Watershed Appropriation Boosts West Virginia Flood Control
West Virginia lawmakers allocate 50000 for watershed development in Preston Upshur Barbour Webster and Kanawha Putnam counties. Projects on Pecks Run Big Ditch Run and Blakes Creek Armour Creek aim to reduce flood damage with local and federal support and multi purpose dam plans.
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Charles R. Lewis Charleston
West Virginia
Upper Decker's Creek
Preston
Monongalia
Pecks Run
Upshur
Barbour
Webster
Blakes Creek
Armour Creek
Kanawha
Putnam
Bond's Creek
Ritchie
Warm Springs
Morgan
Soil Conservation Committee
Big Ditch Run
State Department of Natural Resources
Peck’s Run
Harrison-Upshur
Buckhannon River
Barbour County
Hall
Wallace Stands Put On Negroes Barrage At Alabama
Alabama Governor Wallace faces federal court effort to block his interference with desegregation at the University of Alabama. Wallaces lawyers plan to fight the injunction while he may not attend the hearing. The case centers on enrollment of Vivian Malone and David McGlathery slated for June 10 across the university system.
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Tuscaloosa
Wallace
Richmond Flowers
Justice Department
Vivian J. Malone
Mobile
David M. McGlathery
Huntsville
Daily Telegraph Publication Details and Rates
Establishment in 1893 of the Daily Telegraph Printing Co at 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia. Publication rights by Associated Press. Subscription rates listed for carrier daily and Sunday and mail zones. Advertising contact and circulation audit mention.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associates Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Tat Agency
Lic
Week's Meetings Listed by CWF at First Christian Church
The Christian Women’s Fellowship at First Christian Church Princeton lists weekly gatherings for June 3. Activities include the Business Women’s Guild dinner Monday, Ruth Peterson picnic Wednesday, and multiple Thursday luncheons and pot luck dinners led by groups Frances Hill Elizabeth Mills and Margaret Shaw.
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Christian Women's Fellowship
First Christian Church
Princeton
Business Women's Guild
Fellowship Hall
Ruth Peterson
Ben Peck
Old Athens Road
Faith McCracken
Frances Hill
Carl Keaton
Betty Sharpe
Elizabeth Mills
Margaret Shaw
Goldfine's Home To Be Sold For Taxes
Boston AP reports industrialist Bernard Goldfine will see his Chestnut Hill home auctioned on June 12 to raise about 11 million dollars the federal government says he owes in taxes.
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Boston
Chestnut Hill
Bernard Goldfine
Goldfine
Adria Church Plans Daily Bible School
Adria Advent Christian Church will host a daily vacation Bible school from Tuesday June 4 to Friday June 14 with sessions 8 45 to 11 45 a m excluding Saturdays. Commencement is Friday June 14 at 7 p m with teachers and helpers listed and Mrs George Saunders Sr as director. The church sits on the Bishop Highway north of Tazewell Virginia.
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Adria Advent Christian Church
Jim Honaker
Quay Luffman
Newton Beavers
W. E. Pruett
Hubert Lester
Keither Blevins
Eugene Puckett
Fred Gillespie
Jack Beavers
Roy Morrison
Susie W. Davis
William Deskins
Claude Graham
Leslie Sparks
Sherrill Saunders
George Saunders
Bishop Highway
Tazewell, Va
Birmingham Tries City Identity Amid Industrial Growth
The text outlines Birmingham’s growth linked to iron and coal, with 90 000 to 30 000 workers during WWII, 340 000 city population and 600 000 metro, and a culture scene including amateur theater, an art museum, and a symphony, while noting a fear of negative attitudes and late night restrictions.
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Tennessee Coal and Iron
Birmingham
Red Mountain
Yankee Racial Problems Cited In Mass Speech
Gov. Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts urged new standards for North and South desegregation. He said inequality is a national issue, not regional, citing segregated schools housing and industry and calling for action beyond mere compliance.
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Washington
Endicott Peabody
Massachusetts
American Veterans’ Committee
Suburbia
South
Kennedy
Philadelphia
Congress On Racial Equality
Municipal Services
James Farmer
CORE
Nationalist Pilot Defects to Communist China
Radio Peking claimed a Nationalist Chinese pilot defected to Communist China with his U S built F86F jet. Peking said Hsu Ting tse landed in east China and would be the first such defect with a plane since rewards were announced. The note cites gold rewards and a $35 per ounce rate.
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Tokyo
Peking
China
Formosa
Hsu Ting-tse
East
Hsu
Pope John XXIII Near Death As Vigil Grows At Vatican
The pope's fever rose from 100.4 to 101.3 as dusk fell on Saturday while relatives kept vigil in his bedchamber. In St. Peter's Square worshippers prayed softly under a quarter moon as Vatican Radio described his condition and doctors noted his fragile link between life and death.
