Gadd Seeks Conviction on Moral Crisis in Fifth District
Cyrus H. Gadd, Republican candidate for congress, says voters in the fifth district are aroused by national moral decline and demand a house cleaning in Washington. He laments partisan labels, urges honesty and decency, and supports electing a Republican in the upcoming special election to curb "anything goes" governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus H. Gadd
Congress
America
Gadd
Washington
Sluss Family Reunion At North Tazewell
The Sluss family held a Sunday reunion at the old Sluss home place in North Tazewell with about fifty members attending. Surviving children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rages Sluss were present, many traveling long distances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sluss
Tazewell
North Tazewell
Rages Sluss
South America
R. M. Sluss
G. G. Sluss
Howard Peery
Jack Witten
J. F. Litz
C. M. Armbrister
West Graham
D. F. Dorton
Bluefield
W. Banks Jordan
Pocanonias
J. L. Bowyer
C. W. Sluss
Walter Reed
Princeton
Weldon Wright
Jimmy
Janice
Northfork
J. F. Sluss
M. H. Sluss
Jesse
Henry Witten
Pisgah
James A. Sluss
Bristol
Raven native MIA Pfc James Ball reported by War Dept
The War Department reported that Pfc James B. Ball of Raven Virginia is missing in action. He is the son of Mr and Mrs James W Ball. The record notes his status as of yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Ball
James W. Ball
Raven, Va
War Department
English Child Vanishes Then Found Strangled in Windsor Park
Seven year old Christine Butcher disappeared from a crowd near Sugar Ray Robinsons training camp in Windsor Sunday. Her body was found in Windsor Castle park by two visitors, concealed under her blue coat, with police saying she had been assaulted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
England
Christine Butcher
Sugar Ray Robinson
Christine
Robinson
Randolph Turpin
Sugar Ray
Windsor Castle
Thames
Tazewell District Youth Camp In Session At Summers Camp
The Tazewell district youth camp is in progress this week at Camp Summers Forest Hill West Virginia. Camp director is Rev W E Jeff pastor of North Tazewell church with counselors L E Anderson Anna Lee Webb Don Hoback Clarence McCall and campers Bobby Webb Jean Hoback Margaret Beavers Joe Peery Albert Laine Fred Bailey and Marie Brewster all of the North Tazewell church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tazewell
Forest Hill
W. Va
W. E. Jeff
North Tazewell
L. E. Anderson
Anna Lee Webb
Don Hoback
Clarence McCall
Bobby Webb
Jean Hoback
Margaret Beavers
Joe Peery
Albert Laine
Fred Bailey
Marie Brewster
North Tazewell Church
Leaders say British oil operations may extend
British spokesmen warned that operations may run longer as AIOC managers slow activities to delay tank filling and prolong refinery output. Iranian officials welcomed the development, saying Mossadegh’s uncompromising stance appears to be working and that the British bluff is exposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AIOC
Mossadegh
Korea Cease Fire Proposals Move Toward Armistice Talks
U N delegates report progress toward an agenda to discuss an armistice as Chinese and North Korean officials back a 38th parallel demarcation and a 12.4 mile buffer. The Reds call for end to bombing and reconnaissance and for withdrawal within a time frame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Ridgway
U. N
Ridgway
Joy
North Korea
Kaesong
Peiping
Tung Hua
Peng Teh-Huah
Korea
Peiping Radio
Chicago businessman makes forced landing near Bluefield
A Chicago businessman and his seven year old son landed a two seat Commonwealth Skyranger in flat bottom land near Bluefield stadium at 7 45 pm during a storm en route to Fayetteville North Carolina. The aircraft was undamaged and no one was hurt. They had circuited the Bluefield Country Club golf course after deciding to land locally instead of continuing through the weather. Alfred, an official of the Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., and his son were at Hennon Gilbert's Frederick Street home when the incident occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bluefield
North Carolina
Bluefield Stadium
C. M. Allred
Fayetteville
N. C
Allred
Princeton
Bluefield Country Club
Stadium
Alfred
State program aims to add rehabilitation center at Morgantown
Clarksburg Kiwanis heard from F Ray Power director of the state vocational rehabilitation division that the planned four year state medical and dental school at Morgantown should include a rehabilitation center. He said state facilities should provide the service now sent to other states for hundreds of disabled West Virginians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
Morgantown
Call for Immediate POW Exchanges and Rapid Troop Withdrawals
The broadcast urges restoring status quo ante June 25 1950 and immediate prisoner of war exchanges to speed families’ reunions. It calls for all foreign troops to withdraw quickly, claiming this will assure an end to the Korean war and a peaceful settlement of the Korean question. It quotes the Korean Chinese and Soviet peoples plus world peace advocates demanding early war termination.
