Last Bodies Found in Sunshine Mine Disaster
After nine days underground rescue crews found the last 40 missing miners dead, ending Idaho's worst disaster with 91 fatalities. Only two of the original trapped men survived. 798 escaped. Relatives mourned outside the Sunshine mine as officials confirmed the grim toll and prepared for an investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kellogg
Idaho
UPD
Sunshine
Marvin C. Chase
National Guardsmen
Tom Wilkinson
Ron Flory
U.S. Bureau of Mines
S. M. Jarrett
82 Killed As Ships Collide
A collision in the River Plate between the British freighter Royston Grange and a Liberian tanker killed 82 aboard the freighter and tanker crewmen. The Royston Grange, a 10,292 ton ship, burned and sank near Port Montevideo. the tanker Tien Cheung carried 41 Hong Kong or Nationalist Chinese crew and 20 tons of crude oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jorge Vallarino
Montevideo
UPI
Royston Grange
River Plate
Port Montevideo
Hong Kong
Lo Kam Wai
Ulster Bombings and Shootings Rise in Belfast Violence
In Belfast the IRA set a 30 pound bomb in a garage near Queen's University causing vehicle damage and property loss with no casualties. In Andersonstown a gunman fired on a British army patrol, soldiers said they saw the gunman fall. The latest TRA punishment victim was a 21 year old Londonderry man shot in the legs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
UPID
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Queen’s University
Andersonstown
Londonderry
Unitarian Program Nixon Versus the Intellectual Elite Planned
Robert L. Bartley of the Wall Street Journal will discuss Nixon versus the intellectual elite at a New River Unitarian Fellowship meeting. Thomas Phillips leads the program to be held May 14 at 11 a.m. at 345 Prince Street with hostesses Misses Ethel and Eva Keyser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Robert L. Bartley
The
Wall Street Journal
Thomas Phillips
New River Unitarian Fellowship
Prince Street
Ethel
Eva Keyser
Appeals Court Overturns Chicago 7 Contempt Terms
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned contempt sentences handed to members of the Chicago Seven and ordered new jury trials before a different judge. It said contempt trials should proceed with different judges, except for Lee Weiner whose sentence was shorter. Seale's case had been severed earlier in the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kunstler
Leonard I. Weinglass
Bobby G. Seale
Circuit Court of Appeals
I Hoffman
Appeals
U.S
James R. ‘Thompson
Ces
Lee Weiner
Seale
Hoffman
Pig
San Francisco
Charles Garry
Abbie Hoffman
Jerry Rubin
Weinglass
Weiner
Blue Cross Faces Bankruptcy Over Rate Increase Bid
Blue Cross in southern West Virginia warns it may go bankrupt due to denied rate hikes by Insurance Commissioner Samuel Weese. C Judson Pearson says losses total 1.5 million over 18 months and reserves are being raided to meet obligations. Pearson notes seven years without a rate increase and calls for explanations of the commissioner’s denial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
UPI
Blue Cross
West Virginia
Samuel Weese
C. Judson Pearson
Weese
Insurance
Pearson
St. Albans
Insurance Commissioner
Drivers Cited by Beckley Police for License and Tail Light Violations
Beckley police cited Thomas Keller 38 Mabscott at 1 a.m. for driving without a state operator's license and no tail lights. James Kirkpatrick 30 202 8th St. at 2:15 a.m. for reckless driving. Both ordered to appear in Municipal Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Thomas Keller
Mabscott
James Kirkpatrick
2028Th
ABC Workers Lose Award and Plan Circuit Court Appeal
The Board of Review overturned a department of employment security ruling granting eight weeks of unemployment benefits to 18 mine construction workers. The claimants and attorneys plan to appeal to Kanawha County Circuit Court within 30 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ABC
Plan Circuit Court
Department of Employment Security
Department Board of Review
Connie Bonham
Beckley
Association of
UMW
Richard L. Thiebert
Charleston
Kanawha County
Bonham
GOP Primary Turnout Dips Amid Heavy Ballot Contests
