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i I and Register, Sunday Morning, April 7,1963 Sadist Sought In Ghastly Murder Of Olympic Skier "RENO, Nev. (AP)--The head-less body of a pretty young British Olympic skier so badly dismembered that veteran policemen "gagged at what they found Friday night in her MJcCaskie, 24, a quiet blonde who kept largely to her- Iself, had been decapitated. Police found her heart on the living floor near the front door. Her severed left foot fell from blanket which a detective picked up in the center of the room. Her body was stuffed into a cedar chest.

Three kitchen knives were stuck in it. "This is the very worst murder case we have ever had," said Police Chief Elmer A. Briscoe. apparently had been tortured before she was killed. It is the work of a sadist" Officers "couldn't help gagging what they saw," he added.

He cordoned off the brick front duplex apartment in a quiet, lower middle class neighborhood during a preliminary investigation. Then, pending further investigation, the apartment was A uniformed officer kept watch, Briscoe conferred with Dist. Atty. William Raggio and medical authorities. They sought the actual cause of death, whether Miss Me- Caskie was choked or beaten before the brutal mutiliafcion.

Neighbors, who knew little of the tall, slim young woman, said they heard no screams. Police said there was no evidence of a struggle. She competed for Great Britain hi the Alpine events of the 1960 whiter Olympics in Squaw Valley, 60 miles away. She still skied on weekends and gave ski lessons. During the week', she worked as a secretary at a meat- packing company.

Other personal details were sketchy, but she was reported to have been married and later divorced from a Jeff Schmidt. She had a 10-month-old son, Conrad, and was reported to have been considering a paternity suit against an unidentified man. Dist. Atty. Raggio said the man was given a lie detector test after the body was found and was ruled out of the slaying case.

Detectives said they couldn't find a motive for the killing. They were unable to give details concerning the former husband. Doctors wereTunable to say how long she had been dead. Born in Elgin, Scotland, on Feb. 19, 1939, Miss MJeCaskie was still a British citizen.

She lived in the northern Nevada-California area for several years and attended high school near Squaw Valley and Sierra College at Auburn, Calif. Senate To Scrutinize TFX Cost Estimates made public Saturday by '-the Senate Investigations subcom- "mittee. I In the latest development in the 'ever widening Senate inquiry, iDefense Secretary Robert S. Mc- "Naaiara said he would be glad Zto cooperate with a proposed in audit of the cost stand- Air Force estimates. An independent GAO audit relieves the subcommittee of conducting its own inquiry in this area.

Staff aides stUl are sensitive about earlier charges that they "abused" witnesses while trying to collect cost information. They denied the charge. Party To Review It I 1 Nikila Policies i MOSCOW (UPD --Premier Ni- -kita S. Khrushchev's policies, within and outside the Communist bloc, are expected to be reviewed at a Soviet Communist central committee meeting, well-informed sources said Saturday. The meeting is generally expected to take place sometime be- BO firm date has yet become known.

Acdording to informed reports 'the central committee most probably will be convened to discuss means of improving and boosting production in the Soviet chemical industry. But when the 330-man body un- it usually provides a forum for closed door discussion of a range of current internal international Observers in Moscow believed likely that the Sino-Soviet conflict, current relations with the United States, the Berlin problem and such internal questions as the destalinization campaign and the controversy over party control of the arts could figure on the agenda. Despite a renewed flurry of speculation abroad that Khrush- 'chev may be losing his grip on the nation's leadership, there was no firm indication here that his position was in danger. Socialite (Continued From Page One) she had picked up the but had no intention of hurting her husband. "He lunged toward her and into the sword," Hooker said.

ards used hi the award, i Hie overweight problem applies Has No Objection to either the General Dynamics McNamara told subcommittee or Boeing version, he "explained. Jhairman John L. McClellan, D- By HALE MONTGOMERY WASHINGTON (UPD Senate -f Investigators made plans Saturday to'scrutinize Air Force cost. estimates which figured in the that he had no objection to of the big TFX warplane having the General Accounting contract. fice, Congress' watchdog agency, It was learned, meanwhile, that make a study of the data.

