Televised Bluefield Christmas Tree Show Nets Community Help
WHIS-TV will televise for the first time the Bluefield WHIS Community Christmas Tree program a four hour variety show on Sunday December 15 from 1 30 to 5 30 p m to raise contributions for children in Bluefield and partner communities Tazewell Richlands Narrows Pearlsburg Princeton Bluefield Va Kimball Ronceverte with local entertainers and volunteer callers taking gifts and donations across the region programs will feature local musical groups and a stage set at the Municipal Building Community Hall numbers for each community are listed and telephoned contributions will be accepted while the show airs. A note at end states citizenship grants Indian birth does not bar presidential eligibility.
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Bluefield
WHIS
Tazewell
Richlands
Narrows
Pearlsburg
Princeton
Kimball
Ronceverte
Pearlsburg and Narrows
Whistv
Duffy Hornbeck
Garland Bruce
Buckshot Yost
Bob Brannen
Paul Thomas
Bud Gentry
Smitty Smith
Dave Steiner
Rex
Eleanor
Viola Clark
Frankie Palmer
Jane Clear
The
Richlands Jug Band
Gordon Jennings
Patricia Linkford
Jackie Oblinger
Karen Hurley
Bonnie Lou
Buster Moore
Jean Walker
Lashmeet Choir
Cecil Lively
Curtis Cheek
Bluefield Symphony Group
Martha Lynne Meadows
Goins Brothers
Beaver A Cappella Choir
Merry Dillon Santolla
Mercer
Princeton-Bluefield Road
Clarksburg Fears Hood As River Near Flood Stage
The Clarksburg Water Board reports 48 hours of steady rain raised the West Fork River to within 2 feet of flood stage. About 1.4 inches of rain fell in the 24 hours ending today. A small creek overflow near Wallace, Harrison County blocked traffic on a section of W Va 20.
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Clarksburg
Portable typewriters for Christmas at Commercial Printing Co
Choose from over 12 models and colors at 621 Commerce Street Bluefield West Virginia. An unusual gift that is instructive to beginners and a time saver to the rest of the family. Prices start at 74.50 dollars.
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Commercial Printing Co
Commerce Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Shoppers Warned Of Counterfeiters
Washington dispatch reports Chief A. E. Baughman of the U. S. Secret Service warns Christmas shoppers to beware counterfeit money. He urges familiarity with genuine currency to spot dull portraits and irregular backgrounds, and suggests comparing with a known real bill. The piece ends with a stray note about pre-Spanish plains Indians.
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A. E. Baughmen
U. S
Secret Service
Baughman
$200000 Suit Filed In Pearisburg Virginia History
A $200000 civil action was filed in the Giles County clerk’s office in Pearisburg by John J. Alexander of Glen Lyn against W H H Kennedy special police and the Norfolk and Western Railway. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for an alleged shot in the back at Glen Lyn on November 23. Attorneys are J Livingston Dillon and C B Andrews. The text notes Clayton New Mexico owns a municipal buffalo herd attracting tourists.
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Giles County
Pearisburg
John J. Alexander
Glen Lyn
W. H. H. Kennedy
Norfolk and Western Railway
Alexander
Kennedy
J. Livingston Dillon
C. B. Andrews
City Negroes Strive For Better Housing In New York
Harlem editor James Hicks frames housing as the major civil rights issue for New York's Negro community amid a city bill to ban racial and religious discrimination in private apartment rentals. The Sharkey Brown Isaacs measure faces opposition from real estate groups, while City Hall and leaders support it despite heated debate. The population shift and school integration efforts compound housing tensions as whites decline citywide while nonwhites grow.
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New York
James L. Hicks
Harlem
South
Old Father Knickerbocker
Sharkey-Brown-Isaacs
James Andrews
Real Estate Board of New York
Robert F. Wagner
Ing
City Hall
Wagner
State Commission Against Discrimination
New York City
An Park
Manhattan
old-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
United States
Oge
Board of Education
Eddie Fisher Now Takes Singing Lessons
Hollywood star Eddie Fisher, after amassing wealth as a singer, has begun taking singing lessons. He studies with the same tutor who trained Mario Lanza.
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Eddie Fisher
Hollywood
Mario Lanza
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