Deaths and Funerals in Oak Hill and Surrounding Areas
William Robert Wris ton 86 Scarbro died in Oak Hill hospital after a long illness. Survived by two sons Clarence Scarbro and Troy Cincinnati three daughters Mae Scarbro Dothan Violet Scarbro Chicago and Kathleen Windle Charleston two brothers Huey Scarbro Route 1 Jim Ingram Branch and sister Ada Lafferty Scarbro Route 1. Body at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill. Albert George Pennington 83 died at home of sister Pearl Meadows Athens born March 23 1880 son of Nicholas and Catherine Pennington. Member of Methodist Church long illness. Survived by sister, brothers Festus Raleigh Giles Dry Creek four other sisters Rosa Meador Raleigh Nina Underwood Bluefield Addie Robertson Deane Miller Princeton. Funeral at Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel noon Thursday Rev. B L Moss. Burial Pennington Cemetery Athens. Body remains at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Robert Wriston
Scarbro
Oak Hill
Clarence
Troy
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mae Scarbro
Dothan
Violet Scarbro
Chicago
Ill
Kathleen Windle
Charleston
Huey
Jim
Ingram
Ada Lafferty
Tyree
Albert George Pennington
Pearl Meadows
Azzara Ave
Athens
Nicholas
Catherine Pennington
Methodist Church
Festus
Raleigh
Giles
Dry Creek
Rosa Meador
Nina Underwood
Bluefield
Addie Robertson
Deane Miller
Princeton
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
B. L. Moss
Pennington Cemetery
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Mrs Grady Underwood Funeral Services Planned
Funeral services for Grady Underwood 69 of Keith will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at his residence with Rev Emory Workman in charge. Burial follows at Massey Cemetery Rock Creek. He died en route to a Madison hospital Monday from pneumonia. Survivors include wife Ada a son Homer daughters Enola Collins and Mary Massey three brothers and three sisters 35 grandchildren 11 great grandchildren. The body will be moved from Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville to the residence at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady Underwood
Keith
Emory Workman
Massey
Rock Creek
Underwood
Madison Hospital
Ada Underwood
Homer Underwood
Sylvester
Enola Collins
Clear Creek
Mary Massey
Cleveland
Ohio
Waymond
Beckley
John
Bill Underwood
Oak Hill
Bessie Bradford
Ada McMillan
Glen Raniel
Armstrong Funeral Home
Whitesville
J. E. Williams Rites Set In Beckley Church
Funeral services for J. E. Williams 69 Beckley businessman of 102 Campbell Court will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Kenneth Swank officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park follows. Williams died in a local nursing home after a long illness. He was general manager of National Finance Co. and a past president of the Beckley Kiwanis Club. He is survived by his wife Josephine Barger Williams five children and several relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Williams
Beckley
Campbell Ct
First Baptist Church
Kenneth Swank
Sunset Memorial Park
Buena Vista
Williams
National Finance Co
Beckley Kiwanis Club
Josephine Barger Williams
Betty Ellen Williams
Jimmie
Marie Hunt
Charlottesville
Louis
Loveland
Ohio
William Cassity
Welch
Claude
California
Jimmy Yool
Hugh Miller
Fated rites for Beatrice Stewart in Brooksville
Beatrice Stewart 45 of Brooksville Florida formerly Matheny died at 6 a.m. Sunday in a Brooksville hospital of cancer. Born September 15 1915 at Matheny she was daughter of the late Graft and Bertha Stewart. Survived by four sons Jimmy Larry T and Berry all of Brooksville and four sisters Maude Stewart Beckley Nina Birley Madison Laura Stewart Matheny and Marie Mullens Matheny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart
Brooksville
Fla
Matheny
Bertha Brunty Stewart
Beatrice Langworthy
Jimmy
Larry
Berry
Final rites for Armand A Williams in Shady Spring
Armand A. Williams 78 of Shady Spring will have funeral services at 1 p m Wednesday in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with Rev. Annie Garten and Rev. Gene Hall officiating. Burial will be in Williams Cemetery at White Oak. He died Monday at a local hospital after a long illness. The family will receive visitors at home until the funeral. Pallbearers are Leonard Meadows Howard Cole Lester Howey Herbert Lilly John West and Joe Chapman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armand Allen Williams
Shady Spring
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Annie Garten
Gene Hall
Williams Cemetery
White Oak
Thev
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral
Leonard Meadows
Howard Cole
Lester Howey