But he -Adm. George W. Anderson has cautioned that the Air Force cost "told apnators he was not consult- estimates were "so unreliable" -ed wnen civilian Pentagon offi- that they could not form a foun- Tcials overruled the military and dation for a realistic decision, -awarded the multi-billion dollar Subcommittee to General Dynamics have discovered "enormous er- instead of Boeing Aircraft rors" in the cost data favoring iCo. General Dynamics. Investigators ic came as quite a surprise to want to know what figures Me- inanded to Raleigh County Jail "me that the recommendation was Namara did use in justifying the Saturday by Magistrate Joe Rod- reversed," Anderson said in tes- ftTM i--i U-LU.

i jUOLUjliig UJC irv award if he had no faith in the 1 KZ in 1 lieu of $1,000 bond and Anderson's testimony was the in a week of stormy events as the panel dug deeper'into why General Dynamics' Fort Worth, Texas, plant got the contract, eventually expected to cost in excess of $6 billion. The contract for the changeable wing supersonic fighter plane to built both Air Force and tfavy use is the largest tactical fighter award since World War U. Anderson said that because of design compromises. in an effort get a bi-service fighter, the TFX was too big and heavy to be used on any attack carriers of the modernized Essex class; "Use will be on the three attack carriers the Midway class," he added. State Confers Medal On Ailes WHEELING Undersecretary of the Army Stephen Ailes xcame the 86th recipient of West Distinguished Service Saturday night "as one of lie more capable of our nation's leaders." The award was made by State Adj.

Gen. Gene H. Williams at a banquet climaxing the fourth annual conference of the National Suard Association of West Virginia at Oglebay Park. Ailes is a native of Romney and a West Virginia Law School graduate. AUes' grandfather, the late Gov.

John J. Cornwell received the first such medal-- West Virginia's highest military honor -ever awarded. Escapee Apprehended MOUNDSVHoLE (UPI) projected nuclear force. W. JLJ.LIU.

CUGiJr On advice of counsel, Mrs. was apprehended at nearby Glen son declined to any state- Easton Saturday. George MeUot, 44, who fled Rusk postponed until next Fri- from a prison crew Thursday, day a conference on Berlin with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin in order to concentrate on Mellot is serving a 2-to-10 year preparations for his talks with De 1 $2,500 bond after her at- sentence for forgery from Wo Gaulle and other Allied leaders torney entered a plea of innocent County. Authorities said MeUot next week.

He had arranged sev- Thalf. was assigned to a prison era! weeks ago to fly to the ld frs Wll son was in working on Big Grave Creek French capital Saturday night but condition to give officers a about six miles from the prison the trip has grown in importance and that he would bring when he- escaped. He will face both on account of the meeting Her to the district attorney gen- escape charges at the June term with De Gaulle, which only was office Monday afternoon for of the Marshall County Circuit nailed down Friday and a meet- fnuKshnnmr, Court Organization council late in the week in connection with formation of a multinational nuclear force. SEARS MONUMENT CO. "Wesf Virginia's largest Memorial SELECT NOW TOE MEMORIAL DAY See This And Other Outstanding Vcduesl Choose A Loving Tribute! THERE IS A SEARS MEMORIAL THAT WILL FULFILL YOUR MOST CHERISHED THOUGHTS FOR YOUR DEPARTED LOVED ONES.

See Our Display and Our Design Service Without Obligation! CONVENIENT TERMS ARRANGED Beaver Man Charged With Setting Fire Okey Osborne, Beaver, was Blue Law' Hot Approved By Grocers: Prexy M. V. McCollam, Beckley, pres- dent of the West Virginia Association of Retail Grocers, the new Sunday "blue" law--and pointed out the state organization which he heads was not in favor cf passage of the law. His announcement came after said a wire dispatch from Charleston, published, here, in- Jmated the grocers favored the law. McCOLLAM said: "When" this law was up for consideration the State Legislature I called a meeting 'of the txard of directors of my organization in Charleston.

