Blood test hailed as key step since electrocardiograph
Dr Frank P Foster of the Lahey Clinic presented at the American Medical Assn meeting a new blood test called transaminase determination to detect myocardial infarction. The test measures a heart muscle enzyme released when cells die, aiding early accurate diagnosis amid misleading symptoms.
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Chicago
Frank P. Foster
Lahey Clinic
Boston
The
American Medical Assn
Foster
Dickenson County Boy Stricken With Polio
Virginia health officials report two new polio cases as the year’s 10th and 11th. A six-year-old Isom boy, unvaccinated, and a two-year-old Lynchburg girl. Three college students also contracted polio this year, and statewide cases lag behind last year’s pace.
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Richmond
Dickenson County
Isom
Lynchburg
Virginia Military Institute
University of Virginia
State Health Department
Virginia
Two Jolo Men Hurt in McDowell County Accident
Two McDowell County men from Jolo were treated at Grace Hospital after their car was crowded off the highway by another vehicle and rammed into a fence post near Bradshaw at about 5 30 p m yesterday. George Kennedy 34 suffered scalp lacerations and was treated and released Rex Thomas Lewis 68 was admitted for observation with facial and head cuts.
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McDowell County
Grace Hospital
George Kennedy
Jolo
Rex Thomas Lewis
Bradshaw
Area Pharmacy Students Win Honors Dean lists spring quarter 1955-56
Several area students at the Medical College of Virginia School of Pharmacy were named to the dean's list for the spring quarter 1955-56. Honor recipients include Joyce Hines of Abingdon Virginia a William King High School graduate. Robert E Robinson of Castlewood Virginia a Castlewood High School graduate. and Charles D Bailey of Matoaka Virginia a Matoaka High School graduate. R Blackwell Smith Jr. serves as dean of the college.
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School of Pharmacy
Medical College of Virginia
Joyce Hines
Abingdon
William King High School
Robert E. Robinson
Castlewood
Castlewood High School
Charles D. Bailey
Matoaka
R. Blackwell Smith Jr
Deaths and Funerals R A Grogan Rags remembered in Bluefield area
Funeral services for R A Grogan of 10 Monroe Street, Sebring Florida, and listed survivors are reported. Grogan, known locally as Rags, died Sunday morning in Sebring after three years ill health. He retired from Norfolk and Western Railway shops in 1951 and moved to Bluefield in 1923. The notice includes details on survivors, burial plans, and visiting hours along with other death notices for Charlie Stephens, James Hankins, and a 15 month old child, Vickie Lynn Bennett. The notices list family members and funeral arrangements in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.
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R. A. Grease. i
Monroe St
Eed
Sebring
Fla
Anos
Civde Tarde Windier
Hawkins
Carrie Virginia Earls
Emory
William K
Concord
Calif
Sterling E
RFD
Cambria
Parent D. Shafer
Whitesville
G. Stanley
Louisville
Tires Brothers
Emerson G
Henry
Marius E
Washington, D. C
Geneva Worsham
Daytona Beach
Lottie Mae Boudouir
Washington, D.C
John Montgomery
Grogan
Norfolk and Western Railway
Bluefield
Rags
Emory, Va
Isaac Clifton Rhoda Ellen Rhoton Grogan
Jeanes
Obituary notices for Sullivan, Painter, and Bennett families
David W. Sullivan 74 of Cuil howie Virginia to be buried at Green Cove Baptist Church cemetery after 11 a.m. service. Mrs James Painter of Bluefield Virginia to be interred at Oak Grove Cemetery after 2:30 p.m. Bethel Methodist Church service today. Vickie Lynn Bennett 15 month old daughter of Kenneth and Mrs Bennett of Whitston Salem North Carolina to be interred at home with service pending.
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Aater
Kenneth Nnett
Vickie Lynn Bennett
Winston- Salem
N. C
Talmadge Farmer
Bishop
Charlie Dillon
Hartwell Cemetery
Pocahontas Union
Sullivan
David W
Cuilhowie
Green Cove Baptist Church
Weather outlook for Maryland Virginia and West Virginia
Maryland sees fairest high near 96 to 92 with southern Eastern Shore 82 to 88. Tuesday and Wednesday bring warmth with some cloudiness. Virginia expects 86 to 92 Tuesday and generally fair Wednesday. West Virginia highs around 90 in both regions with some cloudiness and heat. Western areas stay sunny, hot, and humid with highs near 100 and possible evening thunder.
