British Reinforcements Push into Northern Ireland Conflict
British defense officials announced a surge of 4 000 troops into Northern Ireland to bolster operations against the Irish Republican Army amid sustained sectarian violence. The move raises total army strength to 21 000 with 8 000 in the Ulster Defense Regiment. Three soldiers and two Catholics are among the latest fatalities as bombings and arson rage across Belfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
API
Northern Ireland
Defense Ministry
Irish Republican Army
TRA
Ulster Defensement
Coldstream Guards
Buckingham Palace
West Germany
London
Weather War Question Looms in Indochina Conflict
The administration rejects a treaty on weather weapons and notes that Defense Secretary Laird says the U S has not used weather as a weapon in North Vietnam. He avoids answering if rain making occurred elsewhere. Government spokesmen admit attempts to burn defoliated forests in South Vietnam, call the effort unsuccessful and deny firestorm aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin R. Laird
United States
North Vietnam
Southeast Asia
U.S
South Vietnam
Southeast Asia Now Primary Source of U S Heroin
A government analysis finds high quality heroin smuggled from Southeast Asia rising. The Strategic Intelligence Office ties organized crime to the Southeast Asian drug market and notes growing evidence in narcotics investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Asia
New York Times
Washington
United States
Strategic Intelligence Office
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Civil suits filed in Raleigh County circuits court
Three suits are listed. Donnie B. Morgan sues Jerry Lilly for 10 000 in compensatory and 5 000 in punitive damages claiming a fractured jaw from an unprovoked May 28 assault near Grandview. Universal Underwriters Insurance Co. seeks 3 771 80 from Grady Whitlock Ford Inc. for an Aug 20 1971 account. Denzil Paul McGraw sues United Insurance Co. of America for 1 200 monthly and surgical benefits for loss of sight in his left eye from a Dec 4 1969 accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Jerry Lilly
Shady’ Spring
Donnie B. Morgan
Lilly
Grandview
Morgan
Universal Underwriters Insurance Co
Kansas City
Grady Whitlock
Divorces Ordered by Raleigh County Court
Decrees from the Intermediate Court of Raleigh County grant divorces to Clinton Edward Withrow and Sophia Johanna Withrow, and Brenda Kay Clifton and James Sherman Clifton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Intermediate Court
Raleigh County
Clinton Edward Withrow
Sophia Johanna Withrow
Brenda Kay Clifton
James Sherman Clifton
Corrected Deeds For Lot 209 In Prosperity Town Map 2
The Raleigh Register reports two corrected deeds for Lot 209 on Map 2 in Prosperity. Henry F. Crowder and others convey to Pearl E. Crowder, widow, a transfer from parent to child. Pearl E. Crowder, widow, and others convey to Henry F. Crowder and others, a corrective deed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh Register
Henry F. Crowder
Pearl E. Crowder
Town of Prosperity
Magazine Says AFL-CIO Will Back McGovern
Business Week reports AFL-CIO member unions representing up to two thirds of its 113.6 million members will endorse and work for Senator George McGovern. The piece notes unions will hold 28 conventions in two months and 23 state federations meet before the election. Democratic VP nominee Thomas Eagleton spoke to the Retail Clerks conference, receiving a warm welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPD
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Business Week
George McGovern
Meany
McGovern
South Dakota
International Association of Machinists
Meat Cutters Union
United Rubber Workers
Printing Press Union
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Garment Workers
Retail Clerks ‘International Association
Hawaii
Thomas Eagleton
Retail Clerks
Soviet Plans New Salyut Space Lab and Soyuz Shuttle
Moscow reports the Soviet Union intends to launch a new Salyut space laboratory with a two or three man Soyuz craft in the coming days. The mission would be the first manned Soviet flight since the 1971 Soyuz 11 tragedy, with cosmonauts expected to wear spacesuits throughout the voyage.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Salyut Space Laboratory
Orbiting Lab
Earth
Strikes Hit General Telephone Offices in West Virginia
Picketing by out of state IBEW members caused scattered work stoppages at General Telephone Co. of the Southeast in Bluefield Romney and Charles Town West Virginia. A company spokesman called the stoppages illegal and disruptive. Local CWA members vow a potential strike if a new contract isn’t reached by midnight August 4, threatening service in southern West Virginia and parts of western Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
W. Va
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
General Telephone Co
West Virginia
Romney
Hampshire County
Charles Town
Jefferson
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Communications Workers of America
Virginia
Llama Attacks Keeper Over Love Life at Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo keeper Charles Harke was bitten twice by a male llama while moving a female from his pen to another area. He required hospital treatment for a severed knee tendon and minor arm wounds. The keeper described wrestling the animal and avoiding further injury.
