Pint-Sized Barmaid Fugitve Fights Capture in Idaho
Lillian Jo Ramos, 27, a jailbreaker described as pint sized, fired on FBI agents and officers at the Satellite Motel in Post Falls Idaho, injuring FBI agent Robert Rockwell. Police seized three loaded guns, a tear gas gun and about 900 rounds of ammunition. Ramos was wounded and taken to Deaconess Hospital Spokane in serious condition.
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Post Falls
Idaho
UPI
FBI
Lillian Jo Ramos
Dillinger
Pretty Boy Floyd
Miss Ramos
Robert Rockwell
Coeur d’Alene
Deaconess Hospital
Spokane
Wilsh
Kootenai County
Wash
Sheriff’s Office
J. Earl Milnes
Seattle
Greek Farmers Riot Over Wheat Prices in Salonika
About 5 000 farmers rioted in Salonika to protest subsidized wheat prices. Police say Communists instigated the daylong clash that left over 300 injured, including 72 officers, as 800 tractors invaded the city center with Lambrakis Youth Organization involvement noted.
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Salonika
Greece
UPI
Chris ‘Tos Apostolakos
Lambrakis Youth Organization
West Virginia records three road deaths this weekend
A Pennsylvania motorcyclist Kenneth Baker, 22, died after losing control on U S 250 near Cameron. Howard McKinney, 59, of Corning Wyoming County, died when his car left the road into a creek at Rhodes Raleigh County. Larry Cottrill, 28, of Aliquippa Pa., died in a two vehicle crash on U S 19 north of Morgantown after a tire blowout. Gloria Bihum 41 of Littleton Wetzel County and Charles Bihum 41 of New Kensington Pa. died when their car hit a tree near Waynesburg Pa.
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Dee Pratéind Deane
Pennsylvania
Marshall County
West Virginia
Kenneth Baker
Meadowlands
West Virginia University Hospital
Morgantown
U. S. 250
Cameron
Howard McKinney
Cor- Tine
Wyoming County
Rhodes
Raleigh
Larry Cottrill
Aliquippa
U. S
Gloria Bihum
Littleton
Wetzel County
Charles Bihum
New Kensington
Waynesburg
Barracksville
W. Va
Proxmire Hosts Contest On Proposed Wisconsin Laws
Senator William Proxmire held a poll of constituents to decide which laws to pass. Some ideas include outlawing coin operated restrooms and mandating two repeals for every new law. A proposal also calls for officials to circulate new photos every six months to deter aging imagery.
Randolph Urges More Coal Research After Statue Dedication
Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia praised coal miners in Farmington and urged greater federal funding for coal research. He noted anticipated Hydrogen Bomb power studies and criticized budget limits hindering coal tech development while citing industry optimism and miners pushing for safer operations.
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Farmington
UPI
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Randolph
Atomic Energy Commission
U.S
Congress
NBC ITV to drop Telephone Hour format for new documentaries
NBC ITV plans to revamp Telephone Hour from a traditional studio musical format to 16 color documentaries. Projects include Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto festival, Berkshire Festival, an international jazz festival at Comblain La Tour, and profiles of prodigies and cultural cities with international performers.
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Nbc-Tv
Nickel
Romberg
Lennie
Elmer
Elmer, Too). As the “Telephone Hour
Gian Carlo Menotti
Spoleto
Italy
Berkshire
Massachusetts
Comblain- La-Tour
Liege
Belgium
G.I
Joe Napoli
United States
Stan Getz
Anita O’day
Art Farmer
Stuff Smith
England
France
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Holland
Switzerland
Austria
Church of Comblain
John Howland
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Telephone Hour
I Networks
Deaths And Funerals Mrs Mary Music 74 Beck ley
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Music aged 74 of Beckley were held at 2 p m in the Guyandotte Baptist Church Jesse with Rev Johnny Burgess officiating. Burial followed in Cook Cemetery Jesse. She died from injuries received July 5 in a car wreck near Bradley. She was born March 12 1892 at Beckley daughter of the late Grant and Buehamia Allen. Survivors include a son Ted Brinegar and four daughters Sadie Stewart Goldie Bledsoe Julie Stewart Felia Allen. Also four brothers and one sister. The Evans Funeral Home of Oceana oversaw arrangements.