Voters faced a record long ballot as about half of 1 024 018 registered voters cast ballots. In the GOP governor race 371 000 votes were counted, while Laurita led Haden for attorney general by 14 000. Republican turnout was 40 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monongalia
Joseph A. Laurita Jr
Charles H. Haden I
Nixon
Arch A. Moore Jr
Laurita
Haden
An Loc Falls to Communist Assault in Vietnam Drive
Communist forces pounded An Loc with 10 000 rounds and Tanked infantry seized most of the city 60 miles north of Saigon as U S B 52s unleashed 2000 tons of bombs. North Vietnamese presses on Chon Thanh killing a US adviser wounding another as jets planes are downed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vietnam
Quang Tri
Hue
Ho Chi Minh
An Loc
Long Binh
Saigon
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Chon Thanh
Hanoi
U.S
Governor Moore Profiles Strong Reclamationist Stance in WV Race
West Virginia Governor Arch Moore Jr. says he is a strong reclamationist as he faces Secretary of State John D. Rockefeller IV in the November gubernatorial election. He cites abolitionist mining wins as shaping the race while pledging enforceable strip mining laws and noting Rockefeller's wealth and voting majority as challenges. Moore also praises Laurita and Haden in the attorney general race but remains neutral on that contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
UPI
Arch Moore Jr
John D. Rockefeller IV
Moore
JT Am
Rockefeller
Laurita-Haden
Monongalia County
Joseph A. Laurita
Morgantown
State
Deaths and Funerals in Roanoke and Surrounding Areas
Funeral notices for Rose Miller Wood 62 Narrows Va. born Raleigh County Feb 9 1910 mention services at Riffe's Narrows with burial at Birthlawn Pearisburg. Also final rites for Robert Ernest Rose 78 Camp Creek at Princeton Rose Cemetery. James W Burks 29 Norfolk Va, Owen O Richmond 70 Pemberton, and Lillie Monway Willis 85 Roanoke with multiple survivors and service details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Miller Wood
Narrows
Riffe
Robert Kinder
Birthlawn
Pearisburg
Raleigh County
William
Della Smith Miller
Margaret Davis
Clarence Miller
Scarbro
Ray Miller
Newport; News
Herbert Miller
Indianapolis
Ind
Ann McGuire
Cincinnati
Ohio
Final rites for Oather M. Richmond in Hinton
Oather M. Richmond 72 of Hinton will have funeral services at 2 p m Saturday at Ronald Meadows Funeral Home with Rev. Ray Martin officiating. Burial follows at Plumley Cemetery. He died Thursday morning in a Hinton hospital after a long illness. Survived by sister Mrs. Voda Bragg Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen O. Richmond
Pemberton
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
L. A. Garten
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Raleigh County
Lane Castelo
Emma Payne Richmond
United Mine Workers of America
Hattie Fagg Richmond
Minyard
Ardmore
Okla
Frank
Nacogdoches
Tex
Everts Richmond
Columbus
Ohio
Harlin
Clyde Riddle
Crab Orchard
Betty Suddreth
Chester
S. C
Mich
Oather M. Richmond
Hinton
Ronald Meadows
Ray Martin
Plumley
Voda Bragg
Beckley
Multiple funeral services set for Beckley area figures
William Samuels 79 of Hollywood Florida died in a nursing home after a long illness. The body is returning to Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill for arrangements. Arlan Gene Slider 35 of Nashville Tennessee dies in a Nashville hospital with services at Mount Zion United Methodist Church Grantsville and burial in the church cemetery. Pauline Spangler Maclin 75 of High Point North Carolina will lie in state at First Presbyterian Church and be buried at Floral Garden Park. she had deep WV ties and was survived by extended family. Mrs Birdie Hairston 71 of East Beckley and Grover Cleveland Boles 87 of Oak Hill receive final rites from local funeral homes. Boles noted as a retired farmer and contractor with burial at High Lawn Memorial Park. Miss Bethel Brown Campbell 53 of Beckley will be buried at Mount Tabor Cemetery after services at Melton Mortuary. she was a legal secretary with ties to Beckley First Christian Church and the Stansbury Law Firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Ernest Rose
Camp Creek
Princeton
Pearly Lovall
Rose Cemetery
Beckley Hospital
Russell
Betty) Ellison
