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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1961
Page
12
Royal army units driven from Padong by pro Communist rebels establish a new headquarters in the Valley of the White Cliffs in Pakhao Laos. Lt Col Van Pao vows to defy the Communists as U S helicopter supply routes navigate a maze of valleys and peaks.
Virginia farm markets report a cautious advance with feeder calf prices likely two dollars under last fall and corn near ten cents higher in futures. Wheat and potato prospects show steady to mixed changes while Virginia harvests run late and buyers seek maturity, washing, and consumer packaging.
CERES Virginia Mr and Mrs M C Thomas return from Arlington where they visited his mother Mrs J M Thomas Miss Nell Hudson comes back from Maryland where she taught this term Mr and Mrs Neel Wilson of Roanoke visited Pruce Hubble and Mr and Mrs D K Wilson Mr and Mrs Jared Alexander of Weyers Cave spent several days with Mr and Mrs Glen Shufflebarger Mr and Mrs Rodie Crabtree return to Marion to study this summer Miss Ann Laura Atwell visits her parents in Ceres after working in Richmond Residents listed as ill or improving include Mrs W A Waddell s sister in Pulaski Hospital the father of Mrs Paul Barger W A Waddell Mrs Lillie Scott Mrs Fannie Groseclose Greever Call and Mrs Paul Crabtree
London AP reports the post office allows maggots and earthworms to be mailed. Both are widely used as bait by British anglers and the change expands mail service for hobbyists and trades.
A Senate staff report urges creating an Office of Science and Technology within the President's staff to reform and strengthen federal science advisory channels. The draft calls for making the post of special assistant on science and technology and the Science Advisory Committee permanent with statutory backing to help manage an $8 billion annual federal science effort.
Albert Deutsch aged 55, a pioneer in U.S. mental health coverage, was found dead in his bed in Horsham England on Sunday. He reported on social issues for PM New York Star New York Post and New York Compass before going freelance in 1950. He authored books on mental health and received the Lasker award Polk prize and Heywood Broun citations.
In Shinmazuko Kawasaki near Tokyo a Christian church built by ventriloquist Rev. Ō Ō uro Noda and his wife Rev. Fumiko Noda opened. Noda, 36, spent eight years in vaudeville and with his dummy Ken chan drew laughter from crowds and raised 9166 dollars. They now lead a two story concrete church with a 40 member congregation.
A succinct quip notes that many men preach thrift while their wives bear the burden of putting it into practice. The line satirizes shared domestic economic labor and gender roles.
President Kennedy continues to use crutches for a back injury while Mrs Kennedy attends the 11 a.m. Mass in Middleburg. She forgot her money and borrowed funds from an usher. The White House notes steady improvement but no definite return date. the couple plans to fly to Washington Monday.
Josephine Canfield Jones, 16, of Rand, died of acute lymphatic leukemia at Ohio State University Hospital Columbus after five weeks of illness. She was Kanawha Valley region’s second teenage leukemia victim in days. James Kenton Leach, 14, of South Charleston, had died Friday after a seven month illness.
The Bluefield district will crown the June Dairy Month Princess of 1961 in Parlor 6 at the West Virginia Hotel this afternoon. Six candidates compete and the winner is kept secret until the Princess Banquet at Bluefield Auditorium at 6 30 p m. Anne Jean Kennedy Paynesville Victoria Garcia Ballengee Mary Davis Links Grove Linda Long Red Sulphur Springs Betty Sue Leach Union and Faye Ingram Oakvale vie for the honor. Judges are Paul Cole Helen Bell and Mrs Frank Hancock. A hotel luncheon precedes the 2 p m judging. Mayor J Hudson Huffard Bluefield Va will speak at the banquet and Sue Rapp last year’s winner is invited.
The United Kingdom supplied more than half of the candy imports of the United States in 1960. The Netherlands ranked second as a source and Belgium was third.
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