Cities in West Virginia eligible for federal contracts aid
The Eisenhower Administration listed Charleston Huntington Wheeling Beckley Bluefield Clarksburg Fairmont Logan Morgantown Point Pleasant Welch and Ronceverte White Sulphur Springs as high unemployment areas to receive priority for federal contracts and plants. Labor Dept said bi monthly reports will identify persistently high unemployment areas nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Eisenhower
Washington
Charleston
Huntington
Wheeling
Beckley
Bluefield
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Logan
Morgantown
Point Pleasant
Welch
Ronceverte
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Employment Security
Congress
Injunction Restraining Pilots From Refusing Eastern Flights
A federal court in Miami issued an injunction restraining pilots from refusing to fly Eastern Air Lines jets with FAA inspectors aboard. The order sets a hearing for 10:30 am June 13. Several pilots and an engineer boarded a DC-8 for New York with an FAA inspector in the pilot seat, triggered by a pilot walkout. Passengers were rebooked onto other planes as other flights continued. Other carriers report similar pilot protections extending to June 15 with inspectors in cockpits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Federal District Court
Eastern Air Lines
Federal Aviation Agency
Joseph P. Lieb
EAL
New York
FAA
American
Transworld
American Air Lines
Women Stranded as Bus Driver Abandons Chartered Tour
Twenty one members of Hardy County Farm Women's Club from West Virginia were left stranded at a Kamp Washington service station in Fairfax County after their bus driver disappeared en route to Washington. The driver claimed to return soon, but three hours passed as the group awaited a replacement bus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairipax
West Virginia
Washington
Hardy County Farm Women's Club
Kamp Washington
Fairfax County
Raymond Shapie
Lynn Bean
Leesburg
Tysons Corner
Judge Upholds Junk Yard Law In West Virginia
Kanawha County Circuit Court on Tuesday upheld the 1969 West Virginia junk yard law as constitutional with a caveat. Judge Frank Taylor certified the ruling to the State Supreme Court for review due to the legislation’s importance. The case involved Oak Hill Wrecking operated by W. C. Farley and enforces yard setback rules near roads and requires fencing. The judge found the act constitutional but left open the issue of applying a 100 foot setback to Farley’s yard on U.S. 21 pending factual hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
New “Junk Yard
Kanawha County
Frank '. Taylor
State Supreme Court
W. C. Farley
Oak Hill Wrecking
U.S. 21
Sun
Glen Jean
Oak Hill
Patrick C. Graney
Taylor
Farley
Local Area Students Take Degrees at Berea College
Seventy three Bluefield area graduates joined 173 total recipients at Berea College in Berea Kentucky on June 5. Harry Randolph Kidd Jr. Janet Eller Gomez Rebecca Ann Harman Julia Deloris Hale and Bill J Carroll were among those honored with bachelor degrees across nursing public school music home economics and business administration. Kidd earned a Duke Divinity School scholarship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Area
Berea College
Berea
Harry Randolph Kidd Jr
H. R. Kidds Sr
Janet Eller Gomez
Robert Ellers
Bramwell
Rebecca Ann Harman
Roy Harmans
Princeton
Julia Deloris Hale
Jessee
Hale
Shelby Gap
Bill J. Carroll
Millard Carroll
Biggs
Gomez
Bramwell High School
Miss Harman
Princeton High School
Kidd
Beaver High School
Duke Divinity School
Durham
N. C
Berea Wesley Foundation
Miss Hale
Dorton High School
Dorton
Carroll
Feds Creek High School
Feds Creek, Ky
Travel Clinic Sets Two Day State Event in Elkins
