Prince Edward Free School tops Virginia year in 1963 AP poll
The Prince Edward Free School Association is named Virginia’s top state story of 1963 as 1700 Negro children would have returned to school. Danville desegregation and protests follow, with a summer of demonstrations, arrests, and a new desegregated plan. Other top stories include drought, poll tax reform, and Kennedy assassination reactions.
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Richmond
Prince Edward County
Associated Press
Virginia
AP Star Writers
Prince Edward Free School Association
Danville
Prince Edward
Kennedy
Justice Department
General Assembly
Norfolk
GOP
Goldwater
Tax overhaul proposal cites human depreciation
New York economist Harry S. Greenfield urged broadening federal income tax deductions to include human depreciation such as medical costs and reduced productivity with aging. He spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Cleveland.
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Cleveland, Ohio
New York
Harry S. Greenfield
Greenfield
Queens College
American Association For the Advancement of Science
General Science Organization
A's Move Baggage and Talks Continue in Kansas City
The Kansas City Athletics began moving equipment from Municipal Stadium as owner Charlie Finley promised to return for negotiations on a new lease. The attendance clause is the main sticking point, and Finley proposed possible plays in a cow pasture with temporary seating. He may review several sites for a temporary stadium while city officials await a 2 p.m. Friday rendezvous.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Athletics
Municipal Stadium
Charlies C. Finley
Finley
Chicago
Athletics
Weer
Pat
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Founders and Ownership Note
The notice outlines the Bluefield Daily Telegraph’s establishment by a morning company and its exclusive use of the Associated press telegraph service. It lists the publishing entity and operational considerations for the period.
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Morn Co
Daily Telegraph
Deaths and Funerals From Richlands to Jaeger
Multiple obituaries list Luther Smith Thompson of Richlands Virginia age 70 a Norfolk and Western conductor veteran of World War I and wife Mary Cox Thompson. Funeral service at Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery with burial at the same cemetery. Also Curtis Reed 61 of Crumppler and Joseph Billings 40 of Hiawatha with families, homes, and burial in Bailey and other local cemeteries. Additional notices for Mrs Laura Bradley Green Dotson Woodrow Tiller Gerald Shook and others detail services and survivors.
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Luther Smith Thompson
Richlands
Hoge Ag Paamtye Peaomsey
Mary Cox Thompson
Norfolk and Western Railway
Ters
Basil Miller
Bluefield
Ye Alga
A. B. Willowford
J. B. Hollenhead
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Edd Thompson
Grant Gilbert
Norman Smith
John McClintock
Harold Wiley
Chaster Harris
Buck Smith
R. L. Short
A. D. Parson
G. D. Vermilya
H. V. Lindsey
Arthur Horton
Rites set for Mary Cook and Arlington resident John Gentry
Funeral services planned for Mary Cook 42 of Newhall died Sunday in Welch hospital with burial in Hartwell Cemetery. John Gentry of Arlington McDowell County who died Tuesday in Welch hospital will be buried at Oak Grove Cemetery. Additional notices list survivors, call times, and local funeral homes.
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Mary Cook
Newhall
Welch Hospital
Emmanuel Tabernacle
Robert Tate
Robert Stephens
Hartwell Cemery
Riley Pannell
Columbus
Ohio
Sallie Turner Pannell
Wilbur Cook
Robert Pannell
New York City
Cleo Palmer
Gallagher
Julia Pannell
Chicago
D. L. Austin
Esau Harris
Mack Tyson
June Watkins
Bill Robinson
Anthony Mack
Arthur Moten
Lugo
John Gentry
Arlington
McDowell County
Sinkford and Richardson Funeral Chapel
Keystone
Oak Grove Cemetery
Gentry
Loretta Brooks
Zora Martin
Sarah Rumley
Winston-Salem
N.C
Sherman Gentry
Sarah J. Harris
