Baldwin to Open City Drama School at The Playhouse
Actor and director Jon Karl Baldwin announces a full time drama school in Beckley at The Playhouse on N Kanawha Street. The Beckley Curtain Callers, Inc and Investment Securities will lease the building with Gov. Hulett Smith endorsing the cultural project. Baldwin will serve as producing manager and use the Playhouse as headquarters for theatre education and local concerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jon Karl Baldwin
Baldwin
N. Kanawha Street
Beckley Curtain Callers, Inc
Baldwin and
Investment Securities, Inc
John H. McCulloch
Investment Securities
Hulett C. Smith
California
YES
UFO Reports Continue Over Columbus Area
An airport controller and six Columbus police officers report seeing a glowing oblong object tracked on radar near Columbus and southeast of the Army restricted area. Witnesses describe a greenish white cigar or wedge shaped craft traveling at about 5,000 feet before shrinking to a pin size as daylight rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, Ga
UPI
Columbus
Ft. Benning
Doyle Palmer
Muscogee County
Atlanta
Palmer
G. BH. Ferguson
Ferguson
Don Haddock
WDAK
Air Force
Michigan
Times of London Ends Front Page Classifieds Tradition
The Times of London will stop printing front page classified ads and begin placing news on the front page starting May 3. Established in 1785, the change was announced on page 10 with only brief remarks. The paper has previously printed front page news only for WWI Sunday editions and a January tribute to Sir Winston Churchill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Times of London
Winston Churchill
Duesenberg Unveils New Luxury Auto For Newsmen
Indianapolis spotlighted the first Duesenberg luxury car since the mid-1930s with a newsmen preview in a downtown hotel ballroom. The 1966 base price is 19500 dollars with 29500 dollar convertible later. 150 cars are planned this year and about 550 next year. The prototype was built in Italy with final assembly in Indiana and engines by Chrysler, bodies by Ghia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Totype
Duesenberg
Italy
Chrysler
Ghia
Turin
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Fred
Fritz) Duesenberg
August S. Duesenberg
Helen Menken Actress Dies at 64 in New York
Helen Menken veteran actress and former wife of Humphrey Bogart died of an apparent heart attack at a private party in New York. She was 64 and served as president of the American Theatre Wing. Survived by husband George N Richard, she had two prior marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
UPI
Helen Menken
Humphrey Bogart
Miss Menken
American Theatre Wing
Ingenue
George N. Richard
Bogart
Communist Delegations Arrive Amid Calls for Reform
An article in the theoretical publication notes de Stalinization progress but warns that remnants of Stalin’s reign could reappear in the Soviet Union. It cautions that ambitious leaders might pursue personal aims harming the collective effort and urges reforms to prevent past mistakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Union
Mrs Gandhi Visits U S for Talks on Peace and Tensions
Mrs Gandhi, 49, seeks closer understanding of nations and peoples as the United States and India plan joint and separate efforts for peace. Topics include China’s threat to India, Vietnam, and Kashmir. Liu Shao Chi’s Pakistan visit signals rising regional tensions amid famine and economic trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsburg
United States
India
Viet Nam
Pakistan
Kashmir
Red China
Liu Shao‘Chi
Rawalpindi
Gandhi
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Indonesian generals reshuffled to bolster anti Malaysia drive
Army chief Lt Gen Suharto aged 45 gains fifth deputy prime minister post while keeping defense role. He previously arrested 15 leftists from Sukarno era cabinet and continues to lead national security. Gen Nasution aged 47 named deputy commander of Kogam the national anti Malaysia command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaysia
Suharto
Sukarno
pro-Peking
Subandrio
A. H. Nasution
Indonesia
Four Die On West Virginia Roads In Weekend Fires
Four people died in West Virginia incidents over the weekend including a 94 year old woman killed in a house fire near Morgantown. Fire crews from Cheat Lake Star City and Brookhaven fought the blaze at Roy Payne’s home. Also killed were Monroe Dodson 55 Bluefield Union Mission superintendent in a two car crash on U S 52 near Bluefield. Roland Lambert 16 Onego hit by a car on U S 23 led to James Hedrick 20 Onego charged. Alfred Campbell 74 died when his car overturned on U S 50 near Pruntytown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
