Key Mossler Trial Testimony Stricken as Defense Rests
In Miami, the judge ordered the jury to disregard part of key witness Arthur Grimsley’s testimony regarding a 1962 murder plot linked to Candace Mossler and Melvin Powers. Grimsley’s revised timing on the alleged Cadillac offer was struck after defense claims of police coaching.
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Miami
Fila
Candace Mossler
Melvin Lane Powers
George Schulz
Arkansas
Arthur Grimsley
Grimsley
Powers
Mossler
Houston
Billy Frank Mulvey
A. J. Geffert
Houston Police
Mulvey
Messler
Geffert
Dade County
Syrian Troops Seal Victory as New Government Emerges
Syrian army troops consolidated their victory in the coup that toppled Gen. Hafez’s regime. A new government was reported forming along the lines of former Premier Youssef Zayyen. Paratroop units pulled back to camps for the first time since the coup began, while reports from Jdaideh, Lebanon, suggested leftist leaders still contested control amid continuing fighting in northern Syria and possible civilian displacement.
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Damascus
Syria
Amin Hafez
Youssef Zayyen
Zayyen
Arab Socialist Baath Party
International Baath Command
Jdaideh
Lebanon
Tip Top Services Called Off Sunday
Regular Sunday services including Sunday School will be held at Wilbur Memorial Church in Tazewell Virginia. Services at Tip Top Virginia will not take place due to the passing of Reverend H H Tiffany.
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Reguar
Wilbur Memorialist Church
Tazewell
Tip Top
H. H. Tiffany
Bluefield Daily Telegraph 1893 Local Notes and Rates
Fragmentary ad text from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph notes subscription rates and printing details. Mentions Daily and Sunday rates and West Virginia zones, with references to the Audit Bureau of Representatives and Associated Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ore
Inghe Daily Telegraph Printing Co
End Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated
West Virginia
Ion
Audit Bureau of Representative
Kats
Fuse Found At Blasted School In Elba Alabama
Investigators found a burned 17 foot dynamite fuse among rubble at Biba High School after twin blasts damaged a five room wing Thursday night. Police say two dynamite bombs caused the cratering with damage estimates between 340 000 and 50 000 dollars. No injuries reported. District Attorney Stephens vows firm action against hoodlums.
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Elba
Ala
Leney Stephens Jr
Lamar Foley
Snow blankets East Coast as storms halt travel and events
Up to 19 inches of snow covered the East from New England to North Carolina. Four deaths occurred in New York New Jersey and Maryland from accidents on slick roads and four more from shoveling or exposure in New Jersey New York and Massachusetts. Schools closed in rural areas and races at Pimlico and Lincoln Downs canceled. Travel and air traffic delayed.
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New England
North Carolina
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
Massachusetts
Boston
Pimlico
Lincoln Downs
R.I
Maine
Windham
N.ny
Pennsylvania
New York City
Kennedy
la Guardia
CIA Keeps Secrets From Committee
Senator Eugene McCarthy says the CIA acknowledges concealing some information from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Adm. Raborn told the panel the agency reports to the Armed Services Committee but not to them. A special watchdog group of veterans oversees CIA operations.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Hangover inflation probes halt price gouging
Rio de Janeiro price control inspectors raided stores on Thursday catching several druggists for raising prices on aspirin and other hangover remedies amid postwar inflation concerns.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Roanoke man jailed a year in statutory burglary case
Robert Wade Martin, 22, of Roanoke, received a 12 month jail term after pleading guilty to statutory burglary in Hastings Court. The case tied to identification papers found on a man killed during a Tallulah Louisiana grocery store holdup. Martin also faces charges for attempting to open a Botetourt County bottling plant safe.
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Roanoke
Louisiana
Hastings Court
Robert Wade Martin
Richard T. Edwards
Martin
Tallulah
Botetourt County
Texas
Cyvan
Eucer Moronski
Houston
Thera Lee Hoops Dies in Salem Hospital
Thera Lee Hoops of Bluefield Virginia died Friday at 9 am in a Salem hospital after a brief illness. She was the daughter of J S Hoops of Valley View Heights and sister of Lois Katz of Bluefield and Mi dred Page of Waco Texas. Her mother died in 1962. Mercer Funeral Home in Bluefield handles arrangements.
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Thera Lee Hoops
J. S. Hoops
Valley View Heights
Bluefield
Salem
Lois Wayne) Katz
Everett
Midred) Page
Waco
Tex
Mercer Funeal
Young Demos to Meet in Boissevain Hall
The Abbs Valley Boissevain Pocahontas Young Democrat Club will hold a meeting tonight at 7 30 in the Boissevain Union Hall.
