Dalton Touted as Best Possible U S Senator by Woods
Roanoke Virginia January 2 former Republican state chairman Robert H Woods says Ted Dalton would be the finest United States Senator Virginia has ever had. Woods made the remark in Roanoke during an orchardists convention noting Dalton would be governor if he had backed a highway bond issue. He criticized the Leisenhower administration and contrasted his Andrew Jackson style politics with spoils for the victors.
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Roanoke
Robert H. Woods
Ted Dalton
United States
Virginia
Pearlsburg
Dalton
Woods
Leisenhower
Andrew Jackson
Washington
GOP
Stanley
Mayor Orders 30 Minute Think Period for Dearborn Officials
Detroit January 26 Mayor Orville Hubbard of Dearborn issues a new directive for city department heads to enforce a 30 minute think period at 8 a.m. They must study A Message to Garcia and the life of General Lee, attend one weekly class, and close offices to take no calls while thinking. He cites Newton as inspiration for disciplined thought.
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Detroit
Orville Hubbard
Dearborn
Garcia
Robert E. Lee
Hubbard
Sir Isaac) Newton
Law of
Steel Corp Reports Higher 1953 Net Income
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp, based in Pittsburgh, posted 1953 net income of 31.015 million dollars, up from 19.482 million in 1952. Earnings were 4.88 per share, vs 2.91. Fourth quarter income fell due to a railroad strike at Aliquippa plant, which closed Nov 16–30. Ingot production rose to a record 6.033 million tons. rolled steel shipments hit 4.278 million tons for the year.
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Pittsburgh
w—Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Ben Moreell
Aliquippa, Pa
N and W 1953 Earnings Show Two Percent Dip
Roanoke Va Jan 26 The Norfolk and Western Railway reports 1953 income 27,626,544 down two percent from 1952. Net earnings 28,149,344 vs 27,? adjustments. Earnings per share 4.91 vs 5.00. Common shares 5,625,932. Rail operating revenues fall over six million. Expenses cut by about two million.
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway
N&w Today
London Style Lane to Give Way for New York Garage
New York will replace Ardlea Court a quaint Dickensian byway with a modern garage. The lane once traded in antique shops and banked iron gates at each end will vanish. Richard Croker famed Tammany Hall boss visited London and built Ardlea Court to recapture old English charm.
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New York
London
Ardlea Court
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
Manhattan Democratic Organization
Infant Muse Graveside Rites Held at Lincoln Park Cemetery
Graveside services were conducted at 11 a.m. today in Lincoln Park Cemetery for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. Muse. Rev. Webster officiated. Surviving are the parents and a brother, Earl Muse Jr. Seaver Mortuary of Princeton handled arrangements. Old Buried City Compeii Scavenged by 79 A.D. eruption.
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Compeii
Otey Re-Elected President of First National Bank
Ernest G. Otey was re-elected president of the First National Bank as W. R. Graham joined the board of directors. The bank reported assets of 31.18 million, last year’s gross income of 808,347, and trust assets above eight million, with a 3 per share dividend and expanded small loan growth. The stockholders voted to contribute up to 6,000 to the Bluefield Area Development Corporation.
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First National Bank
Ernest G. Otey
W. R. Graham
Graham
Pocahontas Land Corporation
Otey
Trust Department
Bluefield
Deaths and Funerals in Virginia and Indiana
Funeral services are set for Dr William E Hudson 80 retired Presbyterian minister in Staunton Virginia with burial at Thornrose Cemetery. Also rites for Fred L Gaunt 63 in Hartford City Indiana and Leona Frederickson Dobyns former Wytheville resident buried in Felts Cemetery Galax Virginia. Edward Gaston Pennington 79 of Princeton Virginia dies at home with a lengthy list of survivors. Burial and funeral arrangements are noted for each case.
Obituary notices from Rural Retreat and Welch area
Funeral services are scheduled for Patricia Ann Workman two month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Lonnie E Workman of Tidewater who died Monday night in a Welch hospital. The service is at 2 PM at the residence with Rev Lawrence Porterfield officiating. Survivors include her parents and paternal grandparents Hewet Bennet Welch and Cora Mullins Sprinkton. The body was moved from Bennett Funeral Home Kimball to the residence yesterday. Also at 2 30 PM Mrs Mattie Baumgardner Hendricks 76 of Rural Retreat Va who died Monday night in a Marion hospital will have services from the home of Dr and Mrs W G Delp with interment in Mountain View Cemetery. She is survived by two sisters J W Robinson Beckley and W G Delp Rural Retreat. Flowers are requested omitted. This morning at 10 30 funeral services will be from Lindsey Funeral Home Rural Retreat Va for Mrs Mary Alexander Humphrey 85 who died at her home in Rural Retreat Monday. Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery. She is survived by three daughters Mrs Ernest B Keesling Wytheville Mrs Harold Gammon and Miss Margaret Gammon Rural Retreat and a son Robert Douglas Rural Retreat. Also surviving are three grandchildren two great grandchildren two sisters S P McCready Glade Springs and B S Rector Meadow View.
