Three Year Old Judith Payne Found Safe In Tavern
Three year old Judith Ann Payne missing since Sunday was found safe at the Hiway tavern on the Virginia Beach boulevard. Police charged her parents Elvin and Margaret Payne, Mrs. Robert Provine, and Shirley Mae Olsen with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Olsen said she left the child in the back seat of a car and had cared for Judith since Sunday night.
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Norfolk
Judith Ann Payne
Ocean View
Hiway
Virginia Beach Boulevard
Military Highway
Princess Anne County
Ivan D. Mapp
Harry Stonecypher
Judith
Elvin
Margaret Payne
Robert Provine
East Ocean View
Shirley Mae Olsen
Judith Payne Missing After Custody Mixup In Ocean View
Erickson after guilty plea quartered, Judith appeared in good spirits. Mrs Payne reported leaving Judith with a woman she had met before while she went to work. Judith's Navy father found her with a babysitter and a sailor leaving Ocean View home but did not alarm. By Monday neither Judith nor the babysitter had returned, prompting police to be notified.
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Judith
Ocean View
Paynes
Legion Drum Corps Seeks Majorette and Assistants
The American Legion Drum and Bugle corps will hold a 430 PM contest at the Legion hall to select a majorette and two under studies. Eligible girls 15 to 18 may try out with no experience needed. Miss Virginia Stowers will train with three army officers serving as judges tomorrow: Major Whitey Bloom, Major Carl C. Dunham, and Captain James Mathis.
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American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Legion Hall
Virginia Stowers
Army
Whitey Bloom
Logan
Carl C. Dunham
Beckley
Organized Reserves
James Mathis
Indiana Territory outlined vast Midwest lands
Indiana Territory at first included what is now Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota per early territorial description.
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Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Firemen Exams Set For July 7
Prospective Bluefield firemen will sit civil service exams on Friday July 7 at 2 30 p m in the Municipal building director's room. An exam for lieutenant will also be held for eligible department members to fill Lt Robert H Walters vacancy due to illness. Chief E L McClure notes applicants must have driver experience.
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Bluefield Fire Department
Robert H. Walters
Walters
Beckley
Firemen’s Civil Service Commission
Carl Thomas
K. H. Whitman
R. F. McCue
E. L. McClure
Church News Notice for Ministers and Groups
To all ministers and church groups with items in this column. News should reach the correspondent by Tuesday each week. Notices appear Friday morning as usual. Send church notices by mail to Bluefield at 300 Vine Street to reach by Tuesday afternoon. Notices received after Wednesday will not be published.
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Bluefield
Vine Street
Gospel Gleaners to Perform in Bristol and Marion
The Gospel Gleaners will appear Sunday at 3:00 p m in Lee Street Baptist Bristol Tennessee and at 7 30 p m in Marion Virginia on the same date. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Association of Colored Railway Trainmen meets Thursday at 6:00 p m in the Carolina Home. Rev P D Edwards preaches at Blakes Chapel tonight at 7 30 with music by the Blakes Chapel choir.
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Lee Street Baptist Church
Bristol
Tenn
Marion
The
Association of Colored Railway
Carolina
Bland Street
P. D. Edwards
Blakes Chapel
Minister Accepts Call to Union Baptist Pastorate
The Rev. T. B. Wright of Roanoke Virginia has accepted the church call and will assume duties this month as pastor. Church secretary Mrs. Mable Hairston announced the appointment on Tuesday.
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T. B. Wright
Roanoke
Union Baptist Church
Mable Hairston
Wright
PTA Endorses Levy For McDowell County Schools
At the Elkhorn Negro high school PTA meeting the group unanimously approved the proposed school levy and bond issue from the McDowell county board of education. The plan aims to meet countywide needs including Elkhorn Negro high school and will be circulated by appointed committees led by Mrs Precilla Rucker and others across many communities.
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PTA
Levy
Elkhorn Negro High School
Gordon Smith
Ashland
Lulu Golden
Arthur Seay
Ernest Martin
McDowell
Downs
Henry Bethel
Alington
Hattie E. Phillips
Indian Ridge
Walter Patterson
Rolfe
Ross
Vance Gamble
Gilliam
Floed Brown
Price
Algoma
Flournoy Coles
Dan Price
Northfork
S. R. Houchins
Edmons
Kyle
Ida Flynn
Powhatan
H. E. Elston
Raymond Ha
Rpland
Esta Crawley
Equilla
Miss Dorothy Ann Grover Is Sigma Chi Sweetheart At National Meet
Dorothy Ann Grover of Freeport New York named Sigma Chi sweetheart at the fraternity's national convention in Columbus Ohio on June 13 A P wire photo notes other attendees and officers elected for 1950 51 Ralph Taylor president and several officers named across the group. Also a memoriam notes for Mary Helen Ryan two years after her death from her husband Frank Ryan and their children.
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Frank Erickson
New York
Erickson
Dorothy Ann Grover
Freeport
N. Y
Sigma Chi
Columbus
Ohio
Mary Helen Ryan
Frank Ryan
Sutton Co. Makes Low Bid on Sutton Dam Rail Relocation
Radford based Sutton Co. submitted the apparent lowest bid of 485,128.90 on the first phase of the $25 million Sutton dam project in Braxton county. The bid gap to the government estimate was 361,930.80, the widest margin recorded by Huntington district engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Sutton Co., Inc
Radford
Sutton Dam
Elk River
Braxton County
Sutton Co
Huntington District
Engineers
DROWNS IN POND NEAR CULPEPER
Gerald Garland Meador 19, of Culpeper, a Kaimie Textile Mills employee, drowned yesterday in a pond near Culpeper. A non swimmer he waded into deep water and drowned before aid could reach him. His wife Ruth Jenkins of Culpeper and her family were with him. his body was recovered by the Culpeper rescue squadron.
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Culpeper
Gerald Garland Meador
Kaimie Textile Mills, Inc
Meador
Ruth Jenkins
Culpeper Rescue Squadron
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