Better Postal Service In View
The Bluefield Post Office will seek bids to operate a rural station serving Bluewell area. Acting Postmaster Porterfield said the station will offer stamps, money orders, and mail handling with similar hours to the main office. Bids, forms, and bond requirements will be announced after July 1.
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Post Office Department
Bluefield
Bluewell
Porterfeld
Post Office
Porterfield
Biveweil
Weather West Virginia and Nearby Regions Outlook
West Virginia stays warm and humid with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers, highs 85 to 90, mountains 80 to 85. Sunday turns mostly cloudy and cooler in the northeast with lingering thundershowers west and south. Virginia shows similar warmth and humidity with afternoon storms, highs around 88, mountains 84, and cooler areas in the east and north on Sunday. Western Pennsylvania remains partly cloudy, warm, humid with scattered showers, high around 80. Tennessee expects partly cloudy, warm and humid conditions with afternoon and evening thundershowers Saturday and Sunday.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Tennessee
GOP Leaders Approve Convention Officials and Rules
Gladys Knowles of Montana is secretary and Rep. Katherine St George of New York is parliamentarian the first woman in that role for a national convention Lehr Fess of Ohio assists. Other officials include B Walter Swan sergeant at arms Jerome Taylor and Howard Cousins assistant sergeants at arms Russell Rouch reading clerk Tom Kennamer Lyle Snader. Arrangements Committee may delay decision on shortening San Francisco convention. Members back the President’s candidacy despite his recent operation.
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Gladys EB. Knowles
Montana
Katherine St. George
New York
Lehr Fess
Ohio
B. Walter Swan
Chicago
Jerome J. Taylor
Tennessee
Howard L. Cousins
Maine
Russell D. Rouch
Tom Kennamer
Lyle Snader
Illinois
Hall
San Francisco
Treacherous Undertow Claimed Boys At Giotto Scene
In Giotto a deadly water incident left a Tatum boy dead after being pulled from the sea. Brother Ford retrieved Nosmen from the water and alerted neighbors who aided in the search and recovery. Lugo's Funeral Service transported the body to the local funeral home for arrangements.
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Ford
Giotto
Lugo’s Funeral Service
Tatum
Deaths and Funerals in Jolo and Nearby Towns
John D. Payne 74 of Jolo died at home after a heart condition. Survived by wife Ida lie and many children, grandchildren. Funeral at Church of Christ Jolo with interment in Jewel Cemetery. Also notices for Grace Bailey, Dora Bradley, Essie Belcher, Andrew Riffe, Brenard Lawrence, Ernest Nuttall, Ployd Penley, Ella Rimmer and other local obituaries with service times and burial places.
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John D. Payne
Jolo
Brad Shaw
Dave
Nancy Payne
Idalie Payne
Bertha Blankenship
Grace Dangerfield
Kimball
Catherine Martin
Bluefield
Creta Blankenship
Bradshaw
Thelma Riffe
Premont
Ohio
Roosevelt
Steeles
Lawrence
Narrows
Howard
Clyde
New York City
Johnny
Roderfield
Ella Campbell
Union City
Fanning Puneral
Saeger
Church of Christ At
Clyde Roberts
Johnnycake
Jewel Cemetery
Essie Belcher
Essie Mae
Bobby” Belcher
Ft. Pierce
Fla
Welch
Wytheville
Wytheville County
Ira
Bobby Lee
Andrew Clark Riffe
Ioof Lodge
Lindsioe
Rock Camp
W. D. Murcock Sr
Albert Wheeler
Eugene Ball
H. D. Copeland
R. ©. Rife
Oak Hill
H. L. Ri
Rock Camp Baptist Church
Pegs Ne
Joe E. Brown
W L Crane
Elison Cemetery
Lindside Odd Fellows Lodge
West Virginia candidates address mining institute audience
West Virginia governor hopefuls Republican Cecil Underwood and Democrat Robert Mollohan spoke at a West Virginia Mining Institute event in Huntington. They criticized the 1953 severance tax on coal, urged diversification, and called for better roads, education, and fair state support for the coal industry. Mollohan urged a residual oil import quota. Underwood defended coal and urged stable, progressive governance to attract new industry.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Cecil Underwood
Sistersville
House of Delegates
Robert 4 H. Molchan Pairmont
Mini Institute
Underwood
Will E. Neal
Huntington Republican
Charleston
Congress
Mollohan
Executive Department
King Coal
Chan
Richard L. Bob Kitts Pioneer of Richlands Dies at 92
Robert L. Kitts of Richlands dies at 92 after a short illness in a Marion hospital. Born in Smyth County he worked in construction before illness ended his career. Survived by granddaughter Betty Rimmer and brother Frank Kitts. Funeral Saturday at 11 at Farmer Funeral Home Richlands. interment Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery.
