City Police Seek 2nd Man For B and E
One man is in custody and another being sought after a burglary at Saunders Grocery on Fayette Street. William Forest Jackson, 18, Beckley, posted $500 bond after being held to the grand jury. Aaron Henry Thomas, about 20, escaped during questioning. They allegedly gained entry by breaking a glass front and stole 8 cartons of cigarets 2 lighter and about $7. Other local offenses and fines are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saunders Grocery
S. Fayette St
William Forest Jackson
Beckley
Joe Rodriguez
Aaron Henry Thomas
East Park
Jackson
James Carter
James Burks
Burks
Leslie Treadway
Rodriguez
E. C. Stover
Stover
Auto Owner Testifies In Damage Case
Brice Covey 31 owner of a 1956 model car testifies in Raleigh County Circuit Court on a collision case from Nov 28 1960 on Anthony Creek Road Greenbrier County. John Covey 33 describes speed road rise and curve as the car hit a motorcycle. witnesses place the scene and actions before and after the crash. The case includes claims of damages and lost wages with jurors to reconvene Monday at 9 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brice B. Covey
Gray D. Smith
Neola
Covey
William E. Covey
Raleigh County
Anthony Creek Road
Greenbrier County
Brice Covey
John Covey
Surveyor
Brandwine
C. Berkley Lilly
Plaintiff
John
Fletcher Mann
Mullens
Y. C. Callison
Alvin
Smith
Callison
Jury Acquits Boy Vio Siew Father's Killer
In Bridgeport Connecticut John Chernuchkin aged 16 is acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Albert Shipley 65 a bank guard who killed his father Edward 41 and wounded his mother Veronica. The seven day trial ended with 55 minutes of jury deliberation. The boy's mother cried as he walked free with his attorney calling him a hero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport, Conn
UPI
John Chernuchkin
Edward
Veronica
Chernuchkin
Albert Shipley
Superior Court
John P. Cotter
John
Folksinger Continues in Hillsboro West Virginia
Hillsboro resident Miss Callison continues as a roving folk singer. She learned many tunes from her grandfather who collected books on folk music and hymnals. Her family background includes a mother who plays piano and a father, Eric Clutter, as WVIT math head and an excellent bass. She is a divorcee and mother of two, attended Marshall University, and has sung on radio and in a women’s barbershop quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsboro
W. Va
White Sulphur Springs
Eric Clutter
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
Kennedy to decide on self employed pension tax plan
Adjournment research notes Kennedy will act on a bill allowing self employed persons to pay tax free into their own retirement funds. Backers plan to add the pension measure as a rider to a supplemental appropriation if Kennedy vetoes the measure. A two thirds Senate vote to attach such legislation is in doubt. House to act on postal pay public works bills and a Berlin fight resolution. Senate set afternoon vote on war claims and other ready measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Senate
House
Berlin
Police Investigating How Man Was Injured
Beckley state police probe the circumstances surrounding the head injury of 57 year old William Edward Fox found on U S Route 21. He suffers a fractured skull and is hospitalized at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital. Officers say a fall onto a hard surface is a possible cause. he has not been questioned. He was admitted at 11 24 p m Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley State
Bradley
William Edward Fox
U. S
Architect Edward Durell Stone Makes National Cultural Center Plan
Architect Edward Durell Stone is selected to design the National Cultural Center in Washington D C. The decision signals a major civic project aimed at showcasing American art and culture in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Durell Stone
National Cultural Center
Washington D. C
Nevada Plowshare Test Shifts Earth 2000 Feet High
A 635 foot deep underground nuclear blast in Nevada created a dome 600 to 800 feet across and a crater 1,200 feet in diameter. The July 6 test, equal to about 100,000 tons of TNT, was the first in AEC’s Plowshare program to explore peacetime uses for nuclear explosives. Most radioactivity stayed underground, with potential safety insights for future earth moving projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Central America
Alaska
Death Notices Mrs Carrie Benzo Funeral at New Hope