Our directors were divided on this controversial issue and we did not take an official stand on it. "In fact many of our members spent several days in Charleston fighting this law. They knew that some other states which already have it are repealing it and in other states enforcement of the Sunday blue laws has completely broken down. "THE LAW in West Virginia was forced through by selfish persons who wanted to legislate their competition out of business on Sunday. "I don't see how this law coulc possibly stand up in the courts West Virginia should not take per sonal freedom from, some of its citizens and grant it to others with a law passed as a-'day rest' law.

It has exceptions to al low some groups to operate (and they are not necessary) and stop other groups from operating on Sunday. "If. West Virginians really wan. a blue law then it should be complete--and close everything." McCOtLAM operates the Pa goda Market which is open every day until midnight, including Sun days. held to the action of the grand jury on a charge of willfully setting a forest fire.

He was arrested at 6:15 p.m. Friday by a conservation officer. William Miller, Lester, was jailed at 8:45 p.m. Friday by a constable on a peace A GRAND larceny warrant against Acton Bragg, Sprague, was withdrawn Saturday in Magistrate Rodriguez 1 court by Eldridge Lambert, Sprague, complainant, and the court costs were paid. Bragg formerly was charged with stealing a .38 caliber pistol from Lambert valued at $50, on Jan.

1962. Alice Rodgers, Harper Heights, was found guilty on a charge of destruction of property" by Magistrate Rodriguez Saturday after pleading hot guilty to the offense, and was remanded to jail in lieu of a $15 fine and costs on the charge. She was arrested on a warrant obtained by Dorothy Rogers, Harper Heights', who" said she broke'some of her dishes. ROBERT E. VIA, Mabscott, paid-a $5 fine and costs to Magistrate W.

A. Burke, Friday on a charge of a defective exhaust sys- He was 'cited April 1 by State Police on Route 21. Robert Lewis, Beckley, paid a $25 fine and costs to Magistrate Burke Saturday on a reckless driving charge. He was arrested March 30 by City Police. Rusk (Continued From One) U.S.-European policies and his veto of Britain's entry into the European Common Market.

There Bali Volcano Still Active JAKARTA, Indonesia (UPD-- Volcanologists who have jus completed a week-long survey Bali's Gunung Aguag reports the volcano is ously active. danger According to the Antara new agency, the experts reported there were no indications lie cano's activities had ceased sine deadly eruptions began March 17 They warned Balinese to keep ou of the "dangerous zones" whiti they had designated. Meanwhile, 13 tons of American food was being distrib uted to victims of the still-smou dering volcano. U. S.

Ambassador Jones was due to arrive in Bal from Jakarta during the weekenc for a personal survey of the dis aster scene. He will coordinate American relief efforts aimed at pourin supplies into the isla'nd in addi tion to food. (Continued From One) to have developed, and he knows of no reason the commitmen would not be extended- Should th association ever be liquidatec Davis said the money will be rected to some other worthwhil project for the benefit of the com munity. A to'tal of $430,000 is involved opening the Macinar plant jjiuufcrcciu lYiitTKei. jinere i j- T-- have been some hints in the last BecMey according to figures cite few days that France might like S.

ae 1 lda y- ad better relat to fte to eome from grant, $30,000 is to be invested by Pin A agreement was signed by Ssk West Industrial SteW3r SbSato Sfr to- 100 by -CrQTCk hoWlnniY id Onnsby Gore at the State Department. The United States, following up an agreement made by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Nassau in December, will sell Britain up to 100 Polaris missiles. Britain will build submarines and warheads for its HARPER ROAD PH. 253-6480 HILL, 1428 MAIN PH. 468-9281 WASHINGTON (UPD Governors representing economically hardpressed Appalachian states were invited Saturday to a "White House meeting Tuesday to discuss 1 area redevelopment activities anc other efforts to cope with present unemployment The "White House said President Kennedy invited the Conference of (Appalachian governors to take ipart in a meeting with the Advi- 'soryjpolicy Panel for the Area Re- Administratton development (AHA).

