Astronaut Henize to Speak at Princeton Chamber Dinner
Princeton Chamber of Commerce to host astronaut Dr Karl G Henize as keynote at annual dinner August 14 at 730 p.m. at the Princeton Elks Lodge with an earlier 530 p.m press conference at the Princeton Youth Center. Tickets priced at 6 dollars, seating about 400.
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Karl G. Henize
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Princeton Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Ray Halsey
Princeton Elks Lodge
Douglas Street
Heinze
Princeton
Halsey
Henize
Cincinnati
Ohio
University of Virginia
University of Michigan
U. S. Navy
Naval Reserve
University of Michigan Observatory
Lamont- Hussey Observatory
Bloemfontein
Union of South Africa
Carnegie
Mounta Wilson Observatory
Pasadena
Calif
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Northwestern University
Department of Astronomy
Northwestern
Princeton Chamber
West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd
Jennings Randolph
Aged Tax Relief Measure Accepted By Convention
West Virginia Republicans approve a 17 plank platform at the state convention in Charleston with aims including elderly tax relief and economic aid for disadvantaged citizens. Amendments on Human Rights funding and mine safety enforcement are adopted, while a severance tax on minerals fails narrowly. A Huntington lawyer and lawmakers defend civil rights changes as strengthening minority protections amid debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Republican Party
Office of Consumer Protection
Public Defender
Cabell County
Platform Committee
Senate
Chester R. Hubbard
House
George Seibert
Rio
Seibert
Logan County
West Virginia Human Rights Commission
Identity Sought Of Crash Victim In Beckley WV
West Virginia State Police seek identity of a young white male, about 18 to 20, 5 feet 5 inches, 160 to 165 pounds, found killed July 23 near Beckley after a U S Route 19 21 crash. He wore jungle boots bearing the name John Durfee and had no ID. Autopsy and fingerprints showed no match. Anyone with clues should contact Corporal A C Barrett, Trooper B A Vaughan, or the Daily Telegraph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Beckley
U.S
National Crime Information Center
Daily Telegraph
News Bureau
A. C. Barrett
B. A. Vaughan
West Virginia State Police
Area Deaths And Funerals Involving Multiple Surnames
Obituaries from Tazewell and Grundy areas list Clifford David Russ and Charlie Dean Barton among the deceased. Also noted are French F Gilbert Ida Justice Prater and related survivors and funeral arrangements across Virginia and West Virginia communities.
Mary Ellen Young obituary in Bluefield Virginia
Mary Ellen Young 72 of 701 Holbrook Street Bluefield widow of Thomas Young died after a long illness in a Bluefield hospital. Born in Martinsville Virginia she lived in Bluefield 50 years and was active in Community Christian Church and Community Prayer Band. Survived by son Vernal Carrington and step son William Young. Funeral Sunday 1 p.m. at Community Christian Church with Rev F D Sweetenberg and Bishop James Easley officiating. Burial in Rest Lawn Memorial Gardens Littleburg. Friends may call Lugo's Bluefield 7 to 9 p.m. today and at church one hour before service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ellen Young
Holbrook Street
Bluefield
Thomas
Tom) Young
Martinsville
Tucker and
Matilda Martin Pettis
Henry County
Community Christian Church
Blufield
Community
Vernal C. Carrington
New York City
William Young
Winston- Salem
N. C
F. D. Sweetenberg
James Easley
Rest Lawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg
Lugo
Mrs. Albert Roland Gibson dies after short illness
Mrs. Albert Roland Gibson 45 of Denver Colorado formerly Mercer County died Saturday after a short illness in Denver. She was born in McComas daughter of Abe Lawrence Bluefield and the late Mae West Lawrence. Survived by husband Albert Roland Gibson son Mark Gibson sister Frances Helmandollar Salem Virginia brother Johnny Lawrence Maple Acres. Burial Tuesday in Wilson Cemetery at Check Virginia with calling hours at Oakey's Funeral Home Salem Virginia Tuesday 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Albert Roland
Jean) Gibson
Denver
Colo
Mercer County
McComas
Abe Lawrence
Bluefield
Mae West Lawrence
Albert Roland Gibson
Mark Gibson
Curtis
Frances) Helmandollar
Salem
Johnny Lawrence
Maple Acres
Wilson Cemetery
Check
Oakey
Alvis Mitchem 79 dies. retired miner in McComas
Alvis Mitchem 79 of McComas died at home Saturday from an apparent heart attack. A native of McDowell County he worked as a miner for United Pocahontas Coal Co at Crumpler and belonged to United Mine Workers of America. Survived by two sons Eulas and Louis. three daughters Ted Taylor Donnie Ayers and Bill Simpson. a brother Arvie Mitchem and a sister Virgie Lambert. Body at Bailey Funeral Home Princeton. arrangements incomplete.
