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Deaths: Uiilcigh Register. Beckley. Tuesday Afternoon, November 16, 1976--13 Cwi MiyMra CM Funeral arrangement) are incomplete for Carl Maynard 47, of Detroit, formerly of Jumping Branch. He died Monday at 9 a.m. In a Detroit hospital of natural Born in Mercer County, July 1929, he was a son of the late Joseph and Minnie Cox.

He lived most of Tils life in bummers County. Survivors Include his wife Janet; three brothers, Arthur of i a Sidney of Beckley and Joe of Wilmington, and two sisters, a i Pack of i and Mrs. Virginia Tanner ol Port Huron, Mich. The body is at Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors in Hinton. MoyieHo DthMi Mrs.

Mayzella Domes, 53, of Balwin Park, formerly of Mt. Hope, died Monday at 2 a.m. at her home. Born August 23, 1923 at Glen Daniel, she was a daughter of Wirt Williams, Oak Hill and the lute. Mrs.

Wirt Williams. Surviving are her husband, Wyatt, three daughters, Jackie, Dreama and Linda, all of a son Wyatt, six i a i i Mrs. Lucille Evans. Mount Hope, Mrs. Christine Taylor, Richmond, a i a Inabelle, Daddala, Md.

and Mrs. Sandra Lowdi, San Diego, a i i a a i a Williams. Rockville, Md. and Condward E. Williams, St.

Louis. Services and burial will be Wednesday in Whitesville, Calif. Mrs. Robbie Faye Pltzer, 88, of the CAO Dam Road, Daniels, died Monday at 10:50 a.m. in a local hospital alter a long illness.

Born September 7, 1890, at Gap Mills, she was a daughter of the late William Owen and Georgia Elizabeth Dickenson Smith. She had been a resident of Raleigh county for the past 42 years. Mrs. Pilzor's husband, James L. Pitzcr, died August.

1971. Surviving arc two sons, Glen a a Daniels: three daughters. Mrs. Orville (Ethel) Mathews, Baden, a Blcvins. Olyphant.

Pa. and Mrs. Carl a Moran. Newark, Ohio: seven grandchildren: two step grandchildren: live great grandchildren and four step great grandchildren. Services will be Thursday at 1 p.m at the Melton a Chapel with the Rev.

Virgil Cook in charge. Entombment will be in i a a Mausoleum. a a i Mabes, a Rakes, A i Claytor, Moody Rice, Charlie Anderson and Chester Kincaid. Friends may call Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

at the funeral home. House Commiffee Studying Pictures Of Assassinations WASHINGTON (UPI) was 6:01 p.m. when the sniper's bullet hit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the neck as he leaned over the second floor railing outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, April 4, 1998.

Pictures taken moments later showed him sprawled on the balcony with friends and aides kneeling beside him. Those and other pictures are being shown today to the House i Assassinations, which held its first formal meeting Monday. At I he closed portion of the Monday session, 11 committee members silently watched a now famous film clip taken in Dallas, 13 years ago next Monday when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed as his motorcade a a a Schoplbook Depository building. i i a interpreted by some as showing one or more people, possibly with rifles, standing on a grassy knoll overlooking the Kennedy motorcade at the time of the shooting.

But Rep. Thomas M. Downing, the committee a i a told reporters later. "I didn't see any people on the hill." a i i i i investigated Kennedy assassination, concluded a Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin and it found no signs of a conspiracy involving others. Then Attorney General Ramsey a i i a after the King assassination and then after James Earl Ray was charged and sent into life imprisonment for the crime, asserted that there was no evidence of a "widespread there no evidence that more were involved." Factories, Mines, Utilities Suffer Production Drops Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Epp Hatfield 53, of Coal Mountain, who died Monday morning in a Cleveland, Ohio, clinic of an apparent heart attack.

The body is at Evans and Evans Kuneral Directors. Oceana. Shirlty 0. Kfllly F.uneral services i be Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Boomer Baptist Shirley D.

