Deaths and funerals in Pierpont Mullens Coal City Scarbro and area
In Pierpont and Mullens area funeral plans are incomplete for Danny Wingfield 26 who died from injuries in a one car accident on June 16. Mrs Roberta Graham 31 of Coal City dies after a sudden illness her service Tuesday in Sophia with burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Nellie Filipek 74 of Scarbro passes from a heart attack funeral Tuesday at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church Oak Hill burial HighLands Memorial Park. John Trimble 61 of Meade pronounced dead on arrival at local hospital after long illness body at Trent and Durgan Funeral Home. Survivors and funeral details are given for each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danny Wingfield
Pierpont
Bluefield
Pierpont-Mullens Road
William Sarver
Sam Fogiesong
Nease and Neely
Moullens
Roberta Graham
Coal City
Fred X. Williams
Chanel
Sophia
Everett R. Shefer
Sunset Memorial Park
Graham
Amigo
Colin
Jessie Meadows Norman
Craigie
Michael
Debra
Diznpa
Nancy
Barry
Kevin
Robin
Robert Norman
Thompson
Ohio
Ronald
Jackie
Randall
Batavia
Daniel Reed
Thelma Lilly
Toledo
Bobby| Brenkenship
Pineville
Eineral
Joey
Cornet
Clay
Russell McKinney
Bobbie
Blenkenship
Velmer Lily
Bobby Johnson
Nellie Filipek
Scarbro
Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Scarbre
Leo Werner
High Lawns Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Filpek
Poland
Sts
Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Loseph
John Trimble
Meade
Trent and Durgan Funeral Home
Uterccinet
Stephanie Lee Holliday
John
Audrey Hypes Holliday
Sprague
James
Lester Cenie- Garfield Foster Jr
Tery
Mount View
South Kanawha
Tiam
Keyser-Bryant
Drs
Kenneth L. Swank
Ross M
Johnnie
Don Evans
Willie
Becky
Park
Foster
Rose and Quesenberry
Attanl
Frances Burgess
Frances Marie Burgess
Ernest T. Burgess
Glenn Morgan
Multiple Obituaries and Funeral Notices from Local Hospital Events
An assemblage of obituaries and funeral notices for several individuals including James Foster Jr and Erness Treadway, with details on birthplaces, family survivors, funeral times, and burial locations. Also notes on infant Holliday and Frances Burgess pending arrangements and a Dayton family death prompting relatives to travel.
Obituary of Lilburn H Hughes Suluue
Lilburn H Hughes Suluue, 77, of Sulpvale FL and formerly of Tams, died in a Charleston hospital Sunday after a short illness. Former Gulf Smokeless Coal Co. employee and long time Coastal Truck Lines worker in St Albans. Survived by wife Zelda, son Patrick, step son Kenneth Barry, and four brothers. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Alley Caldorph Funeral Home St Albans with burial in St Albans cemetery.
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Suluue FL
Pentagon weighs plans to withdraw 325000 Vietnam troops
Washington reports the Pentagon is crafting contingency plans to withdraw up to 325000 U.S. troops from Vietnam. Plans consider a cautious pullback by year end 1970, retaining about 200000 advisory personnel. White House and Nixon statements provide timeline momentum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Defense
Clark M. Clifford
Clifford
U.S
Vietnam
CIA Doubts USSR First Strike Attempt Revealed
Washington reports Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laud faced Capitol Hill questioning on Nixon antimissile plans as intelligence info suggested doubt about a Soviet first strike. Officials note the White House framed Nixon's comments as hope rather than a firm commitment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Melvin R. Laud
Capitol Hil
Nixon
Tornadoes and hail kill nine in the Midwest area
Nine people died in the United States from tornadoes and hail as storms lashed the Midwest. Severe weather uprooted trees knocked down power lines and damaged buildings while the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepared closed hearings with Laird and CIA director Richard Helms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Laird
Richard Helms
Central Intelligence Agency
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Waited
Press International
Fulbright
CIA
Soviet Union
United States
Missouri
Tomny
Wighle
Tead Belt
Sal
U.S
Clemente J. Zabrecki
D-Wis
Zablocki
Judiciary Subcommittee Approves Bill and Candidate Wins
Washington notes: a judiciary subcommittee approved a bill tied to district counts amid a candidate victory. The week features administration aims to tighten drilling rules and Senate public works and education actions on funding, hearings, and policy shifts across tax, labor, and civil rights issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judiciary Subcommittee