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Seattle
Wash
UPI
Charles Harke
Harke
Woodland Park Zoo
Ballard
Parole Board Frees Publisher and Hijacker
The U.S. Parole Board granted parole to publisher Ralph Ginzburg and to Alben W. Barkley Truitt, one of the first airline hijackers. Ginzburg, 42, will be paroled Oct. 11 after a 1963 pandering conviction. Truitt, 38, has served nearly three years of a 20-year sentence for hijacking a plane to Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
U.S. Parole Board
Ralph Ginzburg
Alben W. Barkley Truitt
Tammaay Hall
Carmine G. DeSapio
Alabama
Richmond W. Flowers
Oscar E. Hyde
Flowers
Hyde
Parole Board
Maudrice H. Sigler
Ginzburg
Supreme Court
Bros. Magazine
Truitt
Cuba
Douglas Takes Pentagon Papers Wiretap Case to Supreme Court
In Los Angeles UPI reports Supreme Court Justice William Douglas agreed to hear defense lawyers request to force the federal judge handling the Pentagon Papers case to reveal wiretap details. The appeal follows a failed bid in the federal appeals court. The hearing was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. EDT in Yakima, Washington. The defense represents Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
UPI
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Pentagon
Douglas
Pasadena
Yakima
Wash
Daniel Elisberg
Anthony Russo
Douglass
Consol seals poured at No. 1 mine after Blacksville tragedy
Upstate West Virginia Consol mine No. 1 seals poured today after nine coal miners died in a fire and the mine’s closure Monday. Inspectors plan to strengthen seals as nearly 2,500 miners refuse to work at other Consolidation Coal Co. mines in a safety strike.
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Blacksville
W.va
Consolidation Coal Co
Consol
Pittsburgh
Reykjavik
Iceland
Fischer
O-Oltee
Federal
Withliq
United
U. S
West Virginia
Jeau
Marion
Monongalia County
Pocahontas
Spassky Slips in Eighth World Chess Match Game
In Reykjavik the eighth game favors Fischer as Spassky misplays early in an English opening. Spassky sacrifices exchange for pawns, overlooks a knight check, and loses tempo king side. Fischer builds a decisive material edge and may shift match momentum with looming opportunities.
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AL Horowitz
New York Times
Reykjavik
Iceland
Boris Spassky
Spassky
Bobby Fischer
Fischer
Eighth Game Spassky Fischer Clash in Reykjavik Report
Fragmentary OCR recounts the eighth World Chess Championship game between Spassky and Fischer in Reykjavik. It also covers unrelated notes about mine safety and industry events, including labor and transportation discussions.
Randolph vows more aid for the handicapped in U S policy
Senator Jennings Randolph told the 14th National Convention of the National Association of the Physically Handicapped that rehabilitation is the final frontier for America's dream. He described plans to amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act to aid severely handicapped workers and to push barrier free design in public buildings. He cited ongoing work on a new highway bill approved by the Senate Public Works Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Jennings Randolph
America
Randolph
Senate
National Association of the Physically Handicapped
Senate Public Works
Sadat Rejects Face to Face Peace Talks
Cairo Egypt President Anwar Sadat rejected direct peace talks with Israel and said Egypt has 800000 men in training for another Middle East war He questioned negotiations over lands occupied and warned against surrender He thanked Russia for aid but urged less dependence while criticizing Washington for pro Israel policy blocks to peace talks
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Cairo
UPI
Anwar Sadat
Israel
Middle East
Russia
Egypt
Moscow
Washington
Consolidation President Defends Blacksville Mine Safety Record
Pittsburgh based Consolidation Coal Co President John Corcoran argued the Blacksville No. 1 mine had a better safety record than the industry average. He cited an accident frequency rate of 5.38 per million hours, 397 citations since 1969, and noted an active investigation as rescue efforts ended after methane explosions sealed the mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
UPS
Consolidation Coal Co
John Corcoran
Blacksville
Corcorani
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Corcoran
Blacksville No. 1
Ocean Waste Dumping Ban Cleared by Conference
Washington UPI report says a House-Senate conference cleared a Nixon environmental package banning ocean dumping. The bill prohibits dumping chemical or radioactive waste without an EPA permit, authorizes marine sanctuaries with fishing bans, and allocates funds for regulation 39.1 million, sanctuaries 20 million, and research 12 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Commerce Department
Oceans
Great Lakes
Kidnapers Have Executive's Wife Kidnapped in Six-State Search
The wife of a Minneapolis investment firm executive, Mrs. H. C. Piper Jr., aged 49, is kidnapped from a suburban estate by two heavyset abductors. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and both Dakotas are alerted as authorities pursue the ransom case. Details on the demanded sum were not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
UPI
Minnesota
Piper
FBI
Police
High Uinta Range Stretches Above 11 000 Feet
About 150 miles of the Uinta Mountains run along Utah’s northern boundary into Colorado, with elevations exceeding 11 000 feet.
