Deaths and Funerals Two Local Women Die
Hazel B Bays 62 of San Gabriel Calif died after a long illness. She spent summer in the home of her niece Mrs Kermit T Ford 610 Johnstown Rd. Born Oct 17 1902 in Harvey she was daughter of T B and Sarah J Wingfield. Retired secretary for the Ohio State Insurance Agency in San Gabriel. Survived by two sisters a brother and a niece. Body at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home pending arrangements. Ethel Carroll Toles 72 of Greenstown died at home after extended illness. Born May 29 1893 in Claremont she was a retired Fayette County School teacher with 46 years service. Member of First Baptist Greenstown. Survived by a son four daughters three brothers three sisters and seven grandchildren. Body at Pitchie Johnson Funeral Parlor pending arrangements.
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Hazel B. Bays
San Gabriel
Calif
Kermit T. Ford
Johnstown Road
Harvey
T. B
Sarah Jane Byrd Wingfield
Ohio State Insurance Agency
Methodist Church
Harry C. Bays
Ethel Carroll Toles
Greenstown
Claremont
Abraham Carroll
Fayette County
First Baptist Church of
Harvey A. Toles
Dayton
Ohio
Marion T. Valentine
Cordelia V. Toles
Alberta C. Toles
Arvella T. Gooden
Amarillo
Tex
Robert R. Carroll
New York City
W. Oliver Carroll
Palm Springs
James W. Carroll
Columbus
Ruth C. Evans
Detroit
Mich
Beatrice Moore
Edith Cousins
Pitchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Bud S Haynes services held in Princeton
Bud S Haynes 58 of Princeton dies after long illness. Funeral at 2 30 p m Wednesday at Burke Memorial Baptist Church Princeton with Rev W L Jenkins and Rev Clayton Sweet officiating. Burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Born March 11 1907 in Bearing Springs Virginia, son of the late Jim and Lackey Mitchell Haynes. Memorial Funeral Directory of Princeton in charge of arrangements.
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Bud S. Haynes
Princeton
Burke Memorial Baptist Church
W. L. Jenkins
Clayton Sweet
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Haynes
Malcolm Waller
Beckley
Bearing Springs
Jim
Lackey Mitchell Haynes
Miley Ormandy final rites set in Sophia church
Miley Ormandy, 66, Sophia, will receive final rites at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church of Sophia with Rev. Dewey Wilson officiating. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park. He died at home at 9:10 a.m. Monday after an extended illness. The body is at Williams Funeral Home in Sophia, with calling after 5 p.m. tonight. It will be taken to the residence at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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Miley Ormandy
Sophia
First Baptist Church
Final rites planned for Ernest A. Scott at Oak Hill
Ernest A. Scott 75 of Oak Hill will have funeral services at 1 p m Wednesday in the Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill with Rev. Robert H. Doan officiating. Burial follows in Cunningham Memorial Park St Albans. Scott died at 3 55 a m Monday in a Beckley hospital after a short illness. He was a retired Carbon Fuel Co Cabin Creek employee and a member of Freewill Baptist Church Bradley. Survivors include his wife Tula two sons Lester T Great Falls Mont and Ted R St Albans a daughter Mrs Glenita Ludlam Sissonville nine grandchildren four great grandchildren nine stepsons a brother Julius Williamson two sisters Mrs Minnie Weaver Pomeroy Ohio and Mrs Ida Williams Morganton NC. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p m today.
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Ernest A. Scott
Oak Hill
Tyree
Robert H. Doan
Cunningham Memorial Park
St. Albans
Scott
Beckley
Carbon Fuel Co
Cabin Creek
Freewill Baptist Church
Bradley
Tula Scott
Lester T
Great Falls
Mont
Ted R
Glenita Ludlam
Sissonville
Julius
Williamson
Minnie Weaver
Pomeroy
Ohio
Ida Williams
Morganton
N. C
Final rites for Mrs Julia Jasper held at Mount Hope church
Mrs Julia Jasper aged 74 of Mount Hope will receive final rites at 2 p m Wednesday at First Baptist Church Mount Hope with Rev Braxton Broady officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park. She died Sunday morning in a local nursing home. Body at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor then moved to church two hours before services.
