City Board Sets Street Contract Bids in Bluefield
Bluefield Board of Directors approved resurfacing and new construction bids on downtown streets with W and H Contracting Co. receiving multiple per foot offers. The panel also noted underground utility work nearing completion and ordered traffic synchronization improvements and police patrols to aid downtown traffic during construction.
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Jim Terry
Bluefield Board of Directors
Thorn Street
Bluefield Avenue
W & H Contracting Co
Mercer Street
Duhring Street
Fourth Street
Carolina Avenue
Elm Street
Longview Avenue
Mountain View
Fairfield
Cliffmont Avenue
Cumberland Road
Belcher Street
Talbot Street
Essex Street
Knox Street
Mulberry Street
Fred Burton
Appalachian Power Company
General Telephone Co
Bluefield
Burton
Federal Street
Princeton Avenue
State Department of Highways
Bland
Federal
Angelo Monaco
Bill Looney
Edwin Elliott
Appalachian Power Co
Blaydes
North Street
Frederick Streets
Elliott
Joe Walker
Monaco
Bland Street
Daily Telegraph Printing Co advertisement details
Established 1693 daily paper rates and contact info for Bluefield West Virginia. It lists subscription costs by carrier and mail, motor route rates, zone coverage, and staff or agency contacts for advertising and circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Mathews, Shannon & Cullen
Five Juvenile Felony Cases Heard In Mercer Court
Mercer County Juvenile Court Judge Howard M. Jarrett heard five cases on Monday involving breaking and entering and assault. Two 16-year-olds from Bluefield were found guilty of breaking and entering Brush Fork Elementary School Stadium Drive In and Skyway Theater. Another 16-year-old from Bluefield was found guilty of breaking into a service station north of Bluefield owned by Fred S. Jones with cash and checks totaling 244.88 taken. A 15-year-old Princeton girl faces a preliminary hearing on assault charged for Friday afternoon. Two Bluefield youths charged with assault at Central Junior High were dismissed for lack of evidence. Also, two infant girls and one boy were removed from parental custody and placed with the Child Welfare Department for foster care.
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Mercer County
Howard M. Jarrett
Bluefield Area
Brushfork
Stadium Drive In
Skyway
Ernest Six
Bluefield
Fred S. Jones
Jarrett
Princeton
Central Junior High School
Child Welfare Department
OEO Driver Charged After Three Vehicle Crash
A three vehicle crash at Crystal at 4 30 p m Tuesday injured one person and caused 2700 dollars in property damage. Ruth A Buchanan 42 Crystal was cited for failure to keep her vehicle right of center. Leon Buchanan 17 Rock was treated for head injuries after riding as a passenger in the OEO car. Roosevelt Carter Crystal owned the parked truck damaged. Paul Pendleton Princeton drove the second pickup damaged. The OEO car was operated by Mrs. Buchanan according to state police Trooper F L Kyle. The Lincoln Memorial columns note Lincoln death states.
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Crystal
Mercer County
Office of Economic
Bluefield
Leon Buchanan
Box 14
Rock
Buchanan
Ruth A. Buchanan
Paul Pendleton
Princeton
Roosevelt Carter
F. L. Kyle
Montcalm
McComas
Rt. 11
Pendleton
Carter
Princeton Woman Dies After Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound
Lula S. Altizer 67 died in a Princeton hospital about 12 hours after apparently firing a .38 caliber revolver at her temple. State police labeled it death by own action. She had been despondent since her husband’s death last October. Funeral services set for Thursday at Burns-Wornal Chapel with burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens.
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Princeton
Lula S. Altizer
City of Bluefield Sued for $50,000 damages
Joseph E Shinault owner of Master Electric Service files in U S District Court Bluefield a 50 000 civil action against the City of Bluefield for property damage and injuries from a May 1970 storm drain overflow. He alleges negligent drain maintenance and injury from slime and grease discharged into his business. Hearing date not set.
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Virginia Side
Bluefield
Bluefield Avenue
U. S
Joseph E. Shinault
Shinault
Princeton Car Fire Damages Engine at Mercer Street
Princeton firemen responded at 11 45 a m Tuesday to 1345 Mercer Street to extinguish a blaze in a car engine caused by a backfire through the carburetor. The fire caused about 20 dollars in damage and was contained with dry chemical extinguishers. The car was owned and operated by Perry Crowe of Princeton.
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Princeton
Mercer Street
Perry Crowe
Deaths and Funerals In McDowell and Bluefield Areas
Funeral services are set for Essie Carolee Lambert 36 of Justus at First Baptist Justus with burial in Wilson Cemetery after a fatal single car crash on State Rt 7 near Davy. Survived by parents Warren and Etta Perry and several relatives including son Terry and stepsiblings.
