County Court Sets Terms and Staffing Amid Court Changes
Raleigh County officials outline upcoming criminal and circuit court terms. Judge Locke discusses plans for a new Intermediate Court and continued murder case for George Hoover Jr. while Edward Allen pleads guilty to a bad check. Officials seek federal funds for probation and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Criminal Court
Grand
George Hoover Jr
Beaver
Jimmie Ray Redden
Sprague
Edward Lewis Allen
Crab Orchard
Allen
Locke
Raleigh County
Herbert Stansbury
Fred Hurt
Florence
Raleigh County Circuit Court
Lilly
Hijacking hunt continues near Peru after plane incident
Police comb a four square mile area around Peru as investigators pursue a hijacker who may have died after an attempted skyjacking. Indiana State Police say the suspect possibly parachuted from a 727 at 320 mph and tests of parachutes were a concern, with searches focusing near the Mississinewa Reservoir area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkebile
Peru
Indiana
Don Layman
Mississinewa Reservoir
Wabash County
Castro Reunites With Soviet Leaders in Moscow Return
Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow to a lavish welcome by Leonid Brezhnev and about 1000 cheering Russians. The pair share a long embrace as officials signal a thaw in Soviet Cuban relations during Castro's friendly official visit. He is to stay 10 days to two weeks to discuss economic ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
UPD
Leonid
Brezhnev
Fidel Castro
Soviet Communist Party
Vnukovo
Castro
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Peking
Kremlin
Uncommitted Delegate Mrs Hamilton Leaning Toward McGovern
Mrs Pat Hamilton of Oak Hill said she is leaning toward Senator George McGovern for the Democratic nomination but has not committed. She seeks McGovern position papers on the guaranteed income plan and returns from Washington where she helped draft a revised party charter. Ten of West Virginia’s 35 delegates back McGovern as of now with Humphrey leading with 18 and Muskie third. the remaining four including Hamilton remain uncommitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Pat
Helen) Hamilton
George McGovern
West Virginia
South Dakota
Wyoming
Del
Warren McGraw
Martha Mitchell Leaves Husband Over Nixon Campaign
Martha Mitchell says she loves John Mitchell but will leave him until he leaves the Nixon re election effort. She describes life as a political prisoner's and recounts a security agent pulling the telephone from the wall to silence her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Thomas Thurmont
UPD
Martha Mitchell
Nixon
John
Martha
Mitchell
Newport Beach
Calif
California
Record Flooding Devastates Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valleys
The disaster scene spans Maryland to New York as the floodwaters rise on major rivers. Gov. Mandel calls it the worst in U S history with 98 000 homeless in New York and seven foot waters in Georgetown Washington flooding the Potomac. Nixon visits disaster zones praising recovery efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Mandel
Maryland
Mandel
Shapp
Harrisburg
Upstate
New York
Hornell
James River
Richmond
West Virginia
Panhandle
Ohio
Ohio River
Potomac River
Washington,c
Georgetown
Virginia
North Carolina
New Jersey
Delaware
Cuba
Florida
Nixon
Pennsylvania
Ulster Cease Fire Promises From Whitelaw Clashes and Warnings
In Londonderry Provisional IRA leaders vow the cease fire will not end the no go areas at Bogside and Creggan. Police seal Belfast for bomb scares as six die in violence over the weekend. IRA sources say the Provisionals will enforce the truce while Catholic Ardoyne residents stock essentials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Londonderry
Barney McFadden
Provisional Ira Command
Bogside
Creggan
Whitelaw
Belfast
Ulster
IRA
Provisionals
Seamus Twomey
Eee
Ardoyne
Paris Jazz Ties Bring Soldier Back To Beckley Roots
