West Virginia Methodists announce 589 ministerial assignments
The West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church ended its five day meeting with 589 ministerial assignments for the new church year. Bishop Fred G. Holloway announced the appointments. Ray W. Wilson becomes Moorefield district superintendent and William A. Woods Huntington district supervisor. L. E. Crowson transfers from Logan to Darlington in South Charleston. Other moves include Becken district shifts and numerous supply posts.
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Buckhannon
W.va
West Virginia
Ray W. Wilson
First Methodist
South Charleston
Moorefield
W. Reece Burns
Methodist Temple
Beck
William A. Woods
Huntington
Claude R. Collins
Charleston
L. E. Crowson
Citizens Committee
Nighbert Memorial Methodist Church
Logan
Darlington Methodist
South
Bluefield Man Nabbed In LA
Marvin Edwin Brooks 38 of East Cumberland Road was arrested by FBI agents in Los Angeles on a federal unlawful flight charge related to a Mercer County grand larceny case. He is to be arraigned today and will face Mercer County about extradition unless he waives it.
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Marvin Edwin Brooks
East Cumberland Road
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Los Angeles
Calif
Mercer County
U.S
Bill Bivens
Mercer
Brooks
Bivens
Ex-Con Rogalski Arrested on Indecent Material Charges
Walter V. Rogalski of Wheeling was arrested near his home on misdemeanor charges of buying and possessing indecent material. Police found 1,500 indecent pictures and 16 negatives. A 1957 federal sentence of six years relates to similar charges. parole violation status prompted a parole board review.
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Wheeling
Walter V. Rogalski
Rogalski
Ohio County
Atlanta
H. Marshall Homer
Joyce Ann Rabuisky
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertisement Notice
Local notice outlines subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions and mentions Bluefield, West Virginia, circulation details and address at Blend Street. It notes association with the Associated Press and announces pricing and renewal terms.
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Daily Telegraph
Blend Street
Bluefield
Associated, Press
Kaw
Contractor Dies In Plane Crash At Buggs Island Lake
Clarksville Virginia AP report says 55 year old contractor T W Marks died when his Beech Bonanza crashed into Buggs Island Lake. His flying companion Meriwether Lewis 53 is missing presumed dead after an eight hour salvage failed to recover the aircraft from 90 feet of water. Witnesses report the plane exploded or flipped before hitting the lake during a flight near the Virginia shore.
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Clarksville, Va
Clarksville
Buggs Island Lake
Here
T. W. Marks
Virginia
Meriwether Lewis
Mecklenburg County
Marks
Lewis
Mac Edmondson
Ohter
Fx-Tazewell Resident Dies
Harry C. Dodge, 77, of Fond du Lac Wisconsin and a longtime Tazewell County Va resident, died Sunday in Fond du Lac. A coal buyer and ardent athlete, he came to the county 40 years ago and stayed active in golf trapshooting and local athletics. He left the area last year to live with a Wisconsin brother and died at half-brother Charles Ayer’s home. Funeral services will be held with burial at Darlington.
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Harry C. Dodge
Fond du Lac
Wis
Tazewell County
Fort Dearborn Coal Company
Charles Ayer
Darlington
Graham Insists HE Will Return
Evangelist Billy Graham told a Chicago Crusade audience that Jesus is living and will return. About 37 000 attended the 11th Chicago session at McCormick Place, with 684 conversions announced at the close. He said entrance to God’s kingdom requires embracing the Cross and urged prosperity listeners to turn to God or be finished.
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Chicago
Billy Graham
Jesus
Graham
McCormick Place
Christ
Evangelist
John the
Elijah
Jeremiah
Prope
John the Baptist
Temple
Jerusalem
Peter
God
Savior
89 Reds Finish Jackson March
Eighty nine Confederate-leaning reenactors completed their remarch along Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign Trail in Virginia. The seven weekend trek ended with Dixie and Rebel yells as $1,000 prize money was awarded to teams from New Market and Bikton, with special honors to older marcher Tom Minnick and other units. Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. spoke at the ceremony, noting wartime questions settled but federal power remain debated. Byrd invited Minnick to join his father on a future Old Rag Mountain climb.
