North Carolina Woman Killed In Turnpike Crash
Mrs Arzella Rebecca Hayward 39 of Cameron NC died after a car she rode in collided with a vehicle driven by Lt Michael Baum of Camp Lejeune NC on the West Virginia Turnpike at 445 PM Four other Hayward passengers Roy D Hayward Sr Roy D Hayward Jr 12 Danny Ray Hayward 8 and Peggy Lynn Hayward 4 were listed in satisfactory condition Baum face charges of negligent homicide and failure to keep his vehicle under control The body lay at George W Seaver Mortuary Princeton awaiting arrangements
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North Carolina
Princeton Memorial Hospital
West Virginia
Arzella Rebecca Hayward
Cameron
N. C
Michael Joseph Baum
Jacksonville
Fla
Camp Lejeune
Hayward
Roy D. Hayward
Roy D. Hayward, Jr
Danny Ray Hayward
Peggy Lynn Hayward
Baum
George W. Seaver Mortuary
Princeton
Tazewell Firm Remains Idle on Strike
General Instrument Inc employees in Tazewell Virginia stayed off the job in a 12th day strike after walking out at midnight as their contracts expired. Workers seek $2 per hour pay, better insurance, a Christmas bonus and a retirement plan. No end date indicated by company spokesman.
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General Instrument, Inc
Tazewell
Students Finish First Aid Course at Montcalm High
Montcalm area students completed a Red Cross first aid course at Montcalm High School. Instructor Ken Davidson led participants Ellen Huffman Barbara M. Francis Jacqueline Mitchem Tommy Sisk Ella Mae Warden Letta Gay Baughman Shirley Helmandollar Clissie Mae Epperson Charlotte Bailey Shelvie Jean Lusk Wanda Bailey Maxine Sigman Dwight M. Glass Paul Kittinger Frank M. Rodriguez Johnny Blevins Charles H. Asbury Carlton Combs. The program was organized by the Community Action Agency Mercer County Office of Economic Opportunity and the Bluefield Chapter of the American Red Cross.
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Montcalm Area
Montcalm High School
Ken David
Ellen Huffman
Barbara M. Francis
Jacqueline Mitchem
Tommy Sisk
Ella Mae Warden
Letta Gay Baughman
Shirley Helmandollar
Clissie Mae Epperson
Charlotte Bailey
Shelvie Jean Lusk
Wanda Bailey
Maxine Sigman
Dwight M. Glass
Paul Kittinger
Frank M. Rodriguez
Johnny Blevins
Charles H. Asbury
Carlton Combs
Mercer County Office of Economic Opportunity
Bluefield
The
American Red Cross
Revival Slated At Smith Chapel Church
Rev Ova B Edwards of Telford Tennessee will conduct a week long revival at Smith Chapel Church of the Brethren starting Sunday. Nightly services begin at 7 30 p m. The Old Guard of Bluefield will provide the music Friday. The church sits on Route 20 seven miles from Princeton.
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Ova B. Edwards
Telford
Tenn
Smith Chapel
Norfolk and Western to drop Trains 3 and 4 Pocahontas service
Local hearing reports a stated annual net deficit of over 800000 linked to Trains 3 and 4. The railroad plans to drop these two trains on April 21 while asserting passenger service isn’t ending, but reduced to fit current needs. A Bluefield inspection drew about 600 residents at the N and W station.
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N&w
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western
Man Arrested After Accident Involving Stolen Car
Columbus Ohio man Charles Purcell was arrested after a crash on Secondary Route 102 near Thorpe. Purcell, now in McDowell County Jail on grand larceny charges, signed extradition papers to return to Ohio. He had been fined for driving left of center. Trooper M C Kochenderfer led the investigation.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles Purcell
Purcell
McDowell County
Thorpe
Robert Lee McGrady
Justice of the Peace
M. C. Kochenderfer
Crash Victim Satisfactory After Head On Collision Near Tazewell
Mrs. Donald Goins 26 of Richmond Va is listed in satisfactory condition at Bluefield Sanitarium after a head on crash 1 1 2 miles west of Tazewell at 1 50 a m Friday. She rode with her husband in a car struck by a convertible driven by Robert Lewis Smith 36 Flat Top who turned left into the Goins vehicle. Smith and his brother Danny Roy Smith 21 a passenger were hospitalized with cuts. Police charged Smith with driving while under the influence.
