Interstate 81 projects win bids in Wythe and Washington counties
Low bids totaling about 12.4 million were opened for 19 road and bridge projects in Virginia. Key items include Washington County Interstate 81 paving from U S 11 58 to the U S interchange with Moore Brothers Co Inc Verona 778 thousand dollars and Wythe County grading drainage and bridges on I 81 with bids from Oman Construction Co Inc Nashville Tenn 2 317 857 and 1 053 755 for separate sections plus Crowder Construction Co Inc Charlotte N C 540 954 for bridges and Pendleton Construction Wytheville 1 173 237 for additional grading and drainage.
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Richmond
Wythe County
State Highway Department
Washington County
Abingdon
U. S
Moore Brothers Co., Inc
Verona
U. S. 11
Oman Construction Co. Inc
Nashville
Tenn
Smyth County
U. S. l. Oman Construction Co. Inc
Reed Creek
Wytheville
Crowder Construction Co., Inc
Charlotte
N. C
U.S. 11
Pendleton Construction Corp
Tax Delinquents In Tazewell County To Receive Letters
Commissioner Glenn C. Peery of Tazewell County Va said letters will be mailed to delinquent income tax payers. Last year 138 warrants were issued. many paid fines. The office is finalizing books for the county treasurer and income tax filings have been checked. Land and personal property books for Jeffersonville District are done, with work starting in Clear Fork and Maiden Spring. Delivery to the treasurer is expected by September 1.
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Tazewell
Revere
Glenn C. Peery
Peery
State Tax Commissioner
Richmond
Jeffersonville
Clear Fork
Maiden Spring
Skyland Plans Discussed by Bluefield Old Guard
oehee Goodykoontz Jr. spoke at Trinity Methodist Church about the origins of Skyland Plans and funding through stock sales, outlining future projects like a large motel. Seated 99 members included 16 charter members and 3 visitors. illness affected several officers and members. Birthdays honored for Lee Har eman, J C Miller, W L Myers, E M Taylor with devotions and singing led by Forlines and Fuqua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oehee Goodykoontz Jr
Bluefield Old Guard
Trinity Methodist Church
College Avenue
Clyde Caviness
W. B Martin
C. G. Eastwood
Beckley
Howard Brown
Donald Hare
Bluefield
J. T. Harris
Veteran's Hospital
Salem
Russell Coffey
Bluefield Sanitarium
J. G. Litton
H. B. Boyd
E. C. Caldwell
M. H. Burton
J. B. Hensley
George Burge
Fred T. Nash
W. L. Myers
T. Mathena
Lee A. Hareman
J. C. Miller
W L,. Myers
E. M. Taylor
Walter C. Forlines
I. N. Fuqua
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Morning Edition Note
The fragment notes Associated Press dispatch use and publication rights. It lists telephone contact and pricing lines for service by carrier. No complete news content or events are readable from the provided OCR snippet.
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Priting Fo
Aitte Daly Biwenela
Associated Press
Kau
Ex SRC Agent Questioned Over Appraisal Practices
The West Virginia hearing questioned W. David Stalnaker and his father over inflated property appraisals for highway projects. The elder Stalnaker defended recommending his son despite no experience, while a committee member labeled the practice as slipshod and politically influenced.
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West Virginia Road Commission
Stalnaker
David
Waller R. May
May
Stalnakers
West Virginia
Women Treated By Bailey Church After Attendance Contest
Chairman H. T. Goforth of Bailey Memorial Church East Cumberland Road Bluefield announced that the Young Adult Class men fed the women after the women set the higher attendance record. About 60 members and guests attended with Allen Jessee as teacher and Gay Dillon as assistant.
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Bailey Memorial Church
East Cumberland Road
Bluefield
H. T. Goforth
Goforth
Allen Jessee
Gay Dillon
Slayton Removed From Mercury Flight Plans
NASA announced astronaut Donald K. Slayton would be pulled from the Project Mercury orbital flight due to heart irregularities. He will take on ground duties in the space program and continue training while his health is monitored.
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Washington
Space Agency
Donald K
Deke) Slayton
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Slayton
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Robert R. Gilruth
NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Sparta
Wis
Gilruth
Houston
Tex
Mercury
Peruvian Marine Finally Marries After 50-Year Courtship
Lima Peru AP report Oscar Olive Vergara aged 87 wed Josefina Rastely Reyes aged 95 after delaying marriage for more than five decades. He said he had lost enough time in making up his mind.
