Record $24 million in bids for 11 road projects on Dec 27
Charleston AP says the Road Commission expects a record $24 million in bids on 11 projects, five Interstate and six federal-aid routes. Total involves 8.3 miles of expressway, six bridges, and work on I-10, I-79, I-70, and multiple secondary highways in various counties.
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Charleston
Road Commission
Wheeling Hill
Ohio County
Fulton
W. Va
Raleigh
Crab Orchard
Sophia
Morgantown
Fairmont
Jaeger
McDowell County
Franklin
Pendleton County
Burl A. Sawyers
Nitro
Ohio
Secondary 41
Pennsylvania
Wayne
Marshall
Federal Aid
McMechen-Benwood
U. S. 219
Dock Creek
Leadership Contest Award Is Scheduled
The Bluefield Elks Lodge will announce the winner of the Youth Fellowship Contest next Wednesday at special services. A $2 U.S. Savings Bond will be presented to the winner by judges M. A. Krupey and Judge Howard M. Jarrett. Contestants from the southwest district of West Virginia submit written leadership reports. The winner will be notified beforehand and asked to attend the presentation.
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Bluefield Elks Lodge
Elks Lodge
U. S
Bill Dillon
Bluefield Lodge
M. A. Krupey
Howard M. Jarrett
West Virginia
Miners Die in Japanese Gas Explosion
Three miners were killed and another injured in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Japan. The incident occurred in Tokyo with AP dispatches confirming the fatalities. Local details and subscription notices follow in the newspaper.
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Tokyo
Whittle Seeks Court Appeal in Fireman Dismissal Case
City Manager Randolph Whittle recommends Mercer County Circuit Court appeal of the Bluefield Firemen Civil Service Commission ruling that Lindamood’s September 9 dismissal was changed to a suspension. He argues the commission lacked authority to alter the city manager’s dismissal.
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Jim Lindamood
Bluefield
Fire Department
Bluefield Firemen's Civil Service Commission
Mercer County
souUri
Randolph G. Whittle
Bluefield Board of Directors
Lindamood
Whittle
E. L. McClure
Ralph Kahle
Kahle
Commission
Board of Directors
Circuit Court of
Civil Service Commission
Train Derailment Kills Woman, Wounds Dozens Near London
A rush hour commuter train derailed outside Liverpool Street station, killing a woman and injuring about 30 as a coach overturned. Police and fire crews pulled casualties from the wreck under flare light in an underground section, delaying other services.
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London
Liverpool Street
Jap Union Stages 2 Hour Rail Strike
The National Railway Locomotive Union held a two hour nationwide strike Friday night disrupting service. Police clashed with strikers at several sites and some people were reported injured as the 60 000 member union protested against National Railways plans.
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Tokyo
National Railway
British cops face heavy theft of power shovel
DEPTFORD England AP local police have a weighty problem when a power shovel worth about 4000 pounds 11200 dollars is stolen from a building site Thursday night. The machine can travel at around four miles an hour in high gear.
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Deptford
England
Arie I First Satellite in Cooperative International Program
Arie I marked the first satellite in a cooperative international program with a launch by NASA. The mission included British experiments aboard the satellite.
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Cooperative International Program
NASA
Rusk Arrives For Paris Talks
Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrives at Orly Airport for NATO foreign ministers meeting in Paris and a conference with President de Gaulle. He carries a message from President Johnson to the council and will meet French, British, and German ministers across a three day session.
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Paris
Dean Rusk
Orly
Alantic Alliance
Charles de Gaulle
Rusk
Johnson
North Atlantic Treaty Council
Council
NATO
de Gaulle
U.S
Charles E. Bohlen
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Maurice Couve de Murville
Richard A. Butler
France
Britain
West Germany
Gerhard Schroeder
Ludwig Erhard
Arab world urges unity as French base in Tunisia ends
In Bizerte Tunis, Arab leaders including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Ahmed Ben Bella urged Arab and African unity and a fight against colonialism after France evacuated its 90 year base. Habib Bourguiba spoke of staged unity while omitting Israel, with Morocco’s King Hassan II absent. The port city awaits post evacuation steps after a bloody 1961 battle and the October 15 base withdrawal.
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Bizerte
Tunisia
Israel
Gama] Abdel Nashier
United Arab Republic
Ahmed Ben Bella
Algeria
Habib Bourguiba
Tunis
Hassan II
Morocco
Nasser
Bourguiba
Addis Ababa
France
Brownies Present Yule Program At Center
Brownie Troop No. 287 staged a Christmas program at the center with Sharon Saunders as mistress of ceremonies. Yvonne Harris Karen Neal and Linda Penn gave scripture readings and a prayer.
