Bluefield Awards Paving Contracts for Four More Streets
Bluefield city officials awarded contracts to Road Materials Inc Corte Construction Co and the Lindamood firm to pave Russell Pearl Carter and Springdale Streets this summer as part of the large street improvement program. Ramsey Street paving decision postponed after board split over asphalt versus concrete options.
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Bluefield
Kell
Riment
National Aa
Ramsey Street
Elmer C. Barton
Road Materials, Inc
College Avenue
Virginia State Line
East Bover Avenue
Jeffeson
Bland Street
Wayne
Grant
Carter
Wares
Grant Street Bridge
Center Drive
Spring Garden Drive
Longview
Carlos Haynes
Hos: Materials, Inc
Springdale Street
C. O. Warren
P. K. Pierpoint
Russell Street
Pearl Street
Corte Construction Co
Carter Street
Lindamoods
Deaths and Funerals In Tazewell County and Vicinity
Obituary notices from Glade Spring to Bluefield detail funeral schedules for John Luth er Woodward. Charles Robert Brown Jr.. N Clarence Smith. Harry Scott Smith. Polly Deel. Mrs Ida McCray. Emma Handy. Mary Bessie Dinger. Howard H. Richards. Mary L Peters. Bessie Jane Russell. George W. Brown. Foote Dickeson. H Turpin. Elizabeth Scott. Services span Hayters Gap Church to Oakwood Cemetery. dates today through midweek. many are at First Methodist or Church of God locations with local burial plans.
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John Luther Woodward
Glade Spring Va
Hayters Gap Church
Roscoe Counts
Lee Toston
Falls Hill Cemetery
Charles R. Brown, JR
Charles Robert Brown
Tazewell County
Paul P. Martin
Main St. Methodist Church
Jeffersonville
Tazewell
N. Clarence Smith
A. B. Wing
Robert Stancil
First Methodist
Bluefield
le Hill
Harry 8. Smith
Harry Scott Smith
Dale Smith
Red Root Ridge
Raven, Va
Walter Childress
Farley Beavers
Massdonia Church
Raven
Simmons Cemetery
Justine Short
Mollie
Frances
Nell
Gale
Bailey
Peery
Hurst Scott Puneral
Richlands
Polly Deel
Prater
Evans Bailey
R. D. Blankenship
Henry Looney
Basil Bailey
Coleman
Fletcher McCray
Ida McCray
Plasterco
Henderson Funeral Home
Saltville
Jack Woodie
Frank Maider
Elizabeth Cemetery
Dock Handy
Emma Handy
Spanishburg
Spanishburg Baptist Church
Lloyd Sitdom
Bowling Cemetery
North Carolina
Mary L. Dinger
Mary Bessie Dinger
RFD 1
Princeton
Church of God
Hearn Addition
Vernon Lawson
A. J. Linville
Oakwood Cemetery
Dinger
Memorial Hospital
Poundry and Supply Co
Church
Mary L. Peters
College Ave
First Christian Church
J. M. Dunn
Memorial Funeral Directory
Earl White
EF. E. Goodwin
L. W. Robinson
Lewson Faulkner
W. W. Myers
Donald McDonald Rice
May Yoho Ward
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Daniel Hale
Ernest Spangler
L. J. Pace
J. Paul Champee
Gordon Todd
Frank Boyd
Fred Goodall
Ben Birg
J. S. Markell
George W. Brown
Bedford County
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
W. M. Miller
Alexander Gregory
Oak Grove Cemetery
St. Mary's Hospital
Foote Dickeson
Lindside Valley
Chestnut Grove
Dickeson
Bluefield City Board Delays Paving and Fire Department Action
Objections to Cliffman Avenue paving and dumped cinders on Greenbrier Street prompt deferment. Board discusses fire department staffing with four new positions possible next year. Slow Down and Live program announced for 101 days after Memorial Day weekend. Driveway permit granted with future removal if street widened. Erosion and alley parking issues flagged for inspection.
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Edmund C. Stone Jr
Cliffman Avenue
Evelyn Williams
Greenbrier Street
Bluefield
Kell
Thornton
Robert Cro
McDowell Street
Crotty
Tanner
Lower College Avenue
Virginia State Mn
E. H. Tucker
City Mapr*jr
Correa
Bramwell Names Candidates for June Municipal Election
Town Recorder Don Anello announced candidates for Bramwell's June 7 municipal election. Vying for mayor are D. W. McCormick and Harry Barlow, for recorder J. E. Mitchell and Newton Roberts, and for councilmen Paggy J. Newbold, Marvin Tabor, Thomas O'Neal, J. D. Sizemore, Frank Een, W. P. Punch Clark, W. B. Talbott, and C. E. Cumby.
