Fifth Grader to Inherit 30 Million in Duke Heirloom Fund
Inman Jr. will receive 30 million of his grandmother Nana line H Duke's 40 million estate when he turns 21. Aunt Mrs Hugh Lightsey stresses knowledge over money as Skipper and his half sister Susan have grown with the Lightseys near Brunson, South Carolina. The Duke Endowment funds Duke University and various North Carolina and South Carolina hospitals, churches, and colleges.
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Brunson
S.C
Hugh Lightsey
Nanaline H. Duke
New York
Walker P. (Skipper) Inman Jr
Skipper
Susan
University of South Carolina
Lightseys
Inman
Lightsey
Greenwood
James Buchanan Duke
The
American Tobacco Co
William P. Inman
Atitana
Duke
Duke University
North Carolina
South Carolina
Betty Jo Craig To Direct Workshop At Bluefield State
Mrs Betty Jo Craig a Princeton native and PhD candidate at Ohio State University will direct the Education of Exceptional Children Workshop on the Bluefield State College campus from June 18 to July 7 Area in service teachers and public school personnel will attend The workshop covers diagnosis educational adjustments and teaching methods for exceptional children Three semester hours credit may be earned
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Betty Jo Craig
Bluefield State College
Ohio State University
Craig
Mercer County
Ohio State
Mercer County Board of Education
Chiildren
Piedmont To Serve 8 Additional Cities
Piedmont Airlines will begin service June 25 to eight new cities after CAB approval. The cities include Baltimore Atlanta Florence Columbia Augusta Pulaski Blacksburg Christiansburg Goldsboro and Jacksonville Camp Lejeune. A temporary delay was granted to adjust a mail rate formula.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Piedmont Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Baltimore
Atlanta
Florence
Columbia
Augusta
Pulaski - Blacksburg
Christiansburg
Goldsboro
Jacksonville
Camp Lejeune
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Local Publication Notice
Bluefield Daily Telegraph printer address and ownership notes outline subscription and service details. The notice lists Associated Press affiliation and circulation bureau references with contact and advertising agency mentions.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Ine
Judge Sexton Grants Motion In Diamond Theft Case
In Wytheville Virginia Judge W L Sexton Jr set arguments for June 21 on a defense bid to overturn Ernest Baylor Stanger’s $175000 diamond theft conviction. Stanger, 43, of Chattanooga Tennessee, was found guilty of grand larceny and faces 10 years. Robert Eugene Lewis, 34, of Mattoon Illinois, awaits trial. Diamonds valued at $100000 wholesale and $175000 retail were taken from salesman Harry L Henning of Atlanta in Bluefield West Virginia on February 14.
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Wytheville, Va
W. L. Sexton Jr
Ernest Baylor Stanger
Stanger
Chattanooga
Tenn
Robert Eugene Lewis
Mattoon Ill
Lewis
Bluefield
W. Va
U. S. 21
Wytheville
Harry L. Henning
Atlanta
Camp Roland Opens Sunday for Bluefield Scouts
Camp Roland in Bland County near Bastian Virginia launches its summer program for Bluefield area Scouts. Joe Friedl of Athens is director with several counselors. Activities include swimming life saving hiking woodlore nature study fitness advancement projects rowing and canoeing. Reservations on a first come first served basis at the Appalachian Boy Scout Council office 131 Monroe St Bluefield.
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Roland
Appalachian Council
Boy Scouts of America
Bastian
Bland County
Bluefield
Joe Fried
Athens
Appalachian Boy Scout Council
Monroe St
Jack Lewis
Camp Joy to Open Monday for 130 Boys
The Bluefield Salvation Army camp on the Bluefield Tazewell Road begins Monday with about 130 boys for the first week. Captain Harold Hinson says the seven week program will run with a new group each week and end around August 19. Six doctors from Bluefield Sanitarium examined 110 boys last night. Cadet and Mrs Raymond Kitchen will direct activities.
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Camp Joy
Bluefield
Salvation Army
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Harold Hinson
Bluefield Sanitarium
Raymond Kitchen
Thieves and vandals active in Bluefield area
Police investigate Friday thefts and vandalism including a stolen power mower on College Avenue from Harold Spencer and damaged auto antennas at 607 Augusta and 613 Augusta reported by Mrs. Eva Leffel and Charles Parks. A stolen billfold containing $9 and papers is listed by Mrs. Maude Rhodes at 621 Commerce Street, and a disc player was taken from James G. Williams at 734 Wheeling.
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Bluefield
Harold Spencer
College Avenue
Eva R. Leffel
Augusta St
Charles Parks
Augusta
Maude Rhodes
Commerce St
Jnmes G. Williams
Ex Princeton band director named Roanoke high school director
Roanoke City School Board appoints Roy David Burgess Jr. as Patrick Henry High School band director starting this fall. Burgess, a Princeton native with teaching stints in Matoaka and Princeton West Virginia, has Navy band service and concert experience with Bluefield and Roanoke symphonies. He is married with two children.
