Mass for Andrew Sotak 82 at St Francis de Sales Church
Andrew Sotak 82 of Beckley died Tuesday after an extended illness. Mass will be at 10 am Thursday at St Francis de Sales with Rev. Kerrigan and Rev. Burley. burial in Sunset Memorial Park. He was born August 19 1883 in Czechoslovakia and worked 40 years as mine foreman for Gulf Smokeless Coal Co at Tams. He was predeceased by wife Mary Sotak in 1961. Survivors: three sons Gaze, Andrew Jr, Steve. four daughters Margaret Sanchez Frances Ferrari Mary Tonelli Edith Pla cid. 13 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Funeral home is Fred X Williams in Sophia. rosary at 8:30 pm today. Pallbearers listed.
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Andrew Sotak
Beckley
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Thomas Kerrigan
Edward Burley
Sunset Memorial Park
Sotak
Czechoslovakia
Gulf Smokeless Coal Co
Tams
Mary Sotak
Gaze Sotak
Ravenswood
Andrew Sotak Jr
Calloway
John J. Pachuta
Steve E. Pachuta
Joe Pachuta Jr
Frank Pachuta
Mike Pachuta
Paul Pachuta
Charlie Manns Funeral Services Incomplete
Charlie Manns age 65 died Tuesday in a local hospital after an extended illness. He was a member of the Free and Independent Holiness Church. The body is at the Trent and Durgan Funeral Home.
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Charlie Manns
Broadway St
Free and Independent Holiness Church
Trent and Durgan Funeral Home
Smith Greets NASA Officials in Charleston
Gov. Hulett C. Smith welcomed about 150 businessmen to a NASA meeting in Charleston. He called NASA officials’ presence recognition of West Virginia’s growing role in nuclear and space matters. The session aimed to brief firms on NASA needs for materials and services and WV firms’ capacity to supply them. Smith expressed confidence in the meeting’s success and noted efforts to boost science, technology, industry, and local employment, with industrial focus on West Virginia’s softwood sector and Green Bank Radio Astronomy Center projects tied to the space program.
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Charleston
Smith
West Virginia
Green Bank
Beckley Youth 14 Sentenced to Pruntytown
A 14 year old Beckley youth was sent to the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown by Juvenile Judge Harry L. McCreery on Tuesday for truancy and incorrigibility. He will remain until age 21 unless released by authorities. Four county boys ages 11 to 13 were released to parents after appearing before Judge McCreery on charges of entering a school and taking candy cigarettes and soft drinks. They must appear again on Juvenile Day in October.
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Beckley
West Virginia
Pruntytown
Harry L. McCreery
Tuesay
Nuclear blast eyed gas reservoir plan in works
Pittsburgh report says industry and government study storing natural gas in underground void created by an underground nuclear explosion. Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania announced the joint study with the Atomic Energy Commission San Francisco office and Columbia Gas System Service Corp.
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UPS
Columbia Gas of
Pennsylvania
San Francisco
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Columbia Gas System Service Corp
Bays rites held for Cecil G. Bays 54 Omar
Cecil G Bays 54 of Omar died Sunday in a Logan hospital. Funeral services were held at Switzer Baptist Church with Rev Lewis Hall and Rev Earl Fraley presiding. Burial followed at Highland Memory Gardens Godbey. He was a retired miner formerly with Omar Mining Co and brother to Ralph Bays Oak Hill.
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Cecil G. Bays
Omar
Switzer Baptist Church
Lewis Hall
Earl Fraley
Highland Memory Gardens
Godbey
Bays
Ralph Bays
Oak Hill
Logan
E. J. Bays
Ora Patterson
Appalachia
Omar Mining Co
RNS
Trial continues in Ku Klux Klan murder case
In a Montgomery courthouse proceeding, jurors from a 60 member panel return for further testimony as Collie Leroy Wilkins, a Ku Klux Klan member, faces trial for the night rider slaying of Mrs Viola Liuzzo. Prosecution plans to call witnesses including civil rights workers.
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Daniels
Morrisree
Crocker
Arthur Gamble
T. Worth Thagard
Gamble
Richmond Flowers
Montgomery
Thagard
Coleman
Collie Leroy Wilkins
Viola Liuzzo
Detroit
Richard Morrisree
Chicago
Riley Pleads Innocent To Embezzlement
ELIZABETH UP I Former Wirt County School Supt Way mond Riley pleaded not guilty to a two count indictment of embezzlement and grand larceny totaling 1982 dollars. Circuit Judge Donald F Black set October 4 for his trial. The second trial of Willard B Lege began Tuesday as the state aims to complete its case. Lege is charged with grand larceny through false pretenses for home bound teaching duties not performed.
