Mercer County jury awards Bailey couple in auto crash case
A Mercer County Court jury awarded Herself Bailey 2999.20 for hospital expenses and Ruth Ann Bailey 25000 for injuries after a Route 12 collision with Russell Lamb. The suit sought 50000 with Lamb counterclaim for 10700. A divorce decree was issued in Ann Ashley v Carl E Ashley.
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Mercer County
Bailey
Ruth Ann Bailey
Russell Lamb
Lamb
West Virginia
Delano E. Altizer
Leo Catsonis
Edsel B. Yost
Bluefield
W. Robert Carr
West Virginia University College of Law
James H. Cokeman
Welch
Robert E Holroyd
Ira M
Ann Ashley
Carl E. Ashley
State Folk Festival Slated At Glenville
The 13th annual West Virginia State Folk Festival will be held in Glenville Thursday June 21 through Sunday June 24. Since 1950 the festival draws thousands and aims to showcase pioneer culture with folklore exhibits dances music drama and stories aided by Glenville State faculty students local merchants and civic groups.
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West Virginia
Glenville
Glenville State
Spock Classic Passes 10 Million in 1961 Sales
By October 1961 Dr. Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care had surpassed 10 million copies in sales, ranking as a top non fiction title after the Bible.
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Benjamin Spock
Deeds Recorded In Clerk’s Office In Prince ton County
Deeds filed show transfers in Beaver Pond Rock district and Edge mont Princeton areas with prices from 500 to 19 000 dollars. Names include Wolfe Comerose Rose Croy Stewart Levern Tudor and others.Executors appraisers and administrators named for Snead League estates. Marriage license filing by Ralston and Keesee.
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G. L. Wolfe
Constance Wolfe
Ronald T. Jones
Beaver Pond
Old Princeton - Bluefield Road
Freddie A
Thelma Comerose
Luther M. Davis
Rock District
C. L
Rosalie Rose
Irene
R. L. Croy, Jr
Lla
James Stewart
Robert and
Leger Edna Lawson
Edgemont
Princeton
James F
Ira J. Williams
William E
Margaret Ann Levern
Courthouse
Arthur J
Eunice L. Perkins
Posey R
Athleen C. Tudor
Parkway
Bluefield
Annie E. Stewart
Ruby Stewart Carlton
Pansy Stewart Baumgardner
Ruby Stewart
Charles
Carlton
Cumberland Road
Rebecca Beckner
Lula Lee Beckner
Ziegenfuss
Roundhouse
Edna F. Snead
L. Fred Snead
E. E. Bailey
Ernest D Lilly
W. W. Myers
John P. McCabe
W. W. Helck
J. B. League
Hortense L. McNair
John Neville Ralston
Beckley
Catherine Carol Keesee
State to advertise bids on all state car purchases
Charleston AP reports State Finance Commissioner Truman Gore says all automobile purchases for government agencies will be advertised for bids even when a single vehicle is involved. An Attorney General opinion prompted the change to ensure newspaper bid notices for cars over the usual threshold.
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Charleston
Truman E. Gore
Attorney General’s Office
Gore
Concord College Opens Registration for Summer Term
Concord College will begin registration for the first five week summer term at 8 a.m. Monday June 11. Dean Lockwood said schedules and the registration order are available at the registrar’s office. A second five week term starts July 16 with courses across art biology education general science health and physical education home economics languages literature library science music social science and business.
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Concord College
Dean Lockwood
Lockwood
Authority On Aged To Attend Over 80 Meet
Richwood West Virginia AP Sen Jennnings Randolph says the U S Senate special committee on aging will be represented by staff director William G Reidy at the over 80 outing at the Richwood Armory this Saturday The observer is a public health specialist and aging problems researcher
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Richwood
W. Va
U.S. Senate
Special Committee On
Jennings Randolph
Dw.va
William G. Reidy
Richwood Armory
Reidy
Randolph
High Payment Offered to Hemingway for 1960 Bullfighting Article
Sports Illustrated offered Ernest Hemingway a record payment of 30000 dollars for a 2000 word bullfighting feature in January 1960, equating to fifteen dollars per word.
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Ernest Hemingway
Sports Illustrated
Concord College to Open Summer Lab School in Athens
Concord College announces a summer laboratory school at Athens Elementary School starting Monday June 11 at 9 30 am EST. Grades 1 4 pupils and legal school age children may enroll in a nongraded program with about 120 students. Staff includes Riccardo Martin principal Kathryn McKinney supervisor and local instructors.
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Concord College
Athens
Riccardo Martin
Cathree Husn
Louise Lipps
Roberta Parker
Kathryn McKinney
Mercer
Largest World’s Largest Book Weighs Quarter-Ton For Exposition
A massive book published by Norman Remington Co of Baltimore in 1925 for the Southern Industries Exposition sits on display. Weighing about 500 pounds, it measures six feet ten inches thick with a nine foot two inch spread, and is bound in the hide of a single Texas ox, driven by a twelve horsepower motor to turn the pages.
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Norman Remington Co
Baltimore
Band Parents Push Uniform Fund Drive at Princeton
The Princeton High School and Princeton Junior High School bands seek funds to buy new uniforms. The Parents Association leads a magazine subscription sale house to house, with O. J. Bailes as president and a sales committee appealing for support. The drive funds attire for performances and parades.
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Princeton High School
Princeton
Parents Association
J. Bailes
Declaration sealed in helium enclosure after 1924
A historical note states that the Declaration of Independence was sealed in a helium filled enclosure sometime after 1924. The tidbit emphasizes preservation context and a unique containment method used for the artifact.
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Frankfort
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New York City
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Nat. Adv
Wash and Wear
Coats
Hanes
Adam
Shop Lee’s
Castle Hill
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Eve
Juliet Jones
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