Deaths and Funerals in Beckley Area
Relatives report Pearl Horvath of MacArthur died en route to Beckley Memorial Hospital shortly after release from the institution. Driver Steve Fekete left to shop when she collapsed and died before return. Funeral arrangements completed for Doss Christopher Nickell, 83, of Beaver, who died at Beckley hospital at 7 am. Born April 2, 1877 in Monroe County, he was a carpenter. Survived by wife, two stepsons, two stepdaughters, ten grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Body at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
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Pearl Horvath
MacArthur
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Steve Fekete
Doss
Christopher Nickell
Beaver
Beckley Hospital
Monroe County
Callie Purvis Nickell
Hugh Londeree
Lewisburg
Eugene Londeree
Baltimore
C. G. Lemon
Huntington
W. G. Williams
Beckley
Wade infant Floyd Glynn Wade burial rites held
Graveside rites for Floyd Glynn Wade infant son of Mr and Mrs C T Wade Jr Mullens were set for 1 pm at the family cemetery Stephenson with Rev Lonnie Blankenship officiating The baby born 252 am Saturday at Wyoming General Hospital Mullens died 815 am Monday Funeral arrangements were handled by Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home Mullens and the body was to be taken to Cunningham Funeral Home Charleston for completion of funeral plans
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Glynn Wade
C. T. Wade Jr
Mullens
Stephenson
Lonnie Blankenship
Wyoming General Hospital
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home
Final rites set for Ira James Allen Union farmer
Ira James Allen 66 of Union dies after long illness and will receive final rites at Union Methodist Church with Rev. Billee S Mick and Rev. R H Crawford presiding. Burial in Green Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife Frances Fisher Allen two daughters two dozen relatives including six sons and seven grandchildren. Born Oct 13 1894 in Salt Springs he was son of Newton and Katherine Allen. He was a retired farmer and longtime Union church member. Survivors include three brothers and a sister in Charleston plus siblings and in laws in White Sulphur Springs Pickaway Mount Hope Union and Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira James Allen
Union
Union Methodist Church
Billee S. Mick
R. H. Crawford
Green Hill
Allen
Salt Salt Springs
Theate Newton
Katherine Weikle Allen
Frances Fisher Allen
Orr Wallace
White Sulphur Springs
Albert Fullen
Malcomb
Richard Lee
Pickaway
Eugene
Bill
Gill
S. J. Allen
Cleve
Quilly
Mount Hope
Arnold Allen
Charleston
Lucy Allen McGraw
Emery Lamaster Dies at 59 After Brief Illness
Emery Lamaster, 59, of Bradley, died at 10 a.m. Monday at a Beckley hospital after a short illness. He was a member of Bradley Presbyterian Church. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope.
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Emery Lamaster
Bradley
Beckley Hospital
Bradley Presbyterian Church
Tyree Funeral Home
Mount Hope
New Defense Aid Plan Discussed in House
Mansfield outlined a new foreign aid strategy to reduce overlap and waste, focusing on economic assistance while tying military aid to the defense budget. Rayburn said progress is solid as Congress moves through feed grain, sugar, and defense measures with a likely minimum wage debate upcoming. Some Kennedy proposals remain in committees a week after expected action.
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Mansfield
Rayburn Mansfield
U.S
Rayburn
Congress
House
Senate
Post Office Treasury
Kennedy
Colonel Banks Receives Legion of Merit for Norway Service
Col Banks held temporary rank of lieutenant colonel while with the MAAG in Norway in 1957. He earned the Legion of Merit, the second highest peacetime U S military award, for two years as chief of the Air Force MAAG section in Oslo and aiding the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Rear Admiral Settle lauded him as an outstanding officer with high potential. Banks is Mary Goldsmith Banks's husband and brother of Mrs Clyde A Smith of Beckley.
