Longshoreman Heroism After Managua Quake Rescues Ten
Miami longshoreman Allen Pope vacationing in Managua helped rescue ten people from a collapsing hotel and nearby elevator shaft. He joined with Tom Waddell and James Adams and other workers to pull survivors from darkness amid fires and aftershocks. The group worked overnight until dawn, amid panicked streets and widespread destruction.
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Miami
Fla
Allen Pope
Managua
Nicaragua
Pope
Gran Hotel
Tom Waddell
Mississippi
James Adams
Opaloosa
San Francisco
First Baptist Plans Christmas Service at Bluefield Church
The First Baptist Church of Bluefield holds its annual Christmas Day service today at 5 p.m. in the sanctuary at 1325 Augusta Street. Rev. Charles B. Nunn Jr. delivers the message Have You Come Home for Christmas with J. P. Jardine providing special music including a solo No Candle Was There And No Fire.
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First Baptist Church of
Bluefield
Augusta Street
Charles B. Nunn, Jr
J. P. Jardine
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertising Rates and Masthead
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph details its publication facts and subscription rates. It notes establishment in 1893, address at 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia, and AP affiliation. It lists carrier and mail prices, motor route rates, and remarks on advertising representation and circulation audit.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation Advertising
Mathews, Shannon & Cullen Telephone
Deaths and Funerals: Mildred Duvall and Others
Mrs Mildred Bertha Duvall 71 wife of Albert H Duvall of Abbs Valley Va died in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness Survived by four daughters three brothers and three sisters ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren Funeral services set for 2 pm Tuesday at Shumate Newman Funeral Chapel Pocahontas with burial in Grandview Memory Gardens Also note Beulah V Moye 83 of Lerona died in a Princeton hospital after long illness Services at Knob Primitive Baptist Church Lerona with burial in Rocky Mount Cemetery Pipestemn Arthur Crawford 57 Bluefield formerly Powhatan died en route to hospital after apparent heart attack Services pending Cravens Shires Funeral Home Bluewell.
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Mildred Duvall
Mildred Bertha Duval
Albert H. Duvall
Abbs Valley
Bluefield
Roscoe Ratliff
Arthur Adams
Jenkin Jones
William Anthony
New Castle
Del
Ann Atkinson
Everette Yates
Morris Yates
Christiansburg
Grandview Memory Gardens
Beaulah Moye
Beaulah V. Moye
Lerona
Princeton
Joseph
Mary Ann Keaton Neely
Emma Jean Aliff
Madeline Foley
Knob Primitive Baptist Church
Owen Harvey
Orville Neely
Rocky Mt
Pipestemn
Basil
Emmett
Otto
Orville
Wallace
Bernice Neely
Arthur Crawford
Highland Ave
Powhatan
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
Cecil Karr Mullin obituary from Nemours
Cecil Karr Mullin 64 of Nemours died after a short illness in Bluefield hospital. He owned the Nemours Service Station and belonged to Midway Methodist Church and the Loyal Order of Moose. Survived by son Wayne Mullin brother G A Mullin and one grandchild. Funeral Tuesday 2 p.m. at Dudley Memorial Mortuary Bluefield. burial Grandview Memory Gardens. Pallbearers listed.
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Cecil Karr Mullin
Nemours
Bluefield
Javin B
Sadie Karr Mullin
Emma Lou Davis Mullin
Midway Methodist Church
Loyal Order of Moose
Wayne N. Mullin
G. A. Mullin
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Rev
P. S. Pitsinger
Grandview Memory Gardens
W. A. Shutt
A. L. Edmonds
Gene Phipps
Lawrence Phipps
P. A. Bolan
Elbert Bolan
Ed Dillon
Maurice Blalock Jr
Henry W. Horne 96 of Jolo dies after short illness
Henry Wimmer Horne 96 of Jolo Va died Saturday in a Richlands hospital after a brief illness. He was born in Wise County Va son of Archie and Ollie Wimmer Horne. Survived by five daughters and three sons with numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral held 11 am Wednesday at Community Holiness Church White Mountain Va Rev Isam Breeding and Rev Walter Rife officiating. Burial in family cemetery Compton Mt. Body to church 3 pm Tuesday from Fanning Funeral Home Saeger.