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Donald Goins
Richmond
Bluefield Sanitarium
Tazewell
Kentucky Man Dies From Crash Injuries
Lloyd Dobbs, 63, of Polor, Kentucky, died in a Norton Virginia hospital from injuries after his car wreck on U S 23 a half mile north of Norton late Thursday night.
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Lloyd Dobbs
Polor
Norton
U. S. 23
Rally Planned for Connolly at Masonic Temple
A public rally for Al lan Connolly candidate for Bluefield City Board of Directors fifth district will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple on Jones Street. Jerome Katz former City Attorney will be the featured speaker.
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Allan
al) Connolly
Bluefield
Jerome Katz
Freshman From Montcalm Chosen for KU Summer Camp
A Montcalm High School freshman has been selected to attend a six week summer music camp starting Friday at the University of Kansas. The program offers intensive training on campus for talented young musicians.
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Wanda Sue Grose
Montcalm High School
University of Kansas
Court narrows scope in deep freeze bribery case
The court ruled that actions against Mrs. Loukish from 1962 onward were irrelevant to the case. The investigation involved claims officials in the Truman era accepted food freezers and gifts for favors. Loukish, an Air Force budget administrator, supervised 240 overseas commissaries before transfer actions and civil service appeals followed a 1958 protest letter.
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Loukish
Louks
Air Force
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Man Charged With Disorderly Conduct in Picketing Case
Richard Sherman Body of Peterstown West Virginia was fined 25 dollars and costs in Radford Municipal Court for disorderly conduct. The charge was reduced from ambushing a police officer after his arrest during a June 2 picketing at the Lynchburg Foundry Co. Radford plant during a wildcat walkout that ran from May 29 to June 3.
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Radford
Vietnam War Buildup Expands U.S. Forces and Costs
The Pentagon created a Marine division and an Army division plus four Army infantry brigades for Vietnam during 1965 to 1967. The 9th Infantry Division arrived in Vietnam in 1966, while the 6th Marine Division organized in 1966 sits on the U.S. West Coast. Pentagon plans anticipate a 2.4 million force level after the war, with a potential three-year drawdown and up to a $10 billion annual budget saving.
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Vietnam
Pentagon
9Th Infantry Division
Sth
California
United States
U.S. West Coast
U.S
Six Property Transfers Filed at Mercer County Courthouse
Six property transfers and one marriage license application were filed Friday. Transfers include Nora Rowland to Florence Faulkner for a Princeton tract at 16000 dollars and Harry Hall Sr to James and Betty Turbin for Beaver Pond at 12000 dollars. The Bluefield Urban Renewal Authority sold bluefield tract for 14994 dollars. Roland and Catheren Hall to James and Betty Turbin for Beaver Pond at 2400 dollars. Fred and Lucille Bolton to Glen and Margaret May for East River at 27000 dollars. Marriage license filings: Charles Elmer Moore of Hiawatha and Margie Marie Taylor of Princeton.
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Mercer County
Nora Rowland
Florence Faulkner
Princeton
Bluefield
Lions Club hears film on Smith Mountain and Leesville dams
Groseclose, Appalachian Power Company assistant, showed a film of Smith Mountain Dam and Leesville Dam on the Roanoke River at the Bluefield Lions Club meeting in West Virginian Hotel. He noted the two dams are the largest east of the Mississippi and together make the river run uphill. Bernard Wilkinson introduced the speaker. next meeting will induct new members.
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William Groseclose
Appalachian Power Company
Smith Mountain
Leesville
Roanoke River
Bluefield Lions Club
West Virginian
Groseclose
Mississippi River
Lion Bernard Wilkinson
Transfers Made At NAR Plant
Two recent transfers to the North American Rockwell Plant in Princeton assume new duties. Stanley H. Anderson becomes controller, Douglas C. Piper named as program manager MOS Manufacturing. Anderson came from El Segundo, California and is a California CPA. Piper previously supervised Autonetics manufacturing in Anaheim and has 15 years with North American. The Andersons reside on College Avenue with their four children. the Pip ers bought a home in Boulder Park, Princeton.
