Doctor Grandmother Testify For Defense In Vance Murder Trial
Defense calls two witnesses in the murder case of Arnold Lee Vance 15 charged with killing Dr Neil MacFadyen 76 and housekeeper Mrs Georgia Broyles 76. Dr MacFadyen diagnosed Vance with a mental age of 9 and IQ 62. Grandmother Myrtle Davis testified Vance stayed home nights with family and helped in the garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Hunsaker
Fayetteville
RNS
Arnold Lee Vance
Neil MacFadyen
Weston State Hospital
Vance
MacFadyen
J. Zane Summerfield
Myrtle Davis
Dothan
Davis
Mary Tucker
Page
Roger Belcher
Scarbro
Archer Wingrove
Georgia Broyles
Belcher
West Virginia News Briefs and State Updates
The dispatch lists interstate and international notes including Russia tests, band invites, corporate leadership changes, funding delays, and upcoming infrastructure plans. Key items: Hunting ton Vinson High Band invited to the 74th Rose Parade in Pasadena. David H. Davis named president of Mountaineer Coal Co.. WV Centennial Commission delays state TV fund drive to mid October. Wheeling Interchange project on I-70 to begin in early October. 13 member Emergency Resource Planning Committee formed to plan disaster response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington Vinson High School
Pasadena
Calif
David H. Davis
Mountaineer Coal Co
Fairmont
Consolidation Coal Co
George R. Higginbotham
West Virginia Centennial Commission
Carl Sullivan
W. W. Barron
Wheeling
West Virginia
Princess to Join Court of Queen Silvia in Lynchburg Event
A princess candidate will serve for two years with a group of 35 princesses in the Court of Queen Silvia. She attends Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia and lists tennis swimming and piano as hobbies. Katherine Stephenson Lutz of Parkersburg is named alongside.
China Continues to Shore Up Ranks After Dismissals
The official communique lists changes in the secretariat with Lu noted as a long time party member and alternate of the top political bureau. It names Huang Kocheng and Tan Cheng among those dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huang Kocheng
Tan Cheng
Beckley Rescue Sends Aid For Gallbladder Attack
First Aid called the Beckley Rescue Squad to 104 Wilson Street on Thursday at 1 25 PM for Mrs Mary Browning’s apparent gallbladder attack She was taken to Raleigh General Hospital where she is listed in fair condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Mary Browning
Wilson St
Raleigh General Hospital
Burial Insurance Sold by Mail Adheadline
A mail order burial insurance ad offers $1,000 life coverage for ages 40 to 90 with no medical exam. It emphasizes no agent visits, free information, and asks readers to mail name, address, and year of birth to Central Security Life Insurance Co in Fort Worth, Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OLD Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance
Central Security Life Insurance Co
Dept
West Rosedale
Fort Worth
Texas
Kidnapper Held In Cabell Jail
Ralph R. Jarensky Jr. of Paterson New Jersey is jailed in Cabell County after two kidnapping charges. He allegedly abducted Charles Elmes and his wife in Newport Kentucky and forced them toward Mingo County. He also allegedly kidnapped a cab driver and a girl from Covington Kentucky to Cincinnati at gunpoint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Elmes
Newport
Mingo County
Covington
Cincinnati
Six In Family Burned To Death In Beverly Fire
A three story wooden house in Beverly burned early today killing six members of the Dodd family. William Dodd a 33 year old lawyer for H P Hood and Sons and his wife Eunice 31 along with four children Elizabeth 8 Susan 4 Eugene 2 and William 10 months perished. A fifth child Melvin 10 escaped through a second floor window and heard the screams. Fire Chief Dooling put damage at 60000. A fireplace used to combat the cold may have started the blaze amid heavy rain that helped save nearby homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly