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Bramwell
Don Anello
Bramwell High School
D. W. McCormick
Harry Barlow
J. E. Mitchell
Newton Roberts
Paggy J. Newbold
Arvin Tabor
Thomas O'Neal
J. D. Sizemore
Frank Een
W. P. (Punch) Clark
W. B. Talbott
C. E. Cumby
Revenue Department Announces Changes in IRS Office Locations
C W Glotzbach district director Virginia says Internal Revenue Service offices will relocate to Pulaski Richlands Big Stone Gap and Bristol Virginia as part of a broader post realignment. Additional offices will operate in Accomac Alexandria Charlottesville Danville Farmville Fredericksburg Lynchburg Newport News Norfolk Petersburg Portsmouth Richmond Roanoke Staunton Suffolk and Winchester. The move furthers ongoing IRS reorganization plans according to Glotzbach.
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Richlands
Big Stone Gap
Bristol
C. W. Glotzbach
Internal Revenue
Virginia
Accomac
Alexandria
Charlottesville
Danville
Farmville
Fredericksburg
Lynchburg
Newport News
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Petersburg
Portsmouth
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Roanoke
Staunton
Suffolk
Winchester
Glotabach
Soviet Churchmen To Visit England This Summer
A delegation of high Russian churchmen will visit Britain this summer. Alexei Patriarch of Moscow accepted the British Council invitation, and the group will arrive in London on July 4. They will stay at Lambeth Palace for a week as guests of Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher.
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Britain
British Council of Arches
Alexei
Moscow
All Russia
Canterbury
Geoffrey Fisher
British Council
England
Lambeth Palace
Soviet MIG 15s Sighted Over German Territory
NURNBERG Germany May 31 border police said six Soviet MIG 15 jets crossed about 30 miles into German territory from Czechoslovakia near the Bavarian town of Tirschenreuth at 15 000 feet before turning back. Nationality markings could not be identified due to altitude.
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Germany
Comi
Czechoslav
Tirschenreuth
Government Ends Coal To Move In Russell Testimony
The government rested in the Russell County election case after presenting 27 witnesses over two days. Defendants argued no evidence showed wrongdoing. Judge Barksdale overruled the motion for acquittal. The trial also notes a new coal pipeline project near Pittsburgh with a 108 mile route to deliver 18 million tons over 15 years to power plants.
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Abingdon
Field County
Virginia
Stuart B. Campbell
Wytheville
A. D. Barksdale
Conley Trigg Pields
Lebanon
Luther Compton
Honaker Lumberman
Honaker
Am F. Deel
Deel
Compton
Russell County
Rough Smith
Pittsburgh
May
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Land Electric Dlams
Ohio
Georgetown
Eastlake
Desachert
Costagen
Consignments For Tazewell Auction Reaches 550 Mark
In Tazewell on May 31 consignments for the Monday auction at Tazewell Livestock Market reached 550. About 30 lambs, first of the season, sold for 23% cents. Top calf pens totaling 101 sold at 20.00. 80 head at 19.00 with slight declines to 75 cows at 11.00 to 13.50. Bulls 12 to 14. Hog offerings numbered 65 with 40 tops at 19.00. hogs ranged 18.50 for both heavies and lights.
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Tazewell
Weather Across States Reports Fair Wednesday Warmth
Virginia and Kentucky show fair conditions on Wednesday with highs ranging from 70 to 80. Ohio and Tennessee expect continued warmth with increasing cloudiness and a chance of showers or thundershowers later Thursday. West Virginia hints at regionally varied temperatures and dampness. Washington weather summary notes temperatures and rainfall for the latest 24 hours.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Washington
Weather Bureau
Hoover Commission blasts waste in military and civilian research
The Hoover Commission urged stronger focus on basic and medical research and criticized underfunded, less daring military weapons development. It said federal support exists but Congress failed to provide about 70 million dollars, risking de-emphasizing essential research.
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Washington
Hoover Commission
U. S
Congress
Government Cheese Buyback Probe Opens Tomorrow
House investigators report the government lost more than a million dollars buying cheese from manufacturers and reselling it at a lower price. Rep Fountain announces a public inquiry will start tomorrow. A related subcommittee finished examining the Navy's stocks of canned hams.
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Washington
House
Fountain
D-Nc
Navy
Slate Fall Fatality at Fayette County Mine
Richard Hen 46 of Scarboro Payette was killed in a slate fall at the Oakwood mine operated by New River Coal Co in Fayette County. He was the lone worker trapped by the fall and died at the scene. His widow, Mrs Helen, reported the tragedy.
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Carlisle
Wis
Richard Hen 46
Scarbro
Payette Oon
Oakwood
New River
New Hope for Rheumatism and Arthritis Sufferers
Amazing medical discovery AR-PAN-EX works through the bloodstream to relieve nagging pain from rheumatism arthritis and neuritis. It also helps reduce uric acid believed to aggravate pain. See Tayloh's Drug Store 228 Princeton Ave for guaranteed AR PANEX tablets.
