Six-Room Mercer House and Mobile Home Losses in Mercer County
Fire destroyed a six room house and a mobile home at Powder House Hollow between Green Tree and Glenwood Park and on Athens Road causing about 25009 in losses. The homes were owned by H. B. Thompson and sister Mary A. Richards and the Dean Burse family occupied the trailer. Fire chiefs attributed causes to wiring and an oil heater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
East River
Green Valley
Powder House Hollow
Green Tree
Glenwood Park
Athens Road
Athens
H. B. Thompson
Mary A. Richards
Jim Belcher
Dean Burse
Beaver High Band Heads to Myrtle Beach World Premiere
The Beaver High School Band will depart Bluefield at midnight for four days of marches and concerts in Myrtle Beach with 8 chaperones and 13 majorettes. They will perform at the MGM production world premiere of Dont Make Waves and compete in a judging concert. Arrival back in Bluefield is Sunday between 4 and 6 p.m. Director John W. Lilly leads the trip funded at about $3,000, with three chartered buses providing transportation.
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Beaver
Bluefield
Grand Strand
Myrtle Beach
MGM
John W. Lilly
Three Area Men Get UVA Degrees
Christie Winkler of 317 Mercer St Princeton presented as part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Oliver White, son of Mr and Mrs Edward White of Union, earned a bachelor of civil engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christie Winkler
Mercer St
Princeton
College of Arts and Sciences
Oliver White
Edward White
Union
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Trustees To Elect Member Of Board
Peery and Sam Ward Bishop sit on the School Trustee Electoral Board. Bernard D. McCall and Claude H. Vandyke serve as other members of the Board of Education.
Deaths and Funerals in Virginia Community
Obituaries record Rudolphus Blankenship 67 of Prater and Roy Lee Osborne 57 of Whitewood among local miners and families. Also listed are William Hagerman 64 of Bartley and William H. Shortridge 58 of Cedar Bluff with funeral plans pending.
Elder Martin Edwards Dies at 70 in Birchleaf Va
Elder Martin Edwards of Birchleaf Virginia died Sunday night at his home after a heart attack. A 23 year member of the Primitive Baptist church, he served as a former moderator of the Washington Baptist Association and held a former leadership role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolphus Blankenship
Prater
Grundy, Va
Buchanan County
Joshua
Louisa Boyd Blankenship
United Mine Workers
Haysi
Pilgrim Home Regular Baptist Church
Vicie Catherine Blankenship
Louisa Raines
Vicie Kathern Blankenship
Monroe
Clarence
David
Charlie Blankenship
Melvin Blankenship
Vansant
Jane Mullins
Breaks
Lena Torris
Pennsville
N. J
Chloe Deel
Sarah Swift
Vineland
Clara Deel
Cincinnati
Ohio
Princey Deel
King Blankenship
Harman
Eker Freelin Yates
Basil Bailey
Andy Deel
John Hess
Deer
Martin Edwards
Birchleaf
The
Primitive
Washington Baptist Association
Obituary notices for Musick Cooper Hilton families in Virginia
Obituaries detail H Clayton Musick of Honaker and Russell County born, WWI veteran, retired farmer and church member. Also obituary for Benjamin Cooper and Connie Shrewsbury Cooper with listed survivors and burial at Martin Cemetery Pembroke. Hilton of Pembroke and Pallet? The report notes services at Pembroke Assembly of God and arrangements at Williams Jamison Funeral Home Pembroke.
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H. Clayton Musick
Finney Road
Honaker
Russell County
Colbert C
Elizabeth Rasnake Musick
New Garden Missionary Baptist Church
Pruner Masonic Lodge
Ollie May Musick
Dorothy Owens
Estel M. Cooper
Alpeca
Windon
Benjamin and
Jane Cook Cooper
Norfolk and Western Railway
Brotherhood of Railroad
Connie Shrewsbury Cooper
Harold Cooper
Dallas
Tex
Zora Cook
Hanover
Sam
Paul
Sonny) Hilton
Pembroke
Narrows
Oakie Merrix
Modene Short
Elizabeth Bradley
Rustburg
Kathleen Shorter
Dayton
Ohio
Ross
Raymond
Donald Hilton
Pembroke Assembly of God
Martin Cemetery
Williams Jamison Funeral Home
Obituary notices and funeral details collected for multiple locals
Multiple death notices list Glenn Bennett 47 of Welch Elmer Preston Harman 85 Tom Blanken ship 80 Mary Elizabeth Warner 47 Virginia Bishop 38 James F Blackburn 76 and others with service times at Roe Chapel Church Roderfield Methodist Church Centenary Methodist Church and Mohegan Church of God. Burial details follow at Blanken ship Mohegan and Jacksonville cemeteries. Funeral homes listed include Douglas Fanning and Frazier Welch.
