Resurfacing Bids Sought for Bluefield Princeton Road 8.8 Miles
The State Road Commission in Charleston seeks bids for resurfacing 8.8 miles of the Bluefield Princeton Road covering US 19 460. Bids open Tuesday August 13 with sealed bids due by 10 a.m. in Charleston. Low bidder to be announced after opening. The Mercer project is among 18 bids in the region including several other road resurfacing projects in Monroe Summers and Wyoming counties.
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Bluefield
Wolf Creek
West Virginia
Monroe County
Summers County
Wyoming County
Valachi Testimony Details Cosa Nostra Structure and Key Figures
The article recounts Vesey Valachi’s testimony and life, detailing the Cosa Nostra top council the commission, Genovese as alleged chief, and the national network of families. It notes arrests in an international narcotics ring, Valachi’s murder conviction, and his collaboration with FBI agents to reveal crime organization. It mentions Apalachin and Costello, Anastasia, and broad geographic reach across major U.S. cities.
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Atlanta
Genovese
Valachi
FBI
Cosa Nostra
Commission
New York
Detroit
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Chicago
Miami
Kansas City
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Cleveland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Providence
Boston
New Jersey
Frank Costello
Albert Anastasia
Reporters subpoenaed in Danville racial demonstrations trials
The Danville news staffs of the Register and Bee are subpoenaed to testify in 328 trials charging violations of a Corporation Court injunction against racial demonstrations. Subpoenas were sought by NAACP attorney Len Holt, a defendant, with Judge Aiken to hear cases starting Monday.
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Corporation
Danville Register
Danville Bee
NAACP
Len Holt
A. M. Aiken
Corporation Court
Holt
Marion Saunders
The
Register
Bee
Gerard Tetley
Aiken
Loyal Baptist Church
Daily Telegraph Publishing Notice
Established 1893 Daily Telegraph Printing Co Bluefield West Virginia public notice on newspaper publication details subscriptions rates and Associated Press membership with contact information and circulation data.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Kats Agency, Inc
Funeral today for Lewis Eldridge in Vivian
Funeral services for Lewis Eldridge 30 of Vivian Mc Dowell County are set for Tuesday at 2 p m at Pentecostal Holiness Church Vivian with Rev. John McPeak officiating. Burial will be in Rock House Mountain Cemetery Kimball Bennett Funeral Home Northfork handles arrangements. Eldridge was fatally injured in a mining car incident with his brother Billy Eldridge 28 driving the vehicle that plunged 75 feet after leaving U S 52 embankment. State police say the death is ruled accidental and may not count toward the highway toll.
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Vivian
McDowell County
Pentecostal Holiness Church
John McPeak
Rock House Mountain Cemetery
Kimball
Bennett Funeral Home
Northfork
H. A. McGinnis
Eldridge
U. S. 52
Billy Eldridge
U.S. 52
Mabel Myrtle Keene
Leonard Keene
Cleveland
Ohio
Jewell Ridge
John H. Brown
Richlands
Cindy Brown
Keene
Frances Ward
Flint
Mich
Balford Keene
Mountain Home
Tenn
Russell Keene
Cedar Bluff
Wayne Keene
Fort Dix
N. J
Eugene
Donald Keene
Betty Lou Robinette
Della Shephard
Ocala
Fla
Georgia Sharpe
Tampa
Blaine Brown
Carlisle
Aodney
Carlos
Earl Brown
Eva Brown
Richlands Tabernacle
Grat Horton
Brown Cemetery
Hurst - Scott Funeral Home
Vicie J. Woodson
Vicle Jane Woodson
Eugene Woodson
Gilbert
Morgantown
McCarr
Kit
Victoria Gibson Rattliff
Donnie
Donnie Woodson
Junior Woodson
Justice
Shirley May Simpson
Diana Jean Mullins
Delaware
Gracie Wilson
Williamson
Essie Clyburn
Mullens
Sharon Heights Freewill Baptist Church
Marshall Harless
Sam Foglesong
Clara Nolan Lewis
Pennington Gap
Cam J. Lewis
Virginia Sullivan
Henrietta Logan
Cora Creech
Marsh M. Lewis
Saltville
Ben C. Lewis
James P. Lewis
Lebanon
Hubert Powers
Bristol
Edna Reasor
Thomas
Rotarians To Hear Dr H E Kiser At Luncheon
Dr H E Kiser Jr of Bluefield Virginia will address Bluefield Rotarians at the weekly luncheon on Tuesday August 6 at 12 15 PM in the West Virginian Hotel Program title not announced Rotarians Herbert Hitt and Jim Godwin are August program chairmen.
