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-BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W.VA., MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER ROYAL VISITOR Prince Charles talks with people at the barricades outside St. Philips Episcopal Cathedral in Atlanta, Sunday after he addressed the congregation. At the center is Dean David Collins, rector of the cathedral. The next stop for Prince Charles is Texas on his tour of the United States. (AP Wirephoto) Store Employes Subdue Gunman WINCHESTER, Va.

(AP) Employes of a grocery store here weren't about to let a man waving a gun at them get away with Ms holdup plan. They picked up what was'at hand for weapons and foiled the crime. The man walked into the AP store just before closing Hme about 11 Saturday night, pulled a .38 caliber handgun and demanded cash from the store safe. A part time employe, who also is a city police officer, knocked the man's gun from his hand with a price'stamper. Other workers wrestled file man to the floor, and one employe subdued him by hitting on the head with a can of fruit.

Police, then arrived and arrested Ronald Offutt, 34, of Fairmont, W. Va. on a charge of attempted robbery. Bomb Murder Trial'Nears End PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) The murder trial of two men accused in the car bomb slaying of reporter Don Bolles is nearing conclusion after 15 weeks of proceedings highlighted by conflicting testimony from an admitted murderer, a swindler and a dope pusher.

Phoenix contractor Max Dunlap, 48, testified in his own defense, calling the state's key witness, John Harvey Adamson. "a damn liar." Dunlap's co defendant, suburban Chandler plumber James. Robison, 55, may testify Monday as.the last witness for his defense. Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, died on June 13,1976.11 days after a dynamite bomb exploded beneath his car as he backed from a parking space at the Clarendon House hotel in Phoenix, where he had gone to pursue a phony tip on a land fraud story. Catholics Hear Carter's Sister ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

(AP) Ruth Carter Stapleton, President Carter's sister, says men should be "exalted and take, their rightful place" in leadership roles while women serve as society's "undergjrding." Before leading more than 25,000 Catholic charismatics in a mass prayer service Saturday night, Mrs. Stapleton said, "There definitely is an equality between male and female, but there are different roles. Feminine is more the intuitive and masculine is more the intellectual." Mrs. Stapleton, an evangelical Baptist speaker for 19 years, said that although men belong in primary leadership posts, women should pursue goals if they have talent, particularly in religious service. She said she has "nothing against" women who want to be priests or ministers, "but I can't see why women would want to be ordained." Former Times Sunday Editor Is Dead NEW YORK (AP) Lester Market, who edited the Sunday sections of The New York Times for more than.40 years and made them a model for Sunday papers across the nation, died of cancer Sunday hi his Manhattan apartment.

He was 83 and had retired in 1968 as associate editor of The Tjmes, four years after leaving the Sunday editor's job. Markel was bom in New York, attended City College and graduated in 1914 from Columbia University's School of Journalism. Proxmire Asks Arms Sale Lid WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. William Proxmire proposed Sunday to impose a declining ceiling on the sale of American arms so that no more than $4 billion worth could be sold after fiscal year 1979. The Wisconsin Democrat, a member of the defense and foreign operations subcommittees of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said arms sales could be scaled down from $9.9 billion in fiscal year 1977 to S8 billion in fiscal 1978, $8 billion in fiscal year 1979 and $4 billion each year thereafter.

STAPLETON 2 Die In Roane Accident LOONEYVILLE, W.Va. (AP) A 40 year old Clay County woman and her young nephew have died in a two vehicle accident on W.Va. 36 near this Roane County community. State police in Spencer identified the victims in the Saturday accident as Betty J. Short of Maysel and Clifford Simonds of Parkersburg.

The Short vehicle went out of control and skidded sideways into the path of a car driven by Mark G. Feder, 23, of Liverpool in Jackson County, police said. Hunter Killed By His Own Gun BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) A Cabell County man has been shot to death in a hunting accident near his home here, sheriff's deputies said. Harold Dean Lycans, 28, was squirrel hunting Saturday when a shotgun he was using discharged, deputies said.

