Nixon to hold summit sessions with allied leaders
A White House official outlined that President Nixon plans blitz of talks with allied leaders in late December and January to align aims before possible Peking and Moscow visits. The sessions aim to gather views, ensure unity, and inform U.S. positions while stressing no veto on allies’ input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Thomas
Pierre Trudeau
White House
Washington
Peking
Moscow
Nixon
Edward Heath
Pompidou
Japan
Wash
Eisaku Sato
Canada
San Nixon
Clemente
Califorlia
Westing
Willyi
Brandt
Key Biscayne
Fla
Ronald L.J
Ziegler
Ted
U.S
Berlin
Nader Urges Ban On Hexachlorophene In Nonprescription Use
Nader calls for a ban on hexachlorophene in nonprescription products. He cites rat brain damage from higher blood levels and infant exposure showing 1.65 ppm, with adults reaching 38 ppm. He asks FDA Commissioner Dr. Charles Edwards to act amid concerns over skin absorption and uncertain human effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Ralph ‘Nader
Charles C. Edwards
The
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Phene
Nader
Salvation Army Booths Raise $425 in Beckley Area
Weekend drives at Salvation Army Christmas booths in Beckley and local shopping centers totaled 425.24 with 42.94 downtown and 87.56 at Town and Country plus 44.44 at Hills. Veterans of Foreign Wars led downtown collection 61.95 while Xi Alpha Delta sorority at Town and Country raised 83.06. Hecks and Hills totals 61.71 and 43.58 respectively. Woman's Club oversees downtown booth today as workers remain at shopping centers. One goal is a 6,000 dollar fund to aid needy families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Beckley
Mary ‘McVickers
Town and Country Department Store
Hills Department Store
Salvation Army Advisory Board
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Xi' “Alpha Delta Sorority
Beta’ ‘Sigma Chapter
Woman’s Club of
Deoth
Holiday Deaths Under Estimate
United Press International reports 595 traffic fatalities during the four day Thanksgiving weekend, under the National Safety Council estimate of 620 to 720. The total toll across all accidents reached 732 with 63 in California, 32 in New York, 30 in Florida and Mississippi, and 28 in Ohio Georgia Illinois and Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
National Safety Council
UPI
California
New York
Florida
Mississippi
Ohio
Georgia
Illinois
Michigan
Stans Proposes U.S. Purchase of Soviet Gas Plan
Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans discussed U S purchases of Soviet natural gas with Soviet gas minister Alexei Kortunov. He warned the project would be a major undertaking due to technical difficulties, requiring liquefaction and special containers for shipping to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
UPI
Maurice H. Stans
U.S
Stans
Alexei Kortunov
United States
State records six fatalities in Thanksgiving traffic
Six persons died in traffic accidents across West Virginia over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Two deaths occurred Sunday in single vehicle crashes at opposite ends of the state. The toll reached 49 road fatalities for the year, compared with 494 at this time last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
West Virginia
Strippers' Wives To Be Heard In Capital
Mrs. Joyce Massie of Beckley West Virginia auxiliary president for surface miners is slated to testify before a congressional committee in Washington today at the request of Rep James Kee to present wives' views on surface mining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West ‘Virginia
Surface Miners Auxiliary
Joyce Massie
Beckley
Washington
Massie
James Kee
Bordaberry Wins Uruguay Presidential Race in Split Nation
Montevideo reports Anti-Communist candidate Juan Maria Bordaberry swept to victory as the leftist coalition failed to gain power nationwide. Interior wins indicate Bordaberry leading, promising continuation of hard-line tactics against Tupamaros. Front leader Liber Seregni conceded defeat, calling the vote the dirtiest he had seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montevideo
UPI
Juan Maria Bordaberry
Bordaberry
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Uruguay
Front
Colorado
Blanco
Salvador Allende
Chile
Deaths and Funerals in Oak Hill Area
Multiple obituaries from Oak Hill and surrounding towns list burial plans, funeral home details, and survivors. Delmar Kenneth Bowyer, 63, dies after a short illness. Wilfred Ward, 79, dies in a Fayetteville nursing home. Elizabeth Shelor, 59, dies in a local hospital. Herman M Grace Blake Murray, 76, dies in Takoma Park Md. Nolen Maxwell Blake, 66, Oak Hill, funeral Tuesday at United Methodist Church Oak Hill with burial at High Lawn Memorial Park. services and callers times noted for each case with survivors and family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nolen M. Blake
Nolen Maxwell Blake
Oak Hill