The states involved are West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee 1 Pennsylvania. North. Carolina, Maryland, Kentucky and Alabama. The White House said it would be up to the governors' conference I to determine would attend. which governors WRECK PROBED State Police were investigating a wreck at Glen Daniel Saturday night and details of the accident could not be learned.

DRIVER JAILED Forest Cook, Naoma, was jailed at 9:19 p.m. Saturday by State Po- William B. ScoW William Banks Scott, 79, Ron- ewrte, died Saturday in a Ron- everte hospital. He had been employed for 40 ears as an orderly at the' Green- rier Valley Hospital, Ronceverte. Surviving are his anie Scott and a daughter, Mrs.

NaUey, Detroit, Mich. Funeral services will be conduct- id at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the First Japtisfc Church in'Ronceverte'with the Rev. William Freeman in Burial will be in Sunrise ilemorial Cemetery. The body will be taken from he Wallace and Wallace Funeral lome in Ronceverte to the church hour before the service.

RNS) Mrs. Minnie Richmond Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Maude Richmond, 72, of Fireco, will be conducted at 1 p.m. in the Fireco Methodist Church with the Rev. Ernest Barey in charge.

Burial will follow in the Thomson Cemetery at Coal ity. She ed at 12:30 p.m. Saturday n'a local hospital following a long illness, A native of Summers County she was a daughter of the late Henry and Rosie Bdle Lilly Mead ows. Survivors include her husband John Lewis at home; three daughters, Mrs. Claria Meador Coal City, Mrs.

Clarice Lilly, El iison and Mrs. Edna Wyrick Speedway; a stepson, Alva Rich mond, Fireco; three stepdaugh Mrs. Ethel Weis, Mataoka Mrs. Gladys Weis, Speedway anc Mrs. Letha McComas, Sullivan five sisters, four brothers, grandchildren and 21 great-grand children.

The body will be taken from the Keyser-Bryant Funeral Kom to the residence at 3 p.m. Mon day. Sidney Jeffries Sidney J. Jeffries, 526 Rosen wald Burlington, N. anc brother of W.

L. Jeffries, 462 Fayette died late Friday in a Burlington hospital following a short illness. Jeffries spent several years in Beckley in 1914-17. Among other survivors is nephew, Thomas Jeffries, 23 Funeral services will be con ducted at 2 p.m. Monday in Bur lington.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jeffries were leaving today to attend th services and W. L. Jeffries is un able to attend because of his -recent illness.

Final rites for Mrs. Evelyn Stewart Schuman, 57, Ravencliff will be conducted at 2 p. m. Mon day in the Pine Groye Baptis Church at of whie she was a member, with the Rev C. H.

Perry in charge. Burial wi be in Sunset Memorial Park. Mrs. Schuman died at 6:5 m. Saturday in a Mullens ho $1,3 million worth of.

medical pital after an illness of severa Born i-Saxon, she was daughter of Mrs. Ruhamey Web Stewart, Ravencliff and the lat Charles L. Stewart. She was pre ceded in death by her husbanc Hugo Schuman, in 1945. She ha lived in the Raveneliff area sine she was.

three years old. Survivors, in addition to he mother, include five daughter: Mrs. Roy (Kathleene) Gentrj Fort Bragg, N. Mrs. Lucia (Margaret) Herron, Fairale Mrs.

Jack (Helen) Pizzino, Glen Fork; Mrs. Robert (Virginia Lohnes, Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. Rich ard (Barbara) Stacy, Pineville three sons, Stuart, Ravencliff Eugene (Buddy), Eccles, an Cpl. Teddy Schuman, four --n Stev art, both of Ravencliff; Agee St Davls where friends may call after noo today. It wiH be placed in th scneaule church one hour before the ser $75,000 and Abraxns disclosed.

