Six Area Students Earn Degrees at University of Richmond
Bluefield area students Claudia Fay Bell Beverly Kay Cook James W Hyams Frederick H Combs Eugene K Street Peter L Villani and others received bachelor and law degrees at the University of Richmond commencement. 559 candidates were honored as Dr Curtis W Haug delivered the commencement address.
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Bluefield Area
Claudia Fay Bell
Bluefield
University of Richmond
Richmond
Beverly Kay Cook
John W. Cook
Hillcrest Dr
School of Business Administration
James W. Hyams
Samuel James Hyams
Rt. 2
Miss Cook
Beta Gamma Sigma
Accounting Society
Religious Activities Council
Baptist Student Union
Hyams
Frederick H. Combs
Grundy
Phi Gamma Retta
Omicron Delta Kappa
Herman P. Thomas Economics Society
Eugene K. Street
McNeill Law Society
The
Law Review
Peter L. Villani
Welch Re
George M. Modlin
Curtis W. Haug
Chautauqua Institution
New York
Draft Board Closes Local Board 12 in Bluefield
The Selective Service office for Local Board 12 in Bluefield will close today Thursday and Friday as employees attend a Selective Service convention in Parkersburg.
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Selective Service Local Board
Bluefield
Parkersburg
Byrd denounces Poor People's Campaign in Senate remarks
Senator Robert Byrd called the Poor People's Campaign a fraud as he spoke to an almost empty Senate chamber about a Saturday protest at his Virginia home. He defended his poor-people work while condemning the demonstrators as not truly representative and said he has no Ku Klux Klan membership to renounce. He also criticized press coverage as not showing the full truth of the campaign.
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Washington
Robert C. Byrd
Senate
Virginia
West Virginia
Byrd
Capitol Hill
Riff-Raff
Ku Klux Klan
Trailer Fire Is Investigated Near Princeton
Firemen pressed a Monday night inquiry into the cause of a Monday morning trailer blaze two miles north of Princeton on U S 1921. The unoccupied house trailer, owned by Mrs Murial Johnson, suffered extensive damage likely exceeding $6 000 with only one small rear bedroom spared.
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Princeton
East River
Jim Belcher
U. S
Murial Johnson
Belcher
First Settlers at Hartford Fort Built in 1633
The Dutch were the first settlers at the Hartford site in Connecticut and erected a fort there in 1633 marking early European presence in the region.
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Hartford
Conn
U S Court Upholds Objector s Sentence
The 4th U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a three year prison sentence for Douglas Ray Whitaker 21 of Richmond a Jehovah s Witness conscientious objector who refused to report for civilian work with the Virginia Highway Department after being classified by Selective Service.
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Richmond
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Pineville Boy Receives BA in Economics at Berea College
Arnold Blankenship son of Mr and Mrs Clark Blankenship of Pineville earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Berea College in Berea Kentucky during the commencement on Saturday. He is a 1964 Saeger High School graduate and joined fellow area graduates Deborah Watts and Thomas Cooper from Bluefield who earned BA degrees in English and Psychology respectively. Watts is daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Watts of 3301 Cumberland Road Bluefield and a 1964 Bluefield High School graduate. Cooper is son of Mr and Mrs Rupert E Cooper of 202 Oakhurst Ave Bluefield and a 1964 Bluefield High School graduate.
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Clark Blankenship
Pineville
Berea College
Berea
Blankenship
Saeger High School
Deborah Watts
Thomas Cooper
Bluefield
Miss Watts
Thomas Watts
Cumberland Road
Bluefield High School
Cooper
Rupert E. Cooper
Oakhurst Ave
Bluefield High
Archeologists Find Old Relics In Cuba Cave
Cuban archaeologists report excavations at a western tip cave uncovered stone tools shellware dishes and over 300 relics attributed to an aboriginal tribe that lived more than 4000 years ago.
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Cuba
Havana
Free bowls promotion at Ashland service stations
Customers get one small avocado green bowl free with every $3 Ashland Gasoline purchase. The large bowl available for 89 cents with an oil change or lubrication at regular prices. Collect a complete set by stopping at Ashland Oil stations displaying the free bowl sign.
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Ashland
Memorial Holiday Road Toll Tops Fourteen in West Virginia
The Associated Press reports at least 14 people died on West Virginia roads during the Memorial weekend, six of them Sunday in crashes near Princeton and Martinsburg. Victims include Virgil P. Pennington 36 of Charleston and his wife Wahlnah 26, Samuel Young Jr. 16 of Kimball, and Martinsburg youths Donald Breland 18 and John Luther Aikens III 16, plus Willie May Davis 39 of South Point Ohio in a Logan area crash. The 1968 state highway death toll reaches 202, up from 182 a year earlier.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Princeton
Martinsburg
Virgil P. Pennington
Charleston
Wahlnah
Samuel Young Jr
Kimball
McDowell County
South Point
Ohio
Willie May Davis
W. Va. 10
Logan
Highway Officials Push New Federal Funds Apportionment
The American Association of State Highway Officials asked Congress to require federal highway officials to discuss apportioning formulas with state counterparts for primary and secondary systems and to consider a functional redesignation. The group urged a two thirds federal share and one third state for all federally aided highways, noting current ratios of 50 50 for primary and secondary, and 90 10 for interstates.
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Washington
The
American Association of State Highway Officials
John O. Morton
Association
House
Morton
First Movie Made in Los Angeles in 1908
A 1908 film was produced in Los Angeles marking an early motion picture milestone. Details indicate the production location and the year of creation, highlighting the city's role in early cinema history.
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Los Angeles
Doctors quit smoking survey reports many physicians abstain
A Chicago survey shows 52 percent of American doctors do not smoke with many quitting due to links between cigarettes and lung cancer. A new tablet helps reduce nicotine craving and less than 2 percent of 150,000 users still smoke. Free information is offered by the Anti-Tobacco Center of America.
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Chicago
Anti-Tobacco Center of America
Dept
Park Avenue South
New York City
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