Art Simmons who joined the U S Army in 1944 led a special service unit band in Germany and later studied in Paris after a bebop festival. He traveled on State Department goodwill tours, met Martin Luther King in Paris, and now returns to Beckley valuing family ties and a possible business venture with lawyer Brown Hugo Payne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Army Band
Simmons
Paris
Gillespie
Europe
Africa
U. S.state Department
American Legion
U.S.O. Council
G. I
Martin Luther King
King
Stockholm
Harry Belafonte
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Dr. King
States
Doris Duke
United States
Spain
Beckley
Doris Green
Lester
Raleigh County
Brown Hugo Payne
Tunning Payne
South Fayette ‘Street
Deaths and Funerals in Prosperity and Surrounding Areas
Obituaries note Claude Benjamin Harrison Arthur 82 of Prosperity died Sunday after a long illness. Survived by two sons, five daughters, 26 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren. funeral Tuesday in Rose and Quesenberry. Also noted Delores Ann McGraw 20 of Stanaford died Sunday after six months illness. services Thursday Stanaford Missionary Baptist Church. John Walter Harvey 91 of 106 Bibb Ave. dies Sunday. funeral Wednesday at Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel. buried High Lawn Memorial Park. survivors include his wife Daisy Dell Harvey and four sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Benjamin ‘Harrison Arthur
Franklin
Amanda Treadway Arthur
Deate T. ‘Arthur
James Frederick
Robert
Clarksburg
Irma Arthur
Blaine
Mildred) Milam
Ray
Clara) Milam
Prosperity
Alfred
Inez
I Massey
Bradley
Kermit
Marie
Grandview
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Ernest Barley
Delores Ann McGraw
Stanaford
Bluefield
Woodrow Wilson High School
Concord College
Athens Civitan Club
Stanaford Missionary, Baptist Church
Richard CC, McGraw
Richard C. Jr
Daniel Thomas
Barbara Joan
Phyllis Lee
Violet Lewis
Skelton
Arizona Warden
Stanaford Missionary Baptist
Robert Keaton
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
John’ Walter Harvey
Bibb, Ave
Kenneth Swank
C. S. Donnelly
Raleigh General Hospital
United Transportation Union
C&o
Morris
Thomas N Martin final rites for Oak Hill banker
Thomas N Martin 48 of Oak Hill dies Sunday after an apparent heart attack while playing golf at White Oak Country Club. He was executive vice president and director of Merchant and Miners National Bank, wartime veteran, elder and choir director at First Presbyterian Church, and active in Rotary Club and local chamber groups. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Presbyterian with burial in High Lawn Memorial Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomz
Norton Martin
Highland Ave
Oak Hill
Frank T. Washburn
B. B. Breitenhouse
High Lawn Memorial Park
White Oak Country Club
Merchant and Miners National Bank
Martin
First Presbyterian Church
Final rites for Lawrence K Painter in Cirtsville
Lawrence Kel ly Painter 71 of Route 3 Eccles died Saturday in a Beckley hospital. Funeral 11 a m Tuesday at Cirtsville Methodist Church with Rev Ernest Barley officiating. Burial in Painter Cemetery Beckley. Survived by wife Francis Marie Pennington Painter Sidney Ohio one son Sherman Sidney five daughters many grandchildren. Body at Tyree Funeral Home Mount Hope with Viewing 7 to 9 p m today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Kelly
Eccles
Cirtsville Methodist Church
Cirtsville
Ernest Barley
Painter Cemetery
Route 1
Beckley
Methodist
Cittsville
Maynard
Charles T
Phonia Williams
Francis Marie Pennington
Sidney
Ohio
Sherman
Fredia Howery
New Boston
Mich
Joyce Edwards
Long Branch
Shelby Barczskwie
New Port
Shirley Hughes
Wanda Price
Tyree Funeral Home
Mount Hope
Charles C. Couort
V. McGinnis
Calfte Funeral Home
Dewey Wilson
Sunset Memorials Park
Saulsville
James H
Margaret Shumate Cozort
Raleigh- Wyoming Coal Co
Low [Gap
Funeral services for Kahlil Wakeem Corey held at St Nicholas
Funeral services were held at 10 am at St Nicholas Orthodox Church for Kahlil Wakeem Corey 85 formerly of Beckley who died Friday in Los Angeles after a long illness. The Very Rev Zacharia Nasr led the service. He leaves two sons Frederick Constantine three daughters and relatives. Burial followed at Sunset Memorial Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
