Thurmond Walks Out During Draft Hearing
An 18-year-old Everett, Washington freshman Peter Knutson testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, denouncing the draft as betraying the Constitution while urging repeal. Senator Thurmond walked out mid testimony as Knutson warned of sending youth to die in Indochina. Stennis listened and instructed clerks to provide a microphone for him.
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Senate Armed Services Panel
Washington
Strom Thurmond
John C. Stennnis
Peter Knutson
BCL
Indochina
Anoth
Jud LA Wau Usase Callies
Knutson
Everett
Wash
Senate Armed Services Committee
Stanford University
Wupudgl
Ueie Assl
Congress
South Carolina
Thurmond
Stearns
Fire Department Captain To Be Honored By City Council
Captain Otis Lyons a 2 year veteran of Beckley Fire Department will be honored by the City Council tonight for completing a special leadership program. Lyons, who recently retired, holds many fire education certificates and helped establish the Fire Department Rescue Squad at White Oak. He and his wife Patricia reside in a newly built home with their three children.
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Fire Department
Beckley Fire Department
Otis Lyons
Iby
Oswald, Lyons
Patricia
Knutson
White Oak
Ment
Sen Peter H. Dominick
Beckley
Active
Olive View
San Fernando Valley
Fire City
San Fernando
Valley
Hollywood
Ressa
Scores
Iunner
Stamford
Lyons
Federal ‘Civil Defense Administration
Quake Officials Face Off Over Vietnam War Remarks
Knutson addressed a panel, saying he hopes not to serve in Vietnam. Stennis responded that it is great to live in a country where a man can speak honestly. The exchange occurred during continued coverage of the quake issue.
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Vietnam
Knutson
Stennis
Apollo 14 Mission Acknowledged For Major Moon Effort
Apollo 14 concluded a nine day flight with 3342 hours on the moon and longer, farther hikes than earlier visits. After reentry, astronauts prepared for quarantine and a Houston arrival while Shepard tempered final judgment until the splashdown.
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Shepard
Gerald Griffin
Ger
Samoa
Houston
Fra Mauro Valley
Violence Across Ulster And Los Angeles Amid Unrest
Reports describe numerous hit and run attacks by lone gunmen in Ulster near Eden AAR with sectarian clashes and a child killed by an army scout car. In Los Angeles a 30 story Occidental Center and freeway interchanges faced damage from a quake, with power failures, cracked bridges, and residents evacuated as Puerto Paisley tensions persisted.
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Eden
AAR
Denise Anne Dickson
Lodge Road
Los Angeles
Kennedy kin thank you note to Mrs Nixon at White House
Ten year old John F Kennedy Sr wrote Mrs Nixon thanking her for hosting him his mother and sister at the White House for a private viewing of portraits of President Kennedy and former first lady. Mrs Onassis and Caroline also sent notes expressing delight at returning to the White House. John noted his dog Shannon sniffed him upon return to his New York apartment.
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Washington
UPI
John F. Kennedy Sr
Richard Nixon
White House
Aristotle Onassis
Caroline
Kennedy
Tady
John
Weather Continues With Icy Roads Across Glen White
The region endures heavy cold and icy travel conditions after a Monday snowstorm. A two car crash occurred on W V 34 in Glen White, with additional minor accidents on South Fayette Street and at South Kanawha and 4H. A city street department truck skidded into a parked vehicle on Granville Avenue at 7 05 am. Today most main roads are open but slick with ice. Seven SDH crews keep primary roads treated and clear. Raleigh County Memorial Airport is icy but reported clear of snow with private flights operating. Southern state roads remain hazardous through today with a 9 degree temperature and light wind.
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W. Va
Glen White
South Fayette Street
South Kanawha
City Street Department
Granville Avenue
Beckley Street
State Department of Highways
Skelton
SDH
Raleigh’ County Memorial
Piedmont Airlines
Piedmont
Fire Damages Set At 250000 In Logan Building
Logan police report damage totaling 250000 from a Monday morning fire that destroyed the Logan County Board of Education Building. A recently installed 45000 computer system for keeping county school records was among the losses. The adjacent Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. office suffered smoke and water damage.
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Logan
Logan County Board of Education
Coury
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Bills risk fines and jail over mining and school plea
Bills could carry fines from 500 to 5000 dollars or a year in jail or both. The Holliday Poffenbarger measure exempts landowners clearing land for improvement. Steptoe McGraw cites a report listing 13 reasons to abolish surface mining, citing ecological harm, land waste, lower property values, ugliness, tourism impact, and river pollution among others. Citizens in Stanaford seek rebuilding for the burned elementary school, forming Citizens For a New Need at Stamaford. a petition drive and Feb. 19 meeting are planned.
