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Newspaper

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 06, 1963

Page

2

Exiled Haitian Force Lands Near Dominican Border

A group of about 250 exiled Haitian soldiers led by Gen. Cantave landed near Cap Haitien on Haiti’s north coast close to the Dominican border. They aim to oust Duvalier and seize Cap Haitien, seeking support from Haitians in the Dominican Republic amid unnamed staging areas and reported progress.

Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Leon Cantave Haiti Cap Haitien Francois Papa Doc) Duvalier United States Duvalier Port Au Prince Citadel Radio Cap Hatien Dauphin Sisal Fort Liberte Dominican Tonton Derac Phaeton Cantave Duvilier National Democratic Union Trujillo Hispaniola Cubas Puerto Rico Jaan Bosch Bosch

Alley Appointed To Civil Service Post In Bluefield

Gov W W Barron appoints J Lindsey Alley to Bluefield Police Civil Service Commission term ending May 31 1967. He replaces J Raymond Tilson on the three man board joining Dr David Bell and Frank Smoot. Alley is Sun Life agent and former WKOY owner manager. He is married to Norma Lee Davis. Appointment dated July 19.

Bluefield Police Civil Service Commission W. W. Barron J. Lindsey Alley Bluefiled Alley J. Raymond Ben) Tilson Bluefield David F. Bell Frank Smoot Bell Fraternal Order of Police Smoot

Three Trucks Burn in Fire at Radford State Shed

Three trucks were destroyed when fire swept a State Highway Department shed near Radford Virginia. Firefighters from Radford Fairlawn and Dublin battled the blaze which threatened nearby Prison Camp No 1 housing 67 convicts and 11 staff in Pulaski County three miles west on U S 11.

Radford State Highway Department Here Fairlawn Dublin Pulaski County U. S. 11

Daily Telegraph Bluefield Notice Rates and Publication Info

Establishment details for the Daily Telegraph Printing Co. include address 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia along with Associated Press membership circulation rates by carrier and mail and an advertising representative contact.

Daily Telegraph Printing Co Bland Street Bluefield W. Va Associated Press West Virginia Audit Bureau of Circulation Atv

Deaths and Funerals Dominate Local Notices

Vianna Maude Mann 87 of Lindside dies at home after six months illness. Survived by four Wickline brothers and three Wickline sisters. Ballard Baptist Church service at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial in Ballard church cemetery. Body to be moved from Broyles Funeral Chapel Peters town Tuesday at 2 p.m. Pallbearers nephews. flower girls nieces. Also listed are Winfred Thomas 4 of Helena dies from home fire burns. Services at Free Will Baptist Church Davy. Jaeger Memorial Cemetery Roderfield. Thomas family details listed. Glemmie F Billings 51 of Dott dies at Mercer Memorial Hospital Princeton. Survivors listed. burial pending. Nancy Joanna Mance 87 of Landgraff dies at home. Service at Big 4 Pentecostal Holiness Church. Burial Maple Hill Cemetery Bluefield. Karl C Pack Sr dies Ripplemead Va. at Giles Memorial Hospital Pearisburg. Multiple survivors listed. Dr. Bertrand G Lawrence 65 of San Diego, native of Maybeury, dies after long illness. Private funeral and entombment Cypress View Mausoleum. Alonzo G DeBerry Sr 71 West Chester Pa formerly Giotto dies. Services at S Paul Baptist West Chester. Jeraldine Williams 17 Big Jenny Davy dies Welch hospital. Services Tuesday evening and graveside Wednesday. Virgie M Kessinger and family noted Johnson City Tenn. Goldbond service Wednesday. Appalachian Funeral Home Johnson City in charge.

