Attempted Nuclear Test Ends At Bottom Of Pacific
The United States halted a high-altitude nuclear test after a malfunction in the Thor missile tracking system. The warhead was destroyed remotely and fell into the Pacific Ocean near Johnston Island, with no expected radioactivity or explosive event. A second test may occur within two days as officials press on.
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Honolulu
United States
Pacific Ocean
Johnston Island
Joint Task Force 8
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
Hawaii
Joint Task Force
Soviet Union
Task Force
Pet Show at Bluefield Community Center June 26
The Bluefield Community Center hosts a pet show on June 26 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on the back lawn. Pedigrees do not count as eligibility, and dogs cats turtles birds fish and other pets may compete for awards such as best trained dog and most unusual pet. At least 24 children ages five to twelve are expected to enter, with many parents attending, says director Mrs. Marion Jones.
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Bluefield Community Center
Marion Jones
Outdoor dramas could unlock WV tourist cash says artist
Dr. Kermit Hunter told the Bluefield Kiwanis Club that outdoor drama can bring a vast untapped tourist market to West Virginia. The Beckley writer and Hollins College professor noted North Carolina’s $300,000 state aid for several outdoor dramas since 1937 and a million out of state visitors who spent $600,000 in fuel and retail taxes. He cited Beckley’s Honey in the Rock netting $17,000 last year and predicted further success, adding that a suitable outdoor theater can be built for about $100,000 and a typical production for $75,000. Hunter, a former Bluefield Daily Telegraph reporter, has authored about a dozen outdoor dramas.
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Kermit Hunter
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
West Virginia
Hunter
McDowell County
Beckley
Hollins College
North Carolina
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Welch Chamber of Commerce
Browder Wins Lilly Mills Arts Scholarship
Mrs G A Browder executive director of Southern Appalachian Girl Scout Council and director of the Bluefield State College workshop has been awarded the Lilly Mills Scholarship for arts and crafts study at Penland School of Handcrafts Penland North Carolina. The school began offering classes to outsiders in 1929 and now attracts students from all 50 states Canada and many foreign countries.
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G. A. Browder
Southern Appalachian Girl Scout Council
Bluefield State College Workshop
Lilly Mills
Penland
N and W Coal Loadings Dip in Week
Norfolk and Western Railway coal loadings fell by 1 500 cars to 22 732 for the week ending in Roanoke Virginia marking only the second drop from the prior year since January. Daily totals were 3 212 Monday 4 653 Tuesday 5 160 Wednesday 5 193 Thursday 3 849 Friday and 665 Saturday.
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway
N&w
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertisement Notice
Classified text from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph asking readers to mail subscription rates and contact details for West Virginia delivery. Includes address 412 Bland Street Bluefield VA and telephone 327-417. Mentions Associated Press affiliation and rate board.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
West Virginia
The
Rate Agency, Inc
Bid Opening Set On Resurfacing
The State Road Commission will receive bids at 10 am EST on June 19 for 12 resurfacing projects covering 31.72 miles and seven bridges across eight counties. Approximate cost is $3.1 million with several federal aid and state funded sections. Partial list includes McDowell and Mercer county segments on WVa routes for resurfacing.
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Charleston
State Road Commission
Burl A. Sawyers
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
McDowell
W.va
Mercer
Matoaka-Arista
McDowell County
Bramwell Road
U.S. 52
Business License Applications Mailed in Charleston
About 36 000 license applications for the new year to begin July 1 have been mailed by the State Tax Department. Director Chester P. Tinsley said the applications represent potential revenue of about $655 000 and include 20 000 general store licenses and 12 000 special store licenses. An additional 3 000 general licenses were sent to vending machine operators and others, plus 1 000 soft drink permits and about 200 wholesale cigarette applications.
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Charleston
State Tax Department
Chester P. Tinsley
Tinsley
Oscar Boggess of Oakvale Dies
Oscar Spurgeon Boggess 71 postmaster and merchant of Oakvale since 1914 died Monday at his home after a long illness. He served as Sunday School superintendent and on church and civic boards. Survived by wife Myrtle Cooper Boggess, two sons E. K. Boggess and Thomas C. Boggess, five grandchildren, sister Mary Honaker, brother Bernard Boggess. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Methodist Church with burial in Resthaven Memorial Park Princeton.
