Change Sought in State Death Registration Law
Lincoln County Clerk George Johnson urged a law change to require deaths be registered at the place of death rather than residence. He criticized local registration officials for failing to return voter lists. Information on alleged voting irregularities was presented by John Callebs and Fred Scott to the State Election Commission.
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UPI
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George Johnson
Johnson
State Election Commission
John Callebs
Huntington
Kanawha County
Democratic House of Delegates
Fred Scott
Robert Bailey
Bailey
Callebs
Commission
Stanley E. Preiser
Roland L. Taylor
Welch Daily News
Raymond Young
Charles Walker
Miss Bobbi Jordan lands role on The Rounders TV series
Hollywood waitress turned actress Miss Bobbi Jordan, a former P.J.'s server with red hair and green eyes, joins ABC-TV's The Rounders after a span of careful study and a breakthrough with the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera and William Morris agency. She pursues singing opera and pantomime alongside acting.
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Rick DU Brow
Hollywood
UPI
Bobbi Jordan
Abc-Tv
the Rounders
P.j.’S
Rounders
Scott
Bruce
Roberta Carol Bartlett
Hardinsburg
Louisville
Chicago
Senn High School
New York
Miss Jordan
Paul Raffles
Cindy
Paul
Jordan
San Bernardino Civic Light Opera
William Morris Agency
Thant declines another term as UN secretary general
U Thant says he is touched by worldwide support and will not seek reappointment, leaving the Security Council free to choose his successor. He remains at home in Riverdale after returning from trips to Mexico and Chile, amid pressure from major powers to stay on. Thant cites frustration over peace efforts in Southeast Asia and Viet Nam talks as a key factor in stepping down before the General Assembly meets.
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United Nations
Security Council
Thant
Swank Riverdale
Mexico
Chile
Southeast Asia
General Assembly
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Appollo K. Kironde
Uganda
Racial tension flares amid riots in Michigan Wisconsin
Five Benton Harbor youths were arrested for stoning cars as rioting erupted Tuesday night leaving Cecil Hunt, 18, shot after a march attempt. Mayor Smith blamed lack of facilities and police bullying, pledging talks with leaders to address grievances. Demonstrations shifted in Milwaukee and Cicero with NAACP youth council planning nonviolent and possibly larger protests. The Wisconsin attorney general arranged talks, and Gov Knowles pulled the National Guard. In Waukegan calm returned though officials warned against outside agitators.
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Cecil Hunt
Wilbert Smith
Milwaukee
Youth Council
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Robert C. Cannon
Wauwatosa
Christ T. Seraphim
Lodge
Wisconsin
Bronson la Follette
James E. Groppi
Cannon
la Follette
Warren Knowles
National Guard
Cicero
Christy S. Berkes
Robert Lucas
Chicago
Congress of Racial Equality
Berkos
Lucas
Waukegan
Ill
Robert Sabonjian
Young Demos Choose Campaign Managers in WV
State Democratic Chairman James Sprouse announced the appointment of Robert Burke of Wheeling and Walter Burton of Princeton as associate campaign managers for West Virginia’s 1966 Democratic campaign. He said the northern and southern regions are represented by these two aggressive young men.
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Charleston
Upi
James Sprouse
Robert Burke
Wheeling
Walter Burton
Princeton
West Virginia
Sprouse
Husband Shoots Wife in Ore Mine Hill Tragedy
Nancy Borkholder 24 of Connellsville was fatally wounded when she stepped into husband John Borkholder s line of fire during target shooting with a .22 rifle at Ore Mine Hill Police said she was struck in the arm and chest and died at Frick Community Hospital in Mt Pleasant Pa UP I report states the incident occurred Wednesday night with the couple present at the shooting site.
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MT. Pleasant
UPI
Nancy Borkholder
Connellsville
John
Ore
Frick Community Hospital
New Wood Plant Told For State
Governor Hulett C. Smith announced a new wood processing plant in West Virginia to halt timber exports for processing out of state. At the $1.25 million Dean Co veneer plant dedication he urged keeping value inside state lines. The Labor Department approved 21886 for a program training 57 jobless workers by the Dean firm. Senators Byrd and Randolph noted the funded jobs include log inspectors operators veneer clippers and plate dryers.
