Virginia Asks Stay On Residence Certificate Ban
The Virginia Board of Elections asked Chief Justice Earl Warren to stay a U S District Court order banning the residence certificate requirement for voters who have not paid the state poll tax. The stay would delay effective June 28, two weeks before the July 14 Democratic primary, amid an appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Special Court
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Bethel A M E Youth Rally Sunday at Bethel Church
Bethel A M E Church 901 Bland St Bluefield will hold a youth rally Sunday at 11 a.m. Rev R L Nance will deliver Life's Menu. Youth Choirs and several youths including the Lewis Tucker and Thompson children will lead and take part along with soloist Gwyline Green and others.
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Bethel A.M.E
Bland St
Bluefield
R. L. Nance
Lewis
Tucker Children
Robert Thompson
Gwyline Green
Oscovill Smith
Doris Lee
Lenard Thompson
Eugene Lee
Michel Hicks
Students Day Set At Stewart Church
John Stewart Church observes Methodist Student Day on Sunday June 14 with the local commission on Christian education sponsoring the service. The Day School closes with a 7 p.m. program and a joint Vacation Church School with Bethel A.M.E. begins Monday for two weeks from 9 a.m. to noon.
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John Stewart Church
Commission On Christian Education
Mollie Price
Charles Free
Silver Star
Helen Wisdom
A. M. Washington
John Stewart
Bethel A.M.E
State JCC Sets Training Session
Charleston WV AP reports the West Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold a training session for local chapter officers this Sunday. Robert Bowers, travel division director at the State Commerce Department, will be the principal speaker. About 80 Jaycees are expected to attend amid roughly 1,800 members across 54 local chapters in West Virginia.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Otters Imported to Tackle Chapala Water Lilies
In Guadalajara AP report the government imports otters to eat water lilies said to be destroying fish in Lake Chapala. The move aims to restore fish populations and water quality in the lake near Jalisco Mexico.
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Mexico
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Chapala
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Publication Details
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph established 1893 is printed at 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia. It is a member of the Associated Press with local news published by the Daily Telegraph Printing Co and Katz telephone listings. Subscription rates include 50 cents per week for carrier daily and Sunday and $26 per year by mail within West Virginia. Rates to other zones available on request.
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Deaths and Funerals in Keystone and Nearby Areas
Mervin William Harris 15 of Keystone dies from injuries after being struck by a freight train near Northfork. Services 2 p.m. Sunday Keystone Union Hall. burial Oak Grove Cemetery. Also listed are services for Taylor Cleveland Stafford and Alice M. Vanhoozer, with details on funeral times, locations, pallbearers, and family survivors. Additional notices include Ura Conner Harrison.
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Northfork
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A. L. Polk
Oak Grove Cemetery
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Kimball High School
William Harris
Rose Law Harris
Rites Set for John Pickens at Shiloh Baptist Church
John Pickens of Princeton dies in a Beckley hospital after a career as a miner and church deacon. Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Shiloh Baptist Church in Princeton with burial in Restlawn Memorial Estates. Surviving: wife Decia Nelson Pickens and brother William Pickens. Friends may call at Lugo's Funeral Service in Bluefield from 5 to 10 p.m.
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Princeton
Taylor Cleveland Stafford
Glenwood Park
St. Luke's Hospital
A. C. van Reenen Jr
Maple Hill Cemetery
Bluefield
Lugo
Harry Finney
Delaware Ave
Sam H. Hairston
Oak Grove Cemetery
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Anawalt
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Fieldale
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Fannie C. Finney
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McDowell
Elijah Holland
Shiloh Baptist Church
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Beckley Hospital
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McDowell County
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Shiloh Church
United Mine Workers
Selma
Ala
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Decia Nelson Pickens
William Pickens
Washington, D. C
Funeral notices from Bland and surrounding counties
Funeral announcements list Elmer Vanblaricom of Kegley and several others including Della M Dillon Jennie Hicks Gross Duff Slagle Gilmer Edwards with service times, churches, burial sites, and pallbearers. Details include lay clergy, church locations in Virginia and West Virginia, and funeral homes handling arrangements.
Turner Drowns Deloris Turner Services in Vansant Va
Deloris Turner seventeen died in a one vehicle crash near Grundy Va. Services set for Sunday at Vansant Baptist Church with burial in Turner Cemetery Davenport Va. Survived by parents Sam and Mrs Turner two sisters Wanda Davis and Darlene Turner and four brothers Winston Michael Turner Monroe Turner and Mitchell Turner. Body returned to residence from Grundy Funeral Home.
