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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1962
Page
19
A series of ten one day training conferences will be held across West Virginia from June 25 to July 13. The events, organized by the State Rural Areas Development Committee, aim to stimulate rural economic activity at county and area levels with participation from local economic development committee members appointed by county courts.
Rev and Mrs A L Sypolt of Pramwell will represent the West Virginia District at the Pilgrim Holiness Churchs 24th quadrennial general conference at Winona Lake Indiana on June 22. West Virginia delegates join about 450 representatives to review church work and legislate for future progress, church spokesmen said.
Young people from Bethel Methodist Church in Bluefield Virginia will sponsor the 7 30 pm worship service. Mrs Omega Dowell will deliver the guest sermon and Mrs Isabelle Simms will sing as soloist. Gertrude Bratton youth group sponsor leads the meeting with special music by the church senior choir.
Bluefield Virginia chamber members of the Bluefield Division will meet on Thursday June 21 at 10 am in the Municipal Building. A new chairman and vice chairman for the coming year will be elected.
In Tennessee on Cross Creek Uncle Sudsy, a top mountain farmer, enjoys a perfect harvest spell and celebrates with a jug. He imagines corn fields turning to dancing gals before dozing under an oak with Aunt Minnie calling him to supper.
Bluefield State College opens a nine week summer term from June 18 to August 17 offering elementary and secondary education, liberal arts, and technical courses plus workshops in exceptional children education, technical education, art, community development, and audio-visual education under Dean E J Scrafford. A three week Education of Exceptional Children workshop starts June 18 led by Mrs Betty Jo Craig, with additional workshops directed by Robert J O'Brien Marvin J Feldman and others. Registration begins June 18 at 8 30 a m and classes start June 19.
In Damascus a court martial will try twelve army officers on armed mutiny charges linked to a April incident in Aleppo. The case arises amid efforts to reunite Syria with the United Arab Republic.
Pansy H Branham of Bluefield will attend the North American Convention of Medical Laboratory Technologists in Washington DC June 17 to 22. The five day event includes workshops seminars and awards and 500 registrants will tour NIH Naval Medical Center and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
Dr. J Brookins Taylor of Bluefield will address the Bluefield Rotarians at their weekly business meeting Tuesday noon at the West Virginian Hotel. President Richard McLaughlin announced the topic New Concepts In Prevention of Heart Disease. Program chairmen are Jim McCoy and E G Otey.
A bishop church service in Bishop Virginia united Delores Olivia Bennett and Robert Lewis Stephens Jr in a double-ring ceremony. The event featured family attendants and a reception at the couple's home with detailed bridal attire and floral decor. East Europe food shortages contrast with Western abundance amid floods and droughts.
A two week training session to improve teaching of maternal and child health subjects in nursing schools opens at the West Virginia University Medical Center on Monday. Thirty nursing teachers and public health nurses from West Virginia New York Pennsylvania and Virginia attend the school funded by a 9492 dollar grant from the U S Public Health Service.
Prime Minister Macmillan urged new East West summit talks to stem a slide in Conservative support. Labor leader Hugh Gaitskell challenged him to a general election while anti nuke demonstrators protested Britain's H bomb policy. The death of Earl of Sandwich triggers a Dorset by election as Hinchingbrooke faces a House of Lords seat. Gaitskell hailed Friday’s Scottish vote as Tory defeat and Macmillan pushed for a universal disarmament pact.
Mount Zion Baptist Church in Bluefield will host a vacation Bible school from June 11 to June 22. Classes run daily Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon with the theme Lets Learn About God. Children ages three through junior high are eligible to attend.
The 100 piece All State High School band left Huntington on a special train bound for Seattle for the World’s Fair and West Virginia Day ceremonies on June 20. They will perform for Colorado Day on June 21 and two concerts in the Plaza of States. Commerce Commissioner Hulett C. Smith and Washington Governor Albert D. Rosellini will dedicate the West Virginia plaque and flag staff. The group returns June 26 after visiting Seattle.
Bluefield Y's Men announce the annual outdoor meeting with YMCA Boys Camp members to be held next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Camp Iva on Cove Creek in Tazewell County Virginia. Members meet at the YMCA Building on College Avenue at 6 p.m. for a motor caravan to the site.
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