Huntington Hospital Strike Ends HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) Thirty five cents an hour richer, employes of Cabell Huntington Hospital returned to work Sunday after ratifying a new two year The ratification vote Saturday night ended a 22 day walkout by members if the Natinal Hospital Workers' Union Local 1199. Some 500 employes were nvolved in the strike. The new contract provides for a 35 cent per hour increase the first year, with another 30 cents or eight per cent hike the second year, gradually in- reased company paid premiums on medical insurance, a modified union hop in which all new employes must join the union, as well as other enefiis. Deaths And Funerals Blankenship Baby BLUEFIELD (RNS) Graveside rites for the infant daughter of Kevin and Rita Connor Blankenship of Route 3, Blueiield will be at 11 am Monday in Crews Cemetery at Nimitz with the Rev.

Elmo Alderman in charge. The infant was stillborn at 2:55 p.m. Saturday in a Bluefield hospital. Other survivors include maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Coanor of Nlmitz; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blankenship of Bluefield; maternal great grandmother. Mrs. Marie Lilly of Hinton; paternal great grandparents.

Mr. and Mrs. lacy Blankenship of Bluefield. and maternal great great grandmother, Mrs. Nancy Ellen Butler of Nimitz.

E. M. Meadows Funeral Home at Hinton is in charge of arrangements, Harold Boley OAK HILL (RNS) Services for Mr. Harold 0. Boley.

63. will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Tyree Funeral Home chapel at Oak Hill with Dr. Randolph F. Johnson in charge.

Burial will be in High Lawn Memorial Park at Oak Hill. Mr. Boley was found dead at his home Saturday. Death was attributed to a self inflicted gunshot wound, the Fayette County sheriffs department said. Born at Lookout, May 16.

1914, he was a son of the late Henry and Retta Selvey Boley. A member of Laurel Lodge 104 at Lawton, Mr. Boley was employed by the Royal Coal Co. at Layland. His wife, Ann Marie Boley.

died June 27. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Haroldene (Tiny) Scott of Washington, two sisters. Mrs. Jeanne Ann Kjlbourne of Petersburg.

and Mrs. Erma Asbury of Kentucky, and two grandchildren. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. Laurel lodge members will conduct Masonic graveside rites.

Newton G. Dowdy FA1HLEA (RNS) Services for Mr. Newton G. Dowdy, 93, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Chapel of McCraw Funeral Home at Lewisburg with the Rev, Rjckie Morrison in charge.

Burial will be in Dowdy Cemetery at Glace. Mr. Dowdy died at 3 p.m. Saturday in a Weston hospital after a long illness. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m.

Monday. Pallbearers will be Pat O'Brien, 0. C. Dowdy, Nelson Dowdy, Glen Walton, Larry Dowdy and Sonny Phillips. Christopher Elmore RONCEVERTE (RNS) Christopher Lynn Elmore, infant son of Lewis M.

and. Sarah Boggs Elmore, died Saturday night in a Fairlea hospital. Other survivors include a sister. Melissa, and a brother, Lewis both at home; paternal grandmother. Mrs.

Ruth'Elmore of Ronceverte; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Brauce Boggs of Second Creek, and maternal great grandfather. Jesse Hoke of Glace. The body is at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Ronceverte.

Lena Garten HINTON (RNS) Services for Mrs. Lena Clyde Garten; 90. will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors at Hinton with the Rev. Ernest Boyd and Dr.

Clyde Hensley in charge. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery at Ballengee. Mrs. Garten died at 6:45 p.m. Saturday in a Hinton hospital after a long illness.

Born Dec. 1,1886, in Summers County, she was a daughter of the late John and Mary Lively Maddy. Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday. Pallbearers will be members of the John Wesley class of the Hinton United Methodist Church, Mrs.

Sarah Godbey Services for Mrs. Sarah L. Godbey, 93, of Harper will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Melton Mortuary chapel with the Rev. Car! Geisinger in charge.

Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. She died in a local hospital at 1:05 p.m. Sunday following a long illness. Born at Saxon, April 7, 1884, she was a daughter of the late William Clark and Elmira Milam Lucas. Mrs.

Godbey was a lifelong resident of Raleigh County and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. She was a midwife for several years prior to her illness. Her Rev. James W. Godbey, died in 1964.

Two sons, Robert and Asa, and one daughter, Mada, also are dead. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Brada Bennett of Harper, Mrs. Ophie Johnson of Hammonton Park, N. Mrs.