Council Urged To Solve Birth Control Crisis
Vatican City UPI ecumenical council leaders urged action on birth control and divorce, backing scientific study of sexual life while debating a new Marriage and Family Life declaration. Cardinals Suenens Colombo and bishops pushed for clearer doctrine and leniency toward separated spouses amidst church rules on divorce and annulments.
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Vatican City
UPI
Ecumenical Council
Council
Leo Joseph Cardinal Suenens
Brussels
Belgium
Giovanni Cardinal Colombo
Milan
Italy
Colombo
Suenens
Elia Zoghby
Egypt
Resources Department Names Deputy Director
The Natural Resources Department announced the appointment of Matthew A. Reese of Huntington as deputy director effective Tuesday. Director Robert P. McDonough said Reese, a Marshall University graduate, has a background with the State Civil Defense unit the Small Business Administration and the Democratic Party. Reese is married with three children.
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Charleston
UPI
Natural Resources Department
Matthew A. Reese
Huntington
Robert P. McDonough
Marshall University
Reese
State Civil Defense Unit
Washington
Small Business Administration
West
Armco names Johnston chairman as Berity rises to president
Logan T. Johnston becomes chairman of Armco Steel Corp. board while C William Berity Jr. is named president. Johnston, president since 1960, notes the board elected a younger executive to lead long range programs. Berity, 48, has 25 years with Armco and will steer ongoing initiatives.
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Middletown
Ohio
Armco
Berny
Survivor vows never to return from Mt Taal eruption
Eyewitness account from a survivor near Mt. Taal describes a chaotic eruption scene. He fled with others as a boiling landscape swallowed a 30 year island community, burying homes under mud and leaving two families known to survive while many others are unaccounted.
Fisherman and farmer recount volcanic eruption escape in Philippines
A 49 year old fisherman and farmer from Tanauan describes fleeing a volcanic eruption with his family. His house burned, his wife perished, and two of his eight children are missing. He and six others escaped by small boat after a bright explosion and a fireball shot skyward. They paddled to the opposite shore, leaving belongings behind.
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United Press International
Tanauan
the Philippines
UPI
Volcano Island
Efren
Myrna
Virus insight may enable full understanding of replication
Spiegel man notes a virus could reveal the chemical details of replication and reproduction. Biologists seek a system like this to gain the understanding needed to design rational controls for virus infections.
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Spiegelman
Quirky bank heist tale ends with tie sale twist
In Visalia a gunman steals 161 dollars from a clothing store then waits on a customer and sells her a necktie before fleeing. The owner and clerk are bound in the rear, and the loot includes the necktie sale proceeds. Wendy the elephant is pushed into a moat by a playmate in Bristol and extricated after a ramp is built. San Francisco ends the dime a dance era as police rule such dances violate hall permits.
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Visalia
Calif
UPI
Bristol
England
Wendy
Christiana
Zoo
San Francisco
Youth Cleared Of Assault On Beauty Queen
The 17 year old son of a Duncan junior high football coach was acquitted of attempting to kill Tama Hallmark, a beauty queen who was beaten and stabbed 50 times on Jan 6 1964. The jury deliberated four hours and 18 minutes before finding Bert Michael Lana not guilty.
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Duncan
Okla
UPI
Bert Michael Lana
Tama Hallmark
Lana
Red Cross protests and Hanoi threats over U S pilots
The Red Cross warned that enemy pilots captured could be tried as war criminals, though treated well. Hanoi rejected ICRC pleas to allow prisoner correspondence, and vowed to try any downed American pilots as criminals. Washington held Hanoi responsible for Viet Cong prisoners and condemned recent executions.
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Red Cross
Republic of
Viet Nam
International Committee of the Red Cross
ICRC
Department of State
United States
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Washington
Vietnam War Week Ends With Heavy Casualties And Bombing
Viet Nam reports show eight Americans killed and 65 wounded with six missing for the week ending Sept 25. Vietnamese losses: 172 killed 313 wounded and 100 missing or captured, the week’s lowest missing count in 13 months. SAC B52 raids targeted a suspected logistics facility off the South Vietnam coast as Saigon foiled a grenade attack near USOM.
