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DEATHS AND SebertAdkins COMFORT MaynarfCrawford tf fofcflaee Fueeral Home at Rai of Comfort, County, ansa isimMj wine. He was a retired miner fori Cartoon ruei uwi co. at Win ifrede and was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church at Draway ana umw. Survivinf: wife, sons. Brady of Charleston.

nv of Bloomhurrose. Denvil of Comfort; daughters, Mrs. Marie Adkms ana1 Airs. Sturley Smith, both of Comfort; sisters, Mn. chaels, all of Comfort; broth ers, Cecil of Comfort.

Herl of Sophia, lra of Miuersport, Ohio. Service will be 1 p.m. Wednesday in Leonard Johnson Funeral Home, Marmet, with the Rev. Deward Jarrell offi ciating Burial will be in Pine view Cemetery, Orgaa. may call after noon today.

MrsYFlorenci BarheHel Mrs: Florence Mm Barnette, 80, of MOaClay died Monday at St. Francis Hosoital. She was a member of the Mountain Mission. Surviving: ions, Richard of Dunbar, Paul and Fred both of Charleston; daughter, Mrs. Vi oiet Duir ot uwpers creek brother.

Robert Willard Charleston; sister, Mrs. Virgie Smith of Flatwoods, Ky. Service will be held Wednes day ava p.m. at the Hobsoti D. Fisher! Chapel at the Mountain Missidhon Seventh Avenue, with the Rev: Charles Scragg and the Rev.

unarne swigger omciatmg. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Park at Dunbar. Friends may call today after 5 p.rii. at Cunningham Funeral home. William Carter Willian Hannah of Fort Spring, Greenbrier County, died Monday at his home after a long illness.

A lifelong resident of Fort Spring, he was a retired employe of the H. Frazier Co. at Fort Spring, and was a member cue siount vernon uruieu mew odistChurch. Survivine: daunhters. Mrs.

Dollie Burns of Fort Spring, Mrs. Marv Burns of South Hills. sister, Mrs. Liza Smith of Faii'lea; brother, B. D.

Carter of Parsons. Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home, Ronceverte, is in charge of arrangements. Charles Jones Charles Robert Jones, 78, of Lookout, Fayette County, died Sunday in Beckley Appalachian regional Hospital. was fa me oe ot itaia View Cemetery Martin ton, MOSS, Mrs. Jaae MeMium Service will bel Breckenridge Roberts 1:30 Wednesday b.

SPENCrr Hooper Funeral Home. Roberts. 91. of with the Rev. Clyde Har Virania Calhoun County, died Huriav ter officiating.

Burial will be in the a Morttomerv Memorial Park. veneer, after a ill Be was a retired farmer FayeUf County, died Sat Surviving: sister, Mrs, Rebec m. Memori Eveline Estep, Mm. EthyU of Barberton, Ohio. al HosPital Meadows and Mrs.

Ruby Mi id 7 mrs. twin flay at 1 p.m. at Vandale Fu Service will be held Wednesday ere i i. iruiKiii nume wim ine IWY. wui Asa Harris and the Rev.

Floyd vainoun Brown officiating will be rrienos may caU today at the st. Albans: Mrs. Reveal of 3419 funeral home. Cell Smith CleU Smith. 77.

of Walton ttt! itoane county, died Monday mime miur a SIMtT UIMM There are no surviving rela tives: Service will be held Wednesday! at 10:30 a. m. at ru Community Church, Roane Coun ty, wnn tne Rev. John Ashley officiating. rial will be in Barnhouse Cemetery at Walton Rt.

2. Friends mav call todav SS p. m. at Knipht and Young Fu iieitti nuaic, vienoenui. Earl Stamper RED' HOUSE Earl Ray 'Carl" Stamner.

45. nf House, Putnam County, died Monday at Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston. Survivine: brothers. diai of Lompoc William of anaron, Lee of Dry Branch and jonn ot km House; sister, Mrs. nuin uiere oi snaron.

The body Is' at Prvor Funeral xuune, cast oanK. William Taylor William F. Tavlnr, M. nf SanJ dusky, Ohio, formerly of Elk view, died Sunday in a Sandus kv nosnitai atter a short illness. He was a far UnmW at nome; parents, Mr, and Mrs.

William C. Taylor of Elkview: brothers, James and Richard, both of Charleston. Thomas pan, Johnny and Michael, all of KUtview; sisters Debra, Connie and Terry, all of Elkview. leston, Debra, Connie and Terry, all of Elkview. Jseryice will be 10 a.m.