Elkins hosts a two day State Travel Clinic themed Selling West Virginia to boost tourism. About 200 attendees are expected, organized by the Elkins Chamber of Commerce the state Department of Education and the Upper Monongahela Valley Association. Gov. Underwood will speak at the Thursday banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkins (Ap
West Virginia
Elkins Chamber of Commerce
State Department of Education
Monongahela Valley
West Virginia and Virginia Enjoy Continued Fine Weather
West Virginia reports continued sunny dry conditions into Thursday with afternoon temperatures in the 60s. Virginia likewise forecasts continued sunny dry weather through Thursday with afternoon temperatures in the 70s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Virginia
Slate Fall Kills Mercer Miner
Levi King 53, a 33 year Crozier Coal worker, died in a slate fall at the Wenonah mine in Dott Mercer County. He was crushed while performing maintenance at 1 p.m. He leaves a wife, three sons and three daughters, with funeral arrangements handled by Bailey Funeral Home of Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Levi King
Kegley
Wenonah
Crozier Coal and Land Co
Dott
King
United Mine Workers of America
Matoaka Christian Church
Harvey
Lottie Mills King
Bessie Meadows King
Paul, Delnis
Larry King
Ruth Cahill
Bluefield
Emily Neel
Janice Myers
Baltimore
Rosa Kinzer
Pearl King
Allen, Ky
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Minister Ordained At Bozoo Service
George Chandler of Bozoo was ordained as minister evangelist by the Bozo Christian Church on June 5. The Rev. Maurice Hylton led the charge with elders John Reed Eurastus Keatley Kellis McClaugherty Emmett Skaggs and Eugene McClaugherty assisting. A two week revival was announced for June 13-25 with Evangelist Don Forrester of Forest Park Georgia preaching nightly at 7 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Chandler
Bozoo
Bozo Christian Church
Maurice Hylton
John Reed
Eurastus Keatley
Kellis McClaugherty
Emmett Skaggs
Eugene McClaugherty
Hylton
Don Forrester
Forest Park
Thai King and Queen to Visit Portugal in August
The Thai king and queen will undertake a state visit to Lisbon from August 22 to 25, invited to mark the fifth centenary of Prince Henry the Navigator who spurred Portuguese exploration to Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Thailand
Portugal
Henry the Navigator
Asia
New 4-H Camp Opening Set
Tazewell County 4-H members and others from 14 Southwest Virginia counties will attend the new Southwest Virginia 4H Center near Abingdon. Junior camp runs June 20 25 and senior camp July 11 16 with classes in electricity forestry entomology and more and evening programs including talent acts and dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tazewell County
Southwest Virginia
Abingdon
W. R Cassell
Palmer Snead Lead 410 Open Entries at St Andrews
Arnold Palmer master champion and Sam Snead top the 410 entries for the 100th British Open at St Andrews after Canada Cup play in Dublin. Snead, a 3 time Masters champion, may chase the US Open before the Open. Gary Player returns to defend, with Bobby Locke and Peter Thomson among four-time Open winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Andrews
Scotland
Arnold Palmer
Sam Snead
Dublin
Ireland
Palmer
Snead
New York
Englewooi
Colo
Gary Player
South Africa
Muirfield
Bobby Locke
Peter Thomson
Australia
Lellobrigida Becomes Canadian Immigrant
Gina Lellobrigida lands at Malton airport in Toronto with husband Milko Skofic and son Milko Jr arriving from New York aboard a Trans-Canada Viscount. She says she may seek Canadian citizenship while Skofic remains stateless. The Italian government notes his possible Italian citizenship by restoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Gina Lellobrigida
Malton Airport
Milko Skofic
Milko Jr
New York
Lollobrigida
Jarrett to be Democratic nominee for Mercer judge in November
