Vandalism Disturbs Peace Of Walnut Grove Cemetery
A Bluefield area cemetery suffers vandalism with broken stones overturned markers beer cans and bottles. Buford Bailey Sr. condemns the damage and calls for patrols while noting the challenge of safeguarding the site amid partying and neglect.
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Pat Cecil
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Hancock Street
Southwest Virginia
Buford Bailey Sr
Rocky Gap
Bailey
Tombstone
Bones
Robbed at Princeton Supply Co Checkerboard Safe
A note directs readers to identify those who took the safe from Princeton Supply Co in a reported incident. The target audience is the local community, urging tips to recover the item and bring suspects to account. No further details are provided in the fragment.
Pair Of Inmates Attempt Death By Own Action
Roanoke AP Two inmates in Roanoke jail one awaiting trial on two murder charges were in critical condition after breaking into the infirmary and swallowing large quantities of pills in apparent death by own action attempts. Richard Miller 26 and Everette Hutchinson 19 left notes indicating low spirits. They remained in intensive care at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
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Roanoke
Richard Miller
Everette Hutchinson
Roanoke City
Alvin Hudson
Roanoke Memorial Hospital
Bluefield Magistrate Court Handles Burglary and Battery Warrants
In Bluefield Magistrate court Judge Pedneau heard cases including James Gearhart bound over for Mercer County Circuit Court on night time burglary warrant with $500 bail. James Hamlet pled guilty to public intoxication with $28 total fines. Several battery warrants were dismissed or resolved with recognizance bonds. Chief Magistrate Ernest R. Six also processed 20 traffic tickets and 10 civil suits.
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Bluefield
David Pedneau
James M. Gearhart
Rock
Mercer County
D.R. Compton
Mercer County Sheriff's Department
Charles Smith
William Conner
James Hamlet
Rt. 1
Box
Princeton
W.E. Gearhart
Hazel B. Chotnicky
North St
Philips Iga
Luther H. Byrd
Walter O. Lawson
Matoaka
Basil Woodrow Blankenship, Jr
William J. Akers
Rodney Hoback
P.O
Zilla E. Hoback
Reynolds Ave
William E. Gearhart
Lacy Alvis
Athens
Lola Lasso
Highland Ave
Alfred Wright
General Delivery
Oakvale
Vickie Wright
Rt. 5
Box 408
Gearhart
Alice Dauphiny
Vineyard St
N.B. Henry
General Telephone Company of the
Southeast
Smith
John C. Parr
Ernest R
Floyd DeGraw
Union Drive
D.L. Spradlin
Park Board To Screen Applicants In Princeton
Princeton Park Board will meet at the Community Center to begin screening 33 to 34 applicants for recreation director. Chairman Glenn A. Manning said the goal is to narrow the field and have a new director by August 19 as Danny Jackson, the previous director, was fired earlier this month. The board will assist in running the program in the interim.
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Princeton
Princeton Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners
Glenn A. Manning
Manning
Jackson
POWs Honored Friday Across West Virginia
National POW MIA Recognition Day honors former prisoners of war and missing in action. West Virginia has over 700 former POWs from World War II, including Roy Bailey of Bluefield who was shot down in Holland in 1944 and spent four months at Stalag Luft 3. He recalls cold confinement, hunger, and reading westerns while a prisoner before later evacuation and release.
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Daily Telegraph
Reagan
Veteran’s Administration
Huntington
West Virginia
West
Roy Bailey
Washington St
Bluefield
McDowell County
Holland
Nimigan
Normandy
Stalag Luft 3
Air Prison Three
Germany
Berlin
Mercer County
Bailey
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Buford Bailey
Princeton Supply Co
Checkerboard
Princeton Ave
Contents
John P. Anderson
Eddie Hill
John Anderson
First Federal Savings
First Federal
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Bivefield Daily Telegraph
Hungary
Pizza Inn
Mercer Street
Vy Sf
Quaker State
Warren Trans
Purex
Dan River
Delta Towels
Delta
Mercer ST. Princeton
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