Buff Criticizes Kennedy Over Miners Health Rally Plans
PHELPS Ky AP West Virginia black lung crusader Dr I E Buff accused Sen Edward Kennedy of using miners health issues for political gain at a Charleston rally June 29 with Kennedy as main speaker He said a July 4 Washington rally is planned and no UMW officials may speak Buff blamed Rep Ken Hechler and Secretary of State Rockefeller IV for exploiting the miners fight for compensation and urged Hechler to declare any Senate bid Buff said the committee obtained a National Park Service permit to boost support for a liberalized federal mine health and safety bill
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Phelps, Ky
West Virginia
I. E. Buff
Edward M. Kennedy
Buff
Charleston
W.va
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Sen
Physicians Committee For
Coal Miners Health and Safety
Jefferson Memorial
Washington
United Mine Workers
Ken Hechler
John D. Rockefeller IV
Rockefeller
Hechler
U.S. Senate
U.S
Physicians’ Committee
National Park Service
WVU Dean's List Honors Four West Virginia Students
Four College of Arts and Sciences pre medicine students at West Virginia University earned Dean's List status for the second semester of 1968-69, requiring a 3.4 average. From McDowell County are Charles J. Mirabile and Michael Ward Hanson. from Wyoming County are Charles Adkins and Donald Gene Johnson.
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McDowell County
Wyoming County
West Virginia University
College of Arts and Sciences
Charles J. Mirabile
Charles P. Mirable
Gary
Michael Ward Hanson
Lewis E. Hanson
Twin Branch
Charles Adkins
William R. Adkins
Pineville
Donald Gene Johnson
James C. Johnson
Kopperston
Parsons Wins Tennis Crown
In Davidson North Carolina Steve Parsons of Charleston West Virginia defeated John Whitlinger of Neenah Wisconsin 3-6 7-5 6-1 to win the Junior Division. Whitlinger then upset top seed Mark Meyers in the 16 year old finals 4-6 6-2 6-3.
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Earl Hassler
Jackson
Miss
Mark Massey
Shreveport
James Overdyke
Atlanta
Parsons
Walker Shivar
Newport News
Meyers
Billy Brock
Norfolk
Tommy Dixon
Raleigh
N.C
Charles Lucas
Durham
Martin
Robert Rouse
Mobile
Ala
Steve Plock
Birmingham
Kevin Walsh
Louisville
Daily Telegraph historic ad rates and imprint
Establishment details for the Daily Telegraph Printing Co. of Bluefield West Virginia, noting address 214 Bland Street and AP membership. It lists subscription rates by carrier and mail, zone pricing, and advertising representation by The Rats Agency Inc, with a telephone number.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
The
Rats Agency, Inc
Deaths and Funerals in Virginia and Ohio
Mrs. Gilbert Day 68 of Jewell Ridge Va died Saturday in a Richlands hospital after a long illness. Survived by husband five daughters three sons and many grandchildren. Services Monday at 2 p.m. at Day home with burial in Day Cemetery Bear Wallow. Also listed are Phillip George Davis 78 of Hales Gap and others with funeral arrangements, and multiple survivors across Virginia Ohio, with services and burial details.
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Gilbert Day
Rt. 1
Jewell Ridge
Richlands
Nellie Malissia Steele
Bert and
Rosie Sparks Steele
Laura Underwood
Lucy Mitchell
Elsie Harman
Squire
Joyce White
Davenport
Fred Tobleman
Bear Wallow
Mullins
Phillip George Davis
Hales Gap
Willowton
Glen Lynn
William and
Elizabeth Chatting Davis
Grace Easter Davis
Edward Davis
Athens
Donald Davis
Otella Oston
Princeton
Vella Davis
Lexington
N. C
Stella Roth
Obituary notices from Burke Mountain to Princeton
Obituaries list multiple local deaths with service times and locations. Joseph Harold Belcher Burke Mountain near Keystone dies Monday. Bertha Lee Surface 78 Sandlick. Homer J. Call Jr. 33 Bluefield. Ethel Hypes 63 Inkster Michigan. Anna Belcher Church 81 Princeton. Services, burial sites, funeral homes, and pallbearers noted.
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Belcher
Joseph Harold
Burke Mountain
Keystone
Northfork Church
Coal Area Production Falls Short of Last Year
Weekly coal output for area mines linked to Smokeless Operators Association was 376,074 tons for the week ending June 19, down 189,627 from the prior week and 13.8 percent below the same period in 1968. Year to date 1969 production totals 10,805,220 tons versus 12,537,067 last year. National bituminous production for the week reached 9,737,000 tons, with year to date 245,355,000 tons, down slightly from 1968. Railroad car loadings by Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake and Ohio show year‑to‑date declines from 1968 levels.