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Port Republic
Stonewall Jackson
Valley
Shenandoah
New Market's Co. 3
Conrad's Store Volunteers
Bikton
Winchester’s
Garrison Forest Rangers
Baltimore
Tom Minnick
New Market Company
Henry Kyd Douglas
Enoville
1St Valley Rangers
Waynesboro
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Harrisonburg
West Germany's rearmament framed as victory for civilian control
Bonn defends the Bundeswehr as a safeguarded state within the state debate ends with Strass accused of overbearing senior commanders. 3355 Landser letters to Wehrbeauftragte reveal civilian oversight, while Barth’s Berlin incident tests Berlin tensions and parliament backs Strass amid ongoing criticism of his leadership.
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Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Bundeswehr
Weimar Republic
Reichswehr
Hitler
East Germany
Reichswar
Franz-Josef Strass
Strauss
Landsers
Wehrbeauftragte
Adm
Hellmuth Heye
Admiral Heye
Bundestag
Armed Force Committee
Landser
West Germany
Defense Committee
Luftwaffe
Johannes Barth
West Berlin
Kennedy opens doors to five thousand refugees from Hong Kong
The United States will admit about five thousand Hong Kong refugees from Communist China. The move draws criticism from Chinese American communities who note a double standard between admitting Hong Kong refugees and deporting others. Law firms report many Chinese seamen who reached the U S via Hong Kong were deported or faced stateless status. Officials cite arrests for illegal residence but details remain disputed as hundreds are defended by specialized lawyers.
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Washington
Kennedy
United States
Hong Kong
China
America
Red China
Jump Ship Inc
Tak
New York
San Francisco
U. S
C. K. May
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
New York City
Immigration Bureau
P. A. Esperdy
Cold War Is Strange Says Zuckert at VMI Graduation
Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert described the Cold War as a strange war where all national resources are potential weapons, calling for new imagination in planning and new skills in execution as 216 Virginia Military Institute graduates move into extended active duty.
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Lexington
Air Force
Eugene M. Zuckert
Virginia Military Institute
Dairy sector relies on over two million workers nationwide
The dairy industry sustains daily supply of dairy foods in stores, restaurants, and homes with more than two million people employed across the nation.
Deaths and Funerals in McDowell and Mercer Areas
Obituary notices list Anna Mae Coeburn Hare 26 wife of Carl D. Hare of Bluefield Princeton Road to be buried at Roselawn Cemetery after a 2 p.m. service at Bailey Funeral Home Princeton. Other obituaries include Glen Baker 82 of Cucumber, James M. Burley 59 of Pearisburg, Elihu Baker 75 of Big Four, Mason Newman 42 of Waukegan Ill, Garnet E. Tabor Falls Mills Va, Rennis Hubert Bob Edwards Nemours, Maude Allison Gillespie formerly of Bluefield. Funeral services conducted in churches and homes with burial at Roselawn or local cemeteries.
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Anna Mae Coeburn Hare
Carl D. Hare
Bluefield
Princeton Road
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Roselawn
Hare
Kresge’s
Bluefield Sanitarium
James M. Burley
Pearisburg
First Presbyterian Church of
John Sherman
Birchlawn
Givens Funeral Home
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Dorothy Clark Byrley
Carol Byrley
Lynchburg
J. David Byrley
Point Mago
Cal
Martha Byrley
London
Sion Johnston
Louisville
E. C. Newman
W. D. Fogleman
Kingsport
Tenn
Edward Rick
Pasadena
Mason Newman
Waukegan
Ill
Memorial
T. E. Dickson
H. B. Hager
Jack Howley
Carl Pettrey
Raymond Meade
F. O. Ables
Clyde Belcher
Albert Hale
W. A. Atwell
Princeton High School
Ira Kirk
Rennis Hubert
Bob) Edwards
Nemours
Pocahontas Funeral Home
Edgar Mounts of Wharncliffe Dies After Long Illness
Edgar Mounts 67 of Wharncliffe died Friday at home after a long illness. A retired coal miner and member of Wharncliffe Church of God, he is survived by his wife Addie Trent two brothers Mason Mounts of Wharncliffe Kennison Mounts of Gilbert and five sisters Mandy Cline Mary May Lenora Compton Fannie Cline and Nancy Trent. Funeral services conducted today at 11 a m at Wharncliffe Church of God with Rev J C Bragg Jr officiating. Burial will follow in Glanton Cemetery Adams Funeral Home Gilbert in charge of arrangements.