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Oscar Spurgeon Boggess
Oakvale
National Association of Postmasters
Concord College
Athens
B. A
Allie Johnston Boggess
Myrtle Cooper Boggess
E. K. Boggess
Peterstown
Thomas C. Boggess
Rich Creek
Mary Honaker
Bernard Boggess
Early Morning Fire Damages Beacon Drive-In
A fire at the Beacon Drive-In on Cumberland Road in Bluefield caused about 8000 dollars in damage. Fire Chief E L McClure said an overheated deep fryer started the blaze which spread through the kitchen to the rear. Firemen contained the fire by 5 30 a m. Willard Early, an owner, was in the office when it started and phoned the department from a neighbor's house.
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Beacon Drive-In
Beacon Drive- In
Cumberland Road
Bluefield
E. L. McClure
McClure
Willard Early
Early
Virginia Music Camp Sets Weeklong Session at Massanetta Springs
More than 700 people are expected at the Virginia music camp at Massanetta Springs near Harrisonburg June 18 to 24. The event combines workshops for teachers with camps for junior and senior high pupils, sponsored by the State Department of Education and the Virginia Music Teacher Association. About 155 teachers and 550 pupils are expected. State Board of Education members will visit June 21, then hold a regular meeting at Madison College on June 22.
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Richmond
Virginia
Massanetta Springs
Harrisonburg
State Department of Education
Department
Virginia Music Teacher Association
State Board of Education
Madison College
Franklin jurors indict 2 women in embezzlement case
A Franklin County Circuit Court grand jury indicted former Rocky Mount town employees Mrs Betty Woody Mitchell, the former town treasurer, and Miss Linda M Dillon on embezzlement charges totaling 6945.45 dollars. Bench warrants were issued but bonds posted. trial date not set.
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Rocky Mount
Franklin County
Betty Woody Mitchell
Linda M. Dillon
Langhorne Jones
Jones
Commonwealth
Virgil Goode
Nathan B. Hutcherson Jr
T. Keister Greer
Goode
Anderson and
Reed
Roanoke
Mitchell
Miss Dillon
E. Leo Burton
Wyoming Man Named Consultant to Rex M. Smith Staff
Acord of Pineville Wyoming County is named guidance counseling and testing consultant under State Guidance Director Harry Hein. Bartrug of Marmet Junior High will serve eight weeks as assistant supervisor in the School Plant Planning Division to aid data compilation from a federal state survey on school facilities and personnel.
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Charleston
Rex M. Smith
David Lee Acord
Pineville
Wyoming County
E. M
Eddie) Bartrug
Marmet Junior High School
Smith
Acord
Harry Hein
Morris Harvey College
West Virginia University
Pineville High School
Bartrug
WVU
Deaths and Funerals In Bluefield and nearby towns
Gilbert E Salyer 45 farmer Route 1 Nickelsville Va died Monday in Abingdon hospital. Survived by wife Ethel Marshall Salyer eight Va survivors including children Luther Marion Salyer Willard Hartick Arnold Vernon and others and siblings. Funeral Wednesday 12 pm Free Hill Baptist Church officiated by three ministers. burial in family cemetery. Also services for Josephine Cooke Bluefield and John H Nunn Princeton. Cooke died Draper Valley Nursing Home. funeral Wednesday 10:30 am Wagner Funeral Chapel. burial Maple Hill Cemetery. Nunn 84 Princeton died Monday. funeral Wednesday 2 pm Resthaven Memorial Park with Bailey Funeral Home to church hour prior. John Morgan Sykes 75 Honaker funeral Tuesday Russell Fork Freewill Baptist Church. burial Tiller Cemetery.
