Bequest, aid queries and college questions answered
A reader column provides guidance on value of an autographed Profiles in Courage, local welfare assistance, Beckley College admissions and scholarships, and various local inquiries. It cites Mrs. Graham on book value, recommends Welfare Department contacts for financial help, notes principal history at Woodrow Wilson High School, and discusses medical and social services options for disability and health care.
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John F. Kennedy
Cecil Graham
Kennedy
Beckley
David Fitzpatrick
Dick Sepkowski
Raleigh County Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Brief world news highlights plus legal, political items
Vice President Hum phrey defends Post Office hiring relatives of congressmen in a summer jobs drive amid debate over eligibility. Judge Christie to hold hearing on Pleasant Point Resort debts over 1 million dollars in Huntington West Virginia. Jury resumes Deliberations in Miami in the murder case of Jacques Messier and his widow and her nephew. British leaders clash over Kennedy Nixon style televised debate before March 31 vote. Zsa Zsa Gabor to finalize quickie Mexican divorce in Juarez. Funeral plans set for Mickey Rooney’s mother Nell Panky in Los Angeles.
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Hubert Humphrey
Post Office Department
U. S
Sidney Christie
Huntington
Pleasant Point Resort
W.va
Pt. Pleasant
Miami
Fla
Cadance Messler
Melvin Lane Powers
Jacques Messier
Harold Wilson
Britain
Edward Heath
Wilson
Heath
Liberal Party
Jo Grimmond
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
Ciudad Juarez
Herbert Hutner
Los Angeles
Mickey Rooney
Nell Panky
Sherman Oaks
Waves of U S planes attack Red River rail lines
UPI reports American air forces swarmed over North Viet Nam ripping up over 100 miles of the Red River railroad to China. Weather cleared for the first time in weeks, allowing a maximum effort bomb campaign against military targets north of the Hanoi line since bombing resumed Feb 1.
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Saigon
Combat Deaths Now Total 2 335
U S combat fatalities in Viet Nam totaled 2 335 as of Monday, the Defense Department reported. The week ended Monday added 130 deaths, totaling the largest weekly toll since earlier in the war. The report notes higher totals in past conflicts and describes ongoing operations near Quang Ngai City, Tay Ninh and along the Hanoi Haiphong line.
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Washington
UPI
U.ss
Defense Department
U.S
Korea
Goldstar Plan Insurance Not Licensed in West Virginia
The West Virginia Insurance Commissioner states the Goldstar Company is not licensed in the state. The department cannot assist policyholders in disputes. Consumers are advised to buy only from licensed insurers to ensure taxes are paid and protections apply.
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West Virginia
Register
Insurance
Frank Montgomery
Goldstar
Insurance Department
Mississippi Tornado Toll Rises To 58 Killed
A weekend tornado outbreak across Mississippi Alabama and Georgia left at least 58 dead and about 450 injured as searchers scoured rural areas near Jackson. The Candlestick Park shopping center was wrecked and a family of six perished at Leesburg while power outages and floods battered the region.
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James L. Jones Jackson
Miss
UPI
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Jackson
Leesburg
Candlestick Park
London
Korea
The
Flowood
Forkville
Walnut Grove
Aliceville
Buhl
Tuscaloosa
Gardendale
Birmingham
Warner Robins
Columbus
Fort Payne
Ala
Delta
Marvin Pruitt
Seven Survive as CP Air DC8 Crashes in Tokyo Fog
A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC8 with 71 aboard struck a sea wall on landing in Tokyo in heavy fog, disintegrating into flaming wreckage. By late evening 53 bodies were recovered, seven survivors reported, and 11 missing feared dead. Wreckage stretched for hundreds of yards along the runway as airport operations halted. The incident follows NHK reports of at least 20 dead and a partial passenger list including ABC executive Jesse Zousmer.
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Tokyo
Hong Kong
Vancouver
American Broadcasting Company
Jesse Zousmer
Ruth
Takano
All Nippon Airlines
Tokyo Bay
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Japanese Broadcasting Co
NHK
Horacio Acavallo
Argentina
Japan
Pope Paul VI Thanks U S Catholics for Aid to Poor
Pope Paul VI in a public letter expresses gratitude to American Catholics for their charity to the poor and needy worldwide. The Army rejects Dr. Elmer Zsigmond's offer to serve in Viet Nam to have his paratrooper stepson reassigned to duty in the United States. A Saigon military spokesman says future Vietnamese operations will be named after famous people and places in the United States.