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Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Two Armed Men Rob War Store
Two armed men robbed the War liquor store just before 8 p.m. last night overpowered manager Lo well Gibson and took $619 in cash. Gibson was beaten and dumped from the store and authorities pursued clues describing the pair. State police and local officers investigated with no further details at midnight. A prior Oceana liquor store robbery remains unsolved.
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War Liquor
Lowell Gibson
C. B. Dye
Dye
Davis
Gibson
War City
Oceana
Bluefield Merchant in Serious Condition After Gunshot
David Greenspon, 63, of Bluefield, was found wounded in his College Avenue home Sunday evening. A single .38 caliber bullet struck his left abdomen. police call it an attempted death by own action. He left notes for his wife and sister and summoned an ambulance.
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David Greenspon
Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitarium
Greenspon
College Avenue
Tazewell
Burglar Alarm Foils Thief at Island Creek Coal Office
A burglar alarm frightened off a would be thief at the Island Creek Coal Co office on Keene Mountain about 12 miles east of Grundy. The intruder entered through a north end window and tampered with the safe before fleeing at 3 a.m. Sheriff Burl Rite said investigators worked into the night.
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Island Creek Coal Co
Keene Mountain
Grundy
Buchanan County
Burl Rite
Obituary Notices From Wytheville Area
Talmadge Farmer of Bishop Virginia interred at Hartwell Cemetery with interment by Huffard Cloyd H. 59 from Plan Dome Long Island to Hartwell planned at 2 p.m. Porterfield Minnick Funeral Chapel Wytheville. Interment East End Cemetery. Effie G Blankenship 46 Havaco to be buried Lester Cemetery Bradshaw Mountain at 2 30 p.m. today interment Lester Cemetery Bradshaw Mountain.
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Harry Bee Lusk
Jefferson
Bratton Memorial
Mercer Furtral
Clay H. Dunaway
Waldo Waters
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
L. C. Higgins
W. R. Portis
R. T. Linsey
E. G. Gearhart
W. E. Pittman
John Shelton
Brotherhood of
Talmadge Farmer
Bishop, Va
Hartwell Cemetery
Huffard, Cloyd H
Plandome
Long Island
N. Y
Porterfield-Minnick Funeral Chapel
Wytheville
East End
Port Terminal Funds Allocated Amid Airport Program
Federal aid identified for airport improvements totals 51.9 million dollars for the coming fiscal year. States and localities will match funds dollar for dollar. Projects include terminal expansions, maintenance buildings, and new facilities across several states.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
U.S
United States
CAA
Congress
West Virginia
Maryland
Hagerstown
Rockville
Os County
Tennessee
Bristol
Tri-City
Chattanooga
Lovell Field
Clarksville
Outlaw Field
Cleveland Munici
Mount Jackson
Newport News
Patrick Henry
Roanoke
Woodrum
Staunton
Shenandoah Valley
Bluefield
Mercer County
Clarksburg
Benedum
Huntington
TriState
Greenbrier
Captain Baker to Address Bluefield Rotary Club
Captain B W Baker of the Salvation Army will speak at the Bluefield Rotary Club meeting today at 12 15 p m in the Rotary Room of the West Virginia Hotel. He will discuss the Salvation Army Summer Camp and its work for children.
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B. W. Baker
Salvation Army
Bluefield
Chamber Directors Set Monthly Luncheon Meeting
The Bluefield Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular monthly board meeting at a luncheon tomorrow at 12 noon in the Chamber Conference Room located in their new office at 623 Commerce Street.
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Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors
Chamber of Commerce
Commerce Street
Post Stalin Soviet Life This Is Alcoholism Soviet Style
Andrew R. MacAndrew surveys a Soviet propaganda pamphlet on alcoholism in the post Stalin era. He notes the paradox of Bolshevik ideals and rising drinking, cites Engels and Engelsian analysis, and highlights cases of mass drunkenness among workers and even a boy named Kolya Savin, illustrating pervasive alcohol culture in the USSR.