A DISBURSEMENT calls for $170,000 to be used in construction of the square-foot building, an equal sum for equipment and machinery, 510,000 for land and improvements, and $80,000 for working capital. Employment of 45 persons per shift in the Macinar plant is anticipated as soon as operators can become adjusted to the machines. Machinery is in Baltimore, Abrams said, awaiting shipment to Beckley. RAW MATERIALS used hi manufacture of the soap pads are of such bulk and weight, he explained further, they must be transported by rail and consequently the plant must be located on a railroad siding. ITie additional business, Abrams believes, will be welcomed by the railway as well.

The 4.5 acre site to be purchased from The New River Co. for Macinar's location is near the Houchins Manufacturing Co. plant where a siding is available. ice. (RNS) John F.

Jarrett Funeral arrangements are in complete for John Franklin 'Jar rett, 55, Coral Gables, Fla who died in a veterans hospita in Coral Gables Friday followin a heart attack, which he suffere after being struck by a car. He had lived most of his life in Greenbrier County. Surviving are two daughter Mrs. Mary Kathleen Adams, Louis, and Mrs. Barbara Ann re McMabon, a son riomptie A Mark Edward, Richmond, Va two sisters, Mrs.

Margie Hodge Cincinnati, Ohio and Mrs. Ros WASHINGTON (UPI) President Kennedy and former vice president Richard M. Nixon will address luncheon sessions of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) conventions in Washington later this month, it was announced Saturday. CITY FROGMEN JAKARTA (UPI) The Indonesian navy opened a school for frogmen Friday. The new school is several miles from the sea and and much of the training will be done city swimming pools.

PICASSO BUILDS MONUMENT France (UPD -Artist Pablo Picasso has agreed to build a monument to the mythical founders of the port of Marseille, the honorary director of the city's administrative services said Saturday. The director, J. P. Chamant, said the 81-year old artist told lim he would consider the mon- iment "one of the works of my ife." Picasso lives near Cannes A vU WJC lice on a drunk driving charge, jon the Mediterranean Coast, before the service. (RNS) grandchildren.

The body is en route to the lace and Wallace Funeral Han Chapel in Ronceverte, (RNS) Brown Infant Funeral arrangements are i complete for the infant daughti of Airs. Margie Alice Brown, Ra encliff, who died shortly afte birth at 4 p. Saturday in Mullens hospital. The body is at the Sam Fogle song Funeral Home Mullens (RNS) Mrs, Lillian Young Young, 82, Hookersvifle, wfll conducted at 2 p. m.

Monday the Muddlety Methodist Churc with the Rev. Charles Pugh children. The body will be taken from th Snrnmersvflle to the church on William Thomas William Brooklyn, (Slab) N. Thomas, formerly Stotesbury, died Friday afternoon at his home. Before moving' to Brooklyn, he was employed as a miner for 30 years in the Winding Gulf area.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Cecilia Thomas a stepdaughter, Mrs. Virginia Jackson, Brooklyn; a stepson, Earl Hamiin, Pittsburgh, and five step-grandchildren. Funeral services will be coir GroverC. Rowe Funeral services for Grover lleveland Rbwe, 78, of Sophia, be conducted at 2 p.m.

today lade with" the Rev. Okey Cox and tie Rev. Cleve Young in charge. burial will follow in Sunset Me- Nine Anti-Castro Cubans (aught; Five Get Awa norial Park. He died in a local hospital at 1:45 a.m.

Friday following a long llness. The body was removed from the Villiams Funeral Home to the lome of a daughter, Mrs. Freda Hensley at 4 p.m. Saturday. Grandsons will serve as pall- earers.

