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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1966
Page
2
New York reports a small weekly stock market loss amid continued worries over falling business indicators and the Vietnam War. Dow Jones average slips to 807.18 as volume rises, while analysts note a potential rally depends on breaking the 1966 recovery high of 820.87. Bond markets rise with strong government gains and steady yields.
The Bluefield High School A Capella Choir and Girls Glee Club will perform at the Bluefield Kiwanis meeting Monday at noon in the West Virginian Hotel. Director Donald Kensinger leads the annual program. Kiwanian Don Orander notes the club will staff the Salvation Army Christmas Cheer booth on Federal Street next Tuesday.
First Baptist Church eight member hand bell choir, directed by Eugene Cole, will perform holiday music in the First National Bank lobby Bluefield next Thursday. The group will give 10 minute sessions on the hour and half hour from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Public notice from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph 1893 edition outlining subscription terms and printing details. It notes exclusive use of news dispatches by the Daily Telegraph Printing Street and El Va address, with weekly publication cadence and related billing information.
New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes urged across the board tax incentives to curb air pollution. They told the National Governors Conference that recent smog in New York City shows the need for coordinated action and warned against creating pollution havens to lure industry.
Police found the planetarium in Forest Park wrapped with a large red ribbon and a 10 foot bow for Christmas. A sign in front read Merry Christmas St Louis Washington University School of Architecture. Cpl. James Condon questioned how someone could reach the dome to place the ribbon.
The Richlands High School Band will present a concert Monday December 19 at 8 p.m. at the school in Richlands Virginia. The program will be sponsored by the Richlands Women's Club Intermediate Women's Club and Junior Women's Club.
Burglars broke into Victor Noel's Hull residence Friday night and stole nearly $3,000 in furs and household items. They also absconded with a hidden camera meant to trap intruders in the home.
Rev. Clarence W. Tiffany of Bluefield will speak at the Bluefield Community Center Christmas program at 6 30 p m Monday 835 Bland St Bluefield. Mrs Clair De Cousins Woods leads. The week features a Pollyanna party for Brownie and Junior Scouts, Girl Scout call meeting, arts and crafts party, a mid week bridge session and Pioneer Civic Club gathering before a Christmas break.
Love W. Miller, editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel, will retire effective January 1. Ralph L. Millett Jr., current news editor, will succeed him. Millett, 47, has led the paper’s news desk for 20 years and is a Memphis native and Missouri Journalism School graduate.
Defense Department says Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor will present the Medal of Honor to Lt Walter J Marm Jr in a Pentagon ceremony Monday for his heroism in the Ia Drang Valley action of November 1965 the largest Vietnam war operation to date. Marm's parents from Washington Pa will attend.
Ankara memo warns against displaying Soviet flags during eight day visit of Soviet Premier Kosygin. Ahmet Atesoglu of the ruling party predicts lasting Turkish Soviet enmity and says honoring Soviet flags would dis Respect Turkish martyrs of battles.
Special services at Mt Zion Baptist Church will install officers at 11 a.m. Sunday. Rev Carrollton Jackson will conduct the installation.
Dr. Wendell Hardway announced an Advisory Council on Technical Education to guide curricular revisions, student opportunities, and program improvements. The independent committee includes leaders from Appalachian Power Co., Bluefield Newspapers, First National Bank, Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, Pocahontas Fuel Co., Coppering Machinery Co., Pocahontas Land Co., Eastern Coal Corp., Pemco Corp., Bluefield Sanitarium, and Rish Equipment Co.
London AP A high level committee led by a government minister and 14 experts will probe the hole problem plaguing public utilities. Digging and filling holes repeats across water gas electricity and telephones, wasting millions. Reginald Prentice aims to coordinate work so a single hole suffices, saving money and effort.
George Lincoln Rockwell announces the American Nazi Party will be renamed the National Socialist White People's Party to reflect new public acceptance and dignity. Rockwell says the change aims to make the group intellectually and internationally acceptable.
The Buds of Promise group at First AME Zion Church Bluefield on Pulaski Street hosts a bazaar today from 5 to 9 30 p m at the church Refreshments will be served Lois Green is president Jessie Gibson is vice president.
Santa Claus greeted Norfolk as Destroyer Squadron 32 returned from a seven month Vietnam deployment aboard the Mullinex. The eight ships logged 360 088 miles and fired 27 000 rounds at shore targets with about 2 000 enemy casualties. No casualties or firing delays occurred. Captain Allendorfer praised high morale and readiness to redeploy, noting 15 requests to return to Vietnam aboard Mullinex.
In Montaldeo Italy 480 residents host a marriage market by inviting single girls from elsewhere. Bachelors Club members wear aprons roast chickens and spaghetti for no show by nightfall. Stefano Pastorino 33 notes the gap leaves men to dance with themselves. Some men blame remoteness for the poor turnout.