Mass
UPI
William Dodd
H. P. Hood & Sons
Eunice
Elizabeth
Susan
Eugene
William
Dodds
C. Fred Dooling
Melvin
Lauranzano
Beckleyan Jailed On Larceny Charge
Jack Cooke of 116 Reservoir Road was jailed at 1 20 a m today by a constable on a grand larceny charge. He is accused of taking a 1959 model car valued at 1500 dollars from a parking lot Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Cooke
Reservoir Road
Dade County Ballet Renames Havana Piece
The Dade County Civil Ballet Company will rename its December show from A Day in Havana to A Day in Old Havana. A spokesman said the ballet focuses on romance of Havana's past, not the present Fidel Castro era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami, Fla
UPI
Dade (Miami
Civil Ballet Company
Havana
Fidel Castro
Sheriff Plans To Campaign For Amendment
Raleigh County Sheriff C A Slim Thompson plans to be in Charleston Sunday to draft a campaign for the Sheriffs Succession Amendment in the November General Election. If passed, sheriffs in all 55 counties could succeed themselves at term end. Thompson elected 1960 for a four year term. He sits on the State Sheriffs Association Legislative Committee to promote the measure. The Sunday meeting at 9 30 a m in the Daniel Boone Hotel is led by Hancock County Sheriff Joseph Manypenny with Pearlie Elmore Fayette County Dewey Kuhns acting executive secretary of the association Kanawha Sheriff J Lawrence Burley Association president Marshall Everett Bazzie Mercer Thomas Padden Ohio. The group will work only for this amendment and not for or against the other four on the ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
C. A
Slim
Thompson
Charleston
State Sheriffs Association
Daniel Boone Hotel
Joseph Manypenny
Hancock County
Pearlie Elmore
Fayette County
Dewey E. S. Kuhns
Kanawha County
J. Lawrence Burley
Marshall County
Everett D. Bazzie
Mercer County
Thomas D. Padden
Ohio County
Wreck results in $2,500 suit filed in Raleigh County
Two new suits are on file in the Raleigh County Clerk's office. Charles A. Massinople Mab Scott seeks 2500 from Oren Pack and Margaret Pack over a June 29 accident on State Route 16 near Helen alleging negligent driving damaged a 1960 truck. Court action seeks costs and damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Charles A. Massinople
Mabscott
Oren Pack
Margaret Pack
Helen
Scherer, Bowers, File
Anthony J. Sparacino
Quotes From United Press International
Washington Attorney General Robert Kennedy orders additional marshals to enroll James Meredith at Mississippi University and hopes for peaceful resolution. Dallas former Major General Edwin A Walker calls for 10,000 volunteers nationwide to support Mississippi against the government. Wheeling West Virginia President Kennedy cites West Virginia primary victory as the start of the 1962 Democratic win. Aden Yemen radio reports the new government’s account of overthrowing the Imam with his palace reduced to rubble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Washington
Robert Kennedy
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Dallas
Edwin A. Walker
Mississippi
Wheeling
W. Va
Kennedy
West Virginia
Aden
Yemen
Steamship passage from Ireland to America in the 1850s
Collier's Encyclopedia states that steamship passage from Ireland to America could be purchased for as little as ten dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Ireland
America
Collier's Encyclopedia
Final rites for Mrs George McKinney at Sophia Freewill Baptist Church
Mrs Myrtle McKinney 72 of Sprague died at 2 40 p m Wednesday in a local hospital. Final rites were to be conducted at 2 p m today in Sophia Freewill Baptist Church with Rev Wade Webb and Rev French Williams officiating. Burial followed in Caf ee Cemetery at Mount Tabor. Arrangements were completed by Calfee Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Myrtle) McKinney
Sprague
Sophia Freewill Baptist Church
Wade Webb
French Williams
Caffee
Mount Tabor
Calfee Funeral Home