Herbert Lilly
John West
Joe Chapman
Meeting Postponed by Weather for Republican Women
A meeting of the Republican Women's Club was postponed due to bad weather. Mrs Reginald Mevers announced the delay and said the gathering would be rescheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Women's Club
Reginald Mevers
Fashion critiques and parental support cited in Kruse remarks
The description notes pompadours and tall hair, tight skirts, and form fitting trousers drawing attention to style. Kruse claims over 90 percent of parents back his action, reflecting strong approval of his stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kruse
Forfeited Bonds In City Police Court
A total of 211.50 in bonds was forfeited in City Police Court Monday night. Cecil Stanley of Coal City posted 100 dollars and John P. Wilkes of Hull Street posted 56.50 dollars on reckless driving charges. Three persons forfeited a total of 55 dollars in bonds on intoxication charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Stanley
Coal City
John P. Wilkes
Hull Street
Auto Victim Satisfactory After Injury Near Harper Bridge
Mrs. Mary Konelas about 40 Campbell Court is in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital after being struck by a 1957 model car driven by Charles E. Pugh Eccles around 11 15 p m Feb 1 near the Harper bridge. Police say she walked in the roadway against traffic. injuries include fractures to pelvis and right arm and a head cut. She operates Tim's Hat Cleaners and was visiting her ill mother when hit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tim
Mary) Konelas
Campbell Court
Raleigh General Hospital
Harper
Konelas
Charles E. Pugh, Eccles
Five Traffic Violators Fined by Magistrate Burke
Five traffic violators paid fines and costs to Magistrate W. A. Burke Monday afternoon. Billy R. Peters of Sullivan paid 10 dollars and costs for improper registration cited by State Police on Routes 19-21. Robert E. Pack of Glen Morgan fined five dollars and costs for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle on Routes 19-21. Alfred S. Mitchem of 512 Dry Hill Road paid five dollars and costs for illegal left turn on Route 16. Owen W. Wade of Glen Morgan drew fines of five dollars and costs for failure to yield and five dollars and costs for no operator license. Johnny R. Greene of Oak Hill fined five dollars and costs for illegal passing on Route 21. Harold Hancock, address unknown, paid 100 dollars and costs for possession of moonshine and five dollars and costs for drunkenness. he was jailed and posted bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Burke
Billy R. Peters
Sullivan
Robert E. Pack
Glen Morgan
Alfred S. Mitchem
Dry Hill Road
Owen W. Wade
Johnny R Greene
Oak Hill
Harold Hancock
Joe Rodriguez
Hancock
Raleigh
Legislature approves bills in quiet session amid debate
In a 50 minute Senate session lawmakers advanced a measure to study a unified state building code for public buildings and sent a rear license tag bill to the House. A penny tax repeal failed 62 to 36 as Pauley faced support from Given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boiarsky
D-Kanawha
Pauley
Senate
Mountaineer Boys
del. D. P. Given
D-Webster
West Virginia University Medical Center
Del
James W. Simonton
R Wood
Barron
Brotherton
Seibert
Plant guard kills five children then himself at Eastman plant
Kingsport police report a guard at the Tennessee Eastman plant shot his five children to death and then killed himself. The tragedy occurred at the large facility in Kingsport, prompting an investigation into the motive and details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsport, Tenn
UPI
Tennessee Eastman
Doctors Clash Over Medicare Measure in West Virginia Hearing
A joint House Senate hearing in Charleston heard that the proposed pre paid medical care bill does not address long term rural doctor shortages or facility numbers. Physicians from the West Virginia Medical Association urged specificity while proponents described patient choice and nonprofit provider structures backed by lawmakers and labor groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlo J. Salzano
Charleston
UPI
Joseph L. Curry
Wheeling
West Virginia Medical Association
Senate
House
L. J. Pace
Princeton
Stephen D. Ward
Frank J. Holroyd
William A. Moreland
D-Monongalia
West
West Virginians For Improved Health Care; Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn
Rip van, Winkle Clinic
Hudson, N.Y
Leslie A. Falk
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
Cecil Urbaniak
UMW
House of Delegates
West Virginia
Urbaniak
John S. Brown
Shinnston
West Virginians
Rev
L. E. Crowson
West Virginia Methodist Conference
