Southern Democrat Party Declared Dead by U S Politicians
A near capacity luncheon at the Daniel Boone Hotel heard GOP leaders declare that the national Democrat party has died in the South, blaming party interests over the nation. Speakers included Rep. William Cramer and Rep. John Rhodes among others, with regional focus on Southern states and labor policy.
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National Democrat
South
GOP
Daniel Boone Hotel
William C. Cramer
Florida
Public Works Committee
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
Education and Labor Committee
Will E Neal
Huntington
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
David Dennison
Ohio
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Richard M. Simpson
Pennsylvania
House
White House
Potter
Meade Alcorn
Democrat Party
Jobless benefits in West Virginia decline sharply
West Virginia initial unemployment claims fell 20.7 percent last week to 2,732 from 3,447. Total claims dropped 11 percent while combined initial and continued claims reached 29,328, down 3,620. Benefit payments totaled 904,395, down 271,915 from the prior week.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Department of Employment Security
Lavine Remains Open as Awaited Return Delayed
The Bluefield club kept doors open Tuesday night despite a padlocked expectation of Lavine's arrival. Outfielder Jim King of the San Francisco Giants played for three teams in 1957 including the Cubs, Cardinals and Omaha.
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Bluefield
Jim King
San Francisco Giants
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Omaha
Ten Area Men Join Marines in May Enlistments
Ten area youths enlisted in the Marine Corps at the Bluefield Recruiting Station during May. Recruits include Vincent P. Barazzone Albert T. Baker Edward A. Lanford Ralph E. Monk Richard K. Short Billy R. Price Donald L. Cline Jackie F. E. Proffit and Wallace Marcum. They will complete boot camp at Parris Island and combat training at Camp LeJeune before recruit leave. Sgt Gene G. Smallwood reenlisted for six years and will report to Camp Lejeune.
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Marine Corps
Bluefield
Tsgt
Ray Shurling
Vincent P. Barazzone
Alma Vukojevich
Cedar St
Albert T. Baker
Hugh A. Baker
Box
Princeton
Edward A. Lanford
Nora H. Lanford
Ralph E. Monk
Conley L. Monk
Amonate
Richard K. Short
Caleb R. Short
Jaeger
Billy R. Price
John Price
McDowell
Donald L. Cline
Maston Cline
Jackie FE. Proffit
George E. Proffit
Jolo
Wallace Marcum
Laeger
Parris Island
S. C
Camp LeJeune
N. C
Gene G. Smallwood
Margery Arrington
Ohio St
East Coast Marine Rifle Team
Area Youths Receive Degrees From Berea College
Miss Clara Jean Davis of Bramwell and William Denver Jones of Freeman were among 180 Berea College seniors awarded degrees on June 1. Davis earned a BA in elementary education. Jones earned a BA in physics and was named a salutatorian and member of Phi Kappa Phi and Delta Phi Alpha. Jones won the Freshman Chemistry Award and the German award and received an Atomic Energy Commission fellowship for graduate study in radiological physics at Vanderbilt, plus three months at Oak Ridge Laboratories.
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Carrie J. Davis
Bramwell
William Denver Jones
William Clyde Jones
Freeman
Berea College
Davis
Bramwell High School
Jones
Gary High School
Gary
Phi Kappa Phi
Delta Phi Alpha
Atomic Energy Commission
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Oak Ridge Laboratories
Oak Ridge
Caution Urged In License Plate Discarding
Mercer County and West Virginia residents were urged to deface old auto license plates during the tag change over period. State Police warned discarded plates can be traced and asked drivers to mutilate plates so they cannot be reused.
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Mercer County
West Virginia
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Virginia
The Associated Press reports West Virginia will be fair and warm with highs in the 70s in the east and 80s in the west. Virginia sees some cloudiness south with mainly fair and warmer conditions on Thursday. Bluefield highs around 77 with a low near 5.
