Not A Ruby Juror Named In Dallas Murder Trial
Dallas juror prospects faced extensive questioning as the state and defense dismissed 16 candidates over two days. Frank Meza was excused for saying Ruby appeared emotionally disturbed after Oswald’s killing. Judge Brown and counsel argued over impartiality and capital punishment as the trial resumes.
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Dallas
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Joe B. Brown
Venice
Brown
Impo
Ruby
Coun
Frank Meza
Oswald
Kennedy
Dist
Atty
Henry Wade
Meza
Charles S. Toon
Joe Tonnhill
Toon
Texas
Tonnhill
Wade
Russia
State Trooper Speaks at Anawalt Beavers 4-H Meeting
G. L. Swartz, a state trooper with the McDowell County Detachment of the West Virginia State Police, spoke to the Anawalt Beavers Four-H Club at Anawalt Junior High School. He discussed bicycle safety and held a Q and A session after the talk.
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G. L. Swartz
McDowell County Detachment
West Virginia State Police
Anawalt Beavers Four-H Club
Anawalt Junior High School
Schwartz
Housing Authority Plans Brick Apartments In Bluefield
The Bluefield Housing Authority outlines a plan for two to three story brick units funded by a preliminary planning loan of 29000 dollars. Formation of the authority occurred September 18 1982 after city efforts to obtain Public Housing Authority funds required a local agency.
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Lambert
Housing Authority of
Bluefield
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Publication Details
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph announces its establishment in 1893 and publishing details. It lists address, contact number, and subscription rates for carrier and mail in West Virginia. The notice outlines the paper as the source of local news and Associated Press content.
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Daily Telegraph
Bland Street
Bluefield
W Va
Associated
West Virginia
Kaw Agency, Inc
Urban Renewal Demolition Advances on Bluefield Avenue
Four buildings are gutted as the Urban Renewal Program moves forward on the Bluefield Avenue Project. Weather slows exterior work while interiors are stripped at the Terminal Hotel Building Blue Dahlia Powell Plumbing and a shoe shop near Mercer Street. Cleveland Wrecking Co. demolishes 34 units under a $57,400 UR contract. Purchase activity continues with 68 of 96 parcels approved by federal authorities.
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Bluefield Avenue
George McCulloch
Terminal Hotel
Blue Dahlia
Powell Plumbing
Mercer Street
Cleveland Wrecking Co
Princeton Avenue
McCulloch
Weekly businessmen luncheons begin at First Presbyterian
A five week series of pre Easter non denominational luncheons started Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church. Speakers include Raymond Corky Sarver February 26 and Richard Berry of Bluefield College March 4 along with Rev. Tom Baker March 11 Roy Henderson March 18 and Don Cross as guest speaker. Sarver Baker and Henderson are youth directors of their churches.
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First Presbyterian Church
Raymond
Corky) Sarver
Richard Berry
Bluefield College
Tom Baker
Roy Henderson
Don Cross
Sarver
Baker
Henderson
Episcopal
Countians Attend Cooperative regional board meeting
Harry Hutchison manager of Southern States Cooperative in Princeton led Mercer County attendees at a regional board meeting in Ronceverte. The event, one of 47 across five states, noted the purchasing division dollar volume up 48 percent in the first half of the 1963 64 fiscal year. County guests included J M Bailey Athens and County Agent R E Harbert.
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Harry Hutchison
Southern States Cooperative
Princeton
Mercer County
Cooperative Regional Board
Ronceverte
Southern State Cooperative
Hutchison
E. A. Bolton
Wade Elmore
M. O. Robertson
A. H. Carr
J. M. Bailey
Athens
R. E. Harbert
Post Office to Close Saturday for Washington's Birthday
Bluefield post offices will be closed on Saturday February 2 in observance of Washingtons birthday. Only special delivery mail will be delivered while lobby service remains open for lock box customers at North Street and the Federal Building from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Bluefield
Washington
Howard Faulkner
North Street
Federal Building
Frank Sinatra Jr Arrives in Germany for Radio Engagement
Frank Sinatra Jr arrived from London to Saarbrucken to perform with the Tommy Dorsey band. He declined to discuss the Los Angeles trial of his alleged kidnapers.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Frank Sinatra Jr
London
Saarbruecken
Tommy Dorsey
Los Angeles
Weather Outlook Virginia and West Virginia
The Associated Press forecasts considerable cloudiness with snow flurries in the Virginia mountains and highs from the mid 40s on the coast to the upper 20s in the mountains. Thursday and Friday will be partly cloudy and colder with mountain snow flurries. West Virginia will be cloudy and slightly colder with snow flurries, highs in the 20s to low 30s.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Hancock School Founders Day Program Friday Evening
Hancock Elementary School presents Founders Day Friday at 7 30 PM with music by the Viola Clark and Clark Singers. Guest speaker is Mrs Anna Ealy along with a list of performers and speakers including Milton Anthony David Sims Velma Tucker Clay Davis Ruth Jones Tom Atkinson and others. Refreshments by Mrs S M Spicer.