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Ernest Nuttall
Rifes Fugg
Woodlawn
Bluefield
Nuttall
Bolton
Lancaster
England
Giles Memorial Hospital
Pearisburg
Ioof Lodge
Welch
Sherrill G. French
Tasewell
Cecil W. Wilson
Northfork
Howard Leiss
Rich Creek
Robert J. Burton
Robert H. Legard Jr
Washington Blitchko
Narrows
William Lawton
W. W. Jones
Princeton
T E. Brown
Ralph Hurst
Maco Sorranto
Leonard Kizer
W. A. Carr
Ella Rimmer
Richlands
Tazewell County
Calvin
Virginia Lockhart Horton
Methodist
G. W. Rimmer
Eric
Brodgeton
N. J
Grace Barnes
Lucille McCroskey
Bristol
Farmer Funeral Home
Roy Wampler
Richard Hedrick
Hawkins Cemetery
Robert L
Bob) Kitts
Marion
Smyth County
Delany and
Harriett Newell Kitts
Bland County
Jane Kitts
Betty Rimmer
Frank Kitts
Tazewell
A. B. Williford
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Parmer Funeral Home
Funerals of Peters Farr is Dennen Dye Held in Virginia
Funeral services for Samuel Jeffery Peters 78 of Lortons Lick Road held at Pine Grove Church of Christ with Jim Scott and Don Sharp officiating. Interment at Poe Cemetery Bluewell. Garnett B Farris 69 of Meadoview to be buried Knoll Kred Abingdon with two clergy. Alfred V Dennen of Prevontas at St Elizabeth’s Pocahontas with interment Maplehill Bluefield. Orville Dye 33 of Swords Creek to be laid to rest at Dye Cemetery after Miller’s Chapel service.
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Weatinghouse Electric Co
Westminster Festena Church
Masonic Lodge of
Clover
S. C
Lawrence
Clemson College
L. Ford
W. C. Brooks
L. R. Brooks Sr
P. L. Dye
J. R. Aren
K. Williams
L. H. Nelson
J. T. Breth
Henry C. Davis
Hawkins Funeral Home
Peters
Samuel Jeffery
Lortons Lick Road
Pine Grove Church of Christ
Jim Scott
Don Sharp
Poe
Bluewell
Dye
Orville
Swords Creek
Miller’s
Rotary Club to Hear Past District Head Speaker
The Bluefield Rotary Club will host Shir ley Donnelly past district governor Oak Hill as guest speaker at the regular meeting Tuesday at 12 15 p m in the Rotary Room of the West Virginia Hotel.
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Bluefield
Flying Tourists To Visit Russia in Private Plane
Berlin dispatch reports William P. Lear and wife Moya obtained Soviet permission for a three day Moscow flight in a private Cessna 310 marking a first of its kind. They planned later stops in Helsinki and Stockholm before returning to Geneva with their four children.
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Berlin
William P. Lear
Moscow
Lear
U.S
Moya
Olie Olsen
Iron Curtain
West Berlin
Tempelhof
Old Airfield
East Berlin
Precure
State Department
Helsinki
Stockholm
Geneva
Switzerland
Grand Rapids
Mich
Elyria
Ohio
Santa Monica
Calif
East Zone
Pentagon orders Washington bureaucrats to wear civilian clothes
Secretary of Defense Wilson, citing the capital's need for a diminished military look, orders officers in administrative posts around Washington to switch to civilian attire effective July 1. The move, affecting about ten thousand of the 20,587 Washington area officers, draws mixed reactions from Capitol Hill and defense circles as a gradual transition is planned.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Capitol Hill
Beire
Quantico
Sen
Mansfield
D-Men
Pentagon
Revolutionary War Plot Against Washington Revealed
Chicago sources publish details of a 1781 letter from George Washington to Governor George Clinton describing a British plan to kidnap or kill Washington and the New Jersey and New York governors. Ralph Newman presented excerpts from the Heath report and paraphrase to newsmen.
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Chicago
George Washington
Washington
Ralph Newman
Newman
George Clinton
New York
New Windsor
Conn
Heath
Transfer brings Rev Carl Looney to Falls Mills parish
The Looneys moved into the Falls Mills parsonage on Wednesday June 20 marking Rev Carl Looney's transfer back to Holston Conference after 18 years in West Virginia. He served Eckman Keystone Matewan Maybeury and as Conference Evangelist. He will lead services this Sunday at Macedonia Midway and Falls Mills. A Red Cross note mentions a visitor delivering unopened personal mail.
