Retaining regional values in Concord College speech
Concord College President Dr. Harold C. Martin urged 1357 graduates to defend regional values against cosmopolitan influence. He warned against constant outside noise from radio and television and praised local character, self reliance, and individuality as core to Concord’s mission. The speech urged balancing two worlds and encouraged graduates to act with responsibility beyond campus.
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Concord College
Athens
Harold C. Martin
Union College of
Martin
Appalachian
Concord
Mny
Ee Martin
Theodore Lockwood
Hartford
Buchanan County Budget Hearing Draws Public In Grundy
More than 20 people attended a public hearing on Buchanan County Virginia’s nearly 7 million dollar fiscal year budget at Grundy courthouse. Supervisors will refine allocations at a Saturday 8 30 a m meeting and may not raise the total budget of 6 7 million dollars which takes effect July 1. The board approved courthouse office space for a county registrar and will appoint a single registrar to replace 20 precinct registrars. A purchasing director was postponed until July 1, with funds included in the budget for the new role and a secretary.
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Buchanan County
Grundy
Julius W.hall
Board of Supervisors
County Electoral Board
Speer Speaks on Stock Market at Bramwell Kiwanis
Bramwell Kiwanis Club hears Jack A. Speer of Abbott Proc tor and Paine discuss stock market workings and bonds. Guest Bill Boone of Rio de Janeiro attends. Don Allen of Bramwell inducted. Next meeting moved to June 13 with Sen. Jennings Randolph as dinner speaker.
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Bluefield
Bramwell Kiwanis Club
Bramwell Masonic Building
Jack A. Speer
Abbott, Proctor and Paine
Bill Boone
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Don Allen
Bramwell
Sen
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Jeannie Harris Earns Furman University Degree
Jeannie BE Harris of Bluefield received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University at Commencement exercises held Sunday. The graduating class heard Dr Logan Wilson president of the American Council of Education speak on Campus 1968 Who Decides What.
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Jeannie BE. Harris
Bluefield
Furman University
American Council of Education
Logan Wilson
Local Woman Found Dead in Bluefield Car Suicide Suspected
A 43 year old Bluefield woman Betty Lou Hudgins was found dead Monday morning in the front seat of a 1966 car in a garage below her Union Street apartment. Police say carbon monoxide poisoning and a note indicate death by own action. Survivors include a daughter Sharon Hudgins and a son Stephen Hudgins. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Bluefield
Union Street
Betty Lou Hudgins
Union St
Charles Jones
Hudgins
Charles W. Jones
Hoyt Eugene Stewart
Bluefield Supply Co
Altizer In Good Condition After Route 460 Collision
Joseph Wayne Altizer of Route 1 Tazewell Va was listed in good condition at a Tazewell hospital after a Saturday morning two truck crash on U S Route 460. His pickup reportedly lost control striking a Mack tractor trailer owned by Walter T Llewellyn of Wheeling causing about 22800 in damage. Trooper Carroll Delp said Altizer likely fell asleep at the wheel and the tractor overturned. He was expected to be released Wednesday no charges filed Monday.
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Joseph Wayne Altizer
Tazewell
Altizer
Walter Thomas Llewellyn
Wheeling
Virginia
Carroll Delp
Dunford Held After Shooting in Abbs Valley
A 53 year old man William George Dunford was charged with felonious wounding after allegedly shooting James Harman in Abbs Valley following an argument. Harman was in serious condition with a shoulder wound piercing a lung at Bluefield Sanitarium. Dunford jailed. preliminary hearing and bond date not set. Investigators included Deputies F E Woods and F E Harmon.
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Abbs Valley
Tazewell County
James Harman
W. E. Osborne
William George Dunford
Harman
Dunford
Bluefield
Tazewell
Wives Plan Meeting by Interdenominational Ministers' Wives Alliance
The Interdenominational Ministers' Wives Alliance of Bluefield and vicinities will meet Thursday at 11 o'clock. The gathering will be hosted by Mrs. Alberta Evans in Maybeury with co hostesses Mrs. Letty Ry and others assisting.
