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2--Raleigh Register. Bccklcy.W. Wednesday Afternoon, Nov. 18, 1964 Labor Woes Kill ARA Project Vorney Pfanf Closes Friday WILLIAMSON (UPI) A woodworking firm located at nearby Varney since 1961 will close Friday because of reported "difficulties being experienced in management relationship with labor." National Seating and Dimen sion which employed aboul 125 persons, had been established with nearly $1.5 million in funds put up by local investors and governmental agencies. "For all practical purposes," the Williamson Daily Mondale Named To Succeed HH ST.

PAUL, Minn. (UPI) -Walter F. (Fritz) Moudale, 36, Minnesota's energetic attorney general, will succeed Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey in the U.S. Senate. Democratic Gov.

Karl F. Kol- vaag announced late Tuesday he was giving the appointment to the slender, dark haired Democrat--a rising young star in Minnesota's Democratic- farmer-labor party. Mondale will become senator as soon as Humphrey resigns and serve the remaining two years of Humphrey's term. "I don't know yet what day Senator Humphrey will resign," Rolvaag said. But it is expected to come before the next Congress convenes to give Mondale a seniority jump on other new senators.

The governor chose Mondale from a field of several Minnesota Democratic farmer-labor party leaders, including himself, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former Gov. Orville L. B'reeman, Rep. John BlatnUc, and Robert Short, Minneapolis, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers.

There were reports that Mondale was Humphrey's choice. But Rolvaag said he made the selection on his own and that Humphrey had suggested only that he make the choice as soon as possible after the election, Break Believed Near In Kansas Kidnaping TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI)--Detec lives indicated today a break was imminent in the abduction of a 7-year-old Negro girl, missing since she was forced into a white man's car Saturday. Maj. Ray McFinney, bead ol the detective division, said interrogation of i 11 i a Frederick Zimmer of Kansas City, Tuesday night resulted ic "more progress in two hours than in the past two days." Zimmer, 45-year-old railroad engineer charged with first de gree kidnaping, was arrestec Sunday in Marysville.

said, "it writes the closing chapter to a story of local enterprise backed with local capital and underwritten by governmental agencies to sell job opportunities in what has been regarded as a distressed labor area." The plant, which makes parts for wooc' chairs and other furniture, was started in 3961 with capital including $120,000 from local investors a $219,000 from local banks. The Area Redevelopment Administration put up $880,000, the Small Business Administration and the state $71,000. James H. Harless, one of the firm's founders and chairman of the board, said he was confident the company would have been a success if skilled labor had been imported and employed from the outset. "But this would have defeated the purpose of the which was designed to create additional jobs for people in this area," he said.

"Management has made some mistakes, but whipped these by securing more competent officials. But when key management personnel quits because of labor difficulties and repeated Attempts to straighten out such situations fail, this is something you can't cope with," he said. Both general manager Jed Davidson and production manager G. W. Oxley resigned last month, leading the board to recommend to stockholders that the plant be closed.

The board said the a showed a slight profit for September and October, first profit realized since the operation started. When operations cease Friday, all orders i have been filled and most materials disposed of, it said. Johnson (Continued From Page 1) land to discuss the financing deadlock and other U.N. matters. The conference was scheduled for 1 p.m.

EST. There were indications the Chief Executive would reaffirm the nation's hard line and demand payment of the Soviet share or move to deprive the Russians of a vote in the U.N Assembly. American officials said they believed the position would be supported on a showdown vote in the assembly, even though many nations trying preserve neutrality in the East- West conflict probably would abstain. Under a provision the U.N charter, Russia could lose its, assembly vole for being two years behind in paying assessments. U.S.

sources said, however, they doubted Russia would allow this to happen. CAUSE Drive Opened Today By 20 Colleges Beekley College will be among cplleges participating in the fourth annual CAUSE campaign College Alumni United in Support of Education --to be held today and Thursday in Becklcy. CAUSE is a grouping some 20 colleges in West Virginia -private, church and state -combined to interest their respective alumni in various projects of a fund-raising nature. Pledges and gifts from the alumni, as well as the general public, make possible several scholarships and the National Defense Student Loan Fund. Malting phone calls in the Beekley area today and Thursday in behalf of the campaign will be Mrs.