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Rockwell
Princeton
Stanley H. Anderson
Douglas C. Piper
MOS
Anderson
el Segundo
Cal
University of Southern California
California
Lucy
Andersons
College Avenue
Piper
Autonetics
Anaheim
North American
Boulder Park
Lewis Praised By Randolph
Senator Jennings Randolph praised the late John L. Lewis founder of the United Mine Workers of America as a crusading labor leader with an imprint of greatness. Lewis died Wednesday night at age 81.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
The
United Mine Workers of America
Jennings Randolph
Lewis
Appeal for Union fire truck funds and dance kickoff
A 1950s style letter urges Union area residents to donate about 25000 dollars for a new fire truck and equipment. It notes the 1956 Ford pumper—out of service for months—needs replacement parts and two serviceable pumpers. The drive begins with a June 17 free square dance at Union High School, led by about twenty volunteers, with donations deductible for income tax.
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West Virginia Rating Bureau
Union High School
H. L. Sarver, Jr
William E. Pyne
Fairmont Receives $33,600 OEO Grant for Welfare Committees
The Office of Economic Opportunity approves a 33600 grant to North Central West Virginia Community Action Association of Fairmont for a self help anti poverty program. Funds cover most operating costs for 22 welfare committees in Monongalia and Preston Counties to increase welfare understanding define local problems and pursue solutions.
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Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
North Central West Virginia
Rev Dowell to Speak at AME Zion Church Services
Omega Dowell will be the guest speaker at AME Zion Church Pulaski Street Sunday morning worship at 11 and evening service at 6. The Youth Choir will sing during services. Rev. E S Hardge is pastor of the church.
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Omega Dowell
AME Zion
Pulaski Street
E. S. Hardge
Deaths and Funerals in Coal Region Obituaries
Long obituary list recounts deaths in Bramwell Willington Narrows Princeton Oakvale Grundy Honaker Oakwood Raysal and War areas with details on ages, family survivors, church ties, military service, and funeral arrangements. Names include John Wasco Lorenza Saunders Earl Nelson Lida Gore Matilda Endicott Emmitt Perkins Roscoe Whitt Eddie White and others. Funeral services noted with church or home locations and burial plans.
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Lorenza R. Saunders
Willington
Long Beach Calif
Long Beach Naval Base
Navy
Willowton
Saunders Grove Baptist Church
Oakvale High School
Lavern
Constance
Darlene
Sharon
Tanny
James Saunders
Union Bridge
Ronald
Tony
Tracy Saunders
T. M. Stevens
Johnston
Oakvale
Matilda Endicott
Oakwood
Grundy
Edgar Nimethy
Baltimore
Susie Crater
Plainville
Ohio
Vina Compton
Patterson
Clell Endicott
Melvin Endicott
Vansant
Earl Endicott
Pilgrims Knob
Arch Dawson
John Dawson
Stacy
Eugene Evans
Rowe Mountain Cemetery
Virginia Funeral Home
Walter P Hawkins 72 Bluefield service at First Methodist
Walter P Hawkins 72 of Bluefield Va died recently. Service today at 2 pm at First Methodist Church Bluefield with Rev E C Burton officiating. Burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery with Mercer Masonic Lodge No 160 conducting graveside rites. Pallbearers listed and honored by various groups. Hawkins Funeral Home in Bluefield in charge. William H Broyles 74 Princeton service today 2 pm at George W Seaver Mortuary Chapel. Burial Phillips Cemetery LeRena. Pallbearers named.
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John Wasco
Bramwell
Bluefield
Bramwell Presbyterian Church
Grace Rigney Wasco
Charles H. Lamb
Roanoke
Annie Tabor
Junction City
Ore
Jacob Wasco
Bellair
Ohio
Jerry Conner
Elmer C. Farmer
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Don Anello
Don Murphy
John Godbey
Hampton Hill
Ed Pasley
McKinley Cornette
Richard Painter
French Edmonds
Glen Scott
Louie Shelton
Cravens- Shires Funeral Home
Cash Hill
Jacob and
Jane Gore
Lorenzo Gore
Syracuse
N. Y
George W. Seaver Mortuary
G. F. Walker
Sunset Cemetery
Emmitt Perkins
Emmitt
Sylvia Harris) Perkins
Honaker
Richlands Va
Russell County
Norman
Mertie Whitt Compton
Ruth Huff
Geraldine Deskins
Finley, Va
Pearl Palmer
Alexandria
Goldie Sanders
Hazel Whited
Swords Creek
Isola Baldwin
Jewel Valley
Lola Mays
Mt. Vernon
Howard Compton
Baltimore
Ellis Compton
Cleveland
Lee Compton
Rowe, Va
Hub Compton
Oakwood
Perry Short
Rowe
Honaker Funeral Home
Willie Compton
Jimmy Adams
Elmer Hess
Compton
Sam Mitchin
George E. Snider
David Y. Hicks
E. W. Linkous
M. E. Rich
C. L. Seocey
W. J. Gillespie, Jr
L. W. Bates
Appalachian Power Co
Order of the Eastern Star
Hawkins Funeral Home
Broyles
William H
Princeton
Rev
Mont Carr
Phillips Cemetery
Lerena
Randall McComas
Mitchell Jennings
Tommy Foland
Junior Thomas
Mike Wagner
Eugene Phillips
Fine Paid For Aiding The Escape Of Felon
Shirley Gay Aksomitus 35 of Bluefield appeared for sentencing in Mercer County Intermediate Court after being found guilty of aiding and abetting a felon’s escape. Judge Howard M. Jarrett imposed three months in jail or a 500 dollar fine plus costs. She paid the fine and was freed. Martin, convicted of malicious wounding from a February 12 1969 Ebony Club shooting, received two to ten years in the state penitentiary.
