Huntington state institution fires four workers after trustys probe
Public Institutions Commissioner Harold E. Neely dismissed five staff of the Home For Aged and Infirm Colored Men and Women in Huntington following an investigation into five prison trustees from Mediway Security Prison at Huttonsville. The group includes superintendent H. D. Hazelwood and farm superintendent Karl Eppling. Warden Howard Perrine joined Neely at a news conference as the probe found guards under the Medium Security Prison wardens’ control.
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Charleston
Huntington
Public Institutions
Harold E. Neely
H. D. Hazelwood
Home For
Karl Eppling
Herbert Waddy
Arthur Hall
Eppling
U.S. 60
Mediway
Huttonsville
Huntington Institution
Neely
Hazelwood
Carl Wright
Putnam County
Howard Perrine
Waddy
Hall
Cow Rescued After 40 Foot Fall From Quarry
Dolly the cow slipped on damp moss at an abandoned quarry rim in Glastonbury. She fell forty feet into water, swam to a ledge, and was rescued by two men lowered on rope, a crane, and a canvas sling. She returned to grazing with only bruises.
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Glastonbury
Conn
Dolly
Bessie
Mose Galli
Galli
Guernsey
New Orleans Transit Violence Convicts Draftsman in Seat Assault
Elster Besselle Jr., 23, a New Orleans city hall draftsman, was convicted of assault for pushing a Black woman from a bus seat and attempting to strike her. The incident followed integration of the transit system by court order May 31, with Louise White, 26, the claimant, involved in the case.
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New Orleans
Andrew C. Bucaro
Elster Besselle| Jr
Louise White
Besselle
Uptown Postal Needs Aired in Bluefield Meeting
The Municipal Affairs Committee of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce will discuss the need for uptown postal services at a June 18 meeting. The session at noon at the West Virginian Hotel follows the main Post Office move to South Bluefield and a sub station shift to Princeton Ave for Federal Building renovations. Committee Chairman J Taylor Frazier cites the half million remodeling project as vital to all and urges full attendance. Attending officials include Postal Inspector A E Helmick Postal Field Service Officer J Poffenbarger Space Requirements Officer I L Penrod and Bluefield Postmaster A G Porterfield.
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Bluefield
Federal Building
A. E. Helmick
J. Poffenbarger
I. L. Penrod
A. G. Porterfield
Negro Mother To Face Jury In Infant's Death Case
Stella Mae Brown, mother of six month old Georgia Virginia Brown, likely to be questioned by Mercer County Criminal Court grand jury in the death case. Father's George Albert, 34, charged with murder and held for grand jury action after autopsy found traumatic liver laceration from a blow.
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Princeton
Mercer County Criminal Court
Stella Mae Brown
George Albert
Georgia Virginia Brown
Teachers Win Path to Teach More Subjects in WV
West Virginia schools will offer a testing program starting in October to certify teachers in additional subjects beyond their current certificates. The plan, approved by the state Board of Education and proposed by the WV Committee on Teacher Education, uses ETS national exams at centers including West Virginia University to tap into unrecognized teaching talent from college graduates lacking formal teacher education programs.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Virgil Rohrbough
Board of Education
Rohrbough
Committee On Teacher Education
Educational Testing Service
Princeton University
West Virginia University
Mor
Weather outlook for West Virginia and Virginia
The west portion of West Virginia will see showers and thunderstorms then clearing and cooler by Saturday morning with highs in the 70s north and 78 to 84 in the south. Virginia will have scattered storms followed by clearing and cooler conditions with Saturday highs in the 80s in the west and north and lower in the southeast.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
North
Virginia
Southeast
Thor Firings Indicate Boosted IRBM Program Gains
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP stepped up Thor intermediate range ballistic missile tests report two successful launches in nine days. Air Force aims to deploy the first Thor squadron in England this year. The latest launch appeared flawless, with the 65 foot rocket flying beyond 2400 miles on an experimental flight. The previous Thor test occurred June 4 from a tactical pad.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
England
Space
Phillips G Harris Extradited After Murder Warrants
Extradition papers were signed as Phillips agreed to return to Tennessee to face murder charges. Sheriff Delaney, aided by reporters from Knoxville Journal and Bluefield Daily Telegraph, built a case starting from a middle aged woman's body to Phillips. Phillips, hospitalized with a heart attack, agreed to accompany officers after a brief questioning, with further interrogations planned on the Tennessee return.
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Minnie Bell Phillips
Phillips
Kingston
Tenn
Knoxville Journal
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Delaney
Welch
West Virginia
Tennessee
Foreign Cars Topic of Lions Discussion
Eugene S. Stowers Jr guest speaker at the Bluefield Lions Club luncheon discussed foreign car impact on the American auto market. He noted May foreign car sales reached seven percent while American sales fell up to fifty percent in some fields, complicating true impact assessments.
