Honor student suspect arrested in Chicago hijack
Everett Leary Holt 25 a former Indiana high school honor student was arrested at O’Hare after a five hour hijack aboard a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 bound to Chicago with a 300000 ransom and two parachutes. Holt will be arraigned on air piracy charges pending federal court appearance Monday.
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Chicago
UPI
Everett Leary Holt
Indiana
Northwest Airlines
Holt
FBI
O'Hare
Federal Court House
Central District
O’hare
Jack Johnson
Minneapolis
Indiana University
Greenfield
Ind
Indianapolis
Christmas Across America Brings Quiet, Relatives
Americans celebrated Christmas in homes and in missions across the nation. President Nixon called the outlook healthier with better peace chances while New York slowed amid a bleak holiday. Defense allows missile crews to dine with families in silos 70 feet underground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
White House
Bowery Missions
Nixon
Nixons
York
Roman Catholic Church
Volunteers of America
Bowery
Greenwich Village
Robert Earle
Earle
Salvation Army
Defense Department
Trains Collide Near Mount Marion Injure Five
Two Penn Central freight trains collided head on near Mount Marion New York injuring five crewmen. The southbound train from Selkirk to Weehauken lost four engines while four locomotives and 13 cars of the northbound train derailed. Lawrence Gilbo 60 in critical condition and Frank Carrick 57 in fair condition were named among the injured.
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Mount Marion
N.Y
UPI
Penn Central
Selkirk
Weehauken
N.J
Lawrence Gilbo
Cliffsdie Park
Benedictine Hospital
Kingston
Frank Carrick
West New York
Carcick
Hope doubts Hanoi visa for POW aid plan
Entertainer Bob Hope announced a child to child charity plan to aid POWs in Vietnam and would seek a visa to visit Hanoi. He said he doubted approval and had met with North Vietnamese envoy Nguyen Van Tranh, while stressing he did not intend to ransom prisoners.
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Long Binh
Vietnam
UPI
Bob Hope
North Vietnam
Hope
Hanoi
Laos
Vientiane
Nguyen van Tranh
United States
Bangkok
Paris
Nixon
U.S
Southeast Asia
Europe
U.S. Marine Base
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Wet weather forecast with no snow in Mason-Dixonland
The forecast shows no snow for Mason-Dixonland in the next couple of days. Today will be partly cloudy with morning rain and possible continued showers, highs in the low 60s and nightly lows around upper 30s to low 40s. Tomorrow is expected to stay warm and cloudy.
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Central Plains
North Atlantic States
Mason- Dixonland
Morgantown Municipal Airport
Six year old survives 23 days in forest in Azerbaijan
Six year old Elmira Idayatova endured 23 days alone in a forest in Azerbaijan Russia’s southern province. She survived by eating berries and grass and drinking rainwater. A she-wolf and cubs visited her but did not injure her seriously.
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Moscow
UPI
Azerbaijan
Russia
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Elmira Idayatova
Michael Cover dies after hospital stay in Morgantown
Michael Anthony Cover, 33, of 239 Richwood Ave died Saturday at University Hospital. A Morgantown High School and WVU alumnus, he was a noted genealogist and scholar who wrote as David Michael Kober. He is survived by relatives in Morgantown and Ohio, with funeral services to be held at Hastings Funeral Home and burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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Michael Anthony Cover
Richwood Ave
University Hospital
David Morgan
Jacquill Morgan
Morgantown
Muscian
Morgantown High School
West Virginia University
David Michael Kober
Cover
Morgantown High
WVU
First Church of Christian Science
Paul J
Irene V. (Griffith) Cover
Rudolph S. Stover
William J. Cover
Obituaries Chronicle Multiple Local Deaths in West Virginia
Orris Lee Johnson of Bobtown Pa died in Westover at 57. Junior Brown Wilson of Hope Mont died in Preston Memorial Hospital. Clemmie Newton Floyd of Rt. 2 died in Pittsburgh. Carl H Forbes of 430 Grant Ave died at Monongalia General Hospital. Dempsey D Eddy of Farmington died at Clarksburg Hospital. Nelia Fletcher Lewis of Dilliner Pa died at Monongalia General Hospital. Services at local funeral homes scheduled for Sunday and Monday with multiple relatives listed.
Fire crews battle River Road blaze. under control by 8:50 p.m.
Units from Granville and Westover volunteer fire departments rushed to a River Road fire at about 8:30 p.m. A Granville spokesman said the fire was under control by 8:50 p.m. and the trucks were recalled. No further details were available.
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Granville
Westover
River Road
Obituaries Chronicle Local Notables in Cassville and Grafton
Obituaries note David E. Warnick dies from an automobile accident near Core after a hospital arrival. The Morgantown native, World War II veteran, leaves a widow and children in several states. Services are at Fred L. Jenkins Funeral Home with burial at East Oak Grove Cemetery. Also listed are relatives and funeral details for a Massillon line and for Ruby Pearl Kisner of Grafton, with survivors, church ties, and burial plans.