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Mary Music
Beckley
Guyandotte Baptist Church
Jesse
Johnny Burgess
Cook Cemetery
Music
Bradley
Grant and
Buehamia McMillion Allen
Edward Music
Ted Brinegar
Sadie Stewart
Matheny
Goldie Bledsoe
Princeton
Julie Stewart
Felia Allen
Cleveland MacMillion
Albert Allen
John Allen
George Allen
Laura Bryant
Clear Creek
Evans
Oceana
Funeral notes for Holland McKinney and C Walter Viars
Two obituaries note the death of Holland McKinney 59 of Corinne after a car went over a bridge at Tommy's Creek and drowning. He was a retired miner and Baptist minister with family survivors including his wife Mary Ann Simpson McKinney and children. The second notice records C Walter Viars 83 of Comfort formerly Slab Fork dying in Charleston after a short illness, with survivors across several states and funeral services planned at Calfee Chapel with burial in Sunset Memorial Park.
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Holland McKinney
Corinne
Tommy’s Creek
Rhodell
Stonecoat Creek
McKinney
Regular Baptist Church
Masonic Lodge
Admiral Chapter
Bluefield
Stephenson
Robert and
Florina Lilly Mc
C. Walter Viars
Comfort
Slab Fork
Charleston
Carroll County
George T. Viars
Viars
Slab Fork Coal Co
Christian Baptist Church
Minnie Jane Viars
Lloyd
George
Lawrence
Seth
Carl
Midway
Beulah Wade
Pearl Fairchild
Ioie Kincaid
Columbus
Ohio
Myrtle Hedrick
S. Charleston
Lucille Webb
Lester
Gladys Taylor
Palymia
N. Y
Bernice Seibert
Coco Beach
Fla
Sam Via
Patterson D Peery Funeral Arrangements Noted
Patterson Davis Peery 61 of 429 City Ave died 5:45 a m Sunday in a focal hospital of an apparent heart attack. He taught mathematics and chemistry at Beckley College and worked with isotope reactor technology programs at the University of Oklahoma. He was a Beckley Methodist Temple member and had three sons, two daughters, a brother, three sisters, and eight grandchildren. Body at Calfee Funeral Home.
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City Ave
Peery
Beckley College
Raleigh County
University of Oklahoma
Beckley Methodist Temple
Wiliam J
Annie Moss Peery
Tazewell
Goldie Tutterway Peery
Patterson Davis Jr
John Tutterway
William Ross
Beckley
Vern
Mary Ann) Montgomery
Vienna
Charles
Goldie Jean Moore
St. Petersburg
Fla
William W
Helen Goodman
Staunton, Va
Nell Bailey
Catherine Peery
Blacksburg, Va
Calfee Funeral Home
Mary Virginia Presnell Dies in Eccles at 41
Mary Virginia Presnell 41 of Eccles died unexpectedly at 10 15 p m Sunday. Born June 1925 she was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs George Roop and lived in Eccles 11 years. Surviving are three daughters, a sister, two brothers and four grandchildren. The body will lie in state at Melton Mortuary with calling after 4 p m Tuesday.
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Mary Virginia
Presnell
Eccles
George Roop
D. C. Daniel
Charleston
Jackie
Alberta) Harvey
Betty Gene Presnell
Roy Mitchem
Washington
Services for Mrs Ellen Young Held in Mount Hope
Funeral services for Mrs Ellen Lou Casto Young 33 of Cincinnati Ohio were conducted at 11 a m Tuesday in Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Mount Hope with Rev Bill Withers officiating. Burial followed at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Prosperity. She died Friday evening after a short illness at a cousin’s home Route 1 Mount Hope. Born Charleston April 30 1933 she resided at 1777 Yorktown Road Cincinnati. Survived by husband Daniel H Young father Clive Casto Ravenswood and mother Lenna Bailey Casto Dayton and sister Helen Honaker Dayton.
