Mrs. Lizzie Audis celebrates 100th birthday in Cedar Springs
Mrs. Lizzie Audis, honored on her 100th birthday, hosted 21 family members at a multi-room celebration near Asbury Church. Guests traveled from Bristol Tennessee Alexandria Virginia Somerset Kentucky Rural Retreat and North Tazewell while Mrs Audis wore a white orchid corsage and enjoyed iced tea and cake.
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M. E. Myers
Lizzie Audis
George Audis
Asbury Church
John
Omaha
Nebraska
Bristol
Tenn
Alexandria
Somerset
North Tazewell
Audis
Maurice Neel Fisher
Bluefield
George E. Fisher
M. N. Fisher
Mark West
Cedar Springs
Abingdon Methodist Church
Frances Booker
E. W. Hall
Garnet Steel Hilton
Glen Reed Hilton
Glen P. Delp
Susie Hilton
John Roe
H. P. Phillipps
Hattie Fisher
John Repass
Roy Bledsoe
Roy
Socialist Party Renominates Hoopes Friedman for 1952
The Socialist Party renominates Darling ton Hoopes of Reading Pennsylvania for president and Samuel Friedman of New York City for vice president. Delegates decided not to spend money or effort to qualify on state ballots and will focus on criticizing major parties while offering Socialist alternatives. The platform denounces Eisenhower foreign policy and urges liberal foreign aid and full minority integration. Hoopes previously received 20,189 votes in 1948.
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Darlington Hoopes
Reading
Samuel H. Friedman
New York City
Eisenhower
Hoopes
Wytheville Selective Service Office Closed
Wytheville Selective Service Board No. 128 on Main Street will be closed all day Tuesday and tomorrow while the clerk is on vacation. The office will reopen at regular hours Wednesday morning.
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Wytheville
Selective Service Board No
Main Street
New Pastor For Princeton Church
The West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church concluded its 18th annual meeting with ministerial assignments for the new church year read by Bishop Lloyd Wicke. Reassignments list ministers to be serving in Beckley Bluefield Charleston Lewisburg Princeton and other districts with several remaining at their current churches for another year.
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Buckhannon
West Virginia
The
Methodist Church
Lloyd C. Wicke
Pittsburgh
Nl Il Gstriet
Panalae
Bey
Wayne Feeds
Bluefield
L. H. Buckhannon
T. M. Nan
Beckley Ansted S&s. Paul's
Albert van Reenan, Jr
Brushton Mahone Chapel
Rexford Workman
East Beckley
L. L. Beckett
Payetteville
Albert Noe
Glen Daniel
Thomas Bradford
Herndon
H. W. Gillespie
Hilltop
O. H Huffman
Itmann Cassell
Don Goll
Jeffrey
W. R. Turner
Lone Branch
J W .Hanlon
Madison
John Hager
Maplewood
Dodrill
Powellton
Charles Daniels
Sophia
Bill D. Brown
Stephenson
G. D. Walker
Sylvester
William Cox
Winona
Harold Jones
Anawalt
Eugene Dick
Vandalia
J. D. Sergent
Coal Fork
L. R. Mason
Pairview
Oma Lanham
Massey
Edra Shinn
Mr. Salem
Albert Morrison
Robinson
James Rupert
Trinity
Marvin G. Frame
Confederate Group to Meet in Wytheville Today
The Fansie Walker Miller Children of the Confederacy will meet Monday June 11 with Miss Mary Soyars in Wytheville Virginia. Mrs E A Carlisle will award essay prizes from Wythe Grey Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy. Members urged to attend to plan the convention scheduled for June 28 and 29 in Bedford Virginia.
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Wytheville
Fannie Walker Miller
Mary Soyars
E. A. Carlise
Wythe Grey
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Bedford
Omaha Public Library Offers Free Week For Overdue Returns
The Omaha Public Library will waive fines for overdue books during a special week. Assistant director Frank Gibson said late returns, whether one week or ten years overdue, will cost nothing and no questions will be asked. We’ll just be glad to get the books back. We’re not mad at anybody.
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Omaha, Neb
Omaha
Norfolk and Portsmouth
Princess Anne
Commission
Klepper
Curry Carter
Staunton
Localities Considered for Expanded Virginia Tax Powers
Virginia lawmakers weigh giving counties and towns more tax authority including local excise taxes on utilities theater admissions and hotel occupancy. Hearings across Staunton Roanoke Bristol Norfolk and Richmond reflect mixed opinion, with emphasis on sales taxes and local revenue needs.
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Richmond
J. D. Hagood
State Tax Study Commission
Halifax County
Virginia
Raisie Caa
Hagood
Staunton
Roanoke
Bristol
Norfolk
Officials Divided On Single Military Arm
Washington officials split over unifying the Army Navy and Air Force into one defense arm. Secretary Brucker opposed merging while Admiral Burke warned the idea requires careful study. Deputy Secretary Robertson noted gains in eliminating waste but cautioned on morale and tradition.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
Navy
Air Force
Brucker
Reuben Robertson Jr
Defense
Thomas Ker
The
Joint Chiefs of Staffs
Vaccination Open To Wytheville Youths Through 19 Years
Wythe Health Department announced Salk Vaccine available for all residents up to age 19. Doses to be given by family physician or at the Health Office on First Street every Wednesday. A second note mentions 1,500 saber-tooth tiger skulls recovered from the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles.
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Ythurville
Wythe Health Department
Ted
First Street
la Brea
Los Angeles
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
W. VA
Horace Bennington
Harvey Jones
Mary Kathryn Kelso
A. Ballard Roe
Charleston
John Wesley White Jr
Martha Ellen Bragg
Farmington Methodist A. Farmington
Palmetto Son
John Sanders
McComas
Dale Fisher
Goodykoontz
Bluefield, W. VA
Bland and
South Streets
Socialist Party
Chicago
Socialist Party Today
Sarton
Beauty Authority
Anita Colby
Princeton Church
Lewisburg
Alderson
H. E. Modlin
Esker Groves
Duroin
C. L. Kelley
Hinton
Ross Evans
Hominy Falls
Hervertarket
Marlinson
Virgil Res Monroe
Lloyd Miler
Camp
R. H. Crawford
Omaha Public Library
Detroit Police Force
Detroit
Miles J. Furlong
Electric Power Company
Ec Truve
Rogess
Priday
Carleton Massey
Fairfax
L. L. Eeher-Racz
Northern Virginia Regional Fiscal Survey Committee
Adm
Arleigh Burke
Naval Operations
Face the Nation
CBS
Burke
Matoaka, W, VA
Superior Sterling Co
BO Mercury
Mercury
ED Sullivan
NEW Mercury
Montclair Phaetons
Monterey
New York
American Airlines
Famous Waldorf-Astoria
Mercury Phaeton
General Electric
ELGIN
Wchs-Tv
Lincoln-Mercury Sales, Inc
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