Red Cross Reports Telegrams and Cases in November
The Raleigh County Red Cross chapter logged 45 telegrams in November and recorded 93 visits to the local office. Verifications 18, military veteran reports 28, counseling and family issues 7, letters on servicemen problems 82, total cases handled 73. Colonel Robert Thomson Jr. will join 22 southern West Virginia chapters in Charleston to discuss cross chapter leadership. Walter W. Bohan will lead. Thomson helped attend a Governor’s Civil Defense Conference, highlighting Civil Defense and Medical Self Help programs.
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Raleigh
American Red Cross
Réed Cas
Moorefield
Cadian
Veterans Administration
Robert Thomson Jr
Raleigh County
West Virginia
Kanawha - Clay
Charleston
Cross
Walter W. Bohan
Penneer
Irginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Col. Thompson
Red Cross
Little Theatre
Civic Center
Iton
Office of Civil Defense
Salon
West Vic
Civil Defense
Deaths and Funerals In Oak Hill and Nearby Towns
Death notices from Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill report Roston dying in Elyria Ohio after a heart attack and Rosary tonight at 8 30 at the funeral home. Harry Wright 60 of 404 F St buried Stamford Cemetery after Monday hospital death. Survivors include daughters Lolia Hubbard Dollie Miller and Tres sie Burford and sons Robert Adam Charles with many grandchildren. Body at Leonard Johnson Funeral Home Mar met and transport to Foster for burial Craig Cemetery Robertsburg.
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Tyree
Oak Hill
Leenan
Oe Memorial Park
Oak
Roston
Elyria
Ohio
Frank Legg
Harper
Church of Christ At
Foster
Lolia Hubbard
Mansfield
Dollie Miller
Tressie Burford
Ashland
Robert T. Locust
Adam B
Charleston
Charles P
Leonard Johnson
Marmet
Craig
Robertsburg
Clarence Persinger Funeral Arrangements Noted
Clarence Persinger 65 of Arnett died Monday at 5 p m in a local doctor's office of an apparent heart attack He was a Free Will Baptist Church member and former deacon in Hazy He was a retired miner last employed by Ra May 20 1900 in Ronceverte Son of John and Ailie Persinger Survivors include wife Violet Clark Persinger two sons Calvin Sundial and Kenneth Highland Park Ill one daughter Mrs Lewis (Pa- Charles-
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Clarence
Singer
Arnett
Free Will Baptist Church
Hazy
Ronceverte
John
Ailie Thomas Persinger
Violet Clark Persinger
Calvin
Sundial
Kenneth
Highland Park
Lewis
Pa- Charles
Funeral services set for local residents
Clergy Rev. Ernest Barley and Rev. E G Pauley to officiate with burial in Prosperity Cemetery. Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home will host visitation after 2 PM today. Neal Funeral Home to hold services at 2 PM with Rev. Edward Kingsley and Rev. Lavern Wing presiding and burial at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers named Bob Cole Milton Ingram John Far Tish Leonard Quesada Delbert Harmon Robert Harmon. Visitation at the funeral home after 10 AM today.
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Ernest Barley
E. G. Pauley
Prosperity
Rose and Quesenberry
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Vanover
Mrs. Mary Vanover aged 49 of 316 Hartley Avenue will have funeral services at 10 p m at the First Assembly of God Church with Rev T M Waldron officiating. She died Sunday after a long illness at a local hospital. Pallbearers are W C Riddle B F Priddy Howard Meadows P E Rhodes Ben Wooten and Jim Chambers. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery with Rev Kenner Kitts in charge.
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Mary Vanover
Hartley Avenue
Assembly of God
T. M. Waldron
Army Quizzing 2 Freed Yanks
Two American soldiers released by the Viet Cong arrived on Okinawa for medical exams and debriefing. Sgts. George Smith and Claude McClure, long-time POWs, faced tight security and declined to reveal their precise location. Their return to the United States date was not set, with officials citing ongoing medical evaluations.
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Naha
Okinawa
UPI
Inawa
George Smith
Chester
W. Va
Claude McClure
Chattanooga
Tenn
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
McClure
Smith
U.S
Student Legislature Endorses Pop Tax at WVU
Morgantown UPI reports West Virginia University students endorse a by-the-bottle soft drink tax to fund the medical center. The measure argues the center needs an independent revenue source to avoid budget competition with other state and university agencies. The so-called pop tax has funded the center since 1951.
Carbide to Build Giant Warehouse at South Charleston Plant
Union Carbide Corp will construct a multi million dollar warehouse at its South Charleston plant. The facility will be revolutionary and fully computerized with automated loading unloading and stocking. It will span the size of two football fields and rise six stories. Groundbreaking is planned for next summer with completion by fall.