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Roanoke
Bluefield
Australian Prime Minister Menzies Delivers U.N. Bond Gift
Prime Minister Robert Menzies of Australia offered the United Nations a $4 million bond gift to ease a cash shortage. U Thant received the check at a luncheon, as U.N. efforts to raise $200 million continue with bonds and contributions from about 80 countries. The United States plans to seek up to $100 million Congress approval.
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United Nations. N.Y
Robert G. Menzies
Australia
United Nations
U.N
Middle East
Menzies
U Thant
Thant
Ireland
Kennedy
U.S. Congress
Owens Appointed To Tax Council
Charleston AP Clifford G. Lantz named to a 21 member state income tax advisory council. Venoy Owens of Bluefield and Shelby L. Sturn of Charleston join as practicing public accountants. The group reviews tax laws and considers revisions.
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Charleston
Clifford G. Lantz
Friday Venoy Owens
Bluefield
Shelby L. Sturn
Troops Drill At Camp Dawson In West Virginia
Hundreds of West Virginia citizen soldiers begin 15 days of intensive training at Camp Dawson. The 16th Special Forces Group airway troops from several cities lead the drills including Operation Dare and a new 4200 foot airstrip built by the 1092nd Engineer Battalion. Adj. Gen. Gene H. Williams commands with state HQ detachment providing support.
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Kingwood
W.va
West Virginia
Camp Dawson
West Virginia National Guard
Barron
16Th Special Forces Group
Airborne
Charleston
Huntington
Beckley
Parkersburg
1092Nd Engineer
Salem
Weston
691St
Towson
Adj
Gene H. Williams
Guard
Point Pleasant
Chicago Eighth Graders Defy Hair Ban at Graduation
Wayne Tiess and Ronald Warhol, both 15, of Mark Twain Elementary, face exclusion from graduation unless they part their hair. Principal Miss Mary P. Mackin and Superintendent Dr. George R. Bailing uphold a policy banning ducktails and unparted hair that falls in the eyes.
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Chicago
Wayne Tiess
Ronald Warhol
Mark Twain
Mary P. Mackin
Wayne
Ronald
Khrushchev Heads to Romania After Farewell Kiss
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev boarded a private train at Kiev Station for a trip to Romania after a fervent farewell with veteran Bolshevik Klement Voroshilov. Officials said Romania invited him and offered no stay length, while Austrian Chancellor Gorbach is due June 26 and Khrushchev will attend.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Romania
Klementi Y. Voroshilov
Kiev
Communist Party
Foreign Ministry
Alfons Gorbach
Swiss pianist Cortot dies at 85 in Lausanne
Alfred Cortot, renowned Swiss born pianist and pupil of Ravel, died in Lausanne on Friday night from a kidney ailment at age 85. He directed the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and formed part of a famed trio with Pablo Casals and Jacques Thibaud.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Alfred Cortot
Ravel
Casals
Thibaud
Cortot
Ecole Normale de Musique
Paris
Pablo Casals
Jacques Thibaud
Mercer Board Closes Four Schools in County
Mercer County Board of Education at a secret June 7 meeting closed four schools Nemours Grove and the Hardy and Ingleside sites due to enrollment decline. Staff at Nemours dropped from three to two teachers and transfers and new hires were approved for multiple schools. Five older buses were sold as part of the session action.
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Mercer County
Mercer County Board of Education
Grove
Hardy
Ingleside
Nemours
W. R
Pete) Cooke
Cooke
June Mabe
Ernest Mathena
Central Junior High
Mathena
Fred Snead
Frank Claytor
Bluefield
Princeton High
Fairview Junior High
Beaulah F. Hubbard
Springton
Ethel Bazie
Silver Springs
Garland E. Bowman
Central
Earl E. Erskine
Princeton
Gary Lee Johnson
Matoaka
Florena E. Duling
Spanishburg
Nancy Hunt Bailey
Athens
Yvonne Shuck
Montcalm
Mason Raines
Bluefield Area
Barger Lilly
Dennis Maxey
Matoaka Toshburg
Helen S. Cra
Robert L. Bishop
Mercer
Hallie R. Allen
Barn
Camp Creek
June S. Mabe
Edith Tuggle
Harry
Wade
Rosa B. Pendleton
Oakvale
Frances P. Lilly
Patricia L. Linkenhaker
Thorn
Ruby Beckett
Ruth M. Bailey
Nellis Mills
Centennial Vital to Morale Smith Says West Virginia
Commerce Commissioner Hulett C. Smith warned that the centennial observance could lift West Virginia or ruin morale if it fails. He urged a first class, dedicated effort with pride and hard work as the state prepares for the event.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Commerce
Hulette C. Smith
Longtime Virginia businessman J Stanley Hargis dies
J Stanley Hargis 67 a prominent Russell County businessman of Lebanon Va died Friday at 3 10 am in a Richlands Va hospital He co owned Modern Chevrolet Co and Russell Oil Co He served in three Russell County banks and was campaign manager for Congressman Patennings He was a Mason Shriner Rainbow Division WW I veteran and survived by a stepmother a brother four sisters and a Chicago born sister Funeral services will be Sunday in Lebanon Memorial Methodist Church with burial in Russell Memorial Cemetery and a masonry graveside vigil by Kazan Temple units in Roanoke VA
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J. Stanley Hargis
Russell County
Lebanon
Richlands
Hargis
Modern Chevrolet Co
Russell Oil Co
Honaker
Patennings
Honaker Masonic Lodge No
Castlewood
Bristol
Kazan
Roanoke
Rainbow Division
W. L. Hargis
Jack Hargis
Patty Gray
Bernice Quillan
Helen Leonard
Brownie McFarlane
Ben McFarlane
Maple Grove Hotel
Milton Stuart Mitchell
Abingdon
Johnston Memorial Hospital
Minnie Cullop Mitchall
Charlie Mitchell
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church
Roy Griffitts
Saltville
Carl Kinder
Tannersville
Lydia Quartermans
Glade Spring
W. H. Clark
Nineteenth Nuclear Test in Pacific Series Confirmed
The 19th shot of the U S atmospheric nuclear tests was fired Friday near Christmas Island. An AEC-DOD joint statement said a device dropped from a plane detonated about 11 a m EST, in the intermediate range between 20 000 and 1 000 000 tons of TNT, following the previous Dominic test on Tuesday.