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Yakov Malik
London
Iwank Claridge
Marshal Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Wine Ministry of Propaganda
Pravda
Bloknot Agitatora
Agitator's
Buganin
Khrushchev
Ministry of Propaganda
Engels
Iedrich Engell
Soviet Ministry of Propaganda
Soviet Union
Ussr
Stalin
Kolya Savin
Kolya
Civilians Face Trials in Military Court Appeals
The tribunal upheld civilian trials in military courts and discussed potential international jurisdiction issues. It noted Mrs Smith and Mrs Covert received life sentences, with Covert later released on bail after a reversal on technical grounds. Other actions included limits on the federal employee security program and broadened liability in rail labor cases.
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Air Force
Congress
Kendrick M. Cole
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Run Pacific Railroad
California
Pennsylvania Railroad
32Nd St
Philadelphia
Glen Davis Free On $2,000 Bond
Glen Davis 57 of Littlesburg Road is charged with felonious wounding in a shooting that critically injured his daughter in law, Mrs. Davis. He waived to the grand jury at a preliminary hearing and was released on a $2,000 bond after surrendering to Bluefield police. Mrs. Davis remained in critical condition at Bluefield Sanitarium with seven gunshot wounds, including a brain injury and a severed spinal cord. The weapon is not yet found, and no definite motive has emerged.
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Glen Davis
Littlesburg Road
Davis
Wynne
Bluefield
Crisco
EL. Jackson
Park of the Red Rocks Amphitheater Capacity Highlight
The natural sandstone amphitheater near Denver Colorado can seat more than 10000 spectators. It sits in the hills west of the city within the Park of the Red Rocks, a famed geological site.
Salvation Army transfers Captain Duane Greer
Capt. Duane Greer of the Alexandria Fairfax County Salvation Army will be transferred June 20 according to Dr. H A Latane chairman of the advisory board Greer a Bluefield West Virginia native has no stated new posting
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Alexandria
Duane Greer
Alexandria-Fairfax County Corps
Salvation Army
H. A. Latane
Greer
Bluefield
W. Va
City and Coalfield Stated Communication Schedule
Bluefield Lodge No. 85 AF AM meets Tuesday night June 12 at 7 30. Annual election of officers. Visitors welcome. E N Maynor W M L M Carper Seey.
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Bluefield Lodge No
AF & AM
E. N. Maynor
W.M
L. M. Carper
Seey
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McDowell
R. A. Grogan
Charlie J. Stephens
Pulaski
Pulaski Hospital
Ruby Kidd Stephens
Billy
Peggy
Janet
Brenda Kay
Archie O'Dell
Alabama
Mildred Oals
Aberdeen
Bonnie O'Dell
Albert C. Stephens
Barren Ngs
James C
Barren Springs
Edgar
Baltimore, Md
Robert
Cobbs Creek
Mary Stoop
Clarence Hubbard
Strickler
James Raleigh Hankins
Route 1
North Tazewell
Princeton Memorial Hospital
Sarah Hankins
War
Alice Necessary Hankins
Hanford Lilly
Buckley
Herman Pruett
Joe
Frank
Centerberry
Ohio
Pearl Hankins
Lucian Moses
Hurste Scott Funeral Home
Richlands
Bennett Infant
Harry B. Lusk
Asheville
S Avenue
Cincinnati
Denver
Jacksonville
Los Angeles
Memphis
Minn
St. Paul
New Orleans
New York
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Seattle
Weather Bureau Forecast
U.S. Weather Bureau
Dept. of Commerce
Tweedey
Lakes Region
Mississippi Valley
Central Plains
Atlantic
Arizona
Cascades
Mercer
Elizabeth
Amy
Clyde) White
Princeton
Barton Baker
BY Andrew R. Macandrew
Nda
Kresge’s
Amer
Smith
Covert
Federal Reformatory For Women
Alderson
W.va
Atorney W. ©. Bivens
N&w
Davenport
City & Coalfield
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