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2--Raleigh Register, Beckley, W. Wednesday Afternoon, May 1975 a Tariff Raised Thorn. O.E. Miller. Billy E.

Richmond and Wiley Weaver. Holliday was dead on arrival at a local hospital 5 p.m. Monday after a long illness. Bhert I. Hoovtr a services Elbert L.

Hoover. 73, Eccles. will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Mt. Taber Baptist Church with the Rev.

Lee Fullmer and the Rev. i a ficiating. The body is at Melton's Mortuary, and will -be one hour before' the services. Burial will be in the Davis Addition of a Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 5 p.m.

until 9 p.m. Hoover died in a local hospital at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday after a long illness. He was born in Lee County, Virginia July 12,1901, a son of the late John Ira and Nancy Kelly Hoover. Hoover is survived by his Funeral arrangements ife.

Mrs. Martha Sargent a a brother. Melvin. Seco two sons. Edford (Bud).

Fairfax. and Buford, with the United States Aftny in iPenii- sylyania; two daughters, Mrs. Edith Lucas and Mrs. Geneva Acord, both of i grandchildren and" seven great-grandchildren. He had been a resident'of Eccles for the past 14 years, and was a retired coal miner.

Funeral services for a a Blankenship. 54, Beckley. will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Boitnott Funeral Home Chapel in New Castle, Va. Burisl will follow at the Crossroads Cemetery in New Castle.

Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home. The body wiii then be taken to the Boitnott Funeral Home. Blankenship died Monday in a local hospital after a short illness. He was born Jan 28.

1921. at Mabscott. a son of the late Carl W. and Ada Parker Blankenship and was a painter. He is survived by three brothers, Earl.

Boones Mill, Carl New- a a Gfendon Chicago. 111.: and a half-brother. Clifton S. Parker, New Castle. William M.

Brooks Burial wil a a Cemetery the i a are incomplete for William M. Brooks. 78, Lawton, who was dead on arrival at a Beckley hospital at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday: Born June 10. 1896.

at Louisa, he was a son of the late Will and Nellie Braxton Brooks. He was a retired coal miner and a member of the i i Workers, Local 5821. Survivors include his wife. Mrs. Alice Davis Brookes, at home a son.

Nathaniel of Beckley: a stepson. Thomas Powell of Detroit. and four grandchildren. The body is at Ritchie a a Parlor in Beckley- Earl M. Collins Earl Collins.

67. of 1106 a Ave, Mullens, died at 6 a.m. today in a Bluefield Hospital after a long illness He was a retired Norfolk a i a machinist. is a John L. McQuade Requiem Mass for John Lawrence McQuade, 63, 112 Pmey Ave will be sung at 11 a Thursday at St Francis de Sales Catholic Church with he i a McSweeney as celebrant Burial will follow-in St.

a i a Beckley Rosary will be recited today at Calfee Funeral Home Chapel at 7 Friends may call from 5 until 9 a a i be F. Rilit Jr. a i Frederick Rjlat 66, of 307 Woods Oak Hill, died at.7 a.m. Wednesday in an Oak Hill hospital after a long il- iness. He was a i a i i Campbell Soup Co.

in Chicago, 111. Born Jan. 8, 1909 at Minden, he was a son of the late Benjamin F. and Emma Winterling Rilat. He is survived by his wife.

Mrs. Adele Rogers i a a i brothers, Ted and Bob, both of Oak Hill: and three sisters. a a Gebensleben, Mrs. Lillian Havlik, and Mrs. Harriet Ainslie.

all of Phoenix, Ariz. The body is at Tyree Flineral Home, Oak Hill. Arrangements are incomplete. (RNS) Thomas D. Ross Thomas D.