James T. Caves Final rites for James Tyler iaves, 79, former Princeton resi- lent, will be conducted at 2 p.m. oday in the George W. Seaver Ihapel in Princeton with the Rev. ruiimat iTvivji-wi; ducted at 2 p.m.

Wednesday Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Joint funeral services for James Albert, 62, and Hilda Katherine Wood Sisk, 61, Princeton, will be conducted at 2:30 m. Monday in'the'First Baptist Church in Princeton, of which they were members, with Dr.

L. B. Huston in charge. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Sisk 6:30 a.

in. Saturday in a Princeton hospital after a long illness. His wife. died at noon at tlieir home at 1217 Princeton following an unexpected heart attack. They are survived by five daughters, Robert Oxley, Radford, Mrs.

Charles-Williams, Akron, Ohio, Mi's. Rudolph Cimala, Beckley, -Mrs. S. S. Fuller and Mrs.

Mike Christian, both of Princetonj two sons, James and Tommy, both of Princeton and 14 grandchildren. a retired miner for the Wyco Coal at Black Eagle, is also survived fay three sisters, Mrs. Gladys Maine, Allisonia, Va. Mrs. P.

L. Gentry, Princeton and Mrs. John Soloman, Pulaski, Va. Jlifford Compton in charge. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Jardens.

Caves died Saturday morning in Sweet Springs nursing home after a long illness. A retired tipple breman for the Mill Creek, Coal he had lived in "Princeton since moving there from Coopers 1949. Surviving NASSAU; Bahama! Nino anti-Castro Cuban refugees were arrested Saturday on Andros Island after a British officer wearing only flippers; swimfrunits and his red paratroop beret waded ashore unarmed them to surrender, Five other anti-Castro Cufcani on Williams Island'- 1 escaped in a high speed motor launch despite Bahamian police and British Royal They were believed to have fled to Florida, leaving an "extensive" arms supply dump hind. The British officer was Lt, Col, John Pine-Coffin of the Joint Services Headquarters, Nassau, flew to Andros Island.midway between "Florida and Cuba in a Widgeon seaplane and crossed 200 yards of waist-deep mud to reach Miangrove Swamp. Pine-Coffin donned his clothes which he had kept dry in a plastic bag and walked a mile inland to a group of huts where lie found the first of the Cubans and then rounded up the others who were armed with four pistols, foursten carbines, five rifles and one carbine.

"I had a few icy moments," ha said. finally I enjoyed meal of rice, onions, tomatoes and spam that the men Pine-Coffin said the men were "very depressed" because they Also surviving Mrs. Sisk are four sisters, Irs. Charley Duncan, Columbus, (Mo, Mrs. Charley Dixon and Mrs.

Huston Semones, both of Mullens and John Hinkley, Parrot, and a brother, TJiurman Wood, Mullens. Born Feb. 21, 1902, she was a daughter of the late Bud and Fannie Thompson Wood. Sisks had lived in Princeton 17 years, are his wife, Mrs. coming there from Northfork.

Bertha Martin Caves, Bluefield and a sister, Mrs. Grace Lotz, )enver, Colo. The body will remain at the funeral home. (RNS) Rev. P.

B. Jasper The Rev. P. B. Jasper, 47, Harem Heights, died in a Montgomery hospital at 11:30 a.m.

Saturday following a short illness. Born at Fire Creek, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Jasper. was pastor of the Brooklyn First Baptist Church, Brooklyn; layette County and of the First Baptist Church of Ballard in Monroe County.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Slsie Jasper; nine sons, Phillip and Robert, both with the U. S. Air Force in Texas, John, Ronald, Anthony, Mark, David, Mordecai and Frederick; all at home; three daughters, Mrs. Amelia Cross, Brooklyn, N.

and Hor- and Ethelyn, both at home; three, brothers, of. Cunard, Thomas," arid Miami, four sisters, Mrs." Oretha Bane, Page, Mrs. Louise Miller. London, Mrs. Evelyn Brooklyn and Mrs.

