Criticism Over Controversial Vietnam Photo Withdrawn
Rep. Harris McDowell withdrew some criticism of wire services over a May 25 Da Nang photo showing a wounded mother and child. He cited later reports from United Press International, Associated Press, and critic Richard Critchfield, saying reporters were not at fault and confusion existed. He still questioned Buddhist involvement and urged accompanying stories noting possible manipulation. He planned to insert service and Critchfield reports into the Congressional Record without comment.
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Washington
UPI
Harris McDowell
D-Del
South Viet Nam
McDowell
United Press International
Associated Press
da Nang
Washington Evening Star
Richard Critchfield
Critchfield
Congressional Record
Wire Services
Byrd urges Morgantown lab for auto smog research
Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia pressed for a major push in auto smog research and urged the Bureau of Mines to establish a laboratory at Morgantown. He cited federal spending and Public Health Service findings, advocating accelerated studies on anti smog gasoline and pollutant reduction.
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Washington
U. S
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Bureau of Mines
Morgantown
West Virginia
Public Health Service
Byrd
Interior
Stewart L. Udall
American Petroleum Institute
Bureau of Mines Studies
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Bureau
Petroleum
Senate
Supreme Court Won't Hear West Virginia Tax Appeal
West Virginia loses bid to overturn a court ruling striking down the transportation privilege tax. State Tax Commissioner G. Thomas Battle says the state owes over 10 million dollars in rail refunds to major railroads, with lawmakers needing new revenue sources to replace 2 to 4 million annually. Railroads may receive refunds as credits against future taxes.
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Charleston
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
West Virginia
G. Thomas Battle
Battle
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Alma Strikes Florida Coast With High Winds And Flood Threat
Alma lashed Florida from the Keys to Tampa Bay with 75 to 90 mph winds as tides rose, prompting evacuations for more than 20 000 people. It caused deaths in Cuba and Honduras flood chaos, while downed power lines and electrocution deaths were reported in Miami and Coral Gables. Property losses in Dade County reached at least 250 000 dollars amid widespread power outages and rising flood danger.
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Gulf of Mexico
Epee
Panhandle
Alma
Cuba
Miami
Florida Gulf Coast
Florida Keys
Tampa Bay
Caribbean
Honduras
Nicaragua
Havana
Raymond Willis
Coral Gables
Sanibel
Captive Islands
Fort Myers
Dade County
Mt State Construction to Get $191000 Contract
Mt State Construction Co of South Charleston West Virginia will be awarded a 191000 contract Friday by Army Engineers for highway draining and culvert work in Wood County The improvements respond to Bellevue Locks and Dam construction and include raising the grade of West Virginia 11 increasing the height of a railroad bridge and installing culverts.
Murder Suspect Under Lie Detector Test In Wellsburg
Brooke County authorities test a man with an unnamed suspect status in the fatal shooting of 23 year old Robert Elliott. Elliott was found dead in his car two miles off Bethany Pike south of Wellsburg with a single gunshot wound to the back. The coroner pending inquest and post mortem, while investigators declined to identify the test subject.
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Wellsburg
UPI
Brooke County
Robert Elliott
Elliott
Bethany Pike
State Road Commission
W. T. Booker
Greens Run
Expulsions strain Polish American relations
U S Ambassador Gronouski warned that Polish American ties are badly strained by a two month run of expulsions. Warsaw ordered two more embassy staff members to leave in two weeks after earlier removals of five U S military attaches and related actions.
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Warsaw
UPI
U.S
John A. Gronouski
Poland
Gronouski
USS
Oles
United States
America
U.S. Air Force
Stuart Engbretson
Army
Ralph Ochs
Marshall Hints Graduate Center For Charleston
Marshall University president Stewart Smith said establishing a graduate center in the Charleston area could be possible but would depend on higher authorities and recommendations from the Commission on Higher Education. He noted Marshall already offers graduate courses there and WVU does likewise while a WVU law school move controversy continues unresolved. A six lawyer committee led by former Gov Homer A Holt will present both sides to state lawyers for a poll.
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Charleston
UPI
Marshall University
Stewart Smith
Smith
Commission On Higher Education
Marshall
West Virginia University
WVU School of Law
Homer A. Holt
Law
Morgantown
Meredith Declines Assurance on Walking With Him
Meredith, a 32 year old Columbia University law student, said he would not state if he considered the offered assurance acceptable to keep him from arming himself. He stressed belief in law and order and warned he might urge self defense if whites persist in killing Negroes in the South. His doctors said he must rest about a week before returning to Mississippi.
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McShane
Meredith
Columbia University
South
Mississippi
West German Rail Network To Be Cut By A Third
The government approved a bill to shut about one third of West Germanys nationalized rail network amid protests from affected communities. The law must still pass the upper house, but approval was anticipated as the plan aims to reduce the red ink in the rail system.