Pollution—Administration
Senate
Public Works Subcommittee
Washington
Nixon
Opportunities Commission
House
Sion
Congress
Farm
Senate Labor
NLRB
Foreign Aid—Administration
Uesaemerce Committee
Potosi
Old Mines
Foreign Affairs
Washington County
Uauen- Daruanta
U.S. 67
Cama
Funeral services set for Rev Grat Hatfield at Coal Mountain
The Rev Grat Hatfield 71 of Coal Mountain will have funeral services at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Missionary Baptist Church Coal Mountain with Rev Rice Browning presiding. Burial follows in Hatfield Cemetery. He died at 4 20 am Sunday in Coal Mountain of a heart attack. He was brother to Mrs Pearl Workman of New Richmond and Mrs Flossie White of Itmann. The service will be at Evans Funeral Home in Oceana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernessi
Tyree
Wanda Brown Treadway
Ernest
Bern
Jack
Oak Hill
Delores Crawford
Louise Shepherd
Ella Mae Treadway
Joyce Marie Treadway
Margaret Hudson
Richmond
Susan Smith
Page
Grat Hatfield
Coal Mountain
Missionary Baptist Church
Rice Browning
Hatfield
Coal, Mountain
Pearl Workman
New Richmond
Flossie White
Itmann
Evans Funeral Home
Oceana
RNS
ADC Council Receives Local Donations Totaling 1138
The Raleigh County Council acknowledges 1968 donations from Power Company Armco Beckley Newspapers Corp and many local businesses. Donors include Raleigh County Court which gave 5000, totaling 1138 in the year. A final Snal meeting was planned to hear a committee report with J W Carr and Charles W Jackson present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Carr
Charles W. Jackson
The
Power Company
Armco Steel Corp
Beckley Insurance
Bank of Mount Hope
Ballangee Furniture Co
Beckley Water Co
Biggs-Johnston-Withrow
Bank of Raleigh
Beckley Loan Co
R. D. Watts
Winding Gulf Coals, Inc
Raleigh County Court
Vietnam War Briefing From Front Lines
The regular U S briefing officer missed the daily newsmen session. In a firefight 24 miles northwest of Saigon, 22 guerrillas were killed by the 25th Infantry Division. U S losses totaled one killed and five wounded. South Vietnamese troops in APCs killed 98 NVA soldiers 16 miles southwest of the capital. The Ben Het Special Forces camp near 285 miles northeast of Saigon faced nightly shelling for three weeks, defended mainly by CIDG units led by Green Berets.
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U. S
U.S
Ben Het
25Th Infantry Division
Gis
Vietnam
Saigon
Mekong
Laos
Cambodia
Green Berets
Body Recovered From Ohio River Near Steubenville
The body of Dolores Bottagle, 138, of Pottery Addition just north of Steubenville, Ohio, was pulled from the Ohio River Sunday after being reported missing earlier that day.
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UPI
Dolores Bottagle
Steubenville
Ohio
Ohio River
Eight-employee hold up in East Horndon wine cellar
Police report armed bandits forced eight restaurant workers into the wine cellar in East Horndon and waited for Assistant Manager Alan Gadson with 2400 in a cashbox. They left after more than 0 minutes past opening, empty handed and cursing. Gadson arrived half an hour late, claimed he overslept, then said his car broke down and he took a bus to work.
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East Horndon
England
UPI
Alan Gadson
Gadson
Three Die On W. Va. Roads
Weekend traffic accidents in West Virginia killed three persons. Two Braxton County residents, Gladys Murphy and Nora P. Lewis of Newville, died in a two car crash on U S 19 south of Weston. Charles Oliver Wells, 18, of Quinwood, Greenbrier County, died after his car struck a parked truck in East Rainelle. Two girls were admitted to Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Ronceverte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
West Virginia
U. S. 19
Weston
Braxton County
Gladys Murphy
Nora P. Lewis
Newville
Charles Oliver Wells
Quinwood
Greenbrier County
East Rainelle
Cree
Hospital
Ronceverte
Gallitzin
UPI
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Wells
Rey
Thelosis Co
Richmond
United Mine Workers
UMW
N2ss Metals Co
Boyle
Raymond P. Shafer
Joseph Yashionski
District 5
Pittsburgh
George Titter
Ing
John Gwens
Six Die In Capsize Probe Near Azle Texas
Fort Worth resident Harvey Woods and Cherles Lake along Eagle Seborn Lake aided in a rescue effort after a 15 foot runabout carrying seven people capsized near Azle Texas on Saturday night. Woods and another man swam for help while searching for six missing relatives including his wife Jackie and twin daughters Brenda Kay and Linda Fay. Authorities recovered three bodies and continued the search as witnesses described screams and chaos on choppy waters after the boat ran out of gas.