West Virginia
Morgantown
Savannah Heaster
Roy Payne
Cheat Lake
Star City
Brookhaven
Monroe Dodson
Bluefield
Alfred Campbell
Pruntytown
Boone Woman Dies of Natural Causes in West Virginia
Boone County coroner ruled 38 year old Zella Mae Dillon died from a massive cerebral hemorrhage with no evidence of foul play. Mrs Dillon was found unconscious near her backyard outhouse and died about an hour after hospital admission. Deputies noted bruises but the coroner linked them to the hemorrhage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone County Sheriff's Office
Hatfield
Viet Nam raids target Viet Cong near Saigon and Rung Sat
U S air strikes hit suspected Communist troop concentrations and a Viet Cong factory area 18 miles southeast of Hanoi in the Rung Sat zone. Other raids targeted a training area 70 miles northwest of Saigon and a guerrilla headquarters five miles north. Marines landed in the Rung Sat stake, wading through swamps on the Long Thanh Peninsula with sparse contact and a few enemy fatalities reported. The operation aims to shield Saigon River shipping from Viet Cong harassment as merchant ships face attacks in the channel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rung Sat
Saigon
U.S
Long Thanh
Mississippi arrest list ties clan members to gunfire incident
Authorities detained a group in Mississippi including Cecil Sessum 30 Howard Giles 37 Lawrence Byrd 44 Henry de Boxtel 29 Clifton Lowe 50 and others linked to a gunfire event. One man Charles Lamar Lowe 29 was arrested outside Mississippi in Houston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Cecil Victor Sessum
Cyclops
Klavern
Jones County
Miss
Howard Travis Giles
Ellisville
Lawrence Byrd
Laurel
Henry Edward de Boxtel
Clifton Eudell Lowe
Houston, Tex
James Franklin Lyons
Masonite Corp
Melvin Sennett Martin
Emanuel Moss
Deavours Nix
Charles Richard Noble
Billy Roy Pitts
Laurel Furniture
William Ray Smith
Charles Lamar Lowe
Houston
Tex
Lowe
Requiem High Mass for Anthony Misco 80
Anthony Misco 80 of 322 East Prince Street died Saturday night in a Fayetteville nursing home after a long illness. Requiem will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at St. Francis de Sales Church with Rev. Thomas Kerrigan officiating. Burial follows at Mt. Calvary Addition, Sunset Memorial Park. He was born in Italy on July 28, 1885 and belonged to St. Francis de Sales Church. Survivors include four sons Frank, Mike, D J, Patsy. three daughters Mary Ballengee, Janet Barbera, Eloise Barbera. 15 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Rosary is at 7:30 p.m. today at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home. viewing after 2 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony Misco
E. Prince St
St. Francis de Sales
Thomas Kerrigan
Mt. Calvary
Sunset Memorial Park
Misco
Fayetteville
Italy
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Ann Misco
Frank
Media
Mike
Morton
D. J
Beckley
Patsy
Melbourne
Fla
D. F
Mary) Ballengee
Andrew
Janet) Barbera
Quinn
Eloise) Barbera
Rosary
Rose and Quesenberry
Rites for Thomas H. Price Held in Rock Creek
Graveside rites for 75 year old Thomas H. Price of Rock Creek were set for 11 a m Tuesday in the family cemetery with Rev. Erbie King Jr. officiating. Price died Saturday in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. survivors include a brother, a sister in Beckley, and a nephew who lived with him. The body remained at Armstrong Funeral Home in Whitesville until service time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas H. Price
Rock Creek
Erbie King Jr
Price
Beckley Hospital
Bob Price
Martha McGinnis
Route 3
Beckley
Dennis Price
Armstrong Funeral Home
Whitesville
Multiple Obituaries and Funeral Notices in Raleigh County area
A lengthy obituary fragment notices Mrs Mary A O Neal age 82 of Bud with funeral in Mullens and burial at Hickory Ridge Cemetery. Also listed are Benjamin Harrison Bowyer age 78 of Route 1 Beckley with service at Dittsville Methodist Church and burial in Williams Cemetery, and Charles Wilson Wills age 77 of Beaver with VA hospital death and Rose funeral home arrangements. Additional items name Victor Louis Kovach age 74, and Green Tiller age 85 with services in Verner and Browning Cemetery. Survivors, church affiliations, and funeral home details accompany each entry.