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Brownie Troop No. 287
Mrs. Tivities
Sharon Saunders
Yvonne Harris
Karen Neal
Linda Penn
Belgian Motorcycle Police Gift Drive Aims Free Road
In Brussels the Belgian traffic police will patrol a different road each month and hand out gifts beverages and courteous reminders about traffic laws instead of issuing tickets. The plan seeks to keep at least one road per month free of fatalities.
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Brussels
Belgium
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area
Funeral services are set for Virginia Mae Adams 63 of 910 Princeton Ave Bluefield with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. A. C. Britts 72 former Bluefield resident to be buried in Maple Hill Cemetery. John Raleigh Graham hald died at Bluefield Sanatorium. funeral at Scott Street Baptist Church with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Bluewell. Survivors listed for Adams Britts and Graham.
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Mercer Funeral Chapel
Virginia Mae Adams
C. D. Adams
Princeton Ave
Bluefield
W. Malcolm Fuller
L. K. Davis
Woodlawn
H. D. French
Robert Adams
Henry Morrissette
Coopers
Carl
Henry French
Robert French
Boissevain
Cecil French
New York City
Donald Peters
Bill Pasley
Lee Morrisette
Robert Ruble
John Foster
Gene French
John Raleigh Graham
Ellis St
Scott Street Baptist Church
J. Matthew Coleman
Oak Grove
Bluewell
Campbell County
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Bertie Mae Graham
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Samuel S Justice 79 Dies in Castlewood Virginia
Samuel S Justice 79 of Castlewood Virginia died Thursday at Johnston Memorial Hospital Virginia Funeral services set for 3 p m today at First Baptist Church St Paul Virginia with Rev Walter Glavier officiating Burial in Temple Hill Cemetery Body to lie in Huff Cook Funeral Home St Paul until services. Survived by wife Carrie four daughters two sons one step daughter and one step son.
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Samuel S. Justice
Castlewood
Johnston Memorial Hospital
Carrie Justice
Earnest Light
M. W. Meade
Winston-Salem
N. C
Nelson Amburgey
Davenport, Va
Hurley Hill
Clinchco
Swanson Kiser
Robert Justice
Dante
Clifton Justice
Charlie Jenkins
Johnson City
Debord George Wiley Debord 73 Chatham Hill Va dies at home
George Wiley Debord 73 of Chatham Hill Virginia died at his home Friday. Survived by wife Pearl B Debord son Woodrow Debord two daughters Opal Ross Ray Caldwell and J C Williams one brother H H Debord eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral held Sunday at Ridgedale Methodist Church with burial in church cemetery. Body transported from Seaver Funeral Home Marion to residence to await funeral.
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George Wiley Debord
Chatham Hill
Pearl B. Debord
Woodrow Debord
Opal Ross
Ray Caldwell
Balboa
Canal Zone
J. C. Williams
Raleigh
N. C
H. H. Debord
Chathamn Hill
Ridgedale Methodist Church
B. F. DeBusk
Pauli Elmore
Seaver Funeral Home
Marion
Polish Hospitals Treat 200 Sprains After Snowfall
War saw hospitals treated 200 sprains and fractures after Poland's first heavy snowfall of the season, reported by Trybuna Ludu on Friday.
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Warsaw
Poland
Trybuna Ludu
Soviet Weather Hits Khrushchev Plan Drive
Moscow reports bitter cold continued as Premier Khrushchev pushes a costly plan to transform retarded farms into producers of abundance. The Central Committee shuffled leadership with Vladimir Shcherbitsky replaced by Pyotr Shelest amid signs of internal opposition. Shelest backed the program during the meeting.
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Moscow
United States
Khrushchev
Central Committee
Vladimir Shcherbitsky
Pyotr Shelest
Shcherbitsky
Shelest
Test Ship Set For West Fleet
West Germany and the United States plan to launch next year a test destroyer for a multinational Atlantic alliance nuclear fleet. Von Hassel said up to six nations may join and share a 320 man crew. The West German Navy will also buy three rocket armed destroyers. Polaris missiles may be used if NATO approves. Britain supports talks but opposes the fleet concept. France also opposes.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
United States
Atlantic Alliance
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
Priday
Esr
Hassel
Turkey
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Greece
von Hassel
Washington
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Britain
France
NATO
Violent Winds Strike Rome Killing Five
Violent winds and heavy seas battered Italian coasts for a fourth day. Dozens were injured and five people were confirmed killed as storms raged along the Rome area since Tuesday.
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Rome
Obituary notices list services for five area residents
Mrs Mary Harris Wood of Nemours will be laid to rest Saturday at 2 30 p m at Cravens Funeral Home Bluewell with Rev Clarence Allgood officiating and Maple Hill Cemetery interment. Richard E Williams of Indianapolis formerly of Cucumber and Bartley will be buried Saturday at 11 a m in King's Chapel Church Castlewood with Rev Andy Baker officiating at Austin Cemetery. Arch B Hare of Bluefield Princeton Road will be memorialized Saturday at 3 p m at Bailey Funeral Chapel Princeton with burial at Roselawn Memory Gardens. Pallbearers named Tommy Gale te Harold Perry Douglas Coleman Wayne Farmer Phillip Smith.