Mrs. Carrie Benzo 43 of Pittsburgh formerly Slab Fork dies Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Funeral 1 p.m. Sunday at New Hope Baptist Church with Rev Russell Johnson. Burial Greenwood Memorial Park. Survivors: husband Wilbert parents W W Moore Beckley daughter Lorene Williams Pittsburgh six brothers and five sisters, two grandchildren. Body at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor until services. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Benzo
Pittsburgh
Slab Fork
New Hope Baptist Church
Russell Johnson
Greenwood Memorial Park
Wilbert
W. W. Moore
East Beckley
Lorene Williams
Lorenza Moore
Willie Moore
Charles Moore
James More
Beckley
George
Columbus
Ohio
John
Harper Heights
Judy Moore
Sallie Cooney
Josie Henry
Rosie Johnson
Luellen Flippen
Mount Airy
N. C
Final rites for Felicia Holliday at Garten Church
Funeral services for 14 month old Felicia Gaye Holliday of Riverdale Maryland are set for 2 p m Sunday at Garten Community Church with Rev J Edwin Stanfield officiating. Burial will follow at High Lawn Memorial Park. The child died unexpectedly at home Wednesday. Surviving are two brothers Dan II and Stephen at home, paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs M A Holliday of Garten and Mr and Mrs B F Hall of Atlantic City, maternal great grandmother Mrs Ada Burgess of Oak Hill. Body arrives at Dodd Payne Funeral Home Fayetteville at 10 a m Saturday and will be placed in the church one hour before service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felicia Gaye Holliday
Dan M. Holliday
Riverdale
Garten Community Church
J. Edwin Stanfield
High Lawn Memorial Park
Dan II
Stephen
M. A. Holliday
Garten
B. F. Hall
Atlantic City
N. J
Ada Burgess
Oak Hill
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Fayetteville
Final rites for Mrs Mamie Gill in Rose Quesenberry chapel
Mrs Mamie Alice Wise Gill, 75, of 211 Wickham Ave, will receive final rites at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with Rev Jim Franklin officiating. Burial follows at Wildwood Cemetery. She died at her home at 5 a.m. Thursday after a long illness. Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie Alice Wise Gill
Wickham Ave
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Jim Franklin
Wildwood Cemetery
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Funeral Services for James W Prater in Fayetteville Church
Funeral services set for James W Ty Prater 71 of Fayetteville at 2 p m from Fayetteville Baptist Church with burial in Huse Memorial Park He was a retired miner World War I veteran and husband of Wanda Prater Surviving children include Raymond A Lowell A and E Howard Prater two brothers a sister and nine grandchildren The body to be moved to the home and church prior to services Also funeral services for Mrs Elsie Baldwin 65 of Red Star at 2 p m Saturday in Oak Hill burial in Hilltop Cemetery She died Thursday in Oak Hill hospital She was born in Bryson City and survived by sisters a daughter three grandchildren and a great grandchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W
Ty) Prater
Fayetteville
Fayetteville Baptist Church
J. A. Crozier
William Dreger
J. C. Bybee
Huse Memorial Park
Prater
Beckley
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Elsie Baldwin
Red Star
Tyree
Ester Syme
Shady Spring
Alma Grant
Hilltop
Irene Stewart
Lincoln Park
N. J
St Clair Moore dies after long illness at 419 Nash St Bluefield
St Clair Moore of 419 Nash Street Bluefield died Thursday at 10 a m at his home after a long illness. He was survived by his wife Alma Adams Moore and his mother Mrs W O Phipps both of Bluefield and a sister Mrs Lillian Smith of Detroit Michigan formerly Beckley. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Clair Moore
Nash St
Bluefield
Alma Adams Moore
W. O. Phipps
Lillian Smith
Detroit
Mich
Beckley
Beckley Man Benjamin L Bragg Dies at 78
Benjamin Lee Bragg 78 of 121 Orchard Ave Beckley died at 5 45 am today in a Beckley hospital. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home in Oak Hill for visitation and arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Lee Bragg
Orchard Ave
Beckley
Tyree Funeral Home
Oak Hill
Bryan Kincer funeral set for Crab Orchard man 63
Funeral services for Bryan Kincer 63 of Crab Orchard are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at Bethel Church MacArthur with Reverends Calhoun and Williams officiating. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park. A retired coal miner, he died Thursday in a Charlottesville hospital after a short illness. Born October 13 1898 in Kona Ky he was the son of the late Buck and Frances Kincer. Survived by his wife Bertha Raffron Kincer five daughters two sons a sister two brothers and 10 grandchildren. Body to be moved from Keyser Bryant Funeral Home to the home Saturday afternoon and to the church an hour before services. Pallbearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Kincer
