Civil Defense Trainees Ready for Mock Siege Tonight
Downtown Bluefield will host a simulated military siege this evening with Civil Defense operators directing rescue exercises. Trainees from Bluefield State College will play through real war scene drills around Urban Renewal sites on Bluefield Avenue aided by police, fire crews, St. Luke's Hospital, the Sanitarium, funeral homes, Red Cross and Mercer County Rescue Squad.
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Bluefield
State of West Virginia
Police Department
Fire Department
Bluefield Sanitarium
St. Luke's Hospital
Civil Defense
Mercer County Rescue Squad
Princeton
Bluefield Avenue
Bluefield State College
State Civil Defense Corps
Darryl Ely
State Department of Civil Defense
Frank Gasseaux
Weirton
Lewis Chico
Ed Jarvis
Mine Safety Department
John Taylor
Harry Carter
St. Luke's
Sanitarium
Ely
Red Cross
Mercer County
Bluefield State
Ex Bluefield officer awarded U S Army Commendation
Former Bluefield Army veteran received the U S Army Commendation and foreign decorations including the British Empire Commander medal the French Legion of Honor first class chevallier and the Croix de Guerre with Palm. His postwar role was Chief Quartermaster of the European Command. he retired February 1954 and is survived by his wife Alice Chumm Middleswart and several siblings and nieces.
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U. S. Army
Ouissam Alaouite Cherifiera
European Command
Army
Alice Chumm Middleswart
Russell R. Middleswart
Indianapolis
Ind
Chester H. Mustard
Jefferson St. Bluefield
H. M. Manderbach
Maitland
Fla
David Watts
New York
Bluefield
James W. Laws
C. R. Hughes
Alvin Frazier SIGMON Funeral Notice
Funeral services for Alvin Frazier Sigmon of 102 Ramsey St Bluefield are set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at Hawkins Funeral Chapel with Rev. John Mendez and Rev. Graham Robertson officiating and burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. Pallbearers are Opal James, Albert Smith, Earl Tabor, Arnold Musick, Parker Ferguson, and Fred Wolfe.
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Sigmon
Alvin Frazier
Ramsey St
Bluefield
Hawkins Funeral
John Mendez
Graham Robertson
Woodlawn
Opal James
Albert Smith
Earl Tabor
Arnold Musick
Parker Ferguson
Fred Wolfe
Deaths and Funerals in Abbs Valley Area
Funeral services for Charlie Nell 76 of Abbs Valley Va who died Tuesday at Bluefield Hospital will be held Friday at 2 pm in Abbs Valley Baptist Church with Rev Ted R Cook and Rev Sam Gillenwater officiating Burial will be in Grandview Memory Gardens Bluefield Va Nell a native of Italy came to the United States at 14 and was a miner for 25 years before starting a restaurant in Abbs Valley Survivors include his wife three daughters one son two stepsons one stepdaughter and a sister Pallbearers listed The body will be moved from Pocahontas Union Funeral Home to the home Thursday at 4 pm and to the church at noon Friday.
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Charlie Nell
Abbs Valley
Bluefield
Abbs Valley Baptist Church
Ted R. Cook
Sam Gillenwater
Grandview Memory Gardens
Italy
Nell
United States
Cosby Bailey Nell
George H. Gillespie
Clinton Kerley
Atlanta
Prosperity Methodist Church
McComas
Mabel Beatrice Bailey
Bramwell
St. Luke's Hospital
Andy Roe
Prosperity Cemetery
John
Elizabeth O'Brien
Dayton Settle
William Bailey
Rock
A. G. Bailey
Ferrum
Delmar Bailey
Alexandria
Kenneth Bailey
Annandale
J. L. Bailey
Butte, Mont
Clinton Bailey
Hartford
Aurora
Colo
Marvin Bailey
Ward, Ark
Allen Hodge
Vernie Baldwin
Anawalt
Stuart Taylor
Richmond
L. P. O'Brien
Gary
Cravens Funeral Home
Blueweil
Doris Stark McNeer
Vermillion St
Athens
Helen Gunnoe
Manassas
Wheeling
McNeer
White Pine Garden Club
Circle I
Athens Methodist Church
Episcopal Church of Heavenly Rest
Princeton
Omicron Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority
Omicron Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority. Mrs. McNeer
A. H. MecNeer
Parkersburg
William
Nancy V. Stark
Horace A. McNeer
Charleston
James E. McNeer
Clarksburg
William S. McNeer
Pitman
N. J
George W. Seaver
Eugene Hallam
Charles Roth
Green Hill Cemetery
Union
Death of David Saunders Smith Found in Wytheville Home
David Saunders Smith was found dead Wednesday in his Wytheville Virginia home with investigators attributing the death to natural causes, likely occurring Monday. The body was taken to Sinkford Richardson Funeral Home in Bluefield where final arrangements will be announced.
