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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1963
Page
7
West Virginia senators Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd backed a $1.2 billion measure to fund construction on college campuses. The bill passed 57 to 24 and was sent to the president for approval.
John L. Scott spent 24113 to win a 4000 a year post in Fairfax County His campaign expenditures topped the Virginia State Board of Elections tallies He ran as a political newcomer facing opposition from a local weekly paper and a rival with the same last name He bought seven used cars painted white with his name and hired teenagers to drive them during the campaign and said he still seeks contributions to cover debts He will earn less than 4000 for the two year term.
The Bluefield Board of Directors approved four building permits totaling 16 175 in a weekly session. Two permits were additions to existing ones and two were new. Americo Mariotti adds 6 000 to a 13 000 project at 702 Longview. Mary Archer St Clair adds 10 000 to a 20 000 Verdun Heights project. Bland Street Methodist Church plans general repairs at 36 Bland Street costing 125. Frank Kurtz plans partial chimney removal and stucco work on Stowers Street.
Dr. Festus P. Summers professor of history at West Virginia University will deliver the main address at a Library of Congress centennial ceremony observing the 100th anniversary of West Virginia statehood. West Virginia members of Congress and the West Virginia Society in DC are invited. Sen. Jennings Randolph will introduce Summers.
The Rheta Zeta Chapter sponsors a Friday program to close the Babes in Blue contest. The event is at the Appalachian Power Co assembly room at 7 30 p.m. Admission is free and the contest is open to the public.
Texas Governor John Connally, wounded in the Kennedy assassination era, is hospitalized in Austin for inflammation in his right leg. Doctors expect a four to five day stay with no surgery planned, citing superficial thrombophlebitis near an IV site.
The State Road Commission opened bids totaling over 10.4 million dollars for interstate highway work in Cabell Wayne and Wood counties. The 16th bid opening this year included three contracts with S. J. Groves and Sons and Turman Construction Co. bidding 3,980,001 dollars for Cabell, Southern Coal Corp. and Foster Crayton Co. bidding 3,360,156 dollars for Wayne, and Cadell Construction Co. bidding 3,102,605 dollars for Wood.
Monsor Tweet, 72, owner of a Huntington combined grocery and tavern, remained in satisfactory condition at a hospital Tuesday after being shot in the chin during a Monday night holdup. Police said two gunmen entered, demanded money, and fled after Tweel handed over cash. A witness described one robber firing at Tweel at the doorway.
The legislative group moves to revive a 1963 plan for voluntary non profit groups to provide direct health services under doctor contracts. If not in the 30 day session call, it would wait until 1965. A Blue Cross Blue Shield proposal envisions broad coverage costing about 13 million dollars yearly, with hospital care up to 70 days and state funded adjustments.
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