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Azle
Tex
UPI
Thorn
Leo H. Hall
Harvey Woods
Fort Worth
Cherles
Eagle
Seborn
Mary Clay
Mountain Lake
Yeain
Woods
Tarrant
Jackie
Brenda Kay
Linda Fayeli
Plane Pirates Hijack Eastern Air Lines Jet to Cuba
An Eastern Air Lines flight carrying 81 passengers and a crew of eight was hijacked to Havana by a man who forced the cockpit door with a knife, accompanied by his daughter. The terrified wife sat with her husband and daughter as militiamen escorted the family from the plane at Jose Marti Airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose Marti
Havana
Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
Miami
Alsoj
Vietnam
Nigeria
Middle Eastland
Spain
Perer
Church of God
Jacksons Mill
UPT
Holy See
Mountaineer Boys State
Board of Public Works
State Supreme Court
Eastern Air Lines
B. L. Hutain
Rose Mary Evans
Hutain
Can Capture Central Republicans Have a Chance in 1970
GOP National Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton said the Republicans have an excellent chance to take the Senate in 1970 and a very good chance of capturing the House, depending on President Nixon's progress in ending the Vietnam War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Congress
Nixon
GOP
Rogers C. B. Morton
Morton
Senate
Hodge pleads guilty in Raleigh County Court to store burglary
Douglas Franklin Hodge of Garrison Boone County pleaded guilty in Raleigh County Criminal Court to breaking and entering the Karantonis No 1 Store at Dorothy and taking 300 dollars worth of merchandise on May 10 He awaits judgment on July 18 The indictment includes thefts of a 350 dollar radiator from JF B Nutter doing business as Mynu Coals Inc on Dec 7 1968
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Douglas Franklin Hodge
Garrison
Boone County
Raleigh County
Dorothy
Hodge
Thomas Canterbury
Mynu Coals Inc
Karantonis
Harry L. McCreery
Pompidou reshapes France cabinet and Gaullist line
Paris reports President Pompidou will pursue Gaullism with loyalty mixed in top posts. Michel Debre named defense minister with strong powers, Maurice Schumann foreign minister, Valery Giscard d Estaing finance minister as he moves to realign France toward closer U S ties and European unity. Chaban Delmas, premier, said work begins as he announces the cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
UPI
Georges Pompidou
France
Minus de Gaulle
Desior Pompidou
Gaulle
United States
Europe
Michel Debre
Pompidou
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Maurice Couve de Murville
de Gaulle
Pierre Messmer
Andre Malraux
Edgar Faure
Jean Jeanneney
Maurice Schumann
National Assembly
Debre
Schumann
Atlantic
Valery Giscard
d’Estaing
Giscard
Republican Party
West Virginia to centralized crime offices under 1968 bill
Charleston and Morgantown will host centralized law enforcement planning centers under the Omnibus Crime Control Bill of 1968 with six regional offices and Morgantown Charleston slated as locations. Regional office in Elkins closed earlier. Robert Brooks urged consolidation to Governor Moore as the state prepares for new leadership. Norman Aldridge and G Benton Miller chosen as party heads in separate balloting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vu Wes
Inu Auuul
Senate
St. Louis
Iate
Indiana
Benton
House
Judiciary
Charleston
UPI
Morgantown
Wheeling
Martinsburg
Elkins
Robert Brooks
Governor's Commission On Crime, Delinquency and Correction
Tthe
Arch A. Moore Jr
Mike Connor
South [Charleston
Norman Aldridge
National ‘Ist
G. Benton Miller
Hedgesville
Federalist Party
Publicity Director hints at priestly life renewal
Charleston report by UPI states Rich Moses 28, named director of public relations for West Virginia Department of Commerce, signals openness to discuss church demands for priestly celibacy reform and pluralism in unity, without detailing plans. Moses is planning to listen to various demands while pursuing priestly life changes.
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USGS
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Alarl K. Moses
Jnot
Moses
State Department of Commerce
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Mrs
James G. Foster Jr
Holliday Infant
Beckley
Dora Taylor Foster
James G. Foster
Louisiana State Health Department
New Orleans
John D
Lucille} Porter
Ashland
A. K
Mary Virginia) Lawrence
Winter Park
Fla
Robert Foster
Walled Lake
Mich
Edward Foster
Union Lake Mich
Joseph C
Eugene R. Foster
Beckley First
L. A. Landers
Bill Sutphin
David Mullins
Clarence Smith
Clayton Howery
Ernest B. Treadway
Adall Hughes
Lolene Hairson
Ringleben St
Dayton
Lilburn H. Hughes
Pentagon
Ussr
White House
Week In Review
Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee
Iroquois County
Kentucky
Ilinois
Hancock
Needles
Calif
Rev. Grat Hatfield
ADC
Our
Raleigh Cleaners
Richmond Cleaners
Kyle Cleaners
Raleigh Drive I
Eoe
W. Va
Cuba
Miner's
Ats
the ‘ Brotherhood
Lavar
Boys State
American Legion
Leo Oi i Uenens
Belgium
Canker
Belmont
Cpl. J. M. den
Erepeh
Nis
Tone Paul
West
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