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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1963
Page
2
A 46 passenger truck plunged 100 feet into a Utah gully killing seven Boy Scouts two leaders and a Deseret News reporter. Driver Stephan Ahlborn 21 said the brakes failed after downshifting the downhill grade.
The YMCA boys eight to 15 will depart the YMCA Center Friday at 8 a.m. by bus for a two day trip through Richmond and Williamsburg visiting the Edgar Allan Poe Shrine St Johns Church Confederate Museum Centennial Civil War Building Valentine Museum St Pauls Church Battle Abbey Virginia Capitol building Jamestown Festival Park Yorktown and Jamestown. Four seats remain available for interested boys.
Fred F Courtney 73 of Brushfork dies in Bluefield hospital after 38 years with Norfolk and Western Railroad. Survived by wife Ella Mae Bourne two daughters two brothers three sisters and multiple grandchildren. Funeral Thursday Brushfork Methodist Church burial Grandview Memory Gardens. Anson Altizer 64 of Tazewell dies after long illness. survived by wife four sons one brother. Dora Alice Patterson 76 of Goodwill dies. obituary note. Joe Kowaleski 78 Polish-born retired miner dies in Welch hospital. funeral Friday Sacred Heart Church Powhatan. Burial Woodlawn Cemetery. Mrs Allie Winnie Chappell 64 of Mavisdale dies in Richlands hospital. Mark E Dunn infant dies at birth in Princeton. graveside service Hurt Cemetery Kegley.
Fletcher Holland K. Fletcher of St. Paul Virginia was re elected mayor after Tuesday voting. Five council seats were filled while a sixth seat remained undecided due to a three way tie in the ballots with votes counted for S W Johnson Harry S Deen D E Stanton E G Fraley and Eugene D Stewart.
Public notice from the Daily Telegraph Printing Co of Bluefield West Virginia lists subscription rates by carrier and mail zones. It notes annual price for West Virginia and mentions the Associated Press affiliation and a phone contact.
Okie Ray Dunn aged 62 of Chicago formerly Bluefield died in a Chicago hospital. He is survived by his mother Mrs Pearl Dent Dunn and a son Carl L Dunn of Bluefield. body to arrive Bluefield Wednesday at 6 p.m. for Hawkins Funeral Home with arrangements incomplete. Carrie Etta Morgan aged 84 of Speedway Mercer County died at home. Native of Second Creek daughter of Joseph and Martha V Morgan. survived by sister Mrs Mable Massey of Princeton. Memorial Funeral Directory in Princeton is in charge.
Obituaries list Jesse Lambert 65 Crump Crumpler Church service 2 p m burial Lambert Cemetery Crumpler Mountain Ted Lee Bird 21 Princeton memorial service 2 p m Memorial Funeral Directory burial Rose lawn Cemetery pallbearers named Jessie Kahle Pankey Bluefield service 2 p m Hawkins Funeral Home entombment Monte Vista Cemetery Charles Stone Birchleaf Virginia burial Sandlick Cemetery with Virginia Funeral Home of Grundy VA handling arrangements
West Virginia Civil Air Patrol called off the search for a plane with two Ohioans aboard eight days missing. On June 3 the pilot Ernest Pelizzari, 51, of Sebring, Ohio encountered bad weather en route from Roanoke, Virginia to Alliance, Ohio. His last radio contact placed the aircraft 50 miles north of Charleston.
The Bluefield Board of Directors approved twenty building permits totaling $8,295 and two new business licenses in a weekly session at the Municipal Building. Licenses were issued to Harry and Francey Lynch for Club Saraha at 100 North St, and O L Patton for Pat's Refrigeration Service with mailing address 217 Union St.
West Virginia secures a 30 day extension to July 11 for processing flood damage claims from the March floods. Governor Barron’s office says Ritchie and Dodd counties were added by President Kennedy to the eligible list, bringing total counties to 29. An advance of 250,000 is provided through the Office of Emergency Planning for public property repairs.
A Welch banquet celebrated the 25th anniversary of Rev. Father H. A. Ryan of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Bishop Hodge and Fathers Burke Carr and Staud spoke of Father Ryan’s service while 27 priests attended from several states. A special mass preceded dinner served by Welch PTA, highlighting Ryan’s wartime Navy chaplaincy and 16 years as pastor.
Wallace faced a federal official in a tense morning confrontation. He refused to admit Negro students to higher studies for the summer session despite court orders, signaling a pledge to block their enrollment.
West Virginia Seventh-day Adventists announce Centennial Day during the 53rd annual summer conference at Eber Memorial Park in Parkersburg. Roger Milley of the Columbia Union Conference will lead a quartet of speakers in the evening program.
Three area vocational education program classes at Bluefield State College have ended for the season. The secretarial office work course is discontinued for the summer and will restart in September. AVP garment alteration graduates plan to start their own business. Byron L. Shelton says future courses depend on regional needs and local interest.
A Tuesday hearing for Tyrone Hendricks and Tonie Luce Saunders in the shooting of 19 year old Barbara Saunders at Willie Holt's Tavern near Bramwell continues this afternoon. Hendricks and Saunders remain jailed in Bluefield. two other men were released. Saunders in stable condition after a .22 caliber wound to the breast. Saunders admits the gun belonged to Tonie Saunders and was fired accidentally. pistol found in Hendricks' possession. Investigation ongoing with Constable Gordon Short.
A Republican mass meeting for the Graham Precinct of Tazewell County will be held Thursday June 13 at 7 30 p m in the Town Hall Bluefield Va to elect delegates to the GOP Convention on Saturday June 22 at 2 p m in the Tazewell County Courthouse Tazewell Va Delegates chosen from precincts will select candidates to run against Democrats in the November general election.
Reece Ball 63 of Route 2 Cedar Bluff Va died Monday when a tractor turned over on him at Clifton Farm Stuart Land and Cattle Co in Russell County He was a native of Russell and worked 35 years for the company Surviving are his wife six sons three daughters two brothers four sisters and 21 grandchildren Funeral services were held Thursday at Clifton Church with burial in Green Hills Cemetery
Mrs. Pearl Mae Bannister of Bluefield waived preliminary hearing on a mail fraud charge in Bluefield. She remains free on $500 bond with return date Sept 11 in U S District Court. Inspectors say she ordered Sears Roebuck merchandise under a fictitious name and picked it up at the Bluefield post office.
North Tazewell Republicans select seven delegates and seven alternates for the GOP Convention in Tazewell Virginia on June 22. The list includes Mrs Joe Ann Harman Leslie L Sparks W D Monk Omer Reed D C Williams Alice Johnson Raymond Street Irene Harrison Jay Monk Kermit Monk Lois Perry Mildred Williams Charlotte Puckett and Ethel Reed. A resolution allows any North Tazewell Republican attendee to cast a proportional vote at the convention.
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