Olga Malinin Dies After Long Illness in Maryland
Mrs Olga A Malinin of 115 Wilson Street died Thursday evening in a Maryland hospital after a long heart condition. Born January 2 1902 in Simferopol Russia she was the daughter of the late Alexandria and Ellen Tolstoy Senipcki. An accomplished pianist she appeared on local programs and was a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Monday Music Club. Survivors include her husband Dr Ivan M Malinin Beckley two sons Dr Theodore I Malinin and George I Malinin both of Alexandria Virginia. The body is at Temain’s Memorial Chapel in Alexandria Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olga A. Malinin
Wilson St
Maryland
Simferopol
Russia
Alexandria
Ellen Tolstoy Senipcki
Eastern Orthodox Church
Monday Music Club
Ivan M. Malinin
Beckley
Theodore I. Malinin
George I. Malinin
Temain’s Memorial Chapel
Funeral services for Homer Miller in Narrows Va
Funeral services for Homer Miller 72 of Narrows Va formerly of Zenith will be held at 2 pm Saturday at Narrows First Baptist Church Burial in Birchlawn Cemetery Pearis Miller brother of Mrs W G Riffe Rock Creek Died Wednesday morning at his home Riffe's Funeral Home Narrows in charge of arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Miller
Narrows
Zenith
Narrows First Baptist Church
Birchlawn
Pearisburg
Miller
W. G. Riffe
Rock Creek
Riffe
Final rites for Mrs. Rachel Gibbs Radford
Mrs. Rachel Gibbs Radford 85 of Robson died Tuesday in a Montgomery hospital after a heart attack. Final rites were held today at 1 a.m. at B. C. Hooper Funeral Home Chapel Montgomery with John Scarbro in charge. Burial followed at Sand Hill Cemetery Long Bottom Ohio. She was native of Meigs County Ohio and lived in Robson 22 years and attended Robson Church of Christ. She was stepmother of William Radford Stamford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel Gibbs Radford
Robson
B. C
Stratton Grad Becomes Beckley College Student in 1954
Sherwood Brown, a 1954 Stratton High School graduate, is accepted as a Beckley College student for the second semester starting Jan 28. The first Black enrollee under the college’s integration, he will study physical education and join the basketball squad. He has a son and works in composing at Beckley Newspapers Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratton High School
Beckley College
D. K. Shroyer
Sherwood Brown
Brown
Shroyer
Straton
West Virginia State College
Institute
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Tillen Wiseman Funeral Services Held in Florida
Tillen Wiseman 61, of Deerfield Florida formerly of Piney View, died Monday at his home after a sudden illness. Services Saturday at 2 30 p m in the Caffee Funeral Home Chapel with Rev S D Smith. burial in Stamford Cemetery. The body remains at the funeral home. friends may call after 2 p m today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tillen Wiseman
Deerfield
Fla
Piney View
Caffee Funeral Home
Kennedy Blames Republicans for Economic Decline in 1950s
Kennedy charged that the Eisenhower administration caused economic decline and rot. He blamed Republicans for defeating proposals on aid to colleges and universities and unemployment compensation funding, opposing area redevelopment, housing, minimum wage, and tax reform. He stressed programs over personalities in Pennsylvania and Ohio addresses and outlined October campaign stops in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kennedy
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
New Filters Urged for Village Water Tanks
Local residents circulated a petition in Dronfield England requesting officials install new filters on village water tanks. Grass reportedly pours from faucets as residents complain of water quality issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dronfield, England
UPI
Rev Roscoe H Cook dies at 57 after long illness
