Richmond youth charged in multiple slayings case rises from cemetery deaths
Thomas Lee Penn, 19, surrendered to Richmond police on a charge of malicious wounding and rape of a 16 year old girl, later linked to four Richmond slayings and two in nearby Henrico County. His brother William, 25, faces one related charge.
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Richmond
Thomas Lee Penn
Penn
Henrico County
William
Thomas Penn
Addison E. Wilkins
Malcolm Norment Jr
Wilkins
Student Peace Union
New York City
Norment
Carter
Mike Leon Spencer
Cynthia Johnson
East Edd
Willie Sexton
Henrico
FBI
Daily Telegraph Notice of Associated Press Membership
The document states the Daily Telegraph Printing Co publishing daily from 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia established 1603 and is a member of The Associated Press with exclusive rights to all news.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
Deaths and Funerals In Bluefield and Nearby Areas
Obituaries list Hettie O Quinn Breeding 76 of Maxie Va. Albert O Quinn. many survivors noted. Joseph Pete Alvarez 32 of Maybeury an engineer for Consolidated Coal Co. burial at Woodlawn Bluefield. Horace Luther Bingham 69 of Pearisburg Va. multiple children and extended family. Mrs Jesse Banks mourned in Bluefield with services at Mount Zion Baptist Church Bluefield.
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Hettie O'Quinn Breeding
Maxie, Va
Buchanan County
MR. O'Quinn
Albert O’quinn
The
Primitive Baptist
Joseph Pete Alvarez
Maybeury
Cravens Funeral Home
Biuewell
A. E. Wills
Woodlawn
Sallie B. Henderson Alvarez
Consolidated Coal Co
Pocahontas
Trinity Methodist Church of
Bluefield
Horace Luther Bingham
Pearisburg
Mary Belcher Bingham
George Donavan
Thomas W. Eaton
Richmond
Carl W. Taylor
Morganton
N.C
J. R. Bingham
Princeton
Horace B. Bingham
Chattanooga
Tenn
Joamn C. Bing
Obituary notices for Yonoe S Glen and Joseph H Carter
Yonoe S Glen 62 of Oak laid to rest at Roselawn Memorial Gardens with church men as pallbearers and women bearing flowers. Body to be moved from Memorial Funeral Directory Princeton to church one hour before services. Joseph H Carter to be laid to rest today at 3 p.m. at Fanning Funeral Home Jaeger with two Reverends officiating and burial at Woodlawn Cemetery Bluewell. Callers may visit and pallbearers listed as A Bailey E Whitley P A Wister L W Coffey Luther Mayhew Edward Ward.
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Emory M. Bradley
Louise Ellison
Rock Camp
Craig County
John and
Loremma Brad
Dropping Lick Methodist Church
Willow Bend
Hertzel Mills
Don K. Moore
C. F
Wickline Memorial Cemetery
Zenith
Sam Riffe
Everette Wickline
Virgil Burrell
Virgil Wiseman
James Ellison
Howard Meadows
Bond
Broyles Funeral Home
Union
Jessie Banks
Brooklyn N.Y
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Bluefield
Charlelton Jackson
Joe Thompson
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluewell
Banks
Brooklyn
Welchin Stokes
Wilbert Banks
East Orange
N.J
Alma
Roy Todd
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Buefield
Yonce
S. Glen
Oakfellow
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Memorial
Princeton
Funeral arrangements for James Parsons remain incomplete
The body of James Parsons, 25, of Caretta, died in a weekend auto mishap near Erie, Michigan. Details had not yet reached the area on Tuesday night, and the body is being sent to Fan ning Funeral Home in Saeger.
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James Parsons
Caretta
Erie
Mich
Fanning Funeral Home
Saeger
Jaycees Invite 12 Candidates for Town Tuesday
The East Ward candidates are W. Jack Litz H. E. Bowes W. J. Rutherford Rev. A. M. Henry and Donald Gene Poteet. West Ward contenders include James E. Harman M. G. White Earl Peery and Elmo Freshman. At large slate features J. Harvey Tate Sr. J. Hudson Huffard Jr. and Dr. J. G. W. Gillespie.
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East Ward
W. Jack Litz
H. E. Bowes
W. J. Rutherford
Rev. A. M. Henry
Donald Gene Poteet
West Ward
James E. Harman
M. G. White
Earl Peery
Elmo
J. Harvey Tate Sr
J. Hudson Huffard Jr
J. G. W. Gillespie
Smuggling Of Coffee Grows Across Nations
A report from New York outlines how coffee smuggling involving 590,000 to 1,500,000 bags yearly sustains livelihoods in developing countries. It notes two key problems, falling prices, and quota loopholes, with the U S sending customs advisers to Colombia to curb coastal smuggling.
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New York
Nana
Aruba
Venezuela
el Salvador
Nicamragua
Guatemala
Peru
U. S
Cabell Murder Trial Delayed Over Fatal Hospital Beating
Hurt is charged with murder for the February beating of James Zigler a 66 year old patient at Huntington State Hospital Zigler died nine days after the attack which occurred as he slept Hurt from Wayne County attacked Zigler at the hospital justice records show the case delay affects trial timing.
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Hurt
James Zigler
Northfork
Huntington State Hospital
Hunt
Wayne County
Zigher
Patterson Named State GSA Manager
Patterson has been named manager of the state General Services Administration overseeing state agencies and operations. The appointment assigns responsibility for procurement, facilities, and administrative services across the state.
