Range In Ages From 16 To 25 To Face Grand Jury
Twelve Beckley area youths aged 16 to 25 waived preliminary hearings before Magistrate W A Burke on charges of unarmed robbery breaking and entering petit larceny and destruction of property. Bond ranged from 3000 to 15000. Police say the group was tied to a Valley Drive robbery and a year of break ins at local businesses including Greenbrier Dairy Products Mabscott Road Blue Jay Elementary Sam Harper Texaco and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas Boothe
Beckley
Ww. A. Burke
Valley Drive
Burke's Court
Harry L. McCreery
Carl Waddell
Skelton
Ing
Cecil Miller
Mabscott
Billy G. Gunter
McCreery
Charles F. Miller
Jerry L. Gunter
William Waddell
Danny Puckett
Puckett
Carlos Blankenship
Shirley Blankenship
Sunrise Avenue
Ronald Hickman
Sprague
Paul Adkins
John Toney
Calloway Heights
Hulbert Meadows
Prosperity
Meadows
Mabscott Hill
Beckley Area
Greenbrier Dairy Products 'Co
Stanaford Road
Blue- Jay
Pure Oil
Raleigh
Lilly's
Texaco
Stanley
Sunoco
Sam Harper
Johnstown Road
Paul’s Grill
Club
Stamford
Charles Miller
Graham Street
Buckhannon
W. A. Dyer
J. E. Parsons
Ed Easley
Tom Durrett
Glade-Pinch Group Plans Tonight Meeting on Access Road
The Glade-Pinch Trout Association will meet at 7 30 PM in the Raleigh County Circuit Courtroom to report on the membership drive and subscription totals for funding the Glade and Pinch Creek access road. Bank of Raleigh has donated 200 dollars and three Civitan lawyers will handle rights of way work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of Raleigh
Civitans
C. Berkley Lilly
Edward P. Stansbury
Paul J. Fourney
Rumberg
Mount Hope Stations Visited By Thieves
State Police investigate two Mount Hope area service station break ins over the weekend. Ashland Service Station on the Mount Hope By-Pass reported padlock pried entry with losses including tires tools oil filter channel locks a hammer and candy totaling 104.90. New River Service Station at 301 Main St reported theft of 24 quarts Gulfpride oil and 24 quarts single grade oil valued at 26.41.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Mount Hope
Frank Easter Arthur
Ashland
New River
Main St
Winds Blamed For Power Loss In Mullens
Early morning darkness hit Mullens as a lead-in wire to a street light broke, likely due to high winds. John Tice of Union Power Co. said winds caused the break. Business district lights remained on. service expected to be restored later today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullens
BNL
John Tice
Union Power Co
Minden man reports vehicle theft of 1952 pickup
A Minden man told Oak Hill Police his blue 1952 pickup was stolen from in front of a Minden church Saturday night. State Police said the bumper ends were broken, and the vehicle bore West Virginia license B 68-542 registered to Nathaniel Simms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Minden
W. Va
Nathaniel Simms
Simms
WV Legislature Faces Budget Hearings On University and Rights Panel
The Senate Finance Committee will hear budget requests Tuesday for the WVU Board of Governors and the West Virginia Human Rights Commission. On Wednesday the House Finance Committee will consider those budgets. The 30 day session began last Wednesday amid pipeline bill tensions and a House resolution for a year long study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Finance Committee
West Virginia University Board of Governors
West Virginia Human Rights Commission
House Finance Committee
House
Judiciary Committee
Demos Plan Fight For JKs Medicare Plan
Senate and House Democrats vow a strong fight for President Kennedy's medical care proposal for the aged. Mansfield says a blocked bill could be attached as a Senate rider. Albert predicts passage if voted. Halleck counters, calling the plan highly discriminatory, while Byrd delays action until House action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles A. Halleck
Albert
Mansfield
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
House
Byrd
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
Congress
Senate
Bill Encourages State Investment in West Virginia