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Ellen Lou Casto Young
Cincinnati
Ohio
Tyree
Mount Hope
Bill Withers
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Young
Bill Craddock
Route 1
Charleston
Yorktown Road
Daniel H. Young
Clive Casto
Ravenswood
Lenna Bailey Casto
Dayton
Helen Honaker
Erhards Party Suffers Defeat In West Germany State
In North Rhine Westphalia the Christian Democrats lose control of the Landtag as Social Democrats win 49.5 percent to 42.8 percent. Erhard’s coalition drops to 86 seats while SPD takes 99 of 200. coal mine closures and anti miner rhetoric cited as factors.
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Bonn
UPS
Ludwig Erhard
West Germany
Christian Democratic Party
North Rhine-Westphalia
Erhard
Social Democratic Party
Christian’s Democrats
Free Democrats
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
New Hope For Heir Ends Third Miscarriage For Belgium Queen
Queen Fabiola suffered a miscarriage at four months and underwent emergency surgery in Brussels as King Baudouin hosted Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba. The court said the queen is not in danger and that the royal couple’s hopes remain.
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Belgium
UPI
Fabiola
Royal Palace
Baudouin
Habib Bourguiba
Graveside rites for two day old Robert E Stone
Graveside services for Robert Everette Stone two day old son of Thomas C and Marilyn Forren Stone of St Albans will be held at 4 p m today at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Prosperity with Rev E W Hall officiating The infant died at 10 30 a m Sunday in a local hospital He was born at 7 50 p m Friday Survived by maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Robert Forren Beckley and paternal grandparents Mr and Edgar E Stone Pine
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Robert Everette Stone
Thomas C
Marilyn Forren Stone
St. Albans
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
E. W. Hall
Robert Forren
Beckley
Edgar E. Stone
Pine
Airlines face slackening sales as grounded flights disrupt travel
Air travel slows as connections from grounded airlines vanish and travelers switch to buses and trains. Regional carriers saw initial reservation gains, while government plans handle mail and defense needs. Labor Secretary Wirtz joined Reynolds and Johnson was en route back to Washington after talks with no progress reported.
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Southwest Asia
W. Willard Wirtz
Reynolds
Johnson
Washington
Texas
Cable Car Crash in Chamonix Kills One, Injures Thirteen
Officials in Chamonix France say metal fatigue may have caused the weekend cable car crash that killed one and injured 13 as three cars plunged 100 feet into the white valley near Mont Blanc. Investigators say the axle likely snapped from metal fatigue.
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Chamonix
France
UPI
White Valley
Mont Blanc
Final rites held for Albert A Pettry 89 Glen Morgan
Albert A Pettry 89 of Glen Morgan formerly of Packsville died Saturday night in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. Service was at 2 pm in the Rebecca Chapel Rock Creek with Rev Elbert Miller and burial in Miller Cemetery. Survived by daughter Posey Clay of Highland Park three sons Basil Packsville George Pettry Glen Morgan nine grandchildren seven great grandchildren. Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville in charge.
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Mollie B. Miller
Lindside
Broyles
Peterstown
Charles C. Jack
Wikel
Miller
Pearisburg
Charlie Copeland
Clyde Mann
Oak Hill
William
Mary Copeland Miller
William P. Miller
Albert A. Pettry
Glen Morgan
Packsville
Rebecca
Rock Creek
Elbert Miller
Pettry
Beckley Hospital
Posey Clay
Highland Park
St. Albans
Basil
George Pettry
Armstrong Funeral Home
Whitesville
Leroy Garrett dies at 67 in Pickshin
Leroy Garrett also known as Smokey Garrett, 67, of Pickshin, died this morning in a local hospital. The body is at Trent and Durgan Funeral Home awaiting arrangements.
