Falls Church pilot killed in Virginia plane crash near Hillsville
Elliott Ray Brooks, 65, of Falls Church, was killed when his single engine Cessna 180 crashed near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Carroll County Virginia. The body was found about 25 feet from wreckage as foggy damp weather hindered rescue. Brooks had been returning from Atlanta where he sold farm and timber land.
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Hillsville
Falls Church
Atlanta
Blue Ridge Parkway
Elliott Ray Brooks
Carroll County
Brooks
Ex Bluefield Kiwanis to hear ex Bluefielder Monday
David Malden of Bland County Virginia State Correctional Farm will speak at the Bluefield Kiwanis Club meeting Monday noon at the West Virginian Hotel. He will discuss the farm rehabilitation program. Send-off plans for Past District Governor Fred P Edwards will be announced for the Kiwanis International Convention in Los Angeles June 28 to July 2.
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David Malden
Virginia State Correctional Farm
Bland County
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
West Virginian
Bluefield
Ralph Huff
Fred P. Edwards
Bluefield Club
Kiwanis International
Los Angeles
Cal
Bill Goodloe
Pineville Youth Heads Association Elects New President
Pineville resident Bob Browning was elected president of the Rockcastle Association of Baptist Youth Fellowships for the 1964 65 year during a monthly rally at Bellemeade Baptist Church Sabine He is a Pineville High senior son of Robert and Mrs Browning active in Hi Y Club National Honor Society basketball and track and a member of the schools honor guard at June 1964 commencement He has attended the State Baptist Youth Convention Huntington and the State Baptist Youth Camp Cowan.
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Bob Browning
Pineville
Wyoming County
Rockcastle Association of Baptist
Bellemeade
Pineville High
Nuckolls To Speak At Rotary Meeting
Major George R. Nuckolls of Bluefield will address Bluefield Rotarians at noon next Tuesday. He serves as executive officer for the Third Squadron 150th Armor Cavalry WV National Guard and will discuss the new extended facility Armory in Brush Fork on Bluefield’s northern outskirts. The Third Squadron includes units in Bluefield Welch Princeton Williamson Hinton and Logan.
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George R. Nuckolls
Bluefield
150Th Armored Cavalry
West Virginia National Guard
Bluefield Rotarians
West Virginian Hotel
Nuckolls
National Guard
Brushfork
Welch
Princeton
Williamson
Hinton
Logan
West Virginia native to join Cal Tech for blood antigen study
Dr. Bobby Gene Sanders from Rhodell Raleigh County West Virginia will begin a NIH fellowship at Cal Tech next month. He will help study variations in red blood cell antigens. Sanders teaches biology at Lafayette College Easton and holds an assistant professorship. He and wife Eula Fay Fix have three children.
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Virginia
California Institute of Technology
Bobby Gene Sanders
Rhodell
Raleigh County
W. Va
Lafayette College
Easton
Sanders
National Institutes of Health
Cal Tech
High
Concord College
Mercer
Raleigh
West Virginia
Pennsylvania State University
Lafayette
Eula Fay Fix
Beckley
Barbara
John
Mark
Guard Squadron To Attend Camp
The Third Squadron 150th Armored Cavalry West Virginia National Guard with units from Williamson Hinton Welch Logan and Princeton will attend the annual summer encampment July 25 to August 7 at Camp Pickett near Blackstone Virginia An advance detachment of four officers and 18 enlisted will leave Bluefield July 22 to arrange housing and supplies for the main body which departs Bluefield July 25 around 1030 am The main unit will travel by motorcade to Farmville Virginia to camp then proceed to Pickett for a week of field training tank and night firing and graded tests Governor Albertis S Harrison Jr will review the troops on August 1 The encampment includes map reading hand to hand combat rifle firing and a fitness test culminating with departure August 7 with arrival back in Bluefield August 8
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150Th Armored Cavalry
West Virginia National Guard
Bluefield
Camp Pickett
Blackstone
Williamson, Hinton
Welch
Logan
Princeton
George Nuckolls
Farmville
Pickett
Virginia
Albertis S. Harrison, Jr
Mercer County GOP to Elect Officers at Green Valley
The Mercer County Republican Club will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m at the Mercer County Health Center Green Valley to elect new officers and plan the campaign season. Club President Jack Nestor urged full attendance and invited area residents to join the Republican movement.
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Mercer County
Republican Club
Mercer County Health Center
Green Valley
Jack Nestor
American Legion To Elect Officers At Roy Scott Post 39
Officers will be elected at the Roy Scott Post 39 American Legion meeting on Wednesday with members urged to attend and participate in the process.