Mrs Elma Adkins Dies After Long Illness in Charleston
Mrs Elma Louise Adkins 60 of Ghent died in a Charleston hospital at 6 30 a m after a long illness. Survivors include her husband Raymond E Adkins Sr one son Raymond Jr of Ghent three daughters Wanda Straub Lexington Va Betty Burns Dunbar and Patty Byce Malden a brother Ray Guthrie Charleston a sister Jetty Young Blue Creek and 10 grandchildren. The body is at the Rose and
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elma Louise Adkins
Ghent
Charleston
Ghent Missionary
Jetty Young
Blue Creek
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs H E Melton Sr at First Baptist
Funeral services for Mrs. H E Melton Sr 87 of 106 Ellison Ave will be held 2 p m Tuesday at First Baptist Church with Dr Kenneth Swank officiating Burial in Sunset Memorial Park She died Sunday after a three month illness Born Feb 27 1879 in Sycamore Va She was married to Henry Etherton Melton in 1901 He died 1949 Surviving a daughter Thelma Hedrick two sons Perry Wade and Henry E “Buster” seven grandchildren five great grandchildren Pallbearers listed Final rites for George A Young 46 of Fayetteville conducted 2 p m Tuesday at Fayetteville Baptist Church Burial in Huse Memorial Park Oak Hill He was an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co deacon veteran of World War II member of many Masonic and civic groups He is survived by wife Louise Holt Young daughter Judith Ann a brother Ray E and sister Mrs Juanita Epperly The body remains at Dodd Payne Funeral Home in Fayetteville Friends may call after 4 p m today Final rites for Mrs Sarah Sadie Edith Brooks 75 of Cleveland Ohio formerly of Fayette County will be held 3 p m Tuesday at St Andrews Episcopal Church Oak Hill Burial in High Lawn Memorial Park She died Saturday of a heart attack at a son William’s home in Cleveland Friends may call Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill 7 to 9 p m today The body will be placed in church at service time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garland C. Buchanan
Lee Street
Rich Valley
Methodist Temple
American Legion Post
Moose Lodge
Beckley Elks Lodge
Lilly Ice and Bottling Works
Argonne Forest
Raleigh County
William A
Lewis C. Buchanan
Beckley
Eugene
Dallas
Texas
Ethel Ramey
Mountain City
Tenn
Frank
Keyser - Bryant
Fiona Ann Gadd
Princeton
Wyoming County
Lewis B
Nancy Osborne Godfrey
First Baptist Church
TEL
G. S. Gadd
Elmer L
Garland S
Richmond
Leon H
Korea
Unn Osburn
Effin M. Gadd
Bertha Cooper
Martinsville
Lee Bailey
Matoaka
Meda Shannon
Hanover
Carl Godfrey
Fanny Toler
Guyan
Coal Mountain
Lloyd Ferguson
Hatfield
Toler
Blackburn
Sarah Brown Blankenship
Millard
Franklin and
Posey
Corba Morgan
Bonnie Jean Toler
Brenton
Bruce
Clear Fork
Wayne
Matheny
Herbert
Parkersburg
Lee Blankenship
Lyneco
Eliza Banther
Lynco
Evans Funeral Home
Oceana
Benjamin Harrison Bowyer
Route 1
Dittsville Methodist Church
Roy Tyree
Williams Cemetery
Bowyer
Burn Bowyer
United Mine Workers of America
Dittsville
John
U.S. Marine Corps
Viet Nam
Margie Burns
Bluefield
Tyree
Mt. Hope
Victor Louis Kovach
Greenbrier Court
Beckley Presbyterian Church
James W. Witherspoon
Sunset Memorial Park
Kovach
Temes Var
Hungary
Victor Joseph
Elizabeth Bach Kovach
New River Coal Co
Stamford
Stanaford
Suszana Nema Kovach
Thurman
Victoria) Radford
Washington, D. C
Helen) Collins
Chicago, Il
William
Irene) Harsanyi
Lavale
Leo
Betty Ann) Thomas
Indianapolis
Ind
Robert
Ida May) Wile
Hamilton
Ohio
Green Tiller
Baileysville
Verner Freewill Baptist Church
Rice Browning
Browning Cemetery
Verner
Tiller
Tommy
Flora Browning Tiller
Justice Tiller
Elbert
Emmitt
James
Meredith
Fostoria
Mae Harlow
Alexandria
Myrtle Mandate
Cleveland
Tressie Cook