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Leroy (Smokey) Garrett
Pickshin
Trent and Durgan Funeral Home
Steinbeck Replies to Soviet Poet Over Vietnam War
Nobel laureate John Steinbeck writes an open letter published in Newsday defending a total denouncement of the Vietnam War. He argues that bombing civilians is unacceptable and urges Yevtushenko to use Soviet influence to halt weapons shipments through North Vietnam.
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UPD
John Steinbeck
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russia
Viet Nam
Moscow
Yeviushenko
Stein
Beck
Hanoi
Steinbeck
Newsday
Harry F. Guggenheim
Guggenheim
John
Catbird) Steinbeck
U.S
East Berlin
Budapest
Tibet
Genya
Soviet Union
King Urges Differences Resolved In Coalition Of Conscience
In Chicago Dr. Martin Luther King led about 5,000 on a two mile march to City Hall and posted a list of 14 demands to make the city an open town. He urged Negroes and whites to be bound in a shared destiny and rejected black separatism as unrealistic. Floyd McKissick of CORE said black power aims for political and economic power and does not advocate violence.
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Chicago
UPI
Martin Luther King
King
City Hall
Martin Luther
Castle Church
Wittenberg
Germany
Luther
Civil Filts
Floyd McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Ianovation
Congress Eyes Key Bills as War on Poverty Faces Floor Fight
Congress begins action on President Clinton's program with civil rights and antipoverty bills due on the House floor. The House Judiciary Committee has toned down fair housing provisions, while the CIA oversight debate grows. The $1.7 billion poverty extension survives committee but faces GOP opposition. Foreign aid heads for House debate this week and Senate next week.
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House Judiciary Committee
House Education and Labor Committee
CIA
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Senate
Contracts Rise In West Virginia Building Activity May 1966
West Virginia construction contracts climbed 8 percent in May 1966 from a year earlier, reaching 33.615 million dollars. Non building contracts more than doubled, totaling 19.342 million dollars. Through May 1966, total construction contracts reached 136.739 million dollars, a 22 percent rise from 1965.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
West Virginia
F. W. Dodge Co
McGraw-Hill, Inc
Dodge
Johnson ends 11 day holiday at Johnson City ranch
President Johnson and family wrapped up an 11 day holiday at their Johnson City ranch. Mrs Johnson, Luci, and Luci’s fiancé Patrick Nugent accompanied him as the presidential entourage prepared to fly to Washington. Johnson will focus on major administration bills in Congress and may tour anti poverty programs. The White House said Rusk and McNamara return from Asia and Pacific talks.
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Tex
UPI
Johnson
Johnson City
Lady Bird
Luci
Patrick Nugent
Randolph Air Force ‘Base
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Omaha
Des Moines
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
White House
Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Japan
Korea
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Honolulu
Adm. A. S. Grant Sharp
U.S
Pacific
Mullenax Goes On Trial For Husband's Murder
Vonda Jean Mullenax, 33, mother of nine, faces murder charges in the disappearance and death of her husband Ray. She has pleaded innocent as Preston County authorities withhold details of the case. The trial was set to begin today in KINGWOOD.
WCC to denounce raids in North Viet Nam at Geneva assembly
The World Council of Churches opens a 12 day conference in Geneva expected to denounce U S air raids on Communist North Viet Nam and urge action on racial injustice and global inequality. Clerics economists and leaders from over 200 denominations will participate including Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Vatican observers.
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WCC
North
Viet Nam
Geneva
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Vatican
Pope Paul
Soviet Union
Asia
Latin America
Africa
Eugene Carson ‘Blake
Philadelphia
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
Uppsala
Sweden
Margaret Mead
Leningrad
Nicodin
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Betty) Miska
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Ethel) Goss
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Florence) Wilson
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