End of Electric Train Service Hits Narrows Tax Revenue
Narrows Virginia faces a sharp tax impact as Norfolk and Western electric locomotives end Roanoke to Mulleton line on July 1. Town manager W P Laren says 1962 levy stays but overall taxes rise. plant worth about 2 million dollars supplies 47 thousand in taxes. N W says all diesel operation will boost flexibility while many plant workers may stay temporarily.
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Narrows
Norfolk & Western Railway
Roanoke
Mulle
W. Va
W. P. Laren
Laren
N&w
Giles County
Wolf Creek Mountain
Virginian Railway
Larew
Fuel Firm Official Talks To Kiwanians
Pocahontas Fuel Co. purchasing agent J. Barnes Gillespie spoke to South Bluefield Kiwanis at the Pinnacle Restaurant on The Deadly Parallel. He compared U S conditions with ancient Rome noting road building housing debasement of currency and high taxes and warned of a similar fate. Kiwanis Vice-President Jim Porterfield presided.
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J. Barnes Gillespie
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Bluefield
Kiwanii Club
South Bluefield Kiwanians
Pinnacle
United States
Rome
Kiwanis
Jim Porterfield
Telegraph Article Delivery Rates and Office Note
Establishment details of the Daily Telegraph include year 1893 and address 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia. It notes AP dispatch use and local news, with.Subscription rates for carrier daily and mail within West Virginia. It mentions advertising representative Katz Agency and contact details.
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Daily Telegraph
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
Lund
West Virginia
Katz Agency
Ee Telephone
Senators clash over proposed private satellite system
In Washington the Senate faced a heated debate on a bill to create a private communications satellite corporation. Senators Robertson and Kefauver sparred over filibuster tactics and the bill’s merits, with Kefauver arguing the measure favors big companies and taxes. The bill envisions a government regulated private firm to run the U.S. leg of a global satellite relay network.
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Washington (Ap
Senate
Sen
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
Estes Kefauver Dtenn
House
Kefauver
U.S
Mercer County Centennial Dinner Meeting Aims Big Fund Drive
Ex-Governor Patteson lauds Mercer County resolve and pledges. local leaders raise $60 000 toward a centennial observance. Ed Stone outlines projects including a giant Homecoming to draw Mercer natives back, plus fine arts and industrial exhibits and other features.
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Patteson
Texas
Mercer County
Bailey
Andy Clark
A. Sydnor Barksdale
J. E. Wagner Jr
J. Taylor Frazier
Bluefield Supply
Ed Stone
Dan Wells
Wells
Mercer County Centennial
Otey
Mercer Banks
Stone
Mercer
Thieves Rob Drugs From Davis Drug Store
Phillips Police Chief James Paugh said thieves broke into Davis Drug Store in Phillips and stole narcotics early Thursday. The drugs could fetch between 10000 and 15000 dollars on the black market, though they are worth more if sold legitimately. The theft was found by co owner Mrs Margaret Davis when she reported for work after intruders pried open a back door to a coal storage bin.
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Philippi
W. Va
James Paugh
Davis
Margaret Davis
Greenbrier Woman Found Dead in Home
The body of Nellie Persing Kincaid, about 60, was found Thursday at her Kessler home in western Greenbrier County. Sheriff Cliff Burr said she appeared beaten and had likely been dead about 36 hours. Her husband Jim Kincaid was jailed pending autopsy results.
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Nellie Persinger Kincaid
Kessler
Greenbrier County
Cliff Burr
Jim Kincaid
Greenbrier
Burr
Suit Seeks Halt to Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
A US federal suit filed in Washington seeks an injunction to stop all atmospheric nuclear tests, joined by 186 plaintiffs from 22 countries led by Linus Pauling. The action names Secretary McNamara and AEC Chairman Seaborg, challenging Pacific Christmas Island detonations as unsafe. A simultaneous Soviet case targets Soviet defense officials and mirrors the petition.
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Washington
Ian
Spheric
U.S
Moscow
Linus C. Pauling
California
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Glenn T. Seaborg
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Defense Department
Christmas Island
Pacific Ocean
Ministry of Defense
R. A. Rudenko
U.S.S.R
Pauling
Britain
Earl Bertrand Russell
Owght D. Eisenhower
U.S. Supreme Court
Rudenko
Soviet Union
United States
Post Plans Move Of Offices To New York
The Saturday Evening Post will shift editorial offices to New York for efficiency, with Philadelphia remaining home to circulation manufacturing. The move concentrates editorial and advertising HQs in New York for Curtis Publishing products, though other functions stay in Philadelphia.
