Loren Nears First Child After Hidden Geneva Stay
Sophia Loren, in an 18th floor Geneva hotel suite under care of Dr Hubert de Watteville, is two to three weeks from delivery after two prior miscarriages. Ponti has bought nearby residence. Loren will be moved to the clinic for birth if needed and later stay near the doctor for recovery. The doctor expects a normal birth without Caesarean unless necessary.
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Geneva
UPI
Sophia Loren
Europe
Hubert de Watteville
Miss Loren
Carlo Ponti
Ponti
de Watteville
Deaths And Funerals
Funeral services for Joseph Dempster Hill 57 of Jesse will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Glen Fork Baptist Temple with two ministers officiating Burial will be in Palm Memorial Gardens at Matheny Body at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home Pineville after 3 p.m. Wednesday for viewing Emmett Thurmond Phillips 71 of Oak Hill dies after day long illness cerebral hemorrhage Funeral service set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill with Rev Breitenhirt. burial in Prosperity Cemetery Born July 3 1897 son of John P and America E Blake Phillips Survivors include daughter Rose Jones Alexandria Va brother Willis Phillips Pittsburgh Pa three sisters Bessie Lafferty Elsie Williams Ada White and three grandchildren Friends may call after 5 p.m. today
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Joseph Dempster Hill
Jesse
Glen Fork Baptist Temple
Art Jones
Sammy Francis
Palm Memorial Gardens
Matheny
Jones
Welch Hospital
Robertson and Foglesong
Pineville
Emmett Thurmond Phillips
Oak Hill
Tyree
B. B. Breitenhirt
Prosperity
Phillips
Funeral services for Percy Bennett and Claude Combs set
Funeral services are planned for Percy Bennett 60 of Abraham at New Salem Church with burial in the church cemetery after a heart attack at home. The body is at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home. Claude Lewis Combs 39 formerly of Fayette County will be buried at Silver Brook Cemetery Elsmere Delaware after services at Griffith Funeral Home in Elsmere. He died in Wilmington of a heart attack. Born Sewell Oct 13 1929 he is survived by his wife Dawn two sisters and an uncle.
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Percy Bennett
Abraham
New Salem
I. A. Hatcher
Bennett
Rose and Quesenberry
Claude Lewis Combs
Wilmington
Del
Fayette County
Griffith
Elsmere
Silver Brook
Combs
Sewell
Arvilla Combs
Claude Jones
Hilda Higgenbotham Combs
Dawn
Darla Blackwell
Marie Mullens
Fayetteville
T. W. Combs
Red Star
Ernest Sexton Funeral Arrangements Incomplete
Ernest Bartley Sexton 74 died Monday in an Oak Hill hospital. Born October 18 1897 in Carter County Kentucky he was a United Mine Workers member. Survived by wife Edna Fuller Sexton two sons Winifred B. in Saigon and Clifford F. Kansas City Kansas a daughter Wilma Jean Lambert Columbus Ohio a half brother Ray Sexton Canton Ohio three half sisters Elsie Elliot Canton Gracie Felty Ashland Garnet Wiles Huntington and three grandchildren. Body at Dodds Funeral Home Fayetteville.
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Ernest Bartley Sexton
Garten
Oak Hill
Carter County
Jesse and
Ella Barrett Sexton
United Mine Workers of America
Edna Fuller Sexton
Winifred B
Saigon
Clifford F
Kansas City
Kan
Wilma Jean Lambert
Columbus
Ohio
Ray Sexton
Canton
Elsie Elliot
Gracie Felty
Ashland
Garnet Wiles
Huntington
Dodds
Fayetteville
Final rites planned for Mrs Abbie C Bolen
Mrs Abbie C Bolen 73 of Mount Hope Route 1 dies after brief illness in Beckley hospital. Funeral 2 pm Wednesday at Mount Hope Chapel Rev Roy Tyree in charge. Burial Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Body at funeral home with friends allowed after 5 pm today.