Kelly. The Rev. Robert Griffith will be in charge and i a will be in Montgomery Memorial Park. i a i a Montgomery hospital of an apparent heart attack. Friends may call today from 6 p.m.

to 9 p.m. at the B. C. Hooper Funeral Home, Montgomery. Gratttn Ledto Utty Mrs.

a i formerly of Mullens, died Sunday In Roanokei Va. hospital. The funeral services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. Oakeys Funeral Directors, Roanbke are in charge of arrangements. Among her survivors is her husband, Russell Smith, JOIHI Mttfflt John i Crab Orchard, died Monday at 1:40 p.m.

in a local hospital after a long Illness. Born in Carroll County, Aug. 15. 1887. he had been a resident of Raleigh County most of his life.

He was a member of the Crab Baptist Church. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Cyrus (Ethel) Bragg, Jump- i a i (Elsie) Reed. Coal City, Mrs. Alfred I a and Mrs.

George Hosey, both of Crab Orchard and Mrs. Ira Atkinson, Mabscott: four sons, Edward, Gallipolis, Ohio, Edgar, Oak Grove and Elmer and Ezra, both of Crab Orchard; 40 a i and 83 great- grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Calfee Funeral Chapel with the Kevs. Wesley Grose, Mark Wolfe and Bill Withers officiating'.

Burial i i a Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Bill, Dallas WASHINGTON (UPI)! Factories, mines and production of goods and materials 0.7 per cent in September and October lor the first drop since the economic began, the government says. "These reductions include the effects of strikes in the a equipment and automotive industries." the Federal Reserve Board said Monday. "The direct strike effect is estimated to have accounted for somewhat less than one i of the decline." i connected with the strikes also fell. "Output of home goods, such as appliances, carpeting and fur- i was reduced (and) production of nondurable cons 1 goods, a i a clothing, also decreased," the board said.

Production of textiles, paper a i a i sharply." the board said. Declines of 0.2 per cent in September and 0.5 per cent in October were foreboding lor the nation's 7.5 million unemployed, since higher industrial production is mandatory for any major improvement in the jobless rate. In another piece of bad news, Hie Commerce Department said business inventories increased 0.9 per cent in September, largely because of weaker sales. The reports were sure to spark renewed interest in a tax cut, especially for lower and middle income workers, to stimulate the i elect i Carter said he would ask Congress for a tax cut directed at low and middle income workers if evidence developed a the economy was weakening. In the past year, the average worker's spendable income after taxes and inflation fell 0.8 per cent.

The tax rebates in April 1975 1 7 i i i economy, increased spendable earnings 1 per cent and ended the worst recession since World War I I The Federal Reserve Board said last month that production was unchanged in September. But the estimate was revised Monday lo a 0.2 per cent decline the first fall since a 0.8 per cent dip in March. IH75. The board said production of consumer durable goods such as cars, refrigerators and the like fell 1.7 per cent, nondurables fell 0.2 per cent, business equipment 1.1 per cent and materials 0.5 per cent. The only positive sign in the report was construction supplies, up O.I per cent.

Despite the strike at Ford, auto a a a a assemble at a 7.7 niillioriunit an- a rate unchanged from i business i dropped largely because of the a equipment strike. Bui through the years, persis- lent doubts have arisen on both the Kennedy and King murders as new reports come to light on what Ihc FBI and CIA knew about a a a a i motivation, and of a campaign by the FBI itself to besmirch King's character. Only lew days before the panel met! the Washington Post said a memo has been found in which FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said a highly reliable source had informed him that Oswald told Cuban officials of his plans to kill the president. i a i a A Sprague.