Nancy Giacomo, Mrs. Annie Castle and Mrs. Carol Martin of the staff of the West Virginia Institute of Technology at Montgomery and James Vanover and Hay Vest of Beekley, both graduates of the college. Jim Eanes, West Virginia Tech alumni director, has announced that telephones and space for the 20-college program will be furnished by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Alumni members of the schools started telephoning yesterday in some places in the drive to secure funds.

Colleges faking part in addi- ion to Beekley College are Alderson-Broaddus College, Bethany College," Bluefield State Col- ege, Concord College, Davis Slkins College, Fairmont State College, Glenville State College, Greenbrier College, Marshall Jmversity, Morris Harvey Col- ege, Potomac State College, Salem College, Shepherd Col- West Liberty State College, West Virginia Institute of Technology, West Virginia State College, West Virginia Wesleyan College, West Virginia University and Wheeling "ollege. James Ayres Services for James Kcftcring Ayres, 2i, Oak Hill, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday in the Thomas Funeral Home Chapel in Oak Hill with the Rev. Randolph Johnson and the Bev.

David Heil in charge. Burial will be in High Lawn Memorial Park. Ayres died in a Washington, D. hospital Sunday. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and was serving with the Army.

Born in Oak Hill, May 6, 1943, le was the son of Joseph Ed- nm mond and Helen Louise Ayres of Oak Hill. Other survivors include a Brother, Eddie of Morgantown; and two sisters, Stisha and Amy, aoth at home. The body will remain at the funeral home where friends may call after 7 p.m. today. (KNS) William Buford William (Bill) Buford, former ly of McAlpin, died at uin nume in Granite Falls, N.

this morning. Funeral arrangements ire incomplete. Mr. Buford is the step-father of the Rev. Archie Johnson, pastor of the Welcome Baptist Church in East Park.

Miss Bessie Dickens Services for Miss Bessie Lee Dickens, 59, Pineknob, were conducted at 1 p. m. today in the Union Chapel at Pineknob with the Rev. II. H.

Dinsmore In charge. Burial will be in the Cook Cemetery at Pineknob. Mrs. Dickens died Monday evening in a Charleston hospital ifter a long illness. She was born May 25, 1905, Pineknob, a daughter of the Deters Smith (Continued From Page 1) state's secondary road system.

Named to the advisory panel were John Amos of Charleston, J. Paul Blundon of Keyser, Emmett J. Bush of Charleston, Eugene Carter, Charleston, Paul Nay of Jane Lew, Mrs. Scott, Oak Hill, Miles Stanley, Charleston, James K. Thomas, Charleston and Ross Tuckwiller, Lewisburg.

Smith said the group would be fulfilling his a a i promise to establish an advisory committee on secondary roads. He said the bi-partisan committee would consist of delegates from each of the 55 counties who would make "priority recommendations" to the State Road Commission on i roads should be built or repaired. How many people in your home will have their names in the new Beekley phone book New Goes to Press Soon Now's the time to make sure everyone who uses the phone hos a listing under their own name to moke them eosior to reach, tess likely io miss important calls. Dad? Certoinly, if the phone's in his name. Mom? A good idea if she's active in club or thurch worJc, Sis or Junior? Their friends will find if easier to call them.

Parents or others living with you? They'll particularly like having their own nome listed. Individual listings ore low ii cost-give complete information on who can be reached at your nwtier. Arrange for tfiim now by calling the Telephone Business Office. 'C OS. CD.

Of I I I A Furl ot tnt nationwide System Deaths And Funerals or and Glen Daniel area most of life. Prior to her illness she employed by Ellen's Drive- her was In. Lee; with ford, Survivors other than her moth, include her husband, Oakie a son, Sgt. James Bailey, i the U.S. Air Force in three sisters, Mrs, Wilda Mae Thomas, Paintsville, Ohio, Mrs.

Myrtle Kecne, Crab 3rohard, and Mrs. Ida Marie Brooks, Rupert; 'four brothers, Boyd and Ivcn both of Arlington, Thomas, Fortspring and Ernest, Sinksgrove; and three grandsons. The body will be removed irom the Melton Mortuary to the home at 4:30 p.m. today. Pallbearers will be French Jmith, Richard Snuffer, Ralph Manning, Ray Stover, Amon Tol liver and Virgil McNeil).

John Greer Services for John Greer, 50, Pontiac, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Voorhees Siple Funeral Home Chapel in Pontiac, with the Rev. Paul A. Johns, pastor of Calvary Lutheran Church, in charge. Burial will be in Perry Mountain Park.

