North Tazewell holds seventh grade promotion ceremony
Rev. M. E. N. Lindsay addresses 70 seventh graders at North Tazewell Christian Church as they receive high school promotion certificates. Principal Jack Witten awards the certificates after a program by primary and upper grade students. Limited school space and stalled wing construction due to budget bids end the event with the Nest song.
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M. E. N. Lindsay
Tazewell Christian Church
North Tazewell
Lindsay
Bobby Webb
Wanda Repass
Katherine Tomlinson
Sunbonnet Sally
Overal Jim
Barbara Ratcliff
Jack Witten
Tazewell Native Heads Norfolk Forum
Joseph A. Leslie Jr. longtime Ledger-Dispatch editor and Tazewell native was named president of the Norfolk Forum Incorporated at its board meeting. The Forum aims to present speakers from around the world as a public service.
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Norfolk Forum, Incorporated
Joseph A. Leslie, Jr
Leslie
Ledger-Dispatch
Norfolk
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F. W. Leslie
Clinch Valley News
Yugoslav Russians Planned Invasion Bid Exposed
Yugoslav authorities charged Soviet Russia studied invading Yugoslavia up to two years earlier. Former Maj. Gen. Branko Petricevic and Col. Vlado Depcevic faced treason charges for attempting escape to Romania in 1948 while Lt. Gen. Arso Jovanovic was shot at the frontier. The indictment details contacts with the Soviet attache and questions about Yugoslav troop movements and road conditions.
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Yugoslavia
Russia
Branko Petricevic
Vlado Depcevic
Romania
Arso Jovanovic
Petricevic
Albania
Jovanovic
Cepcevic
Cominform
Communist Party
N W Film Shown To Tazewell Men's Club
The Norfolk and Western Railway presented Operation Fast Freight at the North Tazewell Methodist Church dinner meeting. E. P. Kinney, division freight agent for N W from Bluefield West Virginia, attended as a guest. The June meeting was moved to Wednesday June 21 due to the Sesquicentennial conflict.
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Norfolk & Western” Railway
Columbus
Norfolk
Roanoke
North Tazewell Methodist Church
E. P. Kinney
Bluefield
W. Va
Blue Ridge Parkway Area Named For Solon Doughton Park
The Blue Ridge Parkway area known as The Bluffs is renamed Doughton Park in honor of North Carolina Congressman Robert L. Doughton. Parkway Superintendent Sam P. Weems says the change, approved by the national park service, recognizes Doughton’s public service and personal connection to the area in Roanoke Virginia on June 1.
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Roanoke
Doughton
Notable NC Official Quarters Tied to Doughton Park Region
An official notes his home base near Sparta North Carolina ten miles from Doughton Park while describing the transfer of the present lodge coffee shop and gasoline station locations from him and his family. He spends time in the national capital duties and returns to Sparta when not on assignment.
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National Capital
Sparta
N. C
Doughton Park
Dies Says He Was Vindicated On Communist Threats
Ex Rep Martin Dies, former head of the Dies committee, declares he warned of Communists in government a decade ago and Russia as the real world menace. He recounts meetings with President Roosevelt, claims 2,000 officials were named, and predicts wartime hardship for the country.
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Martin Dies
UN- American Activities Committee
U. S. House of Representatives
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Mussolini
Russia
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
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United States
Balkan States
China
Korea
Prison road camp to move from Roane County location
Road commission officials told Spencer civic leaders the camp near Billings Roane County will be moved soon. They said the camp is no longer needed because Roane County has exhausted its secondary road funds for this fiscal year.
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W. Va
Road Commission
Billings
Roane County
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