World and U S political notes and a factory collapse
Reports from Guanabara State Cocoa area indicate 15 dead and 228 injured as a supermarket roof collapses during Christmas shopping. Berlin signs a treaty with East Germany promising better relations and potential UN entry. Nixon stays in Florida amid Vietnam bombing. White House clarifies broadcast policy aims to reflect all views. Bail set at 150000 for two UMWA officials in the Yablonski killings. lawyers plan an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPD
Guanabara
Nermit Derm
Erie
UPI
United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Yablonski
William J. Prater
LaFollette
Tenn
Albert E. Pass
Middleboro
Umwa International Executive Board
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Eight Killed in Ulster Gun Attacks Shocks City
Gunmen killed eight men and wounded twelve in Northern Ireland on a day described as the bloodiest since mid 1969 violence began. Five victims died in a Londonderry pub and others in separate car shootings. church leaders condemned the killings.
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Belfast
UPI
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Naleigh Reatater Published by Beckley Newspapers
Classified notice from Beckley News Papers Corporation lists address in Beckley West Virginia and Hinton West Virginia with second class mail privileges and a central telephone listing for all departments.
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Prince St
Ley
W. Va
Hinton
Congress Poised to Press War Policy Ahead of 1973
Congress faces renewed push to end U S involvement in Vietnam with demands to set a withdrawal deadline and cut aid. Leaders debate summoning Kissinger, authorities threaten penalties, while Kennedy vows an early exit and Nixon supporters weigh bombing as a bargaining tool amid stalled talks in Paris.
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Nixon
Congress
Southeast Asia
Nguyen van Thien
Thien
Senate
Hugh Scott
Vietnam
New York
William E. Brockitt
Teno
White House
Donald W. Riegle Jr
Mich
Delta Convair 880 collides with North Central DC 9 at OHare
At O Hare airport a Delta Convair 880 struck by a North Central DC 9 killed nine aboard the DC 9 and injured fifteen. Officials question why the Delta jet was on the runway as fog shrouded the field and ground control instructions remain unclear. Delta flight 954 had landed from Tampa with 86 passengers and seven crew.
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Chicago Daily News
Delta
Chicago
Delta Airlines
O'Hare
National Transportation
Safety Board
Federal Aviation Administration
North Central Airlines
North Central
FAA
Neal Callahan
J. E. Ewing
Mark Helm
Madison
Wis
Bduluth
Minn
Delta Flight 954
Tampa
Fla
Truman Remains Unchanged Amid New Feeding Method
Former President Harry Truman, 88, in very serious condition at Research Hospital after 18 days of hospitalization. Doctors began a rare intravenous feeding to bypass failing kidneys, with no observed change yet and vital signs listed as: BP 130/60, pulse 90, respiration 18, temp 98.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
Harry Truman
Truman
Research Hospital
John Dreves
Secon
West Virginia to certify Nov. 7 election Friday
West Virginia will finalize the November 7 results this Friday making it the last state to certify. The state secretary of state cited delays in Mason and Kanawha counties as the reason for pushing the date beyond the planned Wednesday target.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
West Virginia
Secretary of State
Mason
Kanawha
West to Appeal YDC Election
Raleigh County Young Democrats Club president Terri West will appeal to the state Democratic Executive Committee board of appeals over the Raleigh County YDC presidential election. West says she remains RCYDC president and calls the Nov. 17 meeting canceling her membership improper and due process free.
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Raleigh County
Young Democrats Club
Terri West
Board of Appeals of the
State Democratic Executive Committee
YDC i
Young Democrats
Miss West
RCYDC
RCYDE
Board of Appeals
Democratic Executive Committee
William Watson
Watson
Arthur) Porter
Raleigh
Demorea Executive Committee
Porter
Nixon pressures Hanoi with 72 hour peace terms
Saigon sources say Haig informed Thieu that Nixon gave Hanoi 72 hours to accept his peace terms after last week's Paris talks breakdown. When Hanoi failed to respond, bombing of North Vietnam resumed and Thieu faced a warning that all U S military and economic aid to South Vietnam would halt if the South Vietnamese president did not accept the agreement. Washington considers the plan satisfactory ITV.