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Military Assistance Advisory Group
Norway
Col. Banks
Legion of Merit
Air Force
MAAG
Oslo
Royal Norwegian Air Force
T. G. Settle
Banks
United States
Clyde A. Smith
Beckley
Mary Goldsmith
Robert S. Goldsmith
Goldsmith
Woodlawn Avenue
Elmer M. Truax Dies at Beckley VA Hospital
Elmer M. Truax, 49, of Charleston, died at 6:30 at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital. Funeral details not provided.
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Elmer M. Truax
Charleston
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Commodities Distribution at Skelton Home
Commodities are to be distributed at the Skelton home of Percy Fountain from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Skelton
Percy Fountain
Indian Skeleton Found Believed 8 000 Years Old
On St Simons Island Georgia eight thousand years before white settlers, a skeleton was uncovered by construction workers buried on its right side with knees to chest facing the sea and oyster shells covering bones. Dr Madeline Kneberg of the University of Tennessee notes archaic Indian likeness and burial patterns. Parts move to Smithsonian. determination pending.
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ST. Simons Islands
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
South
State To Check Heavy Scales In West Virginia
Labor Department to deploy a $19,000 weighing rig built in Pennsylvania to test scales statewide. Weighing devices used in cattle, wholesale, and retail settings will be checked beginning in Cabell County, with weights placed on scales to verify accuracy.
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West Virginia Labor Department
Richard Kennell
Elizabethtown
U. S. Labor Department
Weights and Measures
Cabell County
Kennetl
Switchover at Sophia liquor store noted in Raleigh area
White, the supervisor since Jan 23, announces a complete switch at the Sophia liquor store within a day. John E. Ward becomes manager, replacing E. H. Ballard who remains briefly to train. New Democratic staff include James Salver and Haylow McKinney, replacing Azel Clay and Bobby G. Dillon as Republicans fall back.
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Orange Snuffer
White
Sophia Liquor
John E. Ward
Sophia
E. H. Ballard
Ballard
Ward
Haylow McKinney
James Salver
West Virginia candidate leads Junior Miss contest
Bonnie Barbakow of Princeton leads West Virginia in the national Junior Miss pageant in Mobile Alabama. She is the second Mountain State entrant, following Phyllis Whitenack of Bluefield who previously won when she entered in 1958.
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Mobile
Ala
UPI
West Virginia
Bonnie Barbakow
Princeton
Phyllis Whitenack
Bluefield
Kennedy medical care plan for the aged outlined
The plan would cover about 14.2 million people over 65 through Social Security and railroad retirement. It would begin October 1, 1962, funded by raising the Social Security tax on earnings up to $5,000. An additional quarter of one percent tax rise starting January 1, 1963, would add to a prior half percent hike, lifting total employer employee tax to 4 percent and self employed to 6 percent. The current yearly employer maximum rises from $144 to $216 by 1969, and to $250 if both proposed increases pass.
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Kennedy
Wage Bill Passage Sought By Weekend
Washington AP The House aims to debate Kennedy's minimum wage bill Tuesday with a target of final action by Thursday or Friday. Rep. Roosevelt notes risk from lawmakers’ travel, while rival Ayres Kitchin coalition pushes a $1.15 wage with broader limits. both seek to extend to millions of workers. Also under review are a banking bill for depressed areas and Navy Space Committee testimony on the McNamara Air Force control plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
House
Kennedy
James Roosevelt
Dcailif
Roosevelt
William Ayres
Ohio
Ayres-Kitchin
House Banking Committee
Senate
Navy
John B. Connally Jr
House Space Committee
Defense
Robert S.mcnamara
Air Force
Connally
Three Striking Hotel Workers Resume Duties at Beckley
For a second day no pickets appeared at the Beckley Hotel where several employees strike for higher wages has lasted over a month. Attorney Sibbley Westherford said no withdrawal notice was received but three maids among the strikers have returned to work and hotel operations continued normally. Reid P. Davis of the United Mine Workers district 50 declined to comment on the absence of pickets.
