Soviet Increases Defense Spending For War Menace
Moscow reports a 5 percent defense rise for 1966 totaling 13.4 billion rubles amid growing East West tensions. Finance Minister Vasily Garbuzov cited aggravating international conditions and the aim for stronger arms while promising more consumer goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Moscow
Soviet Union
Vasily Garbuzov
Washington
Garbuzov
Supreme Soviet
Viet Nam
Four Lane Program Highlights Virginia 460 Project
At a ground breaking Jennings rode a bulldozer while Sweeney watched. D B Fugate Virginia Highway chairman said Virginia starts the U S 460 four laning early due to prior planning. He listed dozen Southwest Virginia projects to begin within six months including bypasses at Gate City and Christiansburg and Route 93 north of Wise. Joseph Hamrick praised 460 as a wise investment promising jobs and industrial growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennings
D. B. Fugate
Virginia State Highway Commission
Martingale
Tazewell
Virginia
Fugate
West Virginia Veterans Affairs Office to Move to Princeton
The district office serving Mercer and Summers counties will relocate from Bluefield to the Memorial Building in Princeton on Jan. 3. After move, services will be offered from the Riley West Legion Building two days weekly, with hours set by District Deputy Richard Rice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs
Mercer
Summers
Bluefield Municipal
Memorial Building
Princeton
Riley-West Legion
Richard Rice
Rice
Hinton
American Legion Building
Bluefield
Wytheville Livestock Auction Sells 670 Head
Wytheville Virginia live stock market reported 670 head sold Tuesday. Veal top 32.25 per cwt. heavy 30, light 28, good 26, standard 25.50, utilities 17.25 to 21.50. Lambs 130 sold prime 26.25, choice 24.50, good 23.50, utility 20.50. Cattle and calves across grades posted varied prices. steers and heifers ranged widely by class. total stock and feeder cattle 250 head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wytheville
Honor Roll Listed At Bluestone School
Bluestone School at Bramwell releases the second six weeks honor roll. First grade students include Lenora Cosby and peers. second grade lists Linda Clark and others. third grade names Lisa Allen and Wanda Gammon. fourth grade names Rosalind Foulks and peers. fifth grade includes Pamela Davis and Michael Guyton. sixth grade lists Emmanuel Fuller and Robert Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B. Guyton
Bluestone School
Bramwell
Bluestone
Lenora Cosby
Marie Neverson
Mary McClennahan
Karen Miller
Anne Pinkard
Linda Clark
Wanda Harrell
John Johnson
Lisa Allen
Wanda Gammon
Darlene Gravely
Charles Norwood
Rosalind Foulks
Irma Hood
Judy Hawthorne
Pandora Harrell
Pamela Davis
Robert Moore
Micheal Young
George Harris
Michael Guyton
Emmanuel Fuller
Robert Williams
U S Recognizes New Congo Regime
Leopoldville Congo AP The United States recognized Gen Joseph Mobutu new Congo regime Tuesday signaling U S support amid political transition in the former Belgian Congo Mobutu seized power earlier this week and established a military government in Kinshasa officials said Washington welcomed the move and urged stability and orderly reform through existing authorities This report notes the U S stance comes as Mobutu consolidates control and seeks international recognition and aid for his government
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leopoldville, the Congo
United States
Joseph D. Mobutu
Congo
Weather forecast for Virginia and West Virginia
The Associated Press reports fair weather in Virginia with rising temperatures reaching the 40s to 50s and milder tonight. In West Virginia the day brings partly cloudy skies and warmer highs in the 40s east to 48 52 west with a not as cold night and a Thursday of fair conditions and seasonable temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Virginia
West Virginia
Cecil Underwood May Run For West Virginia Secretary
West Virginia Republicans speculate former Gov Cecil Underwood may seek the secretary of state post. Democrat appointee Robert Bailey currently holds the office after being named last May. Will Phillips of Elkins says it is a real possibility and that both parties show enthusiasm for Underwood running.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Cecil Underwood
Repub
Robert Bailey
Will Phillips
Elkins
WSAZ
Underwood
Phillip
Brown Case Review Denied by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court refused to review James V. Brown a former Charleston attorney indicted as an accessory in mishandling federal flood relief funds. He seeks to overturn a West Virginia ruling ordering trial. Also noted: Alex Dandy, formerly of Charleston now in Bethesda, Md., was convicted and sentenced for accessory involvement.