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Abbie C. Bolen
Route 1
Mount Hope
Tyree
Roy Tyree
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Mrs Carlotta Brunty Dies at 77 in Beckley Hospital
Mrs Carlotta Brunty 77 of Matheny died at 11 a m Monday in a Beckley hospital. The body is at the Evans Funeral Home in Oceana.
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Carlotta Brunty
Matheny
Beckley Hospital
Evans
Oceana
Allied drive targets Vietcong camps near Da Nang
Allied forces press a campaign to smash guerrilla bases in northern Saigon areas, including a hospital complex and troop camps. Fog hampers air support as U S troops repulse a Viet Cong ambush 50 miles northwest of Saigon, killing at least 35 guerrillas and wounding seven Americans. A river ambush near Saigon destroys a Viet Cong North Vietnamese sampan with grenades as troops engage again.
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South Vietnam
Lamb
25Th Infantry Division
Saigon
U.S
The
Sampan
Suits Filed In Raleigh County Over Liens and Debts
Graybar Electric sues Plaza Construction Co to collect a 21737.69 judgment with liens on Towne and Country Shopping Plaza property at Sprague Beckley. Priority dispute with IRS state unemployment agency and Raleigh sheriff taxes. Two suits against Modern Furniture Co. seek 1032 and 706.30 for merchandise and open account. Attorney Truman Sayre represents plaintiffs.
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Plaza Construction Co
Modern Furniture Co
Raleigh County
Graybar Electric Co., Inc
Mario Palumbo
Charleston
Sprague
Beckley
Graybar
Circuit Court
Kanawha County
United States
State Employment Security Commission
Raleigh
Truman Sayre
Aquanauts Begin 69 Day Undersea Stay Feb 15
United States plans a 60 day undersea mission named Tektite I off St John Island in the Caribbean. Four marine scientists from the Interior will live in a GE built habitat for observation by Navy and NASA teams. Lead aquanaut Richard A. Waller, other crew Conrad Mahnken H Edward Clifton and John Van Derwalker.
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Philadelphia
UPI
United States
Navy
NASA
U.S. Department of the Interior
St. John Island
Caribbean Sea
Miami
Fla
Richard A. Waller
Oxon Hill
Department of the Interior
Waller
Conrad V. W. Mahnken
Bainbridge Island
Seattle
H. Edward Clifton
Los Altos
Calif
John G. van Derwalker
Lynwood
Wash
Marilyn
General Electric Co
NASA Behavioral Biomedical
Outer Space
Probe continues on unrest at Bluefield State College
The West Virginia Legislature discusses bomb threats at Bluefield State, with leaders from the governor’s office to the NAACP noting divided views on causes and solutions. Unrest peaked with an $80,000 bombing of a new building, while talks consider archaic curricula and consolidation plans for local schools. The committee advanced six bills, including finance reforms, water pollution control, scenic rivers designation, and a major municipal law rewrite, with budget hearings to begin January 3, 1969.
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Barnett
State Board of Education
Human Rights Commission
NAACP
Bluefield
Moreland
West Virginia
House
H. Laban White
Boiarsky
Bluefield State
Mercer County Board of Education
Park Central High
Beaver High School
Department of Natural Resources
LBJ Lights His Last U S Tree
President Johnson marked his sixth and final Christmas tree lighting with a prayerful message of peace and hope. From the Ellipse he spoke as thousands gathered for the 74 foot Englemann spruce lit by a button press, also triggering a tree in a remote Alaskan village as part of an electricity project.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Christ
Englemann Spruce
Bering Sea
Alaska
One Expelled In Drug Incident At West Liberty State College
West Liberty State College expelled one student and suspended two others after a campus drug incident. Names were withheld. all involved were freshmen. A sophomore connected to the incident was also under review. The drug was described as mind expanding but not illegal, a prescription asthma stimulant. All students responded to treatment and were reported in good physical condition.
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Neimeier
Paris Talks Make Setback as Viet Cong Arrives in Paris
Viet Cong leader Tran Buu Kiem arrived with a demand for direct U S talks and pledged South Vietnamese resolve to fight on while also seeking peace with allies. North Vietnam’s seating proposal added to tensions as Clifford criticized both governments for delaying the talks and warned of possible U S troop withdrawals before a full peace pact.