Stanley
Moreland
Murray Hunter
Fairmont Clinic
del. A. Davis Abrams
D - Raleigh
House Health Committee
Snow and weather hamper West Virginia travel and roads
A late day crash near milepost 33 left one car damaged and no charges against the driver. Turnpike and county crews worked overnight to clear ice and snow on roads from Princeton to Charleston, with 6 to 8 inches on the toll road and freezing conditions continuing. Airport and city crews also plowed streets as temperatures dropped to the teens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wintrode
Mary Ellen
Keyser- Bryant
West Virginia Turnpike
Princeton
Charleston
Robert Sweeney
State Road Commission
Raleigh
Piedmont Airlines
Beckley
Elmer Wardsen
Jany Place
Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Lighter Side of Politics Sparks Witty Exchange
President Kennedy Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Barry Goldwater discuss the appeal of a White House term. Brooks Hays jokes about answering questions nobody asks while working with Arthur Schlesinger. A comical elderly voter quips she never votes to avoid encouraging politicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clude
Kennedy
Adlai Stevenson
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
White House
Goldwater
Brooks Hays
D-Ark
Arthur Schlesinger
Harvard
Hays
Schlesinger
West Virginia Legislature Opens With Broad Bill Proposals
Monday's legislative filings include House bills on higher securities dealer fees and sheriff bureau tax exemptions, salary bases for prosecutors, rebranding of Vocational Rehabilitation, and ballot name order changes. Senate measures cover probation officer appointments, refunds from gas taxes, licensing changes for amusements, higher fire marshal funding, LPG transport rules, taxi fuel tax refunds, birth proof for marriage licenses, and memorial director pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Singleton
D-Monongalia
Matney
Monroe
West Virginia
Sheriffs’ Bureau
Belcher
D-Lincoln
State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
Nuzum
D-Randolph
Senate
Bowers
R-Wetzel
Carrigan
Marshall
McCourt
D-Webster
Smith
D-Cabell
Kaufman
D-Kanawha
Boards of Directors
Rock Creek Man Waives Hearing in Robbery Case
Dallas Bradford, about 40, of Rock Creek, waived to the grand jury on a robbery charge and was remanded to Raleigh County Jail on a $1000 bond after robbing his parents Mr and Mrs O W Bradford of Rock Creek with a .12 gauge shotgun. The arrest was made near 10 p.m. by Raleigh County deputies Madison and Boone County officers and Madison detachment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas Bradford
Rock Creek
Raleigh
L. G. Daniel
Marsh Fork
Bradford
O. W. Bradford
Madison State Police
Raleigh County
Madison Detachment
Boone County
Banquet to Honor Math and Science Students
Dr. Richard Griskey of Virginia Tech will headline the Sixth Annual Student Award Program during National Engineers Week. The Appalachian Chapter of the West Virginia Society of Professional Engineers invites 20 Raleigh, Fayette, and Wyoming county high schools to participate. Each senior will be escorted by an instructor or principal and receive a pocket slide rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Griskey
Chemical Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
National Engineers Week
Appalachian Chapter
West Virginia Society of Professional Engineers
Raleigh
Fayette
Wyoming
C. T. Shackelford
Dr. Griskey
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Appalachian ‘Chapter
West Virginia Sheriffs Elect Board Members and Officers
Raleigh County sheriff C A Slim Thompson and Fayette County sheriff Pearly Elmore join the West Virginia Sheriff Association board alongside J M O'Brien Summers and O J Carroll Nicholas at the Charleston meeting. Dewey E Kuhns Kanawha County elected president. Clarence Johnson Monongalia first vice president. Russell Craft Brooke second vice president. Thomas B Padden Ohio County board chairman. Everett D Bazzie Mercer elected executive secretary and Harold L Frankel Cabell treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. “Slim
Thompson
Raleigh County
Pearly Elmore
Fayette County
West Virginia
Russell Craft
Brooke County
Thomas B. Padden
Ohio County
Everett D. Bazzie
Mercer County
Secand
Harold L. Frankel
Cabell County
Hope Natural Gas Plans Merger with NY Natural Gas
Hope Natural Gas Co president E Wayne Corrin announced plans to merge with New York State Natural Gas Corp into Consolidated Gas Supply Corp. headquarters will stay in Clarksburg with major offices in Pittsburgh. The merged firm will serve about 93,000 retail customers in northern and central West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