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Holliday-Poffenbarger
Galperin
Steptoe-McGraw
West Virginia
Stanaford
Stanaford Union Hall
Bob Cerniio
Citizens’ Organization
Citizens
Stamaford
Legislature Senate Rejects Open Meetings Move
In Charleston, the Legislature debated open meetings as House action moved on a bill to curb disruptors of government bodies. The Senate balked at liberalizing committee access while planning a revenue strategy session. Senate approved eight bills and House nine, including redefining a minor, liquor sales in parks, longer beer hours, and a constitutional amendment.
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Galperin
Idan
Ivor F. Boiarsky
del. Lewis McManus
D-Raleigh
Wege City
Kos
Lot
Charleston Clothiers
Sen
Ruslan
Charleston
UPI
House
Wstern
West Virginia
Senate
Boiarsky
McCourt
Moore
Rescue Squad Called To Aid Breathing Man
Beckley Fire Department Rescue Squad responded to 106 North Pike Street at 11 50 am for Edgar D Kramer 69 who was struggling to breathe. He was transported to Beckley Hospital by ambulance after firefighters gave oxygen.
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Beckley
P. O. Parking Continues as Alley Use Debate Intensifies
The Beckley city meeting delayed actions while officials seek to define the Pasta! Service lessor rights to use the alley. With city and lessor approvals still uncertain, plans move forward as approvals are pursued. Social Security office reportedly has no objection to sharing an exit to the public alley with the post office. City governance attitudes toward alley use to be discussed in a Sickler meeting with Mayor McCulloch.
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Beckley
Stickler
Billings
Social Security Office
Sickler
McCulloch
Tench Discharged After Fayetteville Accident
Jeff Tench 18 and Pat Khan 16 were in a one car crash while returning from work in Smithers. Tench discharged from Oak Hill Hospital with a slight brain concussion. Khan treated for a broken wrist and released.
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Tench
Fayetteville
Jeff Tench
Leonard Tench
Keller Avenue
Oak Hill Hospital
Pat Khan
Mike Khan
Fayette Avenue
Smithers
Khan
County Court to repair grounds and seek funds
County Court plans ground work for courthouse lawn including lime fertilizing soil tests, shrub trimming, railing repairs and mowing for the summer. Estimated total $804 with funds returned if unused. Beckley florist Clement Schulte to donate tulip bulbs and loan equipment. Final decision set for Feb. 27. civil defense fallout shelter publication funds delayed to next fiscal year. Also includes funeral notice for Arva Franks of Roanoke and Holyfield Candy Co. owner obituary details.
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Sullivan
Beckley
Clement Schulte
Madge Richardson
State Department of Civil Defense
Deaths And Funerals In Oak Hill Hospital
An obituary notes the death of a Lochgelly retiree and World War I veteran from Oak Hill following a brief illness. Born October 3, 1902 in Winifrede, he was married to Ruby Mae Curry and survived by four sons in Ohio and California, two daughters in Oak Hill and Biloxi, Mississippi, five brothers, two sisters, and nineteen grandchildren. Friends may visit the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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Oak Hill
New River Co
Lochgelly
Sts. Peter and Paul
Winifrede
Sam and
Mollie Buffington Curry
Ruby Mae Curry
Charles
Toledo
Ohio
Walter L. Jz
Dayton
James
Indio
Calif
Mrs Hester Clay Goins Feral Rites Planned in Belair Md
Mrs Hester Clay Goins Feral of Forest Hill Maryland and formerly Beckley is scheduled for services in Belair Maryland Wednesday. She died Monday afternoon in Belair at age with survivors including daughter Pamela Jackson, stepmother Mary Clay of Beckley and four brothers and three sisters named in the notice.
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Hester Clay Goins
Forest Hill
Beckley
Belair
Neville Goff
Effie Clay
Mary Clay
Pamela Jackson
W. G
Barberton
Ohio
Wetzell B
Oceana
N. C
N. C. Ir. Lodi
Calif
Sonny H. Clay
Richmond
Icie Farren
Joycé Tolliver
Charlottesville
Mary Davis
Funeral notices outline Deeds and Terry deaths
Incomplete funeral arrangements are listed for Thomas Kenton Deeds 22 of Jumping Branch who died at 31 am Sunday at Great Lakes Naval Hospital Illinois after illness. Born January 28 1949 he was a 1966 Hin ton High School graduate and Concord College 1970 alumnus. Survivors include wife Saundra Bowling Deeds brother Gary half siblings and grandparents. Ronald Meadows Funeral Home to receive the body. James W Terry 57 of Denver formerly Beaver died at 3 30 am in a Denver hospital after brain tumor surgery five weeks earlier. Born May 8 1913 he was son of the late Mr and Mrs James E Terry.