Nominees Named For Bluefield Chamber Retail Trade Board
A nominating committee headed by A A Angrist named 22 candidates from ten retail divisions plus a miscellaneous group for the Bluefield chamber of commerce retail trade executive committee. Ballots go to members this week with counting set for Friday July 20 to elect eleven members for 1951 52.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
A. A. Angrist
Angrist Men’s Shop
J. W. Nabors
Warlick Furniture Store
R. H. Powell
Powell Furniture Company
Elmer W. Tabor
Mick Or Mack
W. I. Mills
Mills Fooder Shoes
Marcus Meacham
H. M Shoe
Harry Clark
Betty Lee
Jess B. Michelson
Stecklers
Millard Compton
R. M. Patterson
Kresge’s
Edwin W. Kaye
Kaye
Roy B. Browder
Thornton Company
E. R. Davis
Cox’s
Sidney Schlossberg
Schlossberg’s
Charles A. Joyce
Joyce Jewelry Company
H. A. Goodykoontz, Jr
Goodykoontz
N. S. Borenizer
Carolyn Baldwin
Rose Carol Shop
Sidney Weiss
the Vogue
A. J. Cole
Cole’s
Clifford Brown
Bluefield Floral Company
Gus Theodorou
Doughboy Lunch
W. S. Hendricks
Unique Cleaners
Jack Call
Jack Call Piano Company
G. E. Shumate
Shumate Radio Service
Chamber
Frank E. Comins
Montgomery Ward and Company
Earl Doak
Pickwick Gift Shop
Elmer Tabor
Pair Get 3 Years For Fleeing Prison
Bland Virginia July 10 Two escaped convicts James Cecil Wray and Arlie A Banks were sentenced to three extra years for sawing chains and breaking out of a Rocky Gap road camp. Judge W L Sexton Jr also sentenced trustees Julian Webb and Billy Rasnake to two years after guilty pleas. Other defendants received concurrent or related sentences for escape and car theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conway Neal Sneed
Robert William Davis
Bland
Sexton
Deaths and Funerals in Ellison and Nearby Areas
Ali W Lilly 70 of Ellison Sum mers county died suddenly of a heart attack. Survived by widow Ettie Hogan Lilly daughters J M Okes Dewey Ransom Winnie Pack Earlen Ransom Wilson Hatcher two sons Audrey W Lilly Archie Lilly funeral this afternoon at 1 at home by Revs Jessie I Bowling Lowell Lilly. Interment Lilly cemetery Ellison. Hiram A Hoback 56 retired Mud fork merchant died at Bluefield Sanitarium. Funeral 2:30 at Greevers chapel Tazewell with Maplewood cemetery interment. Mrs Merriman Smith died in Los Angeles while with Postmaster Smith. Body to Bluefield Friday 8:35. Hawkins mortuary will arrange in New York. Grandchildren Charles Bobby Billy Lambert. William Nash funeral 2 this afternoon Mercer Funeral Home chapel Rev H H Mauch interment Mathena cemetery Tip Top Va.
