Bluefield Business Notes Highlight Local Projects and People
Bluefield’s business review details the Bluefield Plaza excavation ending by Vecellio and Grogan, Corte Construction completing Grant store steel work and ready to start Kroger and Super X sites, plus local figures like Carol Shockey and Jimmy Custard noted. It also mentions nurse job prospects for Bluefield State graduates and bids on Ingersoll-Rand Roanoke plant.
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Bluefield Plaza
Cumberland Rd
Boyd Adams
N. C
Vecellio and
Grogan
Big Beckley Road
Corte Construction
Grant
Kroger
Super X
Bluefield firms plan upgrades and family gathering
Bluefield Casket Co. undergoes a facelift while Bluefield Retread adds a $15 000 shop at its Bland Street plant. G Johnston, retired plumber, his wife Jane and their four sons and daughter gather for the first time since 1940.
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Bluefield Casket Co
Bluefield Retread
Bland St
G. Johnston
Jane 2
Mrs Ammar Buys College Ave Home From Tyler Easley
Mrs K A Ammar widow of a local merchant prince purchases the College Avenue residence of Tyler Easley Bluefield Coal Co official. Easley moves across the street into the inherited family home after his mother’s death and completes renovations.
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K. A. Ammar
College Ave
Tyler Easley
Bluefield Coal Co
Easley
Saltville store closing ends long Olin Mathieson chapter
Olin Mathieson is closing the company store at Saltville after many years. The Bluefield Lions netted $625 in a Raleigh Street auction. The Fincastle Country Club hosts a member guest golf tourney on August 10 and 11 with Bluefield Club following a week later.
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Olin Mathieson
Saltville
Bluefield Lions
Raleigh St. Fincastle Country Clubs
Bluefield Club
Bramwell Namesake to Attend July Street Fair
The town heralds the return of William M. Bramwell Jr a Yale and Harvard graduate and ITT lawyer for Bramwell s big street fair in July. Dodd Mortensen edits the Millionaire bulletin and moved here in 1966 while General Telephone will rate Bland Street Methodist Church and services shift to Bluefield College chapel until the Bland Road church opens in September.
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Bramwell Kiwanians
Dodd Mortensen
Bramwell
General Telephone
Bland St. Methodist Church
Bluefield College
Bland Road
William M. Bramwell, Jr
Herbert Bramwell
International Telephone & Telegraph
Yale
Harvard
Gettysburg Expects Four Million Visitors in 1968
Gettysburg plans to host about 4,000,000 visitors in 1968, per the American Automobile Association, about 500 times its normal population of under 8,000. The town’s population during the Civil War battle was around 2,000.
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Gettysburg
American Automobile Association
Bluefield Club to visit Gettysburg for AAA Safety Patrol Caravan
The Bluefield Automobile Club will escort more than 200 safety and bus patrol members to Gettysburg National Military Park on June 14 and 15. They will tour Little Round Top Devil's Den High Water Mark Eternal Peace Light Memorial and the Historical Wax Museum with a fully guided itinerary.
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Bluefield Automobile Club
AAA
Gettysburg National Military Park
Little Round Top
Devil’s den
High Water Mark
Eternal Peace Light Memorial
Students to base hub near Gettysburg landmarks
Area students will establish a hub in motor lodges within 100 yards of the Gettysburg Address site where Lincoln spoke and about 300 yards from the ground where Pickett led his doomed charge. The proximity ties the project to historic Civil War landmarks and battlefield terrain.
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Lincoln
George Pickett
Mt Vernon Visit by Safety Patrols Annotates June Trip
Mt Vernon in Virginia will host an entourage of area safety patrols on June 15 as part of their annual sightseeing excursion. The site, a private national shrine, is operated by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union. The organization was established in 1853 by Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham of South Carolina.
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Washington
Potomac
Mt. Vernon
Mount Vernon
Sunday Brunch Goes Public in New York
The once at home breakfast lunch combo becomes a public trend in New York as restaurants hotels and coffeehouses promote Sunday Brunch driven by the citys young active mod scene per the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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New York
Treasureland opens near Busch Gardens in Tampa
A new attraction called Treasureland debuts across from Busch Gardens in Tampa. It features an authentic feel and a large pirate ship replica that visitors enter on a gangplank.
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Tampa
Busch Gardens
Plant Water Need Measured by Leaf Pin Technique
At the University of California Davis a new electronic method measures when plants need water. A tiny pin floats on a leaf surface to track thickness changes as cells gain or lose water, recording results on a graph. Irrigation expert D W Henderson notes soil moisture alone is not always a reliable indicator.
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Davis
Calif
University of California
D. W. Henderson
Department of Water Science and Engineering
Money Talk at Flat Top National Bank
A brief note from Bluefield West Virginia highlights a financial update at Gross Royce Vice-President, Flat Top National Bank detailing monetary matters and regional banking activity.
