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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1959
Page
3
A fur salon is robbed while owner Arthur Leslie and the newly hired assistant Helen Victor dine after hours in The Dangerous Game. Lt. Frank Ballinger goes undercover to entrap suspects during the M Squad broadcast on Channel 6 WHIS TV at 10 30 PM.
The State Mines Department reports 101 new coal openings in May lifting total openings for January through May to 445. Most permits were for small mines. 22 counties are represented with Fayette and Raleigh counties leading. May fatalities reach five, bringing 1959 total to 42, four fewer than 1958.
The Bluefield Chamber of Commerce board will hold its monthly luncheon on Wednesday June 10 at 12 noon in Parlor A at the West Virginian Hotel. It will be the last meeting of the fiscal year.
The final 1958 mine death toll was 148. County figures for new coal opening permits issued in May include McDowell nine, Boone six, Greenbrier six, Upshur five, Logan five, Preston five, Kanawha five, Nicholas four, Harrison four, Mingo three, Gilmer four, Mercer two, Monongalia two, Wayne two, Wyoming two, Barbour one, Braxton one, Mason one, Mineral one, Pocahontas one.
Roanoke Va NAACP attorney Reuben E Lawson says a petition seeking admission of 14 Negroes to two white Floyd County high schools will reach the school board by its June meeting. If not acted on, a U S District Court suit is planned. Superintendent James H Combs expects the board will forward petitions to the state pupil placement board.
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