Deaths and Funerals in Beckley Area
Funeral services are set for William M. Jefferson 70 of Harper Heights at 1 p.m. Thursday at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor Chapel with burial in Greenwood Memorial Park. He died Tuesday morning after a short illness. visitation is at the funeral home. Mrs. Mabel McCutcheon 58 of 119 Queen St. will have services at 2 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Kenneth R. Swank in charge and burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. She died Tuesday morning in a local hospital after a long illness. survivors include husband W. M. McCutcheon a daughter Pat Wathen of Cincinnati and son Dr. William R. McCutcheon of Ann Arbor plus several siblings and four grandchildren. Friends may call at Caffee Funeral Home after 6 p.m. today. the body will be taken to the church an hour before services. Pallbearers are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Jefferson
Harper Heights
Ritchie and Johnson
W. L. Brown
Greenwood Memorial Park
Jefferson
Mabel McCutcheon
Queen St
First Baptist Church
Kenneth R. Swank
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Beckley
Primrose Garden Club
W. M. McCutcheon
Joseph F
Patty) Wathen
Cincinnati
Ohio
William R. McCutcheon
Ann Arbor
Mich
A. R. Williams
Laura Wood
Hawaii
G. O
Melvin
T. J
Mount Hope
Clyde
Detroit
William
Newport News
Caffee Funeral Home
D. C. Means
G. C. Stallings
I. Wilbur Bays
Ralph Koiner
Charles A. Curry
Cecil Cooke
Walter Duncan
French Davis
D. E
Durb) Vipperman
Sweeneysburg
First Christian Church
Walter H. Griswold
Beckley Area
New Shady Spring
Herbert Jones Library
Oak Hill
Beckley Masonic Lodge
Wipperman
Charleston
Knights of Templar
Moose and Elk’s Lodges
Mayberry Mills
M. T
Cordelia Conner Vipperman
Vergie Hager Vipperman
Earl of
Robert
Anna) Carper
N. N. Powers
Joe Heatherman
Princeton
Orla Lilly
Calfee Funeral Home
Alex George
J. Everette Shrewsbury
Roy J. Lucas
S. R. Friend
A. J. Underwood
B. B. Crouch
Funeral services set for Floyd H. Brooks at St John’s Church
The Rev. W. J. Carter the Rev. H. E. Davis and the Rev. John Lockett will lead funeral services for Floyd H. Brooks, 69, of Raleigh, Thursday at 1 p.m. in St. John’s Baptist Church Raleigh. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park. Brooks died Monday morning in a local hospital after a long illness. The Bloodstone Lodge 101 and Beckley Lodge 27 will conduct graveside rites. Friends may visit Wright and Anderson Funeral Home after 3 p.m. today. body will be taken to the church an hour before services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Carter
H. E. Davis
John Lockett
Floyd H. Brooks
Raleigh
St. John’s Baptist Church
Greenwood Memorial Park
Brooks
Bloodstone Lodge
York Masons
Beckley Lodge
Wright and Anderson
William S Ray Services for William Sankey Ray
Funeral services for 88 year old William Sankey Ray of Pierpont will be held at 1 p m Thursday at Pierpont Freewill Baptist Church with Rev Garland Phillips of Allen Junction officiating. Burial will follow in Birchfield Cemetery at Hotchkiss. Ray died Tuesday at 11 55 a m in a Princeton nursing home. Born Oct 9 1877 in Baldwin NC he was the son of the late Henry and Cynthia Ray. His wife Mary Elizabeth Lewis Ray preceded him in death. Survivors include a son Jack Ray of Pierpont two daughters Maude Fraley of Slab Fork and Beulah Mayse of Cleveland Ohio 28 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren. Ray was a retired miner. The body will be taken from Sam Foglesong Nease and Neely Funeral Home in Mullens to his son's home at 5 p m today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Sankey Ray
Pierpont
Pierpont Freewill Baptist Church
Garland Phillips
Allen Junction
Birchfield
Hotchkiss
Ray
Princeton
Baldwin
N. C
Henry
Cynthia Ray
Mary Elizabeth Lewis Ray
Jack Ray
Maude Fraley
Slab Fork
Beulah Mayse
Cleveland
Ohio
Sam Foglesong
Nease and Neely
Mullens
Lottie
Bessie Underwood
Pearl White
Retta Brown
Juanita Alderman
Dry Creek
Lora Webb
Barbara Underwood
Sylvia Price
Chicago, IL
Ira
Earl and
Albert
Chicago, Ill
Archie
Whitesville
Marvin
Glen Daniel
Maude Richmond
Naomi
Pearl Gunnee
Ollie Conner
Charleston
Armstrong Funeral Home
Final rites for Rev Lucian Mansfield Legg held Friday