Quotes and Quips on Money From Many Voices
A collage of money sayings from figures like P T Barnum and Finley Peter Dunne. The piece threads humor caution and wit on budgets, spending, inflation, and the perpetual pursuit of wealth, ending with a promotion to save at Flat Top National Bank.
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P. T. Barnum
Frank McKinny Hubbard
Finley Peter Dunne
W. C. Fields
Franklin P. Adams
Best Wishes To Newly-Weds From Community Savings
June brings wedding season and a local savings and loan promotes home ownership for new couples. The Community Savings and Loan Company invites newlyweds to discuss buying a home and financing options, highlighting mortgage loans and FHA Title I improvement loans with low closing costs. Located at the corner of Raleigh and Bland Street, they promise reliable service.
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Community Savings and Loan Company
Raleigh
Bland Street
Barber Delivers Stock Market News in Omaha
In Omaha barber Herman Herr on the 14th floor offers stock market news to customers. When patrons ask, porter Sam Powers steps to a hall window and views a brokerage display two doors away, where market changes are posted on a window card.
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Omaha
Neb
Herman Herr
Sam Powers
Milky Way Poem An Advertisement From Clover Dew
June born days and summer rites frame a Clover Dew promo poem urging readers to celebrate the month of weddings and warm weather with its Clover Dew milk product. It blends literary quotes and sentimental notes to sell the brand.
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James Russell Lowell
York Heat Pump Delivers All‑Electric Home Comfort
Advertises York all electric heat pump from Bluefield Hardware Co offering heating and cooling from one unit with outside air and electricity. Highlights no fuel lines or furnaces, no soot, year round filtered air, and a range of York models. Encourages contacting Bluefield Hardware Co for details.
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York
Bluefield Hardware Co
20 000 Jobs Sought From Businesses
Nearly 300 volunteers from the Junior Association of Commerce and Industry canvass 6 000 small businesses for summer youth jobs. They work for Mayor Daley's Summer Jobs for Youth Committee aiming to place 20 000 jobs this year.
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Chicago
Junior Association of Commerce and Industry
Richard Daley
Bailey Lumber promotes Hallmark shingles by Certain Teed
Bailey Lumber Company touts Hallmark 390 pound shingles offering rugged texture and fire resistant features with random batten lines. Available in bronzed brown pewter gray or golden tan, the product promises lower cost than slate or wood. Showrooms in Bluefield Mullens Matoaka War Taeger Gilbert and Virginia locations invite estimates and financing options.
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Hallmark
Kenneth Webb
Bailey Lumber Company
Teed
Bailey Lumber Co
Bluefield
Mullens
Matoaka
War, Taeger and
Gilbert
West Virginia
Wytheville
Grundy and Richlands
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H. Edward Steele
Carl Dunn
Midway
Carol Shockey
Appalachian Power
V.P.I
Jimmy Custard
Waynesboro
Concord
W. R
Pete) Cooke
Princeton
Bluefield Country Club
University Club
Grady Carper
Bluefield State
Bluefield Sanitarium
The
Bill Greenspon
Abe Schlossberg
Sid Kwass
Sam Slifkin
Review
North St. Suddath
Bill Owen
Bailey Lumber
Fla
Rufus Cooper
Frederick
S. W
Uncle Jack) Bowman
Paul Thomas
Happy Valley Farm
Donald Sanders
Double Gates
Roanoke
Corte Construction Co
Ingersoll - Rand
Honor DR. Gilley
J. Wade Gilley
Wytheville Community College
U. S
University of Calif
Los Angeles
West Virginian Hotel
Dick Frantz
Montgomery
Edward S. Johnson
Lynchburg
Nita Allen
C. Stanley Taylor
Charlottesville
Glenn Scott
Jerry Furbee
Huntington
Odland Spangler
Summersville
Bluefield News
Bluefield, Virginia College Ave
Bluefield, W. Va
Raleigh St
Tazewell, Virginia
English, W. Va
Richlands, Virginia
Welch, W. Va
Princeton, W. Va
Easley Home
Bramwell News Sheet
Thornhill
Tinning & Plumbing Co
Bluefield Ave
Community Savings & Loan
Raleigh St. Bluefield
W.va
Pocahontas Welding
N Ace News
Caravan
Treasureland
Flat Top National Bank
Seite J . 1
Appalachian
Blue Cross
Commercial Bank Blog
W. Va
Barber
Kersey
Div. of “Automatic” Sprinkler Corporation
P. O
Virginia
Platnick Brothers
Virginias
Clover Dew
Edna Masters
Kansas
F.D.I.C
General Insurance
Lucite Paints
Bluefield Supply Company
DU Pont
BLC
A. W. Cox
W. Vo
Travel Services
Cruises and Tours
Bluefield Auto Club
Commerce ST
Piuericu) Gas Co
West Virginia Water Company
Philce
ABA Aiierst
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