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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1962
Page
2
Charleston API reports West Virginia mental health officials seek more than 12 million dollars next fiscal year to upgrade state hospital staff and meet APA standards. Mildred Bateman urges staffing boosts, while Finance Commissioner Gore proposes 330 thousand, failing to fund full expansion.
More than half of 66 small mine operations in District 29 reportedly signed an agreement with the United Mine Workers of America to resume coal royalty payments after pickets shut the mines on November 9. District President George Titler said about 220 miners lost welfare benefits due to unpaid 40 cent per ton royalties, with around 100 miners in the district still lacking benefit cards. Nationwide, about 825 southern West Virginia miners lost benefits, including 600+ in District 17 led by Raymond O. Lewis. Titler said UMWA hopes to meet early next week with operators still idled, as a Tuesday meeting was postponed.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on a Kanawha County case involving Couga Development Co. and United Fuel Gas Co. over gas production and royalties from an 11,000 acre lease in Mingo County. The decision upheld some findings, reversed others, and remanded for further determination of owed royalties while confirming tax on UFG property and production totals.
The FBI brought crime expert Walter McLaughlin to Boston to train detectives in solving sex crimes as the search widens for the phantom strangler who has killed seven women since June. Five victims were sexually assaulted and a Cambridge minister's 22-year-old son was questioned but not tied to Sophie Clark's Back Bay killing. Eight others linked as friends of the suspect were later released.
Carmichaels Pa UPI Lew Evans state secretary of mines announced the official investigation into the Robena No 3 mine explosion that killed 37 will start Monday. A five member committee including four mining inspectors and an electrical inspector will lead the inquiry with a mine inspection and then public hearings. No coal has been mined since the blast occurred last Thursday. Federal and state officials are guarding the site to prevent evidence destruction.
New River Park will host skating from 7 to 10 p.m. today with Frank Rodriguez, recreation director, noting work to cover the entire rink with ice is underway. About 75 people attended opening night Tuesday.
West Virginia lawmakers on two interim committees voted 8 to 7 to suspend any further discussion of a corporate net income tax and related gross sales tax revisions. They plan to reintroduce such bills in the 1963 session, while noting projected revenue impacts. Senate President Howard Carson urged continuing study. Committees adjourned due to bad highways but accepted a vocational training report for dropouts.
Premier Nehru said reports show Red China massing troops south of Bombila near the Assam Plains, a possible prelude to a renewed push. He noted India has not guaranteed peace terms and warned of potential border conflict if it serves India’s interests. Casualties and missing in the border war totaled 6,589 with thousands blocked but returning to Indian lines.
Britain’s Dreadnought, the $56 million nuclear submarine, made a quick harbor cruise on its inaugural sea trip but returned minutes later after the captain said a fuse blew in the communications system. In a separate item, Barney Wiggin, Buffalo weather chief, was snowed in at home and failed to report for duty. Judge In Romford admonished a man unable to pay a $2.80 fine, joking about begging or stealing.
Beckley Rescue Squad answered a first aid call to J. W. Taylor, 51, Wickham, at 5 45 p m Tuesday. He reportedly suffered chest pains and was left at home after firefighters administered oxygen.
Meridyth H Bud Gilkerson 45 of Mount Hope dies after a heart attack in a Charleston hospital. Funeral at First Church of God Mount Hope with burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. He was a purchasing agent for the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and a former Mustang Boosters president and Mount Hope Lions Club member. Survivors include wife Eileen two daughters Susan Warwick Pamela two sons Buddy and four brothers and a sister. His body remains at Tyree Funeral Home. calling hours today after 3 p.m. and one hour prior to the service. Pallbearers will be WV DNR employees.
The Rev Nick Clarence Pace, 83, of 618 F Street, will be honored in services at St Matthew AME Church conducted by Elder W A Tresen. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park. He died Monday at 10 a.m. after a short illness. The body was taken from Wright and Anderson Funeral Home to the church one hour before services. Friends may call after 3 p.m. today.