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Washington
U.S
Joint Atomic Energy Commission — Defense Department
Christmas Island
Pacific
State Road Deaths Read 176 For '62
State Police at Charleston report Friday that the number of fatal highway deaths in West Virginia to date this year is 176, up from 139 a year ago. The Associated Press notes the ongoing toll on state roads.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Local Pioneer Harve Ratliff Dies After Long Illness
Harve Ratliff 93 of Route 1 Raven Virginia died Friday at the Deskins home after a long illness. He was born in Buchanan County to Shade B. Ratliff and Louisa Deskins Ratliff. Survivors include son A M Ratliff Grundy Virginia daughter Edna Keene Baltimore Maryland and many grandchildren great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Deskins residence with Rev Lee Mc Clothlin officiating. Burial follows in the family cemetery near the Deskins home. The body will be moved from Farmer Funeral Home Richlands to the residence this afternoon.
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Harve Ratliff
Route 1
Raven
Cloyd E. Deskins
Buchanan County
Shade B
Louisa Deskins Ratliff
A. M. Ratliff
Grundy
Edna Keene
Baltimore
Deskins
Lee McClothlin
Farmer Funeral Home
Richlands
Funeral notices for Mrs Lucy Coburn and William Newman
Funeral services held Saturday at 2 p.m. for Mrs Lucy Callie Coburn of 303 Mercer St Princeton in Burns Wor nal Chapel with Rev Leonard Repass officiating. Burial at Thornton Cemetery. Grandsons pallbearers granddaughters flowers. Also funeral for William Lee Newman of Plant City Florida at Midway Christian Church with Rev Charles Aldridge officiating. Burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Surviving sons Roy Newman Bluefield and William Newman Waukegan Tl. Call Mercer Funeral Home after 10 a.m. today. Pallbearers listed including C R Harry Charles Davidson I J Hawley H C and L T Turner John Neal.
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Coburn
Lucy Callie
Mercer St
Princeton
Burns Wornal
Leonard Repass
Thornton Cemetery
Newman
William Lee
Plant City
Fla
Midway Christian Church
Charles Aldridge
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Roy Newman
Bluefield
William Newman
Waukegan
Mercer Funeral Home
C. R. Harry
Charles Davidson
I. J. Hawley
H. C
L. T. Turner
John Neal
Prince Edward County Keeps Schools Closed Delays Integration
Prince Edward County supervisors voted to keep public schools closed for a fourth year to avoid integration. The new budget allocates 360 000 for tuition grants to private or out of county schools, while 300 000 in grants remain unused under a federal injunction. Property tax cuts were approved to 1 per 100 dollars and the merchants tax halved to 30 cents.
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Farmville
Prince Edward County
Floods In Pakistan Kill 18 in Chittagong Area
Heavy rains trigger floods in the Chittagong area of east Pakistan, killing at least 18 people. Officials report hundreds of cattle swept away and extensive crop damage across the region.
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Pakistan
Davva
Chittagong
East Pakistan
Bluefield approves parking lease for 620 Pain Avenue lot
Bluefield West Virginia officials approve a three year lease with a three year option for the Lot 17 property at 620 Pain Avenue to demolish the existing building and build a public parking facility. The measure includes a plan to ease traffic and parking concerns in the area. The ordinance was passed at the June 12, 1962 meeting with details filed for inspection.
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Issi
Bluefield
West Virginia
Pain Avenue
West Inia
Parking Facilities Commission
Princeton Avenue
Mal
Board OF ‘Directors
Maxine P." Holm
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James Skeens
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Nancy Jane Rowland
Laura Richardson
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Bill) Scott
High St
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Oak Grove
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Selbyville
Del
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Lilian B. Brooks
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First National Reak
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Robert E. Fleshman
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M. W. Mangus
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