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Thomas Kenton Deeds
Jumping Branch
Great Lakes Naval Hospital
Gruit Lakes
Raleigh County
Nimitz Baptist Church
Marvin
Opal Eagle Deeds
Hinton High School
Concord College
B. S. Naval Air Force
Saundra Bowling Deeds
Jumping
Gary
D. R
Nimitz
Kyle
Deeds
Fredericksburg
Ohio
Wanda
Alfred
Rock Hill
S. C
Retha Griffith
St. Petersburg
Fla
Amos Eagle
Duck
Ronald Meadows
Hinton
James W. Terry
Denver
Colo
Beaver
Terry
Buffalo
James’ E. Terry
Rites Held for Mrs Nannie Strong at Princeton
Mrs Nannie IH Strong 85 of Princeton died after a long illness at home. Final rites set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. in George W Seaver Chapel with Rev Ambrose Stump. burial Resthaven Park Cemetery. Survived by son Beverly C Mullens.
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Nannie Strong
Nannie IH. Strong
Highland Ave
Princeton
George W. Seaver
Ambrose Stump
Resthaven Park
Beverly C. of
Mullens
RNS
Mary Ethel Boyd obituary in Crab Orchard and Raleigh County
Mrs. Mary Ethel Boyd, 78, of Crab Orchard died Monday at Charleston hospital after a long illness. Born November 9, 1892 in Bristol Tennessee, she was daughter of William and Naomi Tyree Akers. A Raleigh County resident 35 years, member of Crab Orchard Baptist Church and Circle No 1, honorary Orchard Valley Woman's Club. Survivors include husband W H Boyd a son Wade and daughter Mrs Ray Toles both of Flint Michigan a sister Mrs Fred Farmer Oak Hill five grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Body at Calfee Funeral Home.
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Margaret Faye Cline
Oak Hill
Sophia
First United [Methodist Church
Homer Stewart
W.cecil Shepherd
Philip Hoosier
Sunset Memorial Park
Harrisburg
Charles
Nellie Gautier Williams
Cline
First United Methodist Church
Bernard L. Cline
Bernard Jr
Midway
David
Nancy Lynn Cline
Donald Gene
H.R. Kelly
Selma
Ala
Clarence
James
Edward Williams
Gladys Evans
G. L. Rush
Lehigh
Acres
Fla
Donald Hull
Indianapolis
Ind
Bil Wood
Charlotte
N.C
Fred X. Williams
Basil Deck
Nick Blackburn
Howard Walker
Jimmy Hartson
Vernon Lawson
Jack Branham
Cecil Waldo Maples
West C St
Caffee
Edward Roberts
Mount Hope
Faye Martin
Mary Rose
Nitro
Cleve
Robert Maples
Beckley
Mary Ethel. Boyd
Crab Orchard
Charleston
Bristol
Tenn
William and
Naomi Tyree’ Akers
Raleigh County
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Orchard Valley /Woman’s Club
W. H. Boyd
Wade
Ray
Rath) Toles
Flin, Mich
Fred (Bethel
Calfee Funeral Home
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Bogside
Ian Paisley
Paisley
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Temblor
Fresno
San Joaquin
Mexico
Los Angeles Area
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Hans McCourt
Gov
Arch
Wilson
Moore Jr
Robert K. Holliday
Fayette
Holliday
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Carl E. Gainer
D- Tate
W. Walter Neeley
D-Harrison
Nelson
R. E. Barnett
D-Mercer
Chester Hubbard
Del
Ronald E. Wilson
D-Hancock
Xhore M.bowers
John E. Carrigan
Marshall
J.C. Dillon Jr
D Summers
John Paine McDowell
Gainer
CN. Harnan
D. G. Hedrick
D. Marion
Chester R. Hubard
Tracy Hylton
Wyoming
VK. Knapp
Putnam
Louise ‘Leonard
Jefferson
H. McKown
Mth
William R. Sharpe Jr
Alan Susman
Raleigh
David E. Wallace
Ralph D. Willams
1Rth
Dallas Wolfe
Preston
Motor Vehicles Commissioner
Boards of Education
Commissioner of Finance and Administration
Jones Avenue
Mt. Hope
Joseph P. Tyree
Moneyer
Beckley National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
P. O. Parking
County Court
A. F. Holyfield
Shady Spring
Aoe
Arva Franks
Lakewood Rentals
Lake Holyfield
Roanoke
Lotz
Funeral Home Chapel
Luther lV
Evergreen Park
Holyfield Candy ‘Co
Holyfield
Mae Holyfield
J. F
Danny L. Swann
L. B
L. H. Holyfield
J. C. Ferguson
Ocala
Robert Hall
Opelika
T. J. O'Neil Jr
Merita
Selma Ford
Powder Springs
Gaily
WOUU
Lsu
Mary
Lawrence Terry
Debra Evelyn
James D
San Diego
Cahe
Mrs. Hester Goins
Thomas K. Deeds
Margaret Cline
Cecil W. Maples
Walter L. Curry
Walter
Leon Curry
Dothan
Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Scarbro
Leo Werner
High Lawn Memorial Park
Tyree
Curry
Mary E. Boyd
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