Hedrick R H Graveside Rites Set In Cedar Hill
Mrs. Robert H Hedrick formerly Bonnie Dice of Franklin will be buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery after 11 a m Tuesday service led by Rev J Samuel Moore. She died Sunday at her Beckley home survived by husband Carolyn McCulloch two sisters Fred Rice and a brother with two grandsons. Funeral home transfers and calling hours announced. Final rites for Tony Randazzo 92 Mount Hope will be Tuesday at Tyree Funeral Home with burial at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. He died Sunday in a Beckley hospital after an illness. Rosary at 8 p m with viewing 6–9 p m.
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Estel Eli’ Henson
Bailey Ave
Webb and Neal
Fred Dillon
Blue Ridge’ Memorial Gardens
Henson
Beckley Hospital
UMWA
Bere
Red House
Putnam County
Charles
Timothy
Rebecca Jane Henson
Flossie
Talmadge
East Rochester
Ohio
Wanda Bennett
Beckley
Pearl Meeks
Red Star
Robert H. Hedrick
Bonnie Dice
Franklin
Cedar Hill
J. Samuel Moore
Clinton Kimble
J. Rush Kiser
Philadelphia
Fred Rice
Keyser-Bryant
Brown Funeral Home
Tony Randazzo
Mount Hope
Tyree
Leo Werner
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
United Mine Workers of America
Randazzo
Palermo
Sicily
Essie May
Albert
Cook Ave
Sprague
Charles and
Mary Smith Albert
Sprague Freewill Baptist Church
Ruby Tyree Albert
Biloxi
Miss
William
Baltimore
Robert
Hollywood
Fla
Orville
Crystal
Thomas
Jack
Joyce) Laws
John
Faye) Ferguson
Leo
Rose) Barnabi
Bob
Barbara) Nichols
Harmon
True
Grace. Austin
Elizabethton
Tenn
Maggie Meadows
Stamford
Obituary notices and funeral arrangements across multiple West Virginia towns
The notices record final rites for Dewey Vernon Cox 49 Basin at Foglesong Nease and Neely Funeral Home and a Basin homicide with a .12 gauge shotgun. They list survivors Roy and James Cox and note burial at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Prosperity. Additional items report funeral plans for William Chicken Hill 70 Beckley and Essie May Albert 75 Sprague with survivors and church ties. Porter James Nutter 16 Charleston killed in hunting incident. Abraham Albert and family details. and related memorials and arrangements in Charleston Beckley Sprague and True.
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Dewey Vernon Cox
Basin
Foglesong
Nease
Neely
Mtullens
Okey
Cox
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Robert Staton
Ronald Cain
Pickshin
James Chapman
Mary Melissa Cadle Cox
Roy
Grundy
James
Ft. Leonard Wood
Porter
James Nutter
Charleston
Village Chapel Presbyterians Church
Charleston High School
Buckskin
Pocahontas County
George. C. Porter
Beckley
Senator Porter
Lonnie J
Thelma Jean Nutter
Granada Way
Becky Jean
Young Nutter
Village Chapel Presbyterian Church
Sunset Memorial Park
Funeral services for Alton Gore in Holden
Alton B. Gore 68 of Holden will be laid to rest at 11 am Wednesday at Honaker Harris Home Chapel with Rev. Casey officiating. Burial follows at Highland Memory Gardens Godby. Gore died Sunday in Logan Hospital. Born November 2 1904 in Sharples he was a retired mine inspector. Survived by daughter Alice Adkins of Pineville. Viewing after 3 pm Tuesday.
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Alton B.gore
Holden
Honaker-Harris
Joe ‘Casey
Highland Memory Gardens
Godby
Gore
Logan Hospital
Sharples
John C
Lana Jeffrey Gore
Department of Mines
William R
Alice) Adkins
Pineville
Funeral services for Theodore Elmer Richmond
Theodore Elmer Richmond age 68 of Shady Spring will be honored at 1 p m Tuesday at the Log Church at Pluto with Rev Norman P Lilly officiating. Burial follows in Plumley Cemetery. Friends may call at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home in Beckley after 5 p m today.
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James Blaney Penn
Mt. Hope
First Baptist Church
John D. Gray
James Thompson
Greenwood Memorial Park
Beckley
Ritchie and Johnson
Greentown
William “Chicken” Hill
J. W. Gower
Ie Funeral Home
Theodore Elmer Richmond
Shady Spring
Log Church
Pluto
Norman P. Lilly
Plumley
Rose and Quesenberry
Mrs Maude Croy 88 Crab Orchard Dies After Illness
Mrs Maude Croy 88 of Crab Orchard died in a local hospital at 6 30 p m Sunday after a long illness. The body is at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home for arrangements.