The Rev. Roscoe Herbert Cook, 57, died at his Naoma home Thursday evening after an extended illness attributed to silicosis. A Raleigh County native, he served as pastor at Massey Branch Freewill Baptist Church Shumate's Chapel Edwight and Delbert Freewill Baptist Pineknob, and worked as a miner until retirement eight years ago. Survivors include his father, wife, three daughters, a son, nine grandchildren and several siblings. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday at Freewill Baptist Church with burial at Cook Cemetery Arnett. body at home from 4:30 p.m. today then church an hour prior to service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Herbert Cook
Naoma
Raleigh County
Posey
F. P. Cook
Wayie Richmond Cook
Betty Cook
Winifred
Aline) Massey
Toledo
Ohio
Bobby
Anna Mae) Lucas
Chicago
Milford
Aldie Cook
Packsville
Carl
Arnett
Virgil Cook
The
Beaver Methodist Church
Beckley
Frank
Lara) McManamay
Sodar
Jessie) Webb
Danville
Freewill Baptist Church
John Richardson
Wade Webb
Cook Cemetery
Paul Cox
Glen Davis
George Lucas
Dexter Halstead
Roy Massey
Byrd Pettry
Armstrong Funeral Home
Whitesville
Parents waive hearing on delinquency case in Beckley
Gilbert Smith and Irene Smith of Piney View pled not guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor and were bound over on a $500 bond after a grand jury action. Aldine Logan accused them of letting their 11 year old son assault and beat her 9 year old with a rock. Also, Tommy Meadows had a check warrant withdrawn, Okie James Thompson paid fines for brake-less driving, Robert Evans was returned from Massachusetts on forgery and vagrancy charges, Charles William Collins faced petit larceny and speeding, Joseph Willis Lane paid fines for failure to yield, Marcell Terry cited for reckless driving, and a Beckley woman was jailed on a lunacy charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Smith
Irene Smith
Piney View
Joe Rodriguez
Aldine Logan
Smiths
Tommy Meadows
Princewick
Rodriguez
Herbert C. Meador
Meadows
Raleigh
Okie James Thompson
Robert Evans
Antonio Avenue
Beckley
C. A. Thompson
Ross Cottle
Springfield
Mass
Evans
Massachusetts
Thompson
Charles William Collins
Garrison
L. G. Daniel
Sundial
Joseph Willis Lane
South Charleston
Marcell Terry
Strategy to Newport Saturday plan for federal action
Federal officials weigh deployment to Mississippi with troops from Ft Benning and a 600 man Military Police battalion. A 1,200 infantry battlegroup would follow if needed. Officials aim to avoid violence as 500 police ring the campus to bar marshals. If blocked, Kennedy may order Army units to force Meredith enrollment at the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Mississippi
Ft. Benning
U.S
Barnett
Meredith
Kennedy
Relief payments drop in West Virginia August totals
The State Welfare Department reported August relief payments to needy West Virginians reached 4,805,090, down 301,000 from July. Aid to dependent children totaled 3,129,641, old age assistance 635,028, medical and hospitalization 501,629, and aid to the totally and permanently disabled 290,717. Commodities were issued to 234,761 persons in August versus 245,503 in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
State Welfare Department
West
Powell Undergoing Cancer Treatment in Hollywood
Hollywood producer and actor Dick Powell, 57, being treated for cancer in the neck and chest at UCLA Medical Center after a Sept. 13 hospital stay. Powell, president of Four Star Productions, reports six linac radiation sessions and improving health, while continuing work on TV projects and promotional duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
UPI
Dick Powell
Powell
Four Star Productions
St. John’s Hospital
Santa Monica
Justin Stein
Ucla Medical Center
Cuba reports 102 executions in recent weeks
United Press International reports Cuban revolutionary council president Jose Miro Cardona saying Havana sources indicate Fidel Castro's regime has executed 102 political enemies recently, potentially 1,060 total in 45 months. Curfew imposed at 9 p.m. in Mariel Pinar del Rio to conceal rocket shipments to a Russian base.