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Gilbert E. Salyer
Nickelsville
Abingdon
Ethel Marshall Salyer
Gaines Goodman
Cleo Sluss
Bluefield
Willie Grigsby
Clintwood
Frank Salyer
Hansonville
Estelle Hughes
Grundy
Earl Dingus
Bristol
Luther Salyer
Marion
Ind
Willard Salyer
Castlewood
Hartick Salyer
North Tazewell
Arnold Salyer
Nickelville
Vernon Salyer
Premier
Will Salyer
Gate City
David Salyer
Mimmie Lowe
Cedar Bluff
Mollie Hutton
Free Hill Baptist Church
Kenneth Shears
Nathan King
Jeff Salyer
Lebanon Funeral Home
Eee
Josephine Cooke
Wagner Funeral Chapel
Glenn Lippie Jr
Maple Hill Cemetery
C. P. Paintler
P. E. Goodman
Wilbur Tibbs
Marion Lowe
Vernon Harvey
Arch Smith
Lee Harman
First Methodist Church
Cooke
South College Ave
Draper Valley Nursing Home
Draper
Frank R. Cooke
Alvin W. Cooke
Burkes Garden
John W
Margaret Hall Burress
Methodist Church
John H. Nunn
Lacy Street
Princeton
Bland Co. Va
Booker Nunn
Rosa Straley Nunn
Oakey Nunn
Detroit
Mich
Scott
Clifford Nunn
Princeon
Bailey Nunn
Dayton
Ohio
Luther Nunn
Pearl Pruett
Narrows
Nunn
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Quentin Hughett
Resthaven Memorial Park
Bailey Funeral Home
Pauline Brewster
Kingsport
Tenn
Goldie Daugherty
Pence
Garland
Holland Tiller
Davenport
Russell Fork Freewill Baptist Church
Council
Hadley Martin
Edward Martin
Henry Viers
Tiller Cemetery
Virginia Funeral Home
Bernard
US and USSR to land man on moon the same year
Dr Willy Ley predicted on WSAZ-TV that both the United States and Russia would land a man on the moon within the same year. He declined to name a first country and said the gap has narrowed since four years ago. Ley cited M. Scott Carpenter’s duties and suggested the snowflakes seen by Carpenter were condensation from steering jets.
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Charleston
United States
Russia
Willy Ley
New York City
Wsaz-Tv
Ley
West Virginia Tech
Montgomery
M. Scott Carpenter
Carpenter
Dr. Ley
Deeds Recorded by Mercer County Clerk This Week
Mercer County Clerk recorded deeds involving multiple transfers including E F Wiles to Randall Sizemore and others to various buyers in Rock and Princeton districts. Notable totals include $60 $5,200 $25,000 and $4,150 with properties on Lilly Highway Pine Street Park Avenue and West Virginia Route 29. Also listed were estate administration appointments and marriage license applications for Bluefield Princeton and nearby areas.
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Mercer County
E. F
Nannie Wiles
Randall Owen Sizemore
Lilly Highway
East River District
Morris J
Roma Thompson
A. J
Eva M. Hubbard
Pocosin Fork
Rich Creek
Rock District
Ward A
Lucille W. Goodwin
Donald L. Williams
West Virginia
Beaver Pond
D. T. Carr Jr
Juanita Carr
Walter A. Patterson
Lower Pine Street
J. H. Lilly Land Co
Charles S
Willie Wells
Pinnacle
William and
Bertha Friedl
Norma K. Meadows
Secion
Oliver
Princeton
Vinella Clemson
Robert L
Anna Lou Snidow
Park Avenue
James A. Blevins Jr
Harry Lee
Naomi Alice White
North View
Ruby
David G. Griffith
David Daniel
Joan Griffith
Mary G. Blankenship
Gift
Estelle
Frank B. Duncan
L. L
Topsey Hollandsworth
Robert Edwards Harry
Dorothy Lorraine Jackson
Bluefield
James Baylor McNeer
Nancy Jean Williamson
John Rodrick Flanigan
Bonnie Fay Barker
Allen Homemakers Will Meet Tonight
The Altha Allen Homemakers Club will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the home of Mrs Walter Morrison 712 Holbrook St with Mrs N A Harris as co hostess The lesson for the month is Interior Design led by Mrs Charles Richards Mrs Nettie Cauthorn is club president.
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Altha Allen Homemakers Club
Walter Morrison
Holbrook St
N. A. Harris
Charles Richards
Nettie Cawthorn
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Virginia Music Camp
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Goody
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Karl H. Frye, Inc
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John Morgan Sykes
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