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Washington
Hanoi
Saigon
Haig
Thieu
Nixon
Paris
North Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
ITV
Brezhnev Condemns U.S. Vietnam Bombing as War Underscores Soviet Ties
Brezhnev denounces renewed U S bombing of North Vietnam and says Moscow will aid Hanoi. He criticizes China’s slanders and warns that future U S Soviet relations hinge on Vietnam’s outcome, marking the Soviet Union’s 50th anniversary address.
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Moscow
UPI
Leonid J. Brezhnev
U.S
North Vietnam
U.S Soviet
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Hanoi
China
International Communist Movement
United States
Washington
Vietnam
End To Long Journey Apollo Astronauts Return Home
Apollo 17 crew Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt arrived at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston after a 6300 mile Pacific splashdown journey. Evans and wife Jan celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary as they bring lunar rocks and mementoes for a homecoming with thousands of well wishers in Pago Pago and Houston.
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Ney
South Pacific
Evans
Jan
Pago Pago
American Samoa
Air Force
Cernan
Schmitt
Taurus-Littrow Valley
Houston
Pago Pago International Airport
Pope Paul VI
Kevin Steen
Cave Creek
Ariz
Ticonderoga
Pearl Harbor
Moon
America
Captain America
John M. Haydon
Samoan
Itmann Mines Receive Heavy Violation Citations
Itmann four mines report 63 violations for combustible material and rock dusting failures. 125 violations involve electrical wiring or equipment and 21 cite inadequate ventilation. No. 3 mine cited most. Nos. 1 2 and 4 show 215 97 and 201 violations respectively. Consolidation Coal Co. operates Itmann and owns mines with past deadly incidents in Blacksburg and Farmington.
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Itmann
Theother
Itmann No. 1
No. 2
Consolidation Coal Co
Blacksville
W.va
Farmington
Mills appoints Robert Belcher as Raleigh Sheriff Chief Deputy
Mills announces Robert I. Belcher of Sophia will be chief deputy with Mills taking office January 1. Belcher, formerly general mine foreman at Itmann Mine No 2 for four years, previously served as a sheriff's deputy. Belcher must meet civil service rules for other staff and money for the post is to be reviewed after the new term begins.
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Okey Mills
Robert I. Belcher
Sophia
Harold Gwinn
Zina French
Civil Service
Sheriff’s Office
Mills
Raleigh County Court
Belcher
Consolidation Coal Co
Itmann
Consolidation
Obituaries and funeral notices from Beckley area
Deaths and funerals are announced for Evangeline Farmer Garland of Detroit John William Kelly of Pineville Glenn Glenna Walker Whitely Mamie Newson of Beckley and other local residents. Services set in Beckley Coal City and Pineville with burial at Greenwood Memorial Park Sunset Memorial Park Palm Memorial Gardens and Welcome Baptist Church arrangements.
Charity Benefit Show Brings Christmas Cheer in Kenosha
In Kenosha Wisconsin the Cheetah Club hosts the second annual Christmas benefit where strippers perform to raise funds for gifts for mentally retarded children at the Southern Colony Training School. Organizer Doug Kornwolf laments low attendance yet notes the event publicizes the profession and supports a good cause.
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Kenosha
Wis
Santa Claus
Santa
Southern Colony Training School
Greta Gabor
Wate
Canada
Doug Kornwolf
Kornwolf
Charity Ball
Driver Hurt In Wreck On W Va Turnpike
Maple Vickers, 45, of Bluefield was injured in a one car crash on the W Va Turnpike near Beckley. She was treated at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital in “good” condition and could be released if x rays show no bone damage.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Beckley
Appalachian Regional Hospital
Maple Vickers
Vickers
Grand And Petit Jurors Selected In Raleigh County
Grand jurors for the January term of Raleigh County Circuit Court were summoned to appear at 9 am January 15 1973. Petit jurors join a week later on January 22 at the same time. A list of 22 grand juror candidates includes Glen Paisley Fred R Yates Daniel R Murdock W C Cadle Ward W Trump Paul Gunter Ernest Pittman C C Smith Edith Sanderson Clyde Harris Noah Crotty Claude E Taylor and George L Hall all of Beckley.