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Julia Jasper
Mount Hope
First Baptist Church
Funeral services for Mrs Martha Rotan
Mrs Martha Rotan 74 of Lester dies at home Sunday morning. Funeral set for 1 p m Thursday at First Baptist Church Lester with Rev Elmer Day officiating. Burial in Rotan Cemetery Fayetteville. Body at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor after 10 a m Wednesday. Removed to church one hour before service.
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Martha Rotan
Lester
First Baptist Church
Elmer Day
Rotan
Fayetteville
Funeral arrangements for A. R. Williams named in Mullens
A. R. Williams of Mullens died this morning in a Beckley hospital. Arrangements are in place and the body lies at Sam Foglesong Nease and Neely Funeral Home in Mullens.
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A. R. Williams
Mullens
Beckley Hospital
Sam Foglesong, Nease and Neely Funeral Home
California Still Battling Fires
Northern California firefighters faced the last two of 265 brush and timber blazes that swept the region over six days. A 16,000 acre Napa County fire burned grass and rushland while a Sonoma County blaze destroyed a $200,000 lumber mill five cabins and threatened more. In total the fires scorched 225,000 acres, demolished 600 homes and ranch buildings and killed 600 head of livestock with one firefighter killed and 17 injured.
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San Francisco
UPS
California
Napa County
Sonoma County
Sonoma
Smith drafts delegate election formula for convention
Smith outlines a method to elect convention delegates. Present at the meeting were House Speaker H Laban White and Senators Hans McCourt D Webster Lloyd Jackson D Lincoln C J McKown D Wayne Dels Harry Pauley D McDowell Carmine Cann D Harrison Ivor Boiarsky D Kanawha and Charles McElwee chairman of a citizens committee on constitutional revision.
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Ting
House
H. Laban White
Hans McCourt
D Webster
Lloyd Jackson
D-Lincoln
C. J. McKown
D-Wayne
Harry Pauley
D-Mcdowell
Carmine Cann
D-Harrison
Ivor Boiarsky
D-Kanawha
Charles McElwee
Citizens Committee On
Fanfani Emerges President as UN General Assembly Opens
The United Nations General Assembly begins its 20th session at 3 pm with Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani elected president after Koca Popovic withdraws. Three nations Gambia Singapore Maldives approved for membership, expanding the UN to 117. India and Pakistan pressed to cease fire by 3 am Wednesday, with India signaling possible compliance if Pakistan does.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPI
General Assembly
Amintore Fanfani
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Ghana
Fanfani
Koca Popovic
Paul VI
United Nations
Gambia
Singapore
Maldive Islands
U.N
Security Council
Maldives
India
Pakistan
Kashmir
Carol Not Yet Threat To Land
Carol remains a deep water hurricane far at sea on a north northw est course with winds near 100 mph in a small center area. Officials at the National Hurricane Center and US Weather Bureau consider seeding to test hurricane destruction but expect no land threat unless it closes in. Carol was already a hurricane with 85 mph winds at its center band and was the third Atlantic tropical storm of the season.
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Miami
UPI
Carol
National Hurricane Center
US Weather Bureau
Washington
Miami Weather Bureau
Air Force
San Juan
P.R
Fire roars through Tennessee Gooding fair on opening night
Eyewitnesses report a ball of flame from an air conditioner in the women's building as a fast moving fire engulfed the Gooding Million Dollar Midway near Nashville. Officials closed the fair and Mayor Briley estimated 20,000 to 30,000 attendees had been present before the blaze at about 10:15 p.m.
