Harrison Proposes Virginia School Construction Authority
Democrat hopeful Harrison calls for a state agency to issue bonds and low cost loans for school construction up to 250 million dollars. He says the authority would supplement but not supersede local bonding and would redirect roughly 50 million in literary fund assets to leverage new bonds. Virginia counties have reported about 175 million in school indebtedness as 1958-59 ends.
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Harrison
General Assembly
Gneral Assembly
Virginia School Construction Authority
Literary Fund
Virginia
U. S. House of Representatives
Air Conditioner Dispute Traces Court Fuss In Summer
In Washington a civil complaint arises over a noisy air conditioner. George P. Smith Jr., 59, is accused of a device that “grates, grinds, rattles” disturbing Mrs. Hess M. Cryer. Smith defends repairs and access, Cryer sought relief after prior discussions.
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Washington
Clark King
George P. Smith, Jr
Hess M. Cryer
Stevenson Confident Trip Is Successful
Lima Peru Adlai E Stevenson concluded the second week of his South American mission confident the trip has been successful despite recent violence. He and associates believe anti U S demonstrations involved only a small minority while widespread public government and press friendly reception balanced the unrest.
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Lima
Peru
Adlai E. Stevenson
Kennedy
Stevenson
Bradley's Sport and Travel Wear Offers Vacation Supplies
Bradley's advertises travel clothes sport outfits and a new shipment titled The Thing in the Sport department. It promotes Blazer shorts in red white and navy bathing suits and coats wool suits hats with a Monday price cut and limited Magic Wipe and Kol-Sope. Wedding items and bags for every occasion are highlighted with straw bags priced at 2.95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradley's
Bradley
Sport Department
Red
White
Navy
Judge Frowns On Teen Driving
In Rockville Maryland Judge Alfred D Noyes urged curb on teen driving after a Thursday session with police students parents and educators. He noted six of seven juvenile court cases involve cars and proposed options may include limiting driving to school with school officials to study the idea.
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Rockville
Alfred D. Noyes
Montgomery County Juvenile Court
Noyes
Walter Johnson High School
Financial reforms outline for economic recovery goals
The document lists priority goals to reduce unemployment and speed growth, including insured loans for FHA VA mortgages, farm credit insurance, pension fund regulation, targeted public works funding, federal charters for insurance, and banking reforms. It proposes repealing debt limits, issuing long or short term Treas ury bonds by cycle, and giving the Fed full control of monetary levers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Works
Federal Reserve System
Savings and Loan
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
U. S
Federal Reserve
Wyoming County Development Booklet Issued by Rotary Club
A 16 page booklet on Wyoming County development is being released in Pineville. Prepared by Pineville Rotary Club members and edited by J Paul England the booklet notes that local capital is ready to finance plant facilities to industry specifications within a $200 000 limit.
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Wyoming County
Pineville
Rotary Club
J. Paul England
Rotary
Rauwolfia serpentina and the history of its medical use
Indian plant Rauwolfia serpentina, named after botanist Rauwolf, was described in 1582 and long used to treat mental disorders. Scientists have only recently begun to recognize its value in modern medicine.
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Rauwolfia
Rauwolf
Revival Opens at Church of Christ in Dubring
A revival meeting will open Sunday June 18 at 7 30 p m at Dubring Church of Christ in Dubring. Services will be led by Rev Fred Lester the church’s minister.
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Church of Christ
Dubring Church of Christ
Dubring
Fred Lester
Moonshine Raid Breaks Up Ohio Operation
Federal state and local officers raided an abandoned farm on Ohio 18 eight miles west of Youngstown. Two men from Wilkesboro North Carolina were arrested for making and transporting illegal liquor. A Kent Ohio father and his 1 year old son were arrested in Charlotte North Carolina with a truck loaded with liquor. Basement stills, large sugar stock, fermentation boxes and jugs were found. Authorities traced a sugar delivery Thursday and followed the truck to North Carolina.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Wilkesboro
N. C
Here
William van Becknell
Frank R. Bailey
Kent
Charlotte
M. C
David Paolucci
Don
North Carolina
West Virginia Birth Amid Controversy and Slavery Debate
The passage recalls the naming of West Virginia amid disputes over state identity and slavery. It cites Peter G. Van Winkle’s critique of changing a name, Virginians defending their heritage, and a 1863 Wheeling Daily Intelligencer note on public festivities. It notes 21 736 enslaved people at statehood and ongoing annual commemorations on June 20.
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West Virginia
Peter G. van Winkle
West
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
High Finance Probe Reported
Justice Department reportedly probes final political figures tied to financier Bernard Goldfine. Sherman Adams named among those under scrutiny as investigators seek to confirm whether his finances align with statements denying payments from Goldfine.