Vianna Maude Mann Lindside Peterstown George H Sarah Underwood Wickline Ballard Monroe County Ballard Methodist Church Bert Mann C. E. Wickline E. H. Wi Broyles Funeral Free Will Baptist Church Davy Winfred Thomas Helena McDowell County Amos Belcher Jaeger Memorial Cemetery Roderfield Thomas John Bonnie Roop Thomas Emily Fruin Patricia Linda Thomas Claudette Pritt Baltimore Bonnie Sue Carroll Asco Herman Thomas Howard Thomas Jack Bill ‘Thomas Jimmy Thomas Bobby Thomas Indiana Alex Francis Fanning Funeral Home Welch Glemmie Franklin Billings Dott Mercer Memorial Hospital Princeton Billings UMW Crozer Coal and Land Co Oliver and Martha Combs Billings Elma Gilbert Billings Glemmie F. Billings Jr Marrero Nancy Joanna Mance Landgraff Tazewell Purcell Lovell Nancy Fills Lovell Fugate P. Mance Martha C. Richardson Patterson, Ga Nell B. Hodges Philadelphia W. N. Martin Grant Blev Maple Hill Cemetery Bluefield First Methodist Pearisburg Karl C. Pack Sr Ripplemead Giles Memorial Hospital James E. Hawkins Neil Williams Birchlawn Laura Elmore Pack Ellen Sue Vail Charlottesville Clara Foster Roanoke Bertrand G. Lawrence San Diego Calif Maybeury Lawrence K. G. Lawrence Joyce Lawrence Walter Jeneke Sue Lawrence Judy Lawrence Hattie Lawson Ruth Lawrence Ira Smith Route 3 Paul A. Lawrence Leington Emma Lawrence Gilmer Street R. B. Mosley Cypress View Mausoleum Alonzo G. Deberry Alonzo Gaston DeBerry Sr West Chester Giotto University of Pennsylvania Hospital S. Paul Baptist Church Bethel Ame Giatto Sadie DeBerry Theodore DeBerry Matthew DeBerry Jack DeBerry Caleb DeBerry Jamaica L. I Flossie Smith C. Gertrude DeBerry Blance Scarboro Freeman Alonzo G. DeBerry Jr Georgetta Ford David Jeraldine Williams Big Jenny Eckman Lester Lucy Roberts Williams John Warrix Fork Grandville Marshall Lubbock Tex Mildred Williams Franklin James Jerry Wayne Roger Lee Harold David Williams Roberts Cemetery Cub Creek S. E. Kessinger Johnson City

Pageton Woman 78 Dies in Welch Hospital

Mrs. Appie E. Burnett age 78 of Pageton died Sunday night in a Welch hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and the body remains at Lugo's Funeral Service in Bluefield.

Appie E. Burnett Pageton Welch Lugo Bluefield

Funerals for Aubuun Casteel Held in Baltimore and Bartley

Aubuun Casteel age 59 formerly of Bradshaw died Friday in Baltimore. Services held today at 11 a.m. at Jol Methodist Church with Rev Heywood Price officiating. Burial at Waldron Cemetery Bartley. Fanning Funeral Home Laeger in charge.

Casteel, Aubuun Bradshaw Baltimore Jol Methodist Church Heywood Price Waldron Bartley Fanning Funeral Home Laeger

Body found in West Fork River near Clarksburg

The body of John McCloud, 47, of Mount Clare, was recovered from the West Fork River after a muddy receding flood. Deputies spoke of a probable drowning after a vehicle wheel appeared from the water near Secondary Route 261 three miles south of Clarksburg. The death followed heavy rain over the weekend.

Clarksburg West Fork John McClou Mount Clare McCloud

National Steel Production Falls 4 Percent Last Week

National steel output slid 4 percent in the past week, reaching 1,782,000 tons or about 55 percent of unofficial capacity. Officials say orders have bottomed or near bottom, with a gradual pickup expected later, possibly after Labor Day.

New York National Steel Niath

Senators Push to Restore Manpower Training Funds

Senator Jennings Randolph and other senators urge restoring $55 million cut from the $165 million Kennedy request for the Manpower Development and Training program. The letter notes $25 million cut by the House and $30 million by the Senate committee, arguing the reductions harm training for 51,000 people and increase long term dependence.

Washington Jennings Randolph D-W.va Senate Kennedy Randolph Joseph S. Clark D-Pa House Senate Appropriations Committee

Baseball Sails Into Plane At Indianapolis

AP reports Capt. Ronald T. Reuther of the Indiana National Guard piloted a plane into Stout Field when a stray baseball struck his sun visor and scratched his face. A local Pony League game near the field was cited as the possible source, with officials noting planes fly low over the backstop. Nobody claimed who threw the ball, and Reuther estimated the flight at 75 mph and 200 to 250 feet high.

Indianapolis Ronald T. Routher Indiana National Guard Stout Field Reuther C. Martell

Non Passenger Car Registration Up In West Virginia

Charleston AP reports about 3 000 more non passenger vehicles such as trucks and buses on West Virginia highways this year. The DMV says 136 074 license plates issued this fiscal year versus about 133 000 at this time last year. Registration deadlines were last Wednesday for trucks and buses and June 30 for passenger cars.

Charleston West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

Inland Sailors On Third Raft Ride Toward Charleston

A hardy group from Sutton West Virginia left on a raft trip via the Elk River for Charleston aiming to complete a centennial voyage recalling historic river log floating. After a collision with a bridge support sank the raft and wrecked provisions, the crew refloated and rededicated to reach Charleston by Tuesday around 3 p.m. despite floods and sand-bars.

Clay W.va Charleston Sutton Elk River

Hearing Continued In Hit And Run Case

A preliminary hearing for Warren S. Hutchinson 45 of 2305 Washington St Bluefield was continued by Justice of the Peace Lewis Perdue. Hutchinson is charged with hit and run driving and driving under the influence of intoxicants following several collisions near Bland Street Sunday.

