Electric Train's End Knocks Hole In Narrows Budget
Narrows Virginia faces a tax hit as Norfolk and Western electric locomotives end Roanoke to Mulle line. Town manager W P Laren warns 1962 taxes not raised but future revenue must be found. Plant valued at $2 million, 47 000 tax bill, 55 employees affected. diesel conversion may shift traffic north.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
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 the South Bluefield Kiwanians at the Pinnacle Restaurant. He drew a parallel between ancient Rome and modern United States politics and economy in a talk titled The Deadly Parable.
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J. Barnes Gillespie
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Bluefield
Kiwanii Club
South Bluefield Kiwanians
Pinnacle
United States
Rome
United Kiwani
Jim Porterfield
Telegre egae Co. newspaper masthead and notice
Established 1893. Published every morning. The Associated Press connection. Subscription rates listed. West Virginia area 28.00 per year. Advertising representative Katz.
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Egae Co
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau
Katz Telephone
Senators clash over private satellite corporation plan
In Washington key senators debated a bill to form a government regulated private satellite company to own and operate the U S portion of a global system for relaying telephone radio and television signals The fight centered on filibuster charges and whether to proceed to a vote amid opposing views on government ownership vs private control
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Washington (Ap
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Communications Satellite Corporation
Jone
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
Estes Kefauver Dtenn
House
Kefauver
U.S
Mercer County Centennial Dinner Meeting Promises Big Plans
At a Mercer County Centennial dinner meeting leaders pledged substantial support. Ex-Governor Patteson praised local resolve while banking donations topped $4,000. Project leaders announced a giant Homecoming and exhibits as key observances for the centennial celebration.
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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 Phillips Store
Philip pi police report thieves broke into the Davis Drug Store in Philppi and stole narcotics worth an estimated 10 000 to 15 000 on the black market. The break in was discovered by co owner Mrs Margaret Davis who arrived for work. The culprits forced a back door to access a coal storage area.
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Philippi
W. Va
James Paugh
Davis
Margaret Davis
Greenbrier Woman Found Dead At Home
The body of Nellie Persinger Kincaid about 60 was found Thursday at her Kessler home in western Greenbrier County. Sheriff Cliff Burr said she appeared beaten. Husband Jim Kincaid held in Greenbrier County jail pending autopsy. Body covered with bruises and thought dead about 36 hours.
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Nellie Persinger Kincaid
Kessler
Greenbrier County
Cliff Burr
Jim Kincaid
Greenbrier
Burr
Suit Seeks Halt to Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
A suit filed in Washington seeks an injunction to stop all atmospheric nuclear tests by the United States and the Soviet Union. Led by Linus Pauling, 186 plaintiffs from 22 countries accuse defense and atomic authorities of causing genetic and bodily harm, arguing no safe radiation dose exists. Control measures hinge on parallel actions in Moscow and U.S. testing resumed after a moratorium broke last year.
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U.S
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Linus C. Pauling
California
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Glenn T. Seaborg
The
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Pacific Ocean
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U.S.S.R
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Britain
Earl Bertrand Russell
Owght D. Eisenhower
U.S. Supreme Court
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Soviet Union
United States
Post Plans Move Of Offices To New York
Editorial offices of the Saturday Evening Post will move to New York for efficiency. Since 1728 Philadelphia housed the magazine except during the Revolutionary War. Curtis Publishing will concentrate editorial and advertising in New York for several titles while circulation manufacturing stays 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, remained in Memorial Hospital after a Thursday noon one car crash on U S 460 half a mile east of Princeton. Deputies Archie Hill and Andrew Akers said her 1955 auto swerved into an embankment and overturned, the car demolished.
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Lola Brewster
Princeton
Memorial Hospital
U. S. 460
Archie Hill
Andrew Akers
Brewster
Pope Calls Unity Under Catholic Church Amid Ecumenical Prep
Vatican City AP Pope John XXIII urges Christian unity but says full unity possible only within Roman Catholic Church. He cites forthcoming ecumenical council and inner Catholic cohesion as key, with a dusk Corpus Christi procession through St. Peter's Square marking the council year.
