Princeton Council Orders Traffic Re Routed To Reduce Noise
Princeton city council approves routing trucks around Memorial hospital to cut noise and congestion. New plan shifts truck turns to Walker and Honaker avenues while passenger traffic remains unchanged.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
W. VA
Princeton Council
D. L. Atkinson
Koontz Equipment Company
Emsworth
Princeton
Memorial Hospital
Atkinson
Hospital
Main Street
Alvis and
Mercer Streets
Main
Courthouse
North Walker
Honaker Avenue
Foreign Ministers Set Atlantic Defense Meet
Secretary of State Acheson and Western powers foreign ministers agreed on an early Brussels meeting to push North Atlantic defense plans. Acheson plans to fly to Brussels for a 12 nation council session. Belgian foreign minister Paul Van Zeeland chairs and may issue a formal summons. December 20 cited as a likely conference start.
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Washington
Acheson
Brussels
North Atlantic Council
Paul van Zeeland
Volunteer Firemen Lose Quarters In Blaze
Lehighton Pennsylvania reports a fire that destroyed a one story frame firehouse used by ten volunteers from nearby Tracisville. The blaze consumed two units including a relatively new pumper and left firefighters unable to save gear before Lehighton responders arrived too late.
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Lehighton
Tracisville
City & Coalfield Masonic Notice Stated Meeting
Blue Field Lodge No. 85 AF and AM announces a stated communication tonight at 7:30. Visitors welcome. T. H. Shumate, W M. L. M. Carper, Secy.
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City & Coalfield
Bluefield Lodge
AF & A
T. H. Shumate
W. M. L. M. Carper
Secy
Christmas Tree Group Plans Annual Bluefields Party
The Community Christmas Tree Association holds its annual meeting to finalize plans for a December 24 Christmas Eve party for underprivileged children of the two Bluefields. Officers and directors are elected, with Santa expected after a 2 PM start and refreshments. The event relies on proceeds from WHIS stage and radio revue at the Colonial theatre to raise about $4,000 for around 2,000 children.
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Community Christmas Tree Association, Inc
Bluefields
Clyde E. Elliott
Benny Tilson
Carel Thompson
C. J. Thompson
al Brooks
Welby Thornburg
Hugh Shott, Jr
Pat Flanagan
Aubrey Stowers
Lacy Edwards
Stewart Webster
Barney Nash
Jim Shott
George Frehling
Janie Marie Lambert
Marion Wall
Ramsey Auditorium
Santa Claus
Whis Community
Colonial Theatre
Two
Santa
McDowell Wrecks Hurt 13 Persons
Thirteen people were admitted to Welch hospitals after multiple motor vehicle accidents. Four Welch Negro residents escaped death when their car skidded through guard rails and fell onto Norfolk & Western tracks at Vivian. Five others, four colored, were treated after a head on collision at Bottom Creek near Kimball. Two Pageton residents and two more from Pageton were also injured in separate incidents.
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Welch
W. Va
Norfolk & Western Railway
Vivian
Paul Preston
Estell Craft
James Bradley
Lawrence Todd
Craft
Bradley
Preston
Todd
Stevens Clinic
Bottom Creek
Kimball
Frank Scott
Keystone
John B. Reed
Eward Conner
Drucilla Reed
Arthur Bird
Stallings
Logan County
G. H. Osborne
M. A. Hofstetter
Bird
Conner
Scott
Reed
Pageton
Paul Halleman
Grace Hospital
Ethel Sharrone
Mt Etna's Worst Eruption Continues On 17th Day
Clouds of ash covered the snow cap as Etna’s eruption persisted into its 17th day. The Catania Volcanic Institute reported no easing of lava flows endangering three villages along the slopes and noted evacuations are in place with no immediate danger to those areas.
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Catania
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Area development conference at Marietta College
An area development conference at Marietta College on February 12 to 13 will unite civic leaders from Parkersburg West Virginia and Marietta Ohio for a survey of local needs and ways to address them. Dr E L Kirkpatrick professor of sociology will oversee the event.