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Bennett
Glenn
Alien
Welch
Wiley Sizemore
Arthur Sizemore
Howard Sizemore
James Mullins
Douglas Bishop
Donald Green
Harman
Elmer Preston
Warner
Mary Elizabeth
New Castle
Del
Roderfield Methodist Church
Frazier
Kaeger
Bishop
Virginia
Sandston
Centenary Methodist
Richmond
Jacksonville Cemetery
Floyd, Va
Gallimore Named Head Of AP Virginia Bureau
Robert S. Gallimore, AP news editor for the Kansas City bureau for three years, is named to head the Richmond Virginia bureau. He succeeds Thomas F. Pendergast, who becomes Philadelphia chief for AP operations in Pennsylvania. Gallimore, 46, a Wake Forest graduate born in Hong Kong, joined AP in 1950 after Asheville reporting.
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New York
Robert S. Gallimore
Associated Press
Kansas City
Virginia
Richmond
Thomas F. Pendergast
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Gallimore
Hong Kong
China
Wake Forest College
Censorship Rules in Middle East as War Begins
The Associated Press reports censorship in parts of the Middle East with limited news transmission. Cairo bureau notes photos of war scenes and military actions banned unless approved while Israel dispatches remain under censorship though relaxed in recent years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Middle East
Cairo
Israel
West Virginia Forecast Calls for Warm Weekend
Extended forecast shows West Virginia daytime highs in the 80s and overnight lows in the upper 50s to low 60s. Rain showers late in the period are expected to total between a quarter and a half inch.
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West Virginia
Israel and Arab fronts widen as troops move to Jordan
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol urged national resolve and courage as Israel mobilizes troops into Jordan. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan vowed not conquest but to thwart Arab attacks and break blockade rings around Israel, while Damascus radio warned Arabs will press on until Zionists are driven from Arab lands.
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Jordan
Levi Eshkol
Israel
Moshe Dayan
Sinai
Egypt
Dayan
Palestine
Damascus Radio
Headstart program expands in Bland County schools
Bland County School Board hires teachers and aides for three Headstart sections serving about 50 children at Bastian and Bland Elementary. Program runs June 26 to August 8 under Title I with social worker Elise Newberry and assistant Nancy Dalton. Also approved next year aide rehiring and a day care center study for working mothers in Ceres. Fall school opening set for August 28 with prep days starting August 21. James Sink named as the only new teacher so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bland County
Office of Economy
Recce
Bastian
Bland Elementary
Alberta Harman
Bland
Lillias Kidd
Helen Thorn
Joann Tickle
Sharon Havens
Blanche Ferguson
Elise Newberry
Nancy Dalton
Claude Cox
Pauline Thomas
Betty Wyrick
Connie Muncy
Ceres
Mechanicsburg
Rex Y. Morehead
James Sink
Something Of Value Needed If Old Ways Go
Elkins West Virginia April 7 AP Gov Hulett Smith told Davis Elkins College graduates that youths who reject custom must offer something of value to replace it. He defended protest but urged providing constructive alternatives and said the coming generation could be the nation’s most capable. He called achieving lasting peace the greatest human challenge.
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Elkins
Hulett Smith
Davis & Elkins College
Smith
U.S
U.S. claims air battle as Viet Cong execute Montagnard tribesmen
Report cites a May 27 incident in Darlac Province where Viet Cong tied five Montagnard men to trees and killed them after a trial. Navy notes no casualties on Berkeley shelling northern Viet Nam coast. A Phantom jet, piloted by Maj Durward K. Priester and Capt John E. Pakhurst, claimed a MIG in Da Nang area.
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Darlac
Saigon
U. S. Navy
7Th Fleet
Berkeley
Auto Collision Flips On Rt. 20 Injures Mercer County Man
Charles Chandler, 39, of Maple Acres, suffered apparently minor injuries when his car hit a culvert on Rt. 20 five miles south of Princeton. He was treated for lacera tions and released at Bluefield Sanitarium after the 10:45 a.m. accident. The auto traveled two-tenths of a mile before stopping, was demolished, police said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Charles Chandler
Maple Acres
Bluefield Sanitarium
R. M. Hall
U S seeks cease fire as Middle East clashes widen
Washington reports anti American demonstrations in multiple Middle East nations as embassies and consulates are damaged. The White House urges an immediate cease fire while the 6th Fleet and 2000 Marines patrol the Mediterranean and Red Sea as Egypt blocks the Gulf. Officials caution facts remain unclear.