Ross, 23. Glen i died this morning in a local hospital after a long illness He was employed Columbia Gas and was a member of the Shady Grove Baptist Church. JJorn May 3,1952, he was a son of Thomas and Paula Ross of Glen White. He is also survived by a a Stanley Daniels with the United States Army in Germany, five brothers, Marshall. Pittsburgh, Pa Harold, Richmond, Va Je'w'ell, Flint, Mich Melvin, Glen White, and Cheryl, Fort Eustis, Ya a sister, Mrs Elizabeth Durgan, Glen and his grandmothers, Mrs.

Gracie Ross Glen White, and Mrs Lucille Poole, Beckley Funeral arrangements are incomplete The body is-at Ritchie and'Johnson Funeral Parlor Joseph Anthony Urygo Stanley, Chicago, 111., and Walter and Edward, both of Detroit: three sisters, i Warren, Mrs. Ann Jablonski. Hamtramck. and Miss Mary Uryga. Detroit.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Sts. P.eter and Paul Church with the Rev. Leo Werner in charge. Burial will be in i Lawn Memorial Park.

Oak Hill. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill, where friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

(RNS) (Continued From ones," he said. Rep. Paul Simon, said. "The President is correct in criticizing Congress' failure to act but his solution is the' wrong one. It is inflationary and harmful to the average American." Rep.

Margaret Heckler, complained that the tariff on refined fuel "falls heavily and unfairly on Massachusetts and New England where we have taken strong measures to conserve increase in the imported oil tariff will only hurt more businesses and individuals." But Senate Republican Durrett To Ask Governor For Help In Extradition Police Chief Thomas C. Durrett relumed "empty- handed" Tuesday, legally handcuffed at the end of a long journey in efforts to bring back an ex-convict accused of gunning down one of his men. Durrett now plans to seek Gov. Arch A. Moore's help in returning Ronald T.

Williams, 32, who refused extradition Wajne, Foglesong, Nease and- Jimmy Wilkes, John Han a Al Ellison. Lionel Mills, David (Continued From Page 1) Economics Minister Sozh a a represenatives signed an eightrpoint agreement Tuesday for an end to U.S Agency for International Development programs in the country by June 30 a i a i a capitulation to student demands, also arranged the turnover of millions of dollars in AID equipment to the Laotian government The equipment includes a i i i a budgeted for 1 Laos under a a i agreements as well as the AID headquarters building in Vientiane. The United States will Mullens Arrangements are incomplete Mrs. Alice Hswitk The funeral of Mrs. Alice 84, Glen Falls, of Pax, will be conducted by the Rev Ernest Barjey -at Friday at Tyree Funeral Home "in Mount Hope.

Burial will be Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Elswjck died Mon- dd in a New York hospital after a long illness. She was a member of the United Methodist Church Her husband. 'William died in 1927. She bom at Mount Nov 2b. 1880 Survivors include three Melvin of Route 1.

Hope. William Roy if Pittsburgh Calif and James P. of Glen Falls. N. six daughters.

Mrs M.iigiiret Bennett of Nor V.i Mrs Linrinei of New Martin i A i Moigan of Kilsvth i John Payne of Pittsburgh. Pa Miss Edith E1 i .1 Lawrence Norris. both ot Glen Falls. N. one brnlhei Dunklev of O.ifc Hill 32 grandchildren a-nd a a grandchildren.

Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday Ira 0. Holliday Funeral services for Ira 0. Holliday, 79, will beheld at 11 a.m. a in Blue i F'uneral Chapel.

Burial will follow in -Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 p.m. until 9 todaj Pallbearers' will be a Davis, N.A. Wallen, Earl A i a Calfee, Okey Crickmer and Charlie Karbonit. died early Tuesday in a local hospital after a long illness He was born in Beckley March 1, 1912. a son of the.

late Peter R. and Catherine Maione a a by Beckley Newspapers Corp. and by Wilkes Distributing Co before his retirement. He" was a veteran of World War II, having served with the Chemical Warfare Division of the Army Air Corps Before that, he played baseball with -the Becklej Baseball League He was a member of St. Francis de Sales Church.