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Sunday Dominion Post
David E. Warnick
Cassville
University Hospital
Core
Morgantown
Alvin
Thelma Warnick
Ruby Pearl Kisner
Grafton
Grafton City Hospital
Taylor County
Columbus
Sarah Adams Keener
United Methodist Church of the Good Shepherd
James
Cleveland
Donald
Marie) Knotts
Ray Keener
Baltimore
Bartletts Funeral Home
Funeral Notices From Suspected Local Ledger
Michael Anthony Cover 33 of 239 Richwood Ave died Saturday at University Hospital. Services at Hastings Funeral Home with Dr. Lewis C. Bell officiating. Burial Mount Calvary Cemetery Gratton Road. Dempsey D. Goody 69 of Seconington died at Clarksbur Hospital December 22. Burial Pyles Cemetery. Clemmie Newton Floyd 79 of RI 2 died December 23 in Pittsburgh. Visitation DeGarmo Funeral Home. Evangelist Earl P. Stevens to officiate. Burial Arnellsville Cemetery. Cari Forbes 78 of 430 Grant Ave died December 23 in Geneva Hospital. Visitation Hastings Funeral Home December 23. Burial East Oak Grove Cemetery. Ota Hugging 84 former Reedsville resident died December 24 in Massillon Ohio. Visitation Williams Home for Funerals. Burial Masontown Cemetery. Orr Johnson 57 of Bobtown died December a. Visitation Michael J. Lucas Funeral Home. Burial Cedar Grove Cemetery. Nelia Fletcher Lewis 80 of Dilliner died December 24 at Moncroskie General Hospital. Visitation Richard R. Herod Funeral Home. Burial Wolf’s Cemetery. Susie A. Murray 72 of Milford Del died December 22 in Milford Memorial Hospital. Visitation Nicholson Chapel. Frank pone officiating. Fred L. Jenkins Funeral Home in charge. David E. Warnick 52 of Cassville died December 23 after car crash. Visitation Fred L. Jenkins Funeral Home. Burial East Oak Grove Cemetery. Wilson Junior Brown 58 of Hopemont died December 22 at Preston Memorial Hospital. Visitation Browning Funeral Home. Burial East Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Orris Lee Johnson
Orris Lee Johnson Sr
Bobtown
Westover
Mt.rmany
Charles
Ethel Mae) Harrington
Kirby
Ronald
Linda) Beal
Olan Johnson
Morris
Lewis
Bud) Johnson
Waynesburg
Stanley
Lea Anna) Fox
Edward
Virginia) Preece
Livonia
Mich
Michael J. Lucas
Mt. Morris
Gerald Michel
Cedar Grove
Junior Brown Wilson
Hope Mont
Preston Memorial Hospital
Albright
John
Pearl Dodge Wilson
U.S. Army
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Terra Alta
Lucille Wilson
Irene Wilson
Big Brownfield
Amos E
Confluence
James
Walter
Buddy
Robert
Jane Wilson
Browning
Hoodsville
William H
Barbara B. Floyd
United Mine Workers
Hubert
Miona) Smith
Everettsville
William
Peggy) McDonagh
Pittsburgh
Dale Creszenzi
Rivesville
Pearl Delarco
Carl H. Forbes
Grant Ave
Monongalia General Hospital
Wellsburg
Thomas and
Louvenia Cheek Forbes
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
American Flint Glass Workers Union
Olga Wange Forbes
Carl
Scotdale
J. M
Pearl) Raine Jr
Louisville
Fay Hood
Morgantown
Robert McCreery
Glendora
Calif
Coleman
Leeland
Harold
Daisy Sherman
Hastings Funeral
Henry K. Brown
East Oak Grove Cemetery
Dempsey D. Eddy
Farmington
Clarksburg
Monongalia County
Peter and
Panella Pyles Eddy
Eastern Gas and Fuel Corp
Grant Town
Rhoda Reed Eddy
Marvin
Gordon
Fairmont
Donald
Raymond
Richard
Keith
Detroit
Anna Wolfe
New Salem
Dorene Chambers
Washington
Leola Eddy
Vicky Lynn Moore
Fairview
Nora Gump
Wana
Audie Phillips
Melinda Ellen Tennant
Curry
Earl P. Stevens
Pyles Cemetery
Nelia Fletcher Lewis
Dilliner
Vilas
N.C
Jacob and
Mareicia Ann Fletcher
Cove Creek
Wade Lewis
Frank
Daughers
Herman
Ruby) Halfin
Menomonie
Wis
Michael
Marie) Lucy
Grand
Faye) Harvey
Bertie Gergy
Kingsport
Tenn
Sophia Fletcher
Richard R. Herod
Pt. Marion
William R. Hoffman
Wolf's Cemetery
Michael Anthony
Richwood Ave
University Hospital
Hastings Funeral Home
Lewis C. Bell
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Gratton Road
Goody
Dempsey D
Seconington
Clarksbur Hospital
Curry Funera
Pyles
Floyd
Clemmie Newton
Friends
DeGarmo
Hayward Lattie
Arnellsville
Forbes
Cari
Geneva Hospital
Henry K Brown
East Oak Grove
Ota
Reedsville
Massillon
Ohio
Williams Home
Fueral
Masontownemetery
Fred L. Jenkins
James Norton
Wilson
Junior Brown
Hopemont
Kingwood
Martin Riggleman
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le van Dau
Dinh Thi Giau
Ernest Tidrow
America
Seattle
Michael Cover
Shirley Lee McCord
William L. McCord Jr
David L. McCord
Toledo
Timothy L. McCord
Germany
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Grafton Road
Michael A. Cover
DeGarmo Funeral Home
Ev. Hayward Saffle Stuchatinn
Arnettsvile Cemetery
Bulletin
Noe Warnick
Nellie Irene Warnick
David Warnick
Sterling Park
Vickie Ra
Mary Francis Billotti
Frederick, Md
Janet Johnson
Linda Warnick
Sandra Warnick
Nancy Lee Harris
Harmony Grove
Patricia Jane Grimes
Elaine Cook
Falls Church
Neal Warnick
Franklin Deaver
Charles Bird
Tony Pasko
Delores Holden
Canton
Albert Hurley
Masontown
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