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Alvis Mitchem
McComas
McDowell County
Riffe Mitchem
United Pocahontas, Coal Co
Crumpler
United Mine Workers of America
Eulas Mitchem
Louis Mitchem
Rt. 2
Rock
Ted Taylor
Matoaka
Donnie Ayers
Miami
Fla
Bill Simpson
Bolse
Arvie Mitchem
Bear Town
Virgie Lambert
Princeton
Bailey Funeral Home
William (Billy) Moore Sr. dies at 90 in Pocahontas Virginia
William Billy Moore Sr. 90 of Pocahontas Virginia died Saturday in a Bluefield hospital after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Rodriguez Pocahontas Union Funeral Home in Pocahontas Virginia.
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William
Billy) Moore
Billy) Moore Sr
Pocahontas
Bluefield
Rodriguez- Pocahontas
Okie Cawley Hale obituary notices a Rich Creek woman
Okie Cawley Hale 68 of Rich Creek Virginia died Saturday in a Pearisburg hospital. She was the daughter of the late Pembroke and Lusa Dunn Cawley. Survivors include husband Cecil Houston Hale, one son Robert R. Hale of Roanoke, three daughters Mrs. Luther S. Hilton of Salem Mrs. James J. Walker of Roanoke and Mrs. Garland Parcell of Rich Creek, two brothers Lacy Cawley of Rich Creek and Oscar Cawley of Pearisburg, one sister Ennis Shorter of Peterstown. Services conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Riffe's Funeral Chapel Narrows with Rev. Thomas Preston officiating. Burial in Fairview Cemetery Narrows. Funeral home today 3 to 9.
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Okie Cawley Hale
Rich Creek
Pearssburg
Pembroke
Lusa Dunn Cawley
Cecil Houston Hale
Robert R. Hale
Ronake
Luther S. Hilton
Salem
James J. Walker
Roanoke
Garland Parcell
Lacy Cawley
Oscar Cawley
Pearisburg
Ennis Shorter
Peterstown
Riffe
Narrows
Thomas Preston
Fairview
Minister Tommie Mitchem Dies at 60 in Matoaka Home
Tommie Oscar Mitchem, 60, of Matoaka, died at home Saturday morning. He was a minister of the Jesus Name Church and survived by his wife Dora and twelve children. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Memorial Funeral Directory in Princeton.
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Tommie Oscar Mitchem
Matoaka
Gabe R
Oma Mae Sizemore Mitchem
Jesus Name Church
Dora Mitchem
Franklin D. Mitchem
Route 2
Princeton
Jimmy Mitchem
Charleston
Donnell Mitchem
Lake Bottom
Ronald Mitchem
Jamita Lusk
Herndon
Judy Lusk
Ester Cecil
Mrs Katherine Logan Dies After Long Illness in Lexington
Mrs Katherine Logan 48 formerly of Jaeger Lancaster County died Friday in a Lexington hospital after a long illness. She was born at Bradshaw daughter of Roosevelt Payne and the late Zumer Justice Payne. Survived by husband John Logan two daughters Wanda Osborne Katie Wilson Carrie Kooger two sons John Logan Jr Ernest Logan four sisters Pearl Mounts Helen Lester Dorothy Bowles Ruby England paternal grandmother Ida Payne and others. Funeral at Fanning Funeral Home Chapel in Jaeger Monday at 1 p.m. with Elder Edgar Riffe. burial Tom Sparks Cemetery on Bradshaw Mountain after services.