the committee's chief counsel and stall director, said Ihey had not seen the Hoover memo but had asked the Justice a and intelligence a i to i all the documentation and evidence they had on the Kennedy and King killings. Downing said that the committee was forming a task force of 170 persons to 'conduct its investigation. "It sounds like a lot of people." he said, "but Congress mandated 'tis to do a thorough job." "We're going down every street i we get a blind alley," he said. Walter Fauntroy, Democratic delegate from the District of Columbia who heads a newly formed subcommittee on the King slaying, said: "We want to find out a the evidence is and follow it where it leads no matter where." U.S. Asks Vietnam For MIA Accounting a i i Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

at the Rose and Quescnberr.y Peace and Roger Reed, Robert, Landon Chapel lor Gratton Leslie Lilly, Gerald Bragg. The lamily will receive Inends from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday Municipal Court Bond forfeitures Total $967 83, "of 218 a St. Dr.

Kenneth Swank will be in charge and burial will follow In Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. He died Monday at 12:10 a.m. in a local hospital alter a short Illness. Friends may call today alter 6 p.m. the funeral home.

at teh funeral home. Floyd McCoy 6 8 a Orchard, was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital Monday at 10:30 a.m. of an apparent heart attack. Born April 26, 1908, at Turkey Creek, he was a son of the late Hi and Mary McCoy. McCoy was a retired miner, a member of the A and the United Methodist at Cassy.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Clay McCoy, at home; a daughter, Mrs. Linda Bowers, Manassas, a brother, Tracy, Louisa, a sister, Mrs. Ollie a A a a brother, Jack Deskins, Mann; a. Hartley Avc.

John Thompson, formerly of Grecnstown. died Thursday in a Pennsylvania hospital. Services and burial will be held In Pennsylvania. Services Are Set For Two Crash Wcfims Funeral services lor two victims of an auto accident Monday on the West Virginia Turnpike 'will be held Wednesday and Thursday. The victims were Michael Dewaync Carter, 18, of Lester and Mary Catherine of 105 hall-sister, Mrs.

Bertha Williamson, Norwick, Conn, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held a at 11 a in the Williams Funeral Home Chapel, Sophia, with the Rev. Martin W. Services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, Lester, lor Carter.

The Rev. Elmer Day will officiate and burial will be in Blue Ridge i a a He was in Prudence Jan. Wolfe in charge. Burial will follow, 28 1958 lne son of illiam and in Sunset Memorial Park. i a pallbearers.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the home. Mn. Mortho EMM Nmvtwi Mrs.

Martha Evans Newton, Oak Hill, Route 1, Sled at a local hospital Monday at I plications following a short illness. A member of the Meadow Fork Freewill Baptist Church, she was born at Mount Lookout, Feb. 16, 1802. She was preceded in death by husband, Powell Alvin New'" ton, in 1949. She is survived by one son, a a i a daughter, Mrs.

Mae one brother, Alonzo Evans, Ansted; twelve a i (our great grandchildren ami two great greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the Tyrec Funeral Home, Oak Hill, w'ith the Rev. 0. H.

Corbett Holes- tcin officiating. Burial will be in Uethsemane Memorial Gardens, Oak Hill. Friends may call at the Funeral Home from 7 p.m. to p.m. WedncMtoy.

(RNS) Rachel Byrd Carter of Lester. He was a mcmberof the First Baptist.Church of Lester and he was a shipping and receiving clerk for Silver Brand Clothing. He is survived by one brother, Marvin D. of Lester; one sister, Matrina D. of Lester; paternal a a Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Carter Sr. of Lester; and a a a Mrs. Grace Byrd of Lester. Family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlors in Beckley. Services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Keyser-Bryant Chapel for Miss Forren. The Rev. George Smith will be in charge and entombment will follow in i a a Mausoleum.

She was born March 28,1958, at Mullens the daughter of Harry D. and Phyllis Bledsoe Forren Jr. of 10S Hartley Ave. She was a graduate of Wood row Wilson High School and was employed at the Appalachian Regional Hospital Pharmacy. Other survivors include are paternal grandmother, Mrs, a a of a a maternal grandmother, Mrs.