President Eisenhower to flee Washington for mock H-bomb attack
President Eisenhower will leave Washington for three days starting June 15 to join 15,000 federal workers moving to secret relocation centers. Centers lie up to 300 miles away. Civilian Defense had said the test attack would knock out 50 U S cities, including Washington and New York, with 43 named and seven unnamed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Civilian Defense Administration
New York
Boat To Morgantown Burned Four Barges Safe
Fire destroyed a diesel powered boat and four barges loaded with sand from the Barge Sand and Gravel Co dock on the Monongahela River near Point Marion Pennsylvania. No injuries reported. Owners estimated losses at 60 000. Explosion heard before the blaze. cause undetermined.
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Point Marion
Oae Sey Fe
Sand & Gravel Co
Satina
J. C. Ain
Town
W. Va
Inanatiete
Frank Bowers
Edwin
Atlantic Seaboard States Big Anti-Rust Campaign
Atlantic Seaboard Corp. announced a 71800 dollar campaign to fight rust on two natural gas lines. President John W. Partridge said funds will install cathodic protection over 262 miles of a 26 inch line from Cobb Station near Clendenin West Virginia to Rockville Maryland and 421 miles of a 20 inch line from Boldman Kentucky to the Maryland Pennsylvania line.
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Charleston
Atlantic Seaboard Corp
John W. Partridge
Cobb Station
Clendenin
W. Va
Rockville
Boldman
Weather forecast for West Virginia with scattered showers
In northern West Virginia and the southern portions temperatures will run about four degrees above normal highs around 68 and 67 respectively. Showers or thunderstorms totaling one tenth to five tenths inch are forecast for Thursday afternoon or Friday. Temperatures rise through Thursday then cool Friday and Saturday, with warmth returning Sunday.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Aluminum in Earth’s Crust Reaches About One Percent
A brief note states that aluminum makes up around one percent of the earth’s crust. It highlights aluminum’s prevalence in minerals and its potential industrial importance.
Three Year Old Falls Fifteen Feet Lands On Pillow
In Spokane a 3 year old boy named Billy L Oliver plunged 15 feet from an upstairs bedroom window onto a pillow. He suffered only minor facial bruises and was found by hospital staff to be unharmed. His brother said they were playing, Billy pushed a bed against a window, climbed out, and fell with the pillow.
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Spokane
Billy L. Oliver
Billy
Plane skids to halt on rough Lebanon runway
A Northeast Airline passenger plane en route from New York to Lebanon went off the south runway during an instrument approach to West Lebanon airport. Twelve passengers and three crew members escaped injury as the craft remained upright and none of the occupants were hurt. Passengers included John W. Perfater of Charleston West Virginia.
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West Lebanon
New York
John W. Perfater
Staunton Ave
Charleston
W. Va
Huntington Chief Seeks $100 Hit-Run Reward
Huntington Police Chief Joseph B. Gessner proposed a standing $100 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the hit and run driver who struck 81 year old Edward E. Summerson on Saturday night. The driver remains at large.
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Huntington
Joseph B. Gessner
Gessner
Edward E. Summerson
Wise County Fatal Accident Claims 13 Year Old
A 13 year old girl, Cammelia Mae Renfro, died from injuries after a non collision accident Sunday on U S highway one mile east of Appalachia in Wise County. She died yesterday in a Richmond hospital.
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Bluefield
Cammelia Mae Renfro
Wise County
Renfro
Richmond
U.S. Fore Mile
Appachia
Veep Candidate Speaks For Young Democrats
Sen. John W. Sparkman of Alabama, Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1952, will address the Cabel County Young Democrats at their annual convention in Huntington on June 10 and 11. President James F. Barrett announced Sparkman will appear at a dinner meeting June 11.
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Huntington
John W. Sparkman
Alabama
Cabel County
Young Democrats
James F. Barrett
Sparkman
Long Night on Ellesmere Island North of Pole
The article notes Ellesmere Island near the North Pole experiences 147 days with continuous sun and 145 days of continuous darkness each year. It highlights extreme polar twilight and the unique daylight cycle affecting residents and wildlife.
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Ellesmere Island
North Pole
Safety Check In Bluefield Tallied
Tabulation shows that at least 2 748 Bluefield area vehicles will pass the annual state inspection. The voluntary program ran six lanes with 4 055 vehicles checked. 1 359 were rejected. Repairs and rechecks brought some back to passing status while the state inspection runs July 1 through Sept 30.
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Look Magazine
National Safety Council
Inter-Highway Industrial Safety Committee
Bluefield Area
James Compton
Compton
Buyers Get Delivery On Parking Lot Bonds
Bonds totaling 120000 will be delivered to buyers today for Blue Field off street parking lot at Tazewell and Duhring Streets. Delivery clears the way for a City Parking Facilities Commission meeting to award the contract for construction of the 100 car lot. Paul S. Hudgins, attorney for the commission, said bids were opened and award postponed until bonds were sold.
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Bluefield
Tazewell
Duhring
City Parking Facilities Commission
Paul S. Hudgins
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