Whitethorn School transfers amid board actions and protests
Whitethorn principal Charles Moore will move to Cumberland Heights School after Mercer County Board of Education approval in Princeton. Mrs. Pietrantozzi remains at Whitethorn while Harold Okes takes Moore’s Whitethorn post. The board also approved health association board appointment and scholastic accident insurance, and discussed night nursing classes and driver permit sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Moore
Whitethorn School
Bluefield
Cumberland Heights School
Mercer County Board of Education
Princeton
Harold Okes
Cumberland Heights
Moore
Whitethorn
Cooke
Pietrantozzi
Charles Brooks
Brooks
Dan Akers
Mercer County Health Association
Walter L White
Akers
J. J. MaHood
MaHood
Pilot Life Insurance Co
Lambert Arrington
Bluefield High School
Vivian F. Wagner
Matoaka High
Okes
Billy G. Moore
Bramwell
Oakvale
Gladys Smith
Harry
Matoaka
Clarence Lilly
Cedar Bluff
Eva Ellison
Camp Creek
Dunns
James Cyphers
Cedar Cliff
Ruby Poindexter
Mary G Page
Princeton High
Grace Webster Wiseman
Gladys L. Gibson
Bramwell High
Norma R. Smith
Bluewell
Elizabeth Susan Hedrick
Newspaper Masthead Fragment
An OCR fragment shows an old newspaper masthead with ESTABLISHED 1893 and publishing details. It lists the Daily Telegraph style and address 412 B Street Bluefield West Virginia with Associated Press credit and Katz Agency representation. It provides publication and circulation notes and rates by application.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Semaenen
Associated Pnes
Vfnabea
Katz Agency
Deaths and Funerals in Virginia and West Virginia
A series of obituaries notes the deaths of Shade Keen 61 of Oakwood Virginia Fleming Roberts 87 of Jaeger and Mrs Ada Craft Combs 70 of Honaker among others. Services are set at residences churches and cemeteries across Buchanan and Mercer counties with burial in local cemeteries and funeral details announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shade Keen
Oakwood
Orville Thacker
Antioch Cemetery
Keen Mountain
Keen
Grundy
Buchanan County
Doss
Nancy Keen
Jackson Coal Co
Jewell Valley
UMWA
Josie Keen
Flder Keen
Bluefield
Helen White
Frank Brown
Whitewood
Jean Keen
Erlvin Keen
Stacy
Raymond Keen
Vansant
Roy
Sherman
Jimmy
Leonard Keen
Albert Asbury
Harman
Farmer Funneral
Richlands
Fleming Roberts
Jawger
McDowell County
Welch
Panther
Maston
Tilda Bailey Roberts
Elizabeth Riffe Roberts
Lakie Rice
Jaeger
Fleming Roberts, Jr
Herman Roberts
Myrtle Marcum
Mose Roberts
Davy
Lettie Haggy
Church of God
Laeger
G. W. Powell
Blaine England
Anvil Cemetery
Ada Craft Combs
Honaker
Glen Lyn
William J. Combs
Early Combs
Mount Vernon
Ohio
E. B. Hale
Swords Creek
James Snyder
Bob White
Louise May
Newark
John Dickenson
Kopperston
Swords Creek Methodist Church
Perry Herndon
Johnny Herndon
Combs
John Keene
Vaughan Owens
Bill Davis
Jessee Rickman
Floyd Goodman
Jack Cartwright
Honaker Funeral Home
Four convicts flee from Camp 23 in Virginia
Four inmates from Camp 23 work detail escaped after their guard C H Turner was struck by a car on Route 650 in Charlotte County. Police believe the four were picked up by a white man in a stolen 1950 sedan. Escapees are Sherman Dewey Burton Jr 18 Edward M Slater 20 Joseph Allen Kirby 24 and Alan D Jones 24. Turner is in fair condition at Halifax Community Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
C. H. Turner
Halifax
Charlotte County
Washington
Halifax County
Sherman Dewey Burton Jr
Pearlsburg
Edward M. Slater
Charlottesville
Joseph Allen Kirby
Philadelphia
Alan D. Jones
Hampton
Turner
Halifax Community Hospital
Vet Benefits Extension Eyed by Congress for Reservists
A bill cleared by a Senate Labor and Public Welfare committee would extend GI Bill training start or completion time for mobilized reservists and National Guardsmen affected by the Berlin crisis. Hearings in the House Veterans Affairs committee will follow. the measure would extend eligibility for Korea GI Bill and War Orphans' Education Assistance Program. Representatives note the change preserves veterans education rights amid service recalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Washington
House Veterans Affairs Committee
C. S. Collier Jr
W. Va. Department of Veterans
Berlin
Korea
Veterans Administration
Robert A. Everett
Tennessee
House
Veterans Affairs Subcommittee On
Everett
Kennedy on economy foreign aid and world tensions
President Kennedy argued to keep politics out of economic debate and urged sustaining efforts for world peace. He noted growing resentment at aid limits but defended continuity, discussed Far East policy reviews, Laos caution, and Mansfield’s input, and said India’s aircraft talks are ongoing. He rejected Khrushchev on nuclear tests and emphasized reducing tensions globally with goodwill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Senate
Yugoslavia
Poland
Far East
Laos
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Mansfield
Burma
Cambodia
Khrushchev
India
Soviet Union
United States
Caracas Terrorists Destroy 64 Buses in 10 Months
Caracas violence roils public transit as 64 buses are destroyed and 487 damaged by arson and gunfire over ten months, per the Transport Workers Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caracas
Venezuela
Transport Workers Union
11 Year Old Inherits Large Duke Estate
New York AP. Doris Duke’s 11 year old grandson Walker P. Inman Jr. inherits the bulk of Mrs. Nana line H. Duke’s estimated 40 million dollar estate. An order admitting the will to probate was signed Thursday in Surrogate Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nanaline H. Duke