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Strategic Air Command
SAC
Guam
South China Sea
Saigon
U.S. Operations Mission
USOM
Phu Cu Pass
Phu Bai
da Nang
Third Of Autos Failed Light And Break Test
Nearly one third of West Virginia vehicles failed light or brake tests in motor vehicle inspections. Of 727,798 inspections, 167,026 needed light repairs and 65,944 brake repairs. A total of 334,447 repairs were made and 19,000 vehicles rejected. Winter weather warns motorists to keep cars safe.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Department of Public Safety
Erupting Mt Taal Kills Six In Bamboo House
Lt Augusto Jardiolin recalls the lava flood at Tanauan Philippines as a bamboo home is crushed killing a family of six. He says rescuers were helpless. In Washington Senator Hickenlooper warns the coming Senate fight over right to work laws will be the greatest since the League of Nations.
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Tanauan
Philippines
Augusto Jardiolin
Mt. Taal
Washington
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Senate
League of Nations
Teen acquitted in bid to kill beauty queen in Duncan
In Duncan Oklahoma Bert Michael Lana a 17 year old was acquitted early today of attempting to kill a teen aged beauty queen. The acquittal followed jury deliberations after the trial.
Lennon jokes on buckled outfits at Buckingham investiture
London Beatles member John Lennon said the group will not wear formal clothes when invested at Buckingham Palace for the Order of the British Empire. He quipped that they would never have found top hats to fit over their mops.
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London
Beatles
John Lennon
Buckingham Palace
Order of the British Empire
Cop Acquitted of Shooting Youth
Los Angeles police Lt. Thomas O Neal, 41, was acquitted by a jury of assault with intent to commit murder and related charges for shooting Carl Norman, 21, five times at the West San Fernando Valley police station last July 2. Norman was thought linked to the gang rape of O Neals daughter Shirley, 19, who was selling books at a Northridge house when the incident occurred. Five others accused of the rape were being tried nearby.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Thomas O'Neal
Conrad J. Moss
O'Neal
O’neal
Carl Norman
West
San Fernando Valley
Norman
Shirley
Northridge
Calif
Congress Right To Work and Wage Legislation Update
Lobbyists from both sides brace for a lengthy Senate battle over right to work as filibuster rhetoric looms. A new minimum wage bill aims to $1.75, extending wage hour protections to nearly 8 million workers, with House Education and Labor Committee members weighing revisions. Senator Gore accuses Canada trade pact of raising auto parts prices. Senate and House conferees discuss a cotton plan tied to a farm bill cropland retirement program allowing farmers to retire up to 40 million acres for 5 to 10 years.
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Senate
House Education and Labor Committee
Albert Gore
Dtenn
U.S
Canada
Johnson
Senate House
Barham Claims World Egg-Swallowing Title
Ipswich England independent report says George Barham declares a new world egg swallowing record after allegedly consuming 56 raw eggs in two minutes.
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Ipswich
England
UPI
George Barham
Barham
Castro Opens Door for Cuban Emigration by Boat
Premier Fidel Castro announced that all Cubans opposed to his regime can leave by boat if the United States agrees. He designated Camarioca as the embarkation center with a 48 hour pickup window, signaling a possible mass Florida exodus. He also promised a forthcoming public document to explain Ernesto Che Guevara’s six month disappearance.
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Miami
UPI
Fidel Castro
United States
U.S
Florida
Cuba
Havana
Revolutionary Square
Castro
Camarioca
Varadero
Matanzas
CDR
State Department
Ernest Che Guevara
Africa
Guevara
Volcano Island tragedy during lake crossing race
Juan Encarnacion recounts watching his wife and five children drown as 20 motor boats capsized in a race from Volcano Island to the lake shore. He survived by clinging to driftwood amid blinding light and continual lightning. Survivors report entire families buried by lava and muck from Mt Taal crater, with boats carrying 20 to 40 people.
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Volcanic
Juan Encarnacion
Encarnacion
Volcano Island
Mt. Taal
Cost of living dips as fresh vegetables drop in August
The Cost of Living Index fell in August led by cheaper fresh vegetables and lower prices for fresh fruit and used cars and gasoline. The index stood 1.7 percent above August 1964 and cost a typical family $11 in August versus $10 in the 1957-59 base. Assistant commissioner Arnold Chase warned September may see another rise due to fall clothing costs.
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Arnold Chase
Labor Statistics
India and Pakistan Press U N Plea to Pull Back Troops
India and Pakistan press the United Nations to force a withdrawal to Aug 5 positions as fighting continues along the 1000 mile border with West Pakistan. Skirmishing persists in the disputed frontier zone.
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U. N
India
Pakistan
Teenagers Taking Over? Family Weekly Weighs Prospects
The October 31rd Family Weekly asks if teens dominate society and argues many fears stem from growing youth numbers. Author Margret Mead, noted anthropologist and best selling writer, reassures readers about American teenagers and their potential.
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Family Weekly
Margaret Mead
America
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