Charleston dispatch reports a House bill by Del. Pat Board Jr. offering a 50 percent credit on premium taxes to insurers investing up to 20 percent of assets in West Virginia securities and a 100 percent credit for 30 percent or more. A related measure would shift property tax lien dates to December 31 for the following year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
House of Delegates
del. Pat Board Jr
Oanawha
House
Julius Singleton
H. Laban White
D Harrison
Senate
William A. Moreland
Undertaker Harold Booton Dead by Self Inflicted Gunshot
Wayne New Jersey UPI reports Harold Booton 48 principal owner of Morris Booton funeral home shot himself Sunday at his home. Family heard the shot from upstairs as Roy Adkins found Booton dying from a bullet behind the right ear. He died about an hour later in a hospital. A note was found but its contents and motive were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne
UPI
Harold Booton
Morris-Booton Funeral Home
Booton
Roy Adkins
Funeral Home
Merger Protest Persists Over Railway Union Plan
Ongoing coverage of opposition to the proposed C and O B and O railway merger. Earlier discussions shifted from a three way merger to a Central and B&O pairing, drawing resistance from peers and critics within the rail industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C&o
Requiem High Mass for William J B Jacobs 49 Montgomery
William J B Jacobs 49 Montgomery died after a long illness. Requiem High Mass was to be celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church Montgomery with Rev Eugene Jacobs and Rev M E McDonnell. burial at Montgomery Memorial Park London. Survived by two sisters Virginia and Geneva, five brothers James Poe Wilson Augustine Charles and Rev Father Eugene. Rosary at Don Combs Funeral Home. Also note Ollie O Neal Combs known as Bud died at 4 50 p m Saturday in Wyoming General Hospital Mullens. services at Sam Foglesong Funeral Home Mullens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. B. Jacobs
Montgomery
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Eugene Jacobs
M. E. McDonnell
Montgomery Memorial Park
London
Jacobs
East Bank High School
West Virginia Institute of Technology
West Virginia University
University of Kentucky
Knights of Columbus
West Virginia Bar Association
Elks and Eagle Lodges
American Legion
Virginia Jacobs
Geneva Jacobs
James
Poe
Wilson
Augustine
St. Albans
Charles
Cleveland
Ohio
Eugene
Ollie O'Neal Combs
Bud
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Sam Foglesong
John Covington Dies After Long Illness at 75
John Covington 75 of 108 Cana day St. died at 11 40 p m Sunday in Hill Top Nursing Home after a long illness. The body is at Wright and Anderson Funeral Home pending completion of arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Covington
Canaday St
Hill Top Nursing Home
Wright and Anderson Funeral Home
Final rites for Robert F. Blevins set in Midway
Robert F. Blevins, 61, of Midway, will be laid to rest at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Church of God in Midway with Rev. W. F. Tolliver officiating. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park. Pallbearers listed include Jim Lawrence, Everett Lindsey, Earl Rowe, Wilbur Kanoe, Lloyd Parker, and Marvin Proffitt. The body remains at Williams Funeral Home for visitation after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert F. Blevins
Midway
First Church of God
W. F. Tolliver
Sunset Memorial Park
Jim Lawrence
Everett Lindsey
Earl Rowe
Wilbur Kanoe
Lloyd Parker
Marvin Proffitt
Williams Funeral Home
West Virginia Turnpike victim sent to Oley for funeral
Gene R. Conrad, 21, of Boyertown Pa died instantly in a crash with a semi trailer near Milepost 56 on the West Virginia Turnpike. His body will be shipped from Melton Mortuary to Oley Pa by train with a Navy escort. The 1957 convertible was driven by William Burdett of Waverly Ohio. Conrad was to be best man at Burdett’s upcoming wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melton
Oley
Gene R. Conrad
Boyertown
U. S. Navy
Charleston
Conrad
William Wayne Burdett
Waverly
Ohio
Burdett
Arthur A. Thompson
Greensboro
N. C
S. C
Infant Loyd C. Combs Graveside Rites Held