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Maude Croy
Crab Orchard
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Eight Die In Clinton Weekend Fire At Old Daily Democrat
In Clinton Missouri a weekend blaze at the old Daily Democrat building killed eight people including Darlene Hunter 27 and her mother and injured others. Firefighters entered the collapsing structure as a wall fell trapping volunteers and a building manager Eugene Burns. The explosion and fire leveled the basement area and scorched nearby storefronts in subfreezing temperatures.
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Clinton, Mo
UPI
Darlene Hunter
Daily Democrat
Pauli ‘Decker
Miss Hunter
Mike Hunter
Aal
Newspaper
Old Democratic
Don Lucas
Eugene Burns
Car Hits Pole Cuts Power In Daniels And Shady Spring
Chester Toler a 25 year old man from Lester was treated and released at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital after his car struck a utility pole on Route 3 near the Tripple Twist in Daniels causing the pole to break in two and cutting power to Daniels and Shady Spring. Police estimated 2000 dollars damage to the car and 700 dollars to the pole. Appalachian Power officials said power was out about 40 minutes while repairs were completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniels
Shady Spring
Chester Toler
Lester
Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital
Toler
Beckley
Route 3
Appalachian Power Company
Christmas meter bags stolen in Mill Valley raise costs
Merchants in Mill Valley California report thefts of the red bags placed on downtown parking meters that offered two hours of free parking. Each bag cost 40 cents to replace and about 275 bags have vanished prompting police to use Christmas ribbons to decorate meters. Arizona is described as the driest state with Utah second.
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Mill Valley
Calif
UPI
Marin County
Respectable Conservatives Win Solid Victory In Japan Vote
Japan's Liberal Democrats hold a 269 seat lead in a 491 seat National Diet with 6 seats decided, while the Communist Party surges to 38 seats and 10.35 percent of votes, becoming Japan's third largest party and strongest leftist challenger in Tokyo and major cities. The Socialists hold 117 seats as moderate parties suffer losses, signaling a polarized era under Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
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Chicago Daily News
Tokyo
Japan
Liberal Democrats
Communist Party
China
Diet
Democratic Socialists
Kakuei Tanaka
Tanaka
Ielf
Japan ‘Communist Party
Revolutionary Party
Peking
Moscow
Judgments Noted in Raleigh Circuit Court Proceedings
Multiple judgments recorded in Raleigh County Circuit Court include Wynona Williams for 8596.77 and Klaus Office Equipment Co. Inc. against Shelter Best Roofing Co. for 488.64. Other cases involve Richard K. Reedy, Connie Reedy, and Frank Israel with various sums and detours, along with several dismissals and a transfer to the Intermediate Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelter Best Roofings'Co., Inc
Klaus Office’ Equipment Co., Inc
Betty J Fourney
Richard K. Reedy
Connie Reedy
Joseph
Cheek
Patricia W. Cheek
Raleigh County
Raymond Thompson
Nancy McVey
Richard E. Clark
Randall Green
Francis J. Israel
Marshall
R. Israel
Ment
Joseph Cheek
Arnold R.s
Barker
Packsville Island
Creek Stores
Patricia Cheek
Wilbur Pack
Andrea, Hamel Duren
Sandra Hamel Walsh
Summers Finance Co
Hinton
Pack
Laura
Forest Home Builders
William C. Daniel
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Town Radio Marathon Raises Over 10000 for Injured Girl
Altoona PA WVAM disc jockey Don Girard ended a 66 hour radio fundraiser after raising 10825 for nine year old Cheryl Nale who suffers a gan gangrene infection and extensive injuries from a street accident. Police and Lions Club aid Cheryl’s family facing medical bills.
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Altoona
UPI
Cheryl Nale
WVAM
Don Girard
Girard
Altoona Hospital
Baltimore
Station
Cheryl
Altoona General Hospital
Universty of Maryland Hospital
W.G. Bruce
George V.nale
Nale
Altoona Lions Club
Denny J. Bixler
State Welfare Department
Lion
Patton Market Sign Causes Small Fire
Beckley fires injure two structures with minor damage. A Patton Market sign at 1334 Harper Road burned after 11:15 p m. causing about 500 dollars in damage to the store building owned by O R Stover and Patton operation. A second blaze at 1015 Valley Drive North damaged a house by a floor furnace. Fire department logs also note a fall rescue at 106 Yale Street and basement water pumping at Walter Walker home.