Greer, a son of Mrs. Nannie Murdoch, Piney View, died Monday in a Pontiac hospital after a long illness. He was born at Goodwill, the son of the former Nannie Winston and the late John Greer. He was employed by the Chelsea Manufacturing Chelsea, Mich. Also surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Elsie Moore Greer; a son, Johnnie Clarkston, a daughter Brenda at home; a sister, Mrs. Helen McDaniel, Piney View; a brother, Dolphus Greer and a half-brother, Cecil Murdock, White Oak. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Pearl Webb of Pineknob. The Armstrong Funeral Home in Whitesville was in charge of arrangements.

(HNS) Mrs. Bertha Bailey Funeral services for Mrs. p.m. Thursday in the Coal Marsh Baptist Church with the Rev. Doff Harvey and the Rev.

John Richardson in charge. Burial will be in the Trail Cemetery at Surveyor. She died at her home at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday after a long illness. Born March 1, 3911, at Surveyor, she was a daughter of Mrs.

Lora Hendrichs of Alderson and the late Henry Heud- richs. A life long resident of Raleigh County she lived in tie Survey- (Contimted From Page 1) morning. "It makes me particularly unhappy to find a small child of pro-school age asleep in the empty auditorium at a time when the child should be home in bed," she said. "Even awake they're a handful. They get hungry and cry, or bored and race up and down the aisles.

They're almost impossible to handle. "The they're naughty, we can make them sit in the lobby or call their parents." Mrs. Clark said she didn't know what effect the new edict would have on the box office, but "Friday, carloads of people AMD ui uaia some corre- government is launching a sci- lation between finger and palm ic brain syndrome, neuroses, investigation to find out rinls and certain neurological various congenital and genetic vi4v dlSGSSGS Hinlonrla iwicfanital Aether a person's future real- Approximately 100,000 sets of can be told by reading the fingerprints and palm prints la hand wU1 be analyzed during the 18- The a announced month project. pal (HEW), enough earcl The the Medicare Put Above Tax Cut As LBJ Goal will tax the WASHINGTON (UPI) It be health care first and a cut second for the 89th Congress, which convenes on Jan. 4.

President Johnson spelled out Democratic leaders tc meet with committee chairmen and seek "quick action" in the new Congress on important leftover measures, while he works new legislative proposals. Included among the left-overs is the controversial hospital care plan for the aged financed Requiem high mass for Mrs. Mary Kandrach, 71, Kilsyth, will be sung at 9 a.m. Thursday in St. Anthony's Catholic Church at Kilsyth with the Rev.

Leo Werner as celebrant. Burial Mrs. Kandrach died at 6 p.m. Monday in a Beekley hospital. She was born in Czechoslovakia, Sept.

28, 1893. Survivors include a son, Mickey of Kilsyth; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Sutyak of Morrisville. and Mrs. Rose Hill of Levittstown, a sister, Mrs.

Anna Miller of Kilsyth- five grandchildren; and a great grandchild. The body will remain at Tyree Funeral Home in Moun Hope where rosary will be recited at 8:15 p.m. today. (RNS) Jail Three men were released from the Raleigh County Jail Tuesday after posting bond. of Beekley at 2:20 p.

m. after to the city on charge. William Baker, no address listed, was released at 12:45 m. for his appearance in Police court. at the city on a charge of tamper- with an automobile.

HUMPHREY BOOKED David Humphrey, 212 N. her was booked at the leigh County Jail at 9:20 Tuesday on a peace warrant is by Magistrate Joe Rodri ley Police. He It a i p.m; U.5. Launches Investigation: Is Palm Reading A Science? WASHINGTON (UPI) The of data some corre- reported In patients witti organ- ov lation between i and alm ic brain neuroses Welfare supervise it was science some day on the OH feels there is inspired by "recent reports in able to look at a newborn ce to wam.nl re- medical literature concerning baby's palm and determine his subject. fingerprint abnormalities that proneness to mental illness, decided to launch occur in various diseases." heart ailments, cancer ''Unusual patterns have been other diseases.

publi And Ohio Declares Dividends House Ways Means Committee, which will handle both health care and Johnson's already announced plan to cul or eliminate some federal excise taxes, hadn't decided which to take up first. Chairman Wilbur Mills, D- a health care opponent had said he would leave the de cision up to the President Johnson made it clear Tuesday he wanted priority to go to the health care measure. The Chief Executive, who mel with Speaker John W. McCormack, and House Democratic Leader Carl AI bert, also put the Appala chia bill among the legislation he wants enacted quickly The bill to set up a $1 billion program to help rejuvenate the poverty-stricken 11-state Appalachia area was sidetracked in the congressional rush for adjournment this year. Backers of the health plan are optimistic about its chances for passage next year because of the big Democratic gains in The Democrats picked up 38 house seals in the Nov.