Mable Breeden of Richmond, and Mrs. Anita Light of Beckley; three sisters, Mrs. Rosa Patton and Mrs. Betty Fitzgerald, both of Beckley, and Mrs. Gpi Manning of Huntington; II grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren and two great great- grandchildren.

Friends may call from 5 to 9 p.m. today. Pallbearers will be Don Holdren, Eddie Barker, Gerald Barker. Pete Stone, Robert Dorton, Jeffery Herron, Raymond Herron and Dale Stover. Oliver Hamm PRINCETON (RNS) Services for Mr.

Oliver Franklin Hamm, 47, of 119 McKlnley Ave. will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Forest Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Leonard Repass in charge. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Hamm was pronounced dead on arrival Saturday in a Princeton hospital. Bom Dec. 25.192S. in Hinton.

he was a son of the late Omer Clyde and Rose Shrader Hamm. Mr. Hamm was a machine operator for a window factory. Survivors include his wife, Irene McBride Hamm: one son, James R. Hamm of Princeton: one daughter.

Mrs. Helen Louveoia Jones of Princeton; one sister, Mrs. Margarette Hamm of Hinton, and three grandchildren. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Memorial Funeral Directors in Princeton.

Mrs. Lillie B. Hatfield Mrs. tillie B. Halfleld.

81. of Portsmouth. and formerly of Beckley, died in an Atlanta. hospital at 11 a.m. Sunday while visiting in Atlanta.

The body will sent to Melton Mortuary. Edwin ffill P1NEV1LLE (RNS) Services for Mr. Edwin Hill, 47, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Rockcastle Baptist Church with the Rev. Perry Mclntyre in charge.

Burial will be In Cook Cemetery at Rockview. Mr. Hill died at 4 a.m. Sunday in a Beckley hospital afier a long illness. Born March 6, 1930, at Keyrock, he was a son of the late Rev.

E. I. and Lucinda Jackson Hill. A lifelong resident- of Wyoming County. Mr.

Hill was an employe of the Itmann Coal Co. and a member of the Rockcastle Baptist Church, Survivors include his wife. Mrs. Delphine Walker Hill: three sons. Barry of Beckley.

Bradley of Newport Stuart, at home: five brothers. Lanta of Glen Fork, Ralph of Keyrock. Carmel and E. I. both of Pinevjlle, and Joe of Mullens; four sisters.

Myrtle Goddard of Pineville, Mrs. Ella Brooks of Palataka, Mrs. Marie Bailey of Canton, Ohio, and Mrs. Ruth Sanford of Logan, and one grandchild. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m.

Monday at Calfee Funeral Home in Pineville. The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to services. Everett H. Lawson DURB1N (HNS) Services for Mr. Everett Henry Lawson.

81. will at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Frank Nazarene Church with the Revs. Roy L. Williams and David Rittenhouse in charge.

Mr. Lawson died Sunday morning in a Pocahontas County hospital after a long illness. Born May 10, 1896, in Braxton County, he was the son of the late Cornele and Ida Knight Lawson. A resident of Pocahonlas County for 50 years. Mr.

Lawson attended the Frank Nazarene Church. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Mick of Frank and Mrs. Geraldine Bennett and Mrs. Athlee Bennett, both of Durbin: three sons, Henry and Ronnie, both of Frank, and Chester Eugene of two sisters.

Mrs. Nellie Deal of Jacksonville, and Mrs. Dora Winnings of Orlando, Fla and eleven grandchildren. Friends may call at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Arbovale after 6 p.m. Mon- oay.

Sterling Leftwich Mr. Sterling Leftwich. 47. of Beckley, died at 1:15 a.ra. Sunday in a local hospital after a long illness.

Bom March 11. 1930 in Philadelphia, he was a son of tlie late Rav and Jennie Turner Leftwich. Mr. Leftwich was a cab driver. Survivors include two brothers.

James F. Leftwich of Harper Heights and Dorsie S. Leltwu-h of Chicago, and one sister, Mrs. Katherine Lee of Philadelphia. The body is at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor.

Mr. John Thompson Sen-ices for Mr. John Thompson, 67, of Bradley will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Blue Ridge Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. W.

Ingram in charge. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Mr. Thompson was dead on arrival at 9:13 am. Sunday at a local hospital alter a long illness.

