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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1966
Page
2
Pittsburgh USW convention report notes automation reduces needed labor in mills. The change shifts power within the United Steelworkers Wage Policy Committee, the 163-member body that governs contract matters.
Joseph Erber, 69, a former Auschwitz hatchetman, was sentenced to life for 70 murders amid the nine month Auschwitz trial. Accomplices Wilhelm Burder and Gerhard Newberg drew eight years and three years six months respectively. The case involved alleged roles in gas chamber deaths and crematorium events. The proceedings occurred during Jewish New Year observances.
In Bethesda Ohio a coal mine fire trapped miners, with three presumed dead. In Pottsville Pa a cave in killed three more as rescuers fought rain and rubble. The Morgan mine near the West Virginia Ohio line was sealed after a short circuit sparked the blaze. Victims named include Keith Spicer, 22, Tony Territti, 43, and Russell Diebert, 38, with funerals set for Diebert and Hnatishion.
West Virginia sold the Showboat Rhododendron after Clinton Iowa bid 21165 dollars for the vessel. State Purchasing Director Clarence Johnson refunded 1500 dollars to Clinton after they fulfilled a deposit requirement. The towboat Mary Alice sank on the Monongahela River and was later auctioned by the Army Corps of Engineers after salvage.
Bond notes SNCC presence in the area deterred police brutality. Carmichael warns demonstrations will continue unless injustices end, urging actions against black people. A federal panel will hear SNCC’s demand on September 29 to restrain Atlanta authorities from enforcing anti disorderly conduct laws.
In a violent North Sea gale the salvage crane Magnus could not reach the sunken West German submarine Hai. Nineteen of twenty crew feared dead with one survivor, Peter Silbernagel, saying waves toppled the sub and trapped men below deck. An air pocket offered slim hope of survivors.
State Labor Commissioner Lawrence Barker said a newly enacted federal wage law will cover about 12,000 more West Virginians next February and another 12,000 the following year as phase two takes effect. The state expects to lose 25 percent of the 40,000 to 50,000 previously anticipated to be covered. The Labor Department is drafting rules for businesses and aims for a late November hearing after circulating an initial draft to associations for input.
Powell labeled a racist and ingrate while Gibbons denied anti Negro intent yet blamed Powell for harming race relations and the Great Society image. Powell warned of hate backlash at a closed meeting next Thursday as he sought support from McCormack or Johnson despite rough recent quarrels.
Roderick MacDonnell, a 90-year-old in Chesham, England, left his bootmaker post 17 years ago to become a machinist. Once 73 at the career shift, he is now regarded as one of the top machinists at his company.
Long obituary list notes John Ramey Harris 64 of Dry Creek died at home after a long illness born January 31 1902 in Oakvale Survived by wife Carrie three sons Harold and Robert John Jr one daughter Mona Jarrell three brothers and a half-sister and eight grandchildren Funeral at First Presbyterian Church Dry Creek burial Sunset Memorial Park Beckley body leave Valley Funeral Home Whitesville today for viewing Then notices include Silas Chapman Stover Emmett Cashwell Clifford Earl White and Mrs Walter Hall with locations in Chesapeake Montgomery Mullens MacArthur Rocksville Hinton and Beckley Readers learn death details for each and service plans plus survivors and next of kin.
Bays M. Duncan of Point Pleasant, a merchant, died in a Point Pleasant hospital at 3 p m Thursday after a short illness. He was a brother of Walter M Duncan of Beckley and Eugene Duncan of Bradley. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Mrs Mattie May Tiano aged 59 of Harper died at 8 a m in a local nursing home. The body is at Melton Mortuary awaiting completion of arrangements.
Washington reports reveal the CIA under fire for public missteps from a slander suit to an apology by Richard Helms. The agency fired Danish-born Hans V. Tofte after a board inquiry found security rule violations tied to taking home classified papers. Tofte disputes the dismissal, alleging illegal action and improper raid details. police investigations unfold over an $85,000 Georgetown home raid and missing jewelry.
The State Committee on Higher Education approved a sweeping plan to create an 11 member board of regents with a chancellor earning 35000 dollars to oversee all higher education in West Virginia. The proposal outlines three new boards and a 257500 dollar budget with 184100 set for the regents. Governors from Marshall University and eight colleges would be appointed, with WVU and Potomac State kept under their current boards. Governors from private colleges would be included, and the panel would include presidents from the four existing boards and seven governor appointments.
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