Kahlil Wakeem
Cleo) Corey
Beckley
Los Angeles
Zacharia Nasr
Lebanon
Frederick
Constantine
Margaret Zeeger
Vivian White
Edna Jamison
Della Joseph
Fairlawn Ave
Sunset Memorial Park
Obituary notices for Grant Chambers Gannon and Gannon
Obituary items report Robert L. Grant 62 of 131 Orchard Ave died Sunday after illness with burial at Sunset. Mattie Bostic Chambers Bluefield died Saturday with services in Bethel AME Church and burial at Oak Grove Cemetery Bluewell. Hafetha A. Gannon 74 Oak Hill died of heart attack and final rites set at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church Scarbro with rosary in Oak Hill nursing home visitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Bostic Chambers
Bluefield
Bethel Ame
W. H. Harris
George Favors
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluewell
Montgomery County
M. C
Lamb
Lettie Bostie
West Virginia
Missionary Society of Charges
James W. Chambers
Bernice Hardgrow
Beckley Applachian Regional Hospital
James Roscoe
Miami
Fla
Esther ‘Stancil
Durham
N.C
Hafetha
Gannon
Burkholder St
Oak Hill
Sts. Peter: and Paul Catholic Church
Scarbro
Leo Werner
High Lawn Memorial Park
Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Lebanon
Toufeek
Tom) Gannon
Alfred J
George G
Mitchell Rashid
Charleston
Albert
Rashid
New York
N.Y
Majolly
Detroit
Mich
Wadia Rashid
Gekia Rashid
Lafayette
Behia Farah
Charlton Heights
Tyreen
Barges Break From Dock Sinkings Leave Three Missing
A fleet of 50 coal barges broke from the Appalachian Power plant dock on the Ohio River near Point Pleasant West Virginia. Two barges sank and three were missing but believed sunk. Coast Guard officers recovered 45 barges with no injuries and no bridge damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Plesant
W. Va
UPI
Ohio River
U.s.coast Guard
Penn Central Railroad
Coast Guard
Bobby G. Burns
Appalachian Power Co
Kyger Creek
Ohio
Civic League Plans July 21 Meeting With OEO Officials
The Raleigh County Civic League schedules a July 21 meeting in Beckley with Office of Economic Opportunity officials to discuss OEO programs for the community. Speakers include Dr. W. Astrokirk Region III director Darby Huston and Dave Mathews. site to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic League
OEO
Raleigh County Civic League
Office of Economic Opportunity
OQEO
Beckley
League
Albert Lindsey
Board of Education
Community Action Association
Dr. W. Astrokirk
Darby Huston
Dave Mathews
Lethers
Lindsay
Lindsey
Death of John W. Barry in Truck Fire Incident
John W. Barry, 39, of Walker Louisiana, died Saturday morning in a Beckley hospital from burns suffered in a fire that broke out in a truck where he was sleeping. His body rests at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Barry
Walker
Beckley
Keyser Bryant
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Craig Road
Helen Hamilton
Mrs. Hamilton
Sen. McGovern
Sen
Hubbert Humphrey
Ed Muskie
Beckley National Bank
Neville Street
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
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Secretary of
William Whitelaw
Art Simmons
Claude
B. H. Arthur
Delores McGraw
John W. Harvey
J. L
Ann) Allen
Alexandria
H. J. Harvey
R.C. Taylor
Robert C. Cochran
Lewis D. Kemper
Joe Jordan
Julius Miller
Oak Ait
Thomas N. Martin
Tyree ‘Funeral
Oak
Hill
Bob Stoner
Roy Lee
John Vargo
Joe Jarrett
Richard German
Bob McClung
Charles ‘P. Miller
Clarence G. Herndon
Bob ‘Holliday
Bank
First Pressbyterian Church
Lawrence K. Painter
Cleo Corey
Charles C. Cozort
Robert L. Grant
Orchard Ave
Dorothy
Robert H
Isabelle Kincaid Grant
Railway Express Agency
Richmond Drycleaners
Virginia , Burgess
Keyser Bryant Chapel
Ross M. Evans
Noel Christian
Guy Rumberg
W. C. Money
Roy Smith
Clarence Hylton
William Lilly
Clarence Hatcher
Mrs
Mattie Chambers
Hafetha Gannon
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