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Post
New York
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Robert Sherrod
Curtis Publishing Co
Ladies’ Home Journal
American Home
Holiday
Curtis
Mercer Woman Injured In One Car Crash Near Princeton
Lola Brewster, 32, of near Princeton, was hurt when her 1955 auto overturned after swerving into an embankment on U S 460 a half mile east of Princeton Thursday noon. Deputies Archie Hill and Andrew Akers reported the car was demolished and she remained under treatment at Memorial Hospital at Princeton last night.
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Lola Brewster
Princeton
Memorial Hospital
U. S. 460
Archie Hill
Andrew Akers
Brewster
Pope calls for Christian unity under Catholic Church
Pope John XXIII urged unity among Christians while stressing that true unity requires adherence to the Roman Catholic Church. He linked the imminent ecumenical council to making the church's unity more visible and led a Corpus Christi procession through St. Peter's Square for the occasion.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
Ecumenical Council
John
Vatican
St. Peter's Square
Coliseum
Rome
Pope John
St. Peter's Basilica
Pius XII
Senators Delay McCloskey Vote on Ireland Ambassador Nominee
Matthew MecCloskey faced postponement of his confirmation as ambassador to Ireland after Republican senator Bourke Hickenlooper questioned whether his government contracts and Democratic fundraising created a legal conflict. The Foreign Relations Committee asked for a formal State Department opinion on potential dual roles, while McCloskey defended his record with humor and noted past offers from Republicans.
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Washington
Matthew H. MecCloskey
Ireland
Philadelphia
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
R Lowa
Hickenlooper
State Department
McCloskey
Democratic Committee
Obituary notices recap three area deaths
Samuel J. Goins 68 of Anawalt died at home after a lingering illness. He leaves a large family across Anawalt and surrounding towns and funeral services are set at Long Point Missionary Baptist Church with burial at the family cemetery. Elkanah Compton 72 of Council died in Richlands Virginia. his survivors and funeral arrangements noted with a service at Corinth Baptist Church and burial at Russell Memorial Cemetery. John Millard Lewis 92 of Bluefield died at home after a lingering illness. services planned at Bratton Memorial Chapel with burial at Bailey Chapel Cemetery. multiple survivors listed.
Funeral services set for McKinley Viers of Falls Mills Va
Funeral services for McKinley Mack Viers 62 of Falls Mills Va will be held Saturday at 2 pm at Falls Mills Methodist Church with Rev W R Grimm officiating burial in Wood lawn Cemetery Pallbearers are Deno Janutolo Roy Jessee Jentry Warner Wilmer Hedrick C B Jones L C Marshall Raymond Posvich and Grover Wallace Sunday school adults at Falls Mills Methodist Church will carry flowers The body remains at Dudley Memorial Mortuary Bluefield Va for calling after noon today and will be taken to the church one hour before the service Viers a Pulaski Va native died Thursday at St Luke s Hospital He was the son of the late James Viers and Josie Tickle Viers He retired in 1954 from Pocahontas Fuel Co Survivors include his wife Carrie French Viers a daughter Eva Barnhill of Falls Mills a sister Effie Wyrick of Boissevain Va and one grandson Arthur Q Howell 58 of Double Gates Va Also surviving are many others including five more grandchildren and several siblings The body will remain at Hawkins Funeral Home pending completion of arrangements
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Samuel J. Goins
Anawalt
Sand Ridge
N. C
Bud Goins
McDowell County
Long Point
Missionary Baptist Church of
Gertrude Goins
Sammy
Bobby
Posie Goins
Thomas Goins
Indianapolis
Ind
Roy Goss
Marion
Ollie Conklin
Adkins
Lema Presley
Cleveland
Lola’ Collins
Newport News
John Millard Lewis
Wyoming Street
Bluefield
Tazewell County
Rachel Hoops
Tazewell
James
George
Jack Lewis
India Pruett
Bonnie Perdue
Flossie Wilson
Pauline Kinder
Nancy Melvin
Etta Farmer
Dina Nipper
Princeton