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Smokeless Operators Association
Norfolk and Western Railway
Pocahontas
Virginian
Tug River
Upper Buchanan
Clinch Valley
Thacker - Tiller
Kenova
Pardons Stir Political Move In Virginia House Race
Abingdon lawyer S Strother Smith III announced his bid for one of two Virginia House seats in the 63rd District. He accused pardons granted in 1967 of being used as political bribes to influence votes. GOP delegates nominated him and Paul Bright of Hiltons for the two seats. Linwood Holton predicted strong GOP gains. Incumbents Joseph P. Johnson Jr. and James fugate hold the seats but may face reelection challenges.
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Bristol
Abingdon
S. Strother Smith III
Brristol
Washington
Scott
Virginia
Paul Bright
Hiltons
Bright
Linwood Holton
Joseph P. Johnson Jr
James Fugate
Gate City
McGhee Joins Kwass and Stone as Partner in Bluefield Firm
John R. McGee to become partner in the law firm Kwass and Stone effective July 1 and the firm will be renamed Kwass Stone and McGhee. McGhee has served as Bluefield Police Judge since 1962 and was United States Commissioner at Bluefield.
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John R. McGee
Bluefield
Kwass and
McGhee
Salvation Army
Christ Episcopal Church
Bluefield Jaycees
University Club
Fincastle
West
United States Army
Georgia Motz
Akron
Ohio
Patricia Allison
John R
Dogwood Lane
Sidney J. Kwass
Edmund C. Stone, Jr
Law and Commerce
Pamela Agnew wedding vows described by reporter
Pamela Agnew wed in a traditional ceremony led by Rev. Robert W. Galloway in a suburban Baltimore community. DeHaven joked for her, saying she sweated rather than cried as reporters were barred. the bride wore a pure white silk gown with Empire waist, veil, and a cascade bouquet of white flowers.
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Pamela
DeHaven
Robert W. Galloway
Agnews
Baltimore
Agnew
Maryland
Services Set For War Victim Sp4 Stoney Deel
Services scheduled today at 1 p.m. for Sp4 Stoney Lee Deel at his parents’ residence in Prater Virginia with Elders Stewart Ownes and Landon Colley officiating. Burial in the family cemetery. Deel, a Viet Nam war victim, was killed June 9 and is survived by parents, three sisters Charlene Deborah Lynn and Shielah Gayle Deel, four brothers Cooper Herman James Michael and Victor Deel Jr, and maternal grandmother Mrs Hettie Stanley. Virginia Funeral Home Grun dy Va. is in charge of arrangements.
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Maybeury
Josie Saunders Hairston Moon
Ella Lee Brown Hairston
William Douglas Hairston Jr
Jeffrey
Kenneth Hairston
Josephine
Katherine Hairston
George Hairston
Gilliam
Ed Hairston Jr
Baltimore
Robert Lee Hairston
Cleveland Ohio
Katherine Gilliam
Blanche Dowell
Bluefield
Stoney Lee Deel
Prater
Stewart Ownes
Landon Colley
Deel
Victor Deel
Charlene
Deborah Lynn
Shielah Gayle Deel
Cooper
Herman
Carillon Program Honors Mrs. Minnie Rish at Bluefield College
A memorial carillon service is set for Sunday at 5 p.m. on the Bluefield College Carillon to honor Mrs. Minnie White Rish who died this week. Ann McGlothlin, college music professor, will be the carillioneur playing sacred hymns. The event honors a longtime supporter of the college and comes after the passing of her husband Lon M. Rish earlier this year. Public attendance is invited on campus at 5 p.m.
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Bluefield College
Minnie White Rish
Charles L. Harman
Rish
Sun ritual drama as Druids elect lifelong chief
The Druids staged a ceremony with white cloths water sprinkling incense and a large horn sounding. Clouds delayed daylight until photo lights illuminated the scene as Maughan a retired Glasgow oil man was chosen chief Druid for life in 1964. He called Druidism the art and science of living not tied to a single civilization or era.
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Maughan
Glasgow
George Bernard Shaw
Skunk Cabbage: Earliest Bloomer and Foulest Stink
The skunk cabbage is noted as the earliest blooming wild flower and is renowned for its strong foul odor. It is also called polecat weed and is said to bloom under the snow.
Woman Jailed In Welfare Case
A Keystone mother of three pleaded guilty to fraudulently misrepresenting facts to the welfare department and receiving more funds than entitled. Judge Leon P. Miller ordered six months in jail with one month served and five months on probation.