He is survived by three Kathleen (Mrs. George) Shumate, Mary (Mrs. W.H.) Surbaugh and Miss Dolly McQuade, all of Beckley; and a brother. (Needy) McQuade, also ol Beckley. Mrs.

Lucille Niermtm Mrs." Lucille. Nierfn'an, 57, Big Sandy, died in a Welch hospital Tuesday at 6:10 a.m. after a long illness. A member of the Roderfield Church of God in McDowell County, she was the daughter of the late William and Ida Rose, Big Sandy Mrs. Nierman is survived by her stepmother, Mrs.

Maude Rose; a brother, i daughters, Warnette (Mrs. a a a Michigan, Patricia (Mrs. John) Cook, Big Sandy, and Marie, at home: seven sons. William. Richard and Roland, all of Michigan.

a A a a a Sheldon, Welch, Eugene. Columbus, and Randall, Beckley. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Roderfield Church of God. Joseph Anthony Uryga, 62 of Scarbro died at his home at 4 10 Monday p'av of an apparent heart at- dnd regular wages to LaQ until w'here i apprehended him Saturday.

Williams, target a i a stretching" from. Virginia to New York, allegedly shot to death Police Sgt. David Lilly on the outskirts of town" May 12 after the lawman halted'his car for a traffic check on a stolen car. a a i i arrested Williams after he allegedly burglarized two homes. At the time, he was driving a car stolen in Roanoke.

Va. A spokesman for Durrett said the police chief drove to Wayne hoping to return the he came back emptyhanded. Charleston police have warrants on file against Williams, charging the McDowell a with attempting to sell stolen coins, brandishing a weapon, leaving the scene of an accident, and stealing an automobile Williams allegedly drove here in a stolen car after an incident in a coin shop in which two policemen were forced at gunpoint to lie face down on the floor while he escaped Paroled from the West Virginia Penitentiary' in tack; He was a retired custodian in' Detroit, a member of of Sts Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church iii ScarbJ-o, and a veteran of World War II Born Nov 11, 1912 at Price Hill, he was a son of Mrs. Mary Cantor Uryga of Detroit, and the late John Uryga. Other: survivors iifclude his wife, Mrs.

Beatrice Jarosz Uryga, Scarbro: a daughter, Miss Frances a a a i a A i (Continued From Page 1) i i wreckage Some were stuck in broken windows. Firemen used acetylene cutters to slice through the twisted metal and extricate the dead and-injured from the wreckage. Lincoln Seligman, who witnessed the crash from his 'nearby country cottage, said most of the terrified' passengers were trapped inside the wrecked bus or a in the shattered windows. The victims, residents of the Thornaby area on England's northeastcoast, were on a day's outing to the Yorkshire Dales some 200 miles north of London. Britain's worst road disaster, surpassed the 20 persons kill- ecf in August, 1969, when a bus plunged off a bridge in County Durham tian AID employes the program ends.

(Continued from Page 1) The BLS said unit labor costs slowed in the first' quarter, but hourly compensation rose 12.1 per cent, the largest increase in two years This index rose 10 5 per cent'm the last quarter of 1974 Unit costs rose 8 5 per cent compared per cent in the i quarter. The unit increase was the smallest since the first quarter of 1973. In a separate report, the Labor Department said work in April resulted in 1.5 working days of idleness per 1,000 days. The idleness for. April compared with 1.1 working days per 1,000 in time lost due to striks in March.

In. Idleness was 2.f "working days per 1,000. During April, 741 strikes occurred, 171 more than in March but almost 100 fewer than in April 1974. The average'duration of the strike, which 221,000 workers, was 11.4 days. A year ago, strikes idled about 331,000 workers for an average duration of 10 7 days (Continued From Page l) a of the neighbor Mrs Jennie Lowe.

