Drawing Of Lots To Decide Ties At Poca Rich Creek
Virginia county election boards plan drawing lots to resolve ties in Pocahontas and Rich Creek council races. Three candidates tied for seventh and eighth places in Pocahontas with 114 votes, while Rich Creek saw 60 votes for fifth place. Boards meet to certify results and determine next steps.
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Poca
Rich Creek
Tazewell
Giles
Virginia
Pocahontas
Mabel C. French
James C. Taylor
Edna M. Drosick
Woodrow E. Pack
C. E
Red) Claytor
Benjamin E. Bates
Blue Gel
Eec Crai Book
Pooshontas
Bates
Clear Fork
Giles County
Methodists OK Integration at Virginia Conference
The 184th annual Virginia Methodist Convention in Norfolk closes with ministerial appointments by Bishop Walter C. Gunn. Delegates revise a vote on integrating clergy and congregations in the Southeastern Jurisdiction, ultimately approving the measure 629 to 294 after earlier confusion and a reballot. Nearly 1,000 delegates attend.
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Norfolk
Virginia Methodist Conference
Walter C. Gunn
Richmond
Gunn
Matoaka Teen Hospitalized After Auto Crash
An 18 year old Matoaka area resident John Henry Howerton was hospitalized in Princeton after a late Tuesday crash on secondary Rt 1004 near Matoaka. He drove a 1956 auto that struck a bridge at about 11 30 p m. He reached hospital Wednesday morning with significant blood loss.
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Matoaka
Princeton
John Henry Howerton
Howerton
Flood Displaces 20000 In Wet Brazil at Recife
About 20 000 people were driven from their homes by the Capibaribe River floodwaters in Recife Brazil. Police imposed heightened security to prevent boating and no deaths were reported. A previous flood in the northeast two weeks earlier killed more than 100 people.
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Recife
Brazil
Capibaribe
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Local Rates Listed
The notice lists subscription rates for the Bluefield Daily Telegraph including daily mail and carrier options. It states West Virginia delivery at 26 dollars per year with variations by region and additional rate details.
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West Virginia
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area
Obituaries report the deaths of Donald J Thorman Parks six year old son of Mr and Mrs Tomas Parks of Princeton and Mary Little Bishop 80 of Pocahontas with services and burial details. Also listed are Cora A Wood ? Bluefield, Joe Barnes Jenkinjones and Oran Age 51 Bland and S A Ferguson 99 Roanoke area survivors and funeral arrangements noted.
Obituary notices for Pannell and Cash families
Dickerson officiating. Burns will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery. Born October 11, 1900 in Bedford Virginia, son of Jim and Amanda Pannell, late. Member of New Century Methodist Church. Resident of Princeton. Survived by Alma Banks of Tamsacatons County, Ruth Herndon of Pittsburgh, two sons Sgt John C. Pannell in London England and Raymond Pannell of Washington DC, one sister Nina Owers of Squire, one brother Parker Pannell of Elmira New York, 14 grandchildren. Pallbearers listed. Friends may visit Lugo’s Funeral Home 5 to 10 pm today. Funeral services for Annie J Cash, 84, Sanford Florida formerly of Bluefield, Thursday 2 pm Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel Bluefield. Dr R T Mallory to officiate. burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery. Born Peterstown daughter of Allen and Margaret Peck Spangier, widow of John W Cash who died in 1955. Member Sanford First Methodist Church. Died Monday in Sanford hospital. Survivors: daughter C W Waterman Jr of Iola Kansas, sons Woodrow Cash of Sanford and John Wesley Cash Jr of Baltimore Maryland.