Martha Bailey
Man
McDougal Funeral Home
H. E
Havana Keesee
Melton Sr
Ellison Ave
Kenneth Swank
Melton
Sycamore
John Henry
Mary Jane Dove Keesee
Henry Etherton Melton
Tsleigh County
First Baptist
Philathia
The
Missionary Society
Golden Age Society
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
King Daughter's Society
G. E
Thelma) Hedrick
Perry Wade
South Charleston
Henry E
Buster
Melton Funeral Home
George A. Young
Fayetteville
Fayetteville Baptist Church
David Sneed
Huse Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Young
Fayette County
Vernie Tyler McClelland
Samuel Young
Ray E
Juanita Epperly
Dodd Payne
Sarah
Sadie
Edith Brooks
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
William Kieldsing
High Lawn Memorial Park
Pettry Rites Pending After Sprague Man Dies
Hewey Elick Pettry, 65, of Sprague, died in a local hospital at 11 a m today. The body is at Rose and Que Senberry Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Hewey Elick Pettry
Sprague
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Final rites held for Josephus Carl Blackwell in Roanoke
Josephus Carl Blackwell 65 of Roanoke Va formerly of Lochgelly will receive funeral services at 1 p m Tuesday at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill with Rev Randolph Johnson presiding Burial follows at Odd Fellows Cemetery Oak Hill He was a retired miner and Mason of Charleston Lodge 153 He is survived by Amos son Jack of Roanoke a brother Claude of Lochgelly and three grandchildren Services will be conducted by Masonic order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephus Carl Blackwell
Roanoke
Lochgelly
Tyree
Oak Hill
Randolph Johnson
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Charleston Masonic Lodge
Amelia
Jack
Claude
Funeral services for Dr Harry F Toothman in Athens
Dr. Harry F. Toothman of Athens dies after a long illness in a Bluefield hospital. Funeral services will be 2:30 p m Tuesday at Athens Methodist Church with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery Mausoleum near Bluefield. He taught at Morris Harvey College West Liberty College Concord College and West Virginia University. He is survived by his wife Wilma and two daughters. The body rests at Seaver Mortuary Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry F. Toothman
Athens
Athens Methodist Church
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bluefield
Toothman
Morris Harvey College
Charleston
West Liberty College
West Liberty
Concord College
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Wilma
Seaver Mortuary
Princeton
Flora Shelton dies at 86 in Lockwood
Flora Shelton 86 of Lockwood died Sunday at an Oak Hill hospital after a short illness. She was survived by her son Dr. James H. Shelton and daughter Mrs. Margaret Summers, plus a sister Mrs. Newman Neal. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fairview Baptist Church. Burial 4 p.m. at High Lawn Memorial Park. Body at Waters Funeral Home Summersville after 6 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora Shelton
Lockwood
Oak Hill
Fairview Baptist Church
E. V. Shelton
James H. Shelton
Margaret Summers
Newman Neal
Zela
High Lawn Memorial Park
Waters Funeral Home
Summersville
Obituary: Joe E Craddock Killed in Arkansas Crash
Joe E Craddock 30 of Pine Bluff Ark and formerly Fayette County died after his car hit a water truck at 6 p m Saturday while returning from work. Born July 5 1936 he was son of Pete Craddock and the late Zetta Powers Craddock. Survived by wife Faye a son Joey two daughters Zetta Gaye and Cindy a sister Mrs Roger Mark am of Mansfield Ohio. Body to Wilson and Knight Funeral Parlor Greenwood Miss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe E. Craddock