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H. E. Kiser Jr
Bluefield
West Virginian Hotel
Herbert Hitt
Jim Godwin
18 B & O Cars Are Derailed
Eight teen cars of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed near Eureka Ohio ten miles east of Parkersburg when a culvert weakened by heavy rains failed. Passenger trains were delayed up to eight hours as crews worked to clear the line and restore service by morning.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Here
Eureka
B&o
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Washington, D.C
C. W. Shaw
Monongah
Shaw
National Limited
St. Louis
Washington
Paden City
Baltimore
Paine Speaker Addresses Southern Appalachian Pharmacy Group
Dr. A L Paine of Bluefield Sanitarium spoke at the August meeting of the Southern Appalachian Pharmaceutical Association held at Club La Saluta in Bluewell. President George N Jennings presided as he announced committee reorganizations and urged strong community and state leadership.
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Bluefield Sanitarium
Southern Appalachian Pharmaceutical Association
Club la Saluta
Bluewell
George N. Jennings
Jennings
Robbers Enter Bank Vault in North Carolina Heist
Authorities say Miller and Copeland robbed a bank in North Carolina with only one person present inside. They entered unmasked, forced access to the vault, and filled a pillow case with money before the bank’s closing time.
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Miller
Copeland
Kennedy appeals help to Northeast Airlines reinstate New York Florida run
President Kennedy aboard the Honey Fitz near Cape Cod received a labor backed appeal from Northeast Airlines workers asking him to press reinstatement of the New York to Florida service after a Civil Aeronautics Board tentative ruling. The escort plane carried a sign reading Please Help Northeast Airlines as the yacht sailed Nantucket Sound. Caroline Kennedy shared a moment of attention with her father at church, drawing smiles from Cape Cod vacationers.
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Mass
Kennedy
Air Sunday
Northeast Airlines
New York
Nantucket Sound
Cape Cod
F.K
Northeast
Caroline
St. Francis . Xavier Church
Bluefielder Charged After Hitting Four Cars
Hutchinson 46 of 2305 Washington St Bluefield charged with hit and run and driving while intoxicated after a four car crash within a four block radius of Bland Street Sunday around 5 p m. Police say his vehicle struck a 1954 Bluefield auto owned by Stanley J Neal then the rear of a George E Fisher Jr Bluefield Va auto and then hit a Buster Dye Bluefield auto. He was arrested at 1055 Bland and is in Bluefield jail awaiting preliminary hearing.
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Warren
Hutchinson
Washington St
Bluefield
Bland Street
Stanley J. Neal
George E. Fisher, Jr
Buster Dye
Bland
Patrick County Boy Drowns In Fairystone
In Fairystone State park lake Patrick County a youth drowned when a boat capsized. Randolph Garland Hylton 19 Woolwine could not swim and died in about ten feet of water. John Ronald Williams 18 Stuart swam to safety. Hylton’s body was recovered forty five minutes later by the Bassett rescue squad. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Garland Hylton.
Ban Bomb Demonstrators Hold Quiet Aberdeen Protest
About 100 ban the bomb demonstrators gathered outside a U S communications station near Aberdeen Scotland on Sunday. There were no disorders and no arrests.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
U.S
Crime Drop Noted by Bluefield Police Chief in 1963 July
Bluefield police chief Bill Winters reports July 1963 crime fell from July 1962, with 33 crimes last month and 314 year to date. Grand and petty thefts led with 24 in July, 1963, two cars stolen, five burglary cases, one aggravated assault, and 61 of 314 crimes solved. Fines collection rose to 3,953 for July and 27,819 year to date.
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Bluefield
Bill Winters
Man Shot Near Mullens Improves After Surgery
Amos Treadway, 43, of near Mullens, Wyoming County, was hospitalized in critical condition Saturday after a shotgun blast at 27 feet while walking along Mullens Beckley Road. John B. Orton, 53, of the area, remained jailed in Pineville Sunday on charges related to the shooting. motive not disclosed. Preliminary hearing not yet set.
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Amos Treadway
Mullens
Wyoming County
Wyoming General Hospital
Treadway
Mullens- Beckley Road
John B. Orton
Pineville
Leland Phillips
Orton
Nehru Calls Ban Pact a Vital Step Toward Peace
Indian Prime Minister Nehru labeled the partial test ban treaty to be signed in Moscow as a watershed toward disarmament. Speaking in New Delhi at a conference of scientists and educators, he said the pact marks a vital shift in science and technology and should serve mankind’s peaceful progress. He confirmed India’s intention to sign the accord.
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New Delhi
Nehru
Moscow
India
Five Drown At Famed Rome Sulphur Baths
In Tivoli Italy five Italians drowned after being overcome by sulphur fumes in a restricted area of the Tivoli sulphur spring baths ten miles east of Rome. Four died while attempting to rescue a youth who was also overcome while trying to retrieve a rubber ball. Two others escaped the water but later collapsed and were hospitalized.