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Donald J. Thorman Parks
Tomas Parks
Thorn St
Princeton
Bluefeld Sanitarium
Fort Stewart
Mlfred Blevins Ponecide
Jacksonville
Fla
Donald Wilson Thompson
Dwayne Thormssen
Angela
Rebecca Thompson
Carol Tolley
Amarillo
Earl P. Kieg
Wil
Resthaven
Memores
Mary Little Bishop
Pocahontas
Pocahontas First
First Methodist Church
Bluefield Sanitarium
Millie Bishop
Eugene Holbinger
Clinton, Tenn
B. B. Steele
Orlando
W. M. Guy
Bramwell
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
William Boone
Hangton Crawford
J. K. Salt
M. M. Hancock
William Belcher
C. W. Freeman
Barnes Shumate
William Mullin
C. C. Hagg
Terry Whittington Jr
Cora A. Wood
Vine St
John Stewart Methodist Church
Bluefield
Harry Tiffany
Oak Grove
Bluewell
Wood
Prospect Dale Va
Benjamin and
Julia Brooks
John Stewart Church
Frances Brown
Sammie Walker
Viola Pugh
Janie Tolbert
Blanche Proctor
Nora Tiffany
Bluefield Lodge No. 3
A. A. Y. Masons
Linkford and Richardson
Joe Barnes
Jenkinsones
Linkford and Richardson Funeral
Keystone
Samuel Hairston
H. E. Price
Tazewell County
Jenkinjones
Jenkinjones A. M. E. Zion Church
United Mine Workers of America
H. B. Holloway
Chester Cecil
Kimali
John Barnes
Charleston
Steve Rucker
George Taylor
Simp Harris
Bill Graves
Dave Brown
Shelly Brooks
Oran Age
Rt. 2
Bland
Annie Faulkner Agee
Leslie Agee
Manassas
Earl Miller
Jethro Dalton
Warren Faulkner
George Cabes
Northfork
McDowell County
Ray Agee
Homer Agee
Wooster
Paul Agee
Carson Agee
Tazewell
Salem Methodist Church
Newberry Funeral Home
S. A. Ferguson
Roanoke
Dickerson
Burns
Bedford
Jim
Amanda Pannell
New Century Methodist Church
Alma Banks
Tams
Acatons County
Ruth Herndon
Pittsburgh
John C. Pannell
London
England
Raymond Pannell
Washington, D. C
Nina Owers
Squire
Parker Pannell
Elmira
N. Y
Bi Page
Clifford Kinzer
James Farney
William Sanders
Raymond Cie
James Milner
Lugo
Annie J. Cash
Sanford
Hawkins Funeral Home
R. T. Mallory
Wanut Grove
Peterstown
Allen
Margaret Spangier Peck
John W. Cash
Sanford First Methodist Church
C. W. Waterman Jr
Iola
Kan
Woodrow Cash
John Wesley Cash Jr
Baltimore, Md
Trooper Fisher Dies In Sleep
Virginia State Police veteran Trooper William Rufus Fisher 47 of Bland died in his sleep in Richmond during in service training. A 25 year member, he served across the Old Dominion since 1941 and leaves a widow Ruth Newton Fisher and daughter Margaret Frances. Funeral set Friday at 11 a.m. at Zion Hill Church Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers include Virginia State Police members.
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Virginia
William Rufus
Bill) Fisher
Bland
Richmord
Virginia State Police
Fisher
Richmond
Carrie W. Fisher
Rt. 2
Fincastle
Ruth Newton Fisher
Margaret Frances Fisher
Edrodean Hambrick
Barbara Newman
Vinton
Injured Miners Improve After Collision in Wyoming County
Two Mercer County miners Charles Wyatt and Oral H Blankenship of Matoaka, injured in a collision that also hospitalized seven others, were doing well at Bluefield Sanitarium Wednesday night. The crash near the Tralee operation of Semet Sulphur in Wyoming County left 18 hurt.
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Mercer County
Bluefield Sanitarium
Charles Wyatt
Oral H. Blankenship
Matoaka
Tralee
Semet Sulvey
Wyoming County
Mercer
Welch
Mullens
Beckley
Congress Near Limit On Debt
Washington AP Congress moved closer to setting a 330 billion dollar debt limit for the government for the year starting July 1. The Senate Finance Committee approved the lower figure by voice vote and sent it to the Senate floor. The House has passed it. The current limit is 328 billion. the new bill would set a permanent ceiling of 285 billion on June 30 if not enacted. Secretary Fowler warned the 330 billion limit would force a tight squeeze in early 1967 but could be workable within that cap.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Senate Democratic
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Bluefield Man Named to PRIDE Group of the Month
Technical Sergeant Roy W. Shupe of Bluefield Virginia has been named a PRIDE Group of the Month member at Seymour Johnson AFB North Carolina. As a missile maintenance technician in the Strategic Air Command he was cited for efforts to reduce Air Force costs and boost unit efficiency and combat readiness. He is a Pocahontas High School graduate and is married to Catherine F. Wilson of El Paso Texas.
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Goldsboro
N. C
Roy W. Shupe
David B. Shupe
Bluefield
Seymour Johnson Afb
Shupe
U. S. Air Force
Strategic Air Command
America
Pocahontas High School
Catherine F. Wilson
R. Wilson
Idalia Ave
el Paso
Tex
Police Probe Death At Welch
A McDowell County woman Bessie Napier about 36 in Hemphill area was found dead in an alley in Welch. Prosecutor Rudolph Murensky said she had a skinned place on her knee and head bruises. An autopsy report is awaited as state, city and county police and the medical examiner investigate. The body was taken to Fanning Funeral Home in Welch. funeral plans are not set.
