Tragic Highway Crash Ends Promising Summer Day
A Pittsburgh man attempting a good deed for two Cumberland youths died in a high speed crash on U. S. 40 near Grantsville Maryland. Bernard R. McFadden 24 and 14 year old William Leroy Metz were killed. 15 year old Richard Thomas Carr was critically injured. Witnesses recalled McFadden’s boastful remarks before the collision.
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Grantsville
Pittsburgh
Cumberland Md
Here
Bernard R. McFadden
Hnastine
McFadden
William Leroy Metz
Richard Thomas Carr
Allegany Hospital
Cumberland
William
Richard
Betty McFadden
Stephen Cermak
Republic
U. S. 40
Pennsylvania Line
Thomas Rick
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Charlottesville
William S. Baker
Maryland State Police
Rick
Local Area Men Enlist in Army and Air Force
Seven Bluefield area men enlisted at the Perry Building recruiting station. Melvin Harris ton of Algoma W Va and Donald James Thompson of Bland County Va were sent to Fort Meade Md for six year Army service. Air force recruits to Sampson Air Base Geneva N Y included Franklin R Mullin Pocahontas Va George C Shirley Allen Osborne Herbert H Butt Jr Pocahontas and John Franklin Purdy McComas.
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Army
Air Force
Perry Building
Bluefield
Melvin Harriston
Algoma
W. Va
Donald James Thompson
Bland County
Fort George G. Meade
Sampson Air Base
Geneva
N. Y
Franklin R. Mullin
Pocahontas
George C. Shirley
Boonestreet
Allen O. Osborne
Boone Street
Herbert H. Butt, Jr
John Franklin Purdy
McComas
Bluefield Graduate Earns Optometry Degree in Philadelphia
Dr. Gerald Frank son of Mrs. Freda A. Frank 1212 College Ave Bluefield earned a doctor of optometry from the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry with exercises at Town Hall Philadelphia June 11. He attended Bluefield schools Beaver High School class of 1944 and studied at Bluefield College and University of Cincinnati before Penn State. He is a member of Sigma Alpha Mu and Gamma Omega Phi and served as business manager of The Pupil and treasurer of the class. Relatives from Bluefield Cincinnati Trenton and New York attended the exercises and a dinner followed at a downtown hotel. He will return to Bluefield and enter army service before private optometry practice.
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Gerald Frank
Freda A. Frank
College Avenue
Pennsylvania State College of Optometry
Town Hall
Philadelphia
Frank
Bluefield
Beaver High School
Bluefield College
University of Cincinnati
Penn State
Sigma Alpha Mu
Gamma Omega Phi
College Journal
A. A. Angrist
Harry Clark
Cincinnati
Trenton
New York
Prescription For Sagging Arches Told
Los Angeles doctors advise UC physical education staff exercises to restore foot strength. One routine can be done while reading the evening paper with legs on a footstool to stretch and separate the toes. A second move has the person walking forward with toes pointed inward to build muscle and reduce fatigue.
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Los Angeles
University of California
Hooked Big One by Zane Grey Marlin Swordfish
Zane Grey, the famed author, caught a 1040 pound spiked marlin swordfish near Tahiti in 1930. The record catch stands as the largest fish ever taken with rod and line.
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Zane Grey
Tahiti
Community Calendar of Bluefield Events Listing
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph publishes a weekly Community Calendar listing four weeks of events from June 19 to July 13. Baseball games at Bowen Field feature Blue Grays against Kingsport Johnson City Welch Bristol and Elizabethton. Trade group events include West Virginian Coal Mining Institute meetings and Merchants and Buyers Week conventions at the West Virginian Hotel and Hotel Matz. Also noted are plays at Ram and Ramsey Sey Auditorium and the Southern Appalachian Horse Show at Bluefield Stadium with Kiwanis Club involvement.
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Kingsport
Blue Grays
Bowen Field
Wed
Johnson City
University Club
Bluefield Country Club
Band Boosters Club
Ram Auditorium
West Virginia Coal Mining Institute
West Virginian Hotel
Welch
Ramseysey
West Virginian Coal Mining Institute
West Virginian
Sun
Lee Welch
Elizabethton
Bristol
Bluefield
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Bluefield Stadium
Merchants and Buyers Week Association
Matz
Wythe County Soil Program Spurs Dairy Farm Success
Wythe County soil conservationist W. M. Holcombe notes 13 farmers adopting soil and water saving practices in a year and a half. He cites Thomas Jackson, who doubled corn and crop yields and reduced costs with two hay driers and a gravity-fed feeding chute. Also highlighted are Robert Alford and Ed and Brooks Jennings embracing timber land care and innovative farm tools.
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Jackson Ferry
W. M. Holcombe
Wythe County
Holcombe
Thomas Jackson
Jackson
Ed Jennings
Brooks Jennings
Jennings
The Countess Promotes Westinghouse Frost Free Fridge
The Countess, a baby girl dubbed The Countess, will be at Cox's department store this week to promote the Westinghouse Frost Free refrigerator. The appliance counts door openings before defrosting and is marketed with a smiling image reflecting the mother’s pride in the invention. Cox's offers gifts to visitors meeting The Countess during the event.
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Cox's Department Store
Westinghouse
Cox’s
Couple Nabbed In Shoplifting By Store Clerk’s Alert
Two McComas residents Samuel Long and Ella Louise Long were jailed in Mercer County on $500 bond after a Bluefield store clerk tailed them for shoplifting clothing from Montgomery Ward and J C Penney. Clerk J S Fowler followed them to the Consolidated bus terminal and triggered a grand jury referral.
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McComas
Princeton
Mercer
Bluefield
Samuel Long
Ella Louise Long
Montgomery Ward
J C. Penney
J. S. Fowler
Consolidated
R. O. Bond
Fowler
Bond
Longs
A. Douglas Bailey
Long
Penneys
Ella Louise Howard
French Count Seeks Appeal Over Son Alimony Case
Paris date June 16 A French nobleman Count Raoul de Lubersac appeals a court ruling ordering his son Count Guy de Lubersac to pay alimony to Patricia Finney af Munenn w Feuilim ALINII Ve 2 ALOVEE for their daughter Jill. The case centers on a marriage deemed invalid in France with questions of legitimacy and support while Patricia seeks higher alimony.
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Paris
Coed
Raoul de Lubersac
Count Guy de Lubersac
Dateima Trata Af Munenn
Feuilim Alinii
France
Guy
Patricia
Lordsburg
N. M
de Lubersac
Jill
America
New Mexico
Yves Marescot
de Lubersacs
University of Arizona
North Africa
Frederic Finney
Marescot
Count de Lubersac
New York
Jacques Chaperon
Chaperon
England
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Cermak
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Louisville 2
Chest OF Drawers
Tazewell, Virginia
Hotpoint
Clark
Hitomati
Norking
Bluefield, W. VA
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Wythe Soil Program
Mount Rainiler
Washington
Goldcraft Studios
Armed Services
Coal & Coke Building
417 Coal & Coke
Amercan
New England
Colonial
New Yorks
Newport
Cape Cod
Plymouth Rock
Lexington and Concord
Boston
Maine
Ticonderoga
Ormen Gax
Tour Valuas
Commerce
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