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Beckley
Sibbley Westherford
Reid P. Davis
District 50
United Mine Workers of America
Judge declares mistrial in Milton juvenile case
Judge Winters announced from the bench that grounds for mistrial existed after reading the petition. The case returns to Hereford for a March 31 hearing where the injunction may be made permanent or sent back to Common Pleas Court. An eighth grade girl is charged in the fatal shooting of her father Avery G. Smith at their Milton home last January. Police say she claimed she shot him after years of beatings of her and her siblings.
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Ters
Winters
Hereford
Juvenile Court
Common Pleas Court
Avery G. Smith
Milton
West Virginia users oppose gas tax extension
The West Virginia Highway Users Conference criticized President Kennedy's proposal to extend the four cent per gallon gasoline tax to fund interstate highway construction. The group warned the continuation would cost West Virginia about five million dollars and hurt the trucking industry as diesel fuel and tire taxes were also suggested to rise.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
West Virginia
House
Ways & Means Committee
Press Agent Tackles Caroline Gossip Problem
Press secretary Pierre Salinger says he and Caroline Kennedy, age three, have discussed keeping gossip in house. The First Family seeks to curb offhand remarks that previously described the President as barefoot and idle in his office to reporters.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Kennedy
Caroline
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
National Democratic Club
Route 16 Relocation Property Valuation Questioned
Values placed on the DAntonio property on South Oakwood Avenue range from 47000 to 52000 in Raleigh County Circuit Court as the State Road Commission seeks condemnation for the Route 16 relocation. The DAntonios contest the award and seek a jury trial, with multiple real estate professionals voicing appraisals and jurors impaneled to assess the site.
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D’antonio
South Oakwood Avenue
Raleigh County
Joe D’antonio
Stret
State Road Commission
William File Jr
Seph Luchini
Oakwood Avenue
Sam Thomson
Quality Lumber Co
Ross P. Daniel Jr
Beckley
J. Everett Shrewsbury
Essie Day Adams
John J. Beard
Roy M. Bostic
Luke Bowers
S. C. Ballard
Ronald Gunter
Jack Hilton
Herbert Morgan
Belle Swarthout
Donald Weir
Wilbur West
Carl Lambert
J. W. Maxwell
Alfred J. Taylor III
Twelve Defendants Forfeit Bonds In Beckley Court
Beckley Police Court Monday night saw twelve defendants forfeit bonds totaling 459.50. Top forfeiture was 200 by John West, Chi Chi's Grill manager, on charges of operating a lottery and unlawful sale of liquor before 1 p.m. Sunday. James A. Smith of Parkersburg forfeited 108 for driving while intoxicated. Sherwood Brown of Beckley forfeited 15 for improper vehicle registration. G. W. Bell of Raleigh forfeited 15 for gambling, Michael E. Zastawniak of Minden 15 for making unnecessary noise, a 315 bond by James Sheppard of Beckley for improper registration, six others forfeited 106.50 on drunkenness charges. A Glen Morgan man was acquitted on a drunkenness charge by Judge Edward P. Stansbury.
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Beckley
John West
Chi Chi's Grill
Johnstown Road
James A. Smith
Parkersburg
Sherwood Brown
G. W. Bell
Raleigh
Michael E. Zastawniak
Minden
James Sheppard
Glen Morgan
Edward P. Stansbury
Gable Son and Birth At Hospital
Mrs. Hommes stayed with Mrs. Gable in the hospital bedroom as Kay viewed the newborn after a Caesarean. The baby was delivered by Dr. Richard Clark and both mother and child were reported in good condition with no complications. Mrs. Gable planned to return home in about a week.
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Richard Clark
Supreme Court Terms Civil Rights Appeals in Baton Rouge Case
The court may delay ruling on the Baton Rouge desegregation appeal, with a decision expected weeks or months after next fall. Meanwhile it affirmed a lower court desegregation order for New Orleans public schools and agreed to review a Virginia law affecting NAACP activity in school desegregation cases.