Crab Orchard
Bethel Church
MacArthur
F. C. Calhoun
French D. Williams
Sunset Memorial Park
Charlottesville, Va
Kona
Buck
Frances Kincer
Lillybrook Coal Co
United Mine Workers of America
Bertha Raffron Kincer
Violet Deck
Pauline Kincer
Gloria Jean Kincer
Wanda Kiser
Maxwell Hill
Joan Farley
James Kincer
Arthur Kincer
Lillie Polly
Joe Kincer
Hassel Kincer
Keyser-Bryant
Veil Farley
Jimmy Kiser
Robert Deck
Dennis Riffe
Junior Farley
Darrell Farley
Junior Hungate
Dexter Hungate
Roeritz Rites Set For Resaco Miner Of 61
Funeral services for Toney R. Roeritz 61 of Resaco will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Nelson Staples officiating. Burial in Greenwood Memorial Park. He died in a local hospital Wednesday. Born June 24 1901 Acinda De Sanmigal Mexico he was a retired coal miner and a member of the United Holiness Church at Resoco. Lillian Roeritz a daughter Mrs Ruby S. Garrett and a step son Robert Javey both of Charleston. Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home where friends may call after 9 a.m. Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toney Rosade Roeritz
Resaco
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home
Nelson Staples
Greenwood Memorial Park
Acinda de Sanmigal
Mexico
United Holiness Church
Resoco
Lillian Roeritz
Ruby S. Garrett
Robert Javey
Charleston
Ritchie and Johnson
France debates vote method threatens republic stability
The article warns that adopting a direct popular vote for presidents could spark adventurers and endanger the republic. It recalls Louis Napoleon's rise to Emperor Napoleon III and notes how he bypassed elected bodies. It explains current pressure on De Gaulle to dissolve the November 1958 parliament and trigger new elections next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Napoleon
Napoleon I
Napoleon III
de Gaulle
Pendleton Final Rites Held for Princeton Jurist
Roscoe Hale Pendleton, longtime Mercer County prosecutor and Princeton lawyer since 1960, died at 6:30 a.m. Thursday after a short illness. Funeral services set for 10 a.m. Saturday at George W. Seaver Chapel, with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. He was 88 continued as a private practitioner and served 24 years as prosecutor. He was a Concord College and West Virginia School of Law graduate, member of First Methodist Church, and survived by wife Rutheney, sons Thomas Hale and David O., sister Olga, and one grandson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Hale Pendleton
Princeton
Mercer County
George W. Seaver
Herbert Parks
Yandell Page
Oakwood Cemetery
Pendleton
Concord College
West Virginia School of Law
First Methodist Church At
Mercer County Bar Association
West Virginia Bar Association
Carrie Hale Pendleton
Benjamin W. Pendleton
Rutheney Pendleton
Thomas Hale
David O
Arlington, Va
Olga Pendleton
Barboursville Driver Forfeits Bond To City
Donald Fitzgerald of Barboursville forfeited a $133 cash bond in City Police Court on charges of drunken driving and destruction of property. He hit a parked car on South Fayette Street and struck a brick post before Ebenezer Baptist Church. Tom Tolliver of Ravencliff forfeited a $15 bond for failure to yield the right of way. David C. Bowling and Samuel Glasco, both Beckley, forfeited $5 bonds each for red light violations. Six intoxication bonds totaled $108.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Bob Brownlee
Beckley
Rodriguez
Russell Minton
Mankin Avenue
Barbara Minton
Asa Denver Ewing
Jumping Branch
W. A. Burke
Jack Harvey
Eccles
Don Pruitt
Coal City
Pruitt
Harlow Stover
Clear Creek
David C. Bowling
Crow
Wilton Gillenwater
Lester
Burke
Robert Green
Mount View
Raleigh
O. D. Griffith
Ghent
Green
Griffith
Alderson
Donald Fitzgerald
Barboursville
South Fayette Street
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Tom Tolliver
Ravencliff
Samuel Glasco
Police Probe Continues In East Park Con Game
City police investigate a theft of about $130 from Rev. G. D. Anderson of East Park. The minister was approached on a downtown street at about 11 am Thursday and was duped in a con game by two men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. Anderson
East Park
Park Board backs rock dam repair at Little Beaver Lake
Raleigh County Court President John C Ward supports the County Park Board plan to seal leaks in the Little Beaver Lake rock dam starting next week. The project, costing about 200 for materials, uses ADCU workers under the Aid to Dependent Children program, with a Sakrete compound and a manufacturer supervisor on site. The lake has been drained for repairs and debris removal, while a beach retaining wall project aims to curb annual sand replacement.