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Central Plains
Iowa
Utah
Great Lakes
Ohio
Mississippi
California
Arizona
West Virginia
Virginia
Bluewell Gets Its Own Fire Truck Through Lions Effort
Bluewell will receive a volunteer fire truck after today as Lions Club members announce two members are en route to North Carolina to bring the vehicle back. The Lions sponsor the truck for the unincorporated area and planned the purchase for weeks. A film on home electricity was shown at the meeting led by President C A Shupe.
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Bluewell
Bluewell Lions Club
Lions
C. A. Shupe
la Saluta Club
Lion
North Carolina
Holston Area Conference Opens Four Day Meeting in Bristol
About 800 ministers and lay delegates of the Holston Conference of the Methodist Church convene in Bristol for a four day session. The gathering features trial admissions for 17 ministers and full connection for 14 others, with Bishop Roy H. Shortt presiding. Highlights include a commemorative service, pastoral appointments, and a pageant on Methodism’s 150 year history staged at Virginia Intermont College.
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Holston
The
Methodist Church
George Naff
Board of Ministerial Training
Halston
Radford
Chattanooga
Tenn
Roy .H. Shortt
Nashville
FE. EF. Wilsy
Broad St. Methodist Church
Kingsport
Shortt
Ralph Spraker
Maryville
Three Jailed In Conjunction With Auto Theft Probe
Three people were jailed after a Crown Hill auto theft earlier Tuesday. The car was recovered with one suspect in custody. Bonnie Lomax ownership disputed as Beckley police await ownership confirmation and possible auto theft charges.
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Bluefield
Crown Hill
Beckley
Bonnie Lomax
West Virginia
L. H. Lilly
Roby Brown
Marvin Bilten Cook
Bailey
Y's Men Honor Al Modena in Bluefield Meeting
Bluefield Y's Men Club honored A. A. Modena president of the Bluefield Junior Chamber of Commerce and WV Jaycee of the Year at the Pinnacle Restaurant. William A. Looney eulogized Modena as members applauded. program covered East River Pool issues at City Park focusing on patronage and weather.
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A. A. Modena
Bluefield
A. T. Howard
U's Men's Club
Charleston
Danny Thomas
Y.M.C.A
Fred McCoy
Arthur Carroll
E. S. Douglas
Indian Rain Dance Cancelled By Rain
The Stoney Indians expected to bring rain to sun parched southern Alberta with a traditional rain dance but rain began immediately after leader Tom Kaquitis announced it. Storms knocked out telephone lines to the reservation.
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Calgary
Alta
Alberta
Tom Kaquitis
Deaths and Funerals in Mercer County area
A slate of obituaries and funeral notices from Matoaka to Princeton details the deaths of Elijah Davidson Rosa Rutherford Kevin Ratliff Curtis Yates W. B. Hill John Paul Williams and infant Donna Marie Walker. The notices list ages birthplaces survivors funeral arrangements and burial details with churches and cemeteries named.
Last rites for 77 year old Maitland man George Fagio
George Fagio a 77 year old Maitland resident and former miner died Monday morning in Bluefield Sanitarium He was born in Germany The funeral is today at 2 p.m. at C J Douglas Mortuary Chapel Welch with burial at Rose Lawn Memorial Cemetery Survivors include Aaron Fagio and five daughters Daisy Mary Lois Kimball Mere Tekoa Hundley and Bertha Edwards The body was placed for viewing yesterday afternoon in the mortuary chapel.