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Washington
Justice Department
Bernard Goldfine
Clark Moltenhoff
Minneapolis Tribune
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Sherman Adams
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Lancaster
Adams
Mollehoff
Goldfine
Boston
Molehoff
Area Instructors Joined West Virginia University English Staff
Miss Margaret Ann Scott of Athens Miss Charlotte Couthard of Algoma and Richard A Milum of Tempe Arizona were appointed as instructors in English at West Virginia University. Scott comes from Ohio University after earning a master of arts in English. Milum and Couthard will join Sept 1 alongside Scott and Couthard hails from McDowell County while Milum comes from Tempe Arizona.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
Arizona
West Virginia University
Margaret Ann Scott
Athens
Charlotte Couthard
Algoma
McDowell County
Richard A. Milum
Tempe
Scott
Ohio University
Concord College
Tazewell
Bethany College
Richmond Times Dispatch backs Harrison for governor
The Richmond Times-Dispatch will strongly recommend Albertis S. Harrison Jr. for governor in its Sunday edition. The lead editorial praises his eminent qualifications, sound program, and long public service career, urging voters to nominate Harrison in the July 11 Democratic primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond, Va
Richmond Times - Dispatch
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Pete
Times- Dispatch
Harrison
George Says Cont'd Personalities and Career Moves
George Says notes George Steele, longtime staffer, remains active as of now. Steele arrived in Bluefield in 1913 from Coeburn, Virginia, after a Norfolk and Western Railway calling job and a stint as a West End carpenter before joining the newspaper. He has not announced retirement plans.
Deaths and Funerals in Southwestern Virginia Area
Obituary notices from Pearisburg to Wise and Bluefield detail funeral plans for Lilburn M Poston Martha Harrison Manilian Eldridge and Edna Gardner with service times burial sites and surviving relatives. services listed for multiple churches and funeral homes across the region.
Funerals for Charles Wayne Martin and Geneva McDowell Mandeville
Funeral services are announced for Charles Wayne Martin of Athens with a Sunday 2 p.m. service at Athens Methodist Church led by Rev. Charles Roth, followed by a Seaver Mortuary Chapel to church transfer at 12:30 p.m. in Princeton. Geneva McDowell Mandeville of Roanoke Virginia will be buried after a Monday 10 a.m. service at Oakey's Funeral Chapel Roanoke with graveside rites at 2:30 p.m. at Roselawn Memorial Gardens Bluefield Princeton Road.
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Lilburn Montgomery Poston
Pearisburg
Giles Memorial Hospital
Pearisburg Presbyterian Church
John Sherman
Birchlawn Burial Park
Pearisburg Pharmacy
Poston
Abingdon
James and
Elizabeth Montgomery Poston
Helen F. Poston
Lee Poston
Dahlgreen
W. B. Poston
Indianapolis
Ind
Virginia Kidd
Richmond
Givens
John Dill
Richard Beasley
Phillip Snidow
James Johnston
Gordon Ruble
Robert Bingham
Martha Harrison
Coalwood
Richlands
Russell County
Henry and
Frances Fields Cook
George Harrison
Howard Belcher
Miles Sykes
North Tazewell
Frank Hart
Alta Turner
Cleveland
Nannie Johnson
Bristol
Finney Baptist Church
James Short
Musick
Honaker Funeral Home
Lilman
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluefield
Surviving Area
James Cannon
Olivia Lewis
Memphis
Tenn
Mayme Baxter
Greenville
Theordrick Cannon
New York
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
H. T. Alexander
Stanford Barksdale
Ernest Calloway
Charles Watkins
Horace Meadows
Albert Powers
Women's Society of Christian Service
Edna Lovejoy Gardner
William Henry Gardner
Memorial Hospital
Princeton
Arthur Perry
George W. Seaver, III
Alfred McKinley Eldridge
Welch Emergency
Church of the Living God
Eckman
Eldridge
Gilliam Coal and Coke Co
UMWA
Rence Eldridge
Charles Eldridge
Worth
James Eldridge
Statesville
N. C
Davies Lindsey
Vivian
Everett Sesson
Garaand Hall
Andy Cobley
Bassett
Garland Tilley
Wise
Joe Tilley
Goodwill
Bennett
Northfork
Clarence
Martin
Charles Wayne
Athens
Athens Methodist Church
Charles Roth
Seaver Mortuary Chapel
End Session With Address On Youth Parkersburg
West Virginia Seventh day Adventists closed their 61st summer conference with R Allan Anderson, secretary of the Ministerial Association of the Adventists General Conference. Earlier Edmund M Peterson of the Columbia Union Conference warned youths focus less on weaknesses and more on developing abilities to avoid tragic consequences.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia
Seventh - Day Adventists
R. Allan Anderson
Ministerial Association of the Adventists’ General Conference
Edmund M. Peterson
Columbia Union Conference of Adventists
Cuban underground says Castro massing Soviet T weapons
A 19 year old Cuban fighter, Ernesto, now hospitalized in Miami, claims Havana receives daily Soviet and Czech military shipments through Mariel port and shows dozens of MIG fighters at San Antonio air base. He says Cuban pilots are trained by Czech instructors while the population is kept unaware.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Ernesto
Cuba
Havana
US Rep Dorn urges armed blockade of Cuba and halt to Castro talks
Rep. William Jennings Bryan Dorn of South Carolina urged an armed blockade of Cuba to prevent Russian or Chinese military buildup. He also called for stopping the tractor or prisoner exchange with Fidel Castro as part of a state convention address for the Michigan Disabled American Veterans.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
William Jennings Bryan Dorn
D-S. C
Cuba
Russia
Red
China
Dorn
Fidel Castro
United States
Michigan
Germany
Japan
Berlin
Laos
Viet Nam
U. S
Virginia Fire Chiefs Elect New Officers
Lawson W. Osborne of South Boston was elected president of the State Fire Chiefs Association at its 31st annual convention in Natural Bridge. Eight officers were named, including W. R. Taylor of Hopewell as first vice president and J. H. Clements of Arlington as second vice president.
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Natural Bridge
Lawson W. Osborne
South Boston
State Fire Chiefs’ Association
W. R. Taylor
Hopewell
J. H. Clements
Arlington
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