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Tran Buu Kiem
Paris
United States
Kiem
Clifford
Saigon
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Court Faces Draft Law Challenge On Free Speech Rights
The Supreme Court weighs whether draft registrants may challenge their classification before induction under First Amendment grounds. The case stems from Lawrence Faulkner of Buffalo and follows recent rulings on pre induction challenges for ministers students and veterans. The court has previously limited appeals for conscientious objector status and upheld the 1967 amendment requiring induction or defense in prosecutions.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Lawrence R. Faulkner
Buffalo
N.Y
James J. Ooostereich
Cheyenne
Wyo
Andover-Newton Theological Seminary
Newton Centre
Mass
Ao Joseph Cuney Gabriel
San Francisco
Gabriel
Faulkner
Marine Freed In Vietnam Murder
A Massachusetts Marine and a West Virginia soldier convicted in 1966 of murdering two Vietnamese peasants were released from prison on Monday. Pvt. Stanley J. Luczko of Gardner, Massachusetts, and Charles Kennan of Nitro, West Virginia, were accused of killing villagers suspected of Viet Cong ties. Keenan remains imprisoned. Luczko had a second trial and a shortened term last May. He left in full military dress to a waiting reunion with his parents.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Soviet Planner Sent To Czechs Under Economic Strain
PRAGUE UPI The Soviet Union dispatched its chief economic planner to Czechoslovakia to study reports of stagnation in the economy. A Bratislava based newspaper accused Moscow of delaying a $400 million loan and warned that a new Czechoslovak Soviet summit could be expected soon as tensions rise.
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Prague
UPI
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Rolnicke Noviny
Bratislava
Fire guts Hart Machine shop in Clarksburg
A massive early morning blaze tore through Hart Machine shop in Clarksburg Harrison County causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. No injuries were reported as 29 firefighters battled the two hour blaze and cooled the ruins. The Hart firm, owned by Charles and John Hart, makes machinery for other industries and employs about 100 men.
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Clarksburg
UPS
Harrison County
Hart Machine Shop
Hayward Burnside
Charles and
John Hart
Cabell Court Ordered to Open Challenged Ballots
The Cabell County Court must reconvene as a board of canvassers and overturn an earlier award of the prosecutor post to Republican Robert Ellis. The State Supreme Court ordered open all challenged ballots from the November 5 election and allowed Ellis and his opponent Lafe Chafin’s attorneys to inspect them. Chafin had appealed after alleging the Board of Canvassers refused to count challenged ballots.
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Charleston
UPI
Cabell
Robert O. Ellis
State Supreme Court
Ellis
Lafe Chafin
Chafin
Supreme Court
Board of
Count
Balots
Berlin Wall Keeps Christmas Reunions Closed
Berlin remains divided as East German leader Walter Ulbricht again blocks the Berlin Wall from opening for Christmas reunions. West Berliners number about 800,000 with relatives in East Berlin, but no cross‑border phones or easy contact persists. The wall last opened for a holiday in Whitsun 1966, maintaining holiday sadness.
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Berlin
UPI
Virginia
Communist Party
Walter Ulbricht
Berlin Wall
Granny
Harry
Jutta
Walter
Lisa
Werner
Little Erich
Reinickendorf
Pankow
Erich
Pan
Kow
West Berlin
German Democratic Republic
Jordan accuses Israel of naval attack and air raid
Jordan says Israeli jets crossed the Jordan River to land napalm and ire rockets on a farm south of Lake Tiberias in a 10 minute strike. No casualties were reported though some damage noted. It's the sixth Jordan raid this month and 13th incident. Officials say three killed and five wounded in Monday artillery near the Dead Sea village of Karak.
