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Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 02, 1957

Page

11

Graham High School Sermon and Top Students Named

Tonight the Graham High School auditorium hosts the baccalaureate with Rev. H B Hampton invoking, Rev. Glenn Boye reading scripture, and Rev. Carl Looney delivering the sermon. Patsy Farmer valedictorian plans business career. Andy Williams salutatorian eyes nuclear physics at VPI. Dave Looney top student with straight A's transfers from Matewan and earns a Duke University scholarship.

Graham High School H. B. Hampton Glenn Boye Carl Looney Dave Looney L. G. Mosley Patsy Farmer Edward Farmer Falls Mills Road Future Homemakers of America S. N. Huffard Andy Williams Thomas Garner Blue

Kalmyk migration ends with Philadelphia settlement

Anthropologist Leonard Borman recounts 700 Kalmyks who relocated from DP camps to Philadelphia after plans to place them in New Mexico. they form three mutual aid societies, maintain Buddhist temples, and pursue farming near Farmingdale New Jersey and Medford while preserving a strong anticommunist, religious identity.

Philadelphia Leonard Borman University of Chicago New Mexico Borman Asia China Siberia Russia Europe United States Church World Service Tolstoy Foundation International Refugee Organization Sinkiang America Don Caspian Sea Farmingdale N.J Medford Farmingdale Farms

Milk Commission Hearing Is Set

Richmond VA June 11 A Virginia Advisor Legislative Council committee studying operations of the State Milk Commission will hold a public hearing Wednesday in Norfolk at 10 a.m. in the social hall of the Norfolk Navy YMCA. The hearings, the last in a series in Richmond Alexandria and Roanoke, reveal views from retaining the three man commission to abolishing it. The 1956 General Assembly called for the VALC study of the commission. Members include Del Norman C Bailey chair, Mrs Wyndham Blanton, L W Bullfant, Tom Frost, Charles E Green Jr., Waverly S Green, Ashby H Henderson, E H Lane Jr., Edmund H Rucker, T Brady Sanders, Tipton R Snavely, EB C Woods. Black bass are native only to North Africa.

Richmond Virginia Legislative Council State Milk Commission Norfolk Norfolk Navy Ymca Alexandria Roanoke General Assembly VALC Del Norman C. Bailey Orange County Wyndham Blanton L. W. Bullfant Colonial Heights Tom Frost Warrenton Charles E. Green Jr Bedford Waverly S. Green Crewe Ashby H. Henderson Troutville E. H Lane Jr Altavista Edmund H. Rucker T. Brady Saunders Tipton R. Snavely Charlottesville EB. C. C. Woods Hanover

James B. Yost Appointed Inspector for Mercer McDowell

H Richard Kennell announces James B Yost of 1712 Franklin St Bluefield is appointed inspector for Mercer and Mc Dowell Counties in the bureau of weights and measures Yost a lifelong Bluefield Republican owns Wilkinson drive in on Bluefield Ave and is undergoing six weeks training before assuming duties He was recommended by the Mercer County Republican Executive Committee The note mentions gas ranges as an 1873 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition innovation.

H. Richard Kennell Bureau of Weights and Measures and Safety James B. Yost Franklin St Bluefield Mercer McDowell Bureau of Weights and Measures Yost Robert E Mary E. Yost Wilkinson Drive-In Bluefield Ave Mercer County Republican Executive Committee

Names For Va Road Job Seen From Northern Virginia View

In Richmond on June 1 speculation circles around a successor to late Howard C. Rogers on the State Highway Commission. Del. Omer L. from Annandale is cited as a potential candidate. Fairfax Arlington Alexandria leaders favor a metropolitan familiar appointee to address urgent city highway concerns. Other names include Herbert Bryant and Del. Norman C Bailey, though Bryant is unavailable. No formal pitches yet as governor awaits suitable applicants from the region.

Richmond State Highway Commission Omer L. "Ie Annandale Washington Virginia Howard C. Rogers Loudoun County Hirst Fairfax-Arlington-Alexandria Herbert Bryant Fairfax County Bryant del. Norman C. Bailey Orange County House of Delegates

Virginia Senators Plan Hearings on Government Spending

Virginia's two senators Sen Byrd and Sen Robertson prepare to hold hearings in June on the federal finances and costs of government. Byrd as finance committee chair will open June 18 with Treasury Secretary Humphrey as first witness. Robertson, defense production act chair, will explore savings and the high cost of government and seek further hearings on defense production and related tax issues.

Frank E. Taylor Washington Service Washington Virginia Sen Byrd D-Va Senate Finance Committee United States Robertson Finance Committee Treasury Humphrey Office of Defense Mobilization ODM Secretary of the Treasury

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