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Wood
Mary Harris
Nemours
Cravens Funeral Home
Bluewell
Clarence Allgood
Maple Hill Cemetery
Johnson outlines global partnership and peace aims
President Johnson urged a shift from postwar dependence to a world partnership and a calmer Cold War. He spoke of interdependence, urged understanding among nations, and pledged continued aid to depressed eastern Kentucky. Diplomatic leaders praised his call for peace and progress.
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Europe
Japan
United States
Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa
Nicaragua
Diplomatic Corps
Johnson
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Pierre Salinger
Washington
Leon Ndenwako
Burundi
Edward Breathitt
Kentucky
Earl Combs
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Kennedy
Rosa Gragg
National Association of Negro Women’s Clubs
Dorothy Haight
National Council of Negro Women
Congress
Gragg
United Nations
Johnagn
Weather Outlook for Virginia and West Virginia
The Associated Press reports Virginia will see cloudy skies Saturday and Sunday with periods of rain and occasional rain snow mix in the mountains west portion. Highs Saturday in the 30s west and north and low 40s southeast. cooler west and north Sunday. West Virginia faces clouds with occasional snow or snow grains mainly in the southern portion. Highs Saturday in the 20s northwest and around 30 elsewhere, with slightly cooler conditions on Sunday.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Mountains West
West Virginia
Lashmeet apartment damaged by fire
A Lashmeet apartment owned by Leander Wood sustained about 1500 dollars in damage from a fire Friday night. Ernes Wright occupied the unit at the Matoaka Fire Chief Charles Blankenship said the blaze was caused by a defective or overheated flue. Firefighters arrived at 6 p.m. and had the fire under control by 6:08 p.m. It spread to the attic and roof before crews contained it.
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Ernest Wright
Lashmeet
Matoaka
Charles Blankenship
Leander Wood
Blankenship
Shrine Dance Set For West Virginian Hotel Tonight
The Bluefield Shrine Club hosts its annual Christmas dance tonight at 9 o clock in the West Virginian Hotel. Shriner Bill Cook says the event is open to other Masons and their women guests. Each Shriner is to wear his fez.
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Bluefield Shrine Club
West Virginian Hotel
Bill Cook
Kokomo Fire Chief Bans Cut Christmas Trees
Kokomo Indiana Fire Chief Charles F. Craig banned all cut Christmas trees in the city’s schools hospitals and City Hall due to fire hazard. He said an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.
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Kokomo, Ind
Charles F. Craig
Kokomo
Craig
Bluefield College Choir to Present Christmas Concert
The Bluefield College Choir under Professor Robert Smith plans a December 16 Christmas program at First Baptist Church Bluefield. A 44-voice student choir with Mrs Ernest Pinson on piano and organ will perform three sections Praise God Spirituals and The Christ Child with works by Mozart Bach Tschernokoff Edmundsen Shaw Dawson York Purvis Christensen Thompson Handel and the Messiah chorus.
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Bluefield College
Choi
First Baptist Church
Bluefield
Robert Smith
God
Mozart
Jesu
Bach
Tschensnokoff
Edmundsen
Christiansen
Lamb
Shaw
Smith
Lawrence
Thompson
Handel
Ernest Pinson
Break-in at Keesee Auto Sales on Bluefield Ave
About five dollars in change was stolen during a break-in at Keesee Auto Sales at 536 Bluefield Ave. Police say suspects accessed the showroom via a roof entry after climbing a rear pole, looting a soft drink machine and peanut mantor, and breaking a front door padlock before causing a glass break. The service department cash register door was attempted but unchanged.
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Keesee Auto Sales
Bluefield Ave
Bluefield
Methodist Men Set Family Day Sunday
Family Day services will be held at 3 p.m. at Wilbur Memorial Methodist Church in Tazewell Virginia with Rev. J. McCain Jr of Bluefield as guest speaker. Music will be provided by the A. M. E. Z. Choir. Rev. Clarence W. Tiffany is church pastor.
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Wilbur Memorial Methodist Church
Tazewell
J. McCain Jr
A. M. E. Z. Church of
Bluefield
Clarence W. Tiffany
Boy's Charged With Thefts In Ongoing Probe
Police connected two boys to recent thefts and recovered items valued at about 9865.50 including scotch whisky imported wines and liquors jades glasses mixing sticks a fruit cake and other pieces. Diamonds and antiques handed down three generations complicated valuation.
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Geen
Jap Union
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Virginia Adams
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John O.atkins
Britts
American Viscose Co
Front Royal
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the Home
Harry N. Britts
Fort. Walton Beach
Fla
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Washington, D. C
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G. W. Debord
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