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Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Charleston
W.va
James V. Brown
Brown
Alex Dandy
Bethesda
Malev
Coal Output Rise Reported In 1965 Week
The Smokeless Operators Assn. reports a 55,502 ton rise in week ending Nov 27 from the prior year. Latest bituminous output reached 444,215 tons vs 389,713 last year, with 5.9 percent of 1964 area production. Year to date total 21,864,677 tons, up from 20,628,440. Local output equals 4.8 percent of U S bituminous market, with national 1965 production 3.7 percent ahead. District car loadings show changes across Norfolk, Virginian, Tug River, Upshur Buchanan, Valley, Thacker Tilt er, Kenova, New River, Kanawha, Coal River, Logan, Kentucky, and Hocking.
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U. S
Norfolk and Western
Pocahontas
Virginian
Tug River
Upshur Buchanan
Valley
Thacker-Tiller
Kenova
Chesapeake and Ohio
New River
Kanawha
Coal River
Logan
Kentucky
Hocking
Louisiana asks Supreme Court to strike down Voting Rights Act
Louisiana urged the Supreme Court to declare the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional and to bar enforcement in the Deep South. The state argued the act is unconstitutional as written and as applied by federal agencies, citing arbitrary administration and ignored voter qualifications in Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Deep South
South Carolina
Jack P.F. Gremillion
British taxpayers face $84,000 cost for Princess Margaret visit
London AP reports Princess Margaret's 20 day U S visit cost British taxpayers about $84,000. Parliament was informed Tuesday with Chancellor James Callaghan saying this total was expected in public funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Princess Margaret
U.S
Parliament
James Callaghan
Court Rules on Whiskey Counts
In Bluefield U S District Court judges ruled on whiskey law violations and other crimes on comeback day. The docket includes moonshine prosecutions for Ulie Blankenship Delsey Blankenship Cecil Sizemore and others along with charges of interstate transport of a stolen vehicle and fraud to obtain Social Security funds. Sentences vary from probation to three years, with a few defendants awaiting pre sentence investigations. A separate April 18 hearing in Bluefield covers Charles Cullop on vehicle transport.
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U. S. District Court
Bluefield
Ulie Blankenship
Delsey Blankenship
Wyoming County
Cecil Lester
McDowell
Robert R. Smith
Mary Weller Stewart
McDowell County
Cecil V. Graham
Arthur J. Hagerman
Charles F. Cullop
Chicago
Princeton
Edward Price, Jr
Hazel D. Stinson
William Edward Hopkins
Mercer County
U. S. Treasury
United States
Howard Sizemore
Willard Cecil Bowman
Ellis Arnold
Meany Attacks Papers Stand On Closed Shop Contracts
AFL-CIO president George Meany in San Francisco argued most U.S. newspapers operate under closed shop style labor contracts via foremen who must be union members. He cited Taft-Hartley 14B repeal efforts and noted editors oppose compulsory unionism, estimating 98 percent of about 1,800 dailies run under such contracts. Meany framed Senate votes as a test of GOP resistance to the repeal bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Afl-Cio
George Meany
U.S
Meany
Organized Labor
International Labor Press Association
Congress
Johnson
Senate
Soviet seeks international pact on satellite use
In Paris at an UNESCO space communications session, Soviet delegate Dr. M. Tchistiakov urged an international agreement on the use of communication satellites during discussions at the United Nations agency meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. Tchistiakov
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Deaths and Funerals in McDowell County
A series of obituaries from McDowell County notes the deaths of Lewis Everette Whitman 71 of Anawalt Ruth Buckland Staton 42 of Pensacola Fla Mandy Owens 68 of Vansant Va Lorenza Jones 38 of Walls Creek and others. Funeral details include services at Cravens Funeral Home Bluewell Wayside Mission Church Narrows Hartwell Cemetery and Richlands Va with relatives named across Bluefield Narrows Vansant and surrounding areas. The notices provide survivors including spouses children siblings and grandchildren and list pallbearers and calling hours.