Thurs Friends may call today at the funeral home. Wilbur Woodrum Wilbur Lee Woodrum, 64, of Washington, D. formerly of Dunbar, died Monday at He was a retired salesman and formerly was employed by Sloan's Department Store in Dun bar. Mr. Woodrum was a member jof the i Advent Christian! Church in Dunbar.

Suryivingi wife, Violet; daughter, Mrs. Wanda Crowder of Charleston; brother, Carl N. Wcodnun of Huntington: sister. Mrs. beuian uuuspie ot Liunoar.

Keller Funetal Home, Dunbar, is in charge of arrangements. LEWIS. Mrs. GoWa Clara Surviving: daughters, Mrs.jService will be held Wednesday Ha7.el Hutchison of Huntington, Mrs. Vada Smith of Grantsvillc, Mrs.

Marv Forbes of Norfolk, Mrs. Bettv Eastwood of Charleston: sons, Paul of Wes ton, Eugene ot Mammon, Reiuii of Globe, Ariz. I Service will be held Wednes i $ay at 2 p.m. at VanReenenj at 2:30 n.m. al White Oak Unit led Methodist Church at Undis i hurs with the Rev.

R. K. River Lane, Port Amherst, died punaay in Charleston General) itospitai alter a long Friends may call today at the tunerai nome. SCHERREP, Richard Lee Mass will be cele brated Thursday at 10 a.m. at St.

Francis of Assi siCatholic Church, St. Albans, by the Rev. Fr. Bernard Schmidt. Burial will be in i ngham Memorial' Park, Mr.

Scherreo. 127, of Winches1 SCHERREP tor, formerly of St. Albans, died Sunday in Winchester of in kiries received in a motorcycle accraent mere, frienas may call weanesaay atter 2 p.m. at snod grass Funeral Home, South Charleston. Rosary will be recited Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

at lunerai nome. VANDALL. Edear Taft Service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Chestnut Knob Community Church at Layland, wun me ttev. Koy lyree and the Rev.

John Richardson offi Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Vandall, ot uanese, Fayette County, Oil. Co. and was a member ofldie.d Sunday.

In Beckley Appala the American Veterans and chian Regional Hnsnit.nl Perkis Township Voulnteer Fire uept. sandusxy. Surviving: wife, dauehter. Kim at hameV sons William Jr. and Chester, both Ronald tElkfiow.

B'arial wil1 be in Hail ficiating. Burial will be in Spring Moose Lodge. 'Mr, Jones was st Big Chimney Friends call retired! miner. daughters. Miss Betty Sue Jones and MLss Shir lev Ka, "Jones, both at home, Mrs.

nosaiee near ictt oi 0 a Mrs. ry Joannl Thomnson of Nicholls, Mrs. RuthJiouise Crawford and Mrs. Violet Lucille Fox, both of Hieo. Mrs.

Phvllis Jane "Martin of Alexandria, Va son, Johnl Robert at home; brother, Sam of Enterbrise: Kvi Service be 2 p. m. TKurs day in Wallace' and Wallace Funeral Home, Rainelle, with the' Rev, Harold Flint officiating.1 Burial will be in Wallace Memorial Cemetery at Clintonville. Friends may call after 7 p. m.

today. Homer Mdnh Homer. J. Mann, 73, of 1509 Third died Monday in white sulphur sprmgs wnue vis iting at the home of his brother, Ernest Mann. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, a Mason, retired emolove of dii fPbiit at Belle, and a former employe oft tne cnarieston ram ano ttec reation Department.

Also surviving: son, James Daie Mann of Charleston; half Norman, Ashby, James and Howard Crump ot White Sulphur Sprincs. Preston Funeral Home is in I charge of arrangements. Therian L. Perry WHITE SULPHUR Therian L. Perry, Of White Sulphur Springs, died Monday at his home after a long illness.

He was born near Neola. Greenbrier County, and was a member of the Wild Meadows Baptist Church near White Sulphur Springs. He was a retired employe ot tne no tel. Survivine: wife. Macie; son, Carl E.

of White Sulphur Springs. Service will be held Wednes day at 3 p.m. at Shanklin Funeral Home here with the Rev. Eddie B. Kyle and the Rev.

Charles Buckland officiating. Eurial will be in the Presbvteri an Church at Alvon, Greenbrier Countv. i Friends may call today at the tunerai home. The family will rece friends today from to 9 p.m. at tne tunerai nome.

