Funeral services for Hewey Pettry to be held Thursday
Hewey Erick Pettry 65 of Sprague died Monday after a long illness. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with Rev. Ralph Poole officiating. Burial will be in Miller Cemetery at Rock Creek. He was born July 6 1900 in Virginia, a retired coal miner. Survivors include his wife Hazel Holbrook Pettry, four sons Roger Nathan Billy and Carmel, four daughters Marie and Patricia at home and Helen Beavers and Juanita Coats of Ethel, four brothers and four sisters. The body remains at the funeral home and friends may call after 1 p.m. Wednesday.
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Hewey Erick Pettry
Sprague
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Ralph Poole
Miller Cemetery
Rock Creek
Pettry
Virginia
Shadrick
Nancy Pettry
Hazel Holbrook Pettry
Roger
Nathan
Billy
Carmel
Marie Pettry
Patricia Pettry
Nathaniel
Helen) Beavers
David
Juanita) Coats
Ethel
Final rites for Jack C Tincher in Oak Hill
Obituary notes the 56 year old sales manager for Long Airdox Co. Oak Hill died of a heart attack at a local hospital. Services set for Wednesday at Oak Hill Methodist Church with burial in Wynka Cemetery Lincoln Nebraska. Memorial details include survivors in Neb and Ohio and calling hours at Tyree Funeral Home.
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Jack C. Tincher
Country Club Rd
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Methodist Church
Tally Hanna
Wynka Cemetery
Lincoln
Neb
Tincher
Long-Airdox Co
Funeral services for Tracy Hatcher in Sophia
Funeral services for Tracy Hatcher 58 of Sophia set for 1 p m Wednesday at Fred X Williams Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Shirley Donnelly officiating Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park Hatcher died in a local hospital Monday at 5 p m after a long illness He was the son of the late German Preston and Alice Cook Hatch
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Tracy Hatcher
Sophia
Fred X. Williams
Shirley Donnelly
Sunset Memorial Park
Hatcher
German Preston
Alice Cook Hatch
FASTEETH promises tighter grip for false teeth
Advertises FASTEETH an alkaline powder to sprinkle on plates to hold false teeth more firmly and reduce plate odor. Claims it does not sour and provides comfort in social moments. Available at drug counters.
Charles Wills Funeral Arrangements Complete
Charles Wilson Wills 77 of Beaver died at 5 30 am Monday in the Veterans Administration hospital at Johnson City Tennessee. The body is at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
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Charles Wilson Wills
Beaver
Veteran’s Administration Hospital
Johnson City
Tenn
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Two Wirt County Officials Win Appeals on Embezzlement Convictions
The West Virginia Supreme Court granted appeals for two former Wirt County school officials. Willard Legg, a former teacher and assistant principal, remains free on bond from a 1 to 5 year sentence. Raymond F. Riley, former superintendent, is free on bond from a 1 to 10 year term after being convicted of embezzling 1892 dollars from the Wirt Board of Education.
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Charleston
UPI
Wirt County
State Supreme Court
Willard Legg
Wirt
Raymond F. Riley
Riley
Wirt Board of Education
Troy Kidd
Gandhi and Johnson hold intensive talks on aid in Washington
President Johnson and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi meet in Washington to discuss aid for India. Johnson proposes a 300 million dollar Indo American foundation to foster education funded from Food for Peace receipts, amid India’s food shortages and population growth.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Indira Gandhi
India
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Pakistan
Subcontinent
Kashmir
Suitcase Falls From Airplane At Kanawha Airport
A suitcase slipped from a Piper Aztec during takeoff at Kanawha Airport injuring no one. Pilot Mike Sayers, 26, from Columbus Ohio, kept the plane airborne and landed safely after the bag hit the propeller. The craft sustained slight prop damage. the crew stayed the night and departed the next morning.
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Charleston
UPI
Kanawha
Mike Sayers
Condon Drive
Columbus
Ohio
Sayers
Last Indian War veteran found at VA hospital
Washington reports eight remaining Indian fighters alive, including Thomas Ignatius Babington McCauley born 1874 in Sligo Ireland. He served in Troop A 85th Cavalry and worked for Missouri Pacific Railroad. At 91 he faces heart issues but may recover with nursing care. The piece notes pensions and medals for survivors.
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85Th Cavalry
Kehoe
Mont
Congressional Probe of UFO Tales Demanded by Keyhoe
UFO reports surge across multiple states from Pasadena to Newark and Ann Arbor. Retired Marine Major Donald Keyhoe urged Congress to probe and end Air Force secrecy while hundreds of observers claim sightings are real and possibly extraterrestrial.