The two women, known in. the village for their charity and welfare work, died in the crash. Laughter Rocks Chapel YORK "The only thing I want from an old man is for him to tell me where I'can find a young one." That quote, a a a i "Moms" Mabley's funeral, brought peals of laughter rocked the chapel in appreciation. Laughter at the retelling her stories and jokes fill- led the Abyssinian Baptist as Harlem paid its i respects Tuesday to the toothless i performer. i While hundreds gathered the street outside the were several generations Although, the service of black entertainers from began 3S(a somber affair comedian Dick Gregory to old time- yaudevillians i a a a i and Hal Cromer of the dance team Stump and Stumpy.

"Me and her, we've worked together since 1929," recalled "Markham. "She was a wonderful, lost a good old soul when we lost wonderful person; always jectivize; to put it on a easy to get along with. We screen somewhere and sit back from it and have a hearty laugh to keep it from destroying The inside Then, as he recounted silently filed past the silver Moms' classic some 500 persons coflin, some laying violets jokes, raunchy stories that compensatory damages a 9flminute 'sor- by her head, others simply punctured the. seriousness a ari a i i a t'l for the comedienne pausing to share a last mo- of life, dld-nge race i i in i i jwho died Friday night a i the a relations, the crowd perk- damages, plus his costs jafe'77. whose earthy humor ed up and the air of mourn- an( attorney's fees.

He Among the mourners cd million's for decades. ing evaporated. demands a trial by jury. in all respects legally incompetent" until the end of The trip was July 1973. by Mrs Dorothy White, a The plaintiff states that the Beckley National Bank "with full knowledge of the mental incapacity of the a i i illegally and fraudulently proceeded with and sale 4of the building) without the appointment of a legal guardian or next- the intent to a i a i a collapse and ruin of the plaintiff." Blakely states he has, as a result of the Beckley National Bank's actions, "suffered complete financial ruin, a great and extreme embarrassment and humiliation, loss of reputation and as a further result, the plaintiff's mental: ill a a aggravated and prolonged and the plaintiff has incurred and medical expenses in the amount.ol $10,000." Blakely.

demands judgment against the Beckley a i a Bank i amount of $1 million in one woman crying hysterically, was not to be the message of the day The church's pastor. Dr. Samuel Proctor, told gathering, "She could take sorrow and disappointment and lift something out of it, to cause us to ob- leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania defended Ford "Whatever has been done about saying energy -has cdnle from the President." he said. "I urge the a cooperatively and exp i i on his proposals. So far the Congress hasn't saved enough energy to light a five watt'bulb." House GOP leader John Rhodes -of Arizona said "the Democratic Congress has given him no choice so he had to take the action by himself." "Frank N.

Ikard. head of the American Petroleum I i said Ford's proposals "are clearly in the national interest." Sen. Henry Jackson', called Ford's action economic "nonsense" that would cost an average of $600 a year per family. Hubert Humphrey. said the tariff increase and decontrol a "will i a knockout blow to hope for 'an economic recovery this year." He said it will undo the consumer spending effects of the recent tax cut.

Holding up pamphlets containing his, legislative a a Democrats' outiwie of energy goals that had not been acted upon despite an April 30 deadline, Ford asked- "What did the Congress March and A i a Congress did nothing As he spoke about each a February through Mav, Ford dramatically ripped each month's page from a calendar The only things Congress did about energy, he said, were to pass a bill he subsequently vetoed taking away his power to impose the first import fee and to pass an "anti-energy" bill, again vetoed, i limits on the strip mining" of coal. In explaining his veto of the strip minmgjbill, Ford declared, will not be taking one step backward on energy when the Congress will not Kissinger, at an intern a i a conference in Paris, urged oil-producing as well as developing nations to cooperate with the in." i a i i avoiding a global energy crisis and economic war-, fare. He also urged in a speech before the 18-nation International Energy Agency a trillion program for energy independence by the consuming natipns. He predicted there would be another increase by the producers later this year and he said it-would be "economically unjustified." It is a matter of i the. i dustrialized world to act now, he said.