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Amman
Jordan
UPI
Jordan River
Lake Tiberias
Dead Sea
Karak
Pope to Name 20 to 30 Cardinals Next Year
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI will elevate 20 to 30 new cardinals to raise the College of Cardinals beyond 120. Names likely include Archbishops Terence Cooke of New York Francois Marty of Paris Paul Gregoire of Montreal and Antonio Poma of Bologna. Announcement expected around a consistory in January or February.
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Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
Roman Catholic College of Cardinals
Terence J. Cooke
New York
Vatican
Cooke
Francis Spellman
Francois Marty
Paris
Paul Gregoire
Montreal
Antonio Poma
Bologna
Italy
Nixon’s Persian Gulf visit signals new era for Arab ties
The diminutive emir voiced optimism about a Nixon administration partnership as talks shift to the Hotel Pierre. Nixon, already under pressure from business and political leaders, met Senate Republican Dirksen who signaled support for fast ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. He later visited Eisenhower at Walter Reed as a frigid crowd of servicemen awaited him outside the hospital.
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Persian Gulf
Nixon
Thant
Hotel
Pierre
Air Force
Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Johnson
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Calamity Ridden GI Kills Himself in Texas
Spec 4 Steven L. McIver, 20, on leave from Ft. Riley, Kan., was found shot to death on a deserted road near Grapevine. He survived Vietnam, buried a young son, and mourned his mother who also took her life. His father refused a military funeral, saying he was “a little bit young.”
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Paint Rock
Tex
Steven L. McIver
Grassness Lside
McIver
Vietnam
Ft. Riley
Kan
Grapevine
W.M. Mclver
Mclver
Nuckols Case Upheld On Oath Definition In State Court
The Kanawha County high court ruled unanimously that the term oath includes both swearing and affirming and does not violate U S constitutional rights regarding religion. Nuckols and Berry were convicted in intermediate court and the verdicts were affirmed by the Kanawha County Circuit Court on November 23 1966. Nuckols faced charges of falsifying state accounts payroll abuses and improper purchases of gasoline on a state credit card for personal use in state owned vehicles and aircraft. Berry’s conviction was affirmed in a separate opinion. Vines faced indictments for unlawfully making false expense accounts and transmittal sheets to defraud the state and conceal facts.
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U. S
Thornton Berry
High Court
Kanawha County
Nuckols
Berry
Chauncey Browning Sr
Vines
Lynda Bird Robb Leaves Bangkok After Bangkok Visit
Lynda Bird Robb flew home after a five day Bangkok visit with her husband Marine Maj. Charles S. Robb. She departed 12 hours after Robb returned to Vietnam to complete his year of war duty. The elder daughter of President Johnson spent eight days in Bangkok, three waiting for Robb.
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Bangkok
UPI
Lynda Bird Robb
Charles S. Robb
Robb
Vietnam
Johnson
Earthquake Shakes Anchorage Area
A long rolling quake lasting about 90 seconds hit the Anchorage area around 2 10 a.m. rattling homes but causing no serious damage or injuries. Seismologists in Berkeley place the magnitude near six on the Richter scale. The 49th state remains earthquake conscious after the 1964 Good Friday temblor that killed at least 115 and caused millions in damage.
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Achorage
Alaska
Apt
Anchorage
Berkeley
Calif
Two W.Va. Objectors Get Prison Sentences
Bluefield report: Two Southern West Virginia men Edward Lee Shaffer 20 Bramwell Mercer County and Harold C. Roberts 23 Bluefield were each given three year prison terms by federal Judge Sidney L. Christie for failing to report for civilian work. Both said they were Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Bluefield
UPS
West Virginia
Sidney L. Christie
Edward Lee Shaffer
Bramwell
Mercer County
Harold C. Roberts
The
Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Emmett Phillips
Claude Combs
Ernest Sexton
Abbie Bolen
Mrs. Carlotta Brunty
Reds
da Nang
Beckley TeleCable
S. Kanawha ST
Weller
Office of Naval Research
Philadelphia Naval Yard
Finance Committee
the Complete Variety Store
G. C. Murphy CO
Beckley Plaza
LBJ
Czechs
Bod
Bk Bk
Dirksen
Lynda
W.va
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