State Railroads Protest Tentative West Virginia Assessments
Charleston AP reports the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway contesting a 1958 tentative WV valuation of 1.174 billion dollars as too high. Spokesmen from B&O Norfolk and Western Western Maryland Virginian and New York Central challenge the tax formula and request final 1958 figures mirror last year.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
West Virginia
Tax Department
C&o
F. E. Gleach
Board of Public Works
Little Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier
Nf&g
New York Central
Gleach
J. Harry Garmer
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
B&o
Charles E. Lex Jr
Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway
N&w
H. C. Kerr
Cleveland
L. W. Powers
Norfolk
Virginian Railway
Virginian
Eugene S. Williams
Western Maryland Railway
Two Perish In Raleigh Fire
In Raleigh near Beckley a 70-year-old boarder and an eight-year-old girl, Brenda Joyce Bradley, died as a house burned in the early hours. The mother, her twin sons Nelson and Norman Bradley, escaped unharmed. another child, Henry Jackson, is listed among the victims. Fire officials said the blaze spread rapidly and the cause was undetermined.
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Beckley
May E. Bradley
Raleigh
Henry Jackson
Brenda Joyce Bradley
Nelson
Norman Bradley
Bernard Martin
Nelson Bradley
Grundy Man Receives NBC Diploma June 14
Harold Horn of Grundy Virginia among fifty nine NBC grads at the seventy second commencement on June 14. Horn served as past president and vice-president of the BSS and was Master Nationalite of 1957. Graduates will hear Maj. Gen. A. B. Denniston in the college auditorium.
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Miles Horn
Grundy
National Business College
Horn
B.S.S
A. B. Denniston
Sixteen Junior Campers to Leave June 9
Sixteen junior campers and counsellors will depart Melrose Presbyterian Church Monday morning June 9 under Westminster Church direction for a camp near Fayetteville. Read names include Connie Bennett Dianne Arrington Steve Lowery Scotty Scott Sue Mays Mary Louw Mullens Jackie Bailey and junior counselors Linda Mays and Ann White.
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Fayetteville
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Dianne Arrington
Steve Lowery
Scotty Scott
Sue Mays
Mary Louw Mullens
Jackie Bailey
Paul Bohn
Linda Mays
Ann White
Local Funeral Notices for Four Residents
Funerals today for W. L. Mills 52 Kimball at Houston Church with Woodlawn Cemetery interment. Martha C. Musick 75 Grundy Va at Grundy Baptist Church, interment Clinch Valley Memorial Richlands. Albert T. Graham 73 Bois e Cemetery Falls Mills. William B. Hill 67 Bramwell 2 p.m. at Bramwell Methodist Church, interment Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Pete Dixon
Habern Owens
Junior Keen
Bill Buskirk
Pete Crane
Joe Weller
I. M. Lambert
Benny Erdley
Grundy Funeral Home
Musick
Martha C
Grundy Baptist Church
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Graham
Albert T
Boise Cemetery
Falls Mills
Hill
William B
Bramwell
Bramwell Methodist Church
Woodlawn
West Virginia Methodists Open Annual Conference in Buckhannon
About 1100 delegates gathered in Buckhannon for the West Virginia Methodist annual conference with calls to enlist more churches rotate clergy and raise salaries. Officials urged a ban on school kids soliciting funds for lotteries oppose liquor by the drink and curb pornographic literature while noting pensions and land donations for a new state training center.
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Henry R. High
Pension Funds, Inc
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Church
Kenneth R. Ball
Belle
Board of Christian Social Relations
Civitans Finalize Plans for Derby Event and Convention
At a Bluefield Civitan Club dinner the group set final plans for the Soap Box Derby co sponsored with the Bluefield Jaycees. The July derby on Bland Road will feature 54 entrants as committee chairs plan visits to each participant for guidance. James C. Cain was named delegate to the International Civitan Convention in New Orleans June 22 26 accompanied by his wife.
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Internation Civitan
New Orleans
Gary Man Dies By Self Inflicted Wound In Home
William Bill Christian 43 of Gary died Wednesday in the kitchen of his home from a self inflicted shotgun wound to the forehead. Deputies Deskins and St Clair said he had threatened his wife with death by his own action. He is survived by his wife and three children and is at the O J Douglas Mortuary in Welch.
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Tazewell Towns Set Elections
Four incorporated towns in Tazewell County Virginia hold municipal elections on Tuesday June 10 Bluefield Cedar Bluff Pocahontas and Richlands. Bluefield lists Huffard Pope and Yost for four year terms Cedar Bluff fields eight councilmen Warner Nearhood Goodwin Peery Altizer McFarlane Shott Hale Pocahontas has eleven candidates for eight council seats Richlands votes for a mayor and three councilmen with McClintock Fields as mayor candidates Serreno Harris Hefner Simmons Patleson seek council seats.
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Cedar Bluff
Pocahontas
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J. Hudson Huffard
J. M. Pope
Okey B. Yost
William S. Warner
Bernard P. Nearhood
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James M. Peery
O. D. Altizer
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C. W. Gilmore Sr
Posie C. Eads
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W. W. Fields
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C. A. Harris
Paul B. Hefner
W. E. Simmons
Harry T. Patleson
Senior Gets Diploma From A Wheelchair
Jimmy Williams of Bland County, a Rocky Gap Va. High School senior, received his diploma from a wheelchair during last night's graduation. He had broken his leg on the farm after catching it in a hay baler and was discharged from St. Luke's Hospital in Bluefield to attend the ceremony.
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Rocky Gap
Jimmy Williams
Bland County
Jimmy
St. Luke’s Hospital
Bluefield
Radford Arsenal Grants Pay Raise
In Radford Virginia on June 4 workers at the Radford Arsenal secured a four percent pay increase retroactive to May 25. The agreement covers about two thousand three hundred hourly paid employees of Hercules Powder Co through Local 10-495 of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. Wage scales remain undisclosed and the contract runs through next year with a wage reopener clause guiding negotiations.
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Radford
Radford Arsenal
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Hercules Powder Co
Weather forecast for West Virginia and Virginia
West Virginia sees partly cloudy skies with highs near 90 in the west and 75 to 80 in the east. Friday brings scattered thunder showers followed by cooler conditions. Virginia trends mostly sunny and warmer on Thursday with highs 78 to 85. Friday turns warm and more humid with scattered thunder storms likely.
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Ohio
Tennessee
Gulf Coast States
Plains
Montana
Wyoming
West Virginia
Virginia
The Great Russian Beluga and Its Caviar Role
A note on the beluga sturgeon famed for European caviar, noting specimens may reach up to 3,000 pounds in weight.
Hoblitzell Backs Rail Levy Repeal
Senator John D. Hoblitzell announced his support for repealing the three percent freight tax and the ten percent transportation tax as wartime levies. He backs the Smathers Bill, arguing it would balance railroads with other transport forms and aid West Virginia coal interests.
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Washington
John D. Hoblitzell
West Virginia
Senate
Father Of 17 Solves One Vital Problem
ST. LOUIS AP As chairman of a board studying area government problems Charles F Vatterott Jr has many problems He has solved at least one He wants the other 18 members to contact him at any time and is installing an unlisted telephone at his home In case any of my 17 children are using the regular phone.
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ST. Louis
Charles F. Vatterott Jr
Vatterott
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