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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1968
Page
5
Daily Telegraph reporter Jeff Van asks four Bluefield and Montcalm residents if the U.S. should pass a gun sale restriction bill. All four interviewees support restrictions, citing safety, the Kennedy assassination, and reducing crime by keeping guns from hoodlums and fanatics.
Hundreds gather at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis Port for a public requiem Mass for Robert F. Kennedy. Attendees include Ann Gagan, Joseph P. Kennedy’s niece, and Kennedy family staff, as flags fly at half staff and local stores close in the Cape Cod town.
Slaughter lamb receipts jumped 75 percent week over week across Southwest Virginia area markets. Prime lambs sold from 28.10 to 29.50, choice 27 to 28, good 23.75 to 26, with slaughter ewes at 48.50. Veal prices slipped 25 cents to 1 dollar as receipts fell. top veal 34 to 35.50, heavy 32 to 35.50, good 30 to 30.75, and stand 28 to 0.75. Hog prices rose 25 cents. top barrows 18 to 18.95, heavy butchers 16.75 to 18.30, sows 12.50 to 15.50. Slaughter cattle receipts increased. heifers 1.75 to 1.50 lower, cows steady to 25 cents higher, bulls 0.50 lower to 0.25 higher, with good slaughter heifers 19.50 to 22, standard 17 to 19.75, utility cows 15 to 20.25, canners 12 to 18, utility bulls 20 to 23, cutters 19 to 22. Prices compiled from Bristol, Tazewell, Wytheville, and Abingdon livestock sales.
Elliece Saundle Smith formerly of Bluefield earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Virginia Union University commencement on June 2 in Richmond. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J Saundle of 330 North Mercer Street Bluefield.
St Louis report shows noncaloric sweetener use in soft drinks poised to double by 1970 from 1965 levels. Projected total consumption reaches 21 million pounds of cyclamate and 4 trillion pounds of saccharin.
The stock market reached new highs on several indexes while the Fed raised margin requirements to 60 percent for stock purchases on credit and for convertible bonds. Dow rose 15.88 to 914.88 as trading volume broke records and weekly activity led to temporary market pauses.
A group from Mill Creek Baptist Church of Coopers will present special singing Sunday at 7 30 p m at First Church of God on Lor ton Lick Road Montcalm Rev Bobby W Blevins is pastor
In Clarksburg a mysterious illness forced the closure of a fire department substation when 22 firemen reported sick after a Local 89 official criticized wages. Fire Chief Hayward Burnside confirmed the absence as the union demands a pay hike, amid broader labor friction following a city council agreement with a state workers union on another strike.
Experiments in Idaho show plastic bags filled with water used as mulch improve vegetable yields by about 20 percent. The bags regulate soil temperature, absorb midday sun heat, and reduce heat loss at night.
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