Bob Hope and his troupe arrived in Bangkok to entertain American soldiers in Thailand and Vietnam on Hope's annual Christmas mission. Officials and fans welcomed the entertainers and a spectator joked about Hope resembling Vice President Hubert Humphrey, to which Hope quipped this would be his last trip abroad as a comedian before a political run next year.
Huntington, AP: William Nease, 52, died after a matchhead broke as he lit a pipe, igniting his flannel pajamas. He died in a hospital Friday after being burned Thursday. His widow suffered burns to her hands trying to beat out the flames.
Luster Epling 89 of Powellton formerly Northfork died Saturday at 9 45 a m in a Fayetteville nursing home after a long illness Born in Giles County Virginia he was a son of Lewis and Ellen Vaught Epling husband of the late Ida Maxey Epling retired merchant Survivors include four daughters four sons eight grandchildren a sister and a brother Funeral services Monday at 2 p m at Bailey Funeral Chapel Princeton Rev Homer Stewart officiating Burial in Epling Cemetery Camp Creek Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p m Sunday Alex Koczka 78 of War died Thursday in a Welch hospital after a long illness Disabled miner born in Hungary in 1888 son of the late Alex and Julia Koczka Surviving are his wife five sons two daughters The body will be moved from C J Douglas Funeral Home Welch to the residence today at 3 p m Funeral service 1 p m Monday at Advent Christian Church War Other arrangements remain in complete.
Edward Robert Sands 62 of Richlands Va died Friday in a Richlands hospital after a long illness. He worked as a bookkeeper for Mullins Ford and Mullins Motors for 22 years. Survived by wife Alice Sands Chicago Ill a son Robert Edward Sands New Braunfels Texas a half sister Gene Hess Huntington and a half brother Robert Sands Oklahoma City Funeral services were held Saturday at Mullins Funeral Home Chapel Richlands Rev J B Hollenhead officiating. The body will be taken to Chicago for entombment.
Funeral services are announced for John Hubert French 42 of Princeton today at 3 p.m. in Burns-Wornal Chapel with Rev. John Crews officiating. Burial in Athens Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Also funeral arrangements for Tommy Stillwell 57 of Raven Virginia with services Monday at 11 a.m. at his residence and burial in Keene Cemetery Raven. Body transported from Mullins Funeral Home Richlands to the residence at 10 a.m. Sunday.
The Children’s Choir of Bluefield First A M E Zion Church on Pulaski Street will present a Christmas program Sunday at 4 p m. The program features the Christmas story in music and Scripture readings with Barbara Lewis as narrator.
Virginia Health Commissioner Mack IL Shanholtz calls Medicaid socialized medicine while noting Title XIX approved by Congress in 1965 and Virginia plans to start by July 1968. He cites Virginia spending about $12 million annually on welfare medical care and says the basic concept remains unchanged.
Eighteen people killed and fifty injured when a passenger train derailed north of Bombay. Most victims were women and children as three cars plunged down a twenty foot embankment. three others capsized along the Surat Bhusaval stretch. Officials say sabotage is unlikely.
Carolyn Payton of Norfolk Virginia was chosen as deputy director of the Peace Corps for the Windward Leeward Islands and Barbados. She will plan education projects and be assigned to Bridgetown Barbados. Payton formerly taught psychology at Howard University and served on faculties in Livingstone Salisbury Virginia State and Elizabeth City. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Leroy S Robertson.
The Salisbury National Club, the city’s only multiracial social group, will close December 31 as its hotel lease ends. Authorities suggested permitting a multiracial club under the presegregation land allotment act, but suitable premises remain unavailable beyond the Negro district.
An 18 year old Princeton resident, William Willie Graham, was jailed on a $1,000 bond after allegedly leaving the scene of a wreck at Cheds Discount Store Princeton early Saturday. The 1966 car, driven by Graham, toppled three parking meters and shattered two plate glass windows. Damages totaled about $1,150. Police say the car was found at a Bluefield garage and officers Belcher Fralick Crowley Kas investigated.
Roanoke Va Wilford C Stevens Jr assistant agent yardmaster for the Norfolk and Western at Hopewell Va has been promoted to agent yardmaster at Bristol Va He succeeds the late A L Proffitt Carlos P Hogan assistant car distributor for the Pocahontas division at Bluefield W Va moves to Hopewell Stevens career with the railroad included five school vacation jobs and Ohio State University graduation after which he returned as a fireman and shop inspector Hogan began as an operator on the Pocahontas division in 1949 and became assistant car distributor in 1963
HODEIDAH Yemen a Red Sea port is half empty in summer and crowded in winter due to heat and humidity. May heat pushes temps to 113 degrees with 80 to 100 percent humidity. Many move to Sanaa 10 000 feet up where weather is cooler and drier. In winter Sanaa cools while Hodeidah attracts warmer weather seekers.
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