25 Years After Normandy D-Day Observances Held
In Ouistreham France veterans from the Normandy landings gather fifty five thousand Allied troops returning to honor fallen comrades and greet leaders including Omar Bradley Lord Lovat and Gen Sir Richard Gale. Memorials in Saint Lo honor Maj Thomas Howie while tributes touch Gen Miles Dempsey and Field Marshal Montgomery. D day ceremonies continue through Saturday French National Day at Saint Lo and wrap Sunday morning.
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Ouistreham
France
Normandy
Omar Bradley
U.S
Lord Lovat
Sir Richard Gale
Bradley
Thomas D. Howie
Saint-Lo
Howie
Berkshire
London
Miles Dempsey
Lord Montgomery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
England
4Th Infantry Division
United States
Rangers
101St Airborne
82Nd Airborne and
National Guard Association
Roanoke and Blacksburg Veterans Return to Omaha Beach
Roanoke officers Lawrence E. Meeks and J D Sink and Blacksburg resident Bernard L. Parsons revisited Omaha Beach on the 25th anniversary of D Day. They served with the 216th infantry combat team part of the 116th and 29th Division. The unit suffered 800 casualties as GIs moved toward Vierville SurMer.
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Roanoke
Blacksburg
Omaha Beach
Normandy
Europe
Lawrence E. Meeks
J.D. Sink
Bernard L. Parsons
Parsons
216Th Infantry Combat Team
Bedford
Vierville-Surmer
116Th
Abingdon Town Manager Resigns for Blacksburg Post
Willam R. Cook resigns as Abingdon town manager after 11 years to become town manager in Blacksburg. A 1958 Virginia Tech graduate, Cook, aged 32, will begin his new duties August 1.
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Abingdon
Willam R. Cook
Blacksburg
Cook
Virginia Tech
Burglars Steal Safe From Island Creek Coal Store
Burglars ripped a hole in the corrugated steel wall of Island Creek Coal Co. No 27 store in Holden West Virginia and removed a safe containing nearly $10 000 Thursday night state police said The torch used by the thieves was described in the report.
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Holden
W. Va
Island Creek Coal Co
Local Elections Watch Opens for Additional Candidates
Decision page continuation lists five council seats and candidate names by district. District One includes John Duffy Victor DeVault Robert Moore. District Two Mayog or Clyde Stephens Edwin Elliott Robert Thornhill. District Three Leland Carter G W Gills. District Four Lewis Cook Paul Myles. District Five Henry Webb Philip Jefferson Allan Connolly J Spencer Thompson.
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John Duffy
Victor DeVault
Robert Moore
Mayogor Clyde Stephens
Edwin Elliott
Robert Thornhill
Leland Carter
G. W. Gills
Lewis Cook
Paul Myles
Henry Webb
Philip Jefferson
Allan Connolly
J. Spencer Thompson
Night hawk perched along branch in lengthwise orientation
The item notes a night hawk sitting lengthwise on a branch unlike other birds that perch crosswise. TheBluefield Daily Telegraph provides the standard paper details, including publication info and rates, without additional context on the observation.
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield and area
Walter S. Trent 77 of 1020 Albemarle St Bluefield dies after brief illness. Retired Norfolk and Western Railway worker and member of First Church of God and International Association of Machinists. Wife Mildred. daughter Ruth Marie Leedy. siblings and grandchildren listed. Services 2:30 pm Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel Bluefield. burial Roselawn Princeton. Other obituaries include Oscar C. Wolfe 94 Fort Lauderdale formerly of Bluefield. Mrs George E Huff Sr 61 Peterstown. Elbert Finney Musick 78 Cleveland Va retired teacher. infant Harold Mullins. John Willie Jones Jr. Marvin D. Messick 70 Swords Creek. Funeral details and survivors given for each.