Incumbent Walter V. Ross did not contest the Democrat race for Mercer criminal court judge. Recount shows Howard M. Jarrett leading 7,567 to 7,493. Motion to throw out two Bluefield precincts denied. Ross had ten days to appeal. deadline passed. Republican candidate absent. GOP may fill vacancy by 45 day rule, or county chair adds a candidate in three days. Jarrett, 43, Bluefield native, WVU alumnus, law degree holder. former U S district attorney assistant, U S commissioner, and Mercer county deputy prosecutor. former Bluefield College Alumni president and Red Cross leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter V. Ross
Mercer Criminal Court
Bluefield
Howard M. Jarrett
Ross
Jarrett
Republican Party
Mercer Gop
Bluefield College Alumni Association
A. B. Jarrett
Preston Street
Life sentence for 1958 robbery slaying in North Carolina
Clarence Pugh was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1958 robbery slaying of Charles C. Nodine in Lee County North Carolina. An all male jury convicted him of first degree murder with a mercy recommendation after a week-long trial during which he argued with his court appointed attorneys and had to be quieted by officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanford
N. C
Clarence Pugh
Pugh
Valdese
Charles C. Nodine
Nodine
Chatham County
Lee County
Superior Court
W. H. S. Burgwyn
Ray Byerly
Clawson Williams Jr
Supreme Court
Cigarettes Stolen From Bowman's Grocery
Bowman's Grocery on Farmer Avenue in Bluefield was robbed Monday night. The owner William R. Bowman reported the break in as cigarettes worth $30 were taken after entry was gained by breaking a front door glass. Police investigated the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowman
Farmer Avenue
Bluefield
William R. Bowman
Oceana elects new mayor and town recorder
In Northfork continued results show town recorder elected mayor of Oceana with 24 votes. Jim Roberts did not seek re election. Defeated mayoral candidates were D C Cook 166 Woodrow Wilson Cook 56 and A G Lugar Jr 4. Town recorder J C Hurst won 369 to 123 over Vaughan Cozart. Fourteen candidates ran for council with five elected: Oscar Morgan Hassell Blackburn Oscar Goode Frank Laxton Jr Ernest Conley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oceana
Jim Roberts
D. C. Cook
Woodrow Wilson Cook
A. G. Lugar Jr
J. C. Hurst
Vaughan Cozart
Oscar Morgan
Hassell Blackburn
Oscar Goode
Frank Laxton Jr
Ernest Conley
Charlie Chambers
T. H. Johnson
H. C. Miller
Dr. E. G. Shannon
Lawrence Clouse
Robert King
Ray Neal
H. E,ake
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area
Multiple obituaries from Boissevain to Clintwood list the deaths of Dorothy Ellen Wainwright Faye Tabor Blanche Saunders Belle Taylor and other residents. Services are planned at Methodist churches and local chapels with various ministers and pallbearers. burials at Woodlawn and Bryant Cemeteries.
N W Brakeman Seeks High Court Review of Injury Suit
Carl Still petitioned the Supreme Court to review a Mercer County Circuit Court order directing a verdict for Norfolk & Western Railway in his damages case. Still alleges a January 23 1958 injury as a brakeman in Bluefield yards when riding an empty coal car struck by a train, causing permanent injuries and claiming the court barred evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Supreme Court
Mercer County
Norfolk & Western Railway
Carl Still
High Court
Bluefield
Still
Past District Head Speaks To Kiwanis Club Meeting
Fred Edwards former district lieutenant governor of Kiwanis International spoke at the Green Valley Glenwood Kiwanis Club meeting at 6 30 p m in the Caffee Building Green Valley He discussed Kiwanis Education E C Echard of Staunton Va was guest and visiting Kiwanians included E Mead McNeil Princeton Athens Kiwanis Club and Clyde Grubb Graham Kiwanis Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Edwards
Kiwanis International