E. W. Bledsoe of Beckley. The family will receive friends from-7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

The Monday evening session of the Beckley i i a Court collected J967 in bond forfeitures. a i of i 8 1 a shoplifting charge and Gary W. Ford of 118 Westwood Drive forfeited $61 for speeding and expired inspection sticker. Six persons forfeited $30.50 for speeding: Roger D. Wilson of Eccles; a House of U6 Cumidy Elmer Nagye of Piney View; Wilma Zaleratos of 106 rosier Ricky L.

Peters of 103 Forest Road; and Teresa Viiughn of 101 Rider Drive. Others forfeiting $30.50 bonds Three Enter Guilty Pleas Three persons entered guilty plcns yesterday before Judge Kcrmit' A. Locke in the Raleigh i i Intermediate Division. Danny Lehman, charged with daytime burglary, pled guilty to entering without breaking into the home of Steve Lester on Dee. 11, '1975.

Linda E. Hampton, originally charged with grand larceny, pled guilly lo petit larceny for participating in the April 5 theft of goods from the Lexington House nursing home. Howard Luther Karnes, also known as Buddy Karnes, pled guilty to transferring marijuana on Oct. 13. 1975.

North Beckley Plans To Buy New Machine The North Beckley Public Ser' vice District will buy a used backhoe with funds approved Friday by the Raleigh County Commission. i i a contribute $19,000, $14,000 for the used backhoe and $5,000 for a new air compressor. chairman of the NBPSD, said the machinery will be used to install new lines and repair old ones. has been i a backhoe. Thomson appeared at Friday's meeting to request the funds, which will come from the county's coal tax money.

Lines will be extended to serve close to 300 new customers in the Dry Hill and Maxwell Hill areas, Thomson said. The backhoe will be purchased from Deartng Brothers Inc. were Steven a of Sophia, a i to a vehicle under control; Perry O'Nell of Crab a i i i sticker: Jerry T. Rice of Daniels, improper use of left-turn lane; Kevin a of 1528 Harper Road, unnecessary noise; Rosie M. a of a i bucking: Larry Daniel of Rt.

3, Beckley. unnecessary noise; Margaret A. Black of Bradley, expired temporary registration; Roger a i of 307 Virginia unnecessary noise: Timothy Hogrcfcof Glen Morgan, improper use of left-turn lane: Other forfeitures were Randy Shrewsbury (address blocking intersection, $10; Donnie A i of Oak i red light violation. Mary Stover, address unknown, blocking traffic $1(1: Thelma mfrtrcss blocking traffic lune. $10: Lurry Prince of 1331 i Road, expired inspection sticker und red light violation, S47.

Five persons lorfelter $37 for intoxication. I NATIONS I The United vetoing membership for Vietnam Monday night, told Hanoi that relations between the two countries could he normalized quickly if Vietnam will account lor BOO Americans missing in the Indochina war. Vietnam said the demand for such information "could not be met." The vote was 14 1 in favor of membership for Vietnam, but the single veto was enough to kill the resolution. It was the 18th U.S. veto in the Security Council since the world body was formed.

a i has maintained steadily that Vietnam must account lor the missing American servicemen before the United States will agree lo its admission. U.S. and Vietnamese diplomats met in Paris Friday to discuss the issue of improved relations. U.S. A a a i i a Scranton told the Council the United States did not doubt Viet- I I a i i obligations of the Charter but questioned its willingness to do so.

"It has failed, despite the information available to it. to account satisfactorily for Americans missing in action und to return the remains of those killed in the i I I a i a despile repeated efforts by the United Slates lo persuade them (sic) to do so." Scranton said. "I appeal to the current applicant lo give uttenlion to the a rights provisions of the Charier, to abandon trading on Ihe sorrow of families to attain its ends. Normalization relations could then flow swiftly." Ambassador Dinh Ba Thi, Vietnam's observer, said the Hanoi government also seeks in- i on A American und Vietnamese. are tens of thousands of Vietnamese who are surely suffering because of missing servicemen two- a after the a told i "Hundreds more have been killed by the mines left behind by the aggressor.