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Uinta Mountains
Utah
Colorado
Deaths and Funerals in Beckley and surrounding areas
Infant Joseph Lepto died at a Beckley hospital with graveside rites set for 11 am Saturday at Sunset Memorial Park Beckley. Annie Esther Walker 72 Cool Ridge dies after long illness with 2 pm Saturday services at Keyser Bryant Chapel. David Denman Lewis 6 dies from accidental suffocation. Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill handling arrangements with body at the funeral home.
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Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley
Joseph Lepto
Michael
Patsy Lepto
Ashwood St
Istillborn
Thomas [Kerrigan
Tyree Funeral Home
Mount Hope
Annie Esther Walker
Cool Ridge
Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home
Mercer County
John and
Elizabeth Sweeney Meadows
Ghent
Evelyn) Roberts
Daphine Walker
O. C
Matherly
Jim Reid
Crab Orchard
Willie Meadows
Mabscott
Newton Meadows
Ray Meadows
Grandview Road
Jeffrey Matherly
Johnny Meadows
Steve
Tommy
Dale
J. G. Walker
David Denman Lewis
Pauline Erman Connelly Lewis
Minden
Oral Denman Lewis
Oak Hill
Mitchell
Crns
Should Have Checked Says Jack Anderson
Columnist Jack Anderson said he should have verified before claiming that Thomas Eagleton had drunken and reckless driving charges in the 1960s. Eagleton denied the allegation as a lie and Missouri records show two traffic involvements, speeding and an ice highway accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPD
Jack Anderson
Thomas F.eagleton
The
Washington Star-News
Robert Walters
Michael Satchell
Anderson
Eagleton
Missouri
Star- News
New Calley Trial Sought By Defense Team
Lawyers for Lt William L Calley asked the Army Court of Military Review for a new trial claiming a key defense witness was missing. The court already reviews Calleys conviction for murdering at least 22 South Vietnamese civilians after his 1971 My Lai record. Gruver said Army officials contacted him before the court martial and may have been urged to testify for the prosecution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
William L. Calley
My Lai
Army Court of Military Review
Calley
Charles “Butch” Gruver
Gruver
Daily
Oklahoman
Oklahoma City
Tax Office Opens for 1972 Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes
D L Keadle chief deputy clerk at the Raleigh County Courthouse announced the Tax Department is open for the collection of 1972 real estate and $60-acre Chippewa personal property taxes via the Indian reservation, as well as any previously unpaid taxes in Isabella County Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Keadle
Raleigh County
Col
Isabella County
Mich
Carrie Virginia Claypool Final Rites Planned in Bolt
Mrs. Carrie Virginia Claypool 91 of Bolt dies after a yearlong illness. Final rites set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Breckenridge Baptist Church Bolt with Rev. Robert Coburn officiating. Burial in Worley Cemetery. Body at Caffee Funeral Home. Pallbearers named Teddy Lacy Dewey Byrd Bill Meador Giles Dexter and Frankie Worley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Virginia Claypool
Bolt
Breckenridge
Teddy iLacy
Dewey Byrd
Bill Meador
Giles, Dexter
Frankie Worley
Lipscomb Rites Held For Huntington Man Brady W Lipscomb
Brady W Lipscomb 47 of Huntington formerly Beckley died Thursday afternoon in a Huntington hospital after an apparent heart attack. He was the son of Mr and Mrs E L Lipscomb. Additional survivors include his wife Mrs Jean Hendrickson Lipscomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady W. Lipscomb
Huntington
Beckley
E. L. Lipscomb
Jean Hendrickson Lipscomb
Court Won’t Compel Cabell To Redistrict
West Virginia Supreme Court refused to order Cabell County Court to redraw seven magisterial districts. The Kessicks sued for a writ of mandamus claiming no reapportionment for 20 years. The court left open the possibility of a new suit if action remains unaddressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
UPI
State Supreme Court
Cabell County
High Court
Anthony
Ida Kessick
Charles Haden II
Kessicks
Kanawha
E. M. “Pete” Johnson
Johnson
Drug Center Opens Tuesday In Charleston
A new model drug treatment center serving Kanawha Clay Putnam and Boone counties will open at Charleston General Hospital next Tuesday. Gov. Arch Moore announced a $257 613 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to fund operations with up to 200 patients and 15 new staff. The federal money will be matched by $50 000 from Kanawha County. The center aims to become a statewide model for eight sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
UPD
Kanawha
Clay
Putnam
Boone
Arch Moore
Department of Mental Health
National Institute of Mental Health
Charleston General Hospital
Goveror
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Parole Board Frees Publisher
Ellsberg
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Quasi Tri
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Tass
Sadat
Executive
Annie E. Walker
David D. Lewis
New Calley
Carrie Claypool
Cabell
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