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Charleston
UPI
Union Carbide Corp
South
Genie
All Heroes A Can Opener Said He Was Hungry
A jeep arrives as dust swirls and soldiers recall the first big fight. A young boy sketches, a crew cut tightens, and a medic notes they have 11 months left. Voices insist they were heroes, sharing what happened, what was lost, and what kept them moving.
French Frogs Lure London Schools With Imports
A shortage of native English frogs for school biology classes has spurred a growing import market from France, as teachers seek reliable specimens for instruction and study.
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London
France
Post-Herald Make-Up Change Reported Brightens Page
The weekly Editor notes the Post-Herald experiment to drop an eighth column and widen white space between columns. Reader reaction was positive as the change lightened the page and improved readability, despite criticism of the nameplate, slogan line, and lengthy Good Morning column.
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Bectley
Bec
Brother H
Emile J
Post-Herald
Hodel
McCone Report Cites Many Causes of Watts Riot
The McCone Commission released a quarter million dollar, 101 page study on August's week long Watts riot. It cites unemployment and poverty, police resentment, and rapid population growth as key factors. It urges employment programs education and better police relations as remedies.
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Pebaaias
McCone
Watts
Los Angeles
Commission
John A. McCone
Central Ag
Iese Sae
Ildren
Fire Hits Kitty Hawk Off Viet Nam. Casualties Reported
A Monday blaze aboard the U S aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Vietnam killed two sailors and injured 29. Simultaneously Vietnamese forces clashed near Saigon as paratroopers and Marines pressed offensives, with Viet Cong casualties reported and American units continuing operations under Operation Dagger Thrust.
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Tion
Saigon
Toy Hoa
Saffe
WVU Teachers Win National Science Foundation Fellowships
Washington: Two West Virginia educators earned NSF fellowships. William M. Cones of West Virginia University forestry will study botany for 12 months at WVU. Kenneth Schoen will study mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh on a nine month grant.
Slow Arkansas Integration Pace Irks High Court
The Supreme Court voiced impatience over delays in desegregation ten years after the ruling. Fort Smith and Fort Racoe-a group transfer of Black students to white high schools was ordered, and hearings were to be held on faculty assignments. the Court said Negro students in grades 10-12 were barred from courses offered at white high schools and urged immediate relief and broader transfers due to the white school curriculum being more extensive.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Fort Rac Oe
Fort Smith
Four Decrees End Four-Year Council Work at Vatican
Four final decrees of the 21st council were passed by overwhelming votes in St. Peter’s Square, with 168 sessions and over 500 votes. The ceremony marks the end of four years of work attended by representatives from more than 80 governments and organizations. The decrees address church roles in the modern world, missions, priesthood, and freedom to worship conscience without state coercion.
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St. Peter’s Square
Paul Paul
Michael Cerularius
St. Leo IX
Constantinople
Sere Central
Ard
Tavern Brawl Murder Trial Opens in Putnam County
David Coleman 19 of Ashland Kentucky faces a murder charge in the stabbing death of Martin Dickerson 20 during a tavern brawl outside a beer garden on U S 35 near Midway Putnam County. Police say about 15 youths visited the adjacent furniture store before the fatal incident. Coleman was arrested after the second visit.
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Dickerson
Coleman
Johnson Aide Quietly Seeks Rate Fight End
The Johnson administration urged calm as the Federal Reserve Board raised rates from 4 to 8 percent. Board Chairman McChesney Martin Jr. met with the president’s emissaries at his Texas ranch, stressing independence and warning against misreading the board’s stance. Senator Russell B. Long called for an investigation, arguing a rate hike before Christmas hits working families hard and could hurt public support.
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Chelse
Nonay
Johnson Administra
I McChesney Martin Jr
Texas Ranch
Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Johnson
Capitol Hill
Senate
Russell B. Long
Senate Finance Committee
Long
Kentucky Plane Crash Kills Six
A two engine Aero Commander crash on a rugged Kentucky mountainside killed six people from New York state. FAA officials planned to inspect the wreckage 20 miles southeast of Hindman after bodies were moved to Hindman Funeral Home. The victims included Earl F. Rumsey 33 of Liverpool and Anthony Rusyniak Jr. 33 of Brewerton plus Phil B. Stump 47 Ithaca Donald H. Firestone 40 George R. Malone 42 and Robert Bielman 42, all from Ithaca. The aircraft was en route from Syracuse to Chattanooga.