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Bonn
UPI
West Germany
Requiem Mass for Dave Costelli 85 of Smithers
Dave Costelli 85 of Smithers dies after hospital admission. Requiem Mass at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Montgomery with Rev Eugene A Schmitt celebrant. Burial in Montgomery Memorial Park London. Survivors include wife Angela a daughter Olga Robertson Waynesboro VA two sons Pio Smithers and Lloyd Beckley a brother two sisters in Italy eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Rosary at 7:30 p.m. today in B C Hooper Funeral Home Montgomery.
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Dave Costelli
Smithers
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Eugene A. Schmitt
Montgomery Memorial Park
London
Costelli
Montgomery Hospital
Italy
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Montgomery
Angela
Olga Robertson
Waynesboro
Pio
Lloyd
Beckley
B. C. Hooper Funeral Home
Long and Bibb Obituaries Share Funeral Plans and Survivors
Funeral services are planned for Mrs. Pearl Rachel Long 65 of Baltimore formerly Oak Hill with burial at High Lawn Memorial Park Beckley. Surviving are two sons Norman W. Oak Lawn IL Buddy W Baltimore two daughters Phyllis Bozentka Beckley and Mrs Clay Walker Beckley eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. James Bibb 60 Beckley longtime Acme Construction manager dies after long illness with services at First Baptist Church and burial Sunset Memorial Park. He led Be c k l e y hardware and was a member of local and state engineering societies, survived by wife Mabel S Bibb two sons J B Bibb Jr and Dr. Thomas Lynn Bibb a sister and two brothers. Bodies lie in funeral homes with calling hours tonight.
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Pearl Rachel Long
Baltimore
Oak Hill
Tyree
Norman W
Oak Lawn
Buddy
Phyllis Bozentka
Clay Walker
Beckley
James Bibb
White Ave
First Baptist Church
Kenneth Swank
James W. Witherspoon
Sunset Memorial Park
Bibb
Acme Construction Co
T. E
Ella Love Bibb
Beckley Hardware and Supply Co
Beckley Lodge 9
AF and
National and
West Virginia Societies of Professional Engineers
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Jacksburg
Mabel S. Bibb
J. B. Bibb Jr
Dearborn
Mich
Thomas Lynn Bibb
Blacksburg
Julius Fischbach
Lansing
E. E. Bibb
C. L. Bibb
Keyser- Bryant
Ted Anderson
Jim Kessinger
Everett Shumate
Percy Stover
Carl
Basil Bailey
Willard Meadows Final Rites Held in Fayetteville
Willard Ter rance Meadows 42 of Columbus Ohio and formerly of Fayetteville dies Tuesday in Columbus Burial at Huse Memorial Park Fayetteville funeral services at First Church of God Fayetteville 2 p.m. Friday Rev Leon Nunley in charge Friends may call at Dodd Payne Funeral Home Fayetteville after 4 p.m. today
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Willard Terrance Meadows
Columbus
Ohio
Fayetteville
First Church of God
Leon Nunley
Huse Memorial Park
Dodd Payne
Robert Sarver Funeral Arrangements Incomplete
Robert Sarver 75 of Prosperity died Monday in Tampa Florida after an extended illness. He had been visiting Tampa for three months. Born in Wyoming County he had lived in Raleigh.
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Robert Sarver
Prosperity
Tampa
Fla
Wyoming County
Raleigh
Youth Corps Work Begins Here Monday
A Neighborhood Youth Corps program offers 100 part time summer jobs for county youths aged 16 to 21. A $45,000 federal grant funds the effort, with 80 boys and 20 girls to work five days a week for 10 weeks at county schools and Head Start and ESEA projects. Eligible youths report to the Beckley Youth Opportunity Center for screening.
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Verlin Walker
Nyc
Walker
Beckley
McCreery Street
Four Morris Harvey grads at spring commencement
Four local students received degrees at Morris Harvey College spring commencement on May 29. Douglas Banks Miser earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Lillian M. Holstein and Shelby Jean Stump Reece earned Bachelor of Arts in English. Helen Marie Nelson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Morris Harvey is a private liberal arts college with about 1700 full time students.
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Morris Harvey College
Douglas Banks Miser
L.D. Miser
Fairview Ave
Beckley
Lillian M. Holstein
Crab Orchard
Shelby Jean Stump Reece
W. §. Reece
Wilson St
Helen
Funeral services for William Walter Cook at Harvey Baptist Church
William Walter Cook aged 67 of Harvey dies after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 2 p.m. in Harvey Baptist Church with Elder William N. Neal officiating. Burial follows at Meadow Haven Cemetery in Ingram Branch. He leaves a daughter Mrs. Mattie Robinson of Harvey, two sons Essie Ford of Eagle and John Ford of Detroit, Michigan, three sisters Mrs. Leslie Grim, Mrs. Sarah Jenkin, and Miss Catherine Cook, and 12 grandchildren. Trent and Durgan Funeral Home will receive friends after noon Friday. the body will be moved to the church one hour before services.