United Methodist Church
Bill Menefee
Mack Blake
High Lawn Memorial Park
Morgantown
Charles
Barbara Blake
Vivian Smith Blake
Nolen C
Ripley
Ralph Uhl
Burton
Ohio
Atwood Brown
Union Hall
Ronald Painter
Fairborn
Robert Wood
Tyree
Final rites for Kennedy and others in area obituaries
Final rites for William McKinley Kennedy 77 of Rainelle will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Rainelle with burial at End of the Trail Cemetery. He died Sunday in a Virginia hospital after a long illness. Survivors include his mother and several relatives. Also listed are final rites for Mrs Beulah Elkins 87 of St Petersburg Fla and Mrs Zetta Atkins 94 of Crab Orchard with services in Mount Hope and Crab Orchard and multiple survivors. Additional notices cover Lilly family obituaries and infant burial in Coal City with local funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfred Fred Ward
Kilsyth
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Matthew
Hannah Harrah Ward
Christian Colleries Coal Co
Mahan
Laurel Grove
Pine Creek
Laura
Gilbert
Delmer
Beckley
Luther
Backus Mountain
Elgie
Shady Spring
Andrew
Stanaford
Arnold
Glen Morgan
Everett
MacArthur
Harvey Harrah
Chicago
Clarence
Ethyl) Goddard
Crab Orchard
Russell
Ada) Goddard
Bradley
Ophelia Reynolds
Peace Chapel
Rose and Quesenberry
Ernest Barley
Ray Tyree
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
William McKinley Kennedy
Rainelle
Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home
Houston Boothe
Beulah Elkins
St. Petersburg
Fla
Florida
Tyree
James
Noral Sheets
Alfred
Earl d
Thelma Wideman
John Sheets
Mount Hope
Nash Gray
East Lynn
Charleston
Eva Bireet
Largo
Mary Ferrell
Zetta Jane Atkins
Williams Funeral Home
Sophia
Okey Cox
Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley Hospital
Summers County
Pleasant
Mary Ann Lilly
Church of God At
Jonden
Burless
Vernon
Mabscott
Richard
Farley
Ida) Shuck
Stephenson
Cora McCoy
Zola Mahan
State Road
N. C
John
Arlean) Hoyer
Rochester
N. Y
Letha Meadows
Rio Dell
Calif
Sterling Evestus Lilly
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Joe Pizzino
Flat Top
Oliver
Amanda Houchins Lilly
Baltimore Transit System
Anna Lou Swift
Charles Edward
Patricia Vaught Swift
Coal City
Jim Franklin
Brian Edward
James C. Swift
Lester Vaught
Midway
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
James A. White
Herndon
Huntington
Wyoming
Grant
Victoria White
Ida
Verne Morgan
Sheridan White
Dee Vety Oat Fageons
Nees
Neety Faseral Home
Mailens
Real estate transfers filed with county clerk
Records show Lacy Lilly and wife transferring to John T. Raines and wife for 7500 dollars Lot 118 in the Mid City Addition Mabscott. Jessie W. Jones and wife to John Allen Richmond and wife for 1000 dollars Lot 46 Map No. 2 Prosperity. Eastern Associated Coal Corp to Elizabeth Ann Penland for 1000 dollars Lot 30 in Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates Subdivision of Surface Tracts Section No. 2 Stotesbury. Harry Fredrick Fischer and wife to Okey Steele and wife for 400 dollars Part of Lot 7 Section 7 Piney View Farms. Craft Builders Inc to Ottice R. Adkins and wife for 18200 dollars Lot 8 of the Ewart Heights Addition Beckley city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacy Lilly
John T. Raines
Mid-City
Mabscott
Eastern Associated Coal Corp
Elizabeth Ann Penland
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Stotesbury
Harry Fredrick Fischer
Okey Steele
Piney View Farms
Craft Builders, Inc
Ottice R. Adkins
Ewart Heights
City of Beckley
Kissinger Criticizes Ziegler Over Credibility Claim
Washington dispatch reports President Nixon aide Ronald Ziegler questioned Henry Kissinger’s credibility after Ziegler said David Kissinger had not been barred from travel. The incident occurred en route to California as the spirit of 76 prepared for a return to Washington with David’s comments fueling tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Clemente
Calif
David Kissinger
Nixon
Ziegler
Peking
Kissinger
White House
Ronald Ziegler
David
Presidential Secure
Henry Kissinger
Boston
Presidential
California
China
San
Agnew Attacks Kennedy Health Plan at AMA Meeting
Vice President Spiro Agnew condemned Senator Edward Kennedy’s national health care proposal as costly and destructive to the U S system. He cited a projected 59 4 billion tax burden through 1974 and urged strengthening government private sector cooperation rather than nationalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
American Medical Association
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
America
Agnew
Assassination Turmoil Follows Jordan Leader’s Death
A dramatic killing of Tel in Amman sparks a private royal funeral at the palace mosque as four men linked to a Palestinian group The Hand of Black September are arrested. Police say the men admitted the murder and the event triggers regional celebration and a plea from Palestinian groups to Sadat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abdullah ‘Salah
