Students triumph meet hopes in Pontiac school integration
In Pontiac Michigan as parents protested and buses faced pickets seventh grade student Sheryl Toby led peers in forming The Group to promote how to make integration work. The students declared their motto We can make it work and emphasized cool conduct amid early protests and disruptions.
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Pontiac, Mich
UPI
Sheryl Toby
Sheryl
NAG
National Boosts Integration Action Group
aGroup
Kevin Sweet
General Motors
Kevin
Apportionment Panel Addresses County Line Barrier
West Virginia constitutional roadblock on crossing county lines to form legislative districts dominates a Sunday meeting of the 1¢-member interim Apportionment Committee. Assistant Attorney General William Lockhart says the federal courts favor equal voting power, but current districts linger unresolved amid past vetoes and court tests.
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John F. Scott Charleston
UPC
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Senate
William Lockhart
Toe
Lockhart
State Senate
92nd Congress Near Adjournment
The 92nd Congress, after a tense year of struggle, nears adjournment with key items unfinished including foreign aid, a defense bill over 70 billion dollars, and Nixon wage and price control authority. Senate leaders warn adjournment may slip, while doves push for a six month Vietnam withdrawal timetable and Mansfield negotiates conditions for continuing aid.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Nixon
Senate
Vietnam
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
U.S
Europe
Lockheed Corp
Treasury
Supreme Court
House
United States seeks end to bloodshed in Asia at UN
The United Nations session continued on the Asian subcontinent crisis as Ambassador Bush pressed for an immediate vote to end the bloodshed. Malik urged more time for Moscow instructions while Bush vowed a veto to avoid embarrassment and insisted on an end to the undeclared war.
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George Bush
Nixon
Council
Malik
Moscow
Bush
United States
Asian Subcontinent
Six Traffic Citations Issued by City Police
Six persons were cited by city police on traffic law violations and are ordered to appear in Municipal Court Dec 20. They include Anthony W. Lewis 19 Helen unnecessary noise and defective equipment Freddy Newman Lewis 20 Glen White and David E. Ward 17 Sophia speeding Victor Lee Metz 17 235 Raleigh Ave reckless driving and Margaret A Carpenter Coal City and Michael K. Frazier 21 Oceana red light violations.
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Anthony W. Lewis
Helen
Freddy Newman Lewis
Glen White
David E. Ward
Sophia
Victor Lee Metz
Raleigh Ave
Margaret A. Carpenter
Coal City
Michael K. Frazier
Oceana
Resident awarded 40 dollars in condemnation case
NBPSD resident Tra Holliday received a 40 dollar award for an easement in the ongoing Raleigh County condemnation proceedings over sewer system land. He sought 2400 dollars for a 10 by 200 foot easement, damages, and trespass. the award covered only the easement.
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Tra Holliday
North Beckley
Morton Wagner
West Virginia
Writ Ordered By High Court On Petition By Homer Jobes
The State Supreme Court has ordered a writ of habeas corpus in the Homer Lyle Jobes case, permitting parole board action to be reviewed. Jobes, 27, of Moundsville, was sentenced April 17 1970 and pleaded guilty July 1 1970 to writing a bad check for 285 25. He awaits circuit court action. Jobes contends denial of counsel and a mental examination.
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State Supreme Court
Paul J. Fourney
Bank of
Mount Hope
Jobes
Buster Thompson
Plantation
Motors
Ned Ragland
Aide’s
Bank of Mount Hope
IRA serious incident shocks Strabane. Barnhill fatally injured
Faulkner accused the IRA of harboring gunmen after a deadly attack on Northern Ireland Unionist politician Barnhill at his Strabane home near the Republic border. A second gunman left a hazardous device. Barnhill died seven hours later as police described a point blank shooting and blast.
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Faulkner
Irish Republic
Barnhill
IRA
Strabane
John Heyburn
Northern Ireland
Orange Order
Britain
Oil Rig May Have Caused Tunnel Blast
A methane gas explosion in a water tunnel near Port Huron killed 22 workers and injured many more. Officials push for completion of the project amid investigations into the blast’s cause, with some suggesting offshore drilling nearby as a trigger, which others deny.
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Port Huron
Mich
UPI
Michigan
Mmet
Water Services
Gerald Remus
Detroit Metropolitan Water Services
Beckley Hospital
Remus
Lake Huron
Detroit
Barry Brown
John L. Shaddix
Robert McLaughlin
Laborers International Union
Deaths and Funerals Chronicle Local Obituaries in Mount Hope Area
Deaths and funerals page lists funeral details for Andy R Tyree and Norvell R M4 of Maple Park with burial at Maple Fork, and for Carrie L Smith of 105 Earl St. Mrs Smith dies after long illness. services at Central Baptist Church. Also notes Christy Annett Aliff two day old daughter buried at Calfee Cemetery Mount Tabor.
