State Railroads Protest Tentative West Virginia Assessments
Charleston AP reports the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway contests a 117% million tentative valuation for West Virginia, claiming duplication with the NF&G and urging the board to keep 1958 final values at 113% million. Other railroads oppose higher assessments, citing unequal treatment of rail versus nonutility property.
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Charleston
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
West Virginia
C&o
F. E. Gleach
Board of Public Works
Little Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier
Nf&g
New York Central
Gleach
Tax Department
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
New York Cental
L. W. Powers
Norfolk
Virginian Railway
Virginian
Eugene §. Williams
Western Maryland Railway
Two Perish In Raleigh Fire
In Raleigh near Beckley West Virginia a house owned by Mrs May E Bradley burned killing a seven year old boarder and Brenda Joyce Bradley eight an upstairs fire trap victims The mother and her twin brothers Nelson and Norman Bradley escaped unharmed Nelson Bradley said flames had headway too great to rescue the girl and boarder Fire Chief Bernard Martin said the house lay about five miles from Beckley Cause of the blaze was not determined The victims names were Henry Jackson and Brenda Joyce Bradley
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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 son of Mr and Mrs Miles Horn Grundy Va is among fifty nine candidates for graduation at National Business College s seventy second commencement on June 14 Horn was past president and vice president of the BSS and was Master Nationalite of 1957 Graduates will assemble in the college auditorium to hear Maj Gen A B Denniston commanding general of the Quartermaster Training Command and Ft Lee
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Harold Horn
Miles Horn
Grundy
National Business College
Horn
B.S.S
A. B. Denniston
Quartermaster Training Command
Ft. Lee
16 Junior Campers To Leave June 9
Sixteen junior campers and counselors will depart Melrose Presbyterian Church. Names listed include Lowery Scotty Scott Sue Mays Mary Lou Mullens Jackie Bailey and the family of Reverend Paul Bohn with junior counselors Linda Mays and Ann White.
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Melrose Presbyterian Church
Lowery
Scotty Scott
Sue Mays
Mary Lou Mullens
Jackie Bailey
Paul Bohn
Linda Mays
Ann White
Deaths and Funerals Chronicle Colorful Virginia Losses
Multiple obituaries report deaths in Princeton Bluefield and surrounding areas. Alma Hall, 63, died at home. Walter Denard, 74, buried at Oak Grove after a Welch hospital death. Sam Pompee, 69, dies in Welch area. Verdie Fender 67 Roanoke. Julia Harman 88 Princeton. Elijah Davidson 82 Matoaka. Mary Smith 89 Montcalm. Charles Bowman 54 Bluefield. Laurenzia McFarland 80 Ceres. Martha Musick 75 Grundy. Charlie Bostic 68 Abbs Valley. Funeral details, survivors, and burial sites listed.
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Verdie Hash Fender
Roanoke
W. T. Deskins
Bluefield
Grayson County
Fender
Bartley
McDowell County
Joe Bill Ellis
Alexandria
William Wampler
Marshall Fender
C. H
A. A. Hash
C. P
Sacramento
Calif
Mary R. Etter
Sadie Phillips
Sarah Love
Grundy
Myrtle Russell
Arlington
Oakey Funeral Chapel
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton Road
Julia Ann Harman
Highland Avenue
Princeton
Montcalm
John Alex Harman
Christian Church
Luther
Dave
Eather
Tazewell
Everett
Henry
Sweet Catawba
Thee
Ada
Leonard
R. L. Holt
Miami, Fla
A. B. Hall
Virgie McCormick
Covington, Va
Bar ney O Quinn Dies at 85 in North Tazewell Va
Barney O Quinn 85 of Route 1 North Tazewell Va died at his home Tuesday night. Survived by Susan Hawkins O Quinn his wife one son Marvin O Quinn both of North Tazewell and two grandchildren. Funeral services at Marvin O Quinns home at 1 p m Friday with interment in Hawkins Cemetery. From the Greever Funeral Home to the home of his son today at 3 p m.
