WVU Nurses Pay Request Could Set Precedent
Gov. Smith told the Board of Public Works WVU seeks overtime for nurses citing emergency shortages. The BPW also heard a pay claim for Dr. Ronald Crissey at Huntington State Hospital and discussed budget collections for fiscal 1965. Concord College land purchase request was denied for lack of legal basis, and a July 2 holiday was declared for state workers creating a three day weekend.
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Charleston
UPI
Hulett C. Smith
Board of Public Works
West Virginia University
WVU
Huntington State Hospital
William Coffman
Concord College
Denzil Gainer
BPW
Alcohol Beverage Control
Clarence “Smore
Clarksburg
Truman Gore
Reds Johnsons Viet Nam policies debated by hall group
About 300 Communists from 40 states and 200 observers crowded Webster Hall to hear Hall urge an independent presidential candidacy and argue that working class unity could let Communists play a real political role if revolutionary aims are set aside.
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Johnson
Hall
Webster Hall
De Gaulle Tours Soviet Cities on Historic Visit
De Gaulle travels from Novosibirsk with Soviet President Podgorny to Leningrad Kiev and Volgograd, then returns to Moscow for talks. Sources say he may fly to Baikonur, base of Russia’s missile program, before departing.
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Novosibirsk
Siberia
Nikolai Podgorny
Leningrad
Kiev
Volgograd
Stalingrad
Moscow
de Gaulle
Russia
Baikonur
Kazakhstan
Colorado official finds first public speaking lesson
Sterling Colorado report says W C Lam athletic business manager at the University of Colorado told Sterling Country Club members that the first lesson in public speaking is to look at the sign post on the way into town. He recalled playing the local golf course 29 years earlier in Greeley.
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Sterling
Colo
Hershey Fights Draft Change in House Hearing
Washington UPI Levis B Hershey testified to Congress that there will be no switch in the draft method if he prevails as Selective Service Director He opposed lowering the peacetime top draft age while committee chairman Rivers floated a possible reduction to 22 or 23 years The hearings opened a general review of the draft with Rivers questioning and Hershey answering but adjournment ended the session without the top age discussion.
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Rivers
Congress
Hershey
Infant Mitchell Shon Harvey Dies Soon After Birth
Mitchell Shon Harvey infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Harvey of 141 Sunrise Ave. died shortly after birth. Survived by Judith Ann Lilly, maternal grandparents German and Judith Lilly of Beckley, and Herman H. Harvey and wife, paternal grandparents of Daniels. Graveside rites at Sunset Memorial Park 2 p.m. Saturday, Rev. John Winters officiating. Friends may call Caffee Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Friday.
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Mitchell Shon Harvey
Herman H. Harvey
Sunrise Ave
Judith Ann Lilly
German Fred Lilly
Beckley
Daniels
Sunset Memorial Park
John §. Winters
Caffee Funeral
Obituary notices from West Virginia churches and towns
Multiple funeral services announced for Della Mae Tully Ivan Lowery Clarence Luther Riffe and associated survivors and burial details. Deaths include Miss Tully at Lookout and Lowery in Fayetteville with services at Melton Mortuary and Sunset Memorial Park. Riffe funeral at Ikes Fork followed by burial at Lockhart Cemetery Long Hole Pole near Jaeger.
Longtime coal miner Worley dies in Oak Hill nursing home
Lacy Virgil Worley 67 of Glen Morgan died at 9 a.m. after a long illness in an Oak Hill nursing home. A retired coal miner and member of UMWA local 6005, he worked last for Republic Steel Co and was a Methodist. Born Oct 27 1898 in Beckley he was the son of Floyd and Eliza Lilly Worley. Surviving are his wife Stella and 10 sons and many relatives. The body is at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home awaiting funeral plans.
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Clarence Luther Riffe
Beckley
Free . Will Baptist Church
Ikes Fork
Roscoe Morgan
Don Ellis
Lockhart
Long Hole Pole
Jaeger
Riffe
Hanover
Demper
Amanda Riffe
Mollie Lockhart Riffe
Lacy Virgil Worley
Glen Morgan
Oak Hill
UMWA
Republic Steel Co
Methodist Church
Floyd
Eliza Lilly Worley
Stella Lilly Worley
Roy
Dillard
Kenneth
John
Gene
Crow
Virgil
Rainelle
Dale
Chicago, Ill
Leland
US Marine Corp
Albany, Ga
Lewis
Webster Springs
Bradil
Beaver
Jack
Grandview
Columbus
Ohio
Vera Hull
Woodlawn
Calif
Macil Lilly
Weirton
Hazel Gilbert
Baltimore
Mrs. Bertha Hitchcock Rites Planned in Fayetteville
Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha M. Hitchcock 63 of Oak Hill will be held 10 a m Friday at Dodd Payne Funeral Home Chapel Fayetteville with Rev Walter Shank officiating. Burial at Pleasant View Cemetery Route 1 Fayetteville. She died Wednesday in an Oak Hill hospital after a short illness. Born July 9 1902 at Gatewood to James R. and Julia Hunt Jones. Survived by husband Hubert C two daughters Charolotte Ridenhour and Carol Sue Drewry of Roanoke Va seven grandchildren four sisters and three brothers. The body will lie in state after 3 p m today.