Graveside rites for Lloyd Corbin Combs were to be held at 2 p m today at Shrews bury Cemetery in Stephenson. The infant son of Lloyd Corbin Combs is mentioned in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Corbin Combs
Shrewsbury
Stephenson
Lloyd Corbin
Kovacs Estate Said Meager Bequest Reeled In Beverly Hills
Hollywood pays final respects to Ernie Kovacs a 42 year old comedian killed in a rain slick crash. Simple Presbyterian rites scheduled at Beverly Hills Community Presbyterian Church. Widow Edie Adams faces financial uncertainty as debts and past business advice loom over estate and insurance coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
UPI
Hollywood
Ernie Kovacs
Beverly Hills Community Presbyterian Church
Kovacs
Los Angeles
Billy Wilder
Milton Berles
Edie Adams
Ernie
Edie
Fire crews respond to car fire on Neville Street
Fire trucks from No 1 and No 2 stations rushed to the Beckley Maytag Lot on Neville Street at 10 a m today where a 1957 model car owned by Drexel Bennett of White Oak was ablaze. Damages were estimated at about 140 dollars as firefighters believe a gasoline backfire through the carburetor ignited the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 1
No. 2
Beckley Maytag
Neville Street
Drexel Bennett
White Oak
Charles Godsey Funeral Rites Planned in Tazewell
Funeral services for Charles Banner Godsey 69 of Camp Creek will be held at 11 a m Tuesday at the Church of God in Tazewell with burial in Maplewood Cemetery. Godsey whose body was found Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Andrew Akers apparently died Thursday night. He lived alone and death was attributed to natural causes. Survivors include a son Claude two daughters two brothers and two sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Banner) Godsey
Camp Creek
Church of God
Tazewell
Maplewood
Godsey
Andrew Akers
Akers
Banner
Allen Dyer
E. D. Bazzie
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Claude
North Tazewell
Glenn Whitt
Hazel Godsey
Carl
Bluefield
Will
Bland
Hannah Banner
Kate Pugh
Welch
Miss Norma Skaggs Dies After Illness at 44
Miss Norma Madge Skaggs 44 of Kincaid died at her home at 1145 p m Sunday after an extended illness. Her body is at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill pending arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma Madge Skaggs
Kincaid
Tyree
Oak Hill
Gene Grimes Funeral Arrangements Reported
Gene Arnold Grimes, 25, of 411 Summers St Charleston, died at 5 40 p m Sunday after a month long illness in Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital. The body is at Cunningham Funeral Home, Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Arnold Grimes
Summers St
Charleston
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Cunningham Funeral Home
Dutch navy repels Indonesian invasion attempt at sea
Capt Elbers announced a clash where radar indicated Indonesian warships approaching the coast. A motor torpedo boat was sunk after being struck and set ablaze, a second vessel perished, a third fled. He noted Dutch ships were unharmed and backed by Neptune bombers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbers
Coul
Lie Detector Tests Set Today for County Men
Four Raleigh Countians jailed on grand larceny charges were taken to Charleston at 9 20 a m today for lie detector tests. Lawrence Johnson Emil J Kirk John Belton Mitchell all of Arnett and Walter Chapman of Bloomingrose near Whitesville were released into custody of Sheriff s Deputy Ed Jarrell and a State Police officer. They were jailed at 4 p m Thursday with Chapman also charged with breaking and entering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Charleston
Lawrence Johnson
Emil J.kirk
John Belton Mitchell
Arnett
Walter Chapman
Bloomingrose
Whitesville
Ed Jarrell
Congress Gets Down To Work
Washington March into a new session as Senate debate opens on a DuPont GM stock disposal bill. Gore attacks the measure as he urges delay while Kennedy Justice Department seeks court guidance. Committees plan hearings on FEPC and UN funding, with a big postal rate bill slated for early floor action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Congress
Senate
DuPont Company
General Motors
House