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Hancock Elementary School
Viola Clark
Clark Singers
Anna Ealy
Milton Anthony
David Sims
Velma Tucker
Clay Davis
Ruth Jones
Tom Atkinson
A. L. Younger
Fannye S. Mincy
Estel Hartwell
Margaret Moorman
S. M. Spicer
College Chaplain Will Speak Tonight in Bluefield
Rev. Charles McNeer Episcopal College chaplain for Abingdon Convocation will speak at St. Marys Episcopal Church Bluefield tonight at 7 30 p.m. He will preach the evening sermon and lead a shortened form of the evening prayer. Rev. Robert J. Cummings reports the schedule.
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Charles McNeer
Abingdon
Episcopal Diocese
Tazewell County
Bluefield
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Robert J. Cummings
McNeer
Cummings
Christ Church of
Pocahontas
Indian Police Fire On Rioting Tribesmen
In Shillong Assam two people were killed and 16 wounded when police opened fire on rioting tribesmen. Parliament was told on Wednesday.
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New Delhi
India
Assam
Shillong
Heavy Snow Blankets West Virginia Panhandle
The Panhandle counties Jefferson Berkeley Morgan see up to two feet of wet snow from a storm that arrived Tuesday. Schools closed, mail halted, and many businesses and plants stayed shut. Trees fell on the B and O line delaying two trains. officials in Martinsburg boosted crews to handle emergencies. Snow amounts ranged from 11 inches in Flat Top to a trace in Huntington.
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West Virginia
Panhandle
Jefferson, Berkeley and
Morgan
Alleghenies
Blue Ridge
Martinsburg
Marlin Eckard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Harper’s Ferry
Flat Top
Beckley
Bluefield
Morgantown
Parkersburg
Charleston
Huntington
Virginians Battle Over Tax Cuts and Local Levy Caps
In the Virginia Senate non revenue highway bills pass for the day as an amendment linking funds to the 1960 census faces opposition for favoring urban areas. The House advances 5.2 million in business tax cuts including lowering merchants licenses and a one time leaf tobacco tax. A companion bill limits local license taxes to statewide cap and tools and machinery taxes to the same level as other tangible property. A nickel bottle tax to fund a million dollar hospital for alcoholism treatment is sent to a subcommittee amid opposition from ABC Board members and leadership.
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Senate
House
Tax Study Commission
House Finance Committee
ABC Board
Del
Robert Clark
Patrick
Conferees Agree on Tax Cut Plan with Wide Effects
Conferees reach a broad tax cut accord benefiting about 13.5 million taxpayers while removing roughly 1.5 million from the rolls. The corporate rate falls in two stages from 52 to 30 percent, with capital gains kept near current levels. Johnson supports the measure as a keystone of his economic program and aims to lift GNP and reduce unemployment.
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John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
House
Ways and Means
Johnson
Senate
Treasury
Lilly Grove Association Plans Friday Meeting
The Lilly Grove Community and the Lilly Grove Improvement Association sponsor a meeting Friday at 7 p.m. in the Lilly Grove Community Church. President Carl Bish notes many projects will be discussed and a report will cover the Public Service District sanitary system progress. He urges full attendance.
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Lilly Grove
Lilly Grove Improvement Association
Carl Bish
Public Service District
Bish
Deaths and Funerals Eloise Sutphin and others
Elizabeth Jane Sutphin 77 wife of James L Sutphin of Hillsville Va died at home. Surviving include four daughters two sons 17 grandchildren 14 great grandchildren and several siblings. Funeral Thursday 2 pm Hillsville Presbyterian Church with burial Wilkerson Cemetery. Also James A Via 76 Princeton area died in Weston hospital. Survivors include three sisters two brothers and nieces nephews. Call at Burns Wornal Chapel Memorial Funeral Directory Princeton. James Edward Lawless 68 retired miner died at home Switchback. Survived by wife six children nine grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Funeral arrangements pending Bennett Funeral Home Northfork.
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Eliabeth Sutphin
Elizabeth Jane Sutphin
James L. Sutphin
Hillsville
Carroll County
Robert
Coral Lee Woltz Howlett
Gladys Farmer
Howard Weddle
Hilleville
Mary Dunford
Galax
Catherine Strickland
Fancy Gap
Kent Sutphin
Bradshaw
Robert Sutphin
Max Meadows
Tipton Davis
Adeline Vance
Mount Gay
Clarence Shumaker
Christiansburg
Lewis Howlett
Hillsville Presbyterian Church
John Boyd
Ottie Utt
Wilkerson Cemetery
Vaughan, Guynn and McGrady
Burns Wornal
Princeton
James A. Via
Princeton-Oakvale Road
Weston Hospital
Jimmy Jones
Johnson Cemetery
Via
Jeff and
Electra Mills Via
Johnson Chapel Church
Grant Wood
Essie White
Ingleside
Elizabeth Laymon
Hagerstown
Victor Via
Dole
Norfolk
James Edward Lawless
Switchback
Patrick County
McDowell County
Zenith Primitive Baptist Church of
Crumpler
United Mine Workers
Gracis Young Lawless
William Lawless
Kimball
Richard Lawless
Leslie Jarrett Jr
Joe Phipps
P. C. Mayhew
Oceana
Wyatt Lawless
Hines
Ben Lawless
Erie
John Lawless
Ohio
Albert Nichols
Worth
Homer Hylton
Spray
N. C
Carl Williams
Indianapolis
Ind
Bennett Funeral Home
Northfork
Obituary: Jess Hankins 73 of Centerburg and Tazewell area
Jess Hankins 73, formerly of Tazewell Virginia, died Tuesday at his Centerburg Ohio home. Survived by wife Victoria Beavers Hankins, four sons Wade Prentiss Thomas Mack, a daughter Jessie Lee Mitchell, 14 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at Greever Funeral Home Tazewell with Rev. Charles Boyd officiating, burial Maplewood Cemetery.
