Interdenominational Youth Dinner Planned in Charleston
An interdenominational youth dinner is set for First Methodist Church in Charleston at 5 p.m. Sunday to mark Youth Week. Rev Louis Buckalew of Christ Methodist Church will speak on To Fill the Emptiness after a post dinner service. Arrangements chair Ann Roush and Beckley Christian Youth Council president Marshall Wooten oversee planning with advisor Rev Richard Carpenter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Louis Buckalew
Christ Methodist Church
Charleston
Buckalew
Marietta College
Hartford School of Religious Education
Hartford Theological Seminar
Ann Roush
Marsha Wooten
Beckley Christian Youth Council
Richard Carpenter
Scolded Schoolgirl Dies After Poison Self-Acted
In Pittsburgh a 14 year old girl who admitted swallowing poison after being reprimanded for smoking at school died Tuesday. Marlene Burke told her grandmother she took roach powder and received antidote care at South Side Hospital but later died on arrival.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
Marlene Burke
Alberta Burke
K C Crash Victims Counted After Night Airliner Wreck
Bodies of the victims, many found inside the wreckage, are moved to an airport hangar. Pilot Captain Joseph W. Smith overshot a 7000 foot runway and clipped a 30 foot dike wall during a second approach to Kansas City Flight 290 from Midland with Oklahoma and Texas stops. The crash occurred six minutes before the scheduled landing at 10:50 p.m. CST. The foggy conditions and wind change were cited by R O Ziegler, assistant chief of the air traffic division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.O. Ziegler
Ziegler
Midland
Tex
Kansas City
Texas
Oklahoma
Joseph W. Smith
Beckley Police Oppose Legislative Bill Changes
Beckley Police Chief M. E. Tyree and Patrolman Fred Burdiss spoke to a Charleston committee opposing two provisions in a police eligibility bill. They oppose a one year residency requirement and allowing out of state recruitment for county districts. Tyree noted many FDP lodges share the opposition and committee action fate remains undecided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
M. E. Tyree
Fred Burdiss
Legislative Committee
Charleston
Tyree
Burdiss
Beckley Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 81
FDP
House of Delegates
Kennedy Education Bill Faces Sperate Senate Showdown
Washington UPI reports President Kennedy's sweeping school aid plan faces a dim fate in Congress. Analysts say the “one tent” bill, combining K-12 aid, college programs, loans, and education reforms, will collide with public and parochial school factions. Humphrey sees slim but real odds that parts survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Bill Battles
National Education Association
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Congress
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minn
Deaths And Funerals Carl Virgil Perk Thompson
Funeral services for Carl Virgil Perk Thompson 53 of Whitesville will be at 2 p m Thursday in the Armstrong Funeral Home Chapel Whitesville Rev W G Byers officiating Burial will be in Pineview Cemetery at Orgas Thompson a former coal miner died Tuesday in a Beckley hospital after a long illness Survivors include two brothers L B of Columbus Ohio and Harold Thompson of Garrison and four sisters Carnie Crouch Blue Pennant Orville Jarrell Acme Jewitt Jarrell Leevale and Opeal Farmer Ashtabula Ohio The body remains at the funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnie Crouch
Blue Pennant
Orville Jarrell
Acme
Jewitt Jarrell
Leevale
Opeal Farmer
Ashtabula
Ohio
Memorials for David B Lawson and David Lawson
Obituary notices detail the deaths of two men. David B Lawson a retired miner and church member from Duffield is survived by his wife and multiple children with funeral arrangements pending. David Lawson a seaman gunner's mate from Cunard died in a Chesapeake car accident. Surviving family members include his mother sisters and several brothers and his body will be moved for final rites.
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David B. Lawson
Seaman
Portsmouth
Cunard
Fayette County
Chesapeake
Navy
Sally R. Lawson
Mary R. Lawson
N. H
Thelma Lawson
Bridgeport
Norfolk
Joe Edward
Air Force
Samuel
Great Lakes
Ill
Waymond
Fisher
Ritchie and Johnson
Final rites for Mrs Ollie Belle Kincaid
Mrs Ollie Belle Kincaid 82 Meadow Bridge dies after long illness in Beckley hospital. Services at Laurel Branch Baptist Church near Meadow Bridge with Rev Page Neal and Rev Tom Shaffer. Burial in Patton Cemetery. Survivors include daughter Lydia Daniels Glen White. Born June 30 1880 Green Sulphur Springs. Body at Wallace Wallace Funeral Home East Rainelle before funeral.
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Ollie Belle Kincaid
Meadow Bridge
Laurel Branch Baptist Church
Page Neal
Tom Shaffer
Patton Cemetery
Final rites for Gail Lynda Grant
Gail Lynda Grant six month old daughter of Wil le B and Priscilla Banks Grant died unexpectedly found in bed at 6 a m Tuesday. Funeral at 1 p m Thursday in Mc Dougal Robertson and Fogle Funeral Home Chapel Mulillens with Rev Corbitt Holt Stein in charge. Burial in Memorial Park Beckey. Body at funeral home for viewing tonight.
