Progress On Access Road Surveys For New Thayer Plant
West Virginia and Virginia highway engineers advance surveys for the access road to Bluefield’s Thayer plant. WV crews near U S 52 expect to finish by mid month. VA surveying continues with route details to support industrial growth. Contracts planned this fall with VA possibly advancing sooner.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
W. VA
Fuiday
Thayer
West Virginia
Virginia
West
Princeton
Carl Long
Thayer Baby Furniture
S. D. May
Chamber of Commerce
Eddie Steele
Ada
Oakvale
Ingleside
Green Tree
Green Valley
U. S. 52
Bramwell
Weather in Virginia and West Virginia Regional Forecast
Mostly sunny Virginia with some clouds and highs 75 to 80 on the coast and 80 to 85 inland Friday Then generally fair Saturday with cooler interiors West Virginia stays warm with scattered showers or thundershowers Friday afternoon highs 76 to 84 Saturday fair and cooler Temperatures reported for Washington for the 24 hours ending 7 p m by the Weather Bureau.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Accidents Treated At Grace Hospital Welch
Several patients were treated at Grace Hospital in Welch yesterday after accidents. Dee Rogers 45 Elbert a U S Steel Corp Gary No 6 mine worker injured when a rock struck his left foot causing a fracture. Ray Mills 11 Twin Branch suffered severe knee lacerations from a swimming accident. Calvin Sparks 5 Jolo stepped on a dirty can causing severe lacerations to his left foot. John R Hagerman Jolo Is ands Creek Coal No 6 Bartley injured when a motor ran over his foot classed as a severe sprain. All injuries treated and patients discharged.
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Grace Hospital
Welch
Dee Rogers
John R. Hagerman
Jolo
Isands Creek
Swim Pool Officers Plan St Paul Season
Myles Pool Incorporated officers met in St Paul to finalize summer operations. Jimmy Cooper named lifeguard and Mrs Virginia Counts to oversee concession operations. Hours are 1 PM to 6 PM daily with a free day for students on Saturdays. Admission 20 cents for students and 35 cents for adults. Season tickets 6 dollars for schoolchildren and 3 dollars for adults. Private parties incur a ten dollar minimum plus 35 cents per person if larger. Pool opens Monday at regular time.
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ST. Paul
Myles Pool Incorporated
Leroy Hilton Jr
Jimmy Cooper
Virginia Counts
Virginia Gasoline Tax Collections Rise in April
The Division of Motor Vehicles reported April gasoline tax receipts at 5,855,404 dollars, up 105,398 from a year earlier. For January through April, collections totaled 224,349,574 dollars, an increase of 1,765,862 versus the same period in 1955.
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Richmond
Division of Motor Vehicles
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area
Obituaries report funeral services in Boissevain Bluefield and nearby towns for Joseph E Wainwright Harvey Lee Worley Robert Duke Gibson Sr Roy Lee Compton and Rev I H Hayes. Interments follow at Woodlawn Excelsior and Bluewell cemeteries with multiple survivors and pallbearers listed.
Obituaries and interment notices from Bluefield and Peterstown
Obituaries list Homer H. Neely 55 Pine stem died today with interment at Ellison Cemetery. Frank Williams 57 Bluefield died today with service at Peterstown chapel and burial at Peterstown Cemetery. Mrs S H Preston 35 to day at 2 pm from Tazetrell Presbyterian Church with Maple Wood Cemetery burial. Mrs T J Peck 84 Bluefield died today with Covington Cemetery interment. Thomas M Bryson 85 Bluefield 11 30 am Saturday at Scott Street Baptist Church with Luster Grove Cemetery burial Greensboro. Robert B Moore 74 near (incomplete entry).
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Neely
Homer H
Pinestem
Ellison Cemetery
Williams
Frank
Bluefield
Peterstown
Preston
S. H. Sr
Tazetrell Presbyterian Church
Maple Wood Cemetery
Peck
T. J
Covington
Bryson
Thomas M
Scott Street Baptist Church
Luster Grove
Greensboro
N. C
Caretta Miner Killed In Wreck
Jasper Scott, 56, of Caretta, died after an Olga Coal Company No. 2 mine wreck near Welch. He was a brakeman, jumped from a moving counter after the crash, suffering chest injuries and a fractured pelvis. Autopsy may be considered. arrangements by Page Funeral Home. Survivors include his mother, a brother and several sisters.