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Jess Hankins
Tazewell
Centerburg
Ohio
Victoria Beavers
Wade
Prentiss Hankins
Thomas Hankins
Utica
Mack. Hankins
Mansfield
Jessie Lee Mitchell
Centerbury
Greever Funeral Home
Charles Boyd
Maplewood Cemetery
Funerals Set for Mrs. Mattie Lee Shrewsbury and Mrs. Alzira Alston
Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Lee Shrewsbury of 207 Eighth Street Princeton take place Thursday at 2 p.m. at First Methodist Church with Dr. Herbert Parks, burial in Mount Olive Cemetery. Pallbearers include Jim Edmonds and John Ritter. Seaver Mortuary, Princeton, in charge. A funeral for Mrs. Alzira Alston of Princeton is today at 1 p.m. at Seaver Mortuary, burial in Lincoln Park Cemetery. Pallbearers include George Strain and James Strain.
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Shrewsbury
Mattie Lee
Eighth St
Princeton
First Methodist Church
Herbert Parks
Mount Olive Cemetery
Jim Edmonds
John Ritter
Bill Abshire
R. H. Moore
J. M. Bone
D. A. Johnston
George H. Shumate
Seaver Mortuary
Alston
Alzira
Lincoln Park Cemetery
George and
James Strain
W. D. Spicer
William Colley
William Landers
Ellis Wilborn
Sam Henry
Death of 79 year old Princeton farmer Luther Hatcher
Luther James Hatcher a retired farmer of Low Gap Road Princeton died Wednesday at Memorial Hospital Born in Ellison he was the son of the late J C L and Eliza Lilly Hatcher Surviving are five brothers Joseph R Jake John W of Princeton William Hatcher of Green Valley and Charles S Hatcher of Lynchburg Va and a sister Sarah Basham of Marion Ill The body is at Memorial Funeral Directory Princeton.
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Luther James Hatcher
Low Gap Road
Princeton
Memorial Hospital
Ellison
Eliza Lilly Hatcher
Joseph R
Jake
John W. Hatcher Sr
William Hatcher
Green Valley
Charles S. Hatcher
Lynchburg
Sarah Basham
Marion
Ill
Funeral notices for John D. Watkins and Jasper Jacob Murrow
Funeral arrangements are in complete for John D. Watkins who died Wednesday at his home in Bluefield. The body remains at Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home where final plans will be announced. Also complete for Jasper Jacob Murrow, a retired miner who died Monday at his home in Anawalt. The body has been brought to Lugo's Funeral Service where final plans will be announced.
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John D. Watkins
Jones St
Bluefield
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Jasper Jacob Murrow
Anawalt
Lugo
Chief Surgeons Go On Strike In Italy
In Rome AP reports about a two day strike by about 2000 chief surgeons across Italian hospitals demanding higher wages and a later retirement age. They earn a base monthly salary of 563 dollars at top hospitals.
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Italy
Rome
Supreme Knight Luke Hart of Knights of Columbus Dies
Luke E. Hart, 83, longtime head of the Knights of Columbus, died Wednesday at St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven after a period as a patient starting Tuesday night. He led the Roman Catholic fraternal organization for the past decade.
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New Haven
Russell Blasts Civil Rights Bill as Senate Set to Move
Senator Richard Russell and Southern leaders vow to fight the civil rights bill, claiming 19 allies ready to debate around the clock to block passage. The bill aims to end segregation in public accommodations, strengthen voting rights, curb employment discrimination, and withhold funds from noncompliant states. Russell warns of no concessions as the battle lines form for the year’s defining clash.
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Washington
Richard
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Judiciary Committee
Conness
Senate
Russo
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
House
Appy Commission To Begin Study For Development
The Appalachian Commission will study creating an Appalachian Institute to address economic development needs in 10 states. A $21,000 grant from the Area Redevelopment Administration funds a six month study to assess feasibility and plan for coordinated growth, education, and training resources.
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Appalachian Regional Commission
Appalachian Institute
Joseph S. Clark
George M. Rhodes
Pennsylvania
Area Redevelopment Administration
Appalachian
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Maryland
North Carolina
Ohio
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Rhodes
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