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Patterson
GSA
Barnett to Address Old Guard at Trinity Church
Sen. Ray E. Barnett will address the Bluefield Old Guards at 10 30 this morning in Trinity Methodist Church Men’s Bible classroom. The program was arranged by L H Bradley with Mrs W B Bird leading the Auxiliary meeting in the Christian Action classroom.
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Ray E. Barnett
Bluefield Old Guards
Trinity Methodist Church
L. H. Bradley
W.B. Bird
Christian Action
U S Steel Raises Prices on Cold Finished Bars
U S Steel Corp boosted prices by two dollars a ton on cold finished carbon and alloy steel bars. The move mirrors similar unpublicized increases by Republic Steel Corp and others, following prior two dollar hikes on hot rolled bar products within the past two weeks.
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New York
U. S. Steel Corp
Republic Steel Corp
Film shown at Bluefield Rotary Club on construction methods
A film titled The General with the Conceyed Id was shown at the Bluefield Rotary Club meeting to illustrate highway building and skyscraper construction. General explained that every project has sidewalk superintendents and the film clarifies what is happening. Next week’s speaker will be Bill Noel of Bea.
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Bluefield
Bill Noel
Two Spanburg Residents Fined After Highway 19 14 Crash
Clarence Johnson age 18 received 25 dollars and costs plus ten days in jail for reckless driving after a vehicle controlled by Johnson veered off the highway and struck a rock cliff. Paul Grose aged 53 was fined 50 dollars and costs for reckless driving and discharging a firearm on the highway after the late Tuesday crash near Black Lick Trestle State.
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Spanishburg
Princeton
Clarence Johnson
Paul Grose
Black Lick Trestle
Boy Sentenced To Industrial School In Bluefield
A year old Bluefield boy was sentenced by Mercer County Juvenile Court Judge Howard M. Jarrett to two years in the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown. Clifford Phillips of 316 Logan St was charged with taking items from offices in the Law and Commerce Building stealing from a soft drink machine at Bluefield Furniture Co and taking change from Simon's Restaurant. Judge Jarrett stated he makes public the names of serious juvenile offenders.
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West Virginia Industrial School For
Pruntytown
Howard M. Jarrett
Mercer County
Jarrett
Clifford Phillips
Logan St
Law and Commerce
Bluefield Furniture Co
Simon's
Tazewell Jaycees Win First at State Convention
Tazewell Jaycees won a first place award at the Virginia Jaycees state convention in Roanoke for their Miss Tazewell County pageant. About 6,000 members attended. reps were Bill Slaughter Glen Nash and Jay Lockhart. Nash is new VP, Lockhart retires. Henry Williams will be president next year.
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Tazewell Jaycees
Tazewell County
Roanoke
Virginia Jaycees
Hotel Roanoke
Tazewell
Bill Slaughter
Glen Nash
Jay Lockhart
Nash
Lockhart
Henry Williams
Jaycees
Woman denied new trial in husband poisoning case
Three judges denied a motion for a new trial and postponed sentencing for Doris Helene Hott, convicted of poisoning her husband. Hott testified she added insect killer to his coffee on four occasions, and she died on March 2 at the West Hospital.
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Hott
525 Lambs on Wythe Market
Hight hemdred and thirtyfive head of livestock went across the auction block at the Wytheville Va Livestock Market Tuesday. Good utilities and other cattle sold at various prices including slaughter cattle and stock feeder cattle. Good heifers Bring 22.35 to 23.75 dollars and utilities 16.75 to 18. Canners and cutters 13 to 15.50. Commercial bulls 1 to 23.50 and utilities 18 to 20.50. Of 45 stock feeder cattle good steer calves 25 to 29.30 dollars and mediums 24 to 27. Medium yearling steers 23.50 to 26.
Bids Sought For Highland Scenic Highway Section
One of the largest projects calls for construction of 5.7 miles of the Highland Scenic Highway in Pocahontas County from Secondary 331 to a mile south. The scenic route will extend 16 miles through the eastern part of the state when completed.
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Jackson County
Pocahontas County
Agencies Thanked For Highway Safety Record
Burchett noted traffic accidents killed five people during the 78 hour holiday period this year. He said the toll was the lowest since 1963 despite an estimated 10 percent rise in highway travel.
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Burchett
Allen Homemakers To Meet Thursday
The Altha Allen Homemakers Club will meet Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Jesse Johnson 312 West Ridge St Bduefield. The lesson will be on Education for the Future. Mrs. Elizabeth Prunty is lesson leader for June. Mrs. Mary Collins is club president.
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Altha Allen Homemakers Club
Jessie Johnson
West Ridge St
Buefield
Elizabeth Prunty
Mary Collins
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Mrs. Hettie Breeding
Henley F. Day, Jr
Winston -Salem
Vera Whiteing Dey
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Proctorville
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Ohio
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Lilbornee
Ella Cora Nelson
Westinghouse Electric
Lillian Nelson
Robert Nelson
Pensacola
Fla
Betty Jean Samiles
Columbus
William Wheeler
Cockeysville
Fifth Avenue Baptist Cinch
Huntington
Torial
Woodmere
Klinger - Carpenter Funeral Home
Edith Gardner
Resthaven Park Cemetery
See Seeeee Kincaid
Joseph Alvarez
Horace Bingham
Mrs
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U.S. Steel
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