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United Press International
Congress
Pasadena
San Marino
San Gabriel
California
Air Force
Newark
N.J
Ann Arbor
Mich
Michigan
Calif
Donald E. Keyhoe
Washington
Keyhoe
Gerald R. Ford
State Showboat Declared Surplus in West Virginia
The Rhododendron showboat will be declared surplus by the Natural Resources Department this week. Deputy Commissioner Matt Reese said the boat will be transferred to the inventory and control office for possible reuse by state offices or agencies, or sold at auction. if no bids are received, it may be scrapped. The vessel currently docks in Morgantown and is used by West Virginia University during theatre renovations.
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Charleston
UPS
Natural Resources Department
Matt Reese
State Purchasing Division
Morgantown
West Virginia University
Viet Nam reports on Operation Kings and Jim Bowie
Nine day Kings mission in Quang Nam Province leaves 59 Viet Cong dead 1 captured and 45 suspects detained. 1st Air Cavalry sweep in Binh Dinh Province nets 14 Viet Cong killed 91 suspects detained. Carrier aircraft attack Hon Matt Island and Kim Cuong Highway area. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky meets with Buddhist leaders to discuss anti government demonstrations and civilian rule.
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Quang Nam
U.S. Army
1St Air Cavalry Division
Binh Dinh
Hon Matt
Kim Cuong
Vinh
Nguyen Cao
A Ky
Saigon
Jazz King Hampton Plays for King in Thai Palace
UPI reports Lionel Hampton and his all star group performed a 100 minute command concert in Bangkok for King Bhumibol. The King joined on sax and clarinet for eight numbers at the palace summer residence 80 miles from Bangkok. He played his own clarinet piece Echoes as part of the set.
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Bangkok
UPI
Lionel Hampton
Thailand
Hampton
Asia
New York City
King Bhumibol
Palace
Summer Palace
Tweel Retrial Denial Upheld by State Supreme Court
Cabell County Circuit Court denied Norman J. Tweel a retrial on counterfeiting state cigarette stamps. The denial was upheld by the West Virginia Supreme Court. Tweel was convicted in 1964 and sentenced to 1 to 5 years. he had been free on bail and later charged with breaking and entering in Huntington. He argued illegal search and seizure and 44 points of error in the trial.
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Charleston
UPI
Cabell County
Norman J. Tweel
State Supreme Court
Tweel
Huntington
Tweet
State Tax Department
Brezhnev Calls for Unity as Sino Soviet Rift Evident at Kremlin
Brezhnev delivered a state of the union style address to 6,000 delegates at the Kremlin Palace amid a lingering Sino Soviet split. He criticized U.S. Vietnam policy and urged unity among world Communist parties while signaling readiness to meet China to resolve differences. The U S delegation included Henry Winston James E Jackson and Hyman Lumer. He labeled relations with Peking unsatisfactory and proposed a future summit to review disputes on Marxism Leninism.
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Nikita S. Khrushchev
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Communist Party
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James E. Jackson
Hyman Lumer
State of the
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Red China
Experts urge tougher line with China containment policy
Yale Professor David Rowe and ex congressman Walter Judd push continued isolation of Red China. Judd calls for intensified bombing in North Vietnam to show resolve. Rowe argues against UN entry for China and says nuclear weapons remain an option.
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Washington
UPI
China
United States
Viet Nam
Yale University
David Nelson Rowe
Walter H. Judd
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Red China
Judd
U.S
Rowe
United Nations
Hugh L. Carey
R-N.y
House Education Subcommittee
U.S. Education
Harold Howes
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Court To Review Contempt Case In Wheeling
The West Virginia Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal by Ralph Conley of the Wheeling Intelligencer. Conley was cited January 17 by Wetzel County Circuit Judge Lloyd Arnold for a news article on a pending Paden City lawsuit. He served one day of a five day jail term before appealing and a March 1 petition asked to set aside the sentence.
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Charleston
UPI
Wheeling
Ralph Conley
State Supreme Court
High Court
Conley
Wheeling Intelligencer
Wetzel County
Lloyd Arnold
Paden City
Arnold
John Phillip
Inflation Outlook Holds Little Hope for Quick Relief
Living costs are expected to rise slightly in March though the increase should be far smaller than February. Farm prices may already be easing, potentially showing in March CPI figures, while the overall index remained at 111.0 for January.