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Essie Carolee Lambert
Terry Lambert
The
Home
Carl Lambert Jr
Justus
Virginia Blankenship
Oak Hill
Lila Celis
Judy Watts
Gilbert
Emma Ratliff
Marion
Ind
Flora Berry
Painesville
Ohio
Diane Williams
Thomasville
James Perry
Jerry Perry
Hunt
Larry Perry
Mason Perry
Cleveland
Sidney Perry
U. S. Army
Germany
Emily Perry
Florence Gibson 68 Chicago Mohegan resident dies
Florence Gibson 68 formerly of Mohegan died Sunday in Chicago. Surviving family includes her mother Myrtle Ball of Charleston two daughters Ruth Lawson and Jean Stanko of Chicago two sons Bill Gibson Hampton Virginia Clyde Gibson Mohegan and eight siblings. Funeral arrangements were unfinished at Fanning Funeral Home Welch.
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Florence Gibson
Chicago
Mohegan
Myrtle Ball
Charleston
Gaylord Ball
Zollie Pruitt
Salem
Mertie Gibson
Bartley
Ruby Kingery
Bartlett
Edith Brickley
California
Ruth Lawson
Ron
Jean) Stanko
Bill Gibson
Hampton
Clyde Gibson
Fanning Funeral Home
Welch
Funeral rites set for Rosa Mae Logan in Tazewell
Funeral services for Rosa Mae Logan 71 of North Tazewell Va will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at Peery and St Clair Funeral Home Chapel Tazewell with Rev Paul Gess officiating Burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery survivors include daughter Shirley Eads of Orlando Fla two brothers Howard Nophsker and Robert Nophsker one sister Mrs A Z Hileman and four grandchildren Pallbearers named and the funeral home will be open one hour prior to services
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Rosa Mae Logan
North Tazewell
Peery
St. Clair Funeral Home Chapel
Tazewell
Paul Gess
Maplewood Cemetery
Logan
Bluefield
H. W
Anna Bunn Nophsker
Tazewell Presbyterian Church
Samuel O. Logan
Shirley Eads
Orlando
Fla
Howard Nophsker
McDonald, Pa
Robert Nophsker
Altuna
A. Z. Hileman
Smithport
Jennings Wilson
Harry Fugate
Sidney Repass
Harold McGlothlin
John Monday
John Little
Rainy Weather Spreads Across Eastern U.S. States
The Nation’s Weather reports widespread rainstorms across the eastern two-thirds of the country with flash flood watches in place. Thunderstorms threaten the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, while a flood watch persists in western Pennsylvania and a tornado watch covers parts of South Dakota Minnesota North Dakota and Iowa. Temperatures rise into the 80s and 90s in southern Michigan and central Minnesota amid mostly sunny conditions westward.
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Associated Press
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Min
Gulf
Michigan
National Weather Service
Georgia
Henry H. Collins Dies at 82 in Welch Hospital
Henry H. Collins 82 of Raysal died in a Welch hospital after a long miner career. Survived by sons Virgil of Marion Virginia and Hassel of Raysal with nine grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Service 1 PM Thursday at Primitive Baptist Church Bradshaw with Elders Cooper and Flannery officiating. Burial Saeger Memorial Cemetery Roderfield. Visitation 5 PM-9 PM today at Fanning Funeral Home Saeger. Grandsons and family friends pallbearers.
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Henry H. Collins
Raysal
Welch
Saeger
William and Mary Asbury Collins
Emma Collins
UMW
IOOS
Virgil Collins
Marion
Hassel Collins
Primitive Baptist Church
Bradshaw
Wallace Cooper
Roy Flannery
Saeger Memorial
Roderfield
Fanning Funeral Home
Funeral services set for Mrs Annie White of Powellton
Mrs Annie White 81 of Powellton Fayette died Tuesday in a Bluefield hospital after a brief illness. She was visiting daughter Evelyn Comer of Bluefield and was a longtime Fayette County resident and Powellton United Methodist Church member. Survivors include two daughters Vivian Cantrell and Anna Jean Nease, son Issac B. White, sister Nancy Eades, four grandchildren and seven great‑grandchildren. Services 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Powellton United Methodist Church with Jim Meredith officiating. burial Montgomery Memorial Park London. Body to church one hour before service. viewing today at B C Hooper Funeral Home Montgomery 4 to 9.