3 election. Albert noted that it usually takes five or six weeks to get a new Congress organized. Hearings then will be requires on new legislative proposals in the President's program. But extensive hearings ready have been held on the lt Health care and Appalachia measures. Three Pay Fines Three persons paid fines to Magistrate W.

A. (Gene) Burke today on speeding charges. John Daniel Morris, Kenova and William P. Younger, Char lotte, N. paid $10 fines and costs each, for speeding on the a West Virginia Turnpike.

Morris was cited on Thursday ani Younger on Friday. Gary Walker, Sophia paid a $5 fine and costs to Burke fo: speeding on Route 16. He wa Birdies HOYLAKE, England (UPI)-, Members of the Royal Liver pool Golf Club were advised t( bring shotguns if they couldn'l get their birdies any other way Large crows have been steal ig gol ways. POLAR A is the way to get a classier caf without the You don't have to come into an inheritance or double your salary to get out of the low price field, You can own a Dodge Pokra for no more than you would pay for a. Ford or and you get a lot more car for your money.

More style. More power. More lasting value with a mile warranty? See it at the Dodge Boy showroom in your neighborhood. SK DS 'H? (l nl(lllre WWMKTY MtOTECTJ YOU: Ctwl.r CtrpOTtlsn SurKS 1 1 196 f'? 5 St ral "WrtTOf flnTM durinjuMth tira inrjueh wrtt Ihrt In milinil woriminililp mil Hf cr ntthil i i Corpontfin AinMzid ot builnm wildo.it china for utn parti or Hboi: llSr" Hoelr, nil bint. Intlu nunlreld.

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i (so yw men an far lot PHILLIPS MOTOR COMPANY, INC. Main Street Sophia. Rosner said. He stressed that the research project was strictly a gamble. But he said that if it paid off, the way ula RICHMOND Directors of Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- Tuesday declared the reg- quarterly dividend of $1 a share on CO common stock payable Dec.

21, 1964, to share- owners of record Dec. 1, 1964. The directors also declared a dividend of 87 1-2 cents a share CO 3 1-2 per cent conver- preferred stock, payable 'eb. 1, 1965, to sharcowners ol record Jan. 7, 1965.

Patrol Plane Crash Kills ID ARGENTIA, Nfld. (UPI) A in flames near this American air station Tuesday nig" 10 men aboard. The U.S. Navy said an extensive surface and aerial search of the crash site showed there were no survivors. The four- engined PSA Orion aircraft went down in Placentia Bay while attempting a landing.

Searchers early this morning began gathering debris floating in choppy waters some four miles southwest of the airstrip The wreckage was positively identified as that of the big Orion aircraft. turbo-prop aircraft plunged from the darkened sky shortly after 6:55 p.m. local time, crashed into the Atlantic and exploded. The explosion could be seen clearly four miles away. The Navy said the plane disappeared from radar screens at exactly p.m.

during the final phase of an instrument landing known as Ground Control Approach (GCA). Radar landings are standard operating procedure here at night and in bad weather. The patrol plane was returning from a six-hour training mission in the Ar.gentia area. The Navy said it was not armed with weapons normally carried on anti-submarine assignment. A full-scale investigation was started immediately.

China Nearer H-Bomb Than West Thought LONDON (UPI)-Red i a reported today to carer to exploding a hydrogen device than previously had i thought feasible by West or Russia. Diplomatic reports reaching said Red China, to all appearances, has reached the 'cehnica! stage in nuclear de- which immediately -precedes a hydrogen explosion. ...1 The Chinese exploded their first crude nuclear device lonth. Peking was said to have made surprising headway in the nuclear field. There was no official indication as to when the Chinese may stage their first hydrogen test.