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Chase
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Public service district ballot set for printing within 10 days
NBPSD and Sidney C Box of Crab Orchard and Everett Lester of Lanark with Harold Hanks Raleigh County Circuit Clerk joined the group. After waiting in the outer office Lilly was invited into his office. Hanks urged immediate action and said the ballot must be printed within the next ten days.
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Sidney C. Box
Crab Orchard
Everett Lester
Lanark
Harold Hanks
Raleigh County
Lilly
Hanks
Public Service District
Register
Teen sister killer captured by brother in New Jersey
Dennis Van Orden, 19, chased down and pinned down suspect Ewil W. Long, 53, after discovering bloodstained car near Penny Van Orden’s murder scene. Long pleaded guilty at arraignment, denying defense and requesting no lawyer. Penny Van Orden, 15, died after being beaten and left on a desolate road. police said rape was not involved. Long held without bail at Bergen County Jail.
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Arlington
N.J
UPI
Dennis van Orden
van Ordens
Ewil W. Long
Penny van Orden
Dennis
Cadillac
Penny
van Orden
Harrison
Long
Bergen
Benjamin Galanti
Hackensack
Galanti
Newark
New Jersey
West Hudson Hospital
Kearny
Senate poised to approve Johnson tire safety bill
Senate expected to give overwhelming approval today to President Johnsons tire safety bill the first installment of his auto safety package. The Commerce Committee cleared the measure unanimously and the vote was scheduled for early afternoon with no opposition indicated. The bill would set minimum safety standards for new tires and retreads by January 31 1969 and commission a uniform quality grading study for tires.
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UPI
Senate
Johnson
Senate Commerce Committee
Secretary of Commerce
Commerce Secretary
Congress
Commerce Committee
Crashes at Pleiku Kill Three Crewmen
A U S Air Force C130 Hercules crashed on an instrument landing in fog at Pleiku airfield in the Central Highlands. Three of five crewmen were killed, two injured but conscious in the burning wreckage amid debris scattered across red dirt. The plane carried no passengers and was on a mail and supply flight near an ammunition storage area.
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Pleiku
South Viet Nam
UPS
New Pleiku
Central Highlands
West Virginia appoints new corrections chief
Sarver says the present program is inadequate while praising West Virginia's system. He visited several states to study corrections. His appointment took effect last Friday but was not announced until Monday due to an Institute in Minnesota. Salary is expected around 15 000, below his 18 000 request, with three deputies named Frank Nuzum and John Mastin among them. a third post remains vacant.
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West Virginia
Sarver
Minnesota
National Council On Crime and Delinquency
Browning
Board of Public Works
Frank Nuzum
Clarksburg
John Mastin
Charleston
Golden coach sought for Cinderella wedding dream
Mary Murray aged 19 appealed for a golden coach to achieve a girlhood dream of a Cinderella wedding next Saturday in St Ives England. France Graham Story, 20, has not found a coach but knows of someone who owns two Queen Elizabeths.
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ST. Ives
England
UPI
Mary Murray
France
Graham Story
Maryland House Neglects Repeal of Miscegenation Law
Maryland House of Delegates voted 66 to 50 against repealing the 251 year old miscegenation law despite Senate approval last week. The vote came as delegates warned of “flood gates” and the impact on marriage races while opponents called the law an insult and feared a “brown race.”
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Annapolis
UPI
Maryland House of Delegates
Maryland
Senate
Provincial General Assembly
House
General Assembly
Marvin Mandel
Virginia
US Supreme Court
Maurice Weidemeyer
Anne Arundel County
Ernest Young
Baltimore
Kidnap Suspect Description Emerges In Goldmans Case
The Goldmans recount the kidnapping as their captor bound knives to their wrists to stop escape. The kidnapper is described to police as a man in his 50s, 5 foot 8, 180 to 200 pounds, wearing a baseball cap and silver-rimmed sunglasses. He demanded $20,000 in cash before taking the boy, which the family did not have.
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Goldman
County School Officials To Attend Joint Meeting
Four members of the Raleigh County School system will attend a joint meeting of the West Virginia Association of School Administrators and the West Virginia School Board Association this week. Supt. Sherman C. Trail, Assistant Superintendents Virgil Sarrett and Mason Anderson and E R Hartsog, a board member, will attend the event at the Holiday Inn in Morgantown from Wednesday to Friday.
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Raleigh County
West Virginia Association of School Administrators
West Virginia School Board Association
Holiday Inn
Morgantown
Sherman C. Trail
Virgil Sarrett
Mason Anderson
E. R. Hartsog
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Eleanor) Weddle
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Henry Smith
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