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Eugene S. Stowers Jr
Bluefield Lions Club
Stowers
America
Four Bluefield Officers Attend West Virginia FOP Convention
Four Bluefield police officers leave at 7 a m for the West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police biennial convention in Parkersburg. Sgt R T Jones Sgt C E Kirk Officer Paul Oliver and Lt R W Humphreys represent Mercer FOP Lodge 80 among 75 to 80 delegates from about 900 members. The event runs Sunday through June 18.
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Bluefield
West Virginia
Fraternal Order
Parkersburg
Stratford Hotel
R. T. Jones
C. E. Kirk
Paul Oliver
R. W. Humphreys
Mercer Fop Lodge
Mountain State
Wisconsin wardens equipped with telescopes to catch violators
Wisconsin game wardens will use high powered telescopes to read license plates from over a mile away as part of new state efforts to enforce fish and game laws. The State Conservation Department equips wardens with these devices to expand enforcement reach and deterrence.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Conservation Department
Nine Cases Set On Court Calendar In Southern West Virginia
Nine criminal cases were scheduled for next week in the U S District Court for Southern West Virginia. Judge Ben Moore presides at Bluefield Federal Building. Cases include McCoy, Gleason on Monday. Harper, Pittman on Tuesday. Phipps on Wednesday. Johnson on Thursday. and Evans, Jasper, Jones on Friday. Indictments from June 1958 focus on alleged moonshine revenue losses. Six citizenship grants filled Friday morning with naturalization proceedings.
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U. S. District Court
West Virginia
Federal Building
Bluefield
Ben Moore
United States
Lacy McCoy
Donald Franklin Gleason
Harry Camper
Joseph Sanders, Jr
McCoy
Robert Douglas
Gleason
David John Harper
Vivian Grace Pittman
Edward C. Freeman
Harper
Pittman
S. B. Evans
Pete Jasper
Cary O'Neil Jones
Owen Griffith
Evans
William McGinnis
Jasper
O'Dell H. Huffman
Jones
U. S. Court of Naturalization
U. S
Lebanon Girl Beauty Winner at Sixth Bathing Beauty Contest
Miss Mary Carol Jessee of Lebanon Virginia was declared winner in the sixth annual Bathing Beauty contest hosted by the Richlands Kiwanis Club at the high school auditorium. Runners up were Janice Griffith Jewell Ridge and Lorraine Barnhart Honaker.
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Mary Carol Jessee
Lebanon
Richlands Kiwanis Club
Janice Griffith
Jewell Ridge
Lorraine Barnhart
Honaker
Kiwanis Club
Joe Serreno
Richlands
Florida
Grady W. Dalton
American Legion Hall
Tommy Mullins
Irene Graham
Jane Clear
Kiwanis Quartet
Woodrow Byrd
Driscoll Carson
National District
Kiwanis International
Wayne Richardson
Bland County
Kammer Attends Chicago Furniture Exhibition
Max Kammer of Kammer's Furniture Store Bluefield leaves for Chicago Ill to attend a week long Summer Furniture Exhibition. He plans to buy fall stock after reviewing the latest styles and fabrics. He also represents Bluefield at Marketing Congress Retail Marketing Guild and United Furniture Stores sessions.
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Max Kammer
Kammer
Bluefield
Chicago
Ill
Marketing Congress
Retail Marketing Guild
United Furniture Stores
Nazi Collaborator Dies At Riviera
Pierre-Etienne Flandin a former French politician and Nazi collaborator cleared of charges died Friday at his Riviera villa after a long illness. He was 69 and the son of a senator. Flandin served as foreign minister for 14 months in the wartime government and held a senior post for eight months from 1934 to 1935.
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ST. Jean
Virginian Railway
John Benjamin Ferguson
Kirk Street
Princeton
Pearlsburg
Seaver Mortuary
Elk Garden
Russell County
James and
Amanda Lou McNew Ferguson
First,Methodist Church
Brotherhood of Railway
Omega Sheppard
Montgomery County
Miss Louise Ferguson
Benjamin H. Ferguson
U. S. Air Force
Obituaries From Bluefield Area Roster Of Deaths
A long list of death notices from Mohawk to Princeton details survivors, funeral plans, and burial arrangements. Mrs Leona Midkiff of Mohawk dies after three weeks illness with a large surviving family. other obituaries include George Alderson Swope of Bremerton and George Benjamin Ferguson of Princeton with service details and survivor lists.
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Leona Midkiff
Grundy
Abraham Midkiff
Druey Midkiff
Indianapolis
Ind
Thomas Midkif
Hurley
Thurman Midkiff
James Baer
Hugh Black
Dayton, C
Ance Chaney
Roseann
L. E. Evans
Conaway, Va
Frank Lester
Funeral notices from GOCAL Mrs Joe 49 Squire PA
Funeral services today in Charleroi for Mrs. Joe GOCAL age 49 at St Jerome Catholic Church. Interment Calvary Cemetery Charleroi. Also Mrs Mattie Adams 78 of Spanishburg service 2 pm at Troutdale Baptist Church with burial in church cemetery. Mrs Joe E Wysor 44 of Bluefield Mercer Funeral Home service 1 pm Bratton Memorial Chapel interment Russell Memorial Cemetery Lebannon VA. Mrs Oscar Chandler 54 Havaco service 2 pm Havaco Community Church interment Jaeger Memorial Cemetery Roderfield.