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Della Mae Tully
Lookout
Lookout Baptist Church
Curtis Whaley
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Ansted
Tully
William M
Sarah Taylor Tully
Divide
W. A. Hardiman
Pearisburg
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Fayetteville
Bertha M. Hitchcock
Oak Hill
Walter Shank
Pleasant View
Route 1
Hitchcock
Gatewood
James R
Julia Hunt Jones
Ada Cody
Roanoke
Minnie Conner
Ollie Foy
Vena Jones
Death of Mrs S M Furnald in Rochester NY reported
Mrs Holt Virginia Kester of Harper Road learns of her mother Mrs S M Furnald’s death in a Rochester nursing home after a long illness. Kester will stay with her sister Mrs Millard Naven at 90 Kirk Road in Rochester while arranging services.
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Holt
Virginia) Kester
Harper Road
S. M. Furnald
Rochester
N.Y
John Althier dies at 79 in Parkersburg hospital
John Althier, 79, a former Fayetteville and Mount Hope resident, died at 4 a m in a Parkersburg hospital from a stroke. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs Herman Delaney of Parkersburg. The body will be returned to Fayetteville for burial.
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John Althier
Fayetteville and
Mount Hope
Parkersburg
Herman Delaney
March gunfire and planned civil rights march across states
Police report gunfire between Negroes and whites Tuesday night and another white man wounded Wednesday in Canton as a car chase ended with a possible smoke firebomb claim. Robert Green of SCLC says 50 to 75 marchers will go to Philadelphia to stage a parade to the courthouse led by King Williams and Floyd McKissick. The main freedom marchers led by Green and Carmichael will proceed toward Jackson for a Tougaloo College rally featuring Hollywood stars Saturday night.
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Canton
Robert Green
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Philadelphia
Williams
Floyd McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Green
Stokeley Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Jackson
Tougaloo College
Former WV official Nuckols free on bond after fraud conviction
Former West Virginia state senator and Raleigh County official Nuckols remains free on $10,000 bond after his February conviction in Charleston for falsifying state records. He was sentenced April 12 to 1 to 10 years with a 90 day stay of sentence to appeal, no travel restrictions, as his stay period runs.
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Charleston
W. Va
Nuckols
West Virginia
Raleigh County Court
Real Marguerite To Miss Honey Opening
The civil war musical drama Honey in the Rock opens Saturday without Miss Joyce Potter or Charleston who had been cast as Marguerite. Potter misses first performances due to illness and hospital stay. Bonnie Bray plays Marguerite with Delia by Bonnie Bray and Francine Zampano taking the role of Delia.
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Joyce Potter
Charleston
Marguerite
Honey
Bonnie Bray
Delia
Francine Zampano
Bribery Charges Threaten Wisconsin Election Year
Wisconsin leaders react to grand jury indictments charging Assembly Minority Leader Paul Alfonsi with taking 100 dollars to speed a road bill and Assemblyman Willis Hutnik with 50 dollars. Milwaukee banker Howard Meister faces a bribery charge for ordering a lobbyist to offer a payoff. Alfonsi and Hutnik plead not guilty. Meister contests the jury’s validity as trials set for July.
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Madison
Wis
UPI
Wisconsin
Dane County
Milwaukee
Warren Knowles
Patrick Lucey
Knowles
Assembly
Paul Alfonsi
Willis Hutnik
Howard J. Meister
Alfonsi
Hutnik
Meister
Ellard handed life sentence in West Virginia murder case
Robert Ellard was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder of Justin Hardman by Kanawha County judge William Thompson. Ellard gained mercy eligibility for parole after 10 years and plans to learn a trade at Moundsville Penitentiary. He received a concurrent 1 to 10 year term for burglary.
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Charleston
Robert Ellard
Justin Hardman
South Charleston
Kanawha County
William Thompson
Ellard
Thompson
Moundsville
West Virginia
Turmoil in Saigon as police kill deserter on main street
In Saigon a U.S. military police shot and killed a suspected Vietnam War deserter armed with a hand grenade after a pursuit through the city. In the same area 9,000 Vietnamese construction workers walked off for higher wages, disrupting two major runways and a new port facility. Government forces seized the pagoda center used by anti-government protesters to return it to a Buddhist rector. Police stormed Vien Hoa Dao, holding monks and youths for security. The suspect used the alias Tran Van Huu. real name Ngo Van Bay.
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U.S
Saigon
Viet Nam
Raymond International
New York
Morrison-Knudsen International
Boise
Idaho
Brown and Root
Houston
Texas
J. A. Jones
Charlotte
N.C
Thich Tam Chau
Cholon
Great National Pagoda
Vien Hoa Dao
Nguyen Cao Ky
Tran van Huu
Ngo van Bay
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Della M. Tully
Ivan Lowery
Orville Belcher
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Melton Mortuary
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Homer Roark
Howard Quesenberry
Jack O'Neill
G. T. Wilson
Forest Bostic
James Grow
Clarence Riffe
Patty Riffe
Pennie Riffe
Cullen
James
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Portsmouth
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Auldie
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North Springs
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Robert L. Chambers
Fanning
Auldie Riffe
Lockhart Cemetery
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Bertha Hitchcock
Mrs. S. M. Furnald
Dodd - Payne Funeral Home
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MacArthur, W. Va
Meadow Gold Halland
Florida Pure
Morrell
Tony
del Monte
Beaver Creek
Snider
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Ballard’s Or
Pillsbury Biscuits
Filbert
Oscar Mayer
BACON
S&h
Valley Bell Twin Pack
Valley Bell
Bunker Hill
Swifts
Iew
Loma Jones Hart
Maxwell Hill RD
Woodrow Wilson High School
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United States Navy
Bank of Raleigh
Paul G. Hart
Paula Susan
Richard Paul
Colloway Heights
Bank of Raleigh Main & Kanawha Streets
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