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David Saunders Smith
Wytheville
Sinkford-Richardson Funeral Home
Bluefield
Obituary notices list Keen Reed Hetherington and Smith deaths
Mrs. Josephine Keen aged 60 wife of Berlin Keen of Oakwood Virginia died in Grundy Hospital. Survived by husband four sons Wallace Homer Herman Bobby and two daughters Flora Kate and twenty grandchildren plus siblings and many relatives. Funeral home in Grundy awaiting arrangements. Mrs CaldonIa Reed 79 died at home in Haysi Virginia with four sons two daughters twenty two grandchildren twelve great grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral rites Thursday at George Mullins residence with burial at Skeetrock. Ray S Hetherington 54 of Eggleston Virginia died suddenly in Pearisburg with two sisters Estil Hughes and Georgia Hetherington. Clarence E Smith 67 of Raleigh North Carolina died after long illness with two sons George and Leo one brother Charlie one sister Emma Yost funeral in Raleigh. Simon Clark 72 of McComas died in Bluefield Sanitarium body at Lugo s Bluefield awaiting arrangements.
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Josephine Keen
Berlin Keen
Oakwood
Grundy
Wallace Keen
Page
Homer
Herman Keen
Delmar
Bobby Keen
Charleston Air Force Base
S. C
Flora Keen
Kate Nabb
Rufus McGinnis
Lewis
Ike McGinnis
Inez
Ester Rowe
Louise James
Ruthie Sizemore
Williamson
Mary Tate
Pikeville
Virginia Funeral Home
CaldonIa Reed
Haysi
Bill
Owel
Bowles Reed
Harold Reed
Baltimore
Martha Mullins
Pummers Landing
Cara Gray
Columbus
Ohio
George Mullins
Cecil Presley
Sonny Moore
Clarence Stiltner
Ealy Cemetery
Skeetrock
A. Haysi
Ray S. Hetherington
Eggleston
Pearisburg, Va
Estil Hughes
Georgia Hetherington
Wesley Methodist
Clarence E. Smith
Raleigh
N. C
George I. Smith
Bluefield
Leo M. Smith
Torrance
Calif
Charlie T. Smith
Beckley
Emma B. Yost
Simon Clark
McComas
Lugo
Bland Street Methodist Church to vote on Bland Road land purchase
A special quarterly conference at Bland Street Methodist Church in Bluefield will study buying Lots 8,9,10,29,30,31, Section 957 on Bland Road for a new church site. If approved, the congregation will vote to authorize trust deeds and loans to cover 50,000 for purchases and related debts.
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Bland Street
Bluefield
Marlin W. Kellerman
Zelma N. Kellerman
C. W. French
Bland Street Methodist Church
Jury Deadlock Mistrial in Dr Drunk Driving Case
Judge Howard M. Jarrett declared a mistrial in Mercer Criminal Court when the jury could not reach a verdict in the case of Dr. R. Moore Dodrill charged with drunk driving after a three-vehicle collision on U.S. 460 in Green Valley on Oct 12 1963. Seven injured, three hospitalized. retrial set for July 23 in Intermediate Court.
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Howard M. Jarrett
R. Moore Dodrill
Mercer Criminal Court
Dodrill
U.S. 460
Green Valley
C. F. Little
Dan Wells
Primary results across states shape November battles
In South Dakota 14 uncommitted delegates beat a Goldwater slate two to one, with six supporters on the uncommitted list. Salinger defeated Cranston in California for the Democratic nomination to succeed Engle, while Murphy won the Republican nomination to face him. Buckley and Healey lost in New York to reform challengers Bingham and Scheuer. Alabama voters ousted Elliott. Roeder ousted Anderson in South Dakota’s primary. Stennis and five Mississippi incumbents won renomination. Mansfield beat Monaghan in Montana, setting up Blewett to face Kuchera in the GOP contest.