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Rheuben Hall
Route 1
Bluefield
Kentucky
Henry Hall
United Baptist Church
Ellis Lucas
Marriott
Lilly Mae Parker
St. Albans
Virginia Mae Castle
Wharton
Goldie Mae Bruney
Londale
Noah
Borderland
Glenn
Fred
Herbert
Ezra
Nelson
Lenore
Walter
Lorado
Hall
Craven
Frank Niday
Lloyd Ferguson
J. R. Cottrell
Sandlick Cemetery
Patricia Ann Workman
Lonnie E. Workman
Tidewater
Welch Hospital
Lawrence Porterfield
Hewet Bennet
Welch
Cora Mullins
Sprinkton
Bennett Funeral Home
Kimball
Mattie Baumgardner Hendricks
Rural Retreat
Marion Hospital
W. G. Delp
Mountain View Cemetery
Lindsey
Mary Alexander Humphrey
Ernest B. Keesling
Wytheville
Harold Gammon
Margaret Gammon
Robert Douglas
S. P. McCready
Glade Springs
B. S. Rector
Meadow View
Obituary notices for Williams and Pennington families
Robert Kent Williams aged 67 died yesterday in a Wytheville hospital. Survived by son Carl and siblings David, Will, Mrs C O Grigg, and Mrs Harlan Umberger. Funeral at Mt. Mitchell Church with burial in church cemetery. graveside rites by the Order of Oaks. Violet Amelia Pennington 38 died Monday in Marion hospital. Widow of William Virgil Pennington, survived by daughter Wanda and mother Edith Gullicson. service at Barnett Funeral Chapel Marion, with interment in Roselawn Cemetery.
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Robert Kent Williams
Wytheville
Carl
David
Washington, D. C
Will
Rural Retreat
C. O. Grigg
Graham
N. C
Harlan Umberger
Mt. Mitchell Church
Alfred Shumate
Barnett
Marion
Violet Amelia Pennington
William Virgil Pennington
Roselawn
Pennington
Wanda
Edith Gullicson
Preston
Wash
Ed Gullicson
Bellingham
Million Dollars in Gold at 35 Cents An Ounce Weight
The item claims gold totaling a million dollars at thirty five dollars per ounce would weigh just under a ton.
McComas Man Held For Jury
John Mervin Brown of McComas a Negro was held for grand jury action on breaking and entering charges after a hearing before Magistrate J A Douglas Bailey. He was jailed in default of 506 bond. A second person fled the restaurant when the cruiser stopped. A colored woman mother of four was fined and jailed but the sentence suspended to care for children.
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John Mervin Brown
McComas
J. A. Douglas Bailey
Nannie
Bailey
Childr
Bluewell Tot Struck by Truck Suffers Broken Leg
A three year old Bluewell child was treated at Bluefield Sanitarium for a compound leg fracture after colliding with a passing truck near the Shinault home at about 6 30 p m The driver John B Pyles of Freeman said he could not avoid the impact and no charges were filed Constable Lewis Perdue will continue the investigation The boy's condition was listed as satisfactory
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Bluewell
Bluefield Sanitarium
Stanley Shinault
Andrew Shinault
Shinault
Lewis Perdue
John B. Pyles
Freeman
Pyles
Perdue
Union Extends Contract Again With Celanese
The Celanese Corporation and United Construction Workers Local 153 extended their labor contract for two days after midnight January 25 to finish negotiations. The earlier contract had expired December 25 and a 30 day extension had been granted.
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Celanese Corporation
United Construction Workers, Local 153
N and W Service Club To Meet Tomorrow In Bluefield
The Norfolk and Western Better Service Club of Bluefield will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in the N and W Freight Station. Guest speaker will be Dorman Miller industrial agent for Appalachian Electric Power Co of Roanoke. His theme covers advantages from the Area Development Corporation to Bluefield.
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Norfolk & Western Better Service Club
Bluefield
Dorman Miller
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Roanoke
Area Development Corporation
Byrd plan eyed to fund teacher pay via tax credits
The article outlines support and opposition to the Byrd bill aimed at using a 6.945 million surplus in the general fund for income tax credits to fund Gov. Stanley’s teacher pay program. Carter argues for suspending the bill until needs are met, while others note taxpayers have vested interests in credits. The act hinges on overrun general fund revenue and would vary credit amounts from 5 to 12 percent over three years.
