Breaks of Cumberland Highway Dedication Draws Regional Delegations
Dignitaries from Virginia Kentucky and West Virginia join a public ceremony at Grundy to open a 500000 highway linking Kentucky route 80 with Virginia high way 80. Bluefield participants include H Edward Steele Scott Lytton L W Bates J Hudson Huffard and J P Gills with Henry Fortune performing musically. About 10000 people and governors from both states are expected. The Breaks gorge spans 1600 feet deep and 2500 feet wide near the Kentucky Virginia border, improving year round access to the region. Kentucky Virginia and local projects cost roughly 204000 and 220000 respectively plus additional surface roads to the Breaks picnic area.
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Grundy
Cumberland
Virginia
East Kentucky
Virinia
West Virginia
Dodd Mortenson
Henry Fortune
Bluefield
Kentucky
Big Sandy River
Dickenson County
Pike County
State Line
Pikeville
Cumberland Mountains
Columbus
Mississippi River
Abington
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Canyon Of The East Dedication Plans Unfold In Gorge
Governors Wetherby of Kentucky and Battle of Virginia will attend a dedication in the Breaks gorge with U S Senator Clements and officials from state chambers of commerce highway and conservation departments and the National Parks association. Civic groups have urged an interstate or national park for years and sponsoring associations operate in both states. An official tour of the new Virginia highway 80 section will occur Monday under the Kentucky Virginia highway association. a Kentucky tour was held last October.
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Lawrence Wetherby
Kentucky
John S. Battle
Virginia
U. S
Earle C. Clements
Close Timing Will Prevent Traffic Fine
Ashad Yaghlegian narrowly avoided a ticket after a collision at a Pasadena intersection when a patrolman noted he was minutes behind his usual schedule. He said he drives the same route every morning and passes the warning light, unaware the signal switched to red. Officer Corrigan did not assign blame.
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Pasadena
Calif
Ashad Yaghlegian
Yachlegian
James F. Corrigan
Yaghlegian
Corrigan
New Game Warden In Area Tazewell Virginia
Ted Ward of Buchanan County with headquarters in Tazewell is appointed to the county game warden staff. Ward notes 32 May dog law arraignments with 30 convictions and $277 in fines plus $127 costs, plus six fishing law violations fined $52.50 with $27.50 costs. A dog raid killed 30 sheep on Beartown range. two mongrels were executed. Ward reports more Bob White symphonies heard and growing beaver activity on Cove and Indian creeks while young squirrels flourish.
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Tazewell
Ted Ward
Buchanan County
Alex Meek
William Harris
Beartown
Little Creek
Burkes Garden
Wilson
Bob White
Singapore Harbor Lacks Fire-Fighters
Singapore, a major port, has no fire boat and shows little chance of acquiring one. Fire Chief J G Shaw calls the absence alarming due to millions in daily shipping, but a study committee rejected a fire fighting service as not cost effective. Northern lights are reported 60 miles above Earth's surface.
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Singapore
J. G. Shaw
Tazewell Farm Gains Cited by Official
In Tazewell County six hundred farms have agreed to adopt conservation practices under the 1951 program. George R. Hudson Jr., secretary of the county committee, credits soil richness and increased production to these efforts, including liming, fertilizers, permanent pastures, and contouring crops. He warns against conservation lag as production aims rise postwar.
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Tazewell
George R. Hudson, Jr
Production and Marketing Administration Committee
Tazewell County
Department of Agriculture
Hudson
Convict Surrenders After Prison Break in Bland County
John Castigan, 30, one of four escapees from the Bland county convict camp at Shawvers Mill, surrendered to merchant O. C. Gregory two days after the break. Sheriff R. Rowan Thompson said Gregory hoped to learn of a break‑in on his Shawvers Mill store, Castigan denied involvement and asked to be returned to the camp while the other three escapees remained at large.
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Bland County
Rocky Gap
Author
Shawvers Mill
John Castigan
O. C. Gregory
Shawvers
Tazewell
R. Rowan Thompson
Gregory
Castigan
W. M
Squirrel Causes Two Officers Headache in Illinois
Two Illinois state policemen Wesley Jones and Robert Schrader chased a wild squirrel near Okanville. The rodent darted into the air intake of their patrol car and a two hour struggle ensued to remove the wedged animal.
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Centralia
Ill
Illinois
Wesley Jones
Robert Schrader
Okanville
Special singing on East Cumberland Road invitations
Beginning June 10 on East Cumberland Road half a mile east of Grassy Branch cut off a non denominational church led by Rev Roy Lacy Evangelist holds special singing at 7 30 each evening inviting everyone to attend.
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East Cumberland Road
Grassy Branch
Roy Lacy
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Tazewell Farm
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Kresge’s
Federal Street
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Scott & Raleigh Sts
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