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Gail Lynda Grant
Wille B
Priscilla Banks Grant
Wyco
McDougal’s
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home
Mulilens
Corbitt Holt Stein
Memorial Park
Beckey
Oley Duncan Rites Set Following Miner’s Death at 82
Oley Duncan aged 82 died at 10 p m Tuesday at his daughter Mrs Cecil Allen’s home where he had lived since his wife Josie Brooks Duncan died in 1941. He was a retired miner and member of Davis Baptist Church Glen Rogers. Surviving are three daughters two brothers a sister and 20 grandchildren. The body lies in state at Evans Funeral Home Oceana.
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First Baptist Church
Duffield
Margaret Johnson
Norman P. Johnson
U. S. Army
France
G. H. Johnson Jr
Lawson Air Force Base
Wash
Coy
Cottonville
Ed Vaughn
Howard Clark
Calvin Jenkins
Franklin
Ind
Oley Duncan
Cecil
Ruby) Allen
Josie Brooks Duncan
Duncan
John
Jane Walker Duncan
Clyde
Vallie) Daniel
Saxon
Edith) Henry
Sandusky
Ohio
Halsey
Nickney) Atwell
Forest Hills
Grat
Forest Park
George
Ravencliff
Davis Baptist Church
Glen Rogers
Evans Funeral Home
Oceana
Rns
Graveside rites for Melissa Lafferty to be held Thursday
Melissa Lafferty daughter of Glen Gene and Betty Jean Marchillo Lafferty of Ravencliff will be buried in Oak Grove Cemetery at 11 a.m. Thursday with Rev. Dean Bailey officiating. The infant died at birth Tuesday at a Pineville clinic. Surviving are grandparents Danny Lafferty McGraws and Alfred Hutchinson Pineville. The body is at Sam Fogleman Funeral Home Mullens.
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Melissa Lafferty
Glen Gene
Betty Jean Marchillo Lafferty
Ravencliff
Oak Grove
Dean Bailey
Pineville
Keyrock
Denny Lafferty
McGraws
Alfred Hutchinson
Sam Foglesong
Mullens
Grayson Johnson Dies in Welch Hospital After Illness
Grayson Johnson 77 of Duffield Va died at 5 15 a m today in a Welch hospital after a long illness.
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Grayson Johnson
Duffield
Welch Hospital
De Gaulle Faces Narrow Path Toward Nuclear and European Unity
Analyzing De Gaulle's remaining three years in office as he presses nuclear and European policies. Western unity tensions rise over a Franco-German axis, with experts unsure how central Britain’s Common Market ban will evolve. Germany is seen as pivotal, while a France–Russia accommodation could shape U.S. presence in Europe.
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de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Red China
Britain
UPI
Karol Thaler
London
Europe
Spain
Germany
Thaler
Russia
Turnpike Bill Seeks Upgrading Charleston Princeton Expressway
A bill introduced in the Legislature would authorize the Turnpike Commission to upgrade the Charleston Princeton expressway to federal Interstate standards. It would permit the State Road Commission to loan up to $1 million annually to service debt on turnpike bonds and free funds for planning and engineering to improve the route.
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Charleston
UPI
Turnpike Commission
Charleston- Princeton
State Road Commission
Infant sues for 25000 over wreck in Beckley
Sarah Ann Stover by Rosa Ella Meadows sues J. D. Lively Inc and Carol Sue Lively in Raleigh County Circuit Court for 25000 alleging July 28, 1962 injuries after a collision from a Country Club to South Kanawha Street left the infant permanently maimed and requiring medical care. Meadows seeks damages over 2000 with jury trial and E Carl Meadows Jr. as counsel.
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Sarah Ann Stover
Rosa Ella Meadows
J. D. Lively
South Kanawha Street
Miss Stover
E. Carl [Meadows Jr
Well To Speak At Dry Meeting In Charleston West Virginia
West Virginia temperance group UCAAP will host a legislative dinner with speakers who favored liquor by the drink. Kanawha County Prosecutor Charles Walker and former assistant prosecutor James McIntyre will discuss bills on liquor stamps and rehabilitation, joined by Dr. John Marquis. Rev. L E Crowson will preside, having led the campaign against the liquor by the drink amendment in the prior election.
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Charleston
Met
Walker
Marquis
UCAAP
McIintyre
Rev. L. E. Crowson
South Charleston
Crowson
TV Show Seeks Blue Law Views
A discount store operator will sponsor an hour long radio television show to gather shopper views on blue laws. Fred Haddad of Heck's stores in St Albans Charleston Parkersburg and Huntington backs a Sunday closing bill. The program airs 4 p.m. Sunday on WCHS TV and WCHS radio.
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Charleston
UPI
St. Albans
Fred Haddad
Heck
Parkersburg
Huntington
Haddad
Wchs-Tv
Wchs Radio
France's De Gaulle pushes grand design for a resurgent Europe
In Paris De Gaulle rounds his cabinet to advance plans for an independent European revival. He seeks influence from Moscow Denmark and Spain while U S NATO allies urge a broader Atlantic alliance. West Germany and Britain react with skepticism. Pravda accuses Bonn of a double game.