Warren S. Hutchinson Washington St Bluefield Justice of the Peace Lewis Perdue Hutchinson Bland Street Stanley J. Neal George E. Fisher, Jr Buster Dye Bland

Wreck on Route 10 Causes $2600 in Damages

State Trooper J L Adkins reports a two car collision on Route 10 near Lashmeet Monday afternoon. Colin Thompson of Route 2 Princeton was charged with driving without proper control after his vehicle rear ended Billy Parks of Covel. Thompson's car veered into a ditch and rolled, Thompson suffering facial lacerations while Parks and passenger Thomas Sizemore were uninjured.

Route 10 Lashmeet Princeton Area J. L. Adkins Colin Thompson Route 2 Princeton Billy Parks Covel Adkins Thompson Parks Park Thomas Sizemore Mullens

Virginia ABC Profit Drops Third Quarter

Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board net profits fell 2.7 percent in the third quarter of fiscal 1962-63 from the year-ago period. Audit chief J Gordon Bennett reported January 1 to March 31 1963 profits totaling 3 494 291 dollars versus 3 501 193 the prior year. Net sales rose to 24 394 172 dollars from 24 383 176, a .045 percent gain.

Richmond Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board J. Gordon Bennett

Khrushchev backs peace treaty as world toasts in Moscow

Khrushchev led a toast with foreign ministers after signing copies of a treaty while 30 plus nations signaled interest. He warned that only peaceful coexistence can avoid thermonuclear war and urged a NATO Warsaw pact nonaggression accord amid celebrations and medals at St George's Hall.

Hiroshima Khrushchev Gromyko St. George's Hall NATO St. George’s Soviet Union

Girl Killed By Chewing Gum

Addie Louise Hankins, 14, of Route 1 North Tazewell Virginia, died after chewing gum into her windpipe. She was at her parents home with teens when the accident occurred. Funeral services set for Weslayan Methodist Church with burial at Grandview Memory Gardens.

Addie Louise Hankins Route 1 North Tazewell Mary Elizabeth Johnson Jefferson Hospital Tazewell Funeral Home Miss Hankins Chalie Hankins Vickie Jean Hankins Connie Hankins Janice Hankins Joe Hawkins Joseph N. Lambert Danville Ill Wesleyen Methodist Church Kenneth Brown Grandview Memory Gardens Tazewell-Bluefield Greever Fueral Home

Funeral Today For Shooting Victim Baldwin C Long

Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. at Broyles Funeral Home in Union for Baldwin C Long 44 of Union fatally shot Saturday. Rev Billy Apostolon will officiate and burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery Union. Howard Thomas Underwood 55 of Lindside Monroe County charged with murder in the shooting, occurred at a sawmill on West Virginia Route 85 south of Greenwood Boone County. Underwood held in Boone County jail. Pallbearers named Bill Hamby Conrad Lemons Otis Long Donnie Hazelwood Harry Harvey Jack Harvey.

Broyles Funeral Union Baldwin C. Long Billy Apostolon Green Hill Howard Thomas Underwood Lindside Monroe County West Virginia Greenwood Boone County Underwood Bill Hamby Conrad Lemons Otis Long Donnie Hazelwood Harry Jack Harvey

University Club To Hold Annual Outing

Bland County Virginia will host the University Club of Bluefield barbecue on Friday afternoon August 9 at Paul Jones lodge on Laurel Fork Road. Ry Weisiger leads the committee for a large turnout of members and guests and aims to recruit many new members from the past year.

Bland County University Club of Bluefield Paul Jones Welch Wholesale Executive Laurel Fork Road East River Mountain Ry Weisiger University Club

State Road Toll: 208 On WV Highways This Year

State Police at Charleston report 208 people killed on West Virginia roads so far this year up from 24 by this date last year.

Charleston West Virginia

Military Pay Raise Approved by Senate Committee

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a military pay raise bill unanimously with an Oct. 1 effective date. The raise ranges from 5 to 230 dollars monthly, averaging 14.4 percent for about 2 million service members, costing roughly 1.227 billion annually. The measure, first since 1958, targets technicians and NCOs and aims to retain skilled personnel and reduce training costs.

Washington Senate Armed Services Committee Senate Howard W. Cannon House Senate House Cannon

Internal unrest and military discipline in China in 1960 61

Reports describe unrest in Hunan with civilian militias clashing with party members and disrupted convoy movements. Army morale reportedly improved by June 1961, but defection figures remain uncertain. Secret bulletins note limited disclosure of strategic plans and a muted stance on Formosa amid U.S. occupation disputes.

Armhy State Department Hunan Communist Party Mao Tze-tung China Peking U.S Formosa Red

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