Bratton Memorial Chapel
Mercer Funeral Home
Monroe Dotson
Bailey Chapel Cemetery
Cumberland Road
Arlie
Kelly Carter
Gene
Melvin Hall
Thurman Perdue
Carl Tester
McKinley (Mack) Viers
Falls Mills
Falls Mills Methodist Church
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Pulaski
St Luke's Hospital
James Viers
Josie Tickle Viers
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Carrie French Viers
Eva Barnhill
Effie Wyrick
Boissevain
Arthur Q. Howell
Double Gates
St. Luke's Hospital
Howell
Richard T. Branham
John G. Conley Jr
Richlands
A. Q. Howell Jr
Los Angeles
Calif
Judson Massie
Charles Stone
Effie Snodgrass
Frank Ceruti
Charleston
Woodrow Howell
Lexington
Hawkins Funeral Home
Doctor Carl Wiedermann Dies at Dooley Hospital
VIENTIANE Laos AP A U S Embassy spokesman said Dr Carl Wiedermann 34 of the Tom Dooley Foundation died at Tom Dooley hospital in Ban Houei Sai The Thai doctor who issued the death certificate cited death by his own hand while of unsound mind Wiedermann a German born naturalized American had planned to move back with the medical team to reopen the Dooley hospital evacuated May 10 during a Pathet Lao drive in Nam Tha Province
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Vientiane
Laos
U.S
Carl Wiedermann
Tom Dooley Foundation
Wiedermann
Ban Houei Sai
Wiedermannns
Dooley Hospital
Nam Tha
Delegates to attend State Nominating Convention set
Public notice for Mercer County Democrats outlines magisterial district conventions on July 6 1962 at 8 PM DST to select delegates for the August 11 1962 State Nominating Convention. Listings include Beaver Pond Bluefield Norris Kantor Rock Henry Sargent Montcalm and other sites with delegate counts.
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Mercer County
Rmen
Beaver Pond
Bluefield
Norris Kantor Rock
Henry Sargent
Montcalm
Frank
Red” Gibson
Fast River Court House
Princeton
Robert Carr
Jumping Branch
Flat Top
Wood Plymouth Town Hall
Athens
Carson Thornton
Bennett Rites Await in Tazewell for Clarence D. Bennett
Clarence D. Bennett, 49, of Tazewell, Virginia, died Thursday afternoon at Bluefield Sanitarium Clinic. The body lies at Peery and St. Clair Funeral Home in Tazewell, with funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Clarence D. Bennett
Tazewell, Va
Bluefield Sanitarium Clinic
Peery and St. Clair Funeral Home
Tazewell
Funeral notices for Ratliff Anderson and White in Virginia
Funeral services are announced for Martin Luther Ratliff of Matoka at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Matoka with burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Staley H. Anderson of Powhatan will be laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery with pallbearers named. Joseph Henry White of Norfolk will be buried at Hawkins Cemetery in Richlands after services at the Assembly of God Church in Raven.
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Capes
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Pacific
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THE
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Tampa
Winnipeg
Phillips Store
Lewisburg, W. Va
WHIS
NBC
John Chancellor
Suit
Cail
Roller Fieral Co
Eaton
Taylor's
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield, W. Va
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
GOP
J. Goins
Eli Raisovich
Randy Raisovich, Jr
Gerald Rose
Jim and
Jack Davis
Melvin Dillon
Elkanah Compton
Council
Clinch Valley Clinic
Richlands Va
Cora Taylor Compton
Paul Fletcher
Bristol Tenn
Logan Hale
Edward Herbert
Herman Compton
Eugene Compton
Dayton
Ohio
Robert Walter
Ivan Compton
R. J. Compton
Red Ash Va
Corinth Baptist Church
James T. Short
Russell Memorial
Lebanon
Honaker Funeral Home
Hale
John M. Lewis
Mack Viers
Willie Harman
New Hope Road
Princeton Memorial Hospital
Lloyd Harman
Pulaski County
Thomas
Elizabeth Underwood Bouldin
Clyde Looney
Fla
Randolph Looney
Bastian
Frank Nowlin
Milton McBride
Catonsville
Harold Evans
Montra
E. C. Pennington
Mabscott
F. R. Frishette
C. W. Dobbins
Glen Lyn
Gladys Fink
John Bouldin
Tom Dooley Hospital
Clyde White
Public Service
Bluefield Automobile Club
Commerce Street
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