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Henry W. Horne
Jolo
Richlands
Wise County
Archie
Ollie Wimmer Horne
Jarvey Horne
Stinson Ridge
J. D. Horne
Orlando
Fla
Slimp Horne
Polly Tolliver
London
Melvina Dukes
Lyndale
Del
Ethel Fox
Blue
Fanning Funeral Home
Saeger
Mullins Infant Betty Jean Mullins Died After Illness
Betty Jean Mullins two month old daughter of Paul and Maxine Mullins of Jaeger died Saturday after a short illness and hospital admission. Survivors include four brothers Billy Joe Andrew Douglas and Terry Mullins and two sisters Linda and Darlene Mullins of the home. Maternal grandfather Kelly Blevins of Jaeger. Fanning Funeral Home Chapel Jaeger Rev Oliver Roberts officiating burial in Mullins Cemetery Paynesville.
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Mullins
Betty Jean Mullins
Paul
Maxine Blevins Mullins
Jaeger
Welch
Billy Joe
Andrew
Douglas
Terry Mullins
Linda
Darlene Mullins
Kelly Blevins
Fanning Funeral Home
Oliver Roberts
Mullins Cemetery
Paynesville
Longtime Bluefield Official Joseph Wade Eaton Dies at 66
Joseph Wade Eaton 66 of 337 Rogers Street Bluefield died Sunday at a local hospital after a long illness. He served on the Bluefield City Board of Directors from 1952 to 1960. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Hawkins Funeral Home in Bluefield.
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Joseph Wade Eaton
Rogers Street
Bluefield
Eaton
Hawkins Funeral Home
Death of Robert Dalton prompts Keystone funeral plans
Robert Dalton of Jenkin Jones died Saturday evening after a long illness. The body was taken to Sink ford Richardson Funeral Home in Keystone pending funeral arrangements.
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Robert Dalton
Jenkin Jones
Sinkford-Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Mrs Roberta Bragg Dies After Illness in Maybeury
Mrs Roberta Bragg of Maybeury died Saturday night in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness. She will be laid to rest at Kimball Funeral Home in Kimball.
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Bragg
Roberta Bragg
Maybeury
Bluefield
Kimball Funeral Home
Kimball
Funerals for Dawson and Shrader Held in Two States
U S Army Sgt John C Dawson 37 of Fort Bragg NC formerly Bradshaw was honored at a Wednesday service at the Church of God in Bradshaw with military graveside rites at Rowe Cemetery Rock Ridge. Rosa V Shrader 95 of Rt 2 Rock was laid to rest at Cravens Shires Funeral Chapel Bluewell with burial in Grassy Spur Cemetery Bishop VA.
Area Youths Body Found In River After Missing
The body of 18 year old Larry Steve McClanahan of Grundy area was found Sunday morning in his overturned car submerged in the Levisa Fork near Harman Junction Buchanan County. The death is ruled drowning with the car located 8:30 to 9 p.m. Friday.
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Buchanan County
Levisa
Big Sandy River
Harman Junction
R. E. Lawson
Larry Steve McClanahan
Eloise
Kemper McClanahan
Rt. 1
Grundy
Ruby Skeens
Buchanan County Sheriffs’ Department
Lawson
McClanahan
Grundy Funeral Home
Buchanan Girl Fatally Shot at Home
A 16 year old girl, Radium Reda Thomas of Conaway, Buchanan County, was fatally shot at 8 45 a m by a .22 pistol held by her 7 year old brother. She died on arrival at Grundy hospital. The body is at Virginia Funeral Home in Grundy pending funeral arrangements.
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Buchanan County
Grundy Hospital
R. E. Lawson
Virginia State Police
Radium
Reda) Thomas
James Thomas
Conaway
Virginia Funeral Home
Grundy
Princetonian Hurt In Crash On Fifth Street
An 18 year old Princeton woman Marcia Lynne Miller was injured slightly when her car struck a utility pole on Fifth Street at 856 am Sunday. Damage was estimated at 900 to the car and 100 to the pole. No charges were filed. Patrolman C H Fralick assisted in the investigation.
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Princeton
Fifth Street
C. P. Thorn
Marcia Lynne Miller
Rt. 2
C. H. Fralick
Police recount bizarre Christmas eve pursuit involving red suit suspect
Officers describe a high speed chase in bad weather with a tall bearded man in a red suit and glasses. They pursued a vehicle pulled by eight reindeer like creatures and failed to obtain a warrant before the suspect vanished. The crowd amid the scene affirmed Santa Claus exists as police continued holiday duty.
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Sheffie Massie
C. J. Harvey
David Knight
Wade Coates
Santa Claus
Fatal two vehicle crash claims Keystone man life
West Virginia State Police in Welch continue the probe into a two vehicle crash in Keystone that killed 55 year old Henry Russell and seriously injured his two granddaughters aged 7 and 5. Betty Russell underwent emergency surgery and is listed in stable condition. Russell was a longtime Eastern Gas and Fuel employee and an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints. Funeral services are set for Wednesday with entombment in Woodlawn Cemetery Bluewell.
