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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1955
Page
4
Weather Thursday shows mild to cool conditions with clouds across West Virginia Ohio Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia. Rain is likely Friday with a turn to snow in western and central areas and colder by night across several regions. Western Pennsylvania remains mostly cloudy.
Weather Bureau reports temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 7 p.m. in Washington. The brief lists daily readings and precipitation amounts, detailing conditions across monitored locations and noting any notable changes or patterns.
A river barge trucks 3200 tons of steel from Pittsburgh to Glen Lyn Virginia for Appalachian Electric Power Company's steam generating plant. Beams moved from U S Steel mills to Reed by barge on the Ohio and Great Kanawha Rivers, then by truck over the West Virginia Turnpike to Princeton vicinity. Eight barges carried 400 tons each. the largest crane lift was 16 tons.
Bluefield firefighters were alerted at 4 15 a m to a basement fire at Lloyd Hunter's home 301 Reese Street. Truck No 3 responded and returned to station by 4 40 a m. Damage listed at 50 dollars due to a faulty flue in the basement.
Bobby Morrow of Abilene Texas won a special 100 yard dash in 9.3 seconds in Auckland New Zealand aided by a following wind. The time cannot count as a world record because the wind exceeded the allowable limit for record purposes, and Mel Patton Hector Hogan held the official world mark.
Rish Equipment Company selects Princeton for a new repair plant on Hines Avenue. Construction starts January with operations due in March. The facility will house about 25 local and transferred workers and cover 10 000 feet of floor space plus three extra lots for expansion.
The Associated Press reports two more deaths in Virginia pushing the year’s highway toll to 866 while a separate private property crash near Eller claims a boy and his parent. Notable deaths include Mrs. F. M. Eversole of Bristol Tennessee and Murrell H. Troupe of Baltimore. Police say Troupe dozed at the wheel before a wreck on Route 58 near Danville and a freight-train collision near KeysVille killed two others on private property, with engineer G. Knight identified.
Hollywood reports James Stewart surpasses John Wayne as the boxoffice king with Mae West and Kelly newcomer suggesting shifts in the top ten. The list includes Holden, Cooper, Brando, Martin and Lewis, Bogart, Allyson, Gable, Monroe missing, and Wayne dropping to third. Canadian list follows similar order with Kelly leading.
The Comet III completed a 3,350 mile London flight in 6 hours 18 minutes, landing at London Airport to cap a 30,000 mile round trip test. Pilot John Cunningham praised the jet as vindicating British confidence in jet airliners amid postwar competition with American models.
Several obituaries list Mrs. Sarah Turk 69 of Philadelphia and other local residents including George Short 70 of McComas and James Bridges 66 of Princeton. Details cover survivors, service times, churches, cemeteries, and pallbearers with locations in Bluefield Princeton and surrounding counties.
The Central Appalachian Section of the American Institute of Mining Engineers named Rhesa M. Allen Jr. of French Coal Co. as chairman for 1956. Allen, VP I graduate with a BS in mining geology 1938, MS Idaho School of Mines 1940, PhD Cornell 1947, is a GSA fellow and member of SPE and N SPE.
A 39 year old African American man was jailed in McDowell County on a malicious wounding charge after knifing Beatrice Caldwell a 37 year old woman. She suffered multiple head injuries and could lose sight in one eye. her condition was listed as satisfactory. Authorities said Booker Norris was brought to Welch by Troopers Berkley and Belgin from Caples around 8 p.m. for booking.
A 20 year old Richmonder who escaped from an Orlando jail with five others was captured in the boiler room of the Southern States Building in Richmond Virginia. Charles A Nunnally Jr offered no resistance when police officers closed in on him at the scene. Two other escapees were captured soon after. three Floridians remained at large.
In Monroe County West Virginia Prosecutor Forrest Roles said two people George Griggs and Mrs Dent were questioned after the death of Frank Dent 64 a farmer found shot near Cashmere Peterstown The man died from shotgun pellets Griggs a boarder was hospitalized in critical condition Mrs Dent remained jailed tentative charges were not filed Funeral services for Dent were set for Peterstown with interment in Thompson Cemetery near Glen Lynn Virginia
Michael Vaughan, two, recovered after a rapid tracheotomy in a Virginia hospital. Nurse Shirley Spindler prepared the instrument tray and aided the Austrian intern Dr Gerhart Puchner who performed the throat incision and tube insertion. The swift action saved the child's life and he was awake and pictured the next day.
Pocahontas coal field weekly output for the week ending December 24 reached 479,668 tons, down 37,089 from the prior week. The year prior’s comparable week was 394,953 tons, while the 1955 week rose 84,715 from the same period in 1954. Total 1955 production stands at 26,056,272 tons versus 22,395,614 in 1954, up 3,660,658 tons.
Russell County will not re-examine 32 contested main ballots from the Nov. 8 election for at least 40 days after Circuit Court action. Judge E. T. Carter extended the delay to permit appeals, while ordering certificates of election issued for all offices except treasurer where Republican Guy Whited edged Democrat J. Stanley Hargis by one vote.
Two paralytic polio cases from Fairfax County were reported to the State Health Department's Bureau of Communicable Disease Control. The 1955 Virginia total reaches 355, up from 613 at the same point last year.
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