Coal production up three percent in 1967 week in review
Area Smokeless Operators Association reports 557 041 tons produced last week, 4 9 percent of national soft coal output of 11 555 000 tons. Weekly average 520 736 tons, with no losses from labor disputes. District loadings by Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake and Ohio lines listed by district.
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Norfolk and Western Railway
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Virginian
Tug River
Upshur- Buchanan
Clinch Valley
Thacker-Tiller
Kenova
Chesapeake and Ohio
Logan
Kentucky
Israelis Favor Moshe Dayan for 1969 Elections
A Tel Aviv AP poll shows 62 percent of Israelis prefer Defense Minister Moshe Dayan for the 1969 vote, while 21 percent back Labor Minister Yigal Allon whose prospects rise as deputy to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
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Tel Aviv
Moshe Dayan
Yigal Allon
Levi Eshkol
Mercer County Science Camp Opens For 100 Youths
About 100 Mercer County junior high students attend the first annual Mercer County Science Camp at Camp Joy near Bluefield-Tazewell Roads. Registration runs 9 to 11 a.m. Monday with sessions through Friday evening. Notable activities include a rocketry demonstration, field math display, and a program on how television works, plus a trip to Bluestone Dam.
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Bluefield
Tazewell
Cooperative Extension Service
Appalachian Center of
West Virginia University
Mercer County Board of Education
James Kukowski
Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert Perry
Region VII Learning Resource Center
Ralph Crandall
Learning Resource Center
Charles Pruett
Appalachian Power Co
United Fuel Gas Co
Meade McNeill
Bluestone Dam
Jim Long
Mercer
Raleigh
McDowell
Virginia Tech Opens Summer Orientation for 3300 New Students
Virginia Tech welcomes more than 3 300 new students arriving over six weeks for summer orientation. Students will visit each college, meet advisors and administrators, and prepare for computerized pre registration ahead of the fall quarter starting September 24.
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Virginia Tech
Blacksburg
David Hill
Hill
Tourist market near Great Pyramid to sell Egyptian relics
The Antiquities Department will open a shop at the Great Pyramid of Giza selling authentic Egyptian treasures from Cairo museum stores. Tourists can pay in dollars or pounds sterling for items such as a pharaonic mummy or a statue of an ancient Egyptian god. No prices were announced.
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Antiquities Department
Cairo Museum
Great Pyramid of
Giza
Shafer backs Rockefeller as Agnew shifts stance in GOP race
Pennsylvania Gov. Shafer endorses Nelson Rockefeller for the Republican nomination while Maryland Gov. Agnew signals no firm commitments and acknowledges Nixon as a likely winner. Oklahoma’s Bartlett and Michigan’s Romney remain neutral as the governors association drafts platform statements. Agnew cites national unrest after MLK’s assassination as shaping views toward Nixon.
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Raymond P. Shafer
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Maryland
Spiro T. Agnew
White House
Shafer
Rockefeller
Nixon
Bob Hope Undergoes Laser Eye Treatment
Hollywood AP reports Bob Hope received photo coagulation for a recurring left eye ailment at St. Vincent's Hospital Los Angeles. A laser cauterizes a ruptured vessel to halt hemorrhaging. same procedure used in 1963 in San Francisco. He was sent home and will stay under confinement for at least ten days.
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St. Vincent's Hospital
Los Angeles
Hope
San Francisco
Dr J J Auville Joins Bluefield Optometry Practice
Dr John J Auville joins Dr William Green spon's optometry practice at 323 Ramsey St Bluefield. He studied in Tazewell and McDowell counties and earned a biology psychology B S from Concord College and a D D from Southern College of Optometry Memphis. He is married to Frances Carter and they reside on Oakhurst Ave Bluefield.
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William Greenspon
Ramsey St
Bluefield
Auville
Tazewell County
McDowell County
Concord College
University of Louisville
West Virginia University
Southern College of Optometry
Memphis
Mercer County Public
Oakhurst Avenue
Lincoln Center Hosts Ballet Week Highlights
New York City Ballet performs at the New York State Theater during a spring stretch at Lincoln Center. Stars from the Bolshoi join shows at the Met for a month long run. Jacques d Amboise and Melissa Hayden dance pas de deux at Philharmonic Hall promenade series. Hayden stars in Firebird on June 5. D Amboise performs Diamonds in Jewels on June 6.
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Lincoln Center
Ballet Center
New York City Ballet
New York State Theater
Bolshoi
Metropolitan Opera
Philharmonic Hall
Jacques d’Amboise
Melissa Hayden
Miss Hayden
Lincoln Center Plaza
D’amboise
Plaza
Sixty Years Ago Aspirin Made in Bathtubs
A historical note describes aspirin production half a century ago using improvised methods as manufacturers struggled to find economical corrosion resistant alloys.
One Injured As Yacht Explodes
A 110 foot yacht with six aboard exploded on the Potomac River near Piney Point Maryland. One crewmember was seriously injured while another jumped overboard and was treated for a head injury. Coast Guard towed the burning vessel upstream to Tall Timbers to ground it as flames rose about 100 feet. Fire believed fueled by gasoline aboard. identities of those aboard were not released.
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Potomac River
Maryland Marine Police
Tall Timbers
Coast Guard
St. Marys County Hospital
Leonardtown
Bluefielder Shrugged Ahead in Education Master’s Degree
Mrs. Shirley H. Jones, a 1964 Bluefield State College graduate, earned a Master of Education from Toledo State University on June 5, 1968. She is the daughter of Roscoe J. Harvey and spouse of a Toledo educator, mother to Lelia V. Jones, and president of the Beta Lambda Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
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Bluefield State College
Toledo State University
Jones
Roscoe J. Harvey
Church Street
Lelia V. Jones
Lawson Street
Toledo
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Bible School To Begin On Monday At Community Church
The Daily Vacation Bible School at Community Christian Church 315 Marshall Street opens Monday morning at 9 o clock, June 17, and runs through Friday June 28. Classes for children up to 11 years old meet daily 9 to 12 with the theme Gods Word Todays Hope.
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Community Christian Church
Marshall Street
Scientific Changes Planned At Zoo
Brookfield Zoo's new director Dr W Peter Crowcroft from Australia plans to expand the scientific staff to boost university collaborative research. He says exhibits should show animal behavior, not only appearance, and proposes family group enclosures to study in full view of the public.
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Brookfield, Ill
Brookfield Zoo
Australia
W. Peter Crowcroft
Crowcroft
Satellite Chatters May Replace Telephone by 1985
A personal transceiver that lets a user speak to anyone on earth could supplant today’s phones by 1985, experts say. The device promises global reach and instant communication, altering how individuals stay connected.
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