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Ruth Buckland Staton
Pensacola
Fla
Narrows
Loyd Buckland
William W. Staton
F. C. Rice
R. S. Rice
John Via
Arthur Crawford
Everett Reed
Roanoke
Buford
Odell
Robert Buckland
Wayside Mission Church
Rt. 1
Clarence Mullins
Rich Creek
Donald Rice
Francis Rice
Douglas Buckland
St. Clair Rice
Cathar Ferguson
Riffe
Lorenza Jones
Walls Creek
Walls Creek Baptist Church
J. H. Saunders
W. H. Jackson
Hartwell Cemetery
Eutaw
Ala
Jones
Ben Johnson
Sadie Butler Johnson
McDowell County
Walls Creek First Baptist Church
Geneva Marrow
Carrie Sterling
Landcaster Johnson
Canebrake
Lugo
Bluefield
Andrew Frazier
Ralph Benton
Isaac Barron
Herman Monroe
Ben Moss
George Salughter
Funeral notices brief list of obsequies in Princeton area
Multiple obituaries and funeral notices from Princeton area. Emma Rose Foster died, service at George W Seaver Mortuary Chapel, burial Resthaven Park Cemetery with listed pallbearers. Mike Juba, 78, Ingleside, funeral at Sacred Heart Church Princeton with burial Monte Vista Memorial. Joe Wallingford Faulkner, 52, New Hope Road Princeton, service at Seaver Mortuary, burial Resthaven Park. Cephas Seymour Snow, 54, Brushfork, service Brushfork Methodist Church, burial Woodlawn. Mary Louise Bryant, Welch, St Luke's Welch, burial Woodlawn. Fanning Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Juba
Mike
Ingleside
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Princeton
John
J Savage
Monte Vista P.m
Father Savage
Faulkner
Joe Wallingford
New Hope Road
George W. Seaver
Clayton Sweet
Resthaven Park Cemetery
Woody Wood
Cauley Hill
Joreel Gott
Fred Saunders
Garfield Cole
Charlie Artrip
Bryant
Mary Louise
Welch
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Woodlawn
Fanning Funeral Home of
Infant son of Mitchem family dies after birth
Ronald Edward Mitchem infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Mitchem of Carswell died in a Welch hospital shortly after birth. Survived by parents a sister Shery Ann and brother Donald Lee. Grandparents listed. Graveside services Wednesday at 2 p.m. Belcher Mountain Cemetery Welch. Fanning Funeral Home of Welch to the Lowe residence.
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Ronald Edward Mitchem
Roger Mitchem
Carswell
Welch Hospital
Shery Ann Mitchem
Donald Lee Mitchem
Leroy Lowe
Robert Mitchem
Maybeury
Belcher Mountain Cemetery
Welch
John McPeak
Fanning Funeral Home
Mrs Minnie Surface 74 Dies in Christiansburg Nursing Home
Mrs Minnie Surface 74 of Christiansburg Virginia died Sunday night in a local nursing home. Survived by brother H M Surface Auburn Illinois three stepsons C G Surface Jr Salem W B Surface Montevallo Jack L Surface Porto Rico two stepdaughters Mrs Lorena Hale Speedwell and Mrs Mary Jane Weeks Christiansburg. Funeral arrangements shown as conducted Wednesday at 2 30 pm in Richardson Funeral Home Christiansburg with burial in Christiansburg Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Surface
Christiansburg
H. M. Surface
Auburn
Ill
C. G. Surface Jr
Salem
W. B. Surface
Montevallo
Ala
Jack L. Surface
Porto Rico
Lorena Hale
Speedwell
Mary Jane Weeks
Richardson Funeral Home
Cemetery of
Christians'g
Caperton Death Is Reported In Princeton Area
Louden Wilson Caperton of Elgood died at Memorial Hospital of Princeton at 11 30 am Tuesday after a 10 day illness. Born February 3 1684 in Elgood he was a retired farmer. Survived by wife Bessie Martin Caperton seven grandchildren and children Mrs Ruby Hazelwood Berman Caperton L W Caperton Jr Thomas Caperton. Funeral 2 pm Thursday at Elgood Methodist Church Rev Keith officiating burial Caperton Cemetery. Friends may call at Seaver seen after 4 pm Wednesday.