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Paris
Europe
United States
Red
Moscow
Serge Vinogradov
Denmark
Spain
France
U.S
NATO
Britain
de Gaulle
Ludwig Erhard
West Germany
Pravda
Bonn
Driver Charged Over Red Light Violation
John M. Donaldson Jr., 19, of South Oakwood Avenue, is ordered to appear in City Police Court Thursday night for a red light violation. He was cited by City Police at 11 02 p.m. Tuesday.
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John M. Donaldson Jr
South Oakwood Avenue
Ohio clemency panel rejects Sheppard request in clemency hearing
The Sheppard pardon and parole commission did not recommend clemency after Tuesday’s hearing. Gov. Rhodes will make the final decision. Heir to German fortune Ariane Tebbenjohanns, engaged to Sheppard, drew attention while defending his innocence. Sheppard remains at Marion Correctional Institution, with F Lee Bailey arguing his case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pardon and Parole Commission
James A. Rhodes
Sheppard
Ariane Tebbenjohanns
Dusseldorf
Germany
Tebbenjohanns
Gertrude Mahon
Cleveland
Sam
Marilyn
Bay Village
Ohio
Columbus
Marion
Marion Correctional Institution
F. Lee Bailey
Boston
Dr. Sheppard
Bailey
Mahon
U. S. Steel reports 1962 earnings decline despite fourth quarter gains
U S Steel posted 1962 net income of 163 858667 down from 190 191000 in 1961 as prices stayed steady amid higher labor and material costs. Fourth quarter earnings totaled 41 043651 for 64 cents a share with 1962 sales at 3 5 billion. Dividend remains 50 cents quarterly. record date Feb 8 and payment March 9.
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New York
UPI
US. Steel Corp
Kennedy
U.S. Steel
Roger M. Blough
Lilly's Trial Rescheduled in Grandview Murder Case
The trial of Boyd Gordon Lilly Jr. of Grandview for the murder of Wilbur Plumley near Grandview State Park was reset to 10 am Saturday Feb 9 in Raleigh County Criminal Court. Lilly and Rush Dean Roark were arrested after Plumley’s body was found.
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Boyd Gordon Lilly Jr
Grandview
Wilbur Ray Plumley
Abraham
Lilly
Raleigh County
Rush Dean Roark
Shady Spring
Plumley
Grandview State Park
E. Carl Meadows
Legislature debates tax extensions and police residency reform
Chair W. T. Brotherton announced the move to amend on a Senate bill to permanently extend the six cent cigarette tax and a Senate measure to preserve the three percent insurance premium tax. House panels received Senate passed taxes and referred them to the Finance Committee. A hearing on a bill to require only one year residency for new police applicants drew Charleston Chief Dallas Bias and Beckley Chief Millard Tyree among others from the state Fraternal Order of Police in opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Brotherton
Senate
House
House Committee On
Police Civill Service
Charleston
Dallas Bias
Beckley
Millard Tyree
State
Fraternal Order of Police
Newspaperman Lucas Dies at 57 in West Virginia
Lucas, a noted mechanical superintendent and prominent figure in West Virginia printing circles, died at a local hospital last night two days after suffering a stroke. He was 57 years old and well known across the state’s newspaper industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucas
West Virginia
Robena Miners Walk Out Again Over Safety Protest
About one thousand miners at U S Steel Robena complex walked out to protest a safety violation after a fan attendant was ordered off Frosty Run shaft and fired for refusing to leave. UMW officials cited maintenance neglect and safety breaches as factors. The walkout followed prior pauses in work and a pending March 1 report on the December 6 explosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmichaels
UPI
U.S
Steel Corp
Robena
United Mine Workers Local 6321
Frosty Run
Blake
Edward Bitner
Masontown
Michael Wade
Bitner
U. S. Steel
Lewis Evans
UMW
W.A
Tony) Boyle
Assault, Battery Counts Dropped in Local Case
An assault and battery warrant against Fred Basham was withdrawn by Anna Basham in Magistrate Joe Rodriguez's court. The defendant was given until today to pay court costs. Anna Basham charged in the warrant that he assaulted her on Jan. 8. WORTHY M. DUNN paid a $5 fine and costs for speeding cited Jan. 18. John H. Boone paid a $10 fine and costs for improper registration plus a $3 fine for an expired inspection sticker. arrested by State Police Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Basham
Anna Basham
Joe Rodriguez
Worthy M. Dunn
South Charleston
Rodriguez
John H. Boone
Fayetteville
Three-Car Crash Causes $1,000 in Damages on North Vance
A 2:45 p.m. three-car collision on North Vance Drive caused about $1,000 in damages. Edward J. Goldberg of Wilkes-Barre Pa. hit a parked 1963 model car owned by Rev. J. W. Wither spoon of 307 Beaver Ave. The impact pushed the Wither car into another parked vehicle, with a third car owned by T. R. Childers of 330 Vance Dr. No injuries were reported and no charges were filed.
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Edward J. Goldberg
Wilkes-Barre
Rev. J. W. Wither
Spoon
Beaver Ave
T. R. Childers
Vance Dr
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