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Katherine Logan
Lexington
Jaeger
Bradshaw
Roosevelt Payne
Steeles
Zumer Justice Payne
John Logan
Wanda Osborne
Katie Wilson
Winston- Salem
N. C
Carrie Kooger
Dayton
Ohio
John Logan Jr
Ernest Logan
Winston-Salem
Pearl Mounts
Freeburn
Helen Lester
Dunfries
Dorothy Bowles
Carlisle
Ruby England
Ida Payne
Fanning Funeral Home
Laeger
Edgar Riffe
Tom Sparks
Bradshaw Mountain
Lewis Jack Smith 86 Dies in Bluefield Hospital
Lewis Jack Smith 86 of Chestnut Mountain Maybeury died in a Bluefield hospital Friday. Survived by four daughters and two sons, 34 grandchildren and one great great, one brother John Smith Bluefield. Funeral 1 p.m. Monday Shumate Newman Funeral Home Pocahontas with Rev Jarvis and Rev Gibson officiating. Burial Perdue Cemetery near Maybeury. grandsons as pallbearers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Jack) Smith
Chestnut Mountain
Maybeury
Bluefield
Phillip Chartrand
East St. Louis
James Glass
Sidney Harris
Paul Mitchelson
Detorit
Mich
John Smith
Shumate-Newman Funeral Home
Pocahontas
Albert Jarvis
Henry Gibson
Perdue
George Wilburn Stowers obituary noting long WV career
George Wilburn Stowers, 62, of Route 1 Bastion Virginia, died suddenly Saturday afternoon at home following an apparent cause. He served 37 years at West Virginia Armature Company in Bluefield. Survived by Pansy Kesler Stowers, two daughters Arlena Stowers Elmore and Joy Stowers Evans, four sisters Rosa Gordon Hazel Stowers Coroia Meadows Evelyne Frye. services at Newberry Funeral Home Bland Virginia.
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George Wilburn Stowers
Rt. 1
Bastion
West Virginia Armature Company
Bluefield
Pansy Kesler Stowers
Arlena Stowers Elmore
Winston-Salem
N. C
Joy Stowers Evans
Alta Vista
Rosa Gordon
Rocky Gap
Hazel Stowers
Bastian
Coroia Meadows
Pearlsburg
Evelyne Frye
Junction City
Kan
Newberry Funeral Home
Bland, Va
Multiple Funeral Services Held Across Virginia and West Virginia
Obituaries list several funeral plans with services at First United Methodist Church Jaeger Mullins Funeral Home Richlands and other chapels. Names include Burdette Puckett Bowman Humphreys Mabe Compton Wilson Roten Bowman Stonewall Jackson and others with burial locations in Bluefield Bluewell Maplewood and Grand View Memory Gardens.
Profitt Rites Slated Monday
Funeral services for John Henry Profitt a 26 year old Wilcoe resident who died Friday from a gunshot wound will be held at 1 p m Monday at the Fanning Funeral Home Chapel in Welch with Rev Johnson Wilson officiating Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Bluewell He was born in Pageton son of Mrs Liliah McGill of Grants New Mexico and the late Claude Profitt The services include three step children two step daughters three sisters and a step brother with pallbearers named Funeral home hours today 5 to 9
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Clifford David Russ
Tazewell
Bluefield
Vivian Walker Russ
Clifford David Russ Jr
Kingsport
Tenn
Evelyn Russ Kilby
Rocky Mount
Jo Russ Paxton
Wanda Lee
Cookie) Russ
Wilmington
Del
Aaron Russ
Johnson City
Elizabeth Harmon
Evelyn Hardy
Tazewell Baptist Church
Wendell Patterson
Russell Asbury
Maplewood Cemetery
James H. Hardy
Danny Surface
William Vandyke
Billy Vandyke
James Harmon Jr
James Harmon III
Johnny Harmon
R. I. Fleming
J. R. Shanklin
Martin L. Harmon
James M. Walker
Bill Hughes
Pete Hawkins
Greever Funeral Home
Mellie Willis
Rt. 1
Haysi
Wsie
Dana Willis
Fay Willis
Junior Willis
Hollister
Flo
Lack Willis
Swamp Scotty Mass
Amos Willis
Buster Willis
Andy Willis
Detroit
Mich
Jo Ann Steele
Big Rock
Mae Mullins
John Henry Profitt
Wilcoe
Fanning Funeral Home
Welch
Johnson Wilson
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Bluewell
Pageton
Liliah McGill
Grants
N. M
Claude Profitt
Martha Profitt
Skygusky
Aubrey Shaw
Grover Howard Shaw
Jimmy Ray Shaw
Linda Sue Shaw
Brenda Ray Shaw
Robert
Bernardine) McKinnon
San Rafael
Alfonso
Wanda) Martinex
Thomas
Elderly Couple Pays Up to Bunco Artist in Fraud Scam
An elderly couple, married over 50 years, were conned by a man claiming to be from the local power company who needed to install a new meter. They paid $100 and are now financially ruined. A loaded 30 30 was reportedly in the home but not used. The couple cannot fathom why they were targeted. The report also notes Latin America and Africa together account for 40 percent of the world’s forests.