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Walter FE. Denard
Coopers St
Bluefield
Welch Emergency Hospital
Sinkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Oak Grove
Bluewell
Jacksonville
Fla
Lottie Denard
Dorothy Brown
Leslie
Ethel
Virginia
Lucille Denard
Charles
Richmond
Walter Jr
Washington
D. C
Richard
James
Albert Washington
Bobby Banks
Prince Banks
James Yound
James Peoples
Coopers Street
Marie Dolinger McGlamary
Charles L. MecGlamary
Africa
Betty
Melva Sue
Julia Ann
Josie Holland
Mobile
Ala
Annabelle Harvey
Baileysville
Mildred Blackburn
Lucy Mae Palmer
Damascus
John Hamby
Hemphill
William McGlamary
Robert
Baltimore
Elijah Davidson
Matoaka
Matoaka Methodist Church
Don Spurlock
Marvin Patterson
Monte Vista
Bailey Funeral Home
Claude Blankenship
A. J. Davis
Dock Bailey
Zack Godfrey
C. J. Martin
George Peck
C. I. Butte Jr
J. A. Gillenwater
B. S. Clements
Charlie Gilmer
W. M. Ferrell
C. C. Tabor
Roy T. Wright
E. L. Phillips
Howard Blankenship
T. C. Lugar
C. W. Murphy
Mary Smith
Clyde Smith
Montcalm
Floyd County
Loman
Lilly Brown
Myrtle Levert
Crystal
the Tabernacle Cemetery
Cravens Funeral Home
Bennett
Mt. Pleasant
Tenn
Charles R. Bowman
Newbold-Keesling
University of Tennessee
Sigma Kappa Sorority
DAR
Andrew Donnally
Welch
Northfork - Keystone Woman's Club
Dandridge Methodist Church
Tennessee
Wallace Berryman
Charles Irvin
Columbia, Tenn
Webb Jr
Orlando
W. K
Forrest Williams
Loreanza Dunn McFarland
Ceres
Mattie King McFarland
Sidney Epperson
Byron Hancock
R. S. Cregar
Bethany Methodist Church
Bland Funeral
Epperson
Barney O’quinn
Route 1
North Tazewell
Susan Hawkins O’quinn
Marvin O’quinn
Marvin
Hawkins Cemetery
Greever
Funeral Notices From Local Churches and Cemeteries
Obituary notices list W L Mills 52 Kimball to day 2 p.m. Houston Methodist Church with interment Woodlawn Cemetery. Martha C Musick 75 Grundy Va 1 p.m. today Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery Richlands Va. Albert T Graham 73 Bois sevain Va 1 p.m. today from home interment Falls Mills. William B Hill 67 Bramwell Va 2 p.m. today Bramwell Methodist Church interment Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Musick
Martha C
Grundy
Grundy Baptist Church
Clinch Valley Memorial
Richlands
Graham
Albert T
Boissevain
Es Falls Mills
Hill
William B
Bramwell
Bramwell Methodist Church
Woodlawn
West Virginia Methodists Convene Focused Conference
About 1,100 delegates gathered in Buckhannon for the West Virginia annual Methodist conference. Discussions covered church growth, minister salaries, and social issues including opposing a national lottery and restricting pornographic literature while preserving press freedom.
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Kenneth R. Ball
Belle
Board of Christian Social Relations
Buckhannon
Towns in Tazewell County Set Election Date
Four incorporated Virginia towns in Tazewell County Bluefield Cedar Bluff Pocahontas and Richlands vote on June 10. Bluefield council seats six from eight candidates Cedar Bluff the same number from eight names Pocahontas eight from eleven names Richlands elect mayor and three councilmen with five candidates for council seats.
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Virginia
Tazewell County
Bluefield
Cedar Bluff
Pocahontas
Richlands
J. Hudson Huffard
J. M. Pope
Okey B. Yost
Williams. Warner
Bernard P. Nearhood
C. Arnold Goodwin Jr
James M. Peery
O. D. Altizer
J. K. McFarlane
John C. Shott
Lukin L
Civitans Plan Derby Event With Bluefield Jaycees
At a Civitan Club dinner at Bluefield Auditorium plans for the Soap Box Derby co sponsored with the Bluefield Jaycees were discussed. The July event on Bland Road will feature 54 entrants as members urge continued building and committee chairs will visit 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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Civitan Club
Bluefield
Bluefield Jaycees
Bland Road
Civitans
James C. Cain
Internation Civitan
New Orleans
Hi Wie
Gary Man Dies in Kitchen of Home
William Bill Christian 43 of Gary died Wednesday in the kitchen of his home from a self inflicted act. Deputies report he threatened his wife saying he would kill himself. He is survived by his wife and three children. The body is at O J Douglas Mortuary in Welch.
