Anti War Protesters Stage Mock Funeral At Westmoreland Ceremony
About 45 demonstrators from the Committee for Peace in Vietnam staged a mock funeral at Virginia Tech’s War Memorial as Gen. William C. Westmoreland was honored on the upper quad. No incidents occurred and the planned march to Lane Stadium was canceled.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
War Memorial
William C. Westmoreland
Committee For Peace In
Vietnam
Tech
Westmoreland
Tom Saunders
Lane Stadium
State
Montgomery County
Bell's of Bassett Sing at Keystone Tabernacle
The Southern Bell’s of Bassett Virginia will be guest singers at Gospel Tabernacle in Keystone today at 3 p.m. Rev Walter Staples is pastor of the church.
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Southern Bell’s
Bassett
Gospel Tabernacle
Keystone
Walter Staples
Black Lungs in Britain Similar to Appalachian Miners
Pittsburgh AP reports James R. Carvey of Lumuminous Coal Research Inc. states British coal industry officials told a subcommittee the pneumoconiosis rate among British miners last year was 9.5 percent, closely matching the U S Public Health Service 1963-64 survey. They also said the industry could not meet proposed U S coal dust standards.
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Pittsburgh
James R. Carvey
Ltuminous Coal Research Inc
Great Britain
Appalachian
United States
Carvey
Garvey
Public Hielth Service
Bluefield Center Schedules Week of Activities
The Bluefield Community Center releases a June 9 to 13 program list led by executive director Mrs. Panzen R. Jones. Monday features Ministerial Alliance at 11 am and a vesper service at 6 30 pm with guest Emma White.
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Bluefield Community Center
Panzen R. Jones
Matthew Coleman
Ministerial Alliance
Emma White
VPI Graduate McKenzie Earns Civil Engineering Degree
Charles E McKenzie son of Mr and Mrs Frank G McKenzie Bluefield will receive a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Architectural Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg today He joined Tau Sigma Delta and Chi Fpsilon honor fraternities and plans to work as assistant engineer with McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co in St Louis Missouri
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VPI
Charles £. McKenzie
Frank G. McKenzie
Mt. View Ave
Bluefield
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
McKenzie
Tau Sigma Delta
Chi Fpsilon
MacDonnell - Douglas Aircraft Co
St. Louis
Logan County Receives $50,000 Emergency Food Grant
Washington report states the Office of Economic Opportunity awarded Logan County West Virginia a fifty thousand dollar grant to supply emergency food services for about 1550 low income families and to fund nutritional and purchasing training for as many families as feasible.
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Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Logan County
West Virginia
Parrot Diversity Across Sizes Spanning Continents
A report notes about 315 parrot species with size range from a 34 inch pigmy parrot in the South Pacific to a 40 inch Amazon parrot in South America.
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South Pacific
Amazon
South America
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