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Bethella
Bessie) Coldiron
Blaine
Kentucky
David and
Arena Boggs Sturgill
Gladys Pelphrey
Garnett Sutphin
Paynesville
Douglas Funeral Home Chapel
War
Carl Kelly
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield- Tazewell Road
Joe Kowalski
Thorpe
Thorpe Methodist Church
John Lafferty
Woodlawn Memory Gardens
Bluewell
Poland
UMW
Julius
Josephine) Radnoczi
J. E
Cleo Davidson Lester
Rt. 2
North Tazewell
Bluefield
Springville
Lester
Annie Tiller
Bessie Bane
Richmond
Ind
William C. Davidson
Dudley Memorial Chapel
Charles M. Sublett
Clarence Jessee
Maple Hill Cemetery
Douglas Bowman
Roy Davidson
Earl Davidson
Eugene Kinder
Henry Kinder
Jack Kinder
Bill Fox
Richard Jessee
Annie White
Powellton
Fayette
Nancy Eades
Tampa
Fla
Powellton United Methodist Church
Jim Meredith
Montgomery Memorial Park
London
B. C. Hooper Funeral Home
Montgomery
Funeral for Glen Cecil Cundiff Held in Bluefield
Glen Cecil Cundiff 62 of 200 Lee Street Bluefield died yesterday. Funeral service held today at 2 p.m. in Mercer Funeral Home Chapel Bluefield with Dr Samuel Sink officiating. Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery nephews serve as pallbearers.
County Receives 1211 In Filing Fees For May Primary
Mercer County will get 1211 in filing fees from candidates in the May 9 primary. Ralph J. Bean Jr. said processing is underway and counties will receive checks later this month. State totals show 28735 collected with breakdowns by statewide, congressional, and district candidates.
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Mercer County
Ralph J. Bean Jr
Lan
Secretary of State
Senate
House of Delegates
Huntington Park Board
Secretary of State’s
Death of City Woman Probed in Bluefield
Bluefield police investigated the death of 73 year old Lucile B. Bailey at 1632 Princeton Avenue. Officers found no sign of forced entry and said death appeared due to natural causes based on physical evidence. Funeral plans were incomplete at Hawkins Funeral Home.
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Bluefield
Princeton Avenue
Lucile B. Bailey
C. L. Honaker
R. M. Tolley
Honaker
Spurrier
Bailey
Parker To Speak To Republicans In Mercer County
Joe Parker assistant chief of reclamation for the West Virginia Dept. of Natural Resources will address the Mercer County Republican Club at its June meeting in the Memorial Building Parker will discuss reclamation history and laws as they relate to surface mining He is Athens fire chief and a Concord College graduate married with two children and four years in the U S Air Force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Parker
West Virginia Dept. of Natural Resources
Mercer County
Republican Club
Memorial Building
Princeton
Parker
Athens Fire
Carl Carper
Concord College
U. S. Air Force
Mercer Native Named to State Post Became Assistant Atty General
Henry C. Bowen a Mercer County native is named one of three assistant attorneys general in Charleston. Attorney General Chauncey Browning announced the appointments to fill vacancies from the past months. Bowen holds AB and law degrees from the University of North Carolina. The other appointees are Guy R. Bucci of McKeesport Pennsylvania and William R. Wooten, formerly from Raleigh County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Bowen
Mercer County
Charleston
Chauncey Browning
Bowen
University of North Carolina
Browning
Guy R. Bucci
McKeesport
William R. Wooten
Raleigh County
Liquor Seizure Reported From Drake Hotel Parking Lot
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph notes a police raid on the Drake Hotel where liquor was taken from a car trunk in the Princeton Avenue parking lot. Roy W. Hall, a hotel resident, was charged with possession after arrest in room 212. The item mentions a separate statistic on share ownership in 1971.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield City
Drake Hotel
Princeton Avenue
Roy W. Hall
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Telephone Company
Dr. Blaydes
Lower Bland Street
Bluefield Supply
Lions Install
M. Douglas Lucas
Bluefield Lions Club
Bluefield Country Club
Tail
E. C
Buddy) Caldwell
George Moore
Joy K
OEO
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
Lincoln
Advent Christian Church
James H. Altizer
Frances Gilbert
Bishop, Va
Sarah Chappel
Williamson
Tolley Vanover
Barboursville
Burns-Wornal Chapel of Memorial Funeral Directory
Orville Harvey
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton Road
City of
Essie
Carolee Lambert
Mrs. Cleo Davidson Lester
Johnny Stiltner
Abingdon
John and
Matilda Looney Stiltner
Hettie Tennessee Stiltner
John Harley Stiltner
Dinah Stiltner
Vansant
Hattie Stiltner
Tom Ratliff
Virginia Funeral Home Chapel
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Willie Compton
Looney Cemetery
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