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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1965
Page
2
A 7-year-old boy using a 38 revolver shot his 5-year-old brother in a Philadelphia apartment. Warren died at Philadelphia General Hospital from a chest wound. Eva, the mother with an infant, was present. The father had bought the gun for protection and had promised a toy gun for Christmas.
Chicago midweek report quotes Fleming of the American Farm Bureau Federation predicting Congress will not survive as an independent branch of government unless it resists rising pressures from farm groups. He warns lawmakers may become mere showpieces if they fail to maintain political will and independence amid strong lobbying forces.
Hutchison reports that T yj Hutchison of ame Har i assessed Mrs 7 Factory condition after incident. Officials indicate overall satisfactory status pending further review.
Funeral services for Denver Pinson 46 will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Melton Mortuary Chapel with Pastor Robert L Meister officiating. Entombment follows at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum. Pinson was killed at 2:30 a.m. Monday in a state fall at Kopperston mine operated by Eastern Associated Coal. He belonged to St. Luke's Lutheran Church Moose Lodge 1606 and United Mine Workers Local 7604 Kopperston. The family has arranged private services. The body lies at the funeral home with viewing after 5 p.m. today. Pallbearers are Phil Vogel Ralph Koiner George Randall Tony Gonzalez Edward Dinkler and Robert Shanks.
Obituary notices report services for Herbert Earl Manning 50 Glen Fork with burial at Sunset Memorial Park Beckley. Also listed are Antoinetta Raso 66 Eccles with funeral at St Francis de Sales and family survivors. John Henry Hall John H Hall Jr Charles Everett Hall. and Frank G Keesee 68 Princeton with Monta Vista Cemetery burial.
Mrs. W W Drewry, 85, died today in Clifton Forge Virginia. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Harry B. For ren of kley. Funeral arrangements are complete in Forge Virginia.
Ken Kennedy, age 73, died at 1 30 p m Monday in a Mullens hospital after a long illness. The body is at the Evans Funeral Home in Oceana. RNS
Project officials reported a Monday tape recorder failure that storage data would be lost though not dangerous. Ground control noted continued water buildup in fuel cells powering the craft, yet there was no real danger and efforts would continue to understand the issue.
A GOP coordinating committee met in Washington Monday to approve a compromise resolution condemning extremist groups without naming any. Governors on the committee indicated the measure should include the John Birch Society, while GOP chairman Ray Bliss urged Republicans to avoid radicals using the party for their aims. The panel also referenced a stance on North Vietnam and Cuba era tensions.
Witnesses testified in a Charleston court on day two of the civil suit arising from a 1962 car wreck near Prince Bridge. Mrs Wall and her husband were passengers when a train reportedly struck their vehicle, sending it over an embankment. Evidence covered medical care, bridge repairs, and police findings, with testimony from health and highway witnesses.
A state initiative on a Comprehensive Mental Health program faces a decision today after about two months of delay. The court actions may set deadlines and affect funding, with officials awaiting ruling on proposed measures and program rollout timelines.
Court Commissioner Charles Burdiss said Raleigh County Mental Health Association representatives are expected to meet at 2 p.m. today. The plan was presented in October but action was delayed awaiting prosecuting attorney opinion and law effects. The court approved monthly bills and moved the next meeting from December 25 to December 30 at 10 a.m.
British writer Somerset Maugham, 91, may be moved from the Anglo American Hospital to his Villa Mauresque to die. He has been in a coma after a stroke Saturday. His doctor said there was a slight temporary improvement but warned it does not mean recovery. The plan is to transfer him by ambulance when death is imminent, possibly within hours.
President Sukarno appoints Abdul Haris Nasution to lead a new Supreme Operational Command trio with Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX and Roeslan Abdulgani as deputy commanders. The move shifts control of military, economic, social and political affairs and appears to oust Subandrio from deputy KOTI chief role.
Samuel F. B. Morse, famed for miniature portraits and founder first president of the National Academy of Design in 1826, conceived the single circuit electromagnetic telegraph in 1832 after a shipboard talk on electromagnetism during a return voyage from Europe.
A youth charged in the weekend killings of his mother Dorothy Frazier 53 and father William Frazier 55 of Glen Hayes was to appear before Wayne Circuit Court Judge C W Ferguson. Initial reports said a single 12 gauge shotgun blast killed both, but autopsy showed Dorothy died from the wound and William suffered fatal head blows and blast remnants. State Police linked the killings to a family quarrel. Funeral services for the parents were scheduled for Wednesday.
A San Francisco North Beach club features a rock act billed as Stark Naked and the Car Thieves. The lead performer Mr Naked is fully clothed, unlike the topless dancers accompanying the band.
Eight women trainees retraced their steps through central New Mexico mountains then returned to class after a three day ordeal. They were well prepared with maps compasses sleeping bags and dehydrated rations and all escaped unharmed. Participants included Michael Mitchell Jane Whitmore Linda West Judith Johns mas Jacobs William Pastreich Bruce McCracken and Jos Selbin.
In Dallas, Dr Louis S Smith Jr failed to revive his 19 year old son Louis Spencer Smith III after trying external heart massage and chest opening with a razor. The North Texas University music major died at Parkland Hospital after his heart stopped and could not be kept alive despite emergency resuscitation by paramedics and hospital staff.
Ten University of Colorado students slept in snow and plucked guitars during a 48-hour fast to protest war in Viet Nam. They began last Monday on the campus steps, bundled against a winter storm, with a doctor to assess them after 24 hours.
Secretary Rusk contemplates asking NATO partners for increased support over the U.S. position in Vietnam. French leaders say no near term peace hope, citing diplomatic talks in Peking, Hanoi, and Moscow. NATO ministers to review Western defenses. Rusk to visit Madrid for talks with Franco on Spain-U.S. relations.
A government operation in Vinh Binh Province ended with 154 Viet Cong killed and 14 captured. Near Saigon, two ambushes killed 34 Viet Cong as reinforcements moved into the Mekong Delta region.
Dr Martin R De Haan physician and founder of Radio Bible Class died at his Grand Rapids home at age 74. The program started in 1938 and is broadcast on more than 600 stations across the United States Canada and other countries.
Washington. Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. defends the Fed’s rate increase before a joint Senate House Economic Committee amid criticism from Wright Patman. In San Francisco, UAW President Walter Reuther urges the AFL CIO to push beyond a four percent unemployment rate and demand jobs for all workers able to work.
A maximum effort search began at dawn in New Mexico and Colorado for Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace, NASA space medicine chief, his wife, and their plane missing since Sunday from Aspen to Albuquerque. Civil Air Patrol reported 15 to 18 planes plus 22 more pilots joining, with Air Force involvement noted. The Beechcraft flight was operated by Cutter Flying Service of Albuquerque.
Charleston UPI reports the 1965 West Virginia firearms deer season yielded 19,621 deer, the highest total since 1953. The season ran Nov 22 to Dec 4 with two hunter choice days, led by Hardy County with 2,771 and Preston County up 400 percent from last year to 317.
R. Pauley, in his ninth term in the House of Delegates, named majority floor leader. Age 58, he succeeds a vacancy, after Speaker H Laban White screened candidates including Tommy Myles of A IVOR Boiarsky of Charleston and J E Ned Watson of Fairmont. Pauley, first elected 1936, became speaker in 1958 and 1959, with business interests in real estate coal and contracting.
In Huntington 13 men waived to a federal grand jury after a November gambling raid. They appeared before U S Commissioner William Monday, remain free on bond, with 12 men arrested in Charleston that day. All face gambling misdemeanor charges and two Huntington men face interstate gambling felony counts.
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