Jannie Woodson, Moran. The body is at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor pending completion of arrangements. Joseph L. Smith Final rites for Joseph Leonard Smith, 49, will be conducted at 4 p. m.

today in the E. M. Meadows Funeral Home in Hinton with the Rev. Buford Painter in charge! Cremation will follow in the Sherwood Abbey Crematorium, Salem, Va. The bodies are at the Seaver Mortuary in Princeton where friends may call after 3 p.

m. today. They will be placed in the church one hour before the service. Men of the church will serve as pallbearers. (RNS) Bowles Named Envoy To India WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy announced Saturday he is naming Chester Bowles as U.

S. Ambassador to India, sending the controversial diplomat-politician back to the post he filled 10 years ago. Bowles will succeed economist and writer John Kenneth Galbraith, who is returning to his old teaching post at Harvard University in June; Galbraith, like Bowles.an expert -on -India; -has been U. Ambassador in New Delhi President Kennedy took office. The President.

said in a statement announcing his choice of Bowles that "no American has a deeper understanding of India and Asia. A decade ago, he a pioneer in creating bonds of understanding between India and the United States." Bowles first tour of duty in'ln- were finding if increasingly difficult to carry out raids on Cuba and once landed there found they were unable to find food. He said that at one point the men seemed to be considering making a break for it. Others from the plane who joined him briefly returned, leaving him alone with the Cubans. "I had not managed to get aH of the men cahned," he said arms I had collected kept a very close eye on them." Police joined Pine-Coffin Saturday and made the arrests.

The Cubans were taken to Williams Island and were expected to be brought to Nassau on Monday and charged with illegal entry. They presumably will be deported to the United States. Pine-Coffin said fte 36-man police-marine party on Williams were still checking an "extensive" arms supply dump before bringing the Cubans to Nassau. He said.much of the equipment is being destroyed but that samples will be brought back for evidence. He said- the boat which got away had "a range of 200 miles- enough to reach the United States.

Development Group Formed CHARLESTON, W. Va. (UPD- Ten West Communities and seven formed the Virginia "Commuuity Flamiiag Association to promote economic and industrial gro'wth of the Mountain Stata. The communities are Wheeling, Huntirigton, Graf ton, Charleston, Dunbar, Clarksburg, Nitro, Spencor and Vienna. The counties are Ohio, Putnam, Cab- eU, Wood, Hancock, Kanaka and Randolph.

The association also hopes to extremely popular with the Indi- However, some Indian officials have said they now felt that a more conservative envoy would tiiV Ujr Smith died at 3:30 p. m. Friday. I do them more good because he Death was attributed to a heart would have more influence in Washington. Bowies' relations with Kennedy a been some- 1960 presidential condition.

(RNS) William Emory Williams, 90, campaign, i name was Nallen, died evening at sometimes mentioned as a possible choice- for secretary of state. He was, instead, appointed an undersecretary. Then on Nov. 6, 1961, he and a number of state department officials were shifted around, following a spate of reports that the President was a with Bowles. He was named Kennedy's special adviser on underdeveloped areas, and has spent much tune traveling in Asia, A i a and Latin America since then.

the home of a son, Everett, after a long illness. Born July 2, 1872 in Greenbrier County, he was a son of the late Campbell, and Mary Williams. A retired farmer, he was a member of the Meadow Bridge Baptist Church. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Alva Twohig, Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs.

Elizabeth-York, Flint, Mrs. Anna Fox, Hinton, and Airs. Dorothy Patterson, Meadow Bridge; four other sons, Albert, Nallen, Andy and John, both of Meadow Bridge and Judson, Flint; a brother, Alonzo, a half-brother, Tom Clemens, Ashland, 27 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be con- W.LUU dllll AWOC-- TTJ-U CUll mary Level, Ronceverte and four ducted at 2 p. m.

Monday in the Meadow Bridge Baptist Church with the Rev. Joe E. Smith in charge. Burial will be in the Wickline Cemetery at Meadow Bridge. The body will be taken from the Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in East Ramelle to the church one hour before the service.

