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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1967
Page
2
In Athens Georgia 669 volunteers completed a two day simulated fallout shelter test. Participants faced no furniture running water or bathrooms while subsisting on Civil Defense rations. The effort included both black and white volunteers living together showing cooperation.
Six 4 H leaders from Wyoming County attended the volunteer leaders conference at the State H Camp in Jackson's Mill. Attendees include Mrs Effie Brooks Marianna Mrs Ehel McConshay Mullens Mrs Locelle Lusk Matheny Mrs Elaine Viers Pineville Rose Marie Shumate Soulsville and Mike McGraw McGraws. The week centered on impact with daily themes and included classes such as programs. The annual gathering serves all adults associated with H.
B52 bombers hit oil storage near an oil area and carried out heavy raids around the Mu Gia Pass, with two Sunday assaults on enemy bivouacs. The strikes near Khe Sanh marked 13th engagement in Quang Tri since resuming North Vietnam operations, amid missiles risk near the DMZ.
The notice provides the newspaper name Bluefield Daily Telegraph published in Wythe Daly Tenorege Printing id. It mentions Associated Press rights and typical rates for daily and Sunday editions, with pricing shown as 50 cents per copy.
Notices list Margaret Hardy 80 of Keystone and Luther Norris 67 of Kimball among several deaths. Services for Hardys and Sisk family members are announced with dates at Keystone Methodist Church Bluewell and Bluewell Methodist Church. Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery Bluewell follows. Funeral home calls and service times are provided for multiple families in the region.
John Henry Knea Sr. a Maitland resident died Saturday afternoon in a Welch hospital. Born in Germantown New York he was a lay leader at Hilton Memorial Methodist Church and held Masonic and shrine memberships. Funeral Tuesday at Hilton Memorial Methodist Church with burial in Roselawn Cemetery at Princeton. Mrs Dora Mae Rose of Spanishburg died Saturday night after a short illness. She was born in Drill Virginia and survived by her husband Fred Rose and children and grandchildren. Funeral services followed at Bailey Funeral Chapel Princeton with burial at Camp Creek. Friends may call at Douglas Mortuary Welch and Bailey Funeral Chapel Prince ton.
William H. Terry 83 of Lindside died Sunday at home after a long illness. He was born in Lindside a son of the late R. A. and Jane Jackson Terry and a life long Monroe County resident. He was a retired farmer and member of Lindside Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife and children Louise and Preston Terry both of Lindside, and brother John Terry of Gap Mills. Burial in Bradley Cemetery with services at Lindside Methodist Church officiated by Rev. Hertzel Mills and Rev. Raymond Booth. Friends may call at Broyles Funeral Chapel Peterstown. body will be brought to the church an hour before services.
Mrs. Myrtle Graves of 2% Jones Street Bluefield died Sunday morning at Bluefield Sanitarium after an illness of several months. The body will remain at Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home in Bluefield pending completion of funeral arrangements.
Mrs. Pansy Marie Ree Sy ree ton aged 51 funeral Monday at 2 p.m. Memorial Funeral Roselawn with Ira White Morris Small Melvin Blankenship Jake Six Harry Small Wiley Wood listed as pallbearers. Fred William St. Clair 75 of Tazewell Va funeral today 2 p.m. Pisgah Methodist Church burial Maplewood Cemetery. George Monroe Burge 80 Bluefield Va funeral today 2 p.m. Dudley Memorial Chapel burial Grandview Cemetery. Phlegar P. Wall portion Narrows Va funeral Tuesday 2 p.m. East Chapel Community Church burial Boyd Cemetery. Body moved from Riffe’s Narrows to residence then church one hour before services.
Stanton Ray Lilly of Saint Michaels Maryland died at home on Saturday night of natural causes and will be taken to Seaver Mortuary in Princeton. Mamie Daniels, 71, of Pocahontas Virginia died Sunday at home after a long illness and was taken to Pocahontas Union Funeral Home.
AID officials discuss a program to provide foreign governments pills or ingredients to reduce births. Three countries reportedly requested aid, details to be signed after final agreements. Estimated cost undisclosed. rough figure cites about $2 per year per user. Critics say speed of action on population policy is too slow. Senators Fulbright and Tydings push for large yearly funding up to 75 million dollars.
The piece contrasts Khrushchev’s fiery, theatrical leadership with Kosygin’s cool, methodical diplomacy. It notes Khrushchev’s outbursts and shoe theatrics at the UN in 1960 and highlights Kosygin as a pragmatic, urbane reformer, later reshaping Soviet diplomacy after 1964.
Funeral services are scheduled in Lewisburg for Richard Renick Dickson a United States probation officer who died at 60. A resident of Second Creek in Monroe County he served Monroe Greenbrier Summers and Pocahontas counties and is survived by his widow Elizabeth Arbuckle.
In Charleston a theft at Nomar's market saw Mrs Frances Aubrey report the loss of her wallet on Saturday while serving a customer. The billfold held over 800 dollars.
George Greenacre 71 of 603 Frederick St Bluefield owner of the Watch Shop for 25 years died after a heart attack. He was a watchmaker in Bluefield for 45 years and grew up in Forrest City Arkansas. Survived by wife Anna Belle he belonged to Westminster Presbyterian Church and Bluefield Masonic Lodge. Hawkins Funeral Home will conduct services with Dr C H Patterson officiating and entombment in Monte Vista Park Mausoleum after 4 PM today.
A 25-year-old Norfolk man, Richard J. White, drowned Sunday afternoon in the southern branch of the Elizabeth River near the Norfolk & Western Railway bridge. Police and Coast Guardsmen searched until dark. the body was not recovered. White reportedly suffered leg cramps while swimming. a companion, not identified, said he grasped White's leg before slipping under.
Governor Hulett C. Smith and state department officials will conduct a government to the people program from 6 to 1 p.m. Monday at the West Virginia State Fair grounds in Fairlea Greenbrier County. The public is invited.
About 20,000 Chinese residents reportedly filed applications to move from British Hong Kong to Formosa under a simplified processing procedure, as reported by China News. The action reflects Communist-inspired disturbances influencing migration plans.
Singapore AP reports researchers have created a device that turns pig manure into methane gas. Twenty pigs could supply heating and lighting for a family of ten, and a farmer can build the unit for about 100 dollars.
A 53 year old Fieldale Virginia truck driver James Otis Hudnall died from a heart attack after becoming ill on the West Virginia Turnpike. He collapsed on Oakvale Mountain and was dead on arrival at Princeton Memorial Hospital. Hudnall's body was taken to Stone Funeral Home in Martinsville for funeral arrangements.
Contract negotiations for about 190 employees of National Electric Coil Division of McGraw Edison failed to yield a new contract. The old pact expired at 12:30 a.m. Sunday, with the union calling a strike. 138 plant workers, 50 non union, and 88 covered by the union. Negotiations continue in Columbus, Ohio, as pickets planned to begin at 7 a.m. Monday under IUE Local 647 AFL affiliated.
Detroit police ended a sick strike and seek mediation with city officials and the State Labor Mediation Board. They demand a yearly pay hike of 1665 dollars, as 10 percent of the 4700 force were out Saturday. Wives joined picketing amid budget protests effective July 1.
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