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American Legion
Roy Scott Post
The
Band Programs Start Monday at Beaver and Nearby Schools
Summer band programs for Beaver High School Fairview and Central Junior Highs begin tomorrow. John W Lilly band director announces participation details with group meeting times on Monday Wednesday and Tuesday Thursday. Beaver band meets 1 30 p m Tuesday and Thursday and 1 30 p m Wednesday at the school. Beaver stage band meets at 12 30 p m at the high school.
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Beaver High School
Fairview
Central
John W. Lilly
Beaver Band
Beaver
Five Groups Plan Fiscal Year Work in Grundy Area
Three civic units and two fraternal groups in Buchanan County Virginia outline new fiscal year activities. The Grundy Rotary Club meets Monday at 7 p.m. at the Davis Hotel, Buchanan County Civil Air Patrol at 7 p.m. Harman Recreation Building, Rebekahs Lodge at 7:30 p.m. Grundy Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall. Kiwanis Club meets Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Davis Hotel, Order of Eastern Star at 7:30 p.m. Masonic Temple.
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Grundy
Buchanan County
Survey May Ditch Plan For Center In Bluefield Area
A proposed Bluefield Area Graduate Training Center may not materialize due to incomplete survey results. Mercer County schools superintendent and steering chairman W R Pete Cooke says only about 50 percent of questionnaires have been returned and the survey is extended another week. The center would offer masters and doctoral work with WVU campus credit, with classes at night in local schools or colleges pending location.
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Bluefield Area
W. R
Pete) Cooke
Mercer County
Bluefield
Princeton Chambers of Commerce
West Virginia University
Cooke
Switchback Choir Appears in Anawalt Afternoon
The Memorial Baptist Church choir from Switchback McDowell County will sing at Anawalt First Baptist Church this afternoon starting at 3 p.m. Sponsor is Mrs. L A Wilson and Rev F D Thornton serves as host pastor.
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Memorial Baptist Church of
Switchback
McDowell County
Anawalt
McDowell
Anawalt First Baptist Church
L. A. Wilson
F. D. Thornton
Trailways to Use Greyhound Station in Bluefield Area Relocation
Rumors settle that Trailways will relocate its Bluefield station to a site between Mercer and Scott Streets near Princeton Avenue. Virginia Foods may buy or lease the N and W freight station property, moving operations from Pulaski. Also noted are WVU Medical graduates and local honors, plus civic and church notices.
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Trailways Bus Company
Greyhound
Trailways
Mercer-Princeton-Bluefield
Princeton Avenue
Mercer and
Scott Streets
Virginia Foods
Pulaski
Four Beaver Seniors Win Work-A-Day Scholarships
Four Beaver High School graduates received scholarships funded by the Work-A-Day program. Diane Hughes Joe Ferguson Martha Ann Crockett and Virginia French were chosen by Principal Lambert Arrington from 18 applicants. the program raised 1400 in wages and gifts to seed the scholarship fund. Each plans college study in teaching social work business foreign language religious education and government service.
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Beaver High School
Diane Hughes
Louise Hughes
Maryland Ave
Joe Ferguson
B. W. Ferguson
Third Street
Beaver
Lambert Arrington
Louise Light
Arrington
Marshall University
Bluefield State College
Martha Ann Crockett
Women's College of
University of North Carolina At
Greensboro
U. S
Vivian French
Kentucky Christian College
WV Republican delegates pick Revercomb as convention chair
West Virginia GOP elected Chapman Revercomb as chairman of its 14 member delegation for the San Francisco nominating convention. The group heard pitches for Goldwater Rockefeller and Scranton and set July 12 for a pre convention meeting in San Francisco to decide voting unity.
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Charleston
West Virginia
U. S
Chapman Revercomb
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Scranton
San Francisco
Arch A. Moore Jr
M. G
Mal) Guthrie
Revercomb
Moore
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Tom van Sickle
Washington
Jack E. McGregor
Pittsburgh
Guthrie
Burkes Garden Vet Preserves Family War Record of Edwards
Leland Edwards of Burkes Garden in Tazewell County earned a World War I shell wound and a son Arnold Edwards died in World War II in the Pacific theater. The veteran and his son accumulated 31 decorations including the Bronze Star Purple Heart Good Conduct Medal and Philippine Liberation Ribbon preserved in a framed case.
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Leland Edwards
Burkes Garden
Tazewell County
Edwards
Arnold
Europe
Battle of the Argonne
Pacific Theater
Arnold $. Edwards
Pacific
Leyte
Luzon
New Guinea
Arnold Edwards
Guinea
Phillipine
Leland Carter
Carter
Monday Deadline For Buchanan Tags
Buchanan County Virginia motorists must purchase and display county auto tags by Monday June 15. Sheriff Bur Rife warned warrants will be issued for those failing to display tags, which are required along with state tags and carry fines up to 100 dollars per offense.
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Buchanan County
Bur Rife
Rife
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