(RNS) Bus Plunge (Continued From Ptyt One) accident, said: had just remarked to a friend that I thought the driver was going too fast for the slick pavement Just then I felt the bus skid and the back end came around to where the front should (Continued From One) were suffered by both sides. Worried Sources said it was evident tnat Souvanna had failed thus far to I UMU fttAUtAl MJUO JtCti LV Final rites for Mrs. Lillian bring Gen. Kong and Pathet Lao oo military leader Col. Sinkapo together to work cease-fire.

Souvanna was said to be deeply concerned that the fighting could charge. Burial will be in the Hill erupt into civil war that could Cemetery at Muddiety. bring down i coalition govern- She was a member of the Har rison Methodist Church. Surviving are three sons, Mite and Sidney both of Hookers ville and Hiram, Gauley Mills four daughters, Mrs. Madge.

Con TM TT.TM, Banbab. North 1 6 were re published that Communist troops mese forces supported the Pa- thet Lao and Neutralist Laotians ner Swandale, Mrs. Inez Russel (Hookersville, Mrs. Jean Cum mings. South Charleston and Mis mp a rf and Scott Rraffp TTsrrkrm- a leftist-leaning mem- ana aeon Bragg, hamson, 22 of neutralist fac- by a youn assigned to guar Laotian soldier duty at the foreign minister's residence.

Asia's what stormy. During the be. I thought for a while it was not going to go over. But it broke through down." tiie rail and started The bus, making a gradual descent from the Sierra toward Sacramento, was on a comparatively level stretch of several hundred yards at the crash scene. But it had to negotiate two curves.

heard somebody, scream," said an injured passenger, Mary Fntts, 17, a high school student from Portola. one once told me if I ever got in sn accident I should relax. "I tried to relax and then the bus started moving backward and went over the hfll." Miss'Fritts' face was lacerated and she complained of rib pains. Rescuers formed a line down into tne canyon and brought up Hie injured, who were taken to four hospitals. (Jhenl Man Jailed, Released On Bond Carl Shrewsbury, Ghent, was released from jafl at 8:10 p.m.

Saturday after posting a' $500 bond to Magistrate Joe Rodriguez. He was jailed at 5:12 p.m. oa a united States of involvement. nonsupport charge. The first meeting of the association will be held here April 23, 1963 at which permanent officers will be elected.

Temporary officers include Charles MacQueen, Dunbar, president; James Boyd, Wheeling, vice president; Neil Kravetz, State Department of Commerce, secretary and James Fawcett, Grafton, assistant secretary. Lunik IV (ConKnued From 4,340 miles from the earth and a maximum of Firtt in Years This was fee first Soviet moon shot since the Russians sent three probes hurtling toward the moon in 1959. One hit the moon headon. Another circled the moon, took the first pictures of the other side of the lunar body and went into an earth orbit A third probe passed within 4,347 miles of the moon. Lovell said Friday night he had picked up signals from the Lunik- IV and that the signals seemed to disappear.

He said some "complicated maneuvers" appeared to have been carried out "Whatever Lunik TV has done he said, 1 "I think the original intention was to land something on the lunar surface." valuable information had been collected Lovell said "I am sure they are right and have got valuablt information." French Labor Crisis Ended PARIS (UPI) Labor peace returned to France Saturday after 37 days of strikes by nationalized workers who handed Charles de Saulle the gravest domestic problem of his five-year presidency. The 3,000 to 4,000 northern France miners who Friday rebelled against the compromise government-union pay agreement went back to work Saturday. They joined another 200,000 striking miners who returned to the pits on Friday. Other employes of.nationalized industries who staged scattered, disruptive strikes were coming to terms with the government The miners won an immediate 6.5 per cent increase in their average $150 per month and the promise of another 6 per cent the next year. They had struck for an immediate 11 cent- raise..

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