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Raleigh County Circuit Court
Glen Paisley
Midway
Fred R. Yates
Crab Orchard
Daniel R. Murdock
Glen White
Dallas England
W. C. Cadle
MacArthur
Ward W. Trump
Bolt
Paul Gunter
Mabscott
Ernest Pittman
Sprague
C. C. Smith
Pluto Road
Edith Sanderson
Shady Spring
Clyde Harris
White Oak
Noah Crotty
Pluto
Claude E. Taylor
Clear Creek
Sheriff Faces Civil Service Change and Deputy Bond Issues
The article describes a dispute as deputies come under civil service. Mills refuses to bond deputies, citing personal risk. The incoming sheriff notes lack of communication and a difficult operating environment. Patty Lucas exits. Leona Kirk returns to Mills’s staff.
Thomas E Sizemore 66 Welch Funeral Friday
The funeral for Thomas E Sizemore 66 of Welch will be at 2 p m Friday at Indian Creek Church Wolf Pen with Revs Lelan Phillips and Guy Beverly presiding Burial follows in the church cemetery Sizemore retired mine foreman died Tuesday in a Welch hospital after a long illness He was born November 17 1906 at Wolf Pen the son of the late George and Lois Ward Sizemore Surviving are his wife Lucille Beverly Sizemore one daughter Doris Ann Shields of Welch one son T Set Thomas E Sizemore stationed at Elgin Air Force Base Florida six sisters and six brothers Friends may call at Robertson Foglesong Funeral Home in Pineville from 5 to 9 p m today and the body will be taken to the church one hour before services.
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John William Kelly
Pineville
Rockcastle
Glenn Glenna Walker Whitely
Coal City
Coal ‘City
Grayson Lilly
Jarvis Tankersley
Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley
Simon and
Dora Elizabeth Brammer Walker
Dwight Moody Whitely
Mamie Newson
Seventh St
Welcome Baptist Church
Leroy Stewart
Thomas Pryor
Greenwood Memorial Park
Lewis
Sally Burks
Mills Branch
Independent Holiness Church
Robert Newson
Gaston Burks
Pittsburgh Pa
Essie Morgan
L. S. Bur‘tell
New Haven
Ruth Cooney
Christian Right
Irvington
N. J
Ritchie and Johnson
Thomas E. Sizemore
Welch
Indian Creek Church
Wolf Pen
Lelan Phillips
Guy Beverly
Palm Memorial Gardens
Matheny
Sizemore
Wyoming County
Welch Hospital
George and
Lois Ward Sizemore
Lucille Beverly Sizemore
Doris Ann Shields
T. Set. Thomas E. Ire
Elgin Air Force Base
Florida
Howard
Alys
Ellie Gray
Sophia
Velva Shrader
Patavia
Ohio
Mary Fontaine
Nebraska
Sylva Franklin
Ashland
Edna’ French
Billy Biship
Twin Branch
Robertson-Foglesong
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Ronald Ziegler
Clay Whitehead
Office of Telecommunications Policy
Whitehead
Ulster
Capitol
Henry A. Kissinger
Committee of Congress
Kissinger
Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Edward M.kennedy
D-Mass
West To
YDC
Russia
Apollo
E. F. Garland
Mrs
Glenna Whitely
Isanta
Cheltennham
England
CUPL
George ‘Massey
Beaver
Frank Prince
Rhodesl
Pauline Ballard
Glen Morgan
Annie Perry
William A. Prosperity
Roger Rhodes
Burnette
Daniels
Nancy Fork
Colcord
E. ‘E. Rose
White Beaver
Pauline Bonham
Crab
Oak
Haven Borrer
J. R. Orchard
Lawson Barrett
Dry Sweeney
MacArthur Creek
Julius Bell
Ghent
Paul Smith
Sammy
Ronnie Tyree
Joy Jeanette Fritz
Berman Farley
Charles Furtow
Otis Gautier
Charles O 'Gunther
Donald Israel
Martha Mitchem
Ted Mullins
Thomas Tolbert
Billie Good
Carson Greene
Bonnie Garten
Donald
Carl Toney
Prosperity
Gratton Underwood
Beatrice Vanney
Creed Williams
J. W.wood
George EE
Hairston
Jesse Hatcher
Charles . Jackson
Burnie Lavern
Izola Mays
Clifford Moore
Charles McIntosh
Hazel Rich
Alan
Staton
Wilma Shumate
iBeckley
Douglas
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