Mrs. Mamie Pifer MARLINTON Mrs. Mamie J. Pifer, 81. of Marlinton, died Monday in a Huntington nurs ing home.

mav from 6 tn 3 weonesoay. Harry Williams "Harry Bradford Williams, 67, lof 128 West Virctaia Aw TW bar, died Monday in Charleston yenerai Hospital after a long He was a retired emolove of uDoey om and was a member of Local No. 1 United Glass and Ceramic Workers. He was a lifelong resident of Kanawha County. surviving: son, noger Williams: of Tampal atep Idaughter Mrs.

Aldoris Guhnoej ot uanasi orotner, John wiuiams st Albans sisters, Maude Burns and Mrs. Millie W. Garrett of South Charleston, Miss Fairlee Wil liams of Chicago. HI. I Friends may call today after 16 p.m.

at Good Shepherd Mortu ary soutb Charleston. Dennis Woodard HUNTINGTON Dennis A1 len Woodard, 56, of Hunting iton, in a Hunting Ion hospital after a lone illness. He was a retired toreman tor the Chemtron Corp. at Hunting ton, and was a member of the jGood Hope Baptist Church near Milton. Surviving: daughter, Mrs.

Bert Jefferson of Salt Rock son, Michael Bruce Woodard of Huntington; parents, Mr. and Frank Woodard of Huxri Icane; sisters, Mrs. Alberta Marshall of Ohio, Mrs. Theima Bernstein ot wa Dies, Fla. I Service will be held Wednesr day at 2 p.m.

at Heck Funeral Home. Milton, wun me tiev. Russell Withrow and the Rev. Clifford Tucker officiating. Bur ial will oc in rorest Memorial Parlr at Milton.

Friends may call today after 3 p.m. at Wallace and Wallace runerai nome at Ramelle. WELLS. Mrs. Green Service was to be held today at 3 p.m.

at Wilson Funeral Home uuriai was to be Spring Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Wells, 76, of mesa, tormerly of Charleston, died Saturday in Mesa after a snort uiness. WHITE, Mrs. will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m.

in the First Baptist Church with Hill Cemetery. Mrs. White, 86, of 1041 Bridee Road, died Sat, 'urday in St. Francis Hospital. ine larauy suggests that memorials be made Jo the First Bap viiutcji otnoiarsmp runa.

Friends may call todav at Pres ton FuneralTome. The wiu receive inenas toaay at iu. at tne mnerai nome. Injuries Claim Michael W. Davis Michael Wayne Davis 24, of I Ghelyan, died today in 'Beckley veterans Hospital ot injuries received in an automobile acci dent February 1972 at Ronda Cabin Creek.

He was a veteran of the Ma rine CorpSi and, was a former! employe, of Garbon Fuel at wife. Judith Ross! Davis; daughter, Stephanie 'Lu cille Davis at home; son, Michael Patrick at home; par ents, and Ted Davis of Sharon; brothers, Gary Lynn! with; the Marine Corbs in Par ris Island, oi snaron, Pryor Funeral Home, East Bankh is in charge of arrange ments. ana tne kcv. uuy nomday otti he naa paid Hi jCiaiing. uuriai win oe in niuck ICemetery at Undisbure.

Mrs. lUwis, C9, of Laiwrk, Rtteigh CwmtT. died Swdar in Bedtter Friends mtj call to H. L. McCreery Claimed At 69j BECKLEY Judge Harry McCreery, who served as Raleigh County Criminal Court judge for 20 years, died Sunday! a weensDoro, Hospital.

He retired in 1971. Judge McCreery and his wife, Eugenia Adkins Mc Creery, had been vacationing at Myrtle Beacn, S. and were on. their way home when he Decame m. A native of Beckley, he was a member ol a KaleiRh county pi oneer family.

He spent part of nis eany lite Birmingham, Ala. He attended Augusta Military Academy in Fort Defiance, and received a bachelor of law degree from West Virginia University. After being admitted to the bar he began to nractice law a brick building at the corner of Main and Kanawha streets where his father, the late Henry1 L. McCreery, and his grandfath er naa naa tneir law otuces. Judge McCreerv was elected to his first term of office in 1950 as a successor to Judge Winton A.

Riffe under whom he had served as assistant prosecuting auoniey. A. Democrat, he led the party lucxei in nis lirsi try tor otttce. ne was a past president of the Beckley Kiwanis Club and Elks Lodge. He was a member of Raleigh County and bar associations.

Mgma Nu. Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, Masonic Lodge and Black Knight ujuntry uud. In addition to his he is survived by a son, Harry Jr. of wasnuigion, u. daughter, Mks.

