City Board Eyes More Night Police After Break-In Wave
Bluefield West Virginia city board urged Chief C N Wilson to boost night patrols and interrogations of late night street trespassers. They discussed expanding third shift staffing 11 p m to 7 a m to curb rising break-ins affecting businesses residences and cars. The board did not indicate plans to replace late city manager Emory P Mitchell who died May 25.
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Bluefield
Telegraph
W. VA
Mor City Board
C. N. Wilson
Emory P. Mitchell
Wilson
City Board Reviews Late Shift Staffing and Neighborhood Security
The board deems the late shift staffing insufficient with five patrolmen for the city area and urges parents to keep teens off streets late at night. It directs the chief to stop joy-riders and verify operator permits, while residents are asked to report absences to aid property protection.
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Highway bids invited for 24 projects in Virginia
Richmond Virginia June 12 the state highway department advertised for bids on 24 road construction projects totaling about 30 miles of work. Bids due at central offices June 26 and 27 with opening June 27. Giles county US 460 0.18 mile widening at the Route 219 intersection. Pulaski county secondary route 6603 0.09 miles grading and resurfacing to Claytor Lake. Tazewell county secondary route 644 2.99 miles grading and hard surfacing near Horsepen.
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Richmond
State Highway Department
Giles County
Pulaski County
Claytor Lake
Tazewell
Horsepen
Amonate Youths Enlist In U S Navy Service
Robert B. Chapman and James H. Breeding of Amonate Virginia enlisted in the U S Navy. They will report to the naval station at Bainbridge Maryland for training as announced by ADI W H Hamrick of the local recruiting station.
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Amonate
U.S. Navy
Former Dante Engineer Gets Federal Post
Washington June 12 Secretary of the Interior Chapman today appointed Harold D. Parnell 52 as industrial specialist in the industry finance division of the defense solid fuels administration. Parnell will help analyze applications from coal and coke operators for defense loans. Parnell has served as chief mining engineer for the Clinch field Coal Corp Dante Va since January 1948. Previously he had been a general engineer with Armco Steel Co Montcoal W Va a coal operator at Rainelle W Va and chief mining engineer with the Yeomenn Rolling Mill Co Nellis W Va.
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Secretary of the Interior
Chapman
Harold D. Parnell
Industrail
Defense Solid Fuels Administration
Parnell
Clinchfield Coal Corp
Dante
Armco Steel Co
Montcoal
W. Va
Rainelle
Church Dispute Lands In Court
Trustees of the Smithers Church of Christ seek Supreme Court review of a Fayette county order naming Rev. Thomas McFadden as pastor amid a factional dispute. The petition says McFadden and others formed a separate congregation after doctrinal quarrels and attempted to seize the church building. The prior ruling found the five trustees illegal but kept McFadden as pastor. A Raleigh County circuit case, tied to Beckley liens, follows, involving former property of Jennie Williamson and J. H. Rucker once tax delinquent.
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Charleston
W. Va
Smithers Church of Christ
Supreme Court
Fayette County
Thomas McFadden
McFadden
Raleigh County
Beckley
Jennie Williamson
J. H. Rucker
Horse Meat Store Booms in Edmonton Trade
Edmonton witnesses strong demand for horse meat at Canada's Pony Market owned by O. B. Moore and E. S. Ferguson. Operations have run for weeks with no serious complaints and prices about 40 percent of beef, a horse tenderloin at 40 cents per pound versus 1.50 for beef.
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Edmonton
O. B. Moore
E. S. Ferguson
Canada
Pony Market
Bluefield Man Seeks State Supreme Court Review of Land Dispute
A Bluefield man petitions the West Virginia Supreme Court for a second time to review a Mercer County ruling denying a strip of land he says is part of a hospital property he bought in 1927. W. A. Brown says the tract was not included in his deed due to a mutual oversight after purchasing from Olive W. Lomax.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Supreme Court
Mercer County
W. A. Brown
Olive W. Lomax
Rainfall Slows West Virginia Crop Development
Heavy rainfall and cool temperatures slowed crop development and hay harvesting in West Virginia last week. Early in the period there were near record high temperatures in the northeast, with the week average 69 degrees and rainfall 1.61 inches, above normal.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
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