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Washington
UPS
Hulett C. Smith
Dean Co
Smith
West Virginia
Department of Labor
Dean
Sens
Robert C. Byrd
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Britannia Flight Crash Affects 110 British Tourists
A Britannia Airways plane chartered for a Universal Sky Tours package vacation to Ljubljana crashed south of the Yugoslav Austrian border. All 110 passengers and seven crew members were British. The $102.90 per person trip included air travel and hotels. The crash marked Britannia Airways first in five years.
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J.S. Harrington
Britannia Airways
Universal Sky Tours
London
Ljubljana
Britannia Airway
Tanjug
Yugoslavia
Lufton
England
Trieste
North Atlantic
Britain
United States
Royal Air Force
West Virginia Woman Convicted in Husband's Disappearance
Mrs. Mullenax, sentenced to the State Prison for Women, fled from a prison truck and survived with injuries after an escape near Terra Alta. Experts testified bones found in a trash heap near their rural home could be her husband. The husband vanished December 23. nine children were separated, with six placed in state care and two with a brother in Virginia.
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Terra Alta
Mullenax
Deaths and funerals in West Virginia area
Funeral services set for Troy Buddy Cole 20 of Fairdale with burial in Glen Daniel as officials list many relatives and pallbearers. Requiem mass for James F Haley 64 Mount Hope follows final rites at St Anthony Catholic Church with burial at High Lawn Memorial Park. Joseph Furia 41 Tams to be laid to rest at Saeger Memorial Cemetery after services at Oceana Freewill Baptist Church.
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Troy
Buddy) Cole
Fairdale
Fairdale Free Will Baptist Church
John Richardson
Gerald Hawley
Methodist Church
Glen Daniel
Carl James Cook Funeral Services Pending
Carl James Cook 71 of Sto ver died at 1130 a.m. Wednesday in his home. Funeral services are pending with Melton Mortuary.
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Carl James Cook
Stover
Melton Mortuary
Watters Funeral Service for John L Watters
Funeral services for John Leslie Watters 71 of 810 North Oakwood Avenue will be held at 1 p m Saturday in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with Reverend Homer Baxter officiating. Burial follows at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home with visitation after 4 p m Friday.
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John Leslie Watters
Oakwood Ave
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Homer Baxter
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Final rites for Mrs Pearl Weaver in Mount Hope
Mrs Pearl Weaver 61 of Long Branch whose funeral is set for 2 p m Friday at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Mount Hope will be officiated by Rev Ernest Barley of Bradley. Burial follows at Pax Community Cemetery. She died Tuesday night in a Beckley hospital after an extended illness. A Long Branch Methodist Church member born September 10 1905 in Bass County Virginia she was the widow of Edgar Weaver and mother of four sons Ashby and others.
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James F. Haley
Mount Hope
St. Anthony Catholic Church
Leo Werner
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Haley
Beckley Hospital
Montgomery
Summersville
United States Bureau of Mines
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic
Kils
Orlando
Fla
Tyree
Pearl Weaver
Long Branch
Ernest Barley
Bradley
Pax Community
Margaret Hall Weaver
Edgar
Ashby
De Gaulle urges U S to withdraw troops over Viet Nam
De Gaulle, now head of state, cites Franco Cambodian ties and urges the United States to withdraw its troops from Indochina. He says peace hinges on U S attitude and endorses a political accord, praising Cambodia's neutral stance amid renewed calls for international cooperation.
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United States
Viet Nam
Sihanouk
de Gaulle
France
Asia
Pacific
Indochina
Nguyen Truong
Ho Chi Minh
Phnom Penh
U.S
Flanagan Quits Post At West Virginia School
William T. Flanagan resigns as superintendent of the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys in Pruntytown effective October 1. A former Taylor County sheriff he offered no reason for leaving and said he has no immediate plans for the future. He had led the institution since 1960.