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Raleigh
John C. Ward
County Park Board
Rock
Little Beaver Lake
Park Board
B. H. Hopkins
Ward
Soviet Scientist Hints Moon Trip Stated Soon
Moscow broadcast quotes Prof N P Arabashov saying the Soviet Union will soon attempt an unmanned spacecraft mission to the moon. He warned that automatic interplanetary ships will proceed to the moon, then Venus and Mars, with later manned flights following after preliminary unmanned missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
UPS
Russia
N.P. Arabashov
Moscow Radio
Arabashov
Moon
Venus
Mars
Supervisor Suspended Over Lard Spoilage at Beckley Warehouse
Clarin I. Marshall, supervisor of the Beckley Commodity Distribution warehouse, receives a 15 day suspension due to lard spoilage. Willis Trent, welfare worker, will fill in temporarily as investigation seeks storage improvements. Jay Wildt cites warehouse administration and inventory controls as the key issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarin I. Marshall
Beckley
Jay Wildt
Department
Marshall
Willis Trent
Sprague
Gov
Marland
Wildt
West Virginia Voters Group Backs Budget Amendment
Mantown, head of the West Virginia League of Women Voters, endorses the proposed executive and budget amendment to the Constitution while opposing the fair representation amendment. Charles E. Lawall, former WVU president, wins the Percy Nicholls Award for notable solid fuels achievement. he is now a Huntington coal consultant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mantown
West Virginia League of Women Voters
West Virginia University
Charles E. Lawall
Percy Nicholls
Lawall
Huntington
Heart Attack Fatality at Harper Heights Home
Beckley Rescue Squad responded to a 9:28 a.m. alarm at Carson Light's Harper Heights residence. Charles Robert Lowe, 62, of the Light home, apparently suffered a heart attack and was pronounced dead when a doctor arrived alongside the rescue team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Robert Lowe
Harper Heights
Carson Light
Beckley
Ann Fink
Charleston
Charles R. Lowe Jr
Ray Petrie
Hinton
Webb and
Lowe
Light
Court Resets Raleigh County Meeting To Thursday
The Raleigh County Court schedule is moved from Tuesday to Thursday as Commissioner H. G. Farmer is unavailable. The change affects timing but not the agenda or items to be discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
H. G. Farmer
Reds Will Get There First
W H B Wilhite of Tickol Chemical Corp. predicted that the Soviet Union would beat the United States to space, citing solid fuel boosters as decisive. He argued the US lagged eight years in solid-fuel rocket investment and warned the Russians would orbit two men in one capsule within six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baja California
Schirra
Kearsarge
Wake Island
John Glenn
Scott Carpenter
Virgil Grissom
U.S
Allan B. Shepard Jr
Rose Knot
Western Pacific
Donald Slayton
Gordon Cooper
Project Mercury
America
Little Bird
Cape Canaveral
Florida
Moon
Arabashov
Earth
Pittsburgh
UPI
W. H. B. Wilhite
Ogden
Utah
Tickol Chemical Corp
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Wilhite
Kennedy Heads Weekend Campaign Tour Amid Cold
President Kennedy, sick with a head cold, planned a busy weekend of politicking to aid Democratic candidates in Kentucky Ohio Michigan and Minnesota. He would meet with West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt and honor Crown Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, then head to Cincinnati Detroit Flint Muskegon for rapid rallies and handshakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Kentucky
Ohio
Michigan
Minnesota
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
White House
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
Andrews Air Force Base
Pierre Salinger
Greater Cincinnati
Fountain Square
Cincinnati
Detroit
Sheraton Cadillac
Flint
Mich
Municipal Mall
Muskegon, Mich
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City Police
B&e
Mrs
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Charles R. Lowe
Mamie Gill
James W. Prater
St. Clair Moore
Benjamin L. Bragg
Toney R. Roeritz
France
Roscoe H. Pendleton
Musterole
Cohen
Neville St
Bank of Raleigh
Bank of Raleigh Main
Kanawha Streets
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
G. M. Powers
Main Street
Woodlawn Violet's
Appointment Ave
Burleson Motors
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