Egypt Civil Unrest Delays Efforts On Interim Pact
Egypt's upheaval delays talks on reopening the Suez Canal. Secretary of State Rogers and Assistant Secretary Sisco plan briefings with Thant and Jarring in New York. Sadat strengthens control, purges rivals, and Cairo reports say he heads police and already leads armed forces.
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United Press International
Egypt
Middle East
Suez Canal
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Joseph J. Sisco
New York
U.N
Thant
Gunnar V. Jarring
Anwar Sadat
Cairo
Jerusalem
Israel
Washington
Nbc-Tv
United Nations
Sadat
Sisco
Mideast
Youth waives to grand jury in marijuana sale charge
A 16 year old Beckley youth waived at a grand jury action on a charge of sale of marijuana after posting bond. Robert Workman, 100 Painter Drive, appeared before Magistrate Lorena Wallace. He was arrested by city police for the Dec. 16, 1970 sale.
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Beckley
Robert Workman
Painter Drive
Lorena Wallace
Drunken Driving Charge Follows Sophia Arrests
Sophia police jailed Isaac Snuffer of Glen View at 7 45 p m Saturday on a drunken driving charge. Snuffer posted bond and was released to the Town of Sophia. City police cited Charles F Pennington 19 of 207 Edgewood Drive at 10 25 p m Sunday for speeding 50 mph in a 35 mph zone. He must appear in Beckley Municipal Court May 24. Three Sophia youths Roger William Young 19 Terrence W Matthews 18 and Paul David Adkins 16 were ticketed for speeding 55 mph in a 40 mph zone at 5 40 p m Sunday and ordered to appear in Municipal Court May 31. Rescue Squad Calls
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Eccles Road
MacArthur
Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital
Larry Lee Lares
Lowery
Wayne Jennings
Lares
Jennings
Sophia
Jerry Wayne Terry
Lester
Donna Kay Permelia
Crab Orchard
Terry
Bernard Gilbert Davis
Asbury
Miss Permelia
Grace Irene Permelia
Davis
Permelia
W. Va
Stover
Nancy Irene Workman
Ameagle
William F. Mills
Mills
Beckley Municipal Court
Isaac Snuffer
Glen View
Snuffer
Charles F. Pennington
Edgewood Drive
Roger William Young
Terrence W. Matthews
Paul David Adkins
Beckley Fire Rescue Responds to Multiple Medical Calls
The Beckley Fire Department Rescue Squad was dispatched to 110 Nimitz St at 8 05 a m for Wilson Hamilton 68 who fell from bed and was returned to bed. At 4 05 p m Sunday crews aided Eliza Powell 91 at 654 South Fayette St with breathing trouble and she was taken to Appalachian Regional Hospital by ambulance. A 2 35 a m Saturday call to 129 Austin Ave involved Carl Hamrick 33 in breathing distress and he was transported to ARH by private car after oxygen administration.
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Beckley Fire Department
Nimitz St
Wilson Hamilton
South Fayette St
Eliza Powell
Appalachian Regional Hospital
Austin Ave
Carl Hamrick
Democratic Hopefuls Speak At Same Event
Four Democratic senators spoke at a Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner in Milwaukee on Saturday night the event billed as the start of the 1972 presidential race Muskie Hughes Bayh and McGovern addressed the crowd urging renewed faith in American political life and a plan to govern better including a call to restore spirit and responsibility.
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Milwaukee
Wis
UPID
Leach
Wisconsin
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Birch ‘Bayh
Indiana
George McGovern
South Dakota
Muskie
Bayh
America
Hughes
Duncan Sr. creator of Yo-Yo fortune dies at 71
Donald Duncan Sr., who popularized the Yo-Yo and profited from parking meters, died Saturday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a two and a half week coma. He will be buried Tuesday in Palm Springs, California. Duncan, 71, did not claim to invent either item but built a multimillion dollar business around them and coined the Yo-Yo name.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Donald Duncan Sr
Duncan
Palm Springs
Calif
Ucla Medical Center
Eastern Panhandle Telephone Employes Vote To Begin Strike
Workers of Local 2005 CWA in Keyser Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs vote 76 percent for strike over the dismissal of three colleagues. About 133 C&P Eastern Panhandle employees may walk out, with other state employees possibly joining in sympathy. A new three year contract for 4000 West Virginia C&P employees is under negotiation as the old pact expires.