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Middle East
U.S
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Washington
White House
United States
Security Council
Bluefielder Bound On Entering Charge
Archie E. Hale 52 of 308 Douglas St Bluefield was held for the Mercer County Intermediate Court Grand Jury on entering without breaking and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined 10 dollars on an intoxication charge. He was taken into custody Sunday afternoon at the James W. Shupe residence in Princeton and held for the July grand jury session. A petty larceny charge was dropped.
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Archie E. Hale
Douglas St
Bluefield
Mercer County Intermediate Court
Hale
James W. Shupe
Princeton
John P. McKinney
Yards Resident Dies in Suspected Suicide
A 27 year old Yards area resident died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car after a hose was run from the exhaust into the vehicle. Police said there was no foul play. The victim, Jerry Gordon Fry, was found near his home around 10 45 p m Sunday by a neighbor. He worked for Hercules Powder Co in Radford. Funeral by Graham Funeral Chapel Bluefield with burial at Grandview Memory Gardens Bluefield Tazewell Road. Friends may call today afternoon at the funeral home.
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William H. Shortridge
William H
Bill) Shortridge
Edgewater Drive
Cedar Bluff
Richlands
Tazewell County
Harvey
Sarah Burress Shortridge
United Mine Workers of America
Jewell Valley
Richlands Lodge
Oakie Meadow Shortridge
Sally Horton
Donald
Richard Shortridge
Nannie Houchins
Bluefield
Frances Rimmer
Patsy Damron
June Nuckels
Thelma Joyce
Mae O’bryant
Goldvein
John Shortridge
Jewell Ridge
I. C. Shortridge
Raymond Shortridge
Portsmouth
Bobby Shortridge
Flint
Mich
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Yards
Mercer County
Bluefield Sanitarium
Jerry Gordon Fry
John Tryall
Fry
Radford
Hercules Powder Co
Betty Harold Fry
Gordon Elbert Fry
Helen Fry Williams
Wabash
Ind
Jerry Gordon Fry Jr
Jane Fizer
Christiansburg
Joey Fry
Edwin Fry
Portland
Ore
Joe Osbourne
Chilhowie
Bertha Shaffer
Graham Funeral Chapel
Clay Dunnaway
C. H. Patterson
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield - Tazewell Road
Two West Virginia Youths Selected for Science Camp
Gary Kenamond of Wheeling and Thomas G. Larson of Charleston were chosen by the West Virginia Academy of Science to attend the National Youth Science Camp near Green Bank Pocahontas County from June 25 to July 15. Each state sends two delegates to the camp hosted by West Virginia University.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
Green Bank
Pocahontas County
Gary Kenamond
Wheeling
Thomas G. Larson
Charleston
West Virginia Academy of Science
West Virginia University
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Blue Uefield Daily Telegraph
Mercer House
George Gilliam
Cure
Mike Guyime Fon
Sierras
Plateaus
Central Plains
Pat
Mississippi Valley
New England
Florida
Carolinas
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Roy Osborne
Roy Lee Osborne
Whitewood
Buell and
Lottie Rife Osborne
Jewell Ridge Coal Co
Sarah Blackburn Osborne
Elizabeth Osborne
Betty Lou Osborne
Draylen Whitt
Bandy
Carol Sue Osborne
Raven
Harvey G. Tuggle
Harvey Glenn Tuggle
Rt. 2
Swords Creek
John Richard
Eva Dye Tuggle
Maxine Reese Tuggle
Jack D. Tuggle
Raven, Va
Jerry W. Tuggle
John Ray
Garnett Lawson
Quinton Lawson
William E
George B
Charlie H
Luther Tuggle
Maple Gap Church
Johnny Herndon
Grat
Mullins Funeral Home
William D. Hagrman
William Dewey Hagerman
Bartley
English
Hagerman
Mary Kemp
War
William Hagerman
Bradshaw
Luther
Orville Hagerman
Stringtown
Eline Hagerman
Oceana
Moses Hagerman
Aldine Spence
Mary Spence
Clara Spence
Elizabeth Casey
Vine Street
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Estel Cooper
Paul Hilton
Blankenship
Tom
Roe
Roe Chapel
Arthur Lewis
James Ashley
Congress
U.N
Gulf of Aqaba
Gulf
McCloskey
Zakaria Mohieddin
Mahmoud Fawzi
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St.p
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