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St. Peter's Square
Vatican Radio
John XXIII
Vatican
L’ Osservatore Romano
Bergamo
Italy
Baron Prosper Poswick
Holy See
Pickets Banned In Tennessee
A Tennessee chancery court ruled Saturday to ban picketing at Grundy Mining Co. property in southeast Tennessee. The order supports a prior federal injunction and calls on the United Mine Workers District 19 to stay off Grundy operations as workers return amid a 600 member strike.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Grundy Mining Co
Striketorn
Tennessee
Chancery Court
Robert Keele
Manchester
United Mine Workers Union
District 19
U.S
Grundy
U. S
Frank Wilson
Wilson
National Labor's Relations Board
Whitwell
Tenn
UMW
NLRB
National Labor Relations Board
Highway 108
State Highway Patrol
Bluefielder Jones Featured in Northwestern Mutual Brochure
Insurance representative C. Goodman Jones of Bluefield, president of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Agents, is highlighted in Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co.’s 62nd annual report. The Seattle firm praises his professional standards and includes a full length photo, calling him an independent businessman focused on policyholder interests.
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C. Goodman Jones
Bluefield Insurance
National Association of Mutual Insurance Agents
Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co
Seattle
Wash
Jones
Northwestern Mutual
Holiness Temple Holds 11th Assembly at Bartley
The True Holiness Temple plans its 11th annual assembly in Bartley McDowell County running today through June 11. Senior bishop Wilfred L. Dickerson presides with services at 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. today and June 9, with programs in Bartley Junior High School Auditorium.
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The
True Holiness Temple, Inc
Bartley
McDowell County
Wilfred L. Dickerson
Bartley Junior High School
North Florida suit seeks injunction over Alabama university enrollment
Roy Wilkins seeks an injunction to bar Gov George C Wallace of Alabama from interfering with the enrollment of two Negroes in the University of Alabama system. Wallace is not expected to attend the hearing, to be represented by counsel.
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George C. Wallace
Alabama
University of Alabama
Wallace
Tallahassee
Fla
Tobias Simon
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Deaths and funerals in Southwest Virginia and Bluefield areas
Several obituaries list Mrs. Jennie Belle Lockhart Davidson 83 of Maxwell Va and Paul Francisco Malamisura 68 of Bluefield with services in Maxwell and Sacred Heart Church. Rosella Witten Charles 97 of Weber City and Allen Pennington 85 Speedway are also noted with multiple survivors and church rites in Mercer Funeral Home and Speedway Methodist Church. A Price relative of Princeton is reported with services in South Charleston.
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Paul Francisco Malamisura
Rogers St
Bluefield
St. Luke’s Hospital
Norfolk and Western Railway
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
St. Auguta di Puglia
Foggia
Italy
Pasquale
Lisa Rosa Malamisura
Carmella Malamisura
Patsy P. Malamisura
William Albert
A. B. Pendleton
Margaret Romeo
Tony Malamisura
Joe Malamisura
Teressa Tedeski
Rosalee Witten Charles
Weber City
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Kingsport
Tenn
Holston View Methodist Church
Gate City
Order of Eastern Star
John B. Fleenor
G. S. Watkins
Grundy
Scott County Funeral Home
Ralph Brown
Paul Blessing
Eddy Fox
Holston View Cemetery
OES
Juanita McNutt Price
Princeton
Charleston
Charles McNutt II
South Charleston
Deaths and Funerals for Arthur Neel and Iddings in Virginia
Funeral services are set in Wallville East Brunswick for Kester Arthur 48 with Rev. J E Fairburn officiating at Mount Zion Church. Burial follows in the church cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Body at Broyles Funeral Home. Levi Walker Neel of Gratton Va funeral at Mount Olivet Methodist Church with two ministers. Burial in church cemetery. Greever Funeral Home Tazewell Va directs. Wilsie D Iddings of Bluefield Va service at First Baptist Church with Rev Malcolm Fuller. Burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery. Pallbearers named. Brothers Herbert Iddings Oaka Iddings noted. Mercer Funeral Home in charge.
Courses Scheduled At Richlands School
The Tazewell County School Administration and University of Virginia announce two three week summer workshops for teachers in Tazewell County. The Language Arts course will be at Richlands High School June 17 and the Children's Literature course at Graham High School July 8. Each provides three semester hours and may count toward certification, bachelor's or master's degrees. The Children's Literature course is subsidized by the Virginia State Department of Education. Enroll via school principals or the division office in Tazewell. Mary Herrin of Johnson City, Tennessee, will teach both courses.