Doris Duke
Walker P. Inman Jr
Brunson, D. C
Mercer Prisoner’s Death Reported After Autopsy
Dr Bailes treated Williams for a forehead contusion at 12 45 p m and noted no alarming signs. He died around 1 30 p m and an immediate autopsy at Bluefield Sanitarium found death due to internal bleeding of the head per Holroyd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Cause Unknown In Gulf Crash
The 1959 National Airlines DC7B crash in the Gulf of Mexico remained listed as having unknown cause by the Civil Aeronautics Board. FBI activity continues, with nine bodies recovered and a partial remains found. mystery deepens with the unexpected Spears episode and questions about the Tampa man William Allen Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gulf of Mexico
Civil Aeronautics Board
Robert Vernon Spears
National Airlines
Gulf
Spears
FBI
Phoenix
Ariz
Alcatraz
William Allen Taylor
Tampa
Fla
New Orleans
Taylor
Gibbs Preaches At Double Gates
Leonard H. Gibbs recent Columbia Theological Seminary graduate has accepted a call from Abingdon Presbytery to evangelize and organize a Presbyterian Church in the Double Gates community near the Blue fields. He is from Rabun Ga and a King College graduate 1951. Gibbs will preach at 11 a.m. next Sunday in the Presbyterian Chapel Trailer on a two acre site along Virginia Route 650 near the Leatherwood Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard H. Gibbs
Columbia Theological Seminary
Decatur
Abingdon
Gibbs
Rabun
Woodstock
King College
Bristol
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Richmond
D.C.E
Lenoir
N.C
Emory Medical School
Atlanta
Sam B. Lapsley
Lapsley
Lexington
Leonard B. Gibbs
Cold Spring Presbyterian Church
Holston
East Point Presbyterian Church
East Point
Presbyterian Chapel
Lander
Leatherwood Company
Christophersen Receives Richmond University Law Degree
Charles Allen Christophersen son of Mrs Kathleen Christophersen of Fairview Apartments Bluefield received a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Richmond Virginia at commencement exercises Monday. Degrees were conferred by Dr George M Modlin president of the university at the close of the commencement address by Dr R Nevitt Sanford psychology professor at Stanford University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Allen Christophersen
Kathleen Christophersen
Fairview Apartments
Bluefield
University of Richmond
George M. Modlin
R. Nevitt Sanford
Stanford Univerisity
U S Flagship to Visit Yugoslav Port
The guided missile light cruiser Springfield, flagship of the U S 6th Fleet, will make a three day formal visit to Dubrovnik Yugoslavia from June 19 to June 21 officials said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Springfield
U. S
Dubrovnik
Postal rules force rigid envelopes and math ratios
Washington readers learn new postal rules starting Jan 1 requiring rectangular envelopes only, no sizes outside specified limits, and a width to length ratio at least 1 to the square root of 2. The change, backed by Postmaster General Day, aims to cut losses and improve machine handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Edward Day
Congress
Day
Stewart Graduates Saturday At Roanoke
National Business College Roanoke Va lists 109 graduates on June 16 led by Jackie Stewart of Bluefield son of Fred J Stewart. Dr Harold Dana Hopkins of Washington DC will deliver the commencement address at 8 p m in the Kazim Temple auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Business College
Roanoke
Jackie Stewart
Bluefield
Stewart
Fred J. Stewart
Business Science Society
Glee Club
National
Harold Dana Hopkins
Washington, D. C
Accrediting Commission For Business Schools
Kazim Temple Auditorium
Happiness Topic For Kiwanis Talk
L N Dalton outgoing Graham High principal in Bluefield Virginia was guest speaker for the South Bluefield Kiwanis at the Pinnacle Restaurant. His subject was Freedom For Tomorrow. Dalton resigns the Virginia side principal post to take a similar role at Colonial Heights High School starting next term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. N. Dalton
Graham High
Bluefield
South
Also Mentioned on This Page
Agnes Pietrantozzi
W. R
Pete) Cooke
Giatto
Mora
McComas
J. C. Parker
U.S. Weather Bureau
New England
Southern Plains
Gulf Coast
Great Plains
Rockies
Great Basin
Mississippi Valley
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Fanning Funeral Home
Lucy C. Coburn
Lucy Callie Coburn
Princeton Memorial Hospital
Coburn
Howard Coburn
Mercer S
Mercer County
George
Cindy Thornton
Calfee Memorial Christian Church
George Coburn
Albert Coburn
Green Valley
Hobart Coburn
Lockport
Catherine Carter
Baltimore
Loraine Gray
Dublin
Irene Whited
Frances Coburn
Ada C. Combs
Www
L. Newman
William Lee Newman
Plant City
Norfolk and Wsetern
Old Bramwell Road
William M. Newman
Waukegan
Ray Newman
Irene Murphy
Midway Christian Church
Charles Aldridge
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Mercer Funeral Home
THE
Associated Press
Albany
Bismarck
Boise
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Honolulu
Indianapolis
St. Louis
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Winnipeg
London
Nana
May
Soho
Joe
Marseilles
Jacqueline Birri
Scotland Yard
France
Surete
Paris
Mercer
Roller Floral Co
North
Dial
Algeria
Algiers
Secret Army
Oran
Mostaganem
Perregaux
Arzew
Sidi Bel Abbes
Fathers Day
Oldspice
Williams Gift
Yardley
Dad
Taylor’s Drug Store
Christophersen
Richmond U
U.S
Lee
Robert Taylor
Matt Holbrook
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