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Walter S. Trent
Albemarle St
Bluefield
Independence
Stark Trent
Norfolk and Western Railway
First Church of God In
International Association of Mechanists
Mildred Childress Trent
Ruth Marie Leedy
Nashville
Tenn
Kyle Trent
Fries, Va
Roscoe Trent
Scott Trent
Marion
Cabell Trent
Knoxville Tenn
June Trent
Galax
Grace Kook
Pensacola
Fla
Ronnie Creed
Dell Crigger
Edna Phipps
Hawkins Funeral Home
H. Clay Dunaway
Roselawn
Princeton
Walter Cochran
Jake Graham
Kyle Shelton
Arthur Carroll
Willard Carroll
A. R. McIntosh
Floyd and
Corthula Tartar Wolfe
Christian Church
Falls Mills
Odd Fellows Lodge No. 22
Boissevain
Roy A. Wolfe
Fort Lauderdale
Ollie P. Smith
B. P. Earnest
Tazewell
John Wolfe
Bluewell
Gene Wolfe
Coalwood
Walter Wolfe
Oak Hill
Eldridge Wolfe
Kentucky
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
John Bowles
Maple Hill
Odd Fellows
George E. Huff
George E. Huff Sr
Peterstown
Webb
Stanley
Polly Vanhouse Chaffins
Squire
Gus Chaffins
Ballard
Stella Pertee
Wilkerson
Broyles Funeral Chapel
Charles C. Jack
W. T. Robins
James Belcher
Homer Chandler
Melvin King
Helbert Christina
Helbert Christina. Ladies of the Baptist Church
Elbert Finney Musick
Cleveland
Lebanon
Russell County
Weaver's Creek
Alexandria
Cleo M. Kier
Ruth W. Musick
Jean M. la Londe
St. Louis
Weaver's Creek Baptist Church
Music Family Cemetery
Lebanon Funeral Home
John
Indiana Davis Bridgeman
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
First Christian Church
AM No. 160
Lillian Wood Bridgeman
Mercer Funeral Home
Glen Weaver
Monte Vista Park
Swords Creek
W. F
Maggie Steele Messick
Carpenter's Union No. 314
Roanoke
G. F
Mae) Vandyke
A. D. Messick
Hurst - Scott Funeral Home
Richlands
Funeral Rites Held In Virginia And Bluefield
Cathleen Marie Cook 45 of Vansant Va died today. Services at Ratliff Chapel Tookr lands with Rev. Ratliff and Rev. Greenleaf officiating. Burial Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery Rich lands. Morris Lena formerly of Bluefield services at Hawkins Funeral Home Bluefield with Rev. Nunn Jr. officiating Vista Park Cemetery Bluefield. Annie Lucinda Miller 80 of Spanishburg service Mercer Funeral Chapel Bluefield with Rev. Stephens and Rev. Spinnella. Burial Woodlawn Cemetery Bluewell. Pallbearers listed.
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Little Church
Ft. Lincoln Cemetery
Colmar Manor
Church
Fanning Funeral Home
Saeger
Riverdale
Cook
Cathleen Marie
Vansant
Ratliff
Tookrlands
Percy Ratliff
Clarence Greenleaf
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Richlands
Grundy
Morris
Lena
Bluefield
Hawkins Funeral Home
Charles B. Nunn Jr
Monte Vista Park
Senate Group Bucks Proposal
A Senate appropriations subcommittee backed a plan to cut the 192.9 billion government spending ceiling set by the House by 5 billion. The Mundt Byrd proposal would exempt Vietnam War spending and uncontrolled civilian outlays from the 187.9 billion ceiling, removing open ended programs like interest on the debt Social Security Medicare and similar trust funds.
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Washington
Senate
House
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.c
Robert C. Byrd
DW. Va
Budget Bureau
Man Killed In Fire Near Webster Springs
William Esker Cutlip, 51, of near Webster Springs was killed when his house along West Virginia 20 burned to the ground Thursday, according to firemen.
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Webster Springs
W. Va
William Esker Cutlip
Near Here
Freeman To Get New Post Office Building
Postmaster William Blount announces competitive bids to build and lease a new Post Office at Freeman. The lease covers five years with options for fifteen, 768 square feet, and site must be in the principal business district. Bids due June 20. documents from Thomas Mathis, Logan 25601.
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William Blount
Post Office Department
Freeman
Blount
Thomas Mathis
P. D
Logan
Virginia Colleges Seek More Than 18 Million for Capital Projects
Norfolk AP report: Old Dominion College asks for 8.49 million for capital outlay in 1970-72, boosting the previous request by 2.6 million. President Webb calls the school an urban university in development. Major items include 1.6 million for a women’s physical education building and 1.6 million for a physics building.