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West End
Keystone
West Virginia
Welch
Henry Russell
Russell
Jeannie Russell
Betty Russell
Stevens Clinic
Betty
West Virginia State Police
Saginaw County
Mich
James and
Alice Frost Russell
Eastern Gas and Fuel Company
Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints
UMWA
Rady Lowe’ Russell
James Henry Russell
Virgil Lowe
Atlanta
Kennith
Lois) Hart
Baytown
Tex
Edgar
Geraldine) Anderson
James Stanley Russell
Saginaw
Roland Goebel
Jaeger
Lena Compton
Winston Salem
N. C
Bennett
Inmates Granted Early Christmas Freedom in Mercer County
Joint action by Judge Jerome Katz and Judge Howard M enabled a large number of Mercer County jail inmates to win early release for the holidays. A sheriff’s spokesman called the move routine for the season. The jail menu included chicken and dumplings candied yams cranberries and hot biscuits with gravy. One jailer noted that many of the chronics would soon be back.
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Mercer County
Jerome Katz
Howard M
Jarrett
Mercer County Sheriffs Department
Vandalism Probed After Rifle Hits Island Creek Store
West Virginia State Police investigate vandalism at the Island Creek Company Store in Herndon Wyoming County. Six plate glass windows and a door were shattered by high powered rifle fire, with two more slugs striking the building. A moving vehicle is suspected and an alarm was triggered at 4 15 a.m. Sunday.
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West Virginia
Pineville
Island Creek Company
Herndon
Wyoming County
J. N. White
Bombing Campaign Losses Rise Amid Missing American Crews
After six days of renewed bombing, U S Command confirms at least 17 planes downed and 69 American crewmen missing. The figures account for about 13 percent of the 431 Americans known to be prisoners in North Vietnam before the December 18 resumption above the 20th parallel.
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U.S. Command
North Vietnam
New Zealand glowworms lure prey with bioluminescent threads
New Zealand glowworms emit light to attract flying insects into sticky threadlike snares secreted from their bodies.
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New Zealand
Four Mountain Mission Students Missing After Managua Quake
Four Mountain Mission School students from Grundy identified as Maria Santiago 19 Louisa Santiago 18 Teresa Santiago 14 and Frankie Santiago 16 are unaccounted for after the Managua Nicaragua earthquake. Their mother accompanied them Dec 13 on a Christmas visit. The choir members were due to visit Roma near Managua. Officials say they have contacted the British Embassy and the U S State Department but have received no word on the group.
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Mountain Mission School
Grundy
Managua
Nicaragua
Maria Santiago
Louisa Santiago
Teresa Santiago
Frankie Santiago
Mountain Mission Choir
Roma
Minagua
U. S. State Department
City Man Jailed Driving Drunk in Mercer County
Cecil C. Hamlin a 40 year old Bluefield man is jailed in Mercer County after a third driving while intoxicated offense in about a year He waived to the next term of the Mercer County grand jury after a Saturday night hearing Police said Hamlin was arrested Friday on Russell Street Bluefield He had driven while license was revoked on December 18 1971 and previously faced DWI and revocation charges Hamlin pled guilty to driving under revocation and received a ten day sentence The Mercer County Grand Jury will convene in early January
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Bluefield
Mercer County
Cecil C. Hamlin
Grand Jury
Beaver Pond
Justice of the Peace
C. J. Harvey
Hamlin
Curtis Honaker
Russell Street
Harvey
New Year’s Eve Service at Bland Street United Methodist
A New Year’s Eve service will be held Sunday December 31 in Bland Street United Methodist Church sanctuary using the Wesley Covenant Service at 5 p.m. Holy Communion will conclude the service.
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Bland Street United Methodist Church
Holy Communion
Olin to tear down plant. town receives land and aid
Sanders says environmental rules require total demolition of the old Olin plant except for several usable buildings. Olin will give about 600000 dollars to assist tearing down, offset tax losses, and develop 3500 acres of land. Mayor Sanders expects state agencies to acquire remaining lands for recreation as locals seek new industrial options.
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Sanders
Olin
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First Baptist Program
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Hearing Aid Service
North Street
W.va
Mrs
Roberta
Buchanan
Princetonian
Warrenizing Cleaners
G. P. Rastorbaeva
Leningrad
Wyoming
Earth
Bluefield, W.va
Saltville
Olin Corp
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