Funeral services for 69 year old J S Hines of Mullens will be held 1 p m Friday at First Methodist Church Mullens with Rev Virgil Conant presiding Burial will be in Shannon Cemetery Baileysville He died Tuesday night after a long illness Born January 18 1893 in Maysville Ky he was a retired power shovel operator and a World War I veteran He is survived by his wife Virginia Graham Hines three daughters Mrs Worth Taylor Portsmouth Va Mrs Carlton Shields Baileysville and Mrs Eddie Lockabill Mullens and six grandchildren The body will be moved from Sam Foglesong Funeral Home Mullens to the residence Thursday evening
Edward Jackson 69 of Glen White will receive funeral services Friday at 2 p.m. in Shady Grove Baptist Church Glen White with Rev. N C Lewis and Rev J W Gowen officiating. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park. He died on arrival at a local hospital Monday night. Survived by wife Julia Jackson. Body at Wright and Anderson Funeral Home until one hour before services. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Thursday.
The Rev Rex Anderson 60 of Alvon died Monday at his home. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 PM at Shiloh Methodist Church Alvon, with Rev James C Fisher and Rev Charles W Paskel officiating. Burial in the church cemetery. Surviving is a daughter Mrs Earl Runyon Mullens. The body remains at Shanklin Funeral Home White Sulphur Springs and will be taken to the church one hour before the funeral.
Theodore Thad Midkiff, 34, Coal City, will have services at 2 p.m. Thursday at Jonben Church of God with Rev. Beulah Pack and Rev. James Hebb leading. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. He died after a state fall at East Gulf Mine of Winding Gulf Coals, Inc., about 1:45 p.m. Tuesday and was pronounced dead at a physician's office. He was a church member.
Stockholm report says Bjorn Malmgren, a nuclear explosion expert, visited the secret Moscow Kurchatov Institute and described a very small hydrogen bomb with limited fallout. He notes researchers aim to use such clean devices for peaceful ends but acknowledge military value and a project to harness H-bomb force for power generation.
The Beckley Post Office will open Sunday afternoon from 2 until 4 p.m. for purchasing stamps and mailing packages only. From Monday through Friday the office opens 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Regular hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. will resume Saturday, Dec 22.
Oscar Simms 71 of Harper Heights died at his home at 3 30 p m Tuesday after a long illness. The body is at Wright and Anderson Funeral Home pending completion of arrangements.
Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mrs Charles Hipkins of New Richmond were held at 11 am Thursday in Pineville at McDougal's Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home Chapel with Rev D D Elwell of Oak Memorial Baptist Church officiating. Burial followed at Cook Cemetery in Keyrock. The child died at birth at 5 pm Tuesday in a Welch hospital. Survivors include two brothers Gregory and Jeffrey, grandparents Mr and Mrs Fred Hipkins of Gladwin Michigan, Mr and Mrs Alton Phillips of New Richmond, and great grandfather Curtis Stewart of Matheny.
Elmer Cooper 72 of Allen Junction died after a long illness in a Morgantown hospital. Final rites are at Caples Community Church at noon Saturday with burial in Roselawn Cemetery Princeton. The Sam Foglesong Funeral Home Mullens will convey remains to the daughter Mrs Joe Harsanyi Allen Junction Friday at 4 p.m.
Mrs. Mattie Mae Ratliff 65 of Oak Hill died at 11 50 p m Tuesday in an Oak Hill hospital after a long illness She was born October 17 1897 in Buckhannon County Virginia and was a daughter of Walter Cleveland and Mary Frances Nutter Keen She leaves four sons Ralph Norman Carl Alexander James of Oak Hill a daughter Nila Burgess of Ypsilanti Michigan a brother W C Keen of Richlands Va two half brothers Beverly Phillips Barberton Ohio Roy Keen Cleveland and five half sisters Grace Davis Raven Davis Verna Mutter Cara Compton and Beatrice Simpkins plus nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren The body lies at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill in the same item Carol Irwin Hollister 55 TV producer dies at home after a lengthy illness She helped launch Mama a seven year series and produced Young Doctor Malone.