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Ministers’ Wives’ Alliance of Bluefield and Viciity
Alberta Evans
Maybeury
Letty Ry
Ex Bluefielder Dies In Action In Vietnam
Marine Pfc. Ralph Allan Gearheart heart 20 son of Mr and Mrs Hampton Gearheart Crestline Ohio formerly of Bluefield killed in action in Vietnam per Defense Department telegram. Gearheart grandson of C P Painter Bluefield Virginia and nephew of Douthat Miles Gearheart all of Bluefield. Funeral arrangements in Crestline pending arrival of the body from Vietnam.
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Pfc
Ralph Allan Gearheart
Hampton Gearheart
Crestline
Ohio
Bluefield
Vietnam
Defense Department
Gearheart
C. P. Painter
Robert Douthat
Marcella Miles
Rudolph Gearheart
Sherman Gearheart
Riffe Held For McDowell Jury On Murder Charge
James Thomas Riffe, 29, of Taeger, waived a preliminary hearing on murder charges in the Sunday night shooting of Raymond Everett Campbell at a tavern near Taeger. He was remanded to McDowell County Jail pending bond and grand jury appearance in July. Campbell, of Baltimore, Md., died from a stomach wound after a brawl at the Mingo Club on U S 52. His body to be moved to Baltimore. He survived by his wife Gloria Mae Campbell and four children plus siblings.
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James Thomas Riffe
Taeger
Raymond Everett Campbell
Riffe
McDowell County
Criminal Court
Grand Jury
Justice of the Peace
E. Lonnie Mitchell
Welch
Campbell
Baltimore
U. S
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Fanning
Gloria Mae Campbell
Gloria Ann Campbell
Raymond Campbell
Linda Campbell
Thomas
Floyed
Larry
Otis Campbell
Raymond Lee Campbell
Lutheran Church In
Premier Youth Struck By Auto in Welch
A seven year old from Premier was struck while crossing near Kenny's Drive-Inn in Welch and admitted for observation at Stevens Clinic Hospital. He is Hu bert and Dorothy Miller's son. Driver James Beaman of Welch was pulling onto Stuart Street when the incident occurred around 6 p.m. No charges filed.
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McDowell County
Welch
David B. Miller
Premier
Stevens Clinic
Hubert and
Dorothy Miller
R. K. Miller
James Beaman
Welch At
Beaman
Stuart Street
Kenny's Drive-Inn
Miller
Man Charged With Maiming After Willowbrook Gun Battle
Joseph Handil Whitt of Columbus Ohio faces a maiming charge after a Sunday gunfight on Willowbrook Road near Princeton. He and his father in law Harvey Henley both suffered gunshot wounds. Whitt had injuries to his left arm and chest while Henley had a pistol wound. Both are listed in good condition with fractured jaws.
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Joseph Handil Whitt
Columbus
Ohio
Willowbrook Road
Princeton
Harvey B. Henley
Whitt
Bluefield
Three Graduate From Davidson Commencement
Three Bluefield area students received degrees from Davidson College in Davidson North Carolina at Sunday commencement. John W Feuchtenberger earned an A B degree while W Clayton Ford Jr earned an A B degree and Arthur Kern Parker III earned a B S degree.
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Bluefield Area
Davidson College
Davidson
N. C
John W. Feuchtenberger
L. D. Feuchtenberger
Spring Grove
Bluefield
W. Clayton Ford Jr
W. C. Ford
Fairfield
Arthur Kern Parker III
A. K. Parker
Mountain View Ave
Two Burned In Capels Mine
Two Capels men were treated and released from Doctors Memorial Hospital in Welch Monday for burns from separate accidents at the Semet Solvay mine in Capels. James O. England had first degree burns to face and neck. James Snow had first and second degree burns to the left hand. Burns caused by electrical fires, officials said.