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Norfolk
Virginia
Mills E. Godwin Jr
Old Dominion College
Lewis W. Webb Jr
CDC
Bus Companies Seek Increases Across West Virginia Fares
Four bus firms Southern Greyhound Lines Eastern Greyhound Lines Virginia Stage Lines (Trailways) and Reynolds Transportation Co ask for 10 percent fare hikes across board at Public Service Commission hearings in Charleston West Virginia No protests were filed and hearings concluded for Southern Greyhound Eastern Greyhound and Reynolds with Virginia Stage Lines told to provide more information and its case kept open for possible further session.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
Southern Greyhound Lines
Eastern Greyhound Lines
Virginia Stage Lines
Trailways
Reynolds Transportation Co
PSC
Willard Brown
Southern Greyhound
Eastern Greyhound
Reynold
Elks Convene Region 2 Workshop in Huntington
The National Council of Ac tive Exalted Rulers of the Improved Benevolent And Protective Order of Elks of The World will meet in Huntington on June 7 and 8 for Region No. 2 workshop. Hon. Sherman Roberts of Harton, Va. will be guest speaker.
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National Council of Active Exalted Rulers
Improved, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World
Huntington
Sherman Roberts
Harpton
Midway Summit Seen As Most Crucial Of The Year
In Saigon officials view the Nixon Thieu Midway meeting as the year’s pivotal diplomatic event. Thieu seeks assurances on quick de Americanization and a possible coalition question, while Nixon pushes for rapid troop withdrawals and electoral flexibility amid Paris talks.
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Midway Summit
Saigon
Midway
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
Lyndon B. Johnson
Paris
Thieu
South Vietnam
United States
Sympa
DAV Elects New Officers at Princeton Unit 31 Meeting
Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary Princeton Unit 31 installed officers in the Princeton Memorial Building led by Commander Lillian Basset and Senior Vice Commander Gladys Fisher. New members Milla Johnson Cathleen Sexton and Cornice Harnesy initiated. Secret sisters named. next meeting set for July 1.
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Princeton
Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary
Princeton Memorial
Lillian Basset
Gladys Fisher
Mae Maxey
Cathleen Sexton
Nancy Radford
Georgia Bailey
June Driner
Katie Bowling
Beulah Smith
Milla Johnson
Cornice Harnesy
Secret Sisters
Coal Miners With Black Lung Sought Higher Benefits
West Virginia lawmakers passed a law for workers disabled by pneumoconiosis also known as black lung and the UMW proposes amendments. The union seeks a broader presumption clause a longer lookback period and expanded medical and civil remedy provisions while debate over x ray diagnosis and evidence continues.
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Moore
Charleston
Boyle
West Virginia
UMW
Moonshine Still Stirs Folklife Festival Demonstrations
The Festival of American Folklife on the Mall will feature a North Carolina corn liquor still as part of its corn culture exhibit. Treasury officials authorized the display for educational value despite undercover moonshine history. Willard Watson of Deep Gap will demonstrate the apparatus near Boone.
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Washington
Washington Mall
North Carolina
Smithsonian Institution
Capitol
Washington Monument
Pennsylvania
Treasury Department
Willard Watson
Wildcat Road
Deep Gap
Boone, N.C
Rev K D Owens to Speak at First AME Zion Bluefield
The Rev K D Owens of Prince will be guest speaker at First AME Zion Church on Pu laski Street Bluefield Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. The Senior Choir will sing for the services.
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K. D. Owens
AME
Prince
AME Zion
Pulaski St
Bluefield
Motorist Awarded 4500 in Bluefield Trial
James T. Bradley won a $4,500 judgment in U S District Court Bluefield before Judge Sidney L. Christie for damages to his car. Defendant Joseph F. Newlin testified his vehicle skidded on a rain slick road near the Blue-Prince Shopping Center and crashed into Bradley’s car on July 7 1967 along U S 460.