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Bunco
Taylor
Chess Master To Play At Local Club Monday
Austrian master Anton Slamecka now living in Princeton will give a simultaneous exhibition for the Mercer County Chess Club at 7 p.m. in the Christ Episcopal Church basement Bluefield. He is a former Styria champion and works on the I-77 interchange project in Princeton. Visitors may attend and should bring boards and pieces to join in.
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Anton Slamecka
Princeton
Mercer County
Slamecka
Cham
Pion
Styria
Austria
Christ Episcopal Church
Tazewell
Durhing
Bluefield
Tractor Mishap Injures Area Man
Elwood Hawkins of North Tazewell sustained back and chest injuries when a farm tractor left a dirt road on Virginia Route 643 and plunged 25 feet over an embankment in the Dick Creek area of Tazewell County. He was in satisfactory condition at Clinch Valley Clinic in Richlands. No charges were filed.
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North Tazewell
Richlands
Virginia Rt. 643
Elwood Hawkins
Rt. 1
Dick Creek
Tazewell County
Clinch Valley
R. W. Douchette
Hankins
Sand pine as principal tree of Ocala National Forest
The report identifies sand pine as the principal tree within Florida’s Ocala National Forest, highlighting its dominance in the ecosystem and possible conservation emphasis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocala National Forest
Florida
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Huntington
James Gipson
Arch Moore
Gipson
Monongalia County
Kermit Mason
Mathews, Swannon & Cullen Telephone
Charlie Barton
Charlie Dean Barton
Big A
Honaker
Buchanan County
Council
Combs Ridge Church of God
Issac Stevens
Carson Powers
Fletcher Ridge
Charlie
Martha Street Barton
Lewis Barton
Hurricane Creek
Benny Barton
Jeff Barton
Clarence Barton
Nancy Johnson
Hurricane Ridge
Alice Yates
Millie Bostic
Betty
Bertie Barton
Johnny Barton
Evans Barton
Berwind
Luther Barton
Mary Hess
Marion
Ida Mae Street
Ula Stump
Ellie Albin
May Sprous
Nancy Street
Drill
Owens Funeral Home
Mrs
French
Gilbert French F. Gilbert
Second St
Russell County
Dee
Zinia Gilbert
U. S. Army
Virginia National Guard
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Statesville
Myrtle Hunt
Circleville
Bessie Page
Palatka
Trelis Gilbert
Rt. 3
Gate City
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Ida Justice Prater
Grundy
Elster Prater
Lizzie Stump
Newtown
Grundy Funeral Home
Claude Conn
Shortridge
Looney’s Creek
Albert R. Gibson
East
Eula
Athens
Burdette
W. S
First United Methodist Church
Ronnie Edgell
Boone Memorial Park
Madison
Carl Keyser
Alton Richardson
Bill Kissinger
Erv_ Althoff
Edwin Hawley
A. S. Bailey
Henry King
Luther Mayhew
Saeger
Puckett
Harry
Cedar Bluff
Mullins Funeral Home
Rev
H. D. Hampton
Bandy
Baptist Valley
Ray Cochran
Ralph Cochran
George Waddell
Woodrow Grindstaff
Marvin McGuire
Sherman Ball
Bowman, Allen
Horsepen
Horsepen Christian Church
Charlie Sublett
Shumate- Newman Funeral Home
Mabe
Jennifer Lynn
Roy F
Sally Roberts
New Carrollton
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bluefield-Princeton
Cravens- Shires Funeral Home
Roten
Thomas James
Catlett
Dudley Memorial Chapel
Richard Webb
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Bowman
Stonewall Jackson
Rt. 5
Mercer Funeral Chapel
David Sprinkle
Map Hill
Walter Clay Tabor
Harlingen
Tex
Coopers
Nora Mick Tabor
Arnold Tabor
James Tabor
Edgewater
Douglas Tabor
Fort Isabelle
Edsel Tabor
J. A. Byrd
Lolas Neel
Ellis Bailey
Falls Mills
Mae Little
Giotto
D. C. Tabor
Nemours
J.C
Effie
J. C
Blake Street
Graham Funeral Home
Latin America
Africa
Atl Mele
Graham Iain
Virginia Ave
J Marvin Munsey
James P Headley
Mercer Funeral Home OF Bluefield,inc
Bluefield Monument’ Company, Inc
Harae
DIAL
Virginia
Royal Melrose Granites
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