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Keystone
McDowell Criminal Court
Lena McKinney
Department of Welfare
McDowell County
Circuit Court
Jack Marinari
Rudolph Marensky
Leon P. Miller
A. C. Cunningam
Methodist Home Lists Schedule Sun Sunday School at Glenwood Park
The Men’s Bible Class of the United Methodist Church in Bluewell will lead Sunday School at Glenwood Park Methodist Home today at 9 45 am. Vespers by Dr F Rossing Smith of St Mark’s in Charleston at 4 pm. Devotions by various church members through the week with planned programs and a luncheon by the Virginia Garden Club Thursday at 12 30 pm.
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United Methodist Church
Bluewell
Glenwood Park
F. Rossing Smith
St. Mark's United Methodist Church
Charleston
Earl Murrell
First United Methodist Church
Princeton
B’llewell
Charles Cameron
Bellepoint Methodist Church
Hinton
Virginia Garden Club
John Lambert
Mahood Gets WVU Contract
West Virginia University won approval to hire architect Alex B. Mahood for a 3.5 million combined computer center and library on the Morgantown Golf and Country Club site near Evansdale. The 67 acre tract will be bought Oct 1. a 3 million College of Law and low cost faculty and married student apartments were also planned, financed by bond issues and rents.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Morgantown Golf and Country Club
Evansdale Medical Center
WVU Board of Governors
Alex B. Mahood
Bluefield
WVU
College of Law
Virginia Beach golfer Tom Strange dies of cancer at 39
Virginia Beach AP report states Tom Strange, White Sands Country Club pro, died Saturday after months of illness. A Tidewater figure who won four State Open titles and the Eastern Amateur in 1957, he coached under Sam Snead before returning to Tidewater in 1962 to lead White Sands. Funeral services set for Monday at 2 p.m.
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Virginia Beach
Tom Strange
Virginia
White Sands Country Club
Strange
Tidewater
Chandler Harper
Claude King
Charlottesville
Harold “Shorty
Oatman
H.D. Oliver
Rosewood Memorial Park
Cincinnati
Don Finsterwald
U.S. Coast Guard
Elizabeth Manor
Coast Guard
Sam Snead
Norfolk
Ocean View
Snead
Harper
Jack Isaacs
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Five Die In Virginia Crashes On Saturday
Three young eastern Virginia men died when their car struck a tree off Virginia 759 near Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County. Identified victims were Franklin Edwards 28 Buena Vista driver Ronnie Dean Noel 19 Natural Bridge and Wayne Eugene Ayers 20 Natural Bridge. Deborah Lynn Miles 7 of Lynchburg was killed crossing a city intersection. Thomas Mitchell Rosenthall 21 of Arlington was struck on Interstate 95 near the Capital Beltway in Fairfax.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Natural Bridge
Rockbridge
Franklin Edwards
Buena Vista
Ronnie Dean Noel
Wayne Eugene Ayers
Lynchburg
Deborah Lynn Miles
Fairfax
Thomas Mitchell Rosenthall
Arlington
Capital Beltway
Fairfax County
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Jay
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Lillian Hunter
Lillian Farley Hunter
Narrows
C. J. Hunter
Kermit H. Hunter
Dallas
Tex
Ethel Farley Sheldon
Los Angeles
Calif
Givens Funeral Home
Pearlsburg
William D. Hairston
Roanoke, Va
Roanoke
Maple Street Baptist Church
Dewey D, Huffman
Dewey D
Sam) Huffman
Broadway
Sidney
Tazewell
Wilson Memorial Hospital
Copland Refrigerator Company
Shriners of Sidney
McComas
Pulean
Lindsey D
Minnie Austin Huffman
Helen Frances Perry Huffman
Raymond Huffman
Richard Huffman
Baltimore, Md
Orville Huffman
Arena
Vada Penn
Huntington
Ruby Thompson
Littlesburg
J. C. Peyton
Maplewood Cemetery
Princeton Masonic Lodge No. 134
Call
Homer J. Jr
East Cumberland Road
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Fred C. Conke
Monte Vista Park
Buddy Barnett
James Prichett
Willard Duncan
Ward Starling
George Sparks
Verda Gerald
Arthur Starling
Hypes
E. Ethel
Lehigh, Inkster
Mich
Bethel Church
Ira Hill
Bethel Cemetery
Bobby Guner
Amos Hypes
Stanley Guner
Richard Carper
Wilfred Barbarie
Dale Harmon
Anna Belcher
Maple St
George W. Seaver
Eugene Pennington
Monte Vista
John McGhee
Pam Agnew
U.S. Weather Bureau
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Rein
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Mrs. Rish
Druids
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Methodist Home
Mack Wimmer
Spanishburg
Mahood
James G. Harlow
Harlow
Bow Creek Club
White Sands
Whis-Tv
Chet Huntley
Barbara Walters
Joyce Brothers
Frank Field
Edwin Newman
Carl Stern
Bill Davidson
Merrill Mueller
Bill Cullen
Bluefield Monument CO
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