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Andy R. Tyree
Norvell R. M4
Maple Park
Perry
West Palm Beach
Fla
Mount Hope
Hawley
Willian Boothin
Tyree-Davis
Maple Fork
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Christy Annett Aliff
Norman J
Norma Judy Aliff
Eccles
Calfee
Mount Tabor
Sam Foley
Norman
David
Jerry
Venita
Gordon Judy
Meadow Bridge
Frank Aliff
Freles
Wreck Suit and Arthritis Disability Claims Filed
In Mullens Tracy Hylton and Neil Jean Coal Co sue Wayne Adkins Jr for 2436.58 for auto damage in a collision at Old W Va 54 and W Va 16 Feb 20 1970. Robert V. Barnes sues Fidelity National Life and Princeton Industrial Savings for 135.24 monthly disability benefits totaling 5830.92 starting May 1969. Madison James Trent sues Roger Claude Hill in Midway for 22000 with 10000 punitive damages and 12000 total compensatory.
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Tracy Hylton
Mullens
Neil Jean Coal Co
Wayne Adkins Jr
Beckley
Hylton
Coal Company
Adkins
W. Va
Robert V. Barnes
Fidelity National Life Insurance Co
Princeton Industrial Savings and Loan Co. Inc
Barnes
Madison James Trent
Roger Claude Hill
Midway
Hill
Allen Junction
Trent
Moore Names Preston Judge
HARLESTON UPI Del. Robert C Hallbritter of Preston was named by Gov Arch Moore to replace Melvin C Snyder as judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit covering Preston County Snyder resigns effective Dec 1 for health reasons Halbritter a 41 year old Kingwood attorney has served in the House of Delegates since 1966 Moore praised him as a man of ingenuity and initiative and a great jurist
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Harleston
UPI
Del
Robert C. Halbritter
Preston
Arch Moore
Melvin C. Snyder
18Th Judicial
Preston County
Halbritter
Kingwood
House of Delegates
Snyder
Moore
City Police Probe Two Car Accident Involving Local Residents
City police investigated a Sunday morning two car collision at Johnstown Road and Prince Street. A 1970 cart driven by Bernard L. Runk, 25, and a 1971 vehicle driven by Billy L. Chapman, 40, caused $350 and $50 damage respectively to Bank auto and Chapman car. No injuries or charges from the accident. Separately, Ronaldi C. Laneave, 16, was arrested for shoplifting and released after paying $81. A Fayetteville juvenile, about a year old, was charged with stealing an alarm clock valued at $497 from Hills Department Store and ordered to appear December 15.
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Johnstown Road
Prince Street
Bernard L. Runk
Stansbury St
Billy L. Chapman
Orchard Ave
Bank
Chapman
Ronaldi C. Laneave
Fayetteville
Hills Department Store
Harry L. McCreery
Abortion Study Finds 8th to 12th Week Safest
A Population Council study of 42 598 abortions shows 8th to 12th week procedures with general anesthesia had fewer complications than earlier or later abortions and that poor women face greater risk due to care quality. The report notes late abortions after 13 weeks are more dangerous.
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Craig A. Palmer
Washington
UPI
Columbia
Christopher Tietze
Council
Sarah Wecht
Anesthe
Tiona Hess
Rites Held for Mrs W L Pack at Mullens Church
Mrs W L Pack 73 Mullens dies after long illness in Beckley hospital. Funeral at Mullens Methodist Church with burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Survivors include two daughters and several grandchildren. Friends may call at Foglesong Nease and Neely Funeral Home Mullens. Also funeral services for Lewis Blankenship 80 Rhodell at Rhodell Church of God with burial in Mooney Cemetery.
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Carrie L. Smith
Earl St
Central Baptist Church
Robert L. Brown
Greenwood Memorial Park
Queen Esther Court
Jericho
Andrew
Clarence Smith
Beckley
W. L. (Lake) Pack
Mullens
Mullens Methodist Church
R. J. Chenoweth
Randall Prince
Sunset Memorial Park
United Methodist Church
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Ladies Auxiliary
The
Brotherhood of Railway Train
R Tring
Lewis Blankenship
Rhodell
Junior Gillespie
Raymond Warren
Dan Coulson
Clifford Sergeant
Eae Powell
Edgar ‘Ox
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Pontiac
Hart
Arch A. Moore
Wheeling Steel Corp
Forrest H. Kirkpatrick
Wheeling
Ned H. Rag‘land Sr
Charleston
Wilson Anderson
Corning Glass Works
Paul A. Lang
Martinsburg
Nationat
S. Heber
Hub & Vogue
Montgomery
Oak Hill
United Nations
By Bill Dana
NBPSD
Frank
Mary Short
Everett Cyrus
Agnes Cwalinski
Joseph Perdue
Robert McLean
Keith
Lipscomb
Jan Campbell
M. W. Arnold
Gene Keatley
W. A
Bill’’ Wilbur
Lawrence Tully
George Moss
James P. Bland
James Patton
Douglas Bryant
Wilbur
Cwalinski
Herb Alley
Bryant
Bland
Moss
E. S. Foster
High Court
Homer Jobes
Ree
Oyielas Me
Raleigh County
Lucien Tyree
Maple Valley Christian Church
Renry Bowyer
Wilbur William Howard Davis
Paul Roop
James Hanks
Bernard Zink
Norvell R. Perry
Irmapoung
Lakewoorth, Fla
Pratt Whitney Aircraft Engine Plant
Christy A. Aliff
W. L. Pack
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