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Glen Baker
Welch
Demon
Jane Harmon Baker
McDowell County
Mandy Hicks Baker
Ira Baker
Buster Pierce
Jake Hicks
War
Frank Rasnick
Shelbyville
Mich
Bear
Earl Baker
Arnold Baker
John Baker
Jaeger
Alex Baker
Berwind
Fanning Funeral Home
Cucumber
George Allen
Crockett Hagerman
Big Creek
Eli Franklin Umbarger
Ceres
Wytheville Va
Katherine Walker Umbarger
Carl §. Umbarger
Paul Umbarger
Gray Repass
Bethany Methodist Church
Edgar Mounts
Wharncliffe
Wharnecliffe
Wharncliffe Church
Funerals Set For Mrs Jose Clevinger
Funeral services for Mrs. Jose Miller Clevinger formerly of Bluefield who died in a Maryland hospital Friday follow injuries from an April accident. Service Tuesday at 2 pm at Mercer Funeral Home Bluefield with Dr. James T. Browning officiating and burial in Monte Vista Cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
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Clevinger
Jose Miller
Bluefield
Maryland Hospital
Mercer Funeral Home
James T. Browning
Monte Vista
Bob Ramsey
Frosty Morrison
Redolph Matney
Frank Repass
Lacy Edwards
Cline Hall
Joe Davis
Victor DeVault
Ciff Hall
Lynchburg Man Shot by Stepfather in Bedford County
Doug Mullanax on leave from Germany was jailed on a murder charge after his stepfather Francis Pendleton Wilson, 38, of Lynchburg, was shot twice in the body and once in the arm with a 22 caliber rifle while Wilson sat in a car on Wigginton Road. The shooting occurred after an argument in which Mullanax intervened on his mother’s behalf. Wilson died at the scene. Mullanax had returned home on leave May 17 and faced return to Army duties.
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Bedford
Douglas Mullanax
Germany
Bedford County
Francis Pendleton Wilson
Rt. 1
Lynchburg
Rucker Mitchell
Bedford Depty
Ar H. Wills
Dave Hardy
Wilson
Wigginton Road
Mitchell
Mullanax
102-Year-Old Mason Woman Succumbs
Mary Isabel Gunn 102, longtime Mason County resident, died after a lengthy illness at her son Dr Neale R Gunn home in Point Pleasant West Virginia. She was believed to be among the county's oldest residents and was connected to Capt William R Gunn who died in 1908.
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Mason
Point Pleasant
W.va
Mason County
Mary Isabel Gunn
Gunn
William R. Gunn
Neale R. Gunn
Train Derails Near Missoula Leaves One Dead and 195 Hurt
A Northern Pacific limited derailed on the Evaro Hill downgrade near Missoula as it sped to the grade descent. Engines jackknifed, cars toppled, and passengers from dormitory and Pullman cars were injured or killed. Officials and guardsmen aided victims while witnesses reported excessive speed before the crash.
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Evaro
Mission Mountain Range
Missoula
Idaho State Line
Vista Dome
E. E. Lynn
Northern Pacific
Jerry Haines
Jessie O'Connor
Pullman
Wendell Wardell
Billings
Mont
Injuries Fatal To Richmond Boy 19 In Car Crash
A Richmond high school senior, Robert Wayne Spruill aged 19, died after the car he rode in veered off U S 60 four miles east of Norfolk and struck a tree. Police said the driver Seldon Taylor Tompkins 18 of Richmond apparently fell asleep at the wheel. The state's road toll rose to 344.
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Associated Press
Richmond High School
Robert Wayne Spruill
U. S. 60
Norfolk
Seldon Taylor Tompkins
Richmond
Prince Don Juan and Sophie Attend Sinatra Benefit
Prince Don Juan of Spain and Princess Sophie of Greece attended a Sinatra benefit recital at Monte Carlo’s Sporting Club. The event showcased Sinatra’s fine performance during his world touring series to aid sick and underprivileged people.
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Monte Carlo
Don Juan of
Spain
Sophie
Greece
Frank Sinatra
Sporting Club of
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