Bees and beer by Cross Creek two old friends seek honey
In Tennessee at Cross Creek Jim Dalton’s Uncle Jack and neighbor Tink Duncan sit by the creek next to an adjoining field. They watch bees head north into a laurel thicket and climb a tall black gum tree to a hive, share corn liquor, and recall bee facts and lore as the honey harvest nears.
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Jack
Cross Creek
Tennessee
Sudsy
Tink Duncan
Tink
Uncle Jack
Uncle Cork Popper
Joe
Julius Caesar
Julius
Caruso
Louis Armstrong
Greece
Catskills
Californy
Shore
Podnah
Grain futures surge as volume hits 33-year peak
Grain trading ran at a rapid pace last week in Chicago with prices swinging sharply higher. Volume Thursday reached a 33 year high, delaying Friday’s opening to clear member transactions. Wheat up 10 cents and soybeans up to 16 percent as bullish market sentiment grows on government yield cuts and storm damage reports.
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Chicago
Exchange
Three Die in South Baltimore Tavern Fire
A blaze in a South Baltimore tavern and upstairs living quarters killed three. Dr. Werner Spitz said two victims, Ellen Polansk as and Margie Harmon, were stabbed and Polansk as also strangled. Chester Dobbins, the third victim, had no foul play signs according to preliminary exam.
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Baltimore
Werner Spitz
City
Ellen Polanskas
Margie Harmon
Labor Practice Charges Filed Against Danville Supermarket
The National Labor Relations Board will hold an August 8 hearing in Charleston against Danville Supermarket Inc of Danville West Virginia. The Food Store Employes Union Local 347 says the company refused union recognition and failed to meet on wages hours and other terms. Named are Perry A. Moyer Bantz Miller and Esa Taylor.
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Cincinnati
Danville Supermarket Inc
Danville
W.va
National Labor Relations Board
Food Store
Boone County
W. Va
Perry A. Moyer
Bantz Miller
Esa Taylor
Charleston
NLRB
West Virginia
Birch Coal Co
Summersville Coal Co
Near Worth
United Mine Workers
District 31
Nicholas County
Ten Chimps Return To Nature On Rubondo Island
Ten chimpanzees born and reared in European zoos arrive on Rubondo island in Lake Victoria to live in the wild. The group includes three males and seven females assembled by German zoologist Dr. Bernhard Grzimek for a back to nature experiment.
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Dar ES Salaam
Tanzania
Rubondo
Lake Victoria
Bernhard Grzimeck
The Etymology Of Cole Slaw In A Linguistic Tale
A playful etymology traces cole slaw to Latin caulis meaning stalk and sala meaning salt. The piece links cole to kool and cabbage through Dutch and French roots, noting cabbge evolves via caboche and salade to slodd and finally slaw. Copyright 1966 Otto Whittaker.
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Mark Twain
Cole
Otto Whittaker
Porterfield Receives Pilgrim Degree at Moose Convention
Carl Porterfield, longtime secretary of Bluefield Moose Lodge 1079, earned the Pilgrim Degree of Merit at Moose International’s 78th convention in Mooseheart Illinois. About 150 members from the U.S. and Canada attended as 5,000 members nationwide receive the honor annually. The event featured investiture, pool dedication at Mooseheart, and Mooshart High School Class of 1966 commencement.
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Carl Porterfield
Bluefield
Porterfield
Moose
United States
Canada
Mooseheart
The
Legion of Moose
Mooshart High School
Bruce to Take N and W Foreman Post in Brewster Ohio
Gerald E. Bruce, road foreman of engines at Bluefield, will succeed Blaine S. McFarren at Brewster Ohio. Michael S. Payne of Portsmouth will replace Bruce at Bluefield. Bruce joined the railroad in 1947 and became foreman in 1965. Payne began as a fireman with Wabash in 1957.
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Gerald E. Bruce
Norfolk and Western Railway
Bluefield
Brewster
Ohio
Michael S. Payne
Portsmouth
Bruce
Payne
Wabash
Pilgrim Trains In Medina To Reopen
AMMAN Jordan AP Pilgrim trains to Medina Saudi Arabia will run again in 1968 on the desert railway blown up in World War I by Lawrence of Arabia. Jordan Saudi Arabia and Syria finance the 519 mile project to restore the line.
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Amman
Jordan
Medina
Saudi Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia
Syria
Woman Charged in Slaying Near Williamson
Mary Elizabeth Lentz 22, of Winston-Salem North Carolina, is bound over for the Mingo County Grand Jury on murder charges in the throat slash killing of Calvin Burgess near Williamson. Burgess, about 70, was found at a rooming house with the throat slit. Lentz was arrested nearby and held without bond. The motive remains unclear and the case goes to September grand jury.
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Williamson
Mary Elizabeth Lentz
Calvin Burgess
Justice of the Peace
Sid Stallings
Miss Lentz
Winston-Salem
N. C
Burgess
Rossy Buck
Jio
Etast
Mingo County
Grand Jury
Student Cycles Across Europe and Asia to Britain
A 21 year old Pakistani architecture student Akhtar Mehmud from Karachi arrives in Tongeren Belgium after a 46 500 mile 42 month motorcycle trek through Asia and Europe en route to studies in Britain. He says he studied architectural styles along the journey.
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Tongeren
Belgium
Pakistan
Akhtar Mehmud
Karachi
Asia
Europe
Britain
Nurses State Report Meeting in Bluefield
Members of District II Practical Nurses Association in Bluefield will hold a July 21 report meeting at 7 p.m. at the Appalachian Building. The drive began with a June Spring Round-Up at the Milner-Matz Hotel with Louise Bradley as president and Cinda Lou Fowlkes of Huntington as guest speaker. District II discussed 1967 legislation to require licensure for working for hire, with Mary Frances Linkenhaker and Mary Belcher among guests.
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Practical Nurses Association
Bluefield
Appalachian Building
Bluefie
Milner - Matz
Louise Bradley
Cinda Lou Fowlkes
Huntington
PNA i
District 11
Wih
Mary Frances Linkenhaker
Mary Belcher
Mercer County Vocational School of
Dolly Adkins
District 13
Welch
Lois Lynch
Claudine Manus
Laura Lusk
New River Gorge Complex Proposed Near Beckley
The New River Gorge Development Corp proposes a $5.5 million tourist complex in the gorge near Beckley. Plans include a 100-room lodge costing 2.5 million, two 18-hole golf courses at 1.5 million, an Olympic-size pool and facilities at 300,000, plus land and roads 750,000, with a federal funding request to the EDA.
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Beckley
New River Gorge Development Corp
New River Gorge
The
Economic Development Administration
Piles Relief Ad Promises Quick Comfort
An old advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment as fast relief for piles with cooling soothing formula. Claims itching relief and decades of use, offering money back and applicator options at 70c or 85c.
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Peterson
Peteson
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