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Tivoli
Italy
Rome
Deaths and Funerals in Virginia and Nearby States
Obituaries from Virginia and nearby states report multiple deaths and funeral arrangements. Ella Mae Anderson Stella Sauls Mabel Myrtle Keene Julia Edmonds Reba Woodyard Vici Woodson Anna Cecil Wilson Richard Faulkner Geraldine Williams Jenny Faulkner deaths noted with service details and burial plans across Richlands Clintwood Honaker Mullens Narrows Pennington Gap Welch Hemphill.
Obituaries for James McCall Neal and Mary E Winter
Funeral services announced for James McCall Neal at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Dudley Memorial Mortuary Bluefield with burial at Grand View Memory Gardens. Mary E Winter of 120 Union Street Bluefield to be laid to rest Monday at 2 p.m. at Mercer Funeral Chapel with burial in Maple Park Cemetery.
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Reba B. Woodyard
Reba Blount Woodyard
Route 1
Vinton
LeRoy Poythress
Bluefield
Roanoke
Okey
Sherwood Cemetery
Neal
James McCall
Crescent St
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Grand View Memory Gardens
Winter
Mary E
Union St
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Maple Park Cemetery
Heater Blast Levels Tazewell Home In Morning Explosion
A hot water heater exploded in the basement of Dallas Hubbard's home in Tazewell Virginia Sunday at 6:30 am. The blast collapsed two walls and wrecked the brick veneer residence as the heater pierced ceilings to the roof and landed in a neighboring yard. Both occupants escaped unharmed. Hubbard works as a coal official with an office on Main Street. The house sits opposite Tazewell High School.
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Tazewell
Hubbards
Hubbard
Tazewell High School
Y's Men Back Orioles For Local Baseball Outing
Bluefield Y's Men's Club plans its annual outing at Bowen Field. Members meet at the concession stand at 6 30 PM, enjoy hot dogs and park snacks, then cheer the Bluefield Orioles in the hometown game.
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Ike Fuqua
Bowen Field
Ball Park
Bluefield Orioles
Flash Flood Strands 21 at Audra State Park
A sudden flash flood at Audra State Park in Buckhannon West Virginia swamped the Middle Fork River areas. Twenty one swimmers and anglers were stranded on huge boulders while rescue teams using life jackets ropes and a helicopter saved nineteen, with two later plucked from rocks. Park officials credited rapid response for preventing greater loss of life.
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W.va
Audra State Park
Here
Middle Fork River
Elkins
Morris Harsh
Harsh
R. J. Adams
Philippi
Italian Barracks Blown Up In Bolzano Area
A police barracks in Campo Tres near Bolzano in North Italy was blown up Sunday injuring two men being questioned about a prior blast that cut power lines in the Alto Adige region. Police say the bomb appeared dropped down the chimney. no officers were hurt.
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Blonzano
Italy
Alto Adige
Campo Tres
Bolzano
Oakland Nips Boston In AFL Exhibition
Archie Matsos starred on defense and with a 27 yard interception return to set up Oakland’s winning TD as the Raiders beat Boston 24 to 17 in AFL exhibition action. Cotton Davidson and Art Powell connected on key plays before Charlie Rieves scored the decisive one yard run.
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Calif
Archie Matsos
Boston
Matsos
Babe Parilli
Patroit
Cotton Davidson
Art Powell
Charlie Rieves
Patriots
al Davis
Steelers Rest Before Match With Packers
WEST LIBERTY West Virginia AP reports the Pittsburgh Steelers, after a controlled scrimmage, rested Sunday while preparing for Saturday’s exhibition opener against the Green Bay Packers. Two Steelers scouts watched the Packers’ 20 17 loss to the College All Stars in Chicago Friday night.
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West Liberty
W.va
Pittsburgh Steelers
Green Bay Packers
Steelers
Packers
College All Stars
Chicago
Quake Shakes Tokyo No Damage Reported
An earthquake struck Tokyo for several seconds at 8 43 p m Sunday with no damage reported. Local authorities and residents noted minimal impact as tremors subsided quickly.
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Tokyo
Mild quake rattles northern Formosa no damage reported
An AP report says a mild earthquake struck northern Formosa, including Taipei, on Saturday night with no damage or casualties reported.
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Taipei
Formosa
Koreans Fire At U S Troops As Night Patrol Strikes
Pvt James Hamby of Puxico Missouri fired a grenade after North Koreans tried to climb a trench shielded by barbed wire. Capt Scott, 27, praised his unit saying they could have repelled a larger force. The attack drew American air and ground support as the enemy circled to strike from the rear.
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James Hamby
Puxico
Hamby
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