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James T. Bradley
U.S. District Court
Bluefield
Sidney L. Christie
Christie
Joseph F. Newlin
Blue-Prince
Bradley
Park Central High to hold 43rd Baccalaureate Sunday
The 43rd Park Central High School Baccalaureate Service is set for Sunday morning June 8 1969 at 9 am in the High School Auditorium. Rev. Fred W Willinger will deliver the sermon and the Park Central High School Choir directed by Mrs. Olivia H Cannady will provide music. Honor students include Valedictorian James William Saunders and Salutatorian Carolyn Ruth Akins with other graduates listed.
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Park Central High School
Fred W. Willinger
John Stewart Methodist United Church
Olivia H. Cannady
James William Saunders
Carolyn Ruth Akins
Salutatorium
Thomasyne Lewis
Clara Lewis
Cavin Johnson
Rhonda Holley
Macie Lugo
Frederick Lewis
Brenda West
Gayle Watkins
John Coleman
Brenda Smith
Sylvia Alexander
Andela Anderson
Anthony Joseph Anderson
William Ernest Baumgardner
Rudolph Valentina Bell
Thomasine Delois Bennett
Arthur Brown, Jr
Terry Calvin Buchanan
Roy Hillman Crawford
Danny Jimmy Carper
Bobby Louis Cook
Juanita Cunningham
Shelby Jordan Carey
Ronald Lee Dodson
Robert Lonnie English
Robert Eugene Eddridge
Larry Levon Ferguson
Mary Ruth Gardner
Lilly Bell Hood
Preston Coleman Hurt
Donna Marie Harvey
John Marie Hairston
James Payton Hanley
Doris Regina Hayes
George Flynn Johnson
Jefferson Charles Jordan
Annette Marie Johnson
Robert Murray
Jacob Edward King
Robert Leonard Morton
Talmadge Meadows
Deborah Louise Martin
Auetelia Murray
Alfred Peavy, Jr
Dwight St. Clair Penn
Mercer sale of lots 6 7 Sec 2 Mercer St Princeton WV
Mayo Bailey Quesenberry as Committee for Cora Glass will sell at public auction June 28 1969 at 10 00 A M at the front door of the Mercer County Courthouse Princeton WV the parcels Lot 6 and 7 Section 2 Mercer Street and an unimproved Lot 54 by 75 South Street Princeton to the highest bidder subject to liens and court confirmation with estimated values of 20000 for the improved parcels and 2000 for the unimproved lot.
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Circuit Court
Mercer County
West Virginia
Maye Bailey Quienberry
Cora Glass
Mayo Bailey Quesenberry
Corn Glass
Princeton
Mercer Street
South Street
Mae Bailey Quesenberry
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
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Associated Press
Wanker Audit Bureau of Circuit
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Oscar C. Wolfe
Fort Lauderdale, Fla
William J. Early
Lenzo Early
Ohio
James Hicks
Jimmy Early
Pearl Mae Smith
Rt. 2
Cedar Bluff
Frank Smith
Betsy Casey
Washington County
Patsy Spicer
Willie DeWeese
Asheville
N. C
Mary Pilcher
Wrens
Nadine Casey
Ankara
Turkey
Kelly Smith
Naomi Estep
Annetta Tolbert
Saltville
Hurst - Scott Funeral Chapel
Clarence McCall
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Edward Bridgeman
Edward Wilkins Bridgeman
Bluefield Ave
Norris Davis
North Springs
Wyoming County
Mann
Hanover
Alex
Harriet Godfrey Davis
Pearl Cline Davis
Roy Davis
Hyattville
Ralph Davis
Iris Luna
Obella Runyon
Roberta Mosedale
Velma Luff
Littletown
John M. Bowles
Pembroke
Pearisburg
John Bowles Jr
Rocky Hill
S. C
R. A. Bowles
Blackstock
W. C. Bowles
Winston - Salem
Perry L. Bowles
Shawsville
R. M. Bowles
William R
Williams - Jamison Funeral Chapel
Ronald Clark
Birchlawn Burial Park
Pearlsburg
Harold Mullins
Harold Todd Mullins
James
Victoria Mullins
Pikeville
Fort Knox
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Big Rock
Baker Funeral Home
John Willie Jones JR
John Willie Jones
Worth
McDowell County
Beckley
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Keystone
Marvin D. Messick
Budget Board
Elks Set
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U. S. 460
I. C. C. McGuire
Co. C. McGuire
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