Sarah Jane Harris
McComas
Alma Jamison
Davidson St
Bluefield
Oak Grove
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Funeral Notices From Virginia Towns Mark Several Deaths
Carl St Clair Ferguson 77 of Glenrod Park died while repairing his property at 253 Boone St Bluefield and funeral arrangements remain incomplete. William M Rise 67 of Saltville Virginia died in Johnson City Tennessee with seven grandchildren and three sons noted. funeral plans incomplete. Mrs Maggie Conner Heath of Wolfe died in Denmar Sanitarium with services Saturday at Laurel Creek Baptist Church and burial at a later date. Morgan Sandy Clevinger 84 of Grundy Route 2 died at home. funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Green Dotson
Paw Paw
Mary Dotson
Claude
Morris
Ernest
Clyde
Glen
Raymond
Junior Dotson
William St.Clair
Elzie Duty
Ellis Starberry
Kelso
Claude Conn
Henry Estep
Dotson Cemetery
Virginia Funeral Home
Grundy
Carl St. Clair Ferguson
Glenrod Park
Ferguson
Boone St
Bluefield
Boomer
N. C
W. B
Mandy St. Clair Ferguson
Ollie Ferguson
Ollie Jones
James Ferguson
Ryne Ferguson
Jonesville
Hawkins Funeral Home
William M. Rise
Saltville
Johnson City
Tenn
Katherine M. Bise
Annie B. Tuell
Chilhowie
Berkley
Charles Bise
George
Lincoln
Jim Bise
Garland Bise
Marion
Buster Wyrick
Japeer Keene
Guy Harris
Henderson Funeral Home
Maggie Conner Heath
Wolfe
Denmar Sanitarium
Laurel Creek Baptist Church
D. E. Stewart
J. C. Stith
Ceome
Keystone
Morgan Sandy Clevinger
Route 2
Didema Clevinger
Joe
Willie Clevinger
Iva Clevinger
Dell Looney
Obituary Notice for Ira Lee Baxter
Ira Lee Baxter 43 of Princeton died of a heart attack Wednesday in Me. The body is at Lugo's Funeral Service where final plans will be announced.
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Ira Lee Baxter
Princeton
Lugo
Funeral notices for Bertie Crawford Frazier Hallie McKinney Coff ee Helmandollar
Obituary notices announce funeral services for Bertie Crawford Frazier in Princeton with burial at Oakwood Cemetery. Hallie McKinney Coffee of Arlington Va. to be laid to rest in Princeton with burial at Rose lawn Memorial Gardens. John Helmandollar 52 of Bluefield to be buried at Monte Vista Park Cemetery after services in Hawkins Funeral Chapel. Pallbearers named for each service. Reverend officiants listed.
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Coffee
Hallie McKinney
Arlington
Bailey Funeral Chapel
Princeton
William Trowbridge
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
J. B. Stafford
Herbert McKinney
Clarence Folden
David L. Brown
Thomas Wilson
C. C. Stafford Jr
Helmandollar
John
Wheeling Ave
Bluefield
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
H. Clay Dunaway
Monte Vista Park
Polish Rail Crash Traced to Nap In Cab
Five Polish railroad workers were injured when a freight train ran through a stop signal and struck a stationary passenger train at Koluszki south of Warsaw. PAP reported the locomotive driver was sleeping in his cab while his assistant handled the train.
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Warsaw
Poland
PAP
Koluszki
Alabama Favored In Poinsettia Tourney
Alabama's Crimson Tide is the favorite to win the fifth annual Poinsettia Basketball Classic opening at Memorial Auditorium in Greenville Friday night.
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Greenville, S. C
Alabama
Crimson Tide
Memorial Auditorium
Falls Mills Native Tony Berta Dies in Wilmington Work Accident
Funeral services are set for Tony Berta year old Falls Mills Virginia native killed in an on the job accident for General Motors in Wilmington Pennsylvania. The Falls Mills Christian Church will host the service with Rev Clarence Greenleaf officiating. Burial will be at Harry Cemetery. Berta is survived by his wife Alberta Buckland Berta two daughters Joyas Smith and Anetta Coleman a son Stephen Berta six grandchildren and several siblings. He was active in the Falls Mills Christian Church and the Bluefield Moose Lodge. Friends may call at Wagner Funeral Home in Bluefield after 6 p.m.