So a according to Commerce Department figures, the import fee has not cut the demand for foreign oil. After three months of higher priced foreign oil, imports are running at about the same level as a i balance of trade figures released Tuesday by the Commerce Department. The value of imported petroleum and related materials in April was $244 billion, roughly the average monthly import level of the last half of 1974. Secretary of State Henry for good behavior, Jake one step forward on Williams served one year energy lor an armed robbery conviction. Lilly, a 30-year-old Vietnam veteran and father of.

a 7-year-old girl, was the department's training officer five-year police a a to sergeant slightly over a year ago Mid east (Continued From Page 1) Agency in Cairo said Sadat will leave Thursday for for a oneday visit and talks with Yugoslav President Tito before going on to Salzburg and the talks with Ford Sadat's talks will deal i a developments in Middle East situation, the role i a i i could play in solving this i i a a i a Yugoslavia, the agencj said. The agency- said talks between Sadat and Tito would -reactivate the role of non-aligned countries in efforts to solve the Middle East crisis. Sadat, in an- interview i the Los Angeles Timesr said Russia and. Libya have Secretly made the biggest weapons deal in the history of the Middle East, with the Soviet Union agreeing to supply S12 billion worth of "the most sophisticated arms one can imagine." He said the agreement could give the Soviets a military presence on the southern shore of the i a a for 50 years. (Continued From Page 1) peace than take a single a a Departing for NATO, Ford said.

"And- I add today that I will never fail to take a single step that might prevent a future war." In Brussels, Ford also will meet privately with allied heads of state, including French President a i Giscard d'Estaing. He will discuss the Cyprus issue with leaders of Greece and Turkey, and will talk with Portugese Prime Minister (Continued From Page 1) leaders in Madrid and Pope Paul VI and Italian officials in His speech Tuesday out- Imeti plans for the oil- consuming industrialized nations to spend $1 trillion on gaming independence i i nations Today's address to the OECD dealt with how rich and poor free nations can band together to prosper Kissinger said a food crisis, a global recession a i a i precedented in the postw ar period" threaten all free nations and require joint action Kissinger told newsmen after today's session he was heartened by the conference- to latest U.S-. economic offers. "The mood is very good, i Kissinger said Asked a a i he 'had directed his warning that no one seelr a confrontation he said, "There is no mood of confrontation this table The warning was directed against some nations acting -in larger forums such as the United Nations." "I am very encouraged by the' effort everybody is making here to find a. new basis for a new period of creativity," he said.

Kissinger's sidewalk news conference attracted a crowd of secretaries from fhe beehive OECD headquarters craning their necks. Some snapped pictures of the Secretary Kissinger had the unusual Parisian honor of drawing applause from wpmen admirers crowding windows in surrounding buildings. He responded with a broad grin and a wave before getting into his bullet proof limousine. Kissinger also told newsmen: President Ford will discuss in Brussels at the A i "some conventional issues -security, some problems raised in the OECD'and at the IEA such as emergy and new world economic relations, relations with the East and how detente CAB Fines American Airlines WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Civil Aeronautics Board has fined American A i i 8150,000 for conce'aling i i a contributions it made with, corporate funds over a 10- year period American and the CAB formally agreed Tuesday to the record settlement The; CAB said a fine would have been posed except for repayment oi 5125,000 to the corporation" by a i American officials" and "full cooperation" during the investigation The airline has admitted diverting 8275,000 in corporate funds from 1964 to 19.73, although the ultimate rdestmation of more than SIOO.OOO of the money has not been reported. i American fund: was made; voluntarily by the company and former chairman George Spater during the Watergate prosecutor's investigation of President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.