Green Valley-Glenwood Kiwanis Club
Caffee
Green Valley
Edwards
E. C. Echard
Staunton
E. Mead MecNeil
Princeton-Athens Kiwanis Club
Clyde Grubb
Graham Kiwanis Club
Funeral announced for Charlie Fleet Raines in Rock Camp
Funeral services for Charlie Fleet Raines of Rock Camp are set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Rock Camp Baptist Church with Rev. C F Surface and Rev. R H Crawford officiating. Burial will follow in Ellison Cemetery with Lindside IOOF members in charge of the committal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faye Tabor
Nemours
Midway Methodist Church
W. R. Grimm Jr
Roy Mathena
Monte Vista Park
WSCS
Estel H. Tabor
G. M. Perdue
Yards
W. P. Sarver
R. F. Compton
T. A. Warden
Guy Tickle
Cecil Mullin
Jess Belcher
W. Cundiff
Russell Patrick
H. C. Hambrick
George Anderson
Otis Duncan
Wagner Funeral Home
Bluefield
Blanche Vesta Saunders
Pocahontas
Eugene Saunders
Hattie Wilkins
Wolfe
Davy Moore
Gary
Nellie Brown
Jeanette Purcell
Sallie Purcell
Reba Bender
Martha Thompson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Community Methodist Church
C. W. Tiffany
Bryant Cemetery
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Raines
Charlie Fleet
Rock Camp
Rock Camp Baptist Church
C. F. Surface
R. H. Crawford
Ellison Cemetery
The
Lindside Ioof
First Rights Suit Targets Bienville Parish Voting
Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers filed the first civil rights act voting referee suit in Shreveport Louisiana. The case accuses Bienville Parish registrar Pauline Culpepper and Arcadia and Gibsland White Citizens Council members of racial discrimination by challenging registrations of 560 of 595 Black voters in 1957 while only 45 of more than 5,000 white voters were challenged. The suit seeks a voting referees appointment and restoration of the 560 Black voters to Bienville rolls, plus an injunction against further invalid challenges and counter affidavit refusals by Culpepper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
William P. Rogers
Shreveport
Bienville Parish
Pauline A. Culpepper
Bienville
Citizens Councils
Culpepper
Court weighs nullifying ballots in Traubert primary race
West Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments from State Sen. Herbert Traubert's counsel on nullifying 28 percent of Hancock County ballots cast in the May 10 primary with William Tompos. Traubert seeks to discard ballots marked as samples, which would crown him winner of the Democratic nomination for the 1st Senatorial District, covering Brooke, Hancock and Ohio Counties. The ballots in dispute come from Precincts 13, 14 and 15 in New Cumberland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
State Supreme Court
Herbert Traubert
Hancock County
William Tompos
Abraham Pinsky
Follansbee
Traubert
West Virginia
Senate
Brooke
Hancock
Ohio
New Cumberland
Welch Student Wins AFL-CIO Scholarship
Welch West Virginia AP reports 1960 Welch High School graduate Travis Ashby Meredith won a four year AFL CIO college scholarship in a nationwide contest. Meredith received the certificate from Miles C Stanley president of the West Virginia Labor Federation. The award allows Meredith to attend the college or university of his choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WELCH
W. Va
Afl-C1o
Travis Ashby
Meredith
Miles C. Stanley
West Virginia Labor Federation
Mrs Annie Woods Travels After Sisters Death
Mrs Annie E Woods of Alien Street travels to Patterson New York on account of the death of her sister Mrs Estella Hogan of 203 Pearl Street Patterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie E. Woods
Alien Street
Patterson, N. Y
Estella Hogan
Pearl St
Patterson
E T Pastors Appointed for 1961 Conference