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Boissevain Hall
Abbs Valley
Boissevain
Pocahontas Young Democrat Club
Boissevain Union Hall
IDS division ranks third in nation for 1965 insurance sales
The Bluefield based IDS sales division placed third among 169 divisions in 1965 with insurance sales totaling 4.7 million dollars. IDS manages 6.3 billion in assets and serves as national distributor and adviser for Investors Syndicate of America and four associated mutual funds.
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Bluefield
Investors Diversified Services, Inc
Investors Syndicate Life Insurance and Annuity Co
A. H. Spangler
William B. Boscow
Investors Diversified Services
Investors Syndicate of America, Inc
Investors Mutual, Inc
Investors Stock Fund, Inc
Investors Selective Fund, Inc
Investors Variable Payment Fund, Inc
IDS
Investors Syndicate Life Insurance and Annuity Company
Class of 1946 Plans Reunion at Bluefield High
Bluefield High School graduates from the Class of 1946 held a planning meeting in the Appalachian Power Social Room for a summer reunion. Attendees included Gordon Corell and many others. a family picnic and dinner dance are planned with potential dates June 25 and 26, and a March 24 gathering was scheduled at Mona Davis Hoover’s Union Street home. Contact Bob Weimer for missing classmates.
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Bluefield High School
Appalachian Power Social Room
Gordon Corell
Bobby Bruch
Buddy Wakeland
Robert Weimer
Velma Brooks Caldwell
Patty Cooke Claytor
Mona Davis Hoover
Alena Romano Caldwell
Catherine Romano
Nancy Sayers Workman
Jackie Short
Willie Stanley Hambrick
Patricia Graham Mills
Juanita Harrell Stone
Gilda Long Moore
Union Street
Bob Weimer
Cumberland Road
Bluefield
James Amburn
Bill Davies
Jack Counts
William J. Neal
Tommy Ratledge
Joe Wingfield
Charlene Aliff
Doris Lee Harris
Evelyn Jenkins
Tailoring Classes Planned At Beaver
Two adult education tailoring classes will start in Bluefield in March taught by Shirley Browning. Sessions run Monday and Friday nights from 7 to 10 at Beaver High School for eight weeks. Sponsored by Mercer County Board of Education. contact instructor or Board office in Princeton or Bluefield.
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Shirley Browning
Beaver High School
Mercer County Board of Education
Princeton
Bluefield
Deed Recorded for Mercer County Property Transfer
A deed was recorded at the Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton on Friday transferring property in East River District from Kacy Development Corporation to John S. and Valeda C. O'Dell for 21300 dollars.
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Mercer County
Princeton
Kacy Development Corporation
John S. and
Valeda C. O'Dell
East River District
Crews Begin Highway Work on Bluefield Princeton Road
Utility lines are being relocated and brush cleared in a prelude to a four lane expansion of the Bluefield Princeton Road from Green Tree to Green Valley. Construction could start in March with widening to a 1.7 mile stretch featuring a concrete median and wide shoulders.
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Bluefield
Princeton
Green Tree
Green Valley
Haun Motors
Appalachian Power Co
Crumpecker Hill
Appalachia
Body of Viet Nam hero returned to New Mexico
The flag draped coffin of Army Spec. 4 Daniel Fernandez 21 was brought home from Oakland California for military honors in Los Lunas New Mexico A crowd of about 560 attended as pallbears carried the coffin from the train Fernandez who sacrificed himself to save comrades was nominated for the Medal of Honor He had earlier earned the Purple Heart and Air Medal Funeral services will be held at Los Lunas High School gym and burial at Santa Fe National Cemetery
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Los Lunas
N.M
New Mexico
Army
Daniel Fernandez
Oakland
Calif
Fernandez
Viet Nam
Shiek
Las Lunas
Arthur Sais
Sais
Jose I. Fernandez
Rita
New Mexico Highlands University
Belen Depot
Sandia
Albuquerque
Burton R. Brown
Young Fernandez
Los Lunas High School
Santa Fe
Mexico
Beaver Class Of 53 To Plan Gathering
Beaver High School graduates of 1953 form plans for a class reunion this year. An organizational meeting is set for 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the school to establish committees elect a treasurer and officers. Harry Cook of Fairmont is chairing the effort, with Jimmy Musser Sandra McGrady and Mrs. John Lawrence also helping.
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Beaver High School
Harry Cook
Fairmont
Cook
Jimmy Musser
South Bluefield
Sandra McGrady
Bluefield, Va
John Lawrence
Old Princeton Road
Emory and Henry Concert Choir in Tazewell Event
Emory and Henry College Concert Choir will perform at Tazewell High School Auditorium on March 4 at 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Tazewell Rotary Club, admission is 50 cents for children and likely one dollar for adults.