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John M. Snow
Algoma
McDowell County
Bluefield
Daughlters
Ruby Tucker
Rolfe
Jesse Levern
Chilhowie
Rance Snow
Crumpler
Frank Broyles
Athens
Kahula Baptist Church
Allisonia
Huff
Lizzie Shrader
Princeton-Athens Road
Princeton Memorial Hospital
Bland County
Robert
Lucy Pruett Robinette
Will Shrader
Kee Street Methodist Church
Princeton
Cecil Shrader
Billy Shrader
Fort Worth
Texas
Lucy Gordon
Rural Retreat
Lena Johnston
Mary Robbins
Bessie Lester
Gracia Robinette
Daniel Robinette
Norfolk
Kee Street Methodist
Resthaven Memorial
William E. Turpin
Rock House Mountain
Kimball
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Floyd County
Lula Q. Turpin
Thomas Turpin
Morgantown
Kenneth Turpin
Vivian
Clyde Cox
Jess Hardy
Roy Mullins
Boissevain
W. T. Patton
Hampton
Ruth Gallimore
Northfork
Rooseveltt Turpin
Indian Valley
Archie
McKinley Turpin
Squire
Oscar Marshall
Bertha Mont
Bennett Funeral Home
William B. Ingram
Irene Ingram
The
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Nile Ingram
Pineville
Jean Burton
Ruth Linville
Charleston
Bratton Memorial Chapel
Mercer Funeral Home
Monte Vista Cemetery
Donald George Coles
Geneva Jones
Pocahontas
First Baptist Church
Bryant Memorial Cemetery
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Tazewell County
Virginia
Abel and
Sarah Coles
Vincent Coles
Willow Grove
Alphonzo Coles
Thelma Gilliam
Lillie Johnson
Nellie Coles
Detroit
Mich
Myrtle Mapper
Petersburg
Lugo
Ephriam L. Cox
Huntington
Burkes Garden
Fannie Cox
Cedar Bluff
Robert Cox
New Richmond
Roy Cox
Cincinnati
Elmer Cox
Blanche Church
Helen Williams
Hobart H. Hagy
Faswell
Lettie Beavers Hagy
Mildred Woody
Gilbert
James Hagy
Keystone
Bill
Marian Belcher
Grundy
Nancy Lorie
Nashville
Tenn
Carl
Air Force
Laredo
Lindy Hagg
Maplewood Cemetery
Tazewell
Peery- St. Clair Funeral Home
Ralph Canterbury
W. A. Schweitzer
Ralph Mulkey
Z. W. Waldron
C. G. Rankin
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F. L. Beavers
William Wade
W. J
L. E. Bollinger
Amelia, Va
J. S. Andrews
Pearlsburg
Amelia
Gocal
Joe
St. Jerome Catholic Church
Charleroi
Calvary Cemetery
Adams
Mattie
Spanishburg
Baptist
Troutdale
Wysor
Joe E
Harry Heights
Bratton Memorial
Russell Memorial
Lebanon
Chandler
Oscar
Havaco
Havaco Community Church
Jaeger Memorial
Roderfield
Wyoming Mine Theft Probed
Wyoming County police investigate a break in at Matney Coal Company powder house. Thief or thieves took three cases of dynamite caps valued at 925 dollars and eight caps boxes worth 58 dollars. Entry was gained by removing a steeple from the door hasp. Deputy Dewey Short says the case is clueless. Sheriff Bert Short also assisting.
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Wyoming County
Dewey Short
Short
Matney Coal Company
Matney
Bert Short
Pickets Halt Work At Small Non-Union Taylor Mine
Clarksburg deputies report about 200 pickets shut down Rosemont coal mine operated by Thompson Coal and Construction Co. The 14 workers were blocked by women at the ramp to the loading bin. Four state trooper cars remained nearby to keep the highway clear as James W. Thompson filed a Taft-Hartley complaint with the National Labor Relations Board naming United Mine Workers and Harry Myers of Fairmont.
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Clarksburg
Rosemont
Taylor County
James W. Thompson
Thompson Coal and Construction Co
Thompson
Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
United Mine Workers
Harry Myers
Fairmont
UMW
Thundershowers Forecast For Mountain State Weekend
The Weather Bureau forecasts thundershowers for Saturday and Sunday in the Mountain State. Temperatures are expected to average about four degrees above normal over the next five days. Normal highs run 71 in the south and 70 in the north for this period.
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Huntington
Weather Bureau
Mountain State
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