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Resa Agnes Spangler
West Main St
Princeton
Thursbary Chapel
Yandel Page
Fomae Ie Ee Aeika Kovak Harsanyi
Bluefield Sanitarium
Frank Harsanyi
Conrad T. Spangler Jr
Conrad T. Spangler
Northfork
Welch
Louden Wilson Caperton
Elgood
Memorial Hospital
John and
Lisa Williams Caperton
Bessie Martin Caperton
Ruby Hazelwood
Berman Caperton
L. W. Caperton Jr
Roanoke
Thomas Caperton
Wilmington
Del
Mercer County
Elgood Methodist Church
Keith
Caperton
Friends
Seaver
Wednes
Head Of Livestock Sold At Bluegrass Market Inc
Eight hundred seventy seven head of livestock were sold at the Bluegrass Market Inc in North Caldwell this week to 117 buyers. Total sales amounted to 59322.21 dollars with detailed prices for cattle calves hogs and sheep across standard utility and choice grades.
Shotgun Accident Injures McDowell Man During Hunt
Melvin Frazier of War McDowell County was wounded by a shotgun accident while hunting near his home. He was treated at Welch Emergency Hospital for a chest and ear injury and the condition was not critical. Trooper H T McGinnis investigated the incident.
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McDowell County
Melvin Frazier
Welch Emergency Hospital
Acceetantnaae Ital
Vaien Canal
H. T. McGinnis
Frazier Peg Bon Oa Sone
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Apy Sue
Garbutov
Nikita Sr. Khrushchev
Sweeney
U.S. Weather Bureau
Pacific Northwest
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Plains
Aly
Veterans Office
Wytheville. Mart
Albany
Albuquerque
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Boise
Buffalo
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Fort Worth
Helena
Richmond
Salt Louis
Salt Sk
City
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Tampa
Cecil
Lewis E. Whitman
Lewis Everette Whitman
Anawalt
Horsepen
Charles P
Irene Pressley Whitman
K. H. Whitman
C. E. Whitman
Blacksburg
Vance Nelson
Coy Mehaffey
Lancaster
Cravens Funeral
Bluewell
John Lafferty Sr
Flake Martin
Dan Rose
Virgil
Russell Bradley
E. A. Parks
Carl Sharp
Ruth Staton
Sarah Owens
Sarah
Mandy Owens
Vansant
Richlands
Jessie Owens
Dolly Owens
Mary Fuller
Maxie Fuller
Hollister
Weelee Shayammi
Mich
Geneva Kersey
Reidsville
N. C
Clarence Owens
Green Cove Springs
Virgil Owens
Oakwood
Billy and
Ercil Owens
Annie Thacker
Hettie Maynard
Pikeville
Rosa Owens
Vickie Hagg
Gallie Looney
Pontiac
Rod Looney
Raven, Va
Virginia Funeral Home
Grundy
Charles Davis
Charles Milton Davis
Bourque St
Baltimore
Athens
Bethleham I Corporation
Speedway
Landon
Annie Lyon Davis
Corine Lilly Davis
Charles Ed Davis
Luna Pine
Ada Phillips
Serena
Lucinda Mullins
Fannie Shorter
Green Tree
Carl Davis
Mano Davis
Mansfield
Mrs
Theresa Spangler
Mrs. Lorenza Jones
Ronald Mitchem
Louden Caperton
Bluegrass Market Inc
North Caldwell
Shotgun
McDowell Man
Bluefield Monument Company
Heart of
Bluefield, Va
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