"There is a maneuver, cunningly pursued by Messrs. Ford and Kissinger, demanding to be given complete list of those missing in action demand that could not be met and which does nothing but obstruct normalization of relations." Seminar Stt A seminar designed to teach a how to answer their children's questions about sex will he held tonight at the Beckley i a 203 S. Kamiwha p.m. to 9:30 p.m. KM US Mental Health Center psychologist Greg Bowland and i Services Director Annette Xavarcel will be on the panel, along with the church's associate pastor Walthall and A Assistant Director Mel Hancock, who organised the seminar.

The public is invited. IEGAI ADVERTISEMENT NOTICE Of SALE Of DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE Motile ii twrebf 'ho', punuofil to Ihe Older ol the Circuit Court ol Raleigh County, Wen Virginia. I he followin? detct.bcd or loll ol land, located in Rafergh County, Weil Virginia, or uminidrd iMfftt therein, will, un. leu Kroner be w'd lor caih to the Highest bidder. Suth be Md oi (he Iron) door of Ihe of Raleigh County.

Weit Virginia, beginning at 10 00 o'clock A on the day ol Dttember. 1976 The nomei Ihe farmer ownen and the dttct'ption ol told londi Ore O) followv BHUMFItlk PAUL K. and MARY, S. S. 3 Lol 10 Helen, Slob rotk Duiriei; BSUMFIEID, PAUL K.

ond MARY. S. 3 lol 11 Helen. Slab Foil Onlritt; CREWS, SAMUEl M. ond IOUISE, lol 5.

S'onetoal Add. Rhodell No. Slob Fork DutTICt; DIXON, DEWET. S. W.

Pi- 13. Lincoln Add Town Diitucl taller Mun DIXGN, DEWEY. S. 81. 6 5 E.

i tot U. toln Town District BecUey DIXON, DtWEY. S. Bl. 6 30 Fr.

Sir. lot 13. Lincoln Beckley Mun. Town Diltritt; DIXON, OfWEV IAWSON, 61. 6 lot 15 N.W.

lol U. Lincoln Town Diitrict BetLrty HALl, OSCAR ond NORA, lot 5 Pwtry Sub Width Foik Dulrict; HART. HENRY A. and OftPHIA FAYE. Swr.

lot 34 land Co -Fitcco, Dittiki; HUNTER. HUBERT. .80 otrei Dftwt Cr. Mo-ir, Fork Diitrkli JONES, OUINCY, fee 3JO Sq. Ft.

Sycomoie. Cfeor Fork Dittrict; KELLY DEVELOPMENT S. 1 lott 38 JO Stab District; MIILER. HORACE, lot. 340 341, Con.

1 ocre; letlvr. Trap Hill DilTriet, ItiNr Municipality: MULIENS. LOIS. All Int. Fo 0,91 A.

Wl. Soot Near hmbtrtw. Town District; POINDEXTER, JACK end MATTIE. S. 3 tot 23 StofeAvry.

Stab Fork Diltrkl; SY0NOA, JESSE. S. (at 31 Gulf. Slab fork Dittrki; VAUGHT. LESTEft.

force! 4 Lol 44, Whitby Towniittv Spring Dittrrtt; WILLIAMS, NANNfE S. IS Sand lick, Crtai Fork DiMrkl. SfARAClNO Deputy Commitventr fll and Dtlinquvm londt for ItaMfft County. Viifinra DEATH NOTICES --AND-FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOUREN" FORREN, Mary Catherine: age 20. ol 105 Avenue.

Funeral itrvkei will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wsdnesdy in the Keyier-Bryanl Funeral Home Chapel. Entombmenl will follow in the Sun Memorial Park Mausoleum. Arrangement! By Keyer-Bryant Funeral Home VERNATT VERNATI, Herbeth age 57, of Ooniek. Funeral tervicoi will be conducicd at 1 p.m.