The Rev Lucian Mansfield Legg 73 of Minden will be buried at High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill after funeral services at Maplewood Methodist Church with Rev Lawrence Dorsey Nettie and Rev Wesley Pennington presiding. Legg died Tuesday afternoon in a Beckley hospital. He was a retired Methodist minister and Maplewood member born Aug 13 1893 in Tipton Nicholas County. He leaves a large family including Agnes Legg brother Clarence Frame numerous siblings and six sons and three daughters plus 30 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. The Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill handles arrangements with services at the church one hour before burial and viewing times are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucian Mansfield Legg
Minden
Maplewood Methodist Church
Lawrence Dorsey
Nettie
Wesley Pennington
Nallen
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Legg
Beckley
Tipton
Nicholas County
Agnes Legg
Clarence Frame
Rainelle
Mabel Martin
Annie Wright
Corliss
Lucie Gravely
Maxine Worster
Laurestine Bragg
Ronney Farmer
Lena Wardrup
Hico
Fred L
Oak
Final rites for Mrs Minta Yancey in Hinton
Mrs. Minta Ellen Yancey of Bellpoint dies after long illness at home. Funeral 2 p.m. Thursday at E. M. Meadows Funeral Home Chapel Hinton with Rev. Robert McCoy officiating. Burial in Zion Mountain family cemetery. Born Feb 19 1882 in Raleigh County, daughter of Peter and Martha Bennett. Survived by five daughters, three sons, two brothers, and numerous grandchildren great grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minta Ellen Yancey
Bellpoint
E. M. Meadows Funeral Home
Hinton
Robert McCoy
Zion Mountain
Lottie Arthur
Bradley
Lucinda Kirkpatrick
Warrington
Evelyn Phillips
Portsmouth
Everette
Elliott
Riley
Barger Springs
Beaten Tortured Starved For Captured Pilot Dengler Story
Navy Lt Dengler recounts six months as a prisoner after his downed aircraft near the Viet Nam Laos border. He says he was beaten and starved, marched between Laotian villages, and escaped after a July blaze from a Pathet Lao stockade. He was rescued by an Air Force helicopter after 23 days in the jungle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pathet Lao
Dengler
Wildberg
West Germany
Pacifica
Calif
Consciouness
San Diego Naval Hospital
Governor's Suitcase Government In Keyser
Gov Hu Lett Smith and about 20 state department heads planned to hold a one day government session in Keyser with a groundbreaking at a new industrial park and an outdoor luncheon. They would convene at the National Guard Armory from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. after arriving Morgantown by car due to bad weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keyser
UPI
Hulett C. Smith
Morgantown
Smith
State Department
Panhandle
National Guard Armory
Treasury Accounts Through Sept 9
Treasury records for the fiscal year show withdrawals at 34.423 billion dollars and deposits at 24.493 billion. The cash balance stands at 4.421 billion, public debt at 324.534 billion, and gold reserves at 13.259 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Treasury
Alderman Rites Held For James Marion Alderman
Funeral services for James Marion Alderman 79 of Dry Creek were set for 1 p m Thursday at Dry Creek Freewill Baptist Church with Rev Thomas Bradford and Rev Phillip King officiating. Burial followed at Pettry Cemetery. Alderman a retired miner died Tuesday in a Charleston hospital. He leaves eight daughters two sons three brothers and three sisters along with many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville announced arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marion Alderman
Dry Creek
Dry Creek Freewill Baptist Church
Thomas Bradford
Phillip King
Pettry
Alderman
Charleston
Richmond services for William Edward Richmond set in Naoma
Funeral services for 90 year old William Edward Richmond of Naoma will be held at 3 30 p m Thursday at Freewill Baptist Church Naoma with Rev Sherman Turner presiding Burial will follow at Adkins Cemetery He died Tuesday morning at home from a heart attack He is survived by his wife Maude Alderman Richmond four daughters Inez Gallimore Essie Howell Vada Rumburg Ruby Smith a son Alvin Jarrell five brothers and two sisters plus 19 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Edward Richmond
Naoma
Freewill Baptist Church
Sherman Turner
Adkins
Richmond
Maude Alderman
Ernest
Inez) Gallimore
Willie
Essie) Howell
Sherman
Vada) Rumburg
Oak Hill
Ruby Smith
Columbus
Ohio
Alvin Jarrell
Packsville
Andy
Ben
Alfred
Rock Creek
Russia Expels U S Diplomat in Moscow Retaliation
Moscow announces Donald Lesh, 34, U S Embassy second secretary, is persona non grata in a tit-for-tat move after Washington expelled a Russian diplomat. Tass notes the charge stems from the Soviet Foreign Ministry amid spate of espionage claims.