Born in Dakota, Jan. 30.1909. he was a son of the late Lincoln Thompson and Martha Jane Burton. He ivas a retired, disabled miner and a member ol United Mine Workers of America District 17. Survivors include his wife.

Mercentes Osborne Thompson of Bradley; two sons, Kenneth of Sterling Park. and Tommy of Rockville. MA; one daughter. Mrs. Betty Jo Wood of Ohio: one brother.

James Henry Thompson of Whitesville, and five sisters. Mrs MoHv Adkins of Columbus. Ohio. Mrs. Margaret William of Artie, and Mrs.

Goldie Map, MR. Ruby Bell and Mrs. Georgia Wolff, all of Miami, Fla. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the Blue Ridge Funeral Home chapel.

Mrs. Mary Wright Mrs. Man- (Kathyl Wright, 77. of 630 S. Fayette St.

died Saturday evening in a local hospital after a long illness. The body is at Trent and Durgan Funeral Home. Today Friendly Few Club, mental health building, 7 p.m. Modernistic Homemakers, home of Mrs. Carl Boyden, 111 Hager 6:30 p.m.

Mountain Top Garden Club, with Mrs. Lynn Saunders, Cool Ridge, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Degree of Honor Lodge No. 56, Halloween party, Rural Acres Garden Clubhouse, 7:30 p.m. Women of the Moose, Beckley chapter, Moose ballroom, 7:30 p.m.

Judea Shrine No. 13, Masonic Hall, Howe Street, 8 p.m. Beckley Driver Hurt A Beckley man was in "guarded" condition at a Charleston hospital Sunday after a traffic accident near Mill Creek Saturday afternoon. Randall Reggi, 23, of Rt. 4 was traveling east on W.

Va. 61 between the Batoff Mountain turnoff and Mount Hope when he lost control of his 1967 Opel and ran over an embankment, state police said. Reggi suffered a back fracture, a hospital spokesman said. A passenger, James Bair, of Bradley, was uninjured, police said. Damage to Reggi's car was estimated at 51,000 by police.

Vorster Denies Nuclear Promise PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) Prime Minister John Vorster Said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he never promised President Carter that South Africa would not develop nuclear weapons. He simply repeated a previous state. ment that "we are only interested in peaceful development of nuclear facilities," Vorster said in the interview with the American television network ABC. Carter told a Washington news conference last August that South Africa had informed U.S. officials it does hot have and is not planning to develop either peaceful or military nuclear devices; The question of South Africa's nuclear'intentions arose last summer amid a series of reports from the Soviet Union and France that this country was planning to set off a nuclear test explosion.

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It will be warm in the Southeast and Southwest, and cooler elsewhere. (AP Wirephoto Map) PARTLY CLOUDY and mild is the weatherman's prediction for today. Craig Roberts of 308 Wood Bridge Road. Oak Hill, contributed this drawing to accompany the forecast. Craig is 12 years old.

Weather Roundup For the 24-hour period ending 8 p.m. Sunday. High Temp: 65 at 3:15 p.m. Low temp: 43 at 7:30 a.m. High year ago: 55 Low year ago: 25 Record high: 76 in 1975 Record low: 24 in 1969 Precip: 0 Max.

windsSSE, 20 mph, 3 p.m. AT 8 P.M. SUNDAY Winds SE. 13 mph and rising slowly Temperature: 52 Humidity: 74 pet. Max.

visibility: 20 mi. Min. visibility: 5 mi. Sunrise: 7:41 a.m. Sunset 6:36 p.m.

Month's precipitation: 30.25 in. Year's precipitation: 35.55 in. STREAM CONDITIONS Greenbrier: normal and clear. Lake Bluestone: normal and clear with 1.5 gates open. New River gauge at Hinton: 2 feet.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK Wednesday through Friday: Mild with a chance of showers Wednesday through Friday. Daytime highs in the 60s Wednesday and Thursday, rising to the mid 60s to mid 70s Friday. i lows in the 40s Wednesday and Friday and mid 30s to low 40s Thursday. Heath China Guest (AP) Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, currently visiting China, left Sunday from Harbin in northeastern China for Peking, the official Hsinhua news agency reported. POTATOES for SALE! John 0.

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