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McDowell County
Welch
Bessie Napier
Hemphill
Rudolph Murensky
Kentucky
Fanning Funeral Home
Joint Center Plan Denied By University Presidents
Huntington AP Stewart Smith of Marshall University denied reports of talks with West Virginia University president Paul Miller to discuss a joint graduate center in Charleston. He said a meeting with Miller and administrative staff would occur soon to discuss inter-institutional relations.
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Huntington
Marshall University
Stewart H. Smith
West Virginia University
Paul Miller
Charleston
Smith
Miller
Wheeling
Beagle Named H runs afoul on White House lawn
Lincoln Nebraska AP reports President Johnson's pet beagle, H, was struck and killed on the White House lawn Wednesday. Mrs Johnson was informed of the accident during a parade. The five week old pup had recently joined the Johnsons at the White House. No details of the incident were released.
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Neb
Johnson
White House
John
Tittle Dog
Secret Service
Alioto
Luci
White
Virginia and West Virginia Weather Thursday Plots Showers
The Associated Press reports Virginia will see partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunder showers in the extreme west, high in the 80s and near 80 in the mountains, with a cloudy night and lows in the 60s. West Virginia will have thunderstorms and showers Thursday, high in the 80s except 70s on higher ridges. showers end Thursday night and cooler air moves in with lows around the 50s.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Journalistic sources shielded in campus case continues
Miss Buchanan printed an article in the campus newspaper May 24 citing five unnamed students who admitted using marijuana and criticizing laws against its use. On June 3 Frye subpoenaed Buchanan and three staffers to testify before the grand jury, but names remained undisclosed. Frye then set the hearing before Judge Leavy.
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Miss Buchanan
Frye
Leavy
Lions To Name Committeemen For 1966-67
Bluefield Lions Club directors plan a committee naming session tonight at 7 30 at the West Virginian Hotel. Outgoing and incoming officers are expected, as all committees for 1965-67 will be elected for 1966-67. New officers to be installed June 25 at the West Virginia Hotel. Rev. Ted Watt of Falls Mills Va will be the Friday noon speaker at the hotel discussing his Alaska missionary work with slides.
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Bluefield Lions Club
West Virginian
Lacy Edwards
West Virgin
Ted Watt
Falls Mills
Alaska
Mental Health Funds Okayed for Huntington Center Plan
Charleston AP reports the West Virginia State Board of Health approved 376793 in federal funds to build a comprehensive mental health center near Huntington at University Heights and 121370 for a Cabell County center for mentally disabled residents. Also approved 80231 for a two story rehab building at Bamoursville State Hospital, totaling 2025698.
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Charleston
State Board of Health
Huntington
Lesage
Cabell County
N. H. Dyer
University Heights
Dyer Sand Federal
Treaszey
Jume 30
Hil-Burton
Bamboursville State Hospital
State Division of Vorational Rehhabilitations Quest
Health Department
Dyer
Mainny
Cave-In Hurts 2 In Tazewell
A ditch cave-in in North Tazewell Virginia seriously injured two construction workers, Jimmy Bray Lowe and Elmer Mitchell, who were installing sewer lines at the 20 foot deep trench near the intersection of Tazewell Avenue and Riverside Drive. Police say heavy nearby traffic may have contributed as crews pull them from the dirt. Both victims were hospitalized at Clinch Valley Clinic in Richlands.
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Rufus Hagg
Jimmy Bray Lowe
Richland
Elmer Mitchell
Rt. 1
Cedar Bluff
Clinch Valley Clinic
Richlands
Hagg
Tazewell Avenue
Riverside Drive
Tazewell
Hundreds of Scouts to Attend Camp at Roland Park Bland Va
More than 100 Boy Scouts from nine counties are expected to attend the annual encampment at Camp Roland in Bland County Virginia from June 19 to June 2. Appalachian Boy Scout Council Executive Director Jack L. Lewis said the event will be run under Joe Friedl. The program includes archery swimming marksmanship fire building tent pitching first aid life saving and physical fitness activities to further ranks.
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Camp Roland
Bland County
Jack L. Lewis
Appalachian Boy Scout Council
Joe Friedl
Lewis
Coal Usage For Roads Expected
Five states signaled plans to use coal products in road work. Senator Byrd notes coal fly ash and coal derivatives aid soil stabilization and concrete in the Appalachian highway program. He says this will boost coal states’ economies and may expand in coming years as others observe value. West Virginia Virginia South Carolina Tennessee Alabama cited coal tar as a paving aid under ARDA limits of ten percent of construction costs.
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Washington
Byrd
Bureau of Public Roads
West Virginia
Virgina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Bureau of Roads
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Annie Cash
Trooper Fisher
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Kenner Kitts
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