New Beckley VA appoints Dr Lesem J Baer chief of staff
Dr Lesem J Baer a Lincoln County Nebraska native and 20 year VA veteran has been named Chief of Staff at the Beckley VA. He completed 18 months of Cincinnati VA hospital training and previously spent 20 years at the Dearborn Ohio VA hospital including five as Chief of Medicine. A Nebraska Medical School graduate, he is board certified in internal medicine with a cardiology subspecialty and served as a Navy Medical Corps lieutenant 1943 to 1946 in the Solomon Islands theater. He will reside on hospital grounds with his wife Katherine and daughters Nancy Susan and Melissa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Veterans Administration
Lesem J. Baer
Lincoln County
Neb
Baer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dearborn
University of Nebraska School of Medicine
Omaha
American Board of Internal Medicine
Solomon Islands
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Bougainville
Katherine
Nancy
Susan
Melissa
Amendment Approved For Per Diem Of 15 Dollars A Day In Legislature
West Virginia lawmakers on the interim committee approved a plan to set food and board at 15 dollars per day if a constitutional amendment passes in November. The measure would raise annual pay from 1500 to 2500 and let the body set its own per diem with no ceiling. Opponents argued the amendment creates an open expense account and criticized the move as self serving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
Senate
John Carrigan
Marshall County
Mont
State Chamber of Commerce
Boiarsky
Chamber Commerce
Carrigan
Joint Committee On Government and Finance
Seibert
France to quit NATO Military Committee Oct 1
Paris reports France will withdraw from the NATO Military Committee in Washington on October 1 as part of Charles de Gaulle's drive to reduce dependence on NATO and lean toward a European third force. France will be represented there by a liaison group and partners must decide on the arrangement. The council approved moving SHAPE to Belgium and NATO Defense College to Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
UPI
France
NATO
Washington
Charles de Gaulle
North Atlantic Alliance
Iceland
NATO Permanent Council
Pierre de Lousse
Manlio Brosio
U.S
Harlan Cleveland
Belgium
Andre de Stercken
Supreme Allied Headquarters
SHAPE
Rocquencourt
Chievres-Casteau
NATO Defense College
Rome
Continental Oil to buy Consolidation Coal in $717 million deal
A complex two stage plan transfers Consolidation Coal Company holdings to Continental Oil through Consol of Delaware and William Coal Corp. The $717 million deal covers 14 West Virginia counties including Raleigh and Monongalia, with a $460 million mortgage split between First National City Bank and institutional investors. The transaction culminates Thursday with a Friday press conference to outline further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
Continental Oil Co
Consolidation Coal Company
West Virginia
Continental
Barbour
Doddridge
Marshall
Ohio
Preston
Taylor
Wetzel
Monongalia
Marion
Harrison
McDowell
Mercer
Raleigh
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Tennessee
Illinois
New Jersey
Consol Holdings
Consol
Delaware
William Coal Corp
Wilmington
Del
William
Robert L. Huston
Tarrytown
N. Y
John L. Cowan
Primary results show antiwar, civil rights themes in state races
Primary races across multiple states reflected tension over Vietnam policy and civil rights. Warren Wilentz won big in New Jersey while Endicott Peabody captured Massachusetts Democratic senatorial nomination, and Edw ard McCormack and others scored key party nominations. In several states Republicans and Democrats named nominees for November contests, with notable outcomes in Arizona New Hampshire Rhode Island Utah Vermont Wisconsin Colorado and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
New Jersey
Warren W. Wilentz
U.S
David Frost
Massachusetts
Endicott Peabody
Atty
Edward W. Brooke
Peabody
Boston
John F. Collins
Edward J. McCormack
Kenneth P. O'Donnell
Kennedy
McCormack
John A. Volpe
Arizona
Sam Goddard
Phoenix
Jack Williams
GOP
New Hampshire
Harrison Thyng
North
Viet Nam
U.S. Senate
Hugh Gregg
Thomas J. McIntyre
John W. King
Wilentz
Clifford P. Case
Rhode Island
Ruth M. Briggs
WAC
Claiborne Pell
Charles H. Eden
Pell
Utah
J. Keith Melville
Brigham Young University
Congress
Laurence J. Burton
Vermont
Richard A. Snelling
Thomas L. Hayes
Philip H. Hoff
Wisconsin
Patrick J. Lucey
David Carley
Lucey
Warren Knowles
Colorado
J. Edgar Chenoweth
David Enoch
Chenoweth
Frank Evans
D-Colo
Farley Murder Trial in January
David Farley, 40, a public relations man, faces a January trial in Summers County Circuit Court after being indicted for the murder of Robert Bailey, 40, husband of June Bailey the prison warden. An autopsy cites head injuries from a fight. details include a daughter’s scream and neighbors’ intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elaine
Farley
Jack Lawrence
Congress College Aid Plan Receives Senate Backing