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Shirley Gay Aksomitus
Bluefield
Mercer County
Howard M. Jarrett
Aksomitus
Marshall Wade Martin
Virginia
Martin
Ebony Club
Beaver Summer Classes Scheduled at High School
Principal Lambert Arrington announced Beaver summer school registration will be held at the high school on Monday at 9 a.m. Classes run from 8 a.m. to noon, five days a week, and any subject will be offered if there is enough demand.
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Beaver
Lambert Arrington
Brown Attends 30th Southern States Work Conference
Richard A. Brown of Bluefield State College joins 14 other West Virginians as part of a 15 member delegation at Daytona Beach Florida for the 30th annual Southern States Work Conference. The event runs this week at Daytona Plaza Hotel with committees addressing education communication, vocational training, leadership, early childhood education and school improvement programs. Delegates represent Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia and Washington DC.
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Richard A. Brown
Bluefield State College
West
State Department of Education
Southern Bank Association Executives
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Washington, D. C
Hill Receives BS Degree From MIT in 1960
Herman W. Hill Jr. of Bramwell earned the bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering at MIT's 108th Commencement on Friday June 13. He contributed to the Technique as sports editor and executive editor and held roles in the Social Service Committee IEEE Delta Kappa Epsilon and intramural sports. About 560 graduates received degrees as President Howard Johnson delivered the address.
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Herman W. Hill Jr
Herman W. Hill
Bramwell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hill
Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Delta Kappa Fission
Howard W. Johnson
James R. Killian, Jr
Hechler to Speak in Princeton Sunday
Congressman Ken Hechler will be in Mercer County Sunday to address disabled miners pensions and widows benefits at the County Courthouse at 2 p.m. Local leader Sherman Graves notes the talk will focus on miners relief and union leadership tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken Hechler
United Mine Workers
Mercer County
Sherman Graves
Hechler
Gibbard Named As Arts, Sciences Dean At WVU
Morgantown WV AP Dr Harold A Gibbard has been named acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University to succeed retiring Dr Carl M Frause. Dr Delmas F Miller serves as acting head of the College of Human Resources and Education while Dean Stanley Ikenberry is on leave, WVU President James G Harlow said Friday.
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Morgantown
Harold A. Gibbard
College of Arts and Sciences
West Virginia University
Carl M. Frasure
Delmas F. Miller
College of Human Resources and Education
Stanley
Fiduciary notices and distraint auction posted in Bluefield WV
Public notices list creditors and beneficiaries for several estates with claims to be filed by October 15 1969. Also announced is a public sale by Commercial Credit Corporation in Bluefield WV of a 1963 Buick LeSabre repossessed for default, to be sold at auction with terms cash and right to bid held by the seller the undersigned.
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Rome Brown
Major McKinley Brown
Acie E. Fink
Cletus L. Fink
Anile D. Fink
Ee A. Gordon
Winifrey
John Hopkins
Albert Tevtins
Henry E. Hopkins
Walter Lewis Mevey
Wilbur H Johnson
Carrie Etheler
Donald Ewan
Nichols
Lois Elizabeth Nieboter
Bluefield
William T. Rancock
Accoun
al Ae A
Commerc'a Credit Corporation
North Street
West Virginia
Commercial Credit Corporation
J. E. Culler
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