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Lima
Peru
Oscar Olive Vergara
Josefina Rastely Reyes
Oliva Vergara
Josefina
Wyoming County Board approves teaching and non teaching staff
The Wyoming County Board of Education approved personnel actions and assignments for teachers and other staff as advised by Superintendent Robert E Kuhn. resignations include McKinney Lipscomb Stidham Tolley Williams. new assignments cover Mullens Pineville Bailesville Stephenson and Conley high schools and others. The board also kept School Board Association membership, approved a life insurance program for students, a secondary text book plan, a Pure Oil fuel bid, and NDEA participation.
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Wyoming County
Robert E. Kuhn
Howard Cook
Mullens High School
Gerald Scott
Pineville
Vera Mae Shields
Baileysville
Ina Elliott
Stephenson
Chester Morgan
Baileysville High School
Leonard Valentine
Conley High School
Walter Nixon
Jo R. Wilcox
Herndon High School
Ray Caldwell
T. C. Wyatt
John Beckelheimer
Paul Greer
Frank G. Gilliland
Oceana High School
Sante Boninsegna
Robert Adams
Piseville High School
Martha Smith
Betty A. Cook
Clebern McKinney
Herndon Grade School
Christine Lester
Freda Gilley
Brenton
State School Board Association
Pure Oil Co
Mrs Collier Named To Health Dept Post In Tazewell County
Mrs Naomi Collier of Clear Fork in Tazewell County has been named secretary for the Tazewell County Health Department. She assumed the position July 2, succeeding Nancy Dunford who resigned to join Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation staff. Mrs Mary Wright of the State Health Department now instructs Collier in the duties.
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Naomi Collier
Clear Fork
Tazewell County
Feasibility of runway extension hinges on new funding
County Court members consider only feasible funding for runway extension after bond approval. Commissioner Gibson says diversion of existing funds is impossible and AR A financing is likely, noting past bond limits undercut the project and voters previously approved a larger amount.
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ARA
Gibson
James Cameron Dies at 76 In Bluefield Obituary
James R. Cameron 76 of 2400 Fairfield Ave Bluefield died Wednesday in St Luke Hospital Funeral services are set for Friday at 10 a m at Hawkins Funeral Chapel with graveside rites Saturday at 10 a m Union Cemetery Irvin Pa He was district sales representative for Electric Machinery Manufacturing Co of Minneapolis Minn and a longtime community leader Survivors include his wife two sisters and a brother. Sasol may call after 4 p m Thursday
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Fairfield Ave
Bluefield
St. Luke’s Hospital
Hawkins
C. H. Patterson
Union Cemetery
Irvin
W. L. Alley
Richard Alley
David E. Bell Jr
J. E. Corbitt Jr
Masonic Lodge
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Society of Professional Engineers
Cornell University
Ithaca
N. Y
Cataract
Alexander P
Mary Roberts Cameron
Elma M. Cameron
Edmund Cameron
Durham
N. C
Wayne H. Bowers
Charlottes
Harold C. Alof Contoocook
N. H. Sasol
Blind Youth Tour to Bluefield Highlights Coca-Cola Mine Visit
Twenty four teenage blind boys and girls from California visit Bluefield July 16 as part of Project By Lions. The group tours Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine in Pocahontas Virginia and Pinnacle Rock with host Lions Clubs providing meals, lodging, and escorts. The 67 day cross country bus tour is organized by Lions Clubs of Los Angeles and supported by North American Aviation donated bus.
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California
Bluefield
Cumberland Heights
Bluewell
Jim Morris
Morris
Pocahontas Exhibition
Pocahontas
Pinnacle Rock
Foundation For Junior Blind
Los Angeles
North American Aviation
Turnpike
Seven Bluefielders Attend Bethany Conference
Seven residents from the First Christian Church Bluefield joined 125 participants at the 8th Biennial State C Y F Convention held July 8 to 10 at Bethany under Dr Ralph Valentine secretary director of the Christian Churches of West Virginia. Local attendees were Mark Johnson Susan Sowers Sharon Harrison Marcella Whitlock Donald Hendricks Bud Lambert and Raymond Lester.
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First Christian Church
Bluefield
C.Y.F
Bethany
Ralph Valentine
The
Christian Churches of
West Virginia
Eureka Temple 339 of Elks Meet Tonight at 7:30
Eureka Temple 339 of Elks will hold a meeting in the hall on Wilson Street this evening at 7 30 oclock.
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Eureka Temple
339 of Elks
Wilson Street
Deaths and Funerals Detail Regional Losses
Multiple obituary notices from Welch to Honaker detail deaths of Mrs. Zada Candid Reeves Blevins 74 in Welch Hospital and Mrs. Helen Jean Stacey 38 in Norfolk. Levi Oliver Mills 67 of Eggleston. Mrs. Georgia Leona Nichols 72 of Union. Mrs. Alice Catron 75 of Honaker. Services set for Center Methodist Nathan Creek, Eggleston, and Gardner Church with local funeral homes handling arrangements. Surviving relatives include daughters, sons, sisters and grandchildren across West Virginia Virginia and North Carolina communities.
