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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1967
Page
6
The four day Richlands fair opens at the National Guard facility with homemaking displays. Judging of exhibits runs through Thursday. Beef and dairy cattle judging occurs Friday from 1 p.m. with 4H and Future Farmer events. The pony show starts Friday at 7 p.m. Exhibits close Saturday.
Lee Puckett, acting fire chief since December 16 1966, is named fire chief at once with a 7000 dollar salary. He replaces Gordon Damron who retired. Puckett, 15 year veteran, has been a lieutenant since July 1 1959 and led after Damron fell ill last December.
Piedmont Airlines filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board to provide service from Virginia and the Carolinas to Charleston South Carolina Savannah Brunswick Sea Island Georgia Jacksonville and Miami Florida. The carrier asks consolidation of its applications with a CAB proceeding on Southern Airways route realignment and new South routes. Piedmont operates in ten states plus the District of Columbia with 32 Martin 404s six F-27 turbo props six FH-227 turbo props and two Boeing 727s.
The Bluefield Zoning Board of Adjustment approved H. J. Daniels of 2100 Spring Garden Drive to construct a roof over a backyard swimming pool, allowed only with special zoning approval. The board also elected officers: Bruce Aker president and Sam Slifkin vice president, with rotating yearly terms. Other members are R. H. Tyson, A. D. Carter, and Thomas G. Honaker.
Relatives here report the death of Mrs Norman Spielberg formerly Miss Pearl Sluss of Bluefield Virginia at her Phillipsburg New Jersey home after a long illness Survivors include her husband five sisters and two brothers
Livestock sales at Wytheville Virginia listed prices by class. Lambs 967 head sold with prime 26 dollars, choice 26, good 22, and other categories. hogs 75 head with top 21.25 and heavy butchers 20.50. veal 100 head with prime 32.95 heavy 32.95 light 31.90. slaughter cattle 120 head with heifers 20-22.75, cows 12-19.59, bulls 16.59-23. stock and feeder calves 23-24.75 for good heifer calves.
Howard L. Jacobson 37, former Norfolk Virginian Pilot sports editor, indicted by a federal grand jury in Baltimore on two counts of counterfeiting. He allegedly intended to pass 22 bogus $20 bills at Pimlico on Preakness day and possessed 132 fake $20 notes. After his arrest following the third race, $400 had already been passed at the track windows. he is free on a $5,000 bond.
Readers learn that if all freight cars owned by United States railroads were linked, the train would measure about 15,900 miles in length. This striking figure showcases the vast scale of the nation’s rail freight fleet.
Arab refugees from the West Bank said Israelis forced them from homes and land. They crossed the wrecked Allenby Bridge into Arab-held territory and headed toward Amman, many with only the clothes on their backs. Some vow to resist or return amid uncertain futures.
FASTEETH improves powder for dentures to reduce sliding slipping or rocking. It claims to keep dentures firmly in place with no sour taste and to help prevent denture breath. See your dentist regularly and obtain PASTEETH at drug counters.
A Public Health Service grant of 324518 dollars was awarded to support a new 116 bed elderly hospital in Charleston West Virginia. The hospital will replace the old St Francis Center for extended care and the project total is about 2.6 million dollars.
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