A Senate labor subcommittee approved a three year 4.4 billion college aid program, about 1.1 billion above Johnson's proposal, with unanimous support. The House has passed a 2.9 billion version. funds mainly for grants and loans to build laboratories libraries and classrooms for junior colleges four year colleges and graduate schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Senate
Johnson
Wayne Morse
Dore
House
Congress
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
WV Teacher Pay Scales Rise Yet Remain Below National Average
The base salary starts at 4798 with increases to 5273 after five years, 5748 after ten, and 6318 after sixteen. Counties including Ohio and Brooke show varied starting salaries. overall West Virginia teachers still trail the national average of 6792 for instructional personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock
Ohio
Brooke
Marshall
Wood
Mason
Fayette
McDowell
Morgan
Cabell
West Virginia
Jungle Attack Guam hits 5000th sortie over Vietnam
The 5,000th combat sortie by Jungle Attack Guam over Vietnam unloaded tons of explosives on Communist concentrations in the Central Highlands near the 1st Air Cavalry sweep. Saigon outskirts saw an attack on a RMK-BRJ motor pool causing civilian deaths and damage exceeding $1 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Viet Nam
1St Air Cavalry
Saigon
Thu Due
Rmk-Brj Construction Company Combine
U.S
Xuyen Tra
Queen Elizabeth to Visit Canada for Confederation Centennial
Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will tour Canada for one week around June 30 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. The royal visit will include various ceremonies and engagements across major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Queen Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Canada
Buckingham Palace
Johnson Orders Delays Hit Federal Construction Programs
Washington AP Johnson moves to curb inflation by delaying projects planned for this year with federal funds. About 10 percent of planned construction, including post offices and road or harbor work, may be postponed. Total savings around 1.1 billion dollars plus up to 1.5 billion more as Congress acts on funding. The administration avoids naming specific projects to limit political risk while urging restraint in new spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
API
Johnson
Congress
Henderson Leads NAACP Election Effort in West Virginia
The article profiles Henderson a Cabell County leader active in community programs and named by Governor Smith to a constitutional amendments committee. A West Virginia native and West Virginia State College alumnus with a George Washington University law degree, he emphasizes unity and nonconfrontation while noting internal calls for leadership change within the NAACP after past resignations and factional tensions surrounding Davis and James.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
NAACP
Davis
Bluefield
Beckley
Eddie James
Charleston
James
Senator Dirksen Opposes Civil Rights Bill in Quote
In Washington Senator Everett Dirksen Republican Illinois reaffirmed his opposition saying I know of nobody under the canopy of the bright blue heavens that can say anything to change my mind. In Grenada Mississippi city manager John McEachin resigned over desegregation orders describing the upheaval as too much for the community to digest. At Space Center Houston astronaut Charles Conrad described viewing Earth as fantastic and unbelievable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Grenada
Miss
John McEachin
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William Jefferson
William 5S
Emmit Cashwell
Kimberly
Montgomery
Tom Cashwell
Fayetteville
Anderson and Hairston
William H. Ray
William Henry Ray
Lewisburg
Church of Christ At
Fairlea
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workmen Lodge
Mamie Casebolt Ray
H. L
Amaryllis) Walkup
Muncie
Guy
Bristol
L. C. Gwinn
Frank
Renick
Walter
White Sulphur Springs
Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home
Rev
Lucian M. Legg
Richard Williams
Saunders Ave
East Park
Williams
Welcome Baptist Church
Mackentosh
Ala
R. D. and
Mattie Williams
Rosetta Williams
Frank C. Williams
Alton Williams
Alma Evans
Mobile
David
Bessemer
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
D. E. Vipperman
Minta Yancey
Raymond Means
San Diego
Laos
J.G
Dieter Dengier
North Island Naval Air Station
Southeast Asia
Treasury Accounts
James M. Alderman
William Richmond
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Donald x. Lesh
United States
Tass
Lesh
Valentin A. Revin
Peace
Thomas R. Dawson
Annapolis
Peace Corps
Iran
Caspian Sea
Harold M. Koch
Georgi Kornienko
Koch
Komsomolskaya Pravda
C.I.A. Lorienko
Foreign Ministry
David E. Boster
Boster
Rochester
Harvard
Moscow University
U.S. Navy
Robert Madden
Andriana Fowerman
Ohio University
Charles Merlock
Columbia
George Seibert
Ohio County
Ivor Boiarsky
D-Kanawha
D - Kanawha
Ned Watson
D-Marion
Transfer of Coal Co
Okeh
Quant Khe Sam
Dong Hoi
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