Nation shivers from Grand Junction Michigan to South Bend Indiana with schools closed and record lows. Chicago residents complain about government offices flooded with protest calls while 12 000 drivers in Allegheny County face dead cars. Erie Pennsylvania and Omaha Nebraska set cold records as snow piles deepen. Army tanks rescue stranded motorists around Angola New York and Ashtabula Ohio. Up to 45 inches of snow reported in some areas with three foot drifts near Hell Michigan.
Mr. Tifft, the nationwide curiosity who carried only one name, died Tuesday in Kittery Maine at age 84. A retired Brooklyn lumber dealer, he moved to New Hampshire about nine decades ago after his father rejected the name Alanson Herbert. He chose the single name Mr. Tifft after delaying his own given names.
Mrs. Edward A Odell age 81 wife of the retired executive for work in the West Indies of the Board of National Missions United Presbyterian Church USA died Monday at Passaic General Hospital after a brief illness Funeral services will be held in York Pennsylvania Friday for Mrs Odell.
Mount Hope Housing project apprentices will be upgraded to journeyman with retroactive wages to Nov 1 1962. BECKLEY AREA LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO reported by a PH A spokesman. Zeigler announced the move and noted prevailing rates from 3.50 to 3.85 per hour.
Improved communications between Washington and the Kremlin on matters of military urgency. Consultations on implications of modern weapons technology and exchange of available data.
State Police report a Tuesday afternoon collision on Oak Grove Road when a 1962 car driven by 45 year old Collier Guvetts of Crab Orchard slid left and struck the rear of a 1960 car driven by 70 year old Ben Wooten of Crab Orchard. No injuries or charges were reported. damages listed at 175 dollars.
One fourth of all movie theaters in Chile are in the capital city of Santiago. The statement is cited from the Statesman’s Year-Book.
A pro Castro student group from New York and other cities plans to travel to Havana over Christmas, defying the government ban. The Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba may include 80 students from CCNY and institutions across the U.S. They would fly from Montreal to Havana and stay about 10 days to two weeks as state guests.
The Air Force plans a balloon ascent with a civilian astronomer and Capt Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. to 17 miles above the New Mexico desert for first clear stellar sighting. Weather delays pushed the launch from dawn. Dr J Allen Hynek calls it a major astronomy breakthrough.
A series of fires Tuesday night into today caused extensive damage. An overheated stove destroyed the home of Mrs. Willie Ann Moore at 220 8th St with about 1500 dollars in damages. A 10 year old boy trying to thaw a water pipe with burned paper started a floor blaze at Mrs. Mary Mason’s home near South Kanawha and Earl Sts, damages around 100 dollars. An outside fire at 207 N Heber St started by a man using a blow torch to thaw a drain pipe caused no damage. A fire at Simon at 9 a.m. today destroyed a four room house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hedrick with losses estimated at 5000 dollars.
Khrushchev says Cuba shipments followed a well founded alarm from Havana that an attack was hours away. He claims Soviet arms and missiles were sent to prevent aggression, then removed as the danger subsided. He praises peace and calls for socialist construction.
The forthcoming 1964 budget will lean toward defense and foreign aid, with defense outlays exceeding 50 billion dollars and potentially over 51 billion if a service pay raise is approved. Space spending remains unsettled, tied to the pace of the man on the moon program, while Labor Commerce and Health Education and Welfare budgets await final decisions.
Raymond J. Hudgens, 22, reportedly confessed in a note found near Reseda to killing his wife Grace Mary Hudgens, 20, and her parents Dorothy Young, 55, and Myron Young, 67, leaving their infant son four months old alive without food or water. An all points bulletin was issued. Hudgens was believed absent without leave from Fort Ord, California.
Subzero temperatures plague West Virginia with 15 below in Pocahontas County and 9 below at Hot Coal. Weston reports three inches of new snow while Bunner Ridge residents face isolation as an eight year old girl is seriously ill. The Weather Bureau notes new daily records in Charleston and Huntington with continued frigid highs in the teens and several days of cold ahead with minor snow flurries expected.
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