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William Walter Cook
Harvey
Harvey Baptist Church
William N. Neal
Meadow Haven
Ingram Branch
Cook
Mattie B
Mattie Robinson
Essie Ford
Eagle
John Ford
Detroit
Mich
Leslie Grim
Sarah Jenkin
Newport News
Catherine Cook
Washington, D. C
Trent and Durgan Funeral Home
Final rites planned for Samuel J Thompson 79 Hel en
Samuel J Thompson 79 of Hel en died after being pronounced at 12 30 PM Wednesday. Final rites pending with Trent and Durgan Funeral Home.
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Samuel J. Thompson
Helen
Trent and Durgan Funeral Home
Jury Calls For New Racing Law In Morgantown
A Monongalia County grand jury indicted nine individuals over drag racing on U S 119 and urged WV lawmakers to make drag racing on public highways a crime for both participants and spectators. The report urged harsher penalties, license revocation, vehicle seizure, fines, and jail, and called for stronger law enforcement and a study into a legal drag racing strip.
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Morgantown
UPI
Monongalia County
U. S. 119
West Virginia
Secretary Rusk Talks With West Germans On NATO Unity
Secretary of State Dean Rusk visited Bonn to brief West German officials on NATO ministers meetings in Brussels. He praised alliance unity and emphasized NATO as both defense and peacekeeper. Rusk conveyed President Johnson’s greetings, met Chancellor Erhard, and planned talks with Prime Minister Wilson before heading to Washington. The 14 allies agreed to have France’s troops in Germany handled by Paris representatives, delaying a final decision on NATO command.
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Bonn
UPI
Dean Rusk
Western Alliance
NATO
Brussels
Gerhard Schroeder
Rusk
Paris
France
United States
NATO Alliance
Johnson
Ludwig Erhard
London
Harold Wilson
Washington
Germany
Maurice Couve de Murville
NATO Council
U. S
Gulf
Personality Spotlight Walker Enjoyed Life Despite Hazards
United Press International profile of Joseph A. Walker, 45, test pilot for the X-15, who died when his chase plane collided with a bomber. Desert-dwelling family man, outdoors enthusiast, and church volunteer, Walker burned with humor yet faced danger with calm. He flew P-38 missions in WWII, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with seven oak leaf clusters, and later worked at Edwards AFB as an engineer and test pilot. He lived in Lancaster with wife Grace and children Thomas James Joseph Elizabeth. He liked high Sierra fishing, built his home with his hands, and remained devoted to his faith and community.
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United Press International
Joseph A. Walker
Walker
Edwards Air Force Base
Desert
Los Angeles
Lancaster
Grace
Thomas
James
Joseph
Elizabeth
High Sierra
Community Methodist
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington
Lewis Research Center
Cleveland
Ohio
Joe
West Virginia Trade Mission Opens Netherlands Visit
A nine man West Virginia trade mission led by J Henry Barbour arrived in The Hague as the first stop of a six country tour to expand export markets tourism investment and coal industry study with officials from Norfolk and Western Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Rubber Fabricators West Virginia Glass Specialty and Union Carbide among others to meet Dutch businessmen and plan subsequent stops in West Germany Italy Spain and Portugal.
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the Hague
Netherlands
UPI
West Virginia
J. Henry Barbour
Hulett C. Smith
West Germany
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Barbour
Angus Peyton
William H. Hunton
Norfolk and Western Railway
H. Preston Hernshaw
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Billy Graham Plans Sermon Tour Of Soho London
American evangelist Billy Graham said he will preach on the streets of Soho in London next week during his London crusade. He hailed the run as his most successful in years, noting 134,000 listeners at Earl's Court and 4,571 inquirers seeking Christ.
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London
UPI
Billy Graham
Soho
Sin Center
North Carolina
Greater London
Graham
Earl's Court
Tennessee
Ousted Sheriff To Make Appeal
Logan County Sheriff J W Ferrell will appeal his removal order. Attorney Zane Gray Staker said he would seek a suspension of the impeachment decree in the State Supreme Court, with a Tuesday request to halt the ruling pending final decision. Special Judge John Hereford ordered Ferrell out and activated police to run the sheriff’s office until an interim appointment. Deputies were also affected. A Logan County meeting was set for Saturday to name an interim sheriff.
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Ferrell
John Hereford
Cabell County
Logan
C. C. Chambers
Logan County
Logan Construction Co
Hereford
Ex-Football Hero Aids Paratrooper Stand In Vietnam
Ex-football hero Col Henry Emerson directs a night airstrike on his own position near Kontum Province as paratroopers led by Carpenter endure heavy fire from North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong. Artillery supports sporadic cries for help while intelligence notes two regiments in the area.
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Henry E. Emerson
Milford
West Point
Emerson
Carpenter
Daniel
Dak Ta Kan
101St
U. S
Kontum Province
North Viet Nam
Dong Hoi
America
Viet Nam
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Nashville
Willard Meadows
William W. Cook
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Graham Organization
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