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Marietta, O
Dec.il
Marietta College
Parkersburg
W. Va
Marietta
E. L. Kirkpatrick
McDowell Mine Worker Killed In Slate Collapse
Arthur Roberts aged 38, part owner of a Cub Creek mine near Panther, was instantly killed when slate and rock crushed him. Luther McGuire, also a part owner, was slightly hurt and treated by a doctor. Roberts left a widow, six children, and his mother Mrs. Alvis Roberts. Funeral plans were that his body would be moved from Fanning funeral home Tuesday to the Roberts home.
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Fanning Funeral Home
Roberts
Red China delegates study atom and etiquette
The New York Herald Tribune reports that China's United Nations delegation bought 88 dollars of books on atomic energy and military topics from a Manhattan store last week. The purchase included etiquette. booksellers declined to comment beyond a wary confirmation.
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New York
China
United Nations
Manhattan
New York Herald Tribune
The
Herald Tribune
Poca Youth Enlists in Regular Army
Clarence R. Henshaw, 17, of Poca Hontas Virginia enlisted for three years in the regular army. The local recruiting office said he was sent to Fort Knox for basic training yesterday.
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Clarence R. Henshaw
Pocahontas
Ft. Knox
Korean War Fronts See Reinforcements marching to Sinanju
The latest war summaries indicate Red reinforcements and supplies flow from Manchuria toward Sinanju on the Chongchon line. Ground fighting remains limited in the Eighth army zone while air drops sustain allied positions.
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MacArthur
Eighth Army
Korea
U. S. 24Th Division
Haeju
38Th Parallel
Campaign expenses of Melvin C. Snyder in 2nd district race
Former Rep. Melvin C. Snyder of Kingwood reported campaign spending of 4522.92 dollars and receipts of 3170 dollars for his unsuccessful bid to represent West Virginia's second district in Congress.
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Charleston
W. Va
Melvin C. Snyder
Kingwood Republican
Bluefield State to Build $400000 Vocational Center
Bluefield State College advances a new 400000 vocational training building funded by the state. Construction by B F Parrot Roanoke follows a September contract for 360 work days. The three story brick and tile facility west of Route 52 will serve about 300 students with five professors to start and grant a bachelor of science in mechanical arts.
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Bluefield State College
BSC
H. L. Dickason
State Board of Education
B. F. Parrot
Roanoke
Dickason
Easley Bridge
The
College
Waugh
Bluefield State
Area Delegates Attend Conference at Bob Jones University
Delegates from Bluefield and surrounding areas attend the Mid-Century World Outlook conference at Bob Jones University in Greenville South Carolina this week. Attendees include Margie Spurrier Jeffrey David Brooks Janet Francine Woolwine Laud Oswald Vaught Ralph Blankenship and Ira Shelton. Speakers from around the world discuss each nation’s present condition and future outlook and aspirations.
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Bluefield
Bob Jones University
Greenville
S. C
Margie L. Spurrier
Princeton Avenue
Jeffrey David Brooks
Rt. 2
Janet Francine Woolwine
Laud Oswald Vaught
Thorn St
Princeton
Ralph Blankenship
Richlands
Ira C. Shelton
Raven
Telephone Employees To Be Feted At Party
Bluefield Telephone company Local No. 6 hosts its annual Christmas party at Bluefield Country Club. About 300 employees and guests will attend a 7 p.m. banquet followed by a floor show by Esther Irene Graham School of Dancing students. Dick Daisey and his Crowd Pleasers will provide music until 1 a.m. Frank Sprinkle oversees arrangements. Joe Walker is local president.
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Bluefield Telephone Company
Bluefield Country Club
Esther Irene Graham
Dick Daisey
Frank Sprinkle
Red Mob In Paris Peacefully Dispersed
Paris December 11 police broke up a 2000 strong Communist called demonstration against rearming Germany. A plate glass window shattered near the Elysee palace but no serious injuries were reported. Demonstrators sang La Marseillaise and chanted No arms for the Nazis and We want peace. A few dozen then visited the American embassy.