The 1960 East Tennessee Methodist session named new pastor appointments led by Bishop Elgar A Love of Baltimore. The 1961 session will meet at John Stewart Methodist Church Bluefield with district superintendents listing many assigned pastors across multiple churches including Bristol Knoxville Morristown Newport and Wytheville among others and special mission roles announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Tennessee
Log Tenn
Elgar A. Love
Baltimore
John Stewart Methodist Church
Bluefield
W. L. E. Cole
Amonate— Faraday
E. 0. Cole
Beckley
J. W. Lawrence
W. Va
A. Davis
Caretta
Canebrake
L. T
Kung
E. Black
Coalwood
R. J. Stewart
Freeman
H. H. Tiffany
Gary
W. C. Howard
Jaeger
Davy
Bristol
A. D. Williams
Draper — Johnson Chapel
J. L. Johnson
Elizabethton
Mt. City
F. J. Lynch
Glade Spring
New Hope
L. W. Coffey
Greeneville
F. D. Johnson
Independence
Elk Creek
Oak Grove
W. T. Frazier
Johnson City
Josiah White
Kingsport
M. F. Cox
Marion
E. L Slaughter
Morristown
Maurice
Hurst
Stanley
M. J. Jones
Wiley
D. W. Williams
Cleveland
C. A. Bowles
Clinton — Byington
E. F. Cochran
Dayton Spring City
Arthur McReynolds
Big Spring
Georgetown Ooltewah
Tyner
C. B. Jenkins
Gap Mills Man Dies In Wreck
A West Virginia man, Paul Raymond Foster, about 66, of Gap Mills, died in a car crash on State Rt. 311, about 17 miles west of Covington near the West Virginia line. The late model sport car overturned, killing Foster and injuring Cleland Allison, 47, of White Sulphur Springs, who was treated and released. Police have not identified the driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Virginia
Paul Raymond Foster
Gap Mills
W. Va
Monroe County
Covington
West Virginia Line
Cleland Allison
White Salshur Springs
Gap Site
McDowell Educator Named to State Probation Board
Gov. Underwood appoints 27 year old John S. Callebs of English, McDowell County, to the three member State Board of Probation and Parole. Callebs has taught at Waynesburg College and pursued a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, replacing Robert L. Galvin through June 30, 1965. He is a Republican joining Chairman John Lane and Democrat J. Alexander Creasy on the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Underwood
State Board of Probation and Parole
John S. Callebs
McDowell County
Callebs
Uniontown
Waynesburg College
University of Pittsburgh
Robert L. Galvin
Wich
Galvin
John Lane Republican
J. Alexander Creasy
Welch
West University
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Associated Press
Gan Francisce
Great Plains
Dakotas
Texas
UPI Telephoto
Travel Clinic
Albany
Anchorage
Atlanta
Bismarck
Buffalo
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fort Worth
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Memphis
Milwaukee
St. Paul
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Richmond
St. Louis
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tampa
Winnipeg
Mercer
Lellobrigida
Gunman
Northfork
Dorothy Wainwright
Dorothy Ellen Wainwright
Boissevain
St Lukes Hospital
Max Thompson
Ted Cook
Woodlawn Cemetery
Charlie Hedrick
George Hodock
Walter Harman
Marvin Butt
George Hardy
L. E. Joyce
Everett Wyatt
Olie Little
H. H. Ballard
Upshur Higginbotham
Charles Scott
C. A. Dennen
E. H. Tabor
Mrs
Blanche Saunders
Belle Taylor
Belle Elizabeth Taylor
E. L. Taylor
Crystal
Cravens
Montcalm
L. D. Mattox
Bluefield Hardware
Third Street
Bluefield Sanitarium
Hawkins Funeral Home
C. L. Fitzgerald
Car Lyle Fitzgerald
Frank Fitzgerald
Veterans Administration Hospital
Fitzgerald
Sidney B
Dick Jane Fitzgerald
Timber Ridge
Thelma Fitzgerald
Carl L. Fitzgerald Jr
Hartford
N.Y
Michael
Sheila
Barbara
Kathy Fitzgerald
Ada Lucas
Adolphus Fitzgerald
Loving Funeral Chapel
North Maple Ave
Roy Ramey
Clinchco
Geneva Ramey
Mabel Phillips
Dante
Jimmy Ramey
New Jersey
Clarence Ramey
Montana
Durward Ramey
Missouri
Cecil Ramey
Tazewell
Clintwood-Colley Funeral Home
N&w
E-T
McDowell
Board of Probation
Parole
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