O. E. Philpot of Memphis, and brothers, William J. of Beckley, Percy A. of Carmel, Calif.

ic wil 1 be 2 n.m. Wednesday In Beckley Presbv terian Church. The Rev. Jack! Saddler will officiate. Burial be in Sunset Memorial Park in Beckley.

rnenas may can from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Calfee Funeral Home in Beckley. Youth Drowns In Nicholas SUMMERSVILLE A former Kanawha County youngster arownea yesteraay aiiernoon while swunming with friends in Hominy Creek near his home at Mount Nebo, Nicnolas County, state pouce said. Troopers said the' body David Wayne Legg. 16.

was re covered from about 12 feet of water, six miles south of Sum mersville. Legg was a former resident of Cedar Grove in Kanawha County. Lege attended Nicholas Coun ty High School at Summersville arid was a member of the Cedar Grove Baptist Church Surviving: parents, Robert R. Legg of Mount Nebo Mrs. Joyce a.

wee of Charleston: brother, Robert Ray. Legg at home; grandparents, Mrs. Mabel Legg of Cedar Grove and iMts. riUDy laric ot snaron. Service will be 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the Cook Funeral Home at Cedar, Grove with the Rev: Ross C. Harnson officiat ing. Burial will in' Montgo mery Memorial rars at LOn Friends mar call after 7 p.m. toaay. SKATERS' PATRONESS HURT AMSTERDAM St Lud wina, whose feast day is April 24, is the patroness of stealers.

She was born in Holland in.l380| and suffered a skating accident tnat lett ner crippiea. BY CONSUMER OFFICIALS Hong Kong Tailor Shop Investigated City consumer protection oEfi iiater informed the man the SI 18 cials said they are searching had not been received from the) if or the operator of the Hong Charleston shop. is.ong iauor unop alter receiv Mrs. Tneiling said she has: ing several complaints from the also received complaints froro.5 shop's customers. persons in Madison and Char Mrs.

Jane Theiung, director! lesion wno never received mer jof the consumer protection off jchandise after making pay ice, sain sne repcivpfl cam mems. plaints from customers who The city consumer protection! said Ihey paid lor custom chief said she was preparing ai tailored clothing they never re letter to the New York office ceived. Globe International tellingi Police detectives, who also! them of the Charleston com received inquiries from outside tne state aoout tne iirm, saw rr the Arcade shop apparently Ftnwess, ew York City 's con ciosea last montn ana tne oper ator. whom Ihey identified 4 can check with thei Albert Khan, then wnrkwl for alC'lohe International Co. l(W.

OtflCC ishort time. Mrs. Theiling said a check; lire iwai KKvmiK wuiiilm murore sain ivnan men (lis lor 6nop pnone was Qjsconrjeci forwardmg address. One Indiana man told police; The firm advertised custom i Kons Tailor 'made suits manufactured in! 1118 for ctothine last Nov 0 8 Kone. The customers! ember and he has not receivedjw 0 1 have measurenients' the merchandise.

The at the local shoo and! Konc main office for the were reportedly sent to! viooe international Rong. Carrigon Cites 'Direct Interest' By HERB LITTLE Associated Press Writer Counsel for Gov. A. Moore argued today that the stale Su preme Court, because what iwas termed its own ''direct in should not. consider the suit testing the constitutionality of Moore's actions oh the state budget, This contention, advanced; by former Supreme Court John Carrigan as counsel for Moore, was reference to the fact that three accounts relat ihg: judici those invon the1 high Raleigh, "the suit attacks the constitutionality of 'actions by which the.

governor! either vetoes or reducea nu merous appropria tion items he approved the budget bill passed by. the legislature for the fiscal; year startmg July 1. Arguments' on Carrigan'! plea asking the. court to take no further ot the case were to be heard along "'with arguments on issues x. suit Attorney' Vincent V.

Chaney representing Brotherton anc McManus, filed a memorandum opposing Camgan's plea. Chan ey noted the disputed budgeti item3 mvoivmg the ludiciary were appropriations state law library and equip ment the Supreme Court offices, both reduced by Moore, and an appropriation for reim oursemem os counues lor es penses in cases involving court appointed attorneys, aeieteci by Moore Chan contended these. items do not constitute such an interest on the part of the.Su I MIMED BLACK PAUL I I preme Court judges, disqualifying." But he that even if the judges have.v (what would amount to a disqualifying inter est, they "must consider tins case because of necessity. there being no other qualified tribunal and there beine no le tiohs in the budget erased morel than 5190 from the gen 1 ei al revenues section of the budget, including appropriations for state agencies and de partments. Among the prboose'd.