UPI
Hope Natural Gas Co
E. Wayne Corrin
Hope
New York State Natural Gas Corp
Consolidated Gas Supply Corp
Consolidated Natural Gas Systems
NYS Natural Gas
Pittsburgh
Corrin
West Virginia
United Fuel Gas 1 Co
NBC Ukraine Khrushchev program cited in New York report
A New York report notes NBCs The Rise of Mister Khrushchev shown Feb 3 and another January program referenced. Jones said the action was not an attack on Frank Bourgholtzer or himself. Zamyatin proposed closing the Moscow bureau soon but gave no date. The CBS Moscow bureau faced a multi year closure in the 1950s over a Stalin death program and later reopened. Time correspondent Donald Connery was denied stay after critical reporting on Khrushchev.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mister Khrushchev
Frnk Bourgholtzer
Jones
Zamyatin
Moscow
Columbia Broadcasting System
United States
Stalin
Time Magazine
Donald Connery
Khrushchev
Old Eccles Road Man Held On Warrant
An Old Eccles Road man was lodged in Raleigh County Jail at 4 10 p m Monday on a mental warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eccles Road
Raleigh County
NH Women Golf Group Bans Short Shorts
Mrs. Nora Grimes, president of the New Hampshire Women's Golf Association, says the organization will ban short shorts to reduce distractions as male golfers attempt to break par on New Hampshire courses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire
Nora Grimes
New Hampshire Women's Golf Association
The Judge Believed Him in Adultery Divorce Case
In London a divorce court heard Thomas Watson claim he climbed a ladder with his mother’s help to photograph his wife Marion with another man. He forgot to remove the camera lens cap. Judge Mr Justice Baker believed his story and granted the divorce for adultery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Thomas Watson
Watson
Justice Baker
Frank Smith
Marion
Smith
Defections Rumors Rise Over Soviet Troops in Cuba
Western diplomatic reports from Havana claim fourteen Soviet soldiers defecting and hiding in the Las Villas Es cambray Mountains amid friction with Cuban troops. U S defense officials deny Soviet technicians sought refuge at Guantanamo Bay. Cuban underground sources note large Russian troop concentrations in Escambray and roadblocks in Oriente Province as Moscow tightens controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Havana
Las Villas
Escambray
Washington
Defense Department
U.S
Guantanamo
Department
Cuba
Miami
Oriente
Bill Would Legalize Lincoln Day Holiday
Rep. Paul Findley of Illinois introduced a bill to make Lincoln's birthday a federal legal holiday joining New Year s Day Washington s Birthday Memorial Day Independence Day Veterans Day Labor Day Thanksgiving and Christmas in the federal holiday calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPT
Paul Findley
B-Ill
Washington’s
Driver Bailey Charged After East Main Street Crash
Paul J. Bailey age 16 of Route 2 Beckley is ordered to appear in City Police Court Monday night on a charge of failure to have his vehicle under control. His 1962 model car slid into a parked 1958 truck owned by Rose Alderman at 131 East Main Street. Damages totaled 150 dollars with no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul J. Bailey
Route 2
Beckley
East Main Street
Bailey
Rose Alderman
E. Main St
Police Probe Traffic Crash Near Beckley Hospital
State police investigate a traffic accident near Beckley Memorial Hospital with few details available at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Aoe
First Aid Call Sends Rescue Squad to Patch Street
The Beckley Rescue Squad responded to 700 Patch St at 6 15 p m Monday for Tincy Thomas a 62 year old asthma attack She was transported to Raleigh General Hospital where her condition was listed as satisfactory
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Patch St
Tincy Thomas
Raleigh General Hospital
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William R. Wriston
Albert G. Pennington
Mrs. Grady Underwood
Armand A. Williams
Bell-ans
Orangeburg
N. Y
Pompadours
Swwerson
Commercial Credit Plan, Incorporated of
Credit Life
Valley Drive
Roy French
Toronto
Ont
House Senate
Miles Staley
State Federation of Labor
AFL- Clc
Curry
Donald E. Panoz
Milan Pharmaceuticals Inc
Hunter
Ward
Association
Medical Association
Darryl F Zanuck
Gregory Peck
Jennifer Jones
Fredric March
20th CENTURY+FOX
DE Luxe Inema
Rock Creek Son
Raleigh, Fayette
NBC
Jerusalem
Israel
Meyer Goldenberg
Pierre, S.D
Hoadley Dean
Mt. Rushmore Memorial
South Dakota
Black Hills
Internal Revenue Service
Dean
Heritage House
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