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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1969
Page
1
Mrs. Sadie Reynolds Sadie Lucey Reynolds aged 69 petitions 9:45 am services. In Mullens hospital officer report body found in room Sunday neighbor statement cites ill health. Funeral arrangements set for 2 pm at Sam Fo Mullens with hearse from Oak 4 West Morgan.
Hirs L Cockerille died after a short illness. Survived by Mrs GorVa and the late Surdvers, and by two brothers Arcai Browning and Blue Jay, plus family members including Mrs Lola Via Lena and ston. Body to remain in Fairfax with funeral arrangements pending.
In Warren Ohio Mrs Marie Combs Patton 46 died at home Monday night. In Crab Orchard Mrs Winona Florente Copler 76 died after a long illness. funeral Wednesday at Melton Mortuary Chapel with Rev C D Donnelly officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Survivors include sons Clyde Emerson Sword and Jack Russell Sword and sister Mrs O De Elma Kerns. Services and calls arranged through local funeral homes. Edwina Sutton 69 also noted as dying in hospital with service planned in Springfield.
Mrs Ethel Redden Noor of Baltimore Md died Monday in a Baltimore hospital at 4 am after a brief illness. She lived in Baltimore since 1940 and was formerly of Beckley. Survived by daughter Maxine Kitenrogers of New York City and several siblings. Roy Carper 45 of Cocoa Florida formerly Beckley died in a Cocoa hospital at 5 am. Born April 9 1924 in Grandview he was son of Mrs Oci Peters Carper and the late Arthur Carper. Survived by wife Emma Brown Carper a son Kenneth a daughter Kathy two brothers and a sister. Funeral services set for Thursday in Florida.
Funeral services for Max C. Mash 88 of Welch will be held Wednesday at 1 PM in the Douglas Funeral Home Chapel Welch. Burial follows at Montevista Cemetery Welch. He died Monday morning in a Welch hospital after a long illness. Survivors include one brother John of Lenoir N C two sons Thomas of Big Sandy and Ralph of Ravenswood four daughters Helen Simmons Beckley Viola Grace Mae Mesh all at home and one grandson Innigan 70 of Columbus formerly of East Park.
Louise Furrow of Shady Spring died early today in a Hampton Virginia hospital after a brief illness. She was born September 21 1920 in Hinton a daughter of Lula Pratt Allen and the late Bred M Allen. Survivors include her husband two sons Charles and David a sister Frances Zajac a brother Arnold Allen and a grandson. She attended First Baptist Church of Shady Spring and aided with 4 H Club activities. The body will be returned to Rose and Quesembert Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Tex Harland Cline 27 of Oceana will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Church of God in Lillydale with Rev. Stellie Parsons presiding. Burial in Cook Cemetery at Lynco. Cline died after a long illness, born Feb 15, 1942 in Simon. Survivors include wife Patty Belcher Clime, two daughters Tina Marie, five brothers Don Onnie Bob Woodrow Acie Franklin and three sisters Corbie Crochick Sirens and Vergie Toler Nellie Massey. Body to be moved from Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home in Pineville to the home at 3 p.m. Wednesday and to church an hour before the funeral.
Maggie Hodges eight of Coal City will be laid to rest Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Coal City Church of God with Rev. Haskel Salmon officiating. Burial follows at Home City Cemetery. She died Monday at 4:59 p.m. in a local hospital. Born October 10, 188, in Glade Hill Virginia, she was daughter of the late Andrew Jackson and Pall Myra Hall Cundiff. She was a member of Coal City Church of God. Her husband Allen C. Hodges preceded her in 1954. Surviving are four daughters and many relatives. Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday evening and one hour before services at the church.
Schultze warned that non-Vietnam military spending would rise by $20 billion annually by 1974 under current programs, exhausting funds that could be saved by ending the war. He argued that unless present programs are cut, new weapons like the supersonic bomber could divert money from domestic initiatives.
Mrs. Butt Harris, 39, of Toronto Ohio, was admitted to St Joan's Hospital poison center after a bite by a brown recluse spider. She arrived from Valley Hospital Steubenville and is in guarded but improving condition. She is treated with cortisone as antitoxins and antidotes are available at the center.
West Virginia bank debits grew 9.3 percent in April per the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. In the Register area Beckley and Oak Hill rose while Mount Hope and Wyoming County fell. Beckley up 85 percent to 46.4 million from 42.8 million. Oak Hill up 13.3 percent to 37.6 million. Mount Hope down from 4.36 million to 4.09 million. Wyoming County down 1 percent to 10.5 million versus 16.5 million a year earlier.
A 43 year old Beckley man Ernest Fox of Plumley Avenue was sentenced to 90 days in jail on three counts of indecent exposure after arraignment before Town District Magistrate Joe Rodriguez. Police reported Fox exposed himself on three separate occasions Monday. He was fined a total of 75 dollars plus costs.
Daniel Durham of Oak posted a hash bond after a drunken driving arrest to Magistrate Joe Rodriguez. Charlie Gilbert of South Fayette St posted a $500 property bond after a drunken driving charge. Raymond Lawson of North Look Wood Ave fined 25 dollars for intoxication and indecent exposure. Edward Adkins remanded on tampering with an auto with a $500 property bond. Jessie McKinney of Coal City released after $105 in fines. Edwin Peters jailed for assault and levied a $10 fine. Chester Lewis pled guilty to assault and peace warrant, relinquishing a $5 fine and $500 bond.
Robert Kelmer Cook aged 43 of Daniels faced charges of leaving the scene after a collision with a vehicle driven by Douglas A. Nesbitt of Crab Orchard. During a Magistrate Wallace appearance the charges were withdrawn. Damages were reported at $69.62.
