Basket Bums Seek Arena at Bluefield City Park
The Basket Bums a WHIS TV and radio team in Bluefield win city support for a regulation sized basketball court at City Park. City officials led by Mayor Henry Warden and Director Angelo Monaco discuss cost estimates and future fund raising events to complete the project. They invite civic clubs to donate park features with donor plaques.
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Whis-Tv
Radio
Bluefield
City of
City Park
Bluefield Board of Directors
Angelo Monaco
Henry Warden
Monaco
Randolph G. Whittle
Retirement honors Norfolk and Western clerk Robert Waters
Robert Waters retires after 41 years as rate and cashier clerk at the Norfolk and Western freight station in Bluefield. He recalls a signed photo from Senator Hugh Ike Shott and praises longtime colleagues and friends, planning a quieter life in Elliston, Virginia with plans to visit Bluefield often.
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Robert T
Bob) Waters
N&w
Bob
Josephine Cox
J. N
Robert
Norfolk and Western
Hugh
Jim
Ned
Carolina
OTL
WIL Uit LV VY
Waters
Elliston
New Bern
N. C
Norfolk and Southern
Atlantic Coast Line
Bluefield
C. C. Jenkins
S. N. Worley
J. W. Bruch
C. E. Hammer
L. L. Callahan
Bob Waters
Bluefield Blue Grays
Eckman
McDowell County
Robert T. Waters
Gilbert Stanley Waters
Margaret Mae Waters
State Museum
Raleigh
Almeda Kelly
Almeda Turman
Norfolk, Va
Stanley
Roanoke
Salem
John
V. E. Power Company
Virginia Beach
Swiss Processor Readies Grant County Plant Plans
Oquaga Foods of Zurich Switzerland is near finalizing a Grant County plant location for a 7 million dollar facility. The deal covers 3 000 acres with 1 000 more options, aiming to employ about 1 600 next year and 4 000 by 1969. Cheese chocolate and poultry would be made there with some output sent to Switzerland for global distribution.
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Charleston
Grant County
Oquaga Food Products
Zurich
Switzerland
Mount Storm
State Commerce Department
Oquaga
Crime drop in Bluefield shows 68 fewer incidents this year
Police Chief William J. Winters reports 68 fewer crimes through May 1964 than the first five months of 1963. Fifty-one cases solved, with others under investigation, and declines in burglaries, thefts, and vehicle crimes drive the overall drop amid steady violent offenses.
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Bluefield
William J. Winters
West Virginia Road Deaths Rise This Year
The State Police at Charleston report 191 people have been killed on West Virginia highways year to date, up from 158 at the same date last year.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Old King Edward's School Birmingham Opens in 1552
The historic King Edward's School in Birmingham is noted as opening in the year 1552. The historic reference marks its founding era during the Tudor period in England.
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Birmingham
England
Tuscaloosa Street Demonstration Erupts Into Violent Clash
Hundreds of protesters defied a ban on street marches in Tuscaloosa and clashed with police at the First African Baptist Church. Officers used fire hoses and tear gas to restore order after teenagers hurled bottles rocks and chairs injuring several officers and sending 33 demonstrators to hospital for tear gas exposure. The Rev. T Y Rogers led the protest.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
T. Y. Rogers
Rogers
Citizens For Action Committee
First African Baptist
Marable
Nigeria to begin sailing freighters to U.S. ports
Green hulled freighters of Nigeria's national shipping line will begin sailing into U.S. ports. Chief Kola Balogun, chairman of the government owned firm, announced the plan.
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Lagos
Nigeria
U.S
Kola Balogun
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Central Pharmacy
Corner Federal and Commerce Bluefield
R. Waters
Gareges
Southern Gas & Oil, Inc
J. K. Porterfield
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Associated Press
Maoweousny Ward
Wards Expert Repair Service
Wards Service Department
Service Department
Raleigh St
William Marable
Lastex & Knit
Jamaica
Mer
Beach Towel
Wash ’N Wear Dacron
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