Underwater sport grows as masks reveal hidden seas
A 1950s feature traces skin diving’s rise as a sport led by underwater spear fishing in the AAU. It notes Navy research, emergent diving gear, and civic groups like Cleveland Skin Divers and Tulsa Divers. Clubs train, aid Civil Defense, and assist in rescues, while divers imagine a future underwater world with living society.
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Staid
AAU
Worcester
Mass
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Cleveland Aquarium
Oklahoma
Tulea
Tulsa
Mid-West
Milwaukee
Leominster
Fitchburg Sharkmen
Montgomery
Alabama
State Highway Patrol
Lake Martin
Mass Movement Into Kentucky for Guard Training
West Virginia National Guardsmen from 38 units will move to Kentucky for a 15 day encampment at Fort Knox and Camp Breckinridge. About 2,500 soldiers will participate, led by the 150th Armored Cavalry Regiment with around 1,500 at Fort Knox. Gov. Underwood will visit Fort Knox and Camp Breckinridge, with a luncheon and review parade planned.
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Bluefield
National Guard
City
Fort Knox
Charleston
West Virginia
Army National Guardsmen
Kentucky
Camp Breckinridge
State Guard
150Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Louisville
Indiana
Lexington
Bardstown
Adj
William E. Blake
Blake
Gov. Underwood
Underwood
Market Hits Another High
New York stocks surged to a 1958 peak in heavy Friday trading. The Associated Press average rose to 174.30, its best since May 20, with oils, tobaccos, rails, steels, airlines, coppers and radios advancing and volume reaching 3.1 million shares.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Parking Commission Announces Overtime Parking Crackdown
The Bluefield Parking Facilities Commission will strictly enforce meters with a 25 cent overtime fee and a $1 fine for nonpayment. Warrants will be issued for ignored tickets as the commission seeks authority to handle overtime tickets and directs funds to bonds and the city general fund.
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Bluefield
City Board of Directors
Parking Facilities Commission
Economic Group Ends Study and Appoints Counselor
The Economic Development Committee of the Council of the Southern Mountains Inc meets at the West Virginia Hotel to appoint a leadership counselor and outline duties funded by a $30 000 Appalachian Fund grant. The council aims to improve life in the Appalachian South across eight states with Pocahontas Coal Operators Association backing the Bluefield meeting and Dr. Donald Fessler of Virginia Tech leading the committee.
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Council of the Southern Mountains, Inc
West Virginian Hotel
Appalachian Fund
Cincinnati
Appalachian South
West Virginia
Maryland
North
South Carolina
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Bluefield
Pocahontas Coal Operators Association
Donald Fessler
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg, Va
Former BC Professor Contributes To Book
Dr. Franklin T. Walker former head of Bluefield College English department 1922 to 1926 now on Mississippi College faculty Clinton Mississippi contributes a life sketch of William Peterfield Trent to Dictionary of American Biography supplement two Volume XXII published by Charles Scribner’s Sons New York. The entry appears on pages 666-667 of the 745 page DAB. Walker also wrote a Bluefield College News column for the Bluefield Daily Telegraph weekly.
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Charles Scribner’s Sons
New York
Bluefield College
Franklin T. Walker
Mississippi College
Clinton
Miss
Bluefield
Walker
William Peterfield Trent
Columbia University
University of the South
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
SBA Official Speaks Here
Clarence P. Moore regional director of region IV Richmond Va will address Bluefield Kiwanis Monday and Bluefield Rotary Tuesday Hudson Huffard and E G Otey will introduce him Moore a Findlay Ohio native graduated from Penn State with a civil engineering degree He worked as valuation engineer for New York Central in Cleveland and was architect engineer for Colonnade Company before moving to Richmond in 1940 where he owned Pantree Restaurant for eleven years
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Bluefield Civic Clubs
Clarence P. Moore
Richmond
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Bluefield Rotary Club
Hudson Huffard
Kiwanis Club
E. G. Otey
Rotary Club
Findlay
Ohio
Moore
Pennsylvania State College
Cleveland
New York Central Railroad
Colonnade Company
Pantree
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James Lenart
J. C. Smith
E. G
Douglas Whittaker
James Watkins
Huevon Peery
America
By John Tassos
Navy
Advanced Research Agency
The
United
U. S. Navy
Fin
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Norfolk Western
Paee
American Water Works
Anaconda Copper
Reynolds Tobacco B
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Sears Roebuck
Boeing Aircraft
Socony Vacuum Eeeaee
Bethlehem Steel
Southern Pacific
Armco Steel
Southern Railway
Atchson & Topeka Sperry Rand
Ashland
Standard Brands
Baltamore & Ohio Eeewee
Texas Co
Bucyrus Erie
Western M Continental
Firestone
Penee
Ford Motor Foremost Dairy
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Hercules Powder Tree
Interchemical
GM International Nickel
Island Creek Coal
Sa ‘Kennecott Seuee
Ereene
Reema Bene
Feteew
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Libbey Owens Ford Glass Way
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Montgomery Ward
National Dairy
Eee
New Enee
Princeton
Bramwell Road
Bluefield Avenue
Tank Company
Parking Commission
Coal Operators
Congress
SBA
Sisson
Feed & Farm Supply
Bluefield, W. Va
Bluefield Hardware CO
Automotive
Bluefield, Va
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