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Beckley
Patton’s Market
Harper Road
O. R. Stover
James W. Patton
John M. Smith
Valley Drive
Yale
Apollo 17 Moon Mission Tracks Scientific Goals and Risks
Apollo 17 prepares for a seven hour sortie to Taurus Littrow to assemble a nuclear powered station to detect gravity waves search for underground water measure surface heat and study the moon atmosphere The crew aims to sample ancient mountain material and ash cinder valley floor while marking a historic close to man’s first Moon exploration era
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iChallenger
Rains
Crater
Apollo
Moon
Apollo. 17
Cernan
Cermann
Schmitt
South Pacific
Grimaldi
Earth
Mission Control
Airdale Terrier to wear contact lenses for sight
The Gazette of the North reports a dog named Stan the Airedale will receive contact lenses to improve vision. The dog has long suffered from an eye ailment that kept him from seeing properly.
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Bilbao
Spain
UPI
Newspaper Gazette of the
North
Soldier Killed by IRA Booby Trap at Belfast Post
In Belfast at Fort Monagh two other soldiers were wounded when the tail fin of a British 3.5 inch rocket exploded inside the fortified post. Sgt. Stewart Middlemass, 33, father of three, died in the blast marking the 658th fatality in over three years of sectarian violence involving Protestants Catholics the British army and the IRA.
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Belfast
UPI
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Stewart Middlemass
Fort Monagh
Ballymurphy
Middlemass
Northern Ireland
Doomsday quake forecast shocks San Francisco readers
The piece recounts an unverified 1973 earthquake prediction by Reuben Greenspan, claiming a 7.0 quake 242 miles south of San Francisco. It notes prior failed forecasts dating to 1951 and Greenspan’s notoriety as an alleged earthquake prophet.
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San Francisco
Reuben Greenspan
Arizona
California
Gréenspan
New York City
Quetta
India
Greenspan
Supreme Court Rulings From Page One Highlight Cases
The court let stand a lower ruling requiring former CIA agent Victor L Marchet ti to submit writings for agency approval before publication. It refused Moose Lodge Harrisburg appeal on dining room segregation. Spokesmen discuss a 1967 Phelps Dodge strike and union bargaining during a broader labor dispute with NLRB findings overturned on appeal.
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Arthur Krause
Allison
Victor L. Marchetti
CIA
Vienna
Jyio
Moose Lodge
Harrisburg
Supreme Court
Phelps-Dodge Corp
National Labor Relations Board
U.S
Aftermath of Buffalo Creek Disaster Haunts West Virginia
Trooper H. E. Dailey describes panic as residents fled and refused to return. Some were hysterical until officials assured safety. ultimately they came back, but memories of the Buffalo Creek disaster remain indelible in West Virginia.
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H. E. Dailey
Buffalo Creek
West Virginia
MFD Wins Two Key Offices in UMWA District Vote
In District 6 results, the Miners for Democracy claim 2-1 margins over Boyle allies. Key wins include president and international executive board with Karl Kafton and John Guzek securing district honors amid past Yablonski assassination history. Counting continues as nationwide ballots finalize.
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Bellaire
Ohio
UPD
Miners For Democracy
MFD
United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
MED
W. A
Tony” Boyle
West Virginia
Panhandle
Silver Spring
U. S. Labor Department
Don Stillman
Arnold Miller
Ohley
W. Va
Jack Yablonski
Stillman
International Executive Board
Karl Kafton
Mike Gretchen
John Guzek
William Howlard
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Epopees Boyle
Yablonski
Peace Talks Progress Amid Hanoi Washington Ties
Haig remained in Washington with unclear plans for return to Paris as talks continue. Nixon and Kissinger stay in close cable contact, no face to face meeting. Australia and New Zealand announce troop withdrawals by Christmas and New Zealand pledges 12 million dollars for Indochina rehabilitation over five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haig
Washington
Paris
Saigon
United States
South Vietnam
White House
Nixon
Kissinger
Vietnam
New
Zealand
Norman Kirk
New Zealand
Indochina
Santa Claus Visits Prison Party For Children In Tacoma
Prisoners at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary hosted a Christmas party as outside children boated in since the parole board kept Santa behind bars until April. More than 200 visitors met Santa, joined by a prison band, Mexican Self Help members, and Chicano skits.
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Tacoma
Wash
UPI
Parole Board
Santa Claus
McNeil
Island Federal Penitentiary
MASH
Yand
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James B. Penn
R. H. Hedrick
Dewey V. Cox
William Hill
Essie May Albert
Alton B. Gore
Theodore Richmond
Mrs
Utah
Keyes Beech
Raleigh
Wynona Williams
Adrian C. Webb
Pettus
Cand P Telephone Co
John E. Reid
Joyce E Reid
Lumber Co
Rudolph C. Green
Shirley J. Green
WR. Wood
Report From
America
Town
Patton Market
Taurus-Littrow
Cabin Creek
Santa
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