The West Virginia economy kept pace with national trends through April, with 17 of 22 indicators rising versus 1968. Building permits climbed 40 percent and auto sales rose 23.3 percent, while coal production lagged 13.4 percent and miner wages fell 1.4 percent. Unemployment dropped 14 percent and gas production rose 11 percent. April versus April 1963 shows gains in 15 indicators, led by auto sales and tax collections. building permits fell 38 percent from 1968. Consumer sentiment remains steady despite inflation and a 10 percent tax surcharge, though a 2.2 percent retail drop from March suggests softening. By April, 16 indicators improved from March, with coal and freight carloadings up strongly and autos up 26.6 percent.
Blair County grand jury charged Joseph Galanick and Marsha Galanick with murder after their 4% year old daughter’s badly decomposed body was found under a chest beneath the family’s trailer in Hollidaysburg. Autopsy estimated death around October 31. exact cause undisclosed.
HEW announced new welfare regulations nullifying state residency requirements, affecting an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people in 42 states and boosting program costs by 140 to 200 million dollars annually. Notices must be sent to past denials, with rules retroactive to court rulings in April.
Logan County officials and Gov Arch A Moore Jr met to discuss the proposed Appalachian Development Highway Corridor G route. Officials were told about a plan that would take about 500 residences to make room for the highway. A public hearing on the road’s location will be held in Logan. Some Logan County residents fear that studies of alternate routes could delay construction.
An employee of the plant pest control division of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture died in a two- car crash on W.Va. 28 near here Monday on his way home from Pendleton County work. Victim Leonard Wenger of Arborvale Pocahontas County raised the 1969 highway death toll to 245 versus 209 a year earlier.
Charleston report shows four coal miners who testified at the Sue Mannington No. 94 mine disaster hearing filed claims for wages and expenses. They list Layman M. Hall 124.17 Alfred H. Christner 49 Dan Thomas Sr. 119.22 and Iershe H. Mullenay 126.20, with bids submitted to the West Virginia State Court of Claims.
An explosion likely caused by a bulldozer hitting a 20 inch pipeline near Fish Creek in Moundsville left construction owner Glen Kittle dead and a man, David Baume, in critical condition after observing the site. A nearby frame house was demolished and its owner Lewis Wetzel was missing briefly before returning. The blast scorched the woods, sent flames 500 feet high, and ruptured over 40 feet of line feeding Northeast Ohio. The gas company expects 100 feet of 30 inch line replaced by evening. the operator was not a company employee and motive is unknown.
Nixon flies from Honolulu to Midway for a tentative six hour Nixon Thieu meeting at a U S naval officers Club with plan to return to Honolulu Sunday night. A fluid schedule allows for possible shorter or longer talks depending on progress. His family joins him in Hawaii before a Monday trip to San Clemente and return to the White House Tuesday evening.
Senator Randolph cites printed SNS directives urging SDS members to work in business and industry over summer. He says the group aims to disrupt unions and nonunion workers by infiltrating workplaces to cause trouble, slow production, and create disorder. He calls them a considerable danger, not merely a retreating threat.
A posse of over 20 officers surrounded a farmhouse after convicts occupied it. The fugitives, who telephoned Lumperton Police Chief Lovette, refused surrender but offered to release Wilcox if taken to an airport for flight abroad.
Authorities report a break in at a food stamp office where entrances were forced and a safe face ripped off, stealing stamps numbered 2750 H to D 655 2001 H through D 655 3500 H. This marks WV’s second food stamp theft, following a September break‑in at Hamlin that yielded about 40,000 stamps. Other stores in Parkersburg and Logan were entered without stamps taken.
SDS peaceful students to file com plaints with the Justice Depart ment against fellow students who disrupt academic proce dure. Staff investigators prepared statements for the hearing record that included a finding that the SDS has planned "the taking over of the colleges and universities by the students.'
In Jefferson County Ohio a court hearing is set for four West Virginians charged with cattle rustling. A Guernsey cow valued at 300 dollars belonging to Gerald Thorn near Richmond was reported stolen. Suspects Roger Lee Watson Larry Watson Mary G Watson and Delores Watson, all of Hilderd West Virginia, are in Jefferson County jail. A juvenile was also questioned in connection with the theft.
Charleston area dedication planned Thursday for a national fund raising project led by Mrs Edmund Muskie wife of Maine senator. She will arrive by plane and travel by bus to the asthmatic camp for children the nation’s only one of its kind.
The Raleigh County Circuit Court recorded a default judgment for Home Carpet Co. against Betty J. Halstead of Beckley for 3526.92. A Worley suit for 75,000 from Virginia and Denzil Worley against Brenda Richards Sturgill and Cecil Richards of Sophia was dismissed by joint motion. A separate Nicely versus Stump/Jr. suit for 66,000 was dismissed by joint motion. Mrs. Stump sought 50,000 for injuries and Mr. Stump 16,000.
The Melbourne and Evans collided during SEATO maneuvers. The Melbourne with 1300 aboard suffered a bow hole and light deck damage but no casualties. 216 Evans crew were saved by 40 participating ships as rescue efforts continued for additional survivors. The Evans skipper Cmdr A McLemore survived. the Evans based at Long Beach, California.
Red Summit discussions on international unity were strained as Romanians and Italians objected to unity language seen as tacit approval of the Brezhnev doctrine. The issue was to be resolved by top party officials this week while 76 of 86 Communist allies attended, signaling Soviet ideological victory over China amid a boycott.
A Pennsboro woman was charged Monday with hit and run and negligent homicide in the Memorial Day weekend death of 10 year old David Wayne Jones. Luther Sonny Whitehair is held in Ritchie County jail on $1000 bond per charge. The boy was struck on U S 50 while walking with his brother Donnie, 13.
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