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Carl Looney
David
Falls Mills
Looney
Holston
West Virginia
Bluefield
Eckman
Keystone
Maybeury
Matewan
Dickenson Records Two New Polio Cases
Two paralytic polio cases were reported in Dickenson County bringing Virginia’s total to 15 for the year. Both victims had not received Salk vaccine and include a two year old from Ghat Rock near Clintwood and a three year old from Birch near Buchanan County. Vaccination clinics were organized June 13 and 20 with four more planned next week.
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Richmond
Dickenson County
State Health Department
Virginia
Ghat Rock
Clintwood
Birch
Buchanan County
Dieckenson
Communists Eligible For Social Security
Washington June 22 The Social Security Administration reversed a Bureau ruling that Communist party employees could not be covered by Social Security saying party work is not an arm of a foreign government within the act. Referee Peter J Hoegen said the earlier ruling should be set aside. The decision may face Appeals Council review, but officials indicated such a review is unlikely.
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Washington
Communist Party
Eligile
IB Ayn
Vnle
Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance
Peter J. Hoegen
Social Security Administration
Welfare Department
Student Fails To Find Lost Briefcase On Hitchhiking Trip
Covington Virginia June 22 Franz Brandl an Austrian Fulbright student from Linz left Covington with Erwin Hauer after a hitchhiking trip. Brandl forgot his briefcase on a Rainelle bridge including visa passport 195 cash 200 travelers checks and a camera. They returned but the case was gone. They left for St Louis hoping to secure a new passport and reunite with Erich Lathmayer. Hauer planned to attend the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
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Covington
Franz Brand
Virginia
Linz
Austria
Erwin Hauer
Rainelle W. Va
Brandle
Waller Pr
Bravel
Brandl
Hauer
Olice
St. Louis
Brandt
Chic
Univers
Massachusetts
Erich Lathmayer
Rhodesome School of Design
Province
Spencer's Teenage Firemen In Action
A vacant three story building in Spencer West Virginia burned to the ground in the early morning. Martin Crislip chief of Spencer's teenage fire department said the cause was unknown. The Post Office across the street was scorched and the gutted building formerly housed a dry goods store hotels and a used furniture line.
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Spencer
W. Va
Martin Crislip
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C. C Spades
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Carroll Reece
Hugh Scott
Perros
Elizabeth E. Heffelfinger
Minnesota
Grace Bailey
Grace Holman Bailey
Orlando
Lena C. Holman
Kentucky
C. Holman
Orange Memorial Hospital
Baptist Church
Murray, Ky
Birmingham
Ala
Melita Lee
Arthur Holman Bailey
Burns Wornal
Murray
First Baptist Church
William Bradley Puneral
Dora Bradley
William Bradley
Pocahontas
R. E. Jones
J. C. Stich
Bryant Memorial Cemetery
Herusband
Brooks
Ada Johnson
Arthur Jones
Beckley
DeMoss Jones
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Andrew Riffe
Brenard F. Lawrence
Brenard Franklin Lawrence
East Essex St
Hawkins
Richard Blandau
Bluefield Sanitarium
John
Alice Jackson Lawrence
D. C
Inez Ruddell
John A
B. F
Baltimore
J. 8. Edmunds
Floyd J. Penley
Ployd J. Penley
Drill
Liddie Penley
Stanford
Ervin
Carrie Johnson
Davenport
Laura Deel
Detroit
Marie Deel
Honaker
Ethel Penley
Rufus Penley
Council
Bessie Wampler
Dorothy Ball
Ora Griffith
Venia
Austins Chapel
Walter Wampler
Simon Honaker
Austin Cemetery
Mining Institute
Robert L. Kitts
Rotary Club
Russia
Kenansville, N.C
A.Q. Brinson
Brinson
New Road
New Winefield
Virginia State
Blacksburg
Billy Rogers
Scott County
Peggy Dunford
Billy Daugherty
Ruby Campbell
Russell County
Peggy
Pentagon Brass
Clothing Limited
Backman
Peekskill
N. Y
New Jersey
NTN
Dlog
Westinghouse A
Thornhill Tinning & Plumbing Co
Charlotte N.C
American Red Cross
Mita LaRue Courtney
Home Service
Miss Courtney
Red
Dickenson
Little Johnny
Epps
Church of God
Bluefield Ave
Paul F. Barker
Pahee Peas
Freezer
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