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Frank M. McGlamary
Berkley Street
Princeton
Memorial Hospital
Crouse Coal Company
Keystone
UMWA
Woodmen of the World
Tom's Creek
Gary Man
Kitchen of
William ‘Bill’ Christian
Gary
Christian
George Deskins
Tinker St. Clair
Welch
O. J.douglas Mortuary
Senior Gets Diploma From A Wheelchair
Jimmy Williams of Bland County received his high school diploma in Rocky Gap Virginia from a wheelchair after breaking his leg in a hay baler accident last week. He returned home in time for the 41 senior class graduation at St Luke's Hospital Bluefield.
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Rocky Gap
Jimmy Williams
Bland County
Jimmy
St. Luke’s Hospital
Bluefield
Radford Arsenal Grants Pay Raise
Twenty three hundred hourly workers at Radford Arsenal will receive a four percent pay raise retroactive to May 25 after Local 10 495 of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union accepted Hercules Powder Co offer. Current wage scales were not disclosed and the contract runs through next year under a wage reopener clause.
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Radford
Radford Arsenal
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Hercules. Powder Co
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Virginia
Partly cloudy in West Virginia Thursday with highs near 90 in the west and 75 to 60 in the east. Scattered thunder showers Friday followed by cooler conditions. Virginia sees mostly sunny and warmer Thursday with highs 78 to 85. Friday turns warm and more humid with scattered thunder storms likely.
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Great Lakes Area
Ohio
Tennessee
Gulf Coast States
Plains
Montana
Wyoming
West Virginia
Virginia
Giant beluga sturgeon tops 3000 pounds for caviar
The great Russian beluga, a sturgeon valued for European caviar, can reach up to 3000 pounds in weight, a record size for the species.
Hoblitzell Backs Rail Levy Repeal
Sen. John D. Hoblitzell announced support for repealing the three percent freight tax and ten percent transportation tax. He backs the Smathers Bill, arguing it balances transportation forms and aids railroads and West Virginia coal, with a vote before the Senate to inform constituents.
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Washington
John D. Hoblitzell
West Virginia
Senate
Hoblitzer
Father Of 17 Solves One Vital Problem
St Louis AP report notes Charles F. Vatterott Jr as board chairman seeks easier contact by installing an unlisted home phone so all 18 members can reach him anytime in case any of his 17 children use the regular line.
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ST. Louis
Charles F. Vatterott Jr
Vatterott
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Luefield Daily Telegraph
Grundy Man
NBC
Weather Bureau Forecast
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Central Plains
Atlantic Coast States
Gulf Coast
Rockies
Alma M. Hall
Hall's Ridge
Dewey Hall
Allisonia
Johnson Chapel
Ollie Nelson
Jimmy Gibson
Myrtle Dobbins
Rachel Peghram
John Bend
Ethel Palmer
Pulaski
Katheryn Carroll
Cecil Nelson
Sam Pompee
Davy
J. Douglas
Jaeger Memorial
Roderfield
Pompee
Rome
Italy
American Legion
IOOF
Loyal Order of Moose
Allie Goldsmith Hastings
Don Hastings
Fort Pierce
Virgil
Carleton
Milwaukee
Wis
Mossman Hastings
Guy Deade
Bill Johnson
Paul Goodman
Ti Ti Legato
Henry Hubbard
Mrs
Loreanza Dunn
McFarland
Martha Cox Musick
Pete Dixon
Habern Owens
Junior Keen
Bill Buskirk
Pete Crane
Joe Weller
I. M. Lambert
Benny Erdiey
Grundy Funeral Home
Charlie Bostic
Abbs Valley
Bluefield Sanitarium
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Barney O'Quinn
Methodists
W. Va
West Virginia Methodists
Henry R. High
Pension Funds, Inc
Methodist Publishing House
Church
Kresge Foundation Award
Barton Baker
Bluefield Salvation Army
Kresge Foundation
Camp Joy
Shannondale
Clyde J. Stevens
Kresge
Mrs. Baker
Scott Litton
Major Baker
George
Bowen
Frank Davis
Kresge Company
Jimmy’‘s
Wagner Funeral Home
THE
Associated Press
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Atlanta
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Hoblitzell
Aejust
Erarstaeeo
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