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Emory and Henry
Tazewell High School
Tazewell
Rotary Club
Memorial notices from West Virginia area obituaries
Deaths and funerals listed for Mrs Susie Rosella Brash Rev Houston Tiffany Mrs Annie Phel Hager Mrs Martha Elizabeth Riner Mrs Julia Davis Harman Mrs Belvie Ramey Mrs Mary Hutcherson Myrtle Dawson Jenny Hurd John F Langdon with service details, burial plans, and survivor lists across Bluefield Premier Nora Honaker and other local towns. Several services set for weekend at Pentecostal Holiness Church Bethel Methodist Hawkins Funeral Home Maple Hill Coleman Cemetery.
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Susie Rosella Brash
Beckley
Mrs
Water Shook
Brash
Everson
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Premier
Nick Brash
Aubray, Lewey
Tony Brash
Washington, D. C
Joe Brash
Ralph Brash Jr
Ira Perdue Jr
Ben Pardue
Clayton Johnston
Hubert Miller
Ed Mahaffey
Frank Patsey
Ernest Jones
Death of Joe Appton in Bluefield
Joe Appton of 011% Cooper Street Bluefield died Friday at Bluefield Sanitarium. The body was taken to the Link home of Bluefield. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Joe Appton
Cooper St
Bluefield
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Mrs Henrietta Mahaffey Dies at 1675 Ansel Road
Mrs Henrietta Mahaffey died Thursday at her Cleveland home. She was the mother of Dr Thedore Mahaffey, formerly Bluefield State College instructor, now teaching at A and T College Greensboro. Funeral and burial services will be in Cleveland, time to be set.
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Martha Elizabeth Riner
Nora
Abingdon
Walter and
Cowan Riner
Ada Mullens
Kingsport
Tenn
Rosa Smith
Liza Duncan
Tacoma
Lela Smith
Coeburn
Thelma Tolliver
Jenkins, Ky
Joe Neece
Bluefield
Ed Neece
Hamlin
Morris Neece
Warkenda
Ken
Faurise Neece
Cleveland
Ohio
SteHa Hartman
Enoch Rose
Miller Funeral Home
Clintwood
Murtle Dawson
Wilmington
Del
Hilltop
Murtle Grey
Lillian Grey
Garwood
Emmett Grey
Harry Dawson
Anice Miller
Viola Shrewsbury
Blanche Lusk
Covel
Ruth Lambert
Corinne
Marie Lusk
Withersboro
Jenny Hurd
Rt. 1
Honaker
Jake Pruner
Jessie Hurd
Celia Ward
Clyde Lambert
Ancil Childress
Harley Dye
Hustin Cemetery
Venna
Honaker Funeral Home
Pruner
Henrietta Mahaffey
Ansel Road
Thedore Mahaffey
Bluefield State College
A & T. College
Greensboro
N. C
Obituaries and funeral notices from Matoaka and Bristol region
Obituary notices list Cozetts Akers 81 of Matoaka with service at Giotto Baptist Church and burial in Akers Cemetery. Also Bailey Sheffey 984 of Matoaka and Louise Jennings 52 of Bristol with services at Bailey Funeral Home and Free Pentecostal Holiness Church Big Rock. Oscar Marshall Wall Jr of Radford Va formerly of Bluefield funeral today at Graham Funeral Home Chapel.
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Bailey
Sheffey
Matoaka
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Foley
I. W. Kilby
Roselawn
Jennings
Louise
Bristol
Big Rock
Orville Collins
L. E. Evans
Elswick
Wall
Oscar Marshall (Kirk) Jr
Radford
Bluefield
Graham Funeral Home Chapel
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Robertson Denies Candidacy Report For WV Governor 1968
Sunset News Observer quotes Atty. Gen. C. Don Robertson saying he would seek the Democrat nomination for West Virginia governor in 1968. Robertson later denied the report and called it premature noting the governor succession amendment. He suspected Gov. Hulett Smith might run again. Robertson was in town for an auto agency opening.
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News Observer
Donald Robertson
West Virginia
Robertson
Hulett Smith
Scouts Aid Jaeger Broom Sale On City Streets
Boy Scout Troop 136 will hold its annual broom sale today on the streets of Jaeger. Proceeds go to the troop and Scouts wishing to participate should report to the Jaeger Post Office by 8 30 a.m. for instructions and supplies. Sales begin at 9 a.m.
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Boy Scout
Jaeger
Ees Se
Iaeger
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Woodlawn
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Charlottesville
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