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South Dakota
Goldwater
Salinger
White House
John F. Kennedy
Alan Cranston
California
Clair Engle
George Murphy
Hollywood
New York
Charles A. Buckley
James C. Healey
Jonathan B. Bingham
James H. Scheuer
Buckley
Bronx
Public Works Committee
Healey
Alabama
Rep
Carl Elliott
House
Rules Committee
Nils Roe
Sigurd Anderson
John F. Lindley
Mississippi
Sen
Stennis
Montana
Mansfield
Joseph P. Monaghan
Alex Blewett
Babcock Democratic
Mike Kuchera
Finnish Nobel Laureate Sillanpaae Dies at 75
Frans Eemil Sillanpaeae, 1939 Nobel Prize in literature winner, died Wednesday in Helsinki, Finland. He was 75.
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Helsinki
Finland
Frans Eemil Sillanpaeae
Bluefield Girl Receives National Merit Honor
Faith E. Mace of Beaver earns National Merit Scholarship recognition as one of 57 scholars invited by the President to a White House ceremony on June 10. The Bluefield valedictorian will use the scholarship to attend West Virginia University.
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Fairmont St
Bluefield
United States
Beaver
Faith E. Mace
Miss Mace
White House
Cleland L. Mace
Washington
Mace
West Virginia University
Brazil and China Strike $25 Million Trade Pact
Brazil and Nationalist China announced a three year pact to purchase 25 million dollars of Brazilian foodstuffs and manufactured goods. The deal signals expanded bilateral trade and strengthens economic ties between the two countries.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
China
Rocky Gap Elementary graduation honors list
Donna Rae Osbourn and James Edison Gregory were valedictorians at Rocky Gap Elementary School graduation in the high school gym. Rev. Lee Ellis gave the invocation. Linda Tolbert delivered the salutatory.
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Donna Rae Osbourn
James Edison Gregory
Rocky Gap
Lee Ellis
Linda Tolbert
Homer Brewer Jr
Everette Browning
Linda Sue Akers
Deborah Sue Davis
Room Monitor
Kenneth Hamilton
James Gregory
Donna Osbourn
S. B. Harvey
Area Students Earn Degrees at Marshall University
Three Bluefield area graduates join 35 others as Marshall University conferred 38 master’s degrees. Recipients include Gordon Landers Proffitt MS Bluefield Emmons Blaine Maynard MA Kermit and Norman Douglas Mullins MA Man.
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Huntington
Bluefield Area
Marshall University
Stewart H. Smith
Gordon Landers Proffitt
Bluefield
Emmons Blaine Maynard
Kermit
Norman Douglas Mullins
Postsecondary Gap Among Adults Without Education
The report notes 23 million Americans aged 18 and over have less than eight years of schooling. It highlights 8 million people aged 25 and over who have completed fewer than five years of schooling.
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Atlanta
United States
Common Market Signs Pact With African Colonies
The European Common Market's treaty of association with 18 African nations, mostly former French colonies, has gone into effect. The pact aims at mutual abolition of tariffs and trade restrictions.
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Brussels
Belgium
European Common Market
Altha Allen Home Makers Club Meets Tonight
Members of the Altha Allen Home Makers Club convene at 7 30 this evening at the home of Mrs William Johnson 312 West Ridge Street Bluefield presiding officer is Mrs Nettie Cawthorne.
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Altha Allen Homemakers Club
William Johnson
West Ridge St
Bluefield
Nettie Cawthorne
27 Survive In Spelling Bee
Washington AP report notes 27 of 48 contestants survived day one of the 37th National Spelling Bee after challenging words such as agiotage amaryllis calamus boutonniere. The field includes 17 girls and 10 boys with $1000 first prize to be decided Thursday.
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Washington
Webster’s Dictionary
Richard R. Baker
Robert Brangan
Pamela Brangan
Newton Square
Baker
Quickie Divorce Granted for Abbe Lane in Juarez
Abbe Lane obtained a Mexican divorce from Xavier Cugat in Juarez by Judge Carlos Uranga Muñoz. They wed May 5 1952 in Miami and had no children. Lane received custody of Pasqueline the chihuahua and the two French poodles, and plans to remarry and start a family.
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Juarez
Mexico
Carlos Uranga Munoz
Abbe Lane
Xavier Cugat
Miami
Fla
Miss Lane
Pasqueline
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