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John XXIII
Ecumenical Council
John
Vatican
St. Peter's Square
Coliseum
Rome
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St. Peter's Basilica
Pius XII
Senators Delay McCloskey Confirmation Vote
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee delayed McCloskey's ambassadorship vote after a Republican questioned his acceptance of government contracts while raising Democratic campaign funds. McCloskey, a Philadelphia contractor, faced scrutiny over dual roles as builder and fundraiser, but defended his record with wit and said a formal State Department opinion would be sought on potential legal issues.
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Washington
Matthew H. McCloskey
Ireland
Philadelphia
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
R Lowa
Foreign Relations Committee
Hickenlooper
State Department
McCloskey
Democratic Committee
Obituary notices from Anawalt and Bluefield area
Samuel J. Goins 68 of Anawalt dies at home after a lingering illness. Survived by wife Gertrude and numerous children and grandchildren. Elkanah Compton 72 of Council Va and John Millard Lewis 92 of Bluefield also noted with funeral details. Several other local deaths include Mack Viers and Arthur Howell with service times and burial places listed.
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Anawalt
Ram
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N. C
Bud Goins
McDowell County
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Ind
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Marion
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Adkins
Lemna Presley
Cleveland
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Berniee
Northfork
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Wyoming Street
Bluefield
Tazewell County
Rachel Hoops
Tazewell
James
George
Jack Lewis
India Pruett
Bonnie Perdue
Flossie Wilson
Pauline Kinder
Nancy Melvin
Doctor Wiedermann Dies At Dooley Hospital
A U S Embassy spokesman announced Dr Carl Wiedermann 34 of the Tom Dooley Foundation died in Ban Houei Sai Laos amid a government death certificate claiming death by his own hand. He had planned to rejoin a medical team reopening the Dooley hospital after evacuation.
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Laos
U.S
Carl Wiedermann
Tom Dooley Foundation
Wiedermann
Ladilan
Ban Houe Sai
Dooley Hospital
Ban Houei Sai
Nam Tha
Public Notice Delegates Set for Mercer County Conventions
Democratic voters are informed that delegates to the State Nominating Convention on August 11 1962 will be chosen at magisterial district conventions on Friday July 6 1962 at 8 00 P M DST. Conventions meet at Beaver Pond Rock East River Jumping Branch Plymouth Municipal Building Bluefield Kantor Henry Sargents Office Montcalm Court House Princeton Flat Top School Athens Town Hall and other designated venues. Only eligible Democrats may participate.
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Mercer County
Beaver Pond Rock
East River
Jumping Branch
Plymouth
Galene Municipal Bidg
Bluefield
Norris Kantor Henry Sargent
Montcalm
Frank “Red” Gibson
Princeton
Robert Carr
Flat Top
Harold Wood
Athens
Carson Thornton
Clarence Bennett Dies in Tazewell at 49
Clarence D. Bennett of Tazewell Virginia died Thursday afternoon at Bluefield Sanitarium Clinic. The body remains at Peery and St. Clair Funeral Home in Tazewell where funeral arrangements will be made.
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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
Funeral services are scheduled Friday at 2 p.m. for Martin Luther Ratliff of Matoaka at the Pentecostal Holiness Church with burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Also Friday at 2 p.m. Staley H. Anderson of Powhatan will be laid to rest at Uphland Powhatan Methodist Church with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. Joseph Henry White of Norfolk, Va., will be buried at Hawkins Cemetery in Richlands after a 2 p.m. service at the Assembly of God Church in Raven.
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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, Va
Honaker Funeral Home
Hale
McKinley (Mack) Viers
Falls Mills
Falls Mills Methodist Church
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Bluefield
Pulaski
St Luke's Hospital
James Viers
Josie Tickle Viers
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