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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1948
Page
7
President Truman urged a new injunction as nationwide soft coal talks stalled. Judge John W. Clancy ordered disputants to report their positions Friday, moving the dispute toward a court solution.
James L. Edmunds, son of Mr and Mrs Charles R Edmunds of 110 Larch Street, has been advanced to sergeant while serving in Korea with the 54th Military Police Company. He enlisted in September 1946 after graduating Beaver High School class of 1946.
An investigation by a justice of the peace and deputy sheriff details statements from Crisco Skeens and Walter T. Gillespie regarding the shooting of Jess Fletcher. Skeens and Gillespie report Fletcher shot himself after claiming Skeens and others wished to surrender with a bond arrangement. the scene is described at Skeens front door on June 13, 1948, with Fletcher later said to be dead.
U S Army Pfc Donald E Stables son of Mrs D C Marshall and grandson of Mr and Mrs J E Hight of Princeton enlisted in the U S Air Force in October 1947 took basic training at Lackland Air Base San Antonio Texas and is now stationed at an Air Force Base unit in Wyoming.
Leatherwood Dairies, Inc. will begin a new modern milk processing plant on Sanders drive in Bluefield, Va. The facility is to be completed and operational within six to eight months, while remodeling of the Royal Steam Laundry building serves as a temporary site. James G. Cox of Bluefield will be general manager, and plans call for ultra modern equipment, a new floor, ceiling, and a large storage area, with milk products including sweet milk, butter milk, cream, and cottage cheese.
W. G. Short sustained first degree burns to the upper body Thursday while working on a Virginia Railway engine near Narrows Virginia. He was injured during a part replacement that was cut by lighting. Short was taken to Memorial hospital in Princeton where doctors said his condition was not serious and he would likely be discharged soon.
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