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Jasper Scott
Caretta
Grace Hospital
Welch
Olga Coal Company
Scott
Page Funeral Home
Two Dickenson County Polio Cases Reported
Virginia reports its eighth polio case for the year. A 7-year-old boy in Dickenson County is stricken with paralytic polio and another Dickenson County infant, 18 months old, was reported yesterday to have paralysis from polio. Neither child received Salk vaccine though eligible.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Health Department
Dickenson County
Mason Romaine
Department
Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
Gibson Robert D Sr 70 interment and service details
Robert D Gibson Sr 70 of Bluewell will lie in state at 2 30 p m today at King Chapel Ivanhoe Interment follows at IOOF Cemetery in Ivanhoe at 2 p m Saturday at Bluewell Methodist Church with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery Domestic obituary notes memorial arrangements and locations details unspecified
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Robert Duke Gibson Sr
Maybear
Bluewell Methodist Church
Bowling
Barbery
Davy
Woodlawn
Carroll County
Gibson
Everett Horton
Detroit
Michigan
Robert Jr
Mayberry
W. Va
Steve
Largo
Fla
Harve
Mary Robinson
Terry Gibson
Beckley
Fries
King Chapel
Ivanhoe
Ioof
Ivane
Robert D. Sr
AEP May Build Smith Mountain Dam in Virginia
AEP official Harold Turner told a House subcommittee that the company will decide soon whether to pursue building the Smith Mountain dam on the Roanoke River near Altavista Virginia. He said the project could start within a year or two and opposed a $50 000 Army survey. Governor Stanley urged private development and tax benefits, noting federal power plants in Virginia should be limited unless needed by power shortages.
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Washington
Congress
Smith Mountain
Virginia
Harold E. Turner
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Roanoke
House Public Works
Turner
Army
Roanoke River
Altavista
Stanley
Davis
Glenn B. Updike
Danville
Four Virginia Artists Receive Fellowships 1956 57 Honors
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts awarded fellowships for 1956 57 to Sara Primm Turner of Richmond Ambrose of Hampton and Kuhn Caldwell of Radford. Turner receives 1920 dollars while Ambrose and Caldwell each receive 730 dollars. The program is funded by an anonymous museum benefactor.
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Richmond
Virginia Museum of Fine
Virginia Museu of Fine Arts
Sara-Primm Turner
Ww. Horn
Ate Ambrose
Hampton
Kuhn Caldwell
Radford
Turner
National Guard Name Honors Lafayette Garde Nationale Chief
The National Guard, once called militia, adopted its current name to honor the French Garde Nationale leader Lafayette, reflecting a tribute tied to his authority and influence.
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The
National Guard
Militia
Lafayette
French Garden Nationale
You And Your Heart Self-Diagnosis Almost Impossible
Dr. T. Tuckett Jones explains rheumatic fever many signs mimic other illnesses and there is no single test. Diagnosis relies on physician experience, physical findings, labs, and careful observation, as parents struggle with fear and demand quick judgments.
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T. Tuckett Jones
M.D
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
American Council On Rheumatic Fever
The
American Heart Assa
Jean-Baptiste Bouillard
Tommy
Mary
Betty
Raspberry show and auction to be held by South Bluefield club
South Bluefield Kiwanis club plans a raspberry show and auction on June 28 at the Pinnacle Restaurant. Seven 4-H boys will exhibit four quarts each, with ribbons and prize money for winners. Judging takes place in the afternoon, followed by the dinner meeting and prize awards. Open to the public. The agricultural and conservation committee leads the event.
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South Bluefield Kiwanis Club
R. E. Harbert
Pinnacle
Agricultural and Conservation Committee
Club
Business Firms Cut 5th District Bank Loans
Banks in the 5th District reduced total loans to commercial and industrial borrowers by 4.4 million in the week ended May 30. Net repayments lowered loans to 823.778 million, with total loans at 1.784226 billion after reserves and interbank deductions. The district covers Virginia North and South Carolina West Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Reserve Bank
Virginia
North and
South Carolina
West Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
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Bud) Compton
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