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Atlanta
Greensboro
N. C
Lynchburg
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Baton Rouge
Supreme Court
New Orleans
Virginia
NAACP
Man Kills Self in Williams Town
WILLIAMSTOWN West Virginia Charles C Siders 46 of Williams Town apparently shot himself in the head with a 22 caliber pistol at his home Monday He had been in ill health for some time Also in brief Princeton Dan Carr Jr of Princeton to be sworn in today as Mercer County Court member to succeed Clarence Elmore who resigned amid questions over dual offices Norfolk and Western to hold 36th annual Better Service Conference March 31 April 1 in Roanoke Nine
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Self
Williamstown
UPI
Charles C. Siders
Elmore Princeton
Dan Carr Jr
Princeton
Mercer County
Clarence Elmore
Roanoke
Norfolk & Western Railway
West
Police disperse crowd as leaflets flood streets
Police break up a gathering using a loudspeaker truck while leaflets rain down from a nearby building. The leaflets urge “remember Sharpeville” and claim “our policy is good neighborliness Verwoerd,” echoing Prime Minister Verwoerd’s London remark on racial segregation.
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Erasmus
Verwoerd
Hendrik F. Verwoerd
London
Shoplifting Charges Go To Grand Jury In Raleigh County
Nathaniel Reynolds and Catherine Hays of Beckley waived preliminary hearings before Magistrate Joe Rodriguez on shoplifting charges and were remanded to Raleigh County Jail in lieu of $2,000 bond each. Reynolds also waived an old shoplifting charge and faced Grand Jury action. They were arrested Monday for stealing meat and cigarets from Acme Supermarket. Hays has been jailed again this week for shoplifting. Mary Lawhorn waived two forgery counts and was remanded in lieu of $1,000 bond. James A. Phillips III pleaded guilty to destruction of property and was fined $10 and costs for driving into Pete and Bob's Drive-In and agreed to pay damages.
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Nathaniel Reynolds
Catherine Hays
Beckley
Joe Rodriguez
Raleigh
Reynolds
Acme
Hays
Mary Lawhorn
Rodriguez
James A. Phillips
Meadows St
Phillips
Pete and
Bob
Valley Drive
Congo Tensions Rise as Mobutu Presses UN Exit
Kasongo reports show quiet town as Mobutu warns UN troops to leave Kasongo Banana and Matadi ports are within range of his threats. Kasavubu demands UN withdrawal, seeks civilian aid only. Mobutu backs a confederation under a single army to defend Katanga and plans a military conference with Tshombe and Kalonji forces. An American missionary denied rape rumors amid rumors from Kindu Province, noting civil authorities shift daily and Americans were evacuated after five weeks.
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Kasongo
Mobutu
Banana
Matadi
United Nations
Joseph Kasavubu
U.N
Congo
Kasavubu
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Equator
Oriental
Patrice Lumumba
Tshombe
Albert Kalonji
South
Kasai
Elisabethville
Kindu
Fred Vinton
Lyndwood
Calif
Samuel
Ebensburg
Vinton
Louise
Freddy
Cities Vote Today In Follansbee And Spencer
Election day in Follansbee and Spencer as residents cast ballots for mayors. In Follansbee the candidates are Vincent Curtis and Dino Quarranta. In Spencer the field includes former Sheriff C B Westfall W T Smith Forrest Hoff and D H Garred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Follansbee
Spencer
Vincent Curtis
Dino Quarranta
C. B. Westfall
W. T. Smith
Forrest Hoff
D. H. Garred
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Mrs. Pearl Horvath
Floyd G. Wade
A. m
Cunningham Funeral Home
Charlleston
Richmond
Poke Store
Kay
Neville ST
Mistrial
W. Va
Camper
Route 16
Gable
N&w Meet
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