Barron Calls Session To Discuss New Coal Uses
Gov. Barron announced a Conference on Coal Recovery in Washington on June 25 to draft a blueprint for new coal uses and markets. The meeting will gather industry leaders with state and federal officials to address coal’s problems and competitiveness while seeking concrete recommendations.
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Barron
Charleston
Washington
Senate
Council of Economic Advisers
Advisory Committee On Coal
C. Hardesty Jr
Paul Crabtree
Stephen A. Dunn
National Coal Association
George A. Lamb
Interior Department
Office of Coal Research
Mercer County Health Drive Nets $1052.30
The 1962 Bell Ringer drive for the Mercer County Chapter West Virginia Association For Mental Health raised 1052.30. The house to house campaign covered Bluefield Bramwell McComas Princeton Athens Lerona and Bluewell with some reports still pending. Mrs H K Jarrell chapter president and state director will attend the National Mental Health Association convention in St Louis November 14 15 16 as a voting delegate.
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Mercer County
West Virginia Association For Mental Health
A. E. Harbert
Bluefield
Bramwell
McComas
Princeton
Athens
Lerona
Bluewell
H. K. Jarrell
Mercer
St. Louis
Princeton Teacher To Attend Institute
James Lee Long of 106 Butler Street Princeton has been chosen as a participant in Randolph Macon Woman's College fifth annual summer science institute sponsored by the National Science Foundation. He joins 74 other teachers from 18 states in the June 27 to August 8 program. Host colleges include Randolph Macon among six women's colleges. Participants receive 450 dollars in stipends plus free tuition and travel and dependent allowances. They take two courses drawn from lectures across science and mathematics and elective work in biology chemistry mathematics and physics.
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James Lee Long
Butler St
Princeton
Randolph- Macon Woman's College
National Science Foundation
Randolph Macon
United States
Concord Prof Hatfield Receives Fulbright Grant for Taiwan
Concord College associate history professor Dr J Tennis Hatfield has won a Fulbright Grant for the 1962 Institute in Chinese Civilization at Tunghai University Taichung Taiwan. He will depart June 25 and return August 26 after visiting Japan and other Far Eastern locales.
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J. Tennis Hatfield
Concord College
Athens
Tunghai University
Taichung
Taiwan
Hatfield
Concord
Ohio University
Emory University
Japan
Wirt Hatfield
Baileysville
Ruby Rutherford
Pineville
County Health Center Schedules Five Clinics This Week
Mercer County Health Center at Green Valley lists five clinics this week. A venereal disease clinic is today at 9 30 with registration at 9. An immunization clinic for diphtheria pertussis tetanus and polio is Tuesday 8 30 to 11. Smallpox vaccinations will not be given. Tuberculosis skin testing and food handler registration are at 1 p.m. Wednesday is West Virginia Day closing. A well child conference by appointment is Thursday at 10 30 with registration at 9. TB test readings are Friday at 1 p.m. Kiwanis Club of Green Valley Glenwood meets Tuesday at 6 20 p.m.
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Mercer County Health Center
Green Valley
West Virginia
Kiwanis Club of
Green Valley-Glenwood
Women of Moose to Install New Officers in Princeton
New officers will be installed Tuesday June 19 at 8 p.m. by Princeton Chapter 355 Women of the Moose. The ceremony at the Moose Lodge on Mercer Street will be by officers of Princeton Lodge 1521 Loyal Order of Moose. Visitors from other chapters may attend. formal dress is required.
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Princeton Chapter
Women of the Moose
Mary Jo Daugherty
Moose Lodge
Mercer Street
Princeton Lodge
Loyal Order of Moose
Hinkley Elected WV DAV State Commander at Princeton
B T Hinkley former Bluefield resident and Huntington DAV service officer is elected state commander of the West Virginia Department of Disabled American Veterans at the 32nd annual convention in Princeton. New officers include Dan Akers Princeton third junior vice commander and Pearl Fitzpatrick Clarksburg commander of the auxiliary, with adjuncts Edwards Reuter Mason City and Paul Norman Beckley among state officers.
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West Virginia Department
Princeton
Dan Akers
B. T. Hinkley
Huntington
Edward Reuter
Mason City
Paul R. Norman
Beckley
E. E. Grizzel
James F. Thompson
Wilson F. Baker
Sugar Grove
Roy S. Clendenin
Charleston
James C. Wallace
Point Pleasant
Johnny Mayo
Bluefield
West Virginia
DAV
Memorial Building
Hinkley
E. E. Grizzer
Virginia Wheat Output Falls 30 Percent in 1961
Virginia shows wheat production at 4.744 million bushels, down 30 percent from 1961 due to historic low acreage and 4 percent yield drop. Prices edge up but uncertain as farmers weigh selling at current levels or using government loan storage. Soybean carryover expected and hay prices steady in Virginia markets.
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Virginia
Kansas
Oklahoma
North Carolina
Richmond
Northern Neck
Norfolk
Chicago
Old Dominion
Baltimore
United States
Virgina
Shenandoah Valley
2700 Expected To Enroll At WVU Today
West Virginia University expects more than 2,700 students to register Monday for the first term of the summer session. Registrar J Everett Long announced the two five week terms with the first ending July 20. Over 600 campus courses and 11 at Parkersburg are listed.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
J. Everett Long
WVU
University
Parkersburg
Indonesia Okays Diplomat Plan for West New Guinea
U Thant says the Netherlands accepts in principle Ellsworth Bunker proposals to settle the Indonesia West New Guinea dispute. Indonesia and the Netherlands would resume talks, with a goal of a one to two year transfer of authority and a plebiscite to protect Papuan self determination.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
U Thant
Netherlands
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Indonesia
West New Guinea
Bunker
Thant
Sukarno
New Guinea
County Hearing Speech Clinics Begin June 18 in Bluefield
A Mercer County speech and hearing clinic sponsored by the Mercer County Society For Crip pled Children and Adults will run June 18 through August 10 at the Board of Education Office on Ramsey Street Bluefield. Virginia Richmond county speech therapist with special training through the society will instruct.
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Mercer County
The
Mercer County Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Board of Education
Ramsey Street
Bluefield
Virginia
Richmond
Mercer County Society
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State Mines
Leonard J. Timms
Commerce
Hulett C. Smith
Hardesty
Don Hardman
Bath
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Culate
Victor Mature
Dolores Hart
George Hamilton
Concord Prof
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Women of Moose
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Luella Gibson
Louise Osborne
Elnora Wereley
Buchanan
Zella Taylor
Virginia Department of Agriculture
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Umpany
Velvet
Bluefield, W. Va
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W. Va
Gilbert
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Muliens, W. Va
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Bluefield’s Camera Center
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