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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1963
Page
6
Local TV guide lists Sunday June 16 programming across networks with a dense lineup. Notable items include This is the Life, Gospel Hour, Oral Roberts broadcasts, parish and church services, sports, cinema, and variety shows scheduled across morning to late night slots.
Highlights on Channel 6 cover the Thunderbird Golf Tour finale with a $100,000 purse and 115 top players including Nicklaus Palmer Snead and Hogan. Gene Littler defends as Bud Palmer and Jack Whittaker provide commentary.
A brief TV guide item notes 8:30 PM air time for the comical police duo Toody and Muldoon in Car 54, Where Are You? The snippet highlights the two officers as the central characters for the episode.
NBC lines up Kentucky's Kid starring Dennis Weaver and a Profiles in Courage series with Kennedy royalties donated to charity. Also previews Kraft Mystery Theatre Shadow of a Man with Begley Crawford Kelly and summer lineups featuring Edie Adams Bob Hope and Merv Griffin Shopping Spree.
Members of John Ratliff Post American Legion will sponsor a holiday fireworks display in Grundy Virginia on the eve of the Fourth. Fireworks have arrived and will be exploded after dark July 3 at the Buchanan County Recreation Center in Grundy.
The annual Father’s Day program by the AME Zion Church young people in Bluefield will be held today at 6 p.m. at the Zion Church. The Young Choir will perform, with solos by Joseph Bundy Laurice Bundy Linda Kay Johnson and an instrumental piece by Brenda Greves.
Berlin and 271 East German communities rose for a day on June 17 1953 demanding freedom and justice. Soviet tanks and troops crushed the revolt with 120 dead and hundreds wounded. thousands punished including 52 behind bars and 131 missing.
Weirton Steel Co says its new coal injection system will be viewed June 20 at a blast furnace symposium at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. About attendees are expected for the first public look at the system.
Rev. oe C. Whitt of Richmond leads nightly services at Vansant Baptist Church in Vansant Virginia. Services run 8 p m through next Wednesday June 19 with special music. Whitt is a Bluefield College graduate from Bluefield Virginia.
Washington AP report notes Senate Republicans question any civil rights package unless accompanied by economic improvements for Black Americans. President Kennedy plans to propose next week with hopes for bipartisan support at a White House leaders conference. Some Republicans fear cloture votes and are wary of giving the attorney general broad powers to start integration suits. Goldwater and Mundt express concern over economic justice and potential political backlash.
Winners of the West Virginia Centennial folk drama contest were honored aboard the centennial showboat. Three act division winners were Rose Ann Ellem of Parkersburg first and Lloyd Davis of Morgantown second. One act division winners were William S. E. Coleman of Glenville first, Miss Nancy Folk of Martinsburg second, and John Lee of Parkersburg third.
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