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Tygarts Valley
Forestry Division
U. S. Forest Service
Upshur
Hodgesville
Teter
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
State Road Commission
Pecks Run
Tazewell County
School of General Studies
The
University of Virginia
Richlands High School
Graham High School
Virginia State Department of Education
Tazewell
Mary Herrin
Johnson City
Tennessee
Funeral Rites Today For William D. Birke
Funeral rites for William D. Birke, president of Huntington Publishing Co and former Herald-Dispatch publisher, will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday at Klinger Carpenter Mortuary. Rabbi Frank N. Sundheim will lead the service with entombment in the Spring Hill mausoleum. Birke had been ill for several months.
Tazewell GOP Set Meetings in Richlands and Tazewell
Tazewell County Republicans will meet at the Town Hall Richlands Va at 7 p m Saturday June 8 to name delegates. The county convention will be held at the Tazewell County Courthouse Tazewell Va June 22 at 2 p m with delegates selected.
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Tazewell Gop
Richlands
Tazewell County
John R. McCall
Tazewell
Monroe Woman Dies Of Injuries In Truck Crash
Ada Florence Vanstavern 78 of Hollywood Monroe County dies from injuries after a truck accident near Hollywood five days earlier. Survived by husband Luther H Vanstavern two sons Walter Hudson and Harry Holt one daughter Della May Lloyd a brother Clarence Howard a sister Laura Howard and six grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 11 am in Broyles Funeral Home Chapel Union with Rev J E Fairburn officiating. Burial in Salem Cemetery near Organ Cave.
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Ada Florence Vanstavern
Hollywood
Monroe County
Ronceverte
Chalybeate
C. C
Mary Burns Howard
Bruffeys Memorial Chapel
Luther H. Vanstavern
Walter Hudson Vanstavern
Hydesville
Harry Holt Vanstavern
Franklin, Va
Della May Lloyd
Bethesda
Clarence Howard
Laura Howard
Broyles Funeral Home
Union
J. E Fairburn
Salem Cemetery
Organ Cave
Pocahontas Holds Memorial Day Services Today
Pocahontas Virginia Post 14 American Legion observes Memorial Day at the World War II memorial on Water Street. Commander Raymond Martin delivers remarks at 2 pm with National Guard rifle squad, legion color guard, Pocahontas High School band, auxiliary and Girl Scouts participation. Graves receive flag decorations and a helmeted cross placed May 30.
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Pocahontas
Post 14
American Legion
Water Street
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Raymond Martin
National Guard
Bluefield
Color Guard
Legionnaires
Pocahontas High School
Jack Dishman
Legion Auxiliary
Girl Scouts
Honey in the Rock opens with daylight DST clash
Beckley reports the outdoor drama Honey in the Rock enters its third season facing Daylight Saving Time. The June 22 opening runs to September 1 requiring early scenes to be rearranged and added Spokane references. Thomas Stonewall Jackson appears along with a Washington scene in the revised script.
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Kermit Hunter
Thomas
Stonewall) Jackson
Washington
Chicagoan's Body Found In Ohio River Near Point Pleasant
The body of a young man was recovered from the Ohio River near the U S Coast Guard station south of Point Pleasant W Va Police reported He was tentatively identified as George Ash in his early 20s Papers in his pocket showed a Chicago address
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Ohio River
U. S. Coast Guard
George Ash
Chicago
Quinwood Miner Killed At Carl No. 2 Mine
Quinwood West Virginia miner John Withrow of Charmeo Greenbrier County died after a coal boring machine at the Carl No 2 mine near Quinwood ground him to death Friday night. The mine sits in Nicholas County and is run by Imperial Smoke less Coal Co.
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Quinwood
W. Va
Carl No. 2
John Withrow
Charmeo
Greenbrier County
Nicholas County
Imperial Smokeless Coal Co
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James B. Allen
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
CWF
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Holiness Temple
Roy Wilkins
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Jennie Belle Lockhart Davidson
Mount Pleasant Methodist Church
Maxwell
W. E. Mustard
W. J. Ellis
Maxwell Cemetery
Johnnie Davidson
Andy Johnson
Lucy Fleming
John H. Lockhart
Will Ed Lockhart O
Hickory
N. C
Fannie Patrick
Peery-St. Clair Funeral Home
Paul F. Malamisura
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Joseph Dene
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Mercer Funeral Home
Rosalee W. Charles
Allen Pennington
Speedway
Speedway Methodist Church
Buford Painter
Donald ‘Baldwin
Cecil Pennington
Audrey Matherly
Hurley Morehead
Bertie Goode Pennington
Dewey
Robert Pennington
Fred Bolin
Athens
Ralph Pennington
Gladys White
Howard Brewer
Martinsville
Elizabeth Hall
Huntington
Memorial Funeral Directory
Juanita M. Price
Degnan
Charles W. McNutt
Burlington, N. C
Sunset Memorial Park
Richlands School
William D. Birke
Barre Guild
Mercer Monument Co
Princeton, W. Va
Monroe
Ohio
Bluefield Monument Company
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