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Rosa Ellen Rutherford
J. J. Rutherford
Lashmeet
Pinoak Missionary Baptist Church
Woodlawn
Rutherford
A. J. Lesler
F. K. Brunk
J. L. Orren
D. K. Davis
L. C. Gillenwater
L. D. Gillenwater
Bluefield
Dean Rutherford
Matoaka
Straley Rutherford
C. R. Tyree
C. H. Parks
W. J. Elliott
Donna Marie Walker
Fredy
Ruth Harriet Pettrey Walker
Mercer St
Princeton
Dora Sue
Earley Pettrey
Athens
Thelma Walker
Mary Burke
George Fagio
Maitland
C. J. Douglas
Welch
Roselawn Memorial
Fagio
Germany
Aaron Fagio
Daisy
Mary Fagio
Lois Cooper
Kimball
Mere
Tekoa Hundley
Bertha Edwards
Funerals for Albert T. Graham Curtis Ray Yates and others
Funerals announced for Albert T Graham 73 of Bois sevain Va at 1 p m from the home with interment in Faussa Ja Curtis Ray Yates six year old son of Mr and Mrs Claude Yates Haysi Va service at 1 a m from maternal grandfather Mere dith Mullins residence Haysi with burial at Hill Cemetery Kermit Cook 46 Rock Va single service 11 a m at Mount Olivet Methodist Church burial in fourth cemetery Julius C Williams 66 Bell Va also listed with funeral details
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Curtis Ray Yates
Claude Yates
Haysi
Grundy, Va
Carolyn
Joyce
Verlene Yates
Meredith Mullins
Hill Cemetery
Grundy
John Paul Williams
Raymond Williams
Lindside
Pearisburg
Arthur Williams
Peterstown
Joe B. Candler
Green Valley Church
Williams Cemetery
Howard Candler
Roscoe
Dick, Lacy
Junior Williams
Adrian Broyles
William S. Broyles
Graham
Albert T
Boissevain
Faussa, Ja
Yates
Curtis Ray
Cook
Kermit
Rock
Mount Olivet Methodist Church
Death of James L. Hutchinson in Whiteville North Carolina
James L. Hutchinson, 57, of Whiteville, N C native of Bluefield, died Monday. Former State Road Department employee, once lived in Princeton. Survived by Wilma H Hutchinson, two daughters, Mrs FE Sears of Whitesville and Mrs George Carrier of Norfolk, Va one sister Mrs Thomas Snipes of Richmond, Va and three grandchildren. Funeral service conducted today at 5 p m at Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel in Bluefield with burial following.
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Elijah
Lige’’ Davidson
Matoaka
New Hope
Mercer County
American Coal Company
Rock District
Blanche Tiller Davidson
Littlesburg
C. L. Bassett
Northfork
G. W. Anderson
Blanche McKinney
James Wiles
Crockett
Worth
Reginald
Troy
Robert
Stephenson and Freeman
Burkeville
Benjamin R
Ella Woodrum Hill
Bramwell Methodist Church
Carrie Lena Sutherland
Thomas A. Fox
Mullens
Jennings Hanna
Robert Oley
Pocahontas
James E
Woodlawn
Mercer Funeral Home
Jim Nowlin
Richard Painter
Bernard Hughes
Marvin Tabor
French Edmunds
Eric Gross
WSCS
Paul Pack
Newton Roberts
Don Anello
Londo Gross
Aubrey Davis
Francis Haynes
James L. Hutchinson
Whiteville
N. C
Bluefield
State Road Department
Princeton
Wilma H. Hutchinson
FE. F. Sears
Whitesville
George Carrier
Norfolk
Thomas Snipes
Richmond
Radford Arsenal Seeks Bids for Two Cranes
Radford Arsenal invites bids on two cranes no longer required by the Federal Government. Bids are due by 2 p.m. June 23. Inspection hours are 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on workdays until three days before the bid closing date. Contact Frank G. Creger Ext 38 for details.
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H. BE. Melnnis
Radford Arsenal
Frank G. Creger
Col. McInnis
Shepherdstown Reelects Incumbents in Vote
Shepherdstown, West Virginia mayor Russell White and his incumbent slate of recorder and councilmen were reelected. White received 154 votes to 52 for challenger Earl Slinger.
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Shepherdstown
W. Va
Russell White
White
Earl Slinger
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