But Chinese scientists arc believed to have cut the time lag between a first nuclear explosion and a hydrogen test possibly by two or three years. The Russians claim they were as much surprised as tho West by Peking's technical advance, which was made at least partly despite the withdrawal of Soviet experts and" the withholding of Soviet technical know-how several years ago. Fire Deaths Said Murder-Suicide HUNTINGTON (UPI) Fire investigators were to sift through the ruins of ai frame home near here today in an attempt to determine whether the dwelling was deliberately set afire to cover up a mur- der-suicirie. Mrs. Grctehen Lavern Shcp- hard, 44, and her 26-year-old 'son Robert were pulled their flaming home Tuesday, the apparent victims of the fire.

An autopsy performed later, however, showed that Mrs. Shephard had been beaten about the head with an iron skillet. Her son's wrists had been slashed. Trooper W. H.

Mitchell of the State Police said the autopsy revealed both victims smoke inhalation. Mitchell said because woman was rendered helpless by the beating, preventing her from escaping the flames, the deaths were officially listed as murder and suicide. Intrigue (Continued From Page 1) Moroccan. He was semi-conscious and appeared to have been drugged. Leather straps held Dahan's body in place.

The chair had a leather cushion and a hel met covered Dahan's head, ap parenUy to protect it in trans t. Leather cups encased hi feet. The trunk was lined with cotton and straw and bore tiny airholes in its sides. The two Egyptians refused to answer six hours of questions claiming diplomatic immunity They were later released. Police brought Dahan around with a shot of brandy.

He told a mysterious tale of coming to Rome Frankfurt, Germany, to pick up "a large sum of money" from an unidentified person. Dahan said he met one of the diplomats, whom he knew, Monday on the Via Veneto, the gaudy main boulevard of Rome's night life. The Egyptian offered to show him the city Dahan said, and they drove rround town on a sight-seeing The Moroccan said they went an apartment and spent the night there. At lunehllme Tuesday, Dalian said, the Egyptian him a drink and followed that up with an injection drugs. Then he was stuffed Into the runk Dahan added.

"I don't remember anything more," he said. Detectives were unable find out the identity of the mys- erious man with the money Da- urn planned to meet. They said Dahan harf been Jiving Naples under nn asaumcd name will he came hert three day might be newborn been the Congo Rebels Warned By U.S. LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPI) Congolese rebel leader Christopher Gbenye was reported today to have held talks with U.S. Consul Michael Hoyt on the safety of American prisoners of the rebels.

Informed sources said a rebel radio broadcast gave the impression the talks were mainly concerned with saving the life of Dr. Paul Carlson, the American missionary who is under a rebel death sentence. But the broadcast did not mention Carlson by name. Hoyt himself had been reported under rebel house arrest for weeks. The United States today warned Gbenye and the other rebel leaders they would be held personally responsible if any harm came to Carlson or any of the 62 other Americans believed in their hands.

Carlson, 36, was captured by the rebels and sentenced to death on charges of serving with the white mercenary force that is closing in on the rebel stronghold of Stanleyville. The United States denies tho charges. The Stanleyville broadcast said Hoyt's negotiations with Gbenye were held Monday, the scheduled date of Carlson's execution. Another broadcast Tuesday indicated Carlson had not been executed as scheduled. It told of demonstrations in front of Gbenyc's residence demanding the execution be carried out.

Stale Rests Car Bombing Case HUNTINGTON (UPI) The defense was scheduled to aegm presentation of its case here today in the conspiracy of James Hunter, a former city policeman charged in connection with the bombing of the city official's car last sum- mer. Hunter, 30, is one of three men charged in the bombing of an auto belonging to city purchasing agent James White last TJ ie state rested its case late. Tuesday after calling 20 wit- i- to the stand, including" White and a man who said he and another man were to send a girl from Logan County to Fluntington to get members of 08 squad compromising Bethel Augustine of Logan County said he and Donovan Fraley, 26, of Holden, were to bring the girl (o Huntington' where pictures, which would put' a bad HgM A testified he me t. Hh Fraley and former police- Snr and William Jolley to arrange brine- ing the girl to Huntington. Dawson and Jolley will be tried at a later date.

A Ni TM- Walter Mondale on being selected to succeed Hubert Humphrey In CM the U. S. Senate: of 'I shall consider it my major ask not only to work as a member of the Johnson- lumphrey team for peace and prosperity of the nation, but to work with equal effort for the fo economic, social and cultural well-being ot our great state." WASHINGTON President in Johnson presented with a ive turkey: Im etad 1 can eat turkey nstead of crow.".

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