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Gooding
Clayton Fields
Cliff Andrews
Beverly Briley
House backs sidewalk repair aid for post offices
The House approved a bill to let the Federal Government reimburse state or local bodies for repairing sidewalks around post offices and other federal buildings. The measure, costing about 150000 dollars annually, advanced by voice vote to the Senate. Rep. Ken Hechler cited Huntington's deteriorated sidewalks as a risk to citizens collecting mail and visiting their congressman.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Ken Hechler
D-W. Va
Government Operations Committee
Huntington
Atheist Blames Love For Presence In Jail
William Murray, 19, son of Madelyn Murray, faces assault and contempt charges in Baltimore. Extradition ordered after he and his wife Susan Abramovitz fled to Hawaii and Mexico. Murray claims extenuating love ties, vows to return to Baltimore to face federal proceedings, bond set at 25000 dollars.
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Wheeling
UPI
William Murray
Ohio County
Murray
Madelyn Murray
U. S. Supreme Court
William
Baltimore
Hawaii
Susan Abramovitz
Murray's
Susan
Murrays
Robin
Maryland
Mexico
Thomas P. O’brien
Abramovitz
Arson hit Negro Church in Fort Lauderdale
A pre-dawn fire gutted the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in a Negro neighborhood. Fire chief Walter Arlczynski called it arson after witnesses described a loud blast and investigators found kerosene and gasoline traced to the scene. No injuries or arrests reported.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
UPI
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church
Rock Island Fire Department
Walter J. Arlczynski
India China Ceasefire Effort Faces Mixed Reactions
Reported moves show Ayub Khan calling leaders for talks to secure public support for a U N ceasefire. India backs the ceasefire while Pakistan seeks a Kashmir plebiscite and China protests alleged Indian incursions along the Himalayan frontier. Shastri says India will defend itself if China persists aggression.
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UPI
Ray Moseley
Rawalpindi
Ayub Khan
U.N
Shastri
India
Congress Party
New York
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Pakistan
Kashmir
China
Himalayan
Peking
Indian Defense Ministry
Stowaway Returns Home From South Africa
Kevin Adams a 10 year old was sent 6000 miles to live with relatives in South Africa but grew homesick and stole passage home. The Peninsular Castle captain said the boy turned himself in as a stowaway hours after the liner departed South Africa.
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Southampton
England
UPI
Kevin Adams
South Africa
Pendennis Castle
Council debate over declaration on religious freedom sparks clash
Speakers opposed the declaration arguing it promotes religious indifference and secularism while conservatives led by Italian and Spanish prelates warned it threatens Catholic teaching. Liberals said the measure protects believers from civil coercion as U S Cardinals Spellman Shehan Ritter and Cushing defended the document amid a council vote on sources of revelation.
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U.S
Francis Spellman
New York
Lawrence J. Shehan
Baltimore
Joseph Elmer Ritter
St. Louis
Richard James Cushing
Boston
Guest Speakers Named For Surgeons Meeting
Morgantown UPS reports two guest speakers for the West Virginia chapter of the American College of Surgeons meeting October 1-2 at West Virginia University Medical School. Dr Mark Ravitch of Johns Hopkins Balti more will address newborn omphalocele treatment and Dr Albert Paquin Jr of the University of Virginia will discuss ureterovesical junction disorders and urinary tract infection experiments.
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Morgantown
UPS
West Virginia
American College of Surgeons
West Virginia University Medical School
Mark M. Ravitch
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Albert J. Paquin Jr
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Ravitch
Dr. Paquin
Immigration Reform Bill Passage Seen By Senate
UPI reports favorable signs for quick Senate passage of the administrations immigration reform bill led by Sen Edward Kennedy with expected minor amendments not delaying action. Eastland and McClellan prepared to oppose, while the measure would end the 41 year old national origins quota.
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United Press International Washington
UPI
Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
House
Senate Finance Committee
Canada
Russell B. Long
D-La
Saigon
United States
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Hubert H. Humphrey
University of Washington
International Public Halibut Commission
Perry S. Heath
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Senate Commerce Committee
Mine Strike Hits Several West Virginia and Pennsylvania Mines
Union officials at Hanna Coal Company Ireland Mine in Moundsville discharge six local leaders for an illegal strike. Miners walk out, roving pickets spread to 13 Pittsburgh area mines and four Morgantown Fairmont mines. UMW leadership pleads to return to work, while dissidents push to widen action toward Eastern Kentucky.
