Bluefield Virginia Seen as Busy Proud Community
Bluefield Virginia is described as a thriving town with 5000 residents, a varied industrial base including United Piece Dye and Bluefield Casket Company, and prominent leaders such as Hudson Huffard. The piece highlights strong civic groups, banks, schools with 64 teachers and 1,837 students, and notable public servants like Postmaster Mrs Curtis Shufflebarger and Town Manager Pick Lambert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
United Piece
Work Wear of America
Sealy Mattress
Kersey Manufacturing
Pemco
Pine Mill
Thistle Foundry
Pounding Mill
Keys’ Planing
Ossit Corporation
Lawner Company
Nehi
Compton Lumber
Fair
Chicago House Furnishing Company
S. N. Huffard
Hudson Huffard
Hudson Jr
W. Va
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis International
Kiwanis
Southern Retail Furniture Association
National Retail Furniture Association
Laymen’s League Diocese of Episcopal Church
Southwestern Virginia
Virginia League of Municipalities
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Huffard
Litz
Hudson Huffard Jr
A. E. Fleshman
C. W. Lewis
George Campbell
Donald Mullins
Z. Dale Christian
R. S. Looney
W. H. Harmon
Frank Wallace
Margaret Davis
Luke Bates
Tazewell County Bank
Rodney Frye
Southwest Virginia Bank
Virginia
Bank of
Curtis Shufflebarger
Shufflebarger
Jack Litz
Service Center
Tazewell County Development Corporation
James Rogers
Robert Hamilton
Earl Parks
George Campbell Sr
Sam Mitchin
P. P
Ferraraccio
Walter Pierce
J. G. W. Gillespie
Jack §. Hurley
Crockett Hughes
John Mullins
Clear Fork
Board of Education
County Board of Supervisors
Evans Omer
Omer
Graham Hedrick
C. P. Painter
Painter
C.O.D
Pick Lambert
Pick
Honor Roll Is Announced for Keystone Elementary
Keystone Elementary principal Coy D. Ramsey announces the fourth quarter 1969 honor roll. Fourth Grade honorees include Charles Bassett Donna Beaver Sabrina Brant Tina Capparelli Rhonda Cordle Donna Hess Anetta Raymore Ralph Rotenberry Michael Warden Peyton Watkins Ronda Williams. Fifth Grade honorees Sharon Blevins Darlean Evans Cynthia Shrout Kay Spade Bryan Boyd Darrell Lambert. Sixth Grade honorees Ernest Belcher Bill Constantine Susan Constantine Juan Hickman Karin Johnson Pamela King Annette Page Kay Sizemore Michael Stewart Keith Watkins Christine Williams.
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Coy D. Ramsey
Keystone
Miss Lazarus
Charles Bassett
Donna Beaver
Sabrina Brant
Tina Capparelli
Rhonda Cordle
Donna Hess
Anetta Raymore
Ralph Rotenberry
Michael Warden
Peyton Watkins
Ronda Williams
Miss Smith
Sharon Blevins
Darlean Evans
Cynthia Shrout
Kay Spade
Bryan Boyd
Darrell Lambert
Kerby
Earnest Belcher
Bill Constantine
Susan Constantine
Juan Hickman
Karin Johnson
Pamela King
Annette Page
Kay Sizemore
Michael Stewart
Keith Watkins
Christine Williams
Male Pill Sparks Hike In Abortions
London AP reports the government refused to fund male contraceptive pill development citing an appalling rise in abortions in Britain and high costs. Baroness Serota, health minister, said the effort isn’t justified financially or on public policy grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Baroness Serota
Matoaka Honors List Reveals Student Recipients by Grade
Matoaka High School released the sixth six weeks honor roll compiled by Principal Perry Hill. Names span ninth through twelfth grades, with multiple students named in each class including Bill Bird and Norman Fletcher in twelfth grade, and Diana Atwood in seventh grade among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Specks
GHS
Sam Crockett
Matoaka High School
Perry Hill
Bill Bird
Randall Earnest
Norman Fletcher
Barry Jenkins
Helena Carvin
Helen Foley
Alice Lusk
Judi Midkiff
Alrene Mills
Mary Reynolds
Billie Jean Snider
Sarah Swim
Evelyn Walker
Judy Woods
Paloma Young
Brice Cole
Ronnie DeHart
Delmer Dillion
Harless Mickiff
Kenny White
Linda Dunford
Brenda Parks
Wanda S. Shrewsbury
Reverend Herndon to lead Matoaka Baptist services
Rev. T. F. Herndon of Bluefield will oversee morning and evening worship at Matoaka Baptist Church Sunday due to Pastor Rev. Edgar Sigman attending the dedication of a new church in Atkins Virginia. Pastor James Hubbard remains in charge locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Herndon
Bluefield
Matoaka Baptist Church
Edgar Sigman
The
Baptist Church
Atkins
James Hubbard
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Beauticians
Chicago
Kiwanians
B. B. Slemp
Sidney Ellison
Lions
Jaycees
Arch Smith
J. B. Burton Post American Legion
Dale Christian
Lions Work
Lions International
James E. Layton
Harman Lodge
E. A. Caffee
Falls Mills
Springville
Graham Junior High
Dwight Speeks
Graham High
Wm. E. Fortune
Graham
Tom Lucas
Josephine Dudley
Gentry
Frances Yost
Logan
Elizabeth Hedrick
Jack Harman
Graham Elementary
Dudley
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Virginia Educational Association
Hughes
Grand Area
Var
Crockett
Eddie Rule
Robert E. Baylor
Jack Baldwin
Rule
Lambert
Melvin Grubb
Graham High School
Dwight Specks
Elmo Fleshman
Clint Lewis
Ray Barnett
Chip Harvey
Hudson Huffard Sr
Chicago House
L. W. Bates
Tazewell County
Bluefield, Va
Clyde Bowling
Carolyn Elizabeth Stevenson
Marvin Stevenson
Miss Stevenson
Ralph S. Bird
Division of Technology
Bluefield State College
Bluefield State
Matoaka
Robert Brown
Joanna West
Eddie Wooline
Pat Clark
Joyce Cordle
Kathy Delp
David Shrewsbury
Teresa Fletcher
Jane Humphrey
Anita Little
Twyla McGuire
Lee Miles
Pat Shrewsbury
Wanda Faye Shrewsbury
Ima Jo Sizemore
Kathryn Thornton
Glenda Young
Brenda Farmer
Terry Basham
Bruce Blankenship
Eanon Mills
Calvin Redd
Kay Barlow
Patty Billings
Connie Dlankenship
Pat Humphrey
Ann Leslie
Linda Shrewsbury
Bonnie Walker
Raleigh Carter McLaughlin
R. T. McLaughlin Jr
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
McLaughlin
Ela Kappa Nu
Tau Beta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
Rev. Herndon
Cumberland Road
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