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Martinsburg
UPS
Communications Workers of America
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
C&p
Moran
West Virginia
Supreme Court Rejects Abortion Test Cases
The Supreme Court rejected two attempts to test Minnesota abortion statute's constitutionality. The cases stem from a pregnancy terminated by Dr. Jane E. Hodgson in St. Paul after the mother contracted German measles. Hodgson was convicted and placed on probation by Judge J. Jerome Plunkett.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Minnesota
Jane E. Hodgson
St. Paul
Hodgson
J. Jerome Plunkett
Funeral notices for Clifford E. Christian and others
Obituary notices list funeral services for Clifford E. Christian 67 of Lansing and several relatives in West Virginia. Services set at Lansing Baptist Church and Tyree Funeral Home with burial in local cemeteries. multiple survivors and calling hours noted.
Funeral services for Sgt Herbert Ohler in Ayer Mass
Sgt J C Herbert Ohler of Pleasant Street Ayer Mass formerly of Lester will have funeral services Wednesday at 2 pm at Ft Devens Mass He was killed May 10 in Vietnam in a land mine explosion A 20 year Army veteran on his second Vietnam tour he belonged to the 26th Engineer Battalion His stepmother Mrs Ruth Ohler of Lester and his brother Lt Cmdr Herman Ohler will attend with a special body escort
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J. C. Herbert Ohler
Pleasant Street
Ayer
Mass
Lester
Ft. Devens
Ohler
Vietnam
Army
26Th Engineer Battalion
Ruth Ohler
Cmdr
Herman Ohler
Coffey Rites Pending for Granville Man 67
Funeral arrangements remain incomplete for Frank E. Coffey 67 of Granville who died at 9 20 p m Sunday in a local hospital after a long illness. The body is at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
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Frank E. Coffey
Granville
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Final rites for Bernard Sowers held in Oak Hill
Bernard J Sowers 75 of East Kingston died Sunday in an Oak Hill hospital after a short illness He was a retired Kingston High School custodian and World War I veteran Born October 26 1895 in Christiansburg Va he was the son of William and Dora Belle Sowers Survivors include his wife Addie Profit Sowers two daughters and other relatives Funeral services were at 2 p m Wednesday in the Tyree Funeral Home chapel Oak Hill with burial in Highlawn Memorial Park
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Jack) Christian
Lansing
Lansing Baptist Church
Guy Vaughan
H. E. Querry
Restlawn Memory Gardens
Victor
Oak Hill
Kitchen
Ohio
George and
Nettie Sneed
Christian
United Mine Workers
Phyllis Barker
Robert
Earl
Parkersburg
Sue Hess
Pope Air Force Base
N. C
Sally Barney
Charleston
Cecil
Elbert
Dayton
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Fayetteville
Bernard Johnson Sowers
East Kingston
Tyree
Paul Gravely
Highlawn Memorial Park
Kingston High School
Blacksburgh Methodist Church
Blacksburg
Christiansburg
William
Dora Belle Sowers
Addie Profit Sowers
Ray Wise
Norman Bennett Funeral Services Held for Eccles Man
Funeral services for Norman Bennett 55 of Eccles will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Melton Mortuary Chapel with Reverends Snuffer and Foley presiding. He died Sunday at his home after a long illness. Born June 16 1915 in Camp Branch Fayette County he was a retired coal miner and a member of UMWA Local 5770. Survived by wife Annie Jewel Bennett three daughters Linda Ferrell Diana Berkebile Patricia Kopec and five sons James Robert Russell Ronald Bobby.