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Curtis A. Reed
Crump
Crumpler
Ira
Ocie M. Reed
Mary Reed
Donald
Randall Reed
Toledo
Harold Reed
Huttonsville
Leonard Reed
Montcalm
Dorothy Harrison
Delma Jennings
Ethel Reed
Dona Bailey
Kestel
Farrell Reed
Daphna Gentry
Frank Blevins
Bailey Cemetery
Crumpler Mountain
Bennett Funeral Home
Northfork
Laura Bradley
Anawalt
Cumberland Methodist Church
Madison
Ala
Bradley Beauty Salon
Pittsburgh
Apostolic Temple
Lugo
Bluefield
Gerald L. Shook
Bradshaw
Dante
Holland Shook
Ada Shook
Raysal
Edna Estep Shook
David
Bruce Shook
Carol Kennedy
Nell Palus
Point Pleasant
Ohio
Bradshaw Methodist Church
Carl Kelly
Estep Cemetery
Paytesville
Fanning Funeral Home
Jaeger
Tony Berta
Falls Mills
Wilmington
Del
Falls Mills Christian Church
Clarence Greenleaf
Harry
Berta
General Motors Corp
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem
Josa Marcella Berta
Steve Berta
Germany
Rosa O'Neal
Charleston
S. C
Anna Cregger
Margaret Sarah
Superior
Stella Miller
Franklin, D
John Berta
Oceana
Joe Berta
Big Stone Gap
James Berta
U. S. Army
Texas
News In Brief Around World
AP dispatches from New Delhi Algiers Havana Singapore Rome cover Communist splits Chou En-lai visit Cuba death sentenceIndo nesia cruise ship incident Italian German leaders to meet in Rome.
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New Delhi
India
Communist Party
Red
China
Peking
Nehru
Algiers
Chou
Chou En-lai
Red China
Ahmed Ben Bella
Chen Yi
Virginia advisory panel urges more local services for mentally retarded
A Virginia Advisory Legislative Council committee called for expanded local diagnostic, educational, and day care facilities for about 120,000 mentally retarded residents. It urged more day care centers, enhanced public school screening and training, and reviews of programs at state schools for the deaf and blind. The panel also recommended local evaluation clinics and a pilot study on suitable jobs.
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Richmond
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
General Assembly
VALC
Chemicals And Hay Cover Site Of AFL East Loop Playoff
Buffalo and Boston coaches expect a frozen field for Saturdays AFL Eastern Division playoff at War Memorial Stadium despite spraying chemicals and hay. Mike Holovak and Lou Saban say footing will be the decisive factor in Buffalo weather.
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Buffalo
N.Y
War Memorial Stadium
Boston
Mike Holovak
Lou Saban
Holovak
Bills
Magazine names Cassius Clay Fighter of the Year
Ring Magazine selects Cassius Clay as Fighter of the Year for 1963 citing his impact and excitement in boxing. Clay’s March bout with Doug Jones earns Ring’s Fight of the Year after a disputed ten round decision.
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New York
Ring Magazine
Cassius Clay
Doug Jones
Ring
Clay
Weather notes for Virginia and West Virginia
Virginia reports cloudy and turning colder Friday with highs from 4 to 4 above in the north and 45 to 52 in the south portion. West Virginia expects considerable cloudiness and colder conditions Friday through Saturday with a few snow flurries in the north. highs ranging 35 to 40 in the north and 40 to 44 in the south.
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Virginia
West Virginia
WV Legislature Aims For Reciprocals And Bonds In 1964 Session
Lawmakers report recommendations for 1964 including a reciprocal hiring rule for out of state contractors favoring West Virginia residents, a $200 million road bond ballot question, a uniform administrative procedure act, clarified police cost collection in criminal cases, and West Virginia’s enrollment in the Southern Nuclear Board.
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West Virginia
Stae
Pennsylvania
Southern Nuclear Board
UMW Withdraws From Logan Coal Mine Vote
In Logan, the United Mine Workers pull out of an NLRB ordered election at McGaye Coal Co in Mt Gay WV. Reform Mine Workers contest would allow separate contracts and lower royalities. McGaye may negotiate with Reform or let workers vote yes or no on representation.
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UMW
Reform Group
Harold McCloud
McGaye
McCloud
Reform Union
Ballard Funeral Set At Peterstown
Funeral services for Sherman Hart Ballard 69 of Peterstown will be held today at 11 a.m. at Peterstown Baptist Church with Rev. Charles Jack officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery. Ballard, a prominent Southern West Virginia attorney and legislator, died Wednesday at his home after a long illness and prior lung cancer surgery in 1962.
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Woodrow Wilson Tiller
Council
Emma Presley Tiller
Viola Yelton
Kansas City
Norman Luz Farmer
Union City
Calif
Dimple Watson
Arlington
Lehman Tiller
Levi Tiller
Ira Tiller
Swords Creek
Parrott Tiller
Lebanon
George William Presley
Honeker
Sherman Hart Ballard
Peterstown
Peterstown Baptist Church
Charles Jack
Fairview Cemetery
West Virginia
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