Tuesday in the Roto ond' Qiietcnberry Pcoco Chopel with ihis Rev. Phillip Lilly officiating. Burial will follow in Sunict Memot'ol Poih. and Horbtrt Elkint with to ex- their appreciation to all the many friendi, neighbor! ond family helped remove their pertonal belongings when (Ira broke out in their THE family of Oley Lee Moye wishes to thonk thoie who expressed their i kindness ond lympatby during oar recent bereavement. We especially thank the 'doctors and nurses of the Beckley Ap- lalachian Regional Hospital, the Rev.

II Withers, Rev. Mark W. Wolfe, the Rev. Clarence E. Griffith, those who sen! flowers and food, visited, or helped in any way.

Wife, Children, Grandchildren ond Great (grandchildren Rose ral Chopel WALKER A John Holley: or. of Cool Ridge. Funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m day in the KeyiCf-Bryant Funcrc Chapel. Burial will follow in ll Cemetery. Arrangementi By Keyser-Bryant Funeral Hor BONDS BONDS, William: age 73, of 203 Maxwell Mill Road.

Funeral will eondtKWd at 1 p.m. in Metfon Mortuary with Major COK officiating. Burial will follow in the Memorial Gardens. Mortuary LILIY LILLY, Gratton Leslie: oge 83, ol 218 Hargrove Street. Funeral wrvicet will be conducted ot 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the Rose ond Ouetenberry Peace Chapel with Or. Kenneth t. Swank officiating. Burial will follow in Ihe Blue Ridge Memorial Gordeni. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m.

Tueiday. ROM Qjewnberry funeral Chapel RAHAl RAHAl, Mary age 70. of 221 Woodlawn Ave. Funeral icrvkei will be conducted ot 11 a.m. Tuesday in Ihe St- Nitholoi Orthodox Church wilh Ihe Very Rev.

Zocharia Nair olficiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Potk. Arrangementi By Row Ouetenbeny fymfrgl Chopel PERRY PERRY, Maude M. age 87. of 2120 So.

Kanawho St. Funeral will conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Row ond Ouesenberry Psace Chapel with the Rev. J. B.

F. Yoke otfici Burial will follow in Suniet Men Pork. Row Quvwnberr Funeral Chopel PHILLIPS PHILLIPS, Timothy levi: oge 23. Midway. Funeral lervicei will be ducted Ot p.m.

Tueiday in Ihe W.llirj Funeral Hoffle Chapel with the Rev. B. Underwood ond the Rev. Jom Campion Buml foBow the Memorial Pork. Arrangementi By Williami Funeral Home 'SIX plots, Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Garden of Chmtus, 2523843 after 5 7 LOST Dachshund in Hilltop area.

Fridoy evening, answers to reward, coll 465-8800 after 6 p.m LOST Sunday in the Beckley Ploja Shopping Center area and Shoney's. ring, black onjn, reward, 8541391 or 85T-'967. 'REWARD of cash or registered puppy. for female 13 inch tri-tolor beagle, lost on Plumley Mountain, 1 miles of Bragg, family pet, answers la 233-7019. REWARD offered for dog lost in vicinity of Wickham and Old Mill Village, black, white and tan terrier, answers to name coll 252-4823.

SHOOTING MATCH NMr Affinity Union Hall Evtry Friday at 6 p.m. Ewy Saturday ot 1 p.m. SHOOTING MATCH HAtftt Htighh ntor 1GA. tvery Friday, 4 Oftd Saturday. 1 a.m.

PKOfESSIONAl PAINTING, WAU I A I A INStAUAtlON. lOWEU FOIEY 253-4373 W. Shemblin pointer and pofwr rianavr, firal auolity work, rn inwrtd. 332-1IM..

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