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Zada Candid Reeves Blevins
Cox Blevins
Welch Hospital
Welch
Ashe County
N. C
Alex and
Veda Reeves
Phae Wyatt
Chelsea Blevins
Suffolk
Demna McGee
North Wilkesboro
C. J. Douglas
Badgers Funeral Home
West Jefferson
Center Methodist Church
Nathan Creek
Levi Oliver Mills
Eggleston
Eggleston Methodist Church
Birchlawn
Pearlsburg
Beulah M. Mills
Clarence E
Lawrence F. Mills
Arnold Mills
Columbus
Ohio
Charles L. Martin
Norfolk
Virgil Mills
Gretna
Avery Mills
New Mexico
A. N. Jones
Givens Funeral
Pearisburg
Georgia Leona Nichols
Union
Grace
Monroe County
Edward G
Minnie Eostie Jones
Gruffey
Ernest Clark
Stanley Bostic
White Sulphur Springs
Earl Jones
Glace
Mark Jones
Organ Cave
Charlie Jones
Hazard
Funeral for Cecil Hampton Seldomridge in Narrows Va
Cecil Hampton Seldomridge of Narrows Va dies. Funeral Thursday at 3 30 p m at First Presbyterian Church Narrows with burial in Birchlawn Burial Park. Body arrives at 2 30 p m from Riffes Funeral Home Narrows.
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Seldomridge
Cecil Hampton
Narrows
First Presbyterian Church
Birchlawn
Riffe
Death Claims Mrs. Edith S. Smith of Princeton
Mrs Edith Scott Smith of Union Street Princeton died Wednesday at 3 p m in Memorial Hospital after a lingering illness She was widow of Ajax T Smith noted lawyer who died in December 1961 A Princeton resident for 48 years she belonged to First Presbyterian Church born in Morgantown daughter of Alfred and Ida Choens Smith WVU graduate Alpha Zeta Delpha sorority The body remains at Seaver Mortuary Chapel Princeton with calling after 2 p m Thursday
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Edith Scott Smith
Union Street
Princeton
Memorial Hospital
Ajax T. Smith
First Presbyterian Church of
Morgantown
Alfred and
Ida Choens Smith
West Virginia University
Alpha Zeta Delpha Sorority
Seaver Mortuary Chapel
McComas Man Howard Hall Dies at Home
Howard Hall of McComas died Wednesday afternoon at his home. The body remains at Cravens Funeral Home in Montcalm pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Howard Hall of
McComas
Cravens Funeral Home
Montcalm
TV Sets Will Soon Carry All Channels
President Kennedy signed a law requiring TV sets to receive programs on all channels, both UHF and VHF. The FCC will fix the effective date. About 55 million sets exist, 9 million can receive UHF, leaving 93 percent of UHF stations unused.
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Washington
Kennedy
Federal Communications Commission
Betty Jane Cooper and Harold Phillips Wed in Princeton
Announcement of the marriage of Betty Jane Cooper daughter of Mr and Mrs M C Cooper 1006 Bluefield Ave Princeton to Harold Dean Phillips son of Mr and Mrs H D Phillips of Princeton. The couple resides in the Edgemont Addition Princeton.
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Betty Jane Cooper
M. C. Cooper
Bluefield Ave
Princeton
Harold Dean Phillips
H. D. Phillips
Edgemont Addition
Flat Top Baptist session nears end in Keystone
The 66th annual Flat Top Baptist Association meeting continues at Mount Chapel Baptist Church in Keystone with services and banner awards planned. Participants include Mount Zion Wolf Scott Street Mount Cavalry Mount Ebenezer and Mount Chapel churches plus youth groups.
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Flat Top Baptist Association
Mount Chapel Baptist Church
Keystone
B. A. Taylor
Mount Zion
Wolf
Scott Street
Mount Cavalry
Mount Ebenezer
Mount Chapel
W. M. Cabiness
Flat Top Consolidated Association
Robert Stevens
Ora Middleton
Beatrice Bess
J. Mathew Coleman
Scott Street Baptist Church
J. L. Lawrence
Viola Clark
Mariah Mackey
Flat Top Baptist Youth Association
Day Camp Canceled For Trinity Youths
Two day camps planned for Trinity Methodist Church youths in Bluefield were canceled due to low camper interest. Director David A. Cornell announced the cancellations affecting junior and junior high groups.
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Trinity
Trinity Methodist Church
Bluefield
David A. Cornell
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