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Ali W. Lilly
Ellison
Summers County
James F. Lilly
Ettie Hogan Lilly
J. M. Okes
Princeton
Dewey Ransom
Whitesville
Winnie Pack
Omer Pack
Earlen Ransom
Pemberton
Wilson Hatcher
MacArthur
Audrey W
Hiram A. Hoback
Greever's Funeral Chapel
Tazewell
Mudfork
Bluefield Sanitarium
Maplewood Cemetery
Merriman Smith
Merriman Sr. Smith
Los Angeles
Calif
Postmaster Smith
Bluefield
Hawkins Mortuary
William Nash
Mercer Funeral Home
H. H. Mauch
Mathena Cemetery
Tip Top
Funeral service for John Albert Hypes in Newport Va
Funeral service for John Albert Hypes 79 will be held at Level Green Christian church at 2 30 p m today. Burial follows in Hypes cemetery Williams Funeral Home Pembroke in charge. Survived by wife six daughters three sons one brother two sisters sixteen grandchildren five great grandchildren
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Albert Hypes
Newport
Level Green Christian Church
Hypes
Williams
Pembroke
J. G. Dowdy
Grayson Williams
Cambria
George Rogers
Lucille Walters
Christiansburg
John
Funeral service for Robert Journell at Pearisburg chapel
A funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from Gibbons Funeral Chapel in Pearisburg Virginia for Robert Journell of Roanoke who died Monday at his sister Mrs Emmitt W Wilburns home in Pearisburg Burial will follow in Birchlawn cemetery
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Gibbons Funeral Chapel
Pearisburg
Robert Journell
Roanoke
Emmitt W. Wilburn
Birchlawn Cemetery
Edward B Paxton Dies in Princeton Homeyard
Edward Brown Paxton 87 died at 2 45 p m yesterday after being stricken in his backyard at 305 Park Avenue Princeton He was born December 18 1863 and was a retired Virginian Railway employee Paxton came to Princeton more than 40 years ago He married Katie McCallum of New York on November 3 1891 and survived by two daughters Dora Lambert and Katherine Paxton and a brother T B of Buf...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward B. Paxton
Edward Brown Paxton
Park Avenue
Princeum
Seaver
Mr. Paxton
Princeton
Katie McCallum
New York
Dora Lambert
Katherine Paxton
T. B
Buf
Funeral rites for Millard J. Conwell 76 at Hawkins chapel
Funeral rites for Millard J. Conwell 76 of 320 East Lewis Street who died Sunday at Bluefield Sanitarium will be held at 10 30 this morning at Hawkins Mortuary Chapel Rev Eugene May of First Christian Church will officiate Interment Monte Vista Park Cemetery A K Mordue manager of the Cleveland office of Smokeless Fuel died unexpectedly in Cleveland Monday morning Smokeless Fuel is an affiliate of the Winding Gulf and Lamar collieries with offices in Bluefield
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Millard J. Conwell
East Lewis Street
Bluefield Sanitarium
Hawkins Mortuary Chapel
Eugene May
First Christian Church
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
A. K. Mordue
Cleveland
Smokeless Fuel Company
Smokeless Fuel
Winding Gulf and Lamar Collieries
Bluefield
Miss Ida Ball 41 Dies After Ill Health At Home
Miss Ida Elizabeth Ball died last evening at 6:30 at her mother's home in Weyanoke Giatti after four years of ill health. Born April 18 1910 in Giatti she leaves a sister Rosa Hawkins and brothers Troy Bill and Ray. Funeral from Weyanoke Church of God Thursday at 2 pm with Rev Ivan Shubridge officiating. Body returns to her mother's home this afternoon at 3:30 from Bailey funeral home Matoaka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Elizabeth Ball
Nannie Ball
Weyanoke
Giatto
Miss Ball
Marshall Ball
Giatti
Rosa Hawkins
Troy
Bill
Moundsville
Ray
Richmond
Mrs Josie Hart Lipford Dies At 67 In Sandlick