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Paul VI
Army
Elmer K. Zsigmond
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh
Viet Nam
William Z. Zsigmond
101St Airborne Division
United States
Saigon
Wild Rivers Bill Faces Local Opposition in West Virginia
A Jefferson County citizens group in Charles Town opposes including the Shenandoah River in the national wild rivers bill. They plan an organizational meeting Tuesday night to push removing the Shenandoah from the bill before the House acts on the Senate version. They argue federal land condemnation for park use intrudes on local rights. The river would span Jefferson County in full if retained.
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Charles Town
UPI
Shenandoah River
House
Jefferson County
Reds Continue Ghana Exodus
ACCRA UPI reports Russian and Chinese Communist advisers to deposed President Kwame Nkrumah are leaving Ghana as anti-Communist mood grows. Thousands in Accra and other cities stage colorful street demonstrations in support of the new military regime led by Maj. Gen. J. A. Ankrah. Nkrumah vows to overthrow the new government and seeks Guinea as a possible base for a counter coup.
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Accra
UPI
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Nkrumah
J. A. Ankrah
Addis Ababa
Guinea
Sekou Toure
Clarksburg Soldier Killed in Vietnam
The Defense Department reports Staff Sgt. Cecil Y. Ware from Clarksburg West Virginia was killed this week in Vietnam. His widow is Mrs. Gisela K. Ware of Clarksburg.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Cecil Y. Ware
Clarksburg
W. Va
Gisela K. Ware
Diallo Revises Nkrumah Role in Guinea Presidency
Guinean Ambassador Abdoulaye Diallo said Kwame Nkrumah holds rights and duties of Guinea’s presidency though Sekou Toure remains chief executive. Diallo described Nkrumah as having honorary presidency and leadership entrusted to him under constitutional provisions for African revolutionaries.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
UPI
Abdoulaye Diallo
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Sekou Toure
Diallo
Toure
Nkrumah
Guinea
Democratic Party of Guinea
Serious accident on US 21 near Bradley
Beckley state police report a serious crash on US 21 just south of Bradley around 1 15 p m with several injured and an ambulance dispatched to the scene.
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Beckley
U. S. 21
Bradley
Dispute Over Legality Delays Lester Election
The Lester levy election to raise about $3,000 for municipal improvements was halted after a dispute over poll workers. City Hall had three workers, opposed by residents who demanded five. Mayor J. Oram allegedly approved three, and he could not be reached for comment. No rescheduling details were available at press time.
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Lester Levy
Lester
City Hall
J. Oram
Oram
Portedly
Man Plans World Tour on Cigarette Money
Benjamin H. High of Lancaster plans a around the world trip financed by 2,532.50 in quarters saved as a non-smoker for a decade. He carried 10,130 quarters into a bank in a wheelbarrow, saying he began saving 20 years ago and filled a wall box with the coins.
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Lancaster
UPI
Benjamin H. High
High
Lancaster County Farmers National Bank
Blizzard Isolates Scores Across Plains and Midwest
A severe blizzard slammed the northern Plains and upper Midwest, isolating towns and trapping travelers. Hundreds of schools closed and power failed as snowdrifts buried freight trains in the Dakotas and high winds battered Colorado. Tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama killed at least 57 and injured 400. the Palm Sunday storms last year killed more than 270. A Jamestown newspaper could not be delivered for 41 years as officials logged a deadly, widespread weather event with numerous missing persons and travel advisories.
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United Press International
Plains
Upper Midwest
Dakotas
Mississippi
Alabama
Illinois
Ohio
Colorado
Pierre
S.D
Jamestown
N.D
Sun
Earl Vreneburg
Mandan
Weather snapshot for Beckley area and region
Variable clouds and mild this afternoon with a few showers. High around 62. Tonight mostly cloudy and colder with a 50 percent chance of snow flurries and a low near 30. Tomorrow cloudy and colder with a high in the low 40s. River gauges show Greenbrier slightly above normal and cloudy, Lake normal and muddy with 10 gates open.
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Beckley
Hinton
McAllen
Tex
Butte
Mont
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C. G Peregoy
R. Emerson Langfitt
C. O. Stalnaker
C. R. Knotts
Congress
Arthur Goldberg
Supreme Court
Goldberg
Felix Frankfurter
United Nations
Johnson
Abe Fortas
Fortas
Welfare Department
Department of Welfare
Alonzo Murphy
Beckley College
Marvin Jordin
Murphy
John Saunders
J. R. Dolan
West Virginia State Police
Beckley Medical Arts
Hanoi
China
Red River R. R. Hi At
Quang Ngai City
Hanoi-Haiphong
Red River Valley
U. S. 1St Infantry Division
Tay Ninh
Miss. Twister
Kenneth Fairly
Greenville
Delta Democrat-Times
Allen Thomson
Thompson
Burns
Reds
Pines
Blizzard
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
Minnesota
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