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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1968
Page
1
Seventy six head of livestock sold Monday at the Alderson Livestock Market to 49 buyers. Prices covered cattle hogs calves sheep and lambs with ranges for each class and quality level including slaughter cattle heifers stockers and feeders hogs cows bulls veal calves cows and calves and sheep with per hundred weights and whole numbers.
Mrs. C. J. Peyton of Montcalm will present her music pupils in a piano recital Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Montcalm school auditorium.
Sponsors of the National Coalition for an Open Convention say over 1000 Southerners from 14 states will meet in Atlanta on August 10 and 11 to coordinate efforts to stop Hubert H. Humphrey's nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Invited are Ed King John Cashin and Orswell Billingsley among others as rump delegations may be formed. Delegation challenges already exist in multiple states with West Virginia Virginia Kentucky Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi among those represented. Parker Hudson and Taylor Branch coordinate the event.
The fragment notes that ice cream existed in the Roman Empire and that Marco Polo reportedly carried a milk ice recipe to different lands, indicating early origins and spread of frozen desserts.
The armed robbery case against James McClure of Charleston was continued indefinitely in Charleston Municipal Court. McClure, 30, was arrested July 23 after a holdup at a Charleston drug store in which pharmacist Marvin Dickerson was shot. Narcotics were reported stolen and recovered from a rooftop near the store. Judge John Charnock Jr. ordered a physical and psychiatric examination at Spencer State Hospital, citing the defendant as a confirmed drug addict.
A Louisville service station sign reads Cold Ice Water, prompting motorists to misread it as a statement about the coldness of the water while the message is a display of three stacked words.
Hungry sparrows are devouring a Fort Worth, Texas, home brick by brick. Dick Koon says the birds began in early summer and have chewed holes along a 20 foot wall and now attack the front of the house. Charles Crabtree, a Fort Worth Audubon Society leader, witnessed the birds and estimates about 50 bricks have been damaged.
About 200 Baldwins are expected to attend a reunion at Midway Baptist Church Rich Creek starting 10 a m. Donald R. Baldwin Bluefield State College professor and Mercer County Court candidate will speak Ray Baldwin serves as welcome speaker and outline of family history Rev Ronald Baldwin to deliver the sermon Bill Baldwin to MC and C G Baldwin presides over business session and next year officer elections
Vice President Humphrey urged free elections in South Vietnam run by residents rather than Hanoi, calling for all to vote and run with guarantees against intimidation. He also urged a strong federal push to curb domestic riots and hunger, while noting Johnson's administration should do more for domestic needs.
The Associated Press reports West Virginia temperatures through Monday will run below normal with highs in the 80s and night lows in the 40s. The period should bring warm weather late this week and cooler temperatures over the weekend with potential rainfall totaling about one inch.
An analysis notes that Australia Great Britain Canada and northern European countries exhibit higher voter turnout than the United States, highlighting differences in civic engagement and electoral participation across regions.
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