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Pruntytown
UPI
William T. Flanagan
West Virginia Industrial School For Boys
Flanagan
Taylor County
Rescue Efforts Mounted For Kyoto Freighter In Distress
The Kyoto, a 656-foot Casarma Lines tanker of Palermo Italy, lies in trouble 40 miles northeast of an Italian ship. Coast Guard reports rough seas and wind as five other vessels, including two Coast Guard cutters Mendota and Chilula, race to the scene. Captain is B Haglich. crew all Italian.
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Kyoto
Coast Guard
Mendota
Bermuda
Chilula
Morehead City
N.C
Casarma_ shipping lines
Palermo
Italy
B. Haglich
Support Builds For Suspension Of Tax Credit
Washington reports growing support on Capitol Hill for suspending a corporate tax credit seen as fueling inflation. Senator Russell Long leads the push, arguing the move would ease tight money and free loan funds, though it faces White House resistance and a tricky path through Congress.
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White House
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Kennedy
U. S
Long
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Johnson
Red Guard in Peking Closes Offices and Attacks Shops
In Peking the Red Guard forced a post-telegraph office and a food store in the diplomatic area to close under blue seals. In Hong Kong a 60-year-old nun died after being beaten and expelled as a spy amid reports of mass rallies blessing the campaign led by Mao's supporters.
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UPS
China
Red Guard
Peking
Hong Kong
Mao Tse-tung
Radio Peking
Lin Piao
Eamonn
Mary O'Sullivan
Cork
Ireland
St. Theresa Hospital
Sacred Heart Academy
Shanchum
New China News Agency
International Communist split noted in plenary clash
The article reports on a four year plenary session where China accuses Soviet leadership of revisionism and rejects Soviet calls for a united front against the United States in Viet Nam. The Soviet reply blames Mao and Chinese leaders for the division, calling their actions a setback to socialist unity and peace. In Paris, burglar Julien Le Roux, 20, is arrested as the prime suspect after leaving his ID wallet at the burglary scene.
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Viet Nam
International Communist Movement
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Central Committee
China
Peking
Paris
UPI
Julien le Roux
le Roux
Ground actions brief near Dong Xuan in Vietnam
A 200-man company from the 101st Airborne took light casualties near Dong Xuan along the South China Sea adjacent to the Central Highlands. Opera tion John Paul Jones has 224 Viet Cong killed, 391 captured, 289 suspected guerrillas picked up since July 21. A company from the 25th Infantry Division killed at least four Viet Cong 18 miles west of Pleiku in the Central Highlands as part of Operation Paul Revere III begun last month.
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101St Airborne Brigade
Dong Xuan
South China Sea
Central Highlands
U.S
US. Army
25Th Infantry Division
Pleiku
State's C of C Meeting Opens
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS UPS Labor conditions taxes road and water quality standards were to come under the spotlight at the opening of the 31st annual convention of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. The three day meeting is expected to draw about 300 persons including industrial executives from West Virginia and New York. Two speakers from each state will bring the group up to date on Labor Conditions in West Virginia. They are Lawrence S. Driever of New York manager of Industrial Relations for International Nickel Martin F Fahey legal administrator for Weirton Steel Roland J Murphy of South Charleston assistant plant manager for Union Carbide s chemicals division and Robert G Kelly a Charleston attorney. Governor assistant Julius Singleton was to speak on government and taxation and the Status of Interstate and Appalachian Highway Progress will be the topic of State Road Commissioner Burl Sawyers. A discussion of water quality standards will be led by Edgar Henry acting chief of the state water Resources Division and James M Quigley commissioner of the federal Water Pollution Control Administration.
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West Virginia
Julius Singleton
Burl Sawyers
Edgar Henry
State Water Resources Division
James M. Quigley
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Faith Hurricane Aims At Open Seas Off East Coast
Faith, a hurricane with 110 mph winds, moves northeast away from the U S coast. Forecasters warn it could threaten late, while rough seas build along southern shores and the Miami Weather Bureau places its center about 320 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras.
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Faith
America
Miami Weather Bureau
Cape Hatteras
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