Tel
Royal Palace
Amman
Middle East
Monzer Suleiman Khalifa
Ezzat Ahmed Rabah
Ziad Mahmoud Badran
Jawad Khalil Baghdadi
Abou Ali Tyyad
Tyyad
Iyyad
Jordan
Jordan Army
Apne
Sheraton
Woodrow Scott
Ordorff
Wyoming
Lebanon
Beirut
General Federation of Palestinian Students, Workers and Teachers
Anwar Sadat
Funeral home listed for Woodrow S. Orndorff body details
The body of Woodrow S. Orndorff is at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home in Pineville. The notice notes the funeral arrangement pending with the family to be informed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home
Pineville
Snowmobiles and helicopters resume hunt for missing hunter
Lawrence Wright, 54, of Spencer, missing since Wednesday after hunting with his son in the Backbone Mountain area, prompted officials to resume air and snowmobile search with 60 rescuers, despite heavy snow and fog. Ground search halted, helicopters and snowmobiles remain active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunter
Forrest Blume
Backbone Mountain
Blume
Blue
Census Takers Plan Consumer Survey
Census takers will fan out across the country in January to survey buying habits of about 7,000 families, not just count people. The checkup will be conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by census takers, with three additional surveys planned in 1972 to support the consumer and wholesale price indexes measuring the cost of living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPS
Census Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Aspin Proposes Adoption Tax Break
Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin introduced legislation to allow a tax deduction up to 1500 for expenses in adopting a child. The measure aims to cover actual costs including agency fees court costs attorneys’ fees and related expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
API
Les Aspin
D-Wis
Aspin
Beeson Youth Michael Bailey Dies in Louisville Street Accident
Michael Bailey 15 of Beeson was killed Saturday in Louisville when struck by a car while playing in a street during a visit to relatives. Son of Samuel and Lillian Bailey, born March 11, 1956 in Princeton, he was grandson of Mrs. Violey Foley of Mullens. Body being returned to Bailey Funeral Home in Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Bailey
Beeson
Louisville
Samuel and
Lillian Bailey
Princeton
Violey Foley
Mullens
Bailey Funeral Home
Rns
Payne Calls Meet for Disabled Miners and Widows
A special meeting of the Disabled Miners and Widows of Southern West Virginia, Inc. was called by president Robert Payne. All members are urged to attend at 1 p.m. at Chapter M6 headquarters in Rhodell, with miners who are not disabled also welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern West Virginia, Inc
Robert Payne
Rhodell
Ayhe
Mrs Lillian Stamper Wood 61 Fayetteville funeral services
Mrs Lillian Stamper Wood 61 of Fayetteville dies Sunday of a heart attack. Funeral set for 2 p m Wednesday at Fayetteville Baptist Church with Rev David Sneed officiating. burial in Huse Memorial Park. Survived by husband W Wood two brothers James of St Augustine Harry of Minden and sister Mrs Minnie Weirs Prevett of Fort Pierce. Burial details and calls at Dodd Payne Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Wood
Lillian Stamper Wood
Fayetteville
Fayetteville Baptist Church
David Sneed
Huse Memorial Park
Summerlee
Lee
Sylvania Morris Stamper
Also Mentioned on This Page
Raleigh
Negister
W. Va
Hexachlorophene
Capital
Delmar K. Bowyer
Delmar Kenneth (Dee) Bowyer
Dodd-Payne
Funeral Home Chapel
Fayette-ville
Lawn Memorial Park
Anna Casto Bowyer
William G. Bowyer
William K
Columbus
Agnes ‘Tombs
Wilfred Ward
Elizabeth Shelor
Radford
W. C
Annie Mills Shelor
Pat Hughes
Nitro
Kenneth Early
Lumberton
Clarence Shelor
Mabel Blackburn
Dewey Wilson
Funeral
Grace B. Murray
Herman M. Hall
Herman M. Grace Blake Murray
Hall
Takoma Park
Glen Fork
Keyser-Bryant
Ft. Myers Funeral Home
Ft. Myers
James Halstead
Fred
Arlington National Fudge
Welch
Pete
Pat) Pizzino
Ww OW
Vera) DeBord
Chatum Hill
Jimmie
Margaret) Lemon
G. E
Virginia) Francisco
George
Mary) Altare
Alderson
A. T
Kathleen) Smith
Jacksonville
Fred Blake
Glen White Road
Donald Blake
Landover
Frank
John B
Sebastian Pizzino
Sidney Box
Jeff Caudill
Joe Muscatello
Charles Statzer
William M. Kennedy
Washington, D. C
Red Ae Springs
A Hall
Miller St
John W. Hall
Woodrow, Wilson High School
Coynet I
College Park
Korea
Germany
Ft. Dietrich
William Kump
Ft. Sill
Okla
James Barnard
Ludlow
David ‘Herman, Hall
Silver Spring
Martha Parsons
R. E
Hallie) Edelen
Bethesda
John M. Hall
Calvin A. Hall
Chevy ,Chase, Md
Warren E. Pumphrey
Mrs. Beulah Elkins
Zetta Atkins
Sterling E. Lilly
Jessie W. Jones
John Allen Richmond
Young Kissinger
AMA
Kennedy
Heman
Lamghenr Pau
Woodrow S. Orndorff
Census Takers Plan
Consumer Survey
Payne
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