Quarrels Kill 3 United Press International 'Police agencies reported husband-wife disputes in three Virginia counties during the holiday weekend left three persons 'dead, two others wounded and a oman in jail In Wyoming State Police said Monday night that the shooting death Jackie Morgan, 29, and wounding of her a 'French, 35, "resulted from a domestic argument but we're stiil trying find out just what happened Mrs. Morgan was dead on arrival at a clinic in Welch, where her husband was reported in satisfactory condition after the Memorial Day shootings at their home in On a Stanley Burns, 46, of Lundale in Logan County, was shot in the right side at the home of a neighbor. State Police arrested his wife, charged her with felonious assault and lodged her in the county jail pending arraignment. The Saturday killings of Clifford Cox, 44, and his wife, Beryl Jean, were ruled murdersuicide. They died of bullet wounds in the yard of their home.in Oak Hill, Fayette County.

A sheriff's deputy said an argument apparently preceded the Cox killings. VascotDos Santos Goncalves, wjiose government has taken' on Communist A sked wn ether gj overtones which concern dent For(J a go rajse i have arisen inside the NATO Ford and leaders. other allied -The President will leave alliance such as Portugal Brussels Saturday morn- and Cyprus, Kissinger ing for ah overnightjstay in said, "The president will Madrid, where he will be be i tomorrow by morning' with" the Greek Generalissimo Francisco a i i Franco. Ministers." CHARLESTON, W. Va (UPI) The state Human Rights Commission will hold public hearings this fall on complaints of racial and sex discrimination against the Wesl "Virginia Department of Public Safety, i a said the commission voted to hold hearings after department officials refused to attend meetings to set up by panel to dis.cuss the complaints.

EBUE. Alaska '(UPI) -N A a a Eskimos; whose land claims battle was fought with borrowed money, are returning that a $15,000 loan to support a a a i i a land claims settlement. The loan to the Aloha Association in Honolulu by the Alaska a i A i a i Regional Corporation is one of several being considered or already made to Hawaiian natives, ANA i Schaeffer said Tuesday; MOSCOW (UPI) Two Soviet cosmonauts settled in today for what promised to be a long stay aboard the Salvut 4 space station orbiting 210 miles above the earth. It was the third-day aboard the three-room, 20- ton laboratory for the Soyuz 18 cosmonauts --Lt Col Pyotr Klimuk, 33, the pilot, and civilian engiseer Vitaly Sevastiyanov, 40. a Gen.

a i i a a a cosmonaut training, told television viewers, the spacemen checked out their instruments and scientific equipment during the first two days WASHINGTON (UPI) -Florida promoter' Glenn Turner has been ordered to pay back million to a defrauded by his cosmetics selling operation. The ruling came from an administrative law judge at the Federal Trade Commission, who said perhaps 30,000 investors in the Koscot cosmetics business run by Turner wound up in 'a "virtual financial nightmare." HIDALGO, Tex. (UPI)' The i a Workers Union, ignoring a pair of court orders forbidding demonstrators from interfering with the a harvest, today intensified Us i to organize field hands in the Rio Grande Valley Antonio Orendain, Texas organizer for the union headed by Cesar Chavez of California, promised more demonstrations -along the border, at packing sheds and at farms where the UFW members the past week have been using "huelga" (strike) at nonunion toiling in the fields. I A I -F a i champion.Ezzard Charles, 54, died in his sleep early today at the Veterans Administration Westside Hospital where he had been a patient since March 4, 1974 Attendants Charles a i a i a a sclerosis. Charles, sometimes called the "Cincinnati Cobra," gained the heavyweight boxing championship in Chicago on June 22, 1949, when he won a 15-round decision-over Jersey Joe Wolcott Ala.

(UPI) A state appeals, court Tuesday approved the bribery conviction of an Alabama judge accused of offering leniency in exchange for sexual; favors from female defendants. Court of Criminal Appeals said it found no reason to reject the conviction of Judge Thomas D. McDonald of the Madison (Huntsville) County Court. He had. been sentenced to three years imprisonment.

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