Mrs Josie Hart Lipford 67 died yesterday at 4 am at her Sandlick home. Born February 14 1884 in Sandlick she was a Sandlick Methodist member. Survivors include her father Jack Smith of Sandlick three sisters Mollie Shrader Princeton Road Lily Hicks and Hattie Butte Johnson City Tenn three half sisters and a half brother. Service 2 pm today at Sandlick Methodist with ministers Z F Mayberry Ira Conley and Earl Hapson. Burial Sandlick Cemetery. Pallbearers Thomas Minnix Burham Fagg Summers Lynch. Missionary Society members to act as flowerbearers. Body moved from Mercer Funeral Home Montcalm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josie Hart Lipford
Sandlick
Lipford
Sandlick Methodist Church
Z. F. Mayberry
Ira Conley
Earl Hapson
Sandlick Cemetery
Fred Thomason
Taylor Minnix
Henry Burcham
Walter Fagg
Gordon Summers
Floyd Lynch
Missionary Society of the Church
Mercer Funeral Home
Montcalm
John W Whitley Remains City Former Mayor at 80
John W Jack Whitley 80 a retired merchant and former mayor of North Tazewell is highlighted in a notice noting his long service and status as an elder figure in the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W
Jack) Whitley
North Tazewell
Mines Resume After Vacation in West Virginia
West Virginia coal fields restart after a 10 day vacation period under the United Mine Workers contract. About 120 000 miners return to work with most pits reopening in Kanawha and related fields. Gay Mining in Williamson delays. F F Vincent says 165 workers will return Monday. full production expected by Thursday in Pocahontas. Vacation pay totals 100 dollars for a full year worker, prorated for shorter tenures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Kanawha
Bluefield
Pocahontas
Gay Mining Company
Williamson
F. F. Vincent
United Mine Workers
Four McDowell Men Enlist In Services
Welch West Virginia announces four county men have enlisted in the armed forces. Edward Lee Lane, 17, of Davy, heads to Huntington for examination and stock training at Parris Island if accepted. Air force recruits include Harold Gilkerson, 23, of Roderfield Donald Richardson, 17, Allen Cannon, 20, and Alex Smith Jr., 20, all of Berwind. Navy enlistees Tommy Robinette Jr., 17, of Berwind and Teddy Morgan, 18, of Jaeger head to Great Lakes for boat training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welch
W. Va
Air Force
Navy
Marine Corps
Ernest Keith
Marine
Edward Lee Lane
Davy
Huntington
Parris Island
S. C
Sfc
Ben Farris
Army and
Harold Edger Gilkerson
Roderfield
Donald F. Richardson
Newhall
Allen Cannon
Berwind
Alex Smith, Jr
Great Lakes
Tommy Robinette, Jr
Teddy L. Morgan
Jaeger
OPS Representative In Bluefield Today
A representative from the Charleston office of price stabilization will be in the Bluefield chamber of commerce office all day to answer questions on ceiling prices. The next appearance is scheduled for every Wednesday in Bluefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Funeral set at North Tazewell Methodist Church
Mr. Whitley died Monday in a Tazewell hospital after a sudden heart attack. Burial is today in Maplewood Cemetery at Tazewell with services at 11 o'clock at the North Tazewell Methodist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maplewood
Tazewell
North Tazewell Methodist Church
Whitley
Underwood Sunstrand Leader Adding Machine Display
Bluefield office outlet promotes the Underwood Sunstrand Leader adding machine on display for 115 dollars plus tax at 528 Federal Street Bluefield West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Underwood
Bluefield Office Equipment Co
Federal Street
Bluefield
W. Va
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Brinks Express Company
Bowman Dairy Company
Brinks
Julius Plarehord
Rocco
Nick Or
Lucky) Balcastro
Frank Pausa
Windsor Park
Reds
Ren
38Th Parallel
Welch's
Welch's Grape Juice
Fale
N. Y
Charles, Bobby
Billy Lambert
John A. Hypes
Miss Ida Ball
Mrs
Josie Lipford
John W. Whitley
McDowell
OPS
Oldsmobiles
Oldsmobile
Bland Street
Southside Motors, Inc
General Motors
Bluefield, W. VA
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