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Capels
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Welch
Semet-Solvay
James O. England
James Snow
Strike at General Instrument Co in Tazewell Va
About 800 to 1,000 General Instrument employees in Tazewell Virginia went on strike as negotiations for a new contract continued. The current UMWA represented contract expired May 31. workers arrived at the plant ‘‘just milling around’’ with no violence or picketing expected. The plant makes television electronic components.
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General Instrument Co
Tazewell
United Mine Workers of America
Joint Rites For Wreck Victims Scheduled
Funeral services are set for three victims of a two car head on collision on U S 460 near Princeton. Virgil Pennington and Wahleahn Pennington will be honored today in Princeton with a second service for Samuel J Young in Jasper Tennessee on Wednesday. Pennington and Young are named as local residents with military and family details noted.
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U. S. 460
Princeton
Virgil
Wahleahn Pennington
Charleston
George W. Seaver Chapel
Vandall Page
Rogers Funeral Home
Jasper
Tenn
Sequatshie Valley Memorial Gardens
Samuel J. Young
Kimball
Kimball First Baptist Church
T. D. A. Winston
James Wormley
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluewell
Virgil Pennington
Princeton High School
Mason-Dixon Trucking Company
Virgil P
Juanita Hackney Pennington
Patsey Jo
Nancy K. Alamuddeen
Narrows
Robert L. Wood
Charles W. Pennington
Donald R. Godby
Smyrna
Tina Dobbins
Nashville
Annie E. Morgan
Chattanooga
Joe Dobbins
George W. Seaver
Hemphill
Samuel Young
Samuel J
Erma P. Young
First Baptist Church of
Welch High School
Johnny Tyrone Young
Joseph Young
Alfred Prentice
Mercer GOP names committees and voices party resolve
Mercer County Republican club reports growth from 20 to over 200 members as Plymouth Jumping Branch and Ward 4 Bluefield committeemen are affirmed. Shrewsbury and Shaffer announce legal counsel while Herman Kirchner warns Republicans to work hard to seize a golden opportunity to shape the nation's future.
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Plymouth
Virgil Shrewsbury
Jumping Branch
Joseph C. Shaffer
Princeton
Jack Stafford
Lemuel Martin
Ray Brooks
Bluefield
Jumes Stafford
Mercer County
Republican Club
Herman Kirchner
House of Delegates
University of Indiana
Kirchner
United States of America
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Union College
Griev
Mark E. Long
Pineville
McComas-Survey Hall
Pines
Harry Finkelman
Marshal R. T. Hill
Clyde Maxey
Joseph Marsh Jr
Schenectady
N. Y
Stewart H. Smith
Marshall University
Huntington
Theodore D. Lockwood
Trinity College
Leslie Martin
West Virginia Board of Education
Republican Executive Committee
County Health Center
Joseph C. Shaffer, Jr
A. Harry West
Emma Peck
Donald Baldwin
Ray Heldreth
A. W. Turner
East River
Marvin Shields
Beaver Pond
Donald Pierce
Rock District
Buchanan
Speer
Jeannie Harris
Furman
Sharon Elaine Hudgins
Stephen Eugene Hudgins
Alexandria, Va
Louise Chafin
R. B. Tunnell
Roanoke, Va
Eugene Bordner
Alexandria
Hawkins Funeral Home
Osborne
F. E. Woods
F. E. Harmon
Bluefielder
McDowell
Auto
P.m
VPI
Jim Hartburger
Tech
VPI Alumni Association
University Club
Hartburger
Hudson Huffard Jr
Olin Keys
Isaac Fuqua
Tom Fife
Larry McReynolds
Te Payal Sc. O' Farrell’ Technicolor
United Artiste
MGM
Piestxs
Ceoote
Allen Klein
Tony Anthony
Mercer
Columbal Pictures
Ae Irving Allen
Beam Martin
Matt Helmin
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