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Paris
Communist Party
Vincent Auriol
Germany
Faubourg St. Honore
Auriol
Elysee Palace
MacArthur
Rites Wednesday For Wreck Victim Oscar Wiley Caldwell
Oscar Wiley Caldwell 18 of Rocky Gap dies when his truck skids into a ditch near East River Mountain. He is survived by his mother and four sisters plus a half broth er. Services at Honaker Chapel with burial in Tuggle cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Body to arrive from Hawkins funeral home today.
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Oscar Wiley Caldwell
Rocky Gap
East River Mountain
O. W. Caldwell
Young Caldwell
Edgar Pruett
Mary Caldwell
Edith Tumblin
Kimberling
W. C. Moorehead
Orville Taylor
Narrows
Archie Bird
Honaker Chapel
Mr. Smith
Allen
Tuggle Cemetery
Albert N. Caldwell
Marvin Burton
Guy Bowling
Billie Brown
Richard Moorehead
C. L. Moorehead, Jr
Jimmy
Mack Davidson
Hawkins Funeral Home
Parking Building Use Hits New High
The Bluefield Parking Building set a new record last Saturday with 1,260 automobiles in 24 hours, as out of towners from coal fields flocked to town. Manager William Kell expects the high to rise again this weekend despite limited space and turning customers away when capacity is reached.
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Bluefield
William Kell
Kell
Norfolk and Western Railway
Machines to Help WVU Students Register
Morgantown West Virginia December 11 machines will assist West Virginia University students to register next year Registrar J Everett Long said leased computing machines will speed and modernize registration and provide easier thorough statistical studies The registrar will receive grades directly from instructors bypassing tedious processes and supply copies of semester reports quickly to students parents deans and advisers The system will also create permanent transcript records and perform other time consuming tasks This will be the campus second installation Agricultural Economics has used the machines for years in its research program
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
J. Everett Long
Department of Agricultural Economics
Betty Hutton and Ted Briskin Marriage Headed for Breakup
Betty Hutton and Ted Briskin announce a permanent separation after a previous Santa Monica divorce, with an amicable settlement in Chicago. Briskin, 31, an executive, has returned to Chicago. They have two daughters Lindsay four and Candice two.
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Hollywood
Betty Hutton
Ted Briskin
Briskin
Chicago
Miss Hutton
Santa Monica
Calif
Lindsay
Candice
Hughes Rites This Afternoon
Last rites for the Reverend Edward W. Hughes 91 retired rector of Christ Episcopal Church Pocahontas will be held at 2 PM at the church. He died Saturday night at Bluefield Sanitarium after a career as missionary to Indians lumberjacks in Canada medical missionary in Virginia coal fields and owner-operator of Bluestone Bedding in Bluefield Virginia. Interment in Maple Hill cemetery Bluefield. Funeral by Rev. T. L. Ridout. Floral tributes asked to be omitted.
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Edward W. Hughes
Christ Episcopal Church of
Pocahontas
Mr. Hughes
Bluefield Sanitarium
Canadian Woods
Virginia Coal Fields
Bluestone Bedding Corporation
Bluefield
T. L. Ridout
Tazewell
Maple Hill Cemetery
Pocahontas Union
Death of Miss Neva L. Williams in Harrodsburg Ky
Word reached here yesterday of the death of Miss Neva L. Williams sister of Mrs. Frank M. Archer of Bluefield in Harrodsburg Kentucky.
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Neva L. Williams
Frank M. Archer
Bluefield
Harrodsburg, Ky
Funeral Rites Set for George Letcher Blevins of Thorpe
Funeral services for 50 year old George Letcher Blevins of Thorpe will be at 1:30 P M Wednesday at Thorpe Methodist Church with Rev W F Byrd officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery. He died Sunday afternoon at a Welch hospital after 15 years of ill health. He worked as a pumper for U S Coal and Coke Co and is survived by his wife Ellen, son Letcher Jr and daughter Mrs Andrew Sironko.