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Alice M. Vanhoozer
Tannersville
G. W. Belcher
North Tazewell
Walter Taylor
Broadford
J. B. Roach
Bluefield
Cora
Daisy VanHoozer
Saltville
Walter M. VanHoozer
Lee VanHoozer
Bluesfield
James VanHoozer
Hosea Edmonds
Wiley Edmonds
Flint
Mich
Robert Edmonds
Martinsville
W. E. Mustard
J. H. Greever
Henderson Funeral Home
Servces
Vansant
Baptist
Deloris Turner
Sam Turner
Grundy
Turner Cemetery
Davenport
Wanda Davis
Darlene Turner
Winston and
Michael Turner
Monroe Turner
Harman
Mitchell Turner
Cleveland
Ohio
Grundy Funeral Home
Death Notice for Harry Dillon of Bluefield
Harry Dillon of 107 Chestnut Street Bluefield died Friday at Veterans Hospital in Mountain Home Tennessee. The body will remain at Mercer Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Chestnut St
Bluefield
Veterans Hospital
Mountain Home
Tenn
Mercer Funeral Home
West Virginia GOP delegates face leadership choice
Charleston figures GOP Jones and Frank A. OBrien Jr. join Guthrie as Rockefeller chairman. Delegates will elect a delegation chairman. Likely candidates are ex Gov Cecil H Underwood or Rep Arch Moore Jr. Underwood led statewide delegate at large vote May 12, Moore second. Delegation includes four at large and two per district. San Francisco convention opens July 13.
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San Francisco
Americans Visit Cuba Despite U.S. Travel Ban
A group of 73 Americans nearly all students arrived in Havana via Prague for a stay through July 26, defying the U.S. State Department travel ban. They crossed through Europe with passports to Europe then Prague to reach Cuba, echoing a prior summer visit and anti-U.S. propaganda.
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Virginia Republicans weigh Goldwater run and Byrd opposition
Delegation leaders in Virginia discuss boosting Goldwater or taft allied delegates, hoping to deny Byrd a November victory. Warnings that a first ballot Goldwater win might be required to clinch the nomination surface as Frank McCann Donald Stegner and William Nixon emerge as Senate candidates.
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San Francisco
Harrison
Talmage Wilder
Arlington
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Taft
Eisenhower
Chicago
Wilcer
Harry F. Byrd
Byrd
Frank McCann
Lynchburg
Donald B. Stegner
William Nixon
Virginia Beach
Central Committee
Linwood Holton
Senate
Nine Major Appalachian Road Projects Proposed
The Bureau of Public Roads listed nine chief highway projects under President Johnson's Appalachian bill. The routes connect Chattanooga to I-75 south of Lexington, connect Atlanta and Chattanooga to I 40 west of Asheville, link Asheville to Columbus, Ohio, and other connections across Tennessee Virginia Maryland and West Virginia. Bridwell says these routes start new paths in Appalachia rather than follow existing interstate patterns to better integrate the region.
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Bureau of Public Roads
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Lowell K. Bridwell
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Ashville
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W.va
Beckley
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Guardsmen Head to Candidate School at Camp Dawson
Sp Billy B Grose of Bluewell and Sgt William McCormick of Bluefield depart today for two weeks of summer training at Camp Dawson near Morgantown. They will then attend ten weekend sessions this year and next summer return for two more weeks of training to earn commissions as second lieutenants in the West Virginia National Guard.
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Bluewell
William McCormick
Bluefield
National Guard
Camp Dawson
Morgantown
Dawson
West Virginia National Guard
West Virginia Highways Deaths Reach 198 to Date
State Police at Charleston report 198 people killed on West Virginia highways so far this year. This compares with 14 deaths reported by the same date last year.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Special Music Set At Immanuel Church
The Sweet sisters nieces of Rev C D Sweet of Immanuel Baptist Church Princeton will provide music for Sundays service. Marylee a Taylor University senior will play the organ Sally a Taylor graduate at Fort Wayne Bible School will play the flute and Linda a Taylor student will also play the flute. They are daughters of Mr and Mrs Hugh Sweet and are weekend houseguests of Mr and Mrs W L Alley and Rev C D Sweet.
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C. D. Sweet
Immanuel Baptist Church
New Hope Road
Princeton
Marylee
Taylor University
Upland
Ind
Sally
Taylor
Fort Wayne Bible School
Fort Wayne
Linda
Hugh Sweet
W. L. Alley
Rev. C. D. Sweet
Ministerial Alliance Plans Evening Worship Service
The Bluefield Ministerial Alliance will worship at Community Christian Church Sunday at 7 p.m. Rev. C. W. Tiffany of Wilbur Memorial Methodist Church in Tazewell Va will be the speaker. The Wilbur Memorial Church Choir will sing and Rev. H. L. Wade will preside. Rev. N. J. Dickerson is minister of the host church.
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Community Christian Church
C. W. Tiffany
Wilbur Memorial Methodist Church
Tazewell
Wilbur Memorial Church
H. L. Wade
N. J. Dickerson
Youngster to Receive Bicycle Award in Safety Contest
Bluefield police sponsor a poster contest for children under 13 with topics on home playground and bike safety. Mercer Lodge 80 judges posters and will award a bicycle next Wednesday after determining whether a boy or girl wins. the entry deadline was today at 5 p.m.
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Bluefield
Lodge
Tabor
Children’s Choir to Sing at Mt Zion Baptist Church
Rev Mozelle Scruggs will preach at 11 a.m. with the church children’s choir performing music. A portion of the service will bless the babies while a 6 p.m. program features the children’s concert. Cradle Roll Mother’s Club president Roseanna McGue and supervisor Effie M Brown lead the presenting group.
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Mozelle Scruggs
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Roseanna McGue
Effie M. Brown
Guerrillas Offered Rewards For Arms In Viet Nam
In Saigon a government drive to reconcile Viet Cong guerrillas offers rewards for weapons turned in. The program has gathered 27 defectors as part of the effort to win over the rebels.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
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