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Scarbro
Tyree
Oak Hill
Ernest Barley
High Lawn Memorial Park
Fayette County
Vivian Canterbury Baker
Russell Taylor
Mich
John R
Southgate
Joan McAllister
Mary Alice Blake
Cora Crouse
Fayetteville
Norman Bennett
Eccles
Melton Mortuary
Thomas L.snuffer
Sam Foley
Sunset Memorial Park
Camp Branch
Luther and
Pearl Kincaid Bennett
UMWA
Annie Jewel Honaker Bennett
Linda Ferrell
Beckley
Diana Berkebile
Johnstown
Patricia Kopec
James Robert
Mount Tabor
Russell
Virginia
Ronald
Bobby
Seven highway fatalities reported in Mountain State weekend
Seven highway fatalities occurred across the Mountain State over the weekend, lifting the 1971 toll to 155. The weekend saw multiple crashes including a one vehicle on West Virginia 20, a U.S. 220 crash near Franklin, U.S. 33 near Sunday, U.S. 35 near Henderson, a head on on U S. 60 near Hugheston, and a WV 34 incident near Liberty.
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United Press International
John Huffman Taner
Diana
Webster County
W. Va
Webster Springs
Carl G. Samples
Monterey
U.S
Franklin
Betty Jane Brown
Ballaire
Ohio
U.S. 33
Paul Murt Marion
Princeton
U.S. 35
Henderson
Mason County
Thelma Louise Gibson
Shirley Ann Lawhorn
Cedar Grove
Kanawha County
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Hugheston
William Dale Kessell
Given
Jackson County
Liberty
Putnam County
State Police Catch Two Ohio Escapees
Two of three escapees from Lawrence County Jail Ironton Ohio were captured by State Police in West Hamlin Lincoln County. Paul Wilks Chespeake and David Harvey Brewster Willow Wood were sent to Cabell County Jail awaiting extradition. Wendell Spurlock South Point remained at large.
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UPI
Lawrence County
Ironton
Ohio
Paul Wilks
Chespeake
David Harvey Brewster
Willow Wood
Lincoln County
Huntington
Cabell County
Wendell Spurlock
South Point
Rail workers strike disrupts commute and Amtrak service
Union demands raised wages reach 66 percent over 36 months for rail staff while other unions seek 42 percent over 42 months. C. J. Chamberlain cites average hourly pay of 3.78 as below industry. About 600000 commuters lose service in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Ringling Brothers train sidetracked briefly in New Haven until crews yield to schedule. Amtrak nationwide passenger system halted as trains end at terminals.
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C. J. Chamberlain
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
New Haven
Conn
Boston
Amtrak National
Postal Rate Hikes Take Effect Amid Hearing On Controllers
As hearings opened, postal offices nationwide sold more than 5 billion new stamps. First class rate rose from six to eight cents, air mail from ten to eleven, post cards from five to six, second class up 30 percent, and third class up 33 percent.
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Della Mae Snuffer Campbell
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Ruby Gallimore
Virginia Langford
Helen Moody
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Coal City
Mary Scott
Caffee Funeral Home
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Andrew Jackson Laxton
Sam Foglesong
I. H. Toler
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Nease and Neely
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Gordon Hinte
Frank Aliff
Clarence Sturdivant
Covington
Mamie Stewart
Cleveland
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Roy
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Hinton
Johnny Bennett
Silver Grove
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Herbert Ohler
Bernard J. Sowers
Rufus R. McMillion
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Mabscott
Jim Franklin
Quincy
Callie Hylton McMillion
National Mine Service
West Virginia Turnpike
Margie Collins McMillion
Norma) Rogers
Victor McMillion
Thelma Hawkins
Elwood McMillion
Bill Ford
Gene Reed
Ralph Hinson
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Robert McDowell
Basil Hall
Paul Gunter
R. D. Watts Insurance Agency, Inc
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Judith Crist
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