lead funeral services for Elijah Davis 65 of East Park at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church Cunard with burial in Cunard Cemetery. Davis died Sunday in a local hospital. The Trent Durgan Funeral Home will transport him to the church one hour prior to services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Johnson
Elijah Davis
East Park
First Baptist Church
Cunard
Johnson
Velma Davis
Ophelia Thomas
Beckley
Nancy
Columbus
Ohio
Alex
Premier
Helen Dabney
Gladstone
Trent-Durgan Funeral Home
Mullen ax trial details and missing body clues
Testimony described the victim Mrs Willey and Mrs Mullen, with sightings of Mullen wearing a plaid blouse, blue jeans, and a pink blouse. Experts testified bones and flesh remains were found in a trash pit, with bones possibly part of the husband, while the body was never produced.
New York Man Arrested After Groundhog Hunters Aid Rescue
Ralph Hall a 36 year old New Yorker faces felonious assault and weapon charges after two groundhog hunters spotted him with an unidentified practical nurse in a secluded area near Valley Grove Ohio. The nurse was bound with a necktie and rescued by the hunters who held Hall at gunpoint until police arrived. Hall was jailed in Ohio County on 20500 bond after police said he lured the nurse from a Wheeling bus stop with a call from an ad seeking care for his ailing mother and drove her to the remote location in a reportedly stolen car. The investigation continues as authorities piece together the motive and timing of the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Hall
Long Island
Ohio County
Hall
Valley Grove
Poice
Bond Reduction Denied for Seven Cycle Gang Members
In Pittsburgh, Criminal Court Judge Loran L. Lewis denied bond reductions for seven of 13 motorcycle gang suspects in the mass rape case of an 18 year old Beaver Falls girl. The seven, seeking smaller bonds from 10,000, were arrested after the Aug 10 11 assault along the Ohio River near Leetsdale. Norman V. McCray was released on bond. the others remain in Allegheny County Jail on morals and assault and battery charges.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Beaver Falls
Loran L. Lewis
Ohio River
Leetsdale
Harry Cotter Jr
Freedom
Charles Stemberski
Faith Remains Far Offshore
Hurricane Faith, packing 120 mph winds, moved parallel to the US Atlantic coast offshore. The storm skirted the Atlantic target area for silver iodide seeding, with gale and hurricane winds extending hundreds of miles, and advisories warning Bermuda and the northern Bahamas to remain cautious while forecasts show a slow northward drift.
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Miami
UPS
Faith
Atlantic
Fla
Florida
Bermuda
Bahamas
Weather Bureau
Orlando Coed Killed In Head-On Collision
A two-car crash on U S 301 near Bamberg South Carolina killed Judith Starling a 20 year old Orlando coed who was a passenger in a car driven by Frank McCullough 20 of Charleston West Virginia. McCullough and Monroe Tuten 39 of Cordova South Carolina were hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bamberg
S. C
UPI
Orlando
Fla
Coed
U. S. 301
Here
Judith Starling
Frank McCullough
Charleston
W. Va
McCullough
Monroe Tuten
Cordova
Parents Resist Bus Rides Over Bud Mountain Road
Bud Mountain parents refuse to let 120 children ride school buses until the State Road Commission commits to widening and improving the seven and a half mile dirt road. A protest led by Mrs. George Weaver involves 55 families as SRC plans gravel and equipment funds totaling ten thousand dollars for road work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BUD Mountain
BNS
State Road Commission
SRC
Herndon
George Weaver
Herndon High School
Weaver
Policy eloquent McNamara speech on limits of military power
In a June address, Defense Secretary McNamara warned that military force cannot cure world social ills and urged expanding patriotism beyond narrow terms. Johnson echoed the point, saying poverty fuels turmoil and that the United States must aid the underprivileged even without a Communist threat, arguing responsibility is the price of power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
Legion
United States
Selden to Buy Beckley Hardware Building Reported
Marty Selden of Marty's Home Furnishings is expected to announce the purchase of the Beckley Hardware Building at a 12:30 press conference. A Homeseeker's spokesman confirmed the purchase but withheld buyer name. A Raleigh County filing shows Marty's Quality Home Furnishings becoming Marty's Inec with starting capital of 1,000 and stock totaling 10,000. Incorporators are Maurice and Hannah Selden and Benjamin D. Tissue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marty Selden
Marty
Beckley Hardware
Selden
Raleigh
Robert D. Bailey
Inec
Prince St
Maurice and
Hannah Selden
Mercer St
Benjamin D. Tissue
Main St
Drunk Driving Demonstration By Local Radio Personalities
Local WCAW Radio will stage a labeled drunken demonstration Friday afternoon to prove driving under the influence is dangerous. Roger Galloway and Mike Hammer, with minister, cop, and doctor on hand, will be intoxicated on Scotch and vodka under supervision to show listeners the effects on driving and news reporting. Officials will discuss alcohol dangers while the pair operate a roped-off city street and radio control equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
Roger Galloway
Mike Hammer
Galloway
Wcaw Radio
Hammer
Denver
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Modern Mortgage Service Company
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Lillie M. Lusk
Basil
Ratliff
Buddy
Cole
Tost
B. Mosley, Son
Vonda Jean
New York
Groundhog Hunters
Orlando Coed
Selden May
Homeseeker’s Land and Building Co
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