Bertie Pipes
June Rose Campbell
Virginia Basham
Beckley
Ava Spurlock
Goldie Sanford
Huntington
Garner
Paul
Ellison
James M
Merrill G. Ellison Rose
James W. Burks
Norfolk
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Corey O. Mitchell
Nelson Staples
Greenwood Memorial Park
Norfolk Hospital
Resaco
Emma Cobbs
Harless Burks
Ruby
Lillie Monway Willis
North Barrens Rd
Roanoke
Prosperity
North Carolina
George and
Tintinia Rose Monway
John A
Hortense
Harry, Jr
Earl
Baltimore
William G. Willis
Blakely
Lillie Wood
Glen White
Margaret Hundley
Scarbro
Rosie Harvey
Screven
Florence Barks
la Ponte
Calif
John Thomas Willis
Okey
North Chapel
Peters Creek ‘Road
Highlawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
William Samuels
Hollywood
Fla
Summerbee
Tyree
Arlan Gene Slider
Nashville
Tenn
Mount Zion United Methodist Church
Grantsville
Cecil W. Shepherd
Church
Nashville Hospital
Richard E. Slider
Gene Edward
Dale Edward Slider
Slider
Mabscott United Methodist Church
Stump Funeral Home
Pauline Spangler Maclin
High Point
N. C
First Presbyterian Church
Floral Garden Park
Peters‘town
Mack
Laura Spangler
Edward H
Morgantown
Mary George Hammer
Franklin
Blanche Keaton
Holly Hills
Phillip M. Spangler
Denver
L. G
Ormond Beach
Sechcrest Funeral Home
Birdie Hairston
Patch St
East Beckley
Ritchie and Johnson
Eric Tyree
Grover Cleveland Boles
C. S. Donnelly
High Lawn Memorial Park
Boles
Patterson Flats
Anderson Land Elizabeth Arthur Boles
Rosetta Boles
Charles
Otto C
Arlene Noble
Bethel Brown Campbell
Millicon Ave
Melton
Walter H. Griswold
John Atkinson
Davis
Mount Tabor
Lansing
Lacy L
Cora Kesler Campbell
Beckley First Christian Church
Beckley Legal Secretaries Association
Stansbury Law Firm
Glenn
Birdie) Webb
Daniels
Beatrice
Young
Beulah Peters
Atlanta
Five Meted Sentences In Raleigh County Court
Five defendants faced penitentiary or probation in Raleigh County Criminal Court. Nathaniel Wade received a one to 10 year sentence for breaking and entering Packs Market with $386 in meats and fish taken, denied probation but credited for time served. Andre Stancil and Donald McCumber received probation on pending charges. Ernest Dillard Robert Keatley and Robert West were each sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for drug transfer, with $500 fines and 90 days to pay costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Nathaniel Wade
F St
Wade
Andre Tyrone Stancil
F. St
Donald McCumber
Beckley
Kermit A. Locke
Alice Setliff
Ernest Oliver Dillard
Robert J. Keatley
Robert West
Delegates Ranked In West Virginia Primary Contest
Delegates list shows Mollohan running as a Muskie delegate with Staggers, Hechler, and others uncommitted. fourth place Hulett C. Smith, fifth Denzil Gainer, sixth Donald Kopp, seventh Alfred Chapman, eighth Robert J. Burke, and ninth Paul Kaufman as McGovern and Humphrey alignments emerge. Only 28 leaders named as 4th District yields seven delegates. Wyoming County reports only partial returns while 33 of 55 counties and 943 precincts of 2,363 statewide are in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hulett C. Smith
Denzil Gainer
Muskie
Donald Kopp
Clarksburg
Humphrey
Alfred Chapman
Wheeling
Robert J. Burke
Paul J. Kaufman
Charleston
McGovern
Wyoming County
House Backs Slow Increase in Minimum Wage to Two Dollars
The House approved an administration backed plan to raise the minimum wage from 1.60 to 2.00 dollars, spreading the rise over time. A GOP substitute passed 218 to 192 and sets 1.80 in two months and 2.00 in a year for covered workers. farm workers rise to 1.50 then 1.70, with broader coverage debated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
House
House Education and Labor Committee
Senate
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marvin Chase
Ulster
Robert Benjamin Chicago
U.S. District Court
Julius J. Hoffman
William M. Kunstler
Sease
Tel Aviv
Israel
Board of Review
Indochina
Sean
Charles Haden II
Rose M. Wood
Robert E. Rose
Lillie Willis
Arlan G. Slider
Mrs
Pauline Maclin
Grover C. Boles
Miss Bethel Campbell
Edward P. Stansbury
Leo Brrch
Norman Knapp
G. Berk Lynch
Jack A. Mann
Ned H.ragland
Robert H. Mollohan
Harley O. Staggers
Ken Hechler
Jeader
West Virgina
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