Pine Bluff
Ark
Fayette County
Long Branch
Pete Craddock
Bradley
Zetta Powers Craddock
Faye
Joey
Zetta Gaye
Cindy
Roger
Nancy) Markam
Mansfield
Ohio
Wilson and Knight Funeral Parlor
Greenwood
Miss
Couple Charged in Death of Adopted Son Markku
William Jutila and Hilja Jutila were charged with murder after seven years of silence about their adopted son Markku. Investigators say Markku died from beatings from Mrs Jutila, dumped in a culvert near Mequon before the couple fled to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
UPI
William Jutila
Hilja
Jutila
Hurontown
Mich
Markku
Houghton County
A. Frans Heiderman
Ciihes
Wisconsin
Mequon
Henry E. Kessler services announced in Huntington
Henry E. Kessler 79 of Huntington died Saturday evening in a Huntington hospital. Services are at 6 p.m. today in Huntington with burial at End of the Trail Cemetery after services at 2 p.m. Tuesday at East Rainelle Baptist Church in End-of-the-Trail Cemetery. He was the father of Lawrence Kessler of Fayetteville and was born in Sandstone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Henry E. Kessler
Lawrence Kessler
Fayetteville
Sandstone
Beeld
East Rainelle Baptist Church
Henry Loving
End - of - the - Trail
Beckley Man Willie Branch Dies in Ohio Hospital
Willie Branch 46 of Beckley died Sunday after a long illness at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Chillicothe Ohio. The body is being brought to the Trent and Durgan Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Willie Branch
Veteran’s Administration Hospital
Chillicothe
Ohio
Trent and Durgan Funeral Home
Ruling narrows charges in civil rights cases in Selma and Montgomery
The Supreme Court dismisses charges against most defendants with three names remaining. Fortas notes acting under color of law does not require state officers. A separate case cites four men charged in the 1965 Selma murder of James Reed. Autopsy details show convictions in Liuzzo case with far longer sentences for Wilkins, Eaton, and Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neshoba County
Lawrence Rainey
Cecil Price
Richard A. Wissis
Philadelphia
Cox
Fortas
James J. Reed
Selma
Ala
R. B. Kelley
Elmer Cook
Namon O'Neal Hoggle
William Stanley Hoggle
Cook
Hoggles
Alabama
Justice Department
Montgomery
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
Collie LeRoy Wilkins Jr
William Orville Eaton
Eugene Thomas
Tiz Jones Neglected Life of a Local Cleric and Suspect
The article outlines Tiz Jones who joined the Nazarene Church and helped organize several congregations. He served as spiritual advisor to a young murderer awaiting execution and faced indictment in 1957 for multiple break ins across Kanawha Summers and Monroe counties, receiving 1 to 10 years plus an extra five years for a prior Braxton County felony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiz
Nazarene Church
Kanawha
Summers
Monroe
Monroe County
Braxton County
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Fedeal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Ins. Corp
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Boone
Klansmen
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Fiona Gadd
Garland
Buchanan
Mary A. O'Neal
Mary Ann O’neal
Bud
Sam Foglesong
Mullens
Alvis Green
Hickory Ridge
Macajah
O’neal
Herndon
Abraham
Grant
Otsego
Tilda Colbird
Laura Burks
Jamaca Billings
Epperly
Lena Sizemore
Sam. Foglesong, Nease and Neely Funeral Home
RNS
Benjamin H. Bowyer
Charles Wilson Wills
Beaver
Johnson City
Maude Wills
Hinton
Arthur
Victor L. Kovach
Elma L. Adkins
H. E. Melton Sr
Sarah Brooks
Hewey E. Pettry
Josephus Blackwell
Harry Toothman
Supreme Court
Tiz’ Jones
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