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Hanna Coal Company
Ireland
Moundsville
United Mine Workers
Boyle
Morgantown
Fairmont
Pittsburgh
UMW
West Virginia
Christopher Coal Co
Loveridge
Western Pennsylvania
Wildwood
Harmanville
Russelton
Union Carbide
Newfield
Harwick
Barking
Allegheny County
Logan’s Ferry
Brown Town
Jamison
Markle
Westmoreland County
Robena
Maple Creek
Powhatan Point
Ohio
Kentucky
Pikeville
Arm waving hints at future talents in newborns
Dick West notes a 115 year study found babies show individual temperaments from birth. A new parent couple shows arm waving as a potential conductor gesture, crying as opera potential, curled fingers as pianist, and dancing feet as ballerina, suggesting early personality cues and future talents.
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Washington
UPI
Leonard Bernstein
Gemini 4 walk by Scott aims for one earth orbit
Astronaut Scott plans a spacewalk on Gemini 4 scheduled for June 3 to 7. He will drift outside a 25 foot tether wearing a heavy suit to retrieve a nuclear package and oxygen bottle, test anti torque devices, and possibly inspect a previously orbited Agena rocket satellite while linking with Armstrong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
White
B.C
Manned Space Craft Center
Armstrong
Marine Insane! Jury To Decide Whittaker Case
A nine man by three woman jury in Mingo County Circuit Court may decide if Marine Carl David Whittaker was sane when he killed Mrs. Geraldine Chambers last April. Prominent doctor Dr Russell Myers testified Whittaker has a rare brain disorder affecting behavior. Other experts said he acted with awareness though in a detached state. Whittaker did not testify in his own defense.
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Williamson
UPI
Carl David Whittaker
Geraldine Chambers
Mingo County
Russell Myers
Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital
Friday Whittaker
Chambers
F. Morton Wagner
Myers
Gaston DeLemos
Huntington State Hospital
Whittker
DeLemos
Whittaker
Charleston
Thomas S. Knapp
Luci Johnson Begins College Life at Georgetown
Luci Baines Johnson, 18, moves into Georgetown University School of Nursing in Washington. She arrives by green Sting Ray with freshman beanie and asks reporters not to cover her on campus. Orientation and hazing activities precede classwork, as she appeals for normal student experiences and reassures reporters of her nerves.
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Washington
UPI
Luci Baines Johnson
Luci
Georgetown University
School of Nursing
Washington School
Georgetown
White House
Standard Time Returns Sunday Across West Virginia
West Virginia will return to Eastern Standard Time at midnight Saturday. Most Northern and Eastern Panhandle towns, including Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry, stay on daylight time until the last Sunday in October. Northern Panhandle cities like Wheeling and Weirton also observe daylight saving to October’s end, aligning with Pittsburgh and nearby Ohio communities. The rest of the state clocks back one hour.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Eastern Panhandles
Jefferson
Morgan
Berkeley
Eastern Panhandle
Martinsburg
Charles Town
Harpers Ferry
Berkeley Springs
Shepherdstown
Two for One Deer Hunter Ends Hunt in Calif
Deer hunter B H Givins, 72, fired at two buck shots in one shot sequence in Forest Glen. His first shot struck a buck in the head and simultaneously killed a second buck standing nearby, ending his 1965 hunting season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Glen
Calif
B.H. Givins
Givins
Mayor hints using prisoners for Atlanta trash work
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr says the city may hire prisoners as garbage collectors due to ongoing Sanitation Department staffing troubles. The statement came Monday as officials seek cost effective ways to fill vacancies and keep city streets clean.
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Help Wanted
Atlanta
UPI
Ivan Allen Jr
Sanitation
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Madison
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Hinton
Keyser- Bryant Funeral Home
Edith C. Toles
Althea
Smoker
Richmond
Mrs
U.N. Assembly
Tennessee
Adolfo Escamilla
Mexico City
Escamilla
Timothy Hicks
Arlczynski
Council
Congress
By Dick West
Elliot See
See
Edward White
Earth
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