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Carter
Gov. Stanley
Gov
Stanley
Byrd
House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Mercer Cancer Society elects Kechele president
Dr. D. V. Kechele radiologist at St. Luke's Hospital was elected president of the Mercer County Unit of the West Virginia Cancer Society succeeding Isadore Cohen. Allan Goodykoontz was named vice president and a 10 member board of directors was announced for county cancer work. A $10,000 Crusade goal for 1954 funding and programs was set with Dr. Shaffer named county campaign chairman.
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D. V. Kechele
St. Luke's Hospital
Mercer County
West Virginia Cancer Society
Isadore Cohen
Allan Goodykoontz
Scott Lilly
Keil Alderson
Cohen
J. Robert Alston
County Cancer Society
Frank Shaffer
C. R. Hughes
C. M. Scott
Upshur Higginbotham
Kechele
Uriah Vermillion
Alderson
Janie Marie Lambert
J. P. Champion
Werner Laqueur
Robert Gatherum
John W. Yost
Goodykoontz
B. F. Colvett
Arthur Weiss
Frank Queen
Ralph Bird
Cecil F. Johnston
James O. Bell
L. W. Wiseman
Shaffer
Trinity Methodist Church
Young Woman's Club
W. L. Kelly
Weather update across states with rain and colder turns
Maryland and surrounding states see occasional rain and mild highs near 60, then a turn to colder nights and Thursday sunshine. Ohio and Pennsylvania project mixed precipitation with snow in western areas, cooler temperatures, and cloudy to fair Thursday conditions.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
State Grain Stocks Below 1953 Level
West Virginia on January 1 held 20 percent fewer grain stocks than a year earlier with corn down 23 percent to 4,211,000 bushels. Wheat oats and barley also declined from January 1953 levels, while wheat nationwide reached a 1943 high. The drop is attributed to a smaller crop and earlier livestock feeding.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Federal
Manko Charges Accounts Padding in Logan County
State Mines Department inspector Joe Manko alleged a routine practice of paying expense accounts for party contributions and political trips. He claimed dismissal stemmed from resisting a statehouse effort to seize Logan County control and accused Judge Chauncey Browning of attempts to influence county affairs.
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State Mines Department
Joe Manko
Man
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Statehouse
Logan County
Charleston Gazette
Manko
Supreme Court
Chauncey Browning
Democratic County Committee
Ray Watts
State Mines
Frank B. King
New York
King
E. L. Chatfield
Welch
Gazette
Hurxtle White
Governor’s Mansion
Watts
Browning
Grover C. Coombs
Sherif
Justice of the Peace A. D
Jody) Scaggs
U S Steel Breaks Records for 1953 Outputs and Income
United States Steel Corp the world’s largest steel producer announced record results for 1953 with net income of 222.7 million dollars and shipments totaling 25,090,789 net tons. The firm posted higher production and sales and forecast a good yet softer 1954 outlook.
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New York
United States Steel Corp
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
Delbarton Man Gets Ten Years For Theft
Harley Baisden of Delbarton pled guilty to stealing a diamond studded watch a diamond ring and a pistol from Mrs. Nancy Sammons. He was sentenced to one to ten years in the State Penitentiary. He admitted disposing of the valuables in the Guyan mines. the items were valued at $2000 and taken from a tavern operated by Mrs. Sammons.
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Williamson
Harley Baisden
Delbarton
Nancy Sammons
Baisden
Sammons
Worker crushed to death when coil toppled at Follansbee plant
A 33 year old Steubenville worker Rocky Comisso was killed instantly when a steel coil fell on him at the Follansbee Steel Corp in Brooke County. Coroner C R Megahan said the coil release button apparently was tripped accidentally.
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Follansbee
W. Va
Steubenville
Follansbee Steel Corp
Brooke County
C. R. Megahan
Rocky Comisso
City Grants Cable Franchise And Related City Actions
The City Board of Directors unanimously approved a franchise for Bluefield TV Cable Corporation to erect operate and maintain community television lines and equipment. Initial petition dated December 22 with effective date 30 days after passage. Charges set at 125 hookup and 3.65 monthly rental, down from prior rates.
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Bluefield TV Cable Corporation
George Richardson Jr
W. Randolph Tucker
Tucker
Norton City Attorney Named Keynote Speaker at Convention
Norton City Attorney e Fred B Greear was chosen as the keynote speaker for the Democratic district convention in Bristol Virginia. C B Carter Bristol district Democratic chairman announced Greear a former Wythe County Commonwealth's Attorney and Virginia State Bar president will speak after being named temporary convention chairman. Former 9th district Rep Thomas Fugate is also set to speak. The convention begins at 10 a.m. with a pre meeting Friday night to fill secretary and other posts. Pat Jennings Smyth County sheriff is the front runner for the nomination as other candidates have withdrawn.
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Jane Fred B. Greear
Norton
Carter
District Democratic Committee
Greear
Virginia State Bar Assn
Wyse County
Commonwealth
Thomas Fugate
Ewing
Pat Jennings
Smyth County
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