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Cuban Revolutionary Council
Jose Miro Cardona
Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Miro
Cabana
Mexico City
Cuba
Mariel Pinar del Rio
Miss USA Contest Returns to Huntington in 1963
Huntington officials hope to extend Miss USA 1963 to 16 days with preliminaries and have raised 20000 to underwrite franchise costs. Keith Black noted Cabell County Centennial pledged 2000 as Huntington’s contribution to West Virginia’s 1963 Centennial. Amedee Chabot of California won this year and will enter Miss World in London in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith Black
Cabell County
Huntington
West Virginia
New York
Amedee Chabot
California
London
Black
Boston
Long Beach
Kennedy Calls for New Drug Laws Overhaul
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy announced plans for next year to seek broad federal narcotics and drug control reform. At a White House conference on narcotics, delegates urged humane statutes treating addicts as ill, backing civil commitment with hospitalization, parole, and aftercare, plus tighter controls on non narcotic drugs like barbiturates and amphetamines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Robert F. Kennedy
Congress
Kennedy
White House
America
Yemen Names Alfallal Leader Amid Revolution
Aden and Sanaa Radio report Col Abdulla Alfallal as the new commander of Yemen’s army and leader of the revolutionary group. Ex-military figure linked to 1948 revolt, reportedly imprisoned till 1955, now cited as head after Imam Ahmed’s death. Rebels seek diplomatic recognition from the UN. Unverified Middle East sources question Imam Seif El Islam El Badr’s fate.
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Aden
YPI
Sanaa Radio
Abdullah Alfallal
Yemen
Red Sea
Arabian Peninsula
Middle East
Altallal
Imam Ahmed
Cairo
Alakhbar
United Arab Republic
Free
Repube
Seif el Islam el Badr
Senate to Restore Aid After House Cut Next Week
The Senate will consider a foreign aid bill Monday to restore about 800 million of the 1.1 billion trimmed by the House. The Appropriations Committee approved the measure Thursday night, easing House limits on aid to Poland Yugoslavia and nations trading with Cuba. The bill allows presidential waivers to relax restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Senate
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Poland
Yugoslavia
Cuba
Senate Committee
Council pays man 1159 dollars for wrongful prison time
The Council of State in Raleigh awarded Ezra D. Norris 1159 dollars for the two years, three months and 22 days he spent in prison for a rape he did not commit. The payment was made Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh, N. C
UPI
Council of State
Ezra D. Norris
Raleigh
Picketed Ship Denied Service at Houston Dock
A Yugo freighter, the M. V. Drzic, loaded with 13 000 tons of surplus U S flour for the United Arab Republic, sat idle as tug crews and longshoremen refused to service it. Pickets, including housewives, Cuban refugees, and children, surrounded the ship as a possible strike loomed and loading time stretched to 13 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
UPS
Cuba
M. V. Drzic
United Arab Republic
Drzic
International
Marshals Halt Meredith Enrollment Bid Amid Memphis Tense Standoff
About 700 U S marshals gathered in Memphis in a tense standup recalling the 1960 riots as federal authorities paused Meredith enrollment after the Justice Department cited insufficient manpower to secure the registrar’s office. Army engineers from Fort Campbell were sent to Memphis NAS for housing and cooking duties, while marshals remained on standby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Memphis
Alabama
Freedom Rider
Montgomery
Defense Department
Washington
Army
Fort Campbell
Memphis Naval Air Station
Justice Department
Meredith
Hospital Ordered to Recover 2423 Plus Interest
Four orders signed by Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Norman Knapp in Beckley Hospital Inc. favor to recover 2423.17 dollars plus costs and interest from Aug. 31. Defendants listed include John Amick James Tyree Flora Tyree Lola M Radar Alice Hornsby Oliver Hornsby Posey Thompson and Mary L Thompson. Divorces granted Ruth Hairston and Margaret Ann Martin. Several cases dismissed or settled with judgments for costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Norman Knapp
Beckley Hospital Inc
John Amick
James Tyree
Flora Tyree
Nellie Tyree
Lola M. Radar
Alice Hornsby
Oliver Hornsby
Posey Thompson
Mary L. Thompson
Ruth Hairston
Charles Hairston
Ruth Watkins
Margaret Ann Martin
Theodore R. Martin
Kaee
Elizabeth Meadows Ferguson
D. C
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China
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George McKinney
Olga Malinin
Rachel G. Radford
Stratton Grad Te Enter College
Portland, Ore
John Bain
County Commission
Menlo Park
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Roscoe H. Cook
St. John's Hospital
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Woodlawn Ave
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