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George Letcher Blevins
Thorpe
W. F. Byrd
Woodlawn
Blevins
Welch
U. S. Coal & Coke Company
Grayson County
Dave Bedwell
George Blevins
Marion
Ellen Blevins
Letcher, Jr
Andrew Sironko
Burl Blevins
Deaths of Mrs. Roland Sykes and infant Lucy Toler
Mrs. Roland Sykes 74 died at home on Clinch River near Coalwood Va. Survivors include husband two daughters and two sons. Interment at family cemetery after service at 2 pm Wednesday from residence. body to be moved from Finney Easterly funeral home. Also service for Lucy Phyllis Toler five month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Noman Toler Gilbert held at 2 pm this afternoon from Browning's Fork
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Roland Sykes
Clinch River
Coalwood
Henry Stinson
Coulwood
James Shell
Dante
D. W. Sykes
Honaker
C. E. Sykes
Pounding Mill
Lebanon
Lucy Phyllis Toler
Noman Toler
Gilbert
Obituary of Charles D Norman longtime Asco resident
Charles Dewey Norman 52 of Asco McDowell died Monday morning in Welch hospital after two weeks of hospitalization and years of ill health. Born May 19 1898 in Knoxville Tennessee he lived in West Virginia 30 years and in Asco seven years from Chapmanville. He worked as an insurance salesman for Home Mutual Life Co 12 years and earlier with Huntington Herald Dispatch and Pittsburgh Press. Survived by wife Lotus five sons Billy Jack Charles Ted Jimmy all at home a daughter Margaret and four grandchildren. Services at 10 this morning at residence then 10 Wednesday Asco church conducted by Rev Brockman and Rev Waters. Burial Woodlawn Cemetery Logan County. Pallbearers from Asco Adult Bible class.
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Charles Dewey Norman
Asco
McDowell County
Welch
Mr. Norman
Knoxville
Tenn
Jefferson Norman
West Virginia
Chapmanville
Logan
Home Mutual Life Co
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
Pittsburgh Press
Lotus Norman
Billy
Jack
Charles
Ted
Jimmy
Margaret
Fanning Funeral Home
Asco Church
R. E. Brockman
Bluefield
A. C. Waters
Twin Branch
Woodlawn
Logan County
Cedar Bluff Man Dies Of Injuries
Lonnie Lee Hess twenty four year old Cedar Bluff resident dies in a Richland hospital from injuries suffered in a Hill Creek state mine accident last Friday. A World War II veteran he earned the bronze star with clusters and the Purple Heart. He is survived by his wife Ethel White two daughters Alice Faye Bettie Carroll Hess his mother and five brothers and four sisters. Funeral will be Wednesday at 1 30 p m from Laymans chapel with burial in Clinch Valley Memorial cemetery under Hurst Scott funeral home.
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Lonnie Lee Hess
Cedar Bluff
Richland
Shreeve Brothers Coal Company
Hill Creek
Hess
Thomas
Laura Belle Hess
Ethel White
Alice Faye
Bettie Carroll Hess
Laymoine
Ervie
Thomas, Jr
Elmer
Doyle Hess
Cleo Stinson
Gloria Fouts
Martha Jane
Phyllis Hess
Laymans Chapel
Richlands
H. D. Hampton
Second Blankenship Trial Nears Jury
The Narrows woman Gladys Meadows Blankenship, 32, faces a second murder trial for the April 11 shooting of her husband Drewey Blankenship, 41. A first trial ended hung after five and a half hours of deliberation. prosecutors cited a $6000 life insurance as motive.
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Gladys Meadows Blankenship
Narrows
Drewey Blankenship
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Gene Autry
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