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Hindman
UPI
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Lexington
Here
Aero Commander
New York State
I Hindman Funeral Home
Earl F. Rumsey
Liverpool
Anthony Rusyniak Jr
Brewerton
Phil B. Stump
Arms
Donald H. Firestone
George R. Malone
Robert Bielman
Ithaca
Chattanooga
Tenn
Syracuse
FFA
Gemini 6 launch still aimed Sunday amid ahead-of-schedule prep
Astronauts push toward a Sunday Gemini 6 launch as Titan 2 work runs a day ahead and a 12 hour flight rehearsal nears completion. Mission Director Schneider said the decision for launch readiness is in place, while laser beam experiments face weather and equipment hurdles at Ascension Island and other tests proceed.
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Albert
UPI
Dev
William Schneider
Houston
Borman
Lovell
Ascension Island
Lee
Atlantic
Benjamin Franklin
Cape Kennedy
Vatican II Emphasizes Papal Authority and Catholic Reform
The council reaffirmed papal primacy while pushing for wider local autonomy and church reform. It urged reform of the Roman Curia, increased non Italian Catholic influence, and fostered dialogue with other Christian churches and Jews. It endorsed religious liberty and Bible study, signaling broad future impact according to theologians.
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Ie Doce
Roman Curia
Paul
Cocina
National Catholic Welfare Conference
United States
Rome
Counc
Catholic Church
Luther
Gregory Baum
Supreme Court resumes hearing obscenity cases in 1957 framework
The Supreme Court began hearing appeals on obscenity in Philadelphia New York and Massachusetts. It revisits the 1957 Roth decision that obscenity has no redeeming social importance and is outside First Amendment protection. The cases involve a Philadelphia newsletter by Ralph Ginsburg a New York bookseller Edward Mishkin and a Boston matter centered on John Cleland's novel Fanny Hill.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Supreme Today
Philadelphia
New York
Massachusetts
Toettle
Ralph Ginsburg
Edward Mishkin
Manhattan
Boston
John Cleland
Supreme
Roth
United States
Red Moon Shot Fizzles Again
MOSCOW SOVIET space scientists failed in a fourth attempt to place a working instrument package on the moon. Luna 8 struck the surface and the mission ended in a crash landing. Tass reported normal systems until touchdown while observers suggested a crash.
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Moscow
UPS
Moon
Tass
Eg Ost
Jodrell Bank
England
Sir Bernard Lovell
Jodrell Bank Observatory
America
United States
Soviet Budget Frames Peace as Growth Drive at 1500 Delegates
Gorbuzov, with Brezhnev and Kosygin present, defends a “budget of peace” while signaling higher military outlays to back Soviet expand in weapons amid aiding North Vietnam. Baibakov pledges 6 percent rise in consumer goods and broader selection, with over half of investment funneled to industry.
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Soviet Union
Gorbuzov
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Alexei Kosygin
Viet Nam
Nikolai Baibakov
Baibakov
Trio to stand trial for Reeb slaying in Alabama
Reeb's brother William Stanley Hoggle 36 and novelty firm manager Elmer Cook 41 join salesman as charged defendants in the slaying. Circuit Solicitor Blanchard McLeod and defense lawyer Joe Pilcher arrange simultaneous circuit court trial before Judge L S Moore. McLeod to question jurors on race prejudice under direction of Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers. aide Vergil Ashworth to take over after jury seating.
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William Stanley Hoggle
Elmer Cook
Reeb
Circuit
Blanchard McLeod
Joe Pilcher
Circuit Court
L. S.moore
McLeod
Reed
Veniremen
Alabama
Richmond Flowers
Flowers
Haynesville
Collie Leroy Wilkins
Viola Liuzzo
Detroit
Wilkins
Vergil Ashworth
Gov Hulett Smith Ends Public Visits With Madison Stop
Governor Hulett Smith will wind up the year’s “government to the people” tour at Madison on Wednesday accompanied by 22 state officials. Citizens from nine counties Kanawha Cabell Wayne Lincoln Boone Wyoming McDowell Logan and Mingo are invited to present issues. Smith has conducted four prior visits this year.
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Charleston
Smith appoints two to aging commission
Gov Hulett C Smith appoints two new members Monday to the Commission on Aging. John F Waterhouse of Wheeling H Rest Kirkpatrick of Watercrest Hatric and Dr James H Walker of Charleston succeed the late C Royal Kessell of Ripley. Terms run until June 20 1960.
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Charleston
UPI
Commission On Aging
Hulett C. Smith
John F. Waterhouse
Wheerest
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Bish P. D. Smith
C. B. Miller
Stamford
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Wright and Funeral Home
Clarence. Persinger
Lonnie Williams
Carbide
Wey
All
Beckley Ice & Feed CO
Prince ST
Arkansas
Kentucky
Ecumenical Council
Onal
Arenes
Russia
Madison
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