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
DuPont
Senate Finance Committee
Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Rusk
House Foreign Affairs Committee
FEPC
House Labor
James Roosevelt
D-Calif
Edith Green
Dore
United Nations
Shark mauls skin diver off Farallon Islands
A 29 year old skin diver, Floyd Pair Jr., was attacked by a 14 to 16 foot shark about 30 miles west of San Francisco near the Farallon islands. He managed to surface after the encounter, fought the shark with his spear guns, and was rescued by a coast guard helicopter before being taken to Franklin Hospital in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
UPS
Farallon Islands
Floyd Pair Jr
Sacramento
Calif
Pai
Fair
Coast Guard
Franklin Hospital
Congo central government gains in Stanleyville peace push
Gizenga returns as vice premier signaling a decisive victory for Premier Cyrille Adoula's effort to unite and pacify the Congo. Thant orders U.N. troops to Stanleyville to restore order and avert civil war. U.N. Ethiopian battalion ready but not engaged in fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrille Adoula
Congo
Stanleyville
Belgium
Adoula
Lundula
Oriental Province
U.N
Thant
John Phillips in satisfactory condition after surgery
John Phillips of 106 Daniels Street remains in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital after undergoing surgery on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Phillips
Daniels St
Raleigh General Hospital
Friay
Fort Knox Soldier Jailed for AWOL
Arthur E. Aust of Fort Knox Kentucky was jailed at 4 a.m. today and released to Military Police at 9 45 a.m. He faces charges of being absent without leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur E. Aust
Fort Knox
Hoffa Attacks WV Students as Captives at Morgantown
Teamsters president James Hoffa labeled heckling West Virginia University students as captives of what they read and hear. He urged them to visit picket lines to learn workers' views while Sterling Employees vote soon on union representation by Teamsters USW or UMW District 50. Up to 300 students protested Hoffa’s hotel rally before his Morgantown Junior High School speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
UPI
Teamsters
James Hoffa
West Virginia University
Hoffa
Sterling Enterprises
Sterling Employes
United Steelworkers
United
Mine Workers District 50
Morgantown Junior High School
Sterling
UMW District 50
Mother Pleads Guilty To Forgery Charge
Mrs. Goldie Jean Smithson of Glen Jean 36 year old mother of seven infants pleaded guilty in Raleigh County Criminal Court this morning to a forgery of a $135 check at Atkinson's Supermarket. A probation motion was taken under advisement. Her husband Earl Franklin Smithson is at large. Sam Berillo of Beckley pled guilty to obstructing an officer and received 90 days plus a $50 fine. A bastardy warrant against James H Meadows Jr was quashed due to statute of limitations. Petit jurors were excused until Thursday 9:30 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldie Jean Smithson
Glen Jean
Raleigh County
Atkinson's
Harry L. ‘McCreery
Lincoln County
Ing
Sam Berillo
Beckley
Paul J.fourney
Berillo
Trail
McCreery
Jack A. Mann
James H. Meadows Jr
Mann
Anthony J. Sparacino
Adenauer backs MBA in Bonn
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will sponsor performances of the Chinese ideological play The Dragon in Bonn. An international force of moral re-armament led by General Ho Ying-chin arrived in Germany, with 50 Chinese officers and graduates in a year long program in moral re armament. The group is in the Ruhr at the invitation of North Rhine-Westphalia's Franz Meyers. Dr. Heinrich Straeter welcomed them, praising Frank Buchman as reviving Germany’s place in the community of nations after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Ludwig Erhard
Europe
Germany
Scandinavia
Ho Ying-chin
China
Ruhr
Franz Meyers
North Rhine-Westphalia
Taiwan
Heinrich Straeter
North Rhine- Westphalia
Frank Buchman
Community of Nations
Further Orders Signed In Suit Involving Bashams and Mill
Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Norman Knapp entered further orders in the case of W H Smith and C F Meadows doing business as Crab Orchard Planing Mill versus Richard and Margaret In. The judgment lien notes all Bashams real estate was sold leaving a remaining balance of 163.86 after expenses and credits against court costs of 641.79. Since remedies against Bashams are exhausted plaintiffs and defendants must pay half of the unpaid balance. Smith and Meadows gain right to enforce materialsmans lien for 1288.45 plus interest. A lien of 238.97 is set against Lots 113 114 and half 115 in the McLean Addition owned by Dr and Mrs Godin if unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Norman Knapp
W. H. Smith
C. F. Meadows
Crab Orchard
W. M. Basham
E. R. Bashoe
Richard and
Margaret
W. M
E. R. Basham
Smith and Meadows
McLean Addition
Assistance On State Tax Returns Offered
West Virginia Tax Department income tax division opened its taxpayer assistance program to help residents file state forms. Director Clifford G. Lantz said help runs through April 16, the final day for 1961 returns, with offices at Beckley Parkersburg Wheeling Spencer Huntington Logan Welch Lewisburg Weston Fairmont Elkins and Martinsburg. Agents will visit Kanawha Fayette Raleigh County areas with local schedule in place. dates include Mt Hope Montgomery Ansted Fayetteville and more through January 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
API
State Tax Department
Income Tax Division
West
Lantz
Kanawha- Fayette
Raleigh County
Mt. Hope
Beckley
Montgomery
Ansted
Fayetteville
Cub Scouters Session Planned Tuesday Night
A second basic Cub Scouting training session is scheduled for 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Green Briar Dairy Recreation Room. Al Epperly district leadership training chairman will conduct the meeting and urges all Cub Scout leaders to attend this important session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenbrier Dairy Recreation Room
al Epperly
Epperly
Britons Crowd Vaccine Centers Amid Smallpox Fear
In Britain a sixth suspected smallpox death surfaced as frightened crowds sought vaccinations. Yorkshire saw a midlife man die at Otley Hospital with authorities linking the case to a possible Pakistan origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Yorkshire
Otley
Britain
Pakistan
Bradford
Karachi
Family rushes to London after daughter injured in crash
S. Rice and his wife traveled to London to be with daughter Ellen, 20, a Southampton University student seriously hurt in a Saturday auto collision near Winchester. State briefs note GOP slogan and a fatal Huntington shooting case. Gov Barron says Aero Geo Astro plant in Keyser will build fallout shelter systems. Weirton Post Office safe cracking investigation reports nearly $2,000 stolen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Rice
London
Ellen
Southampton University
Winchester
Republican Party
West Virginia
Congress
GOP
Berkeley McComas
Rappsburg
Ohio
Lawrence County
Ironton
Huntington
Myron FE. Poynter
Chesapeake
W. W. Barron
Aero- Geo-Astro Inc
Keyser
Weirton
More, Cheaper Whisky Sold
West Virginians drank more whisky in December 1961 than December 1960 but bought cheaper brands. Sales totaled about 4.6 million dollars, up 4,056 cases, while a 103 thousand dollar gap stems from warehouse sales in case lots that were halted after a grand jury ruling. First half fiscal year whisky revenue fell 600 thousand from 1960, with 4.7 million dollars already turned over to state funds. annual revenue estimate stands at 8 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
West
Kanawha County
Elmore
Starcher Files for State Senate Nomination in 4th District
CHARLESTON UPI O L Starcher of Spencer filed today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the State Senate from the 4th District. He will oppose incumbent Paul Moore of Ravenswood who filed for renomination last week. Also filing for renomination today was State Sen Arch A Riley Wheeling Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
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Bellans
Orangeburg
N. Y
Ratub
Demos
Undertaker
Lloyd C. Combs
Kovacs Estate
Charles Godsey
Norma Skaggs
Gene A. Grimes
Gizenga
Adenauer
Cub
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