aoDro pHatioiis veti cd Mcioi were the entire accounti for! the state) treasurer and the secretary of state: The Supreme" Court last week I granted a. mbtioh that Dfi ne named 11 tie suit so tnat he' couli present his views, lie action formally charged House ot ueiegates. uienc A. Bian Moore unsuccessfullv asked senate: William T. Brothertua D' Kanawha, House SDeaker Lewis McManus, tthat he lv uaraeti a' party in trie suit.

acnon on some so fsuppie ures suomiued by Mooce has1 ibecn delayed in tne special ses Miuii oi. ma aiam ixigisiamie pending outcome of "the suit. ine ouis were pned loose trom uie House inance' Com mittee by a coalition of Re i publicans and maverics Demd iCrats, and most were approved py me House. they routinely to committee in; the benate, where they remain. wnen the special session re convenes June 26, it will have less than one week to act on approprations before the beein jtiing of the new fiscal year July Memorials of Dislinclioti Since 1911 Sears Monument Company IS HS 1 mm hi 1 tue, JUKt 12, 1973 Charleston Daily agail 111 I Mk.z; .1 EfilB Wt 1.

I mi mim KEEP ON TRUCKIN' Mrs. Gehnelle VanBuskirk of Calhoun, tries her hand. the, wheel of a 1924 Stutz pumper fire truck. VanBuskirk, owner of an antique barn 60 miles, north of: Atlanta, bought the truck in an Indiana street auction. IN VETO CASE She paid $1,500 for the truck, which once saw service with the Indianapolis Fire Department.

She said she may drive the truck to Georgia for use in her AP Wirephoto. City Firms Low Bidders On 1 77 Two Charleston firms hay'ej submitted the apparent low bidl of $2,399,970 for the relocation of Court and Dryden streets as part of Interstate 77 construction in Charleston, it was announced today. Officials of the State Depart ment of Highways said the Pi oneer Co. and Mountain State Construction submit provisions tor substitution led the bids which were opened or linages. today.

deletions and reduc wort acc0rdine to a de partment spokesman, is made1 1 necessary bv the planned instal lation of an access ramp for the interstate in tne area. Drvden Street, which will run under the ramp, will be wid ened to provide an access route to me ramp. The work on Court Street will include the installation of a railroad underpass and an exten sion to connect with Christopher Street. The spokesman said the de partment plans to let another contract for the work on Brooks land Broad streets in the near future and that this should com plete the contracts required for the construction the Bigley Avenue area. In other bid openings today.

the spokesman said; The S. J. Grovee and Sons of Minneapolis submitted (the. apparent low bid of $16, 812,462 for construction of 2.64 miles of Appalachian Corridor at Clarksburg. The section will link the! jClarksburg Expressway to 71 four Billone Neighbor HOMER C.

WATftRICHT SR. HOMER CW.ltBRICHT.JR. i 1 es' 0 four lane U.S. i50 Corridor between Clarksburg and Parkersburg. An apparent low bid of SB, 621,518 was submitted, by (Brothers and Young, of I London, for construction of a 4.6 mile segment of four lane uomaor in ayette county.

The prolect Is one of two re maining 'contracts to complete bb mue linK. between BecKJey Sutton. Bids for the re imaining contract, construction ot tne high bridge over the New I River, are to be opened next POPULATION UP 700 PCT. PEKING From the mid 17th century" to ihe mid 19th. China's population multiplied about sevenfold while cultivated land less than doubled.

Massachusetts shoe industry in the past 10 yean dwindled from 238 factories to 78 and its work force from to 19,000. SEND FLOWERS When You Are at a Loss for Words Phone 342 5137 1 for good ierviee Valley Cut Flower Now! Powtr and styling for sovero hearing losses Tfyo.ii have suffered a severe.hearing you ovvp it to yourself to irv the rompocl NKW Bd: one: "hi ude" hearing aid. This inslnnnenl can he 10 fii milti as well as losses IK. YOU ARB IN DOUBT. WE WILL.

BE HA FRY TO LET YOU TRY BE FORK YOU There would only be a small charge for laboratory costs 1'nr making up a'cus tom car niei' Come in. phone or wriie I'm a FRHH elect rohir hearir.E; (est with 'a Beltone Audiometer. Our nliicc is equipped with sound ic eiiuipmenl. HEARING AIDS PH.3 4ti Next time you see someone polluting, point it out. It? a car thai smokes.

It's air that smells Its a lake where animal life can't breathe. You know what pollution is. But not everyone does. So the next time you see pollution, don't close eyes to it. Write a letter.

Make a call. Point it out to someone who can do sumethimr about it. People start pollution. People can stop it. Keep America Beautiful.

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