Norfolk and Western plans stock swap and ICC action
Norfolk and Western Railway directors approved a plan to cancel two classes of preferred stock and submit the proposal to stockholders at a Roanoke meeting on Aug 25. The plan requires two thirds approval by each class and ICC authorization, with exchanges for cash or 4.85 percent subordinated debentures due 50 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Norfolk & Western Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
N&w
Daniel Named To BC Faculty At Bluefield College
Bluefield College announces William G. Daniel will join the chemistry faculty as professor effective September 1. Daniel comes from Lees McRae College where he headed the Chemistry Department. Born in Huntingdon Tennessee he is a graduate of Arkansas State Teachers College and George Peabody College. He holds a master’s and has studied at Tennessee Tech and the University of Tennessee Memphis. Daniel is an American Chemical Society member and Alpha Chi alumnus, researching polychloroethanes and publishing this winter. He is married to Jean Langston and has two young children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield College
Primitivo Delgado
William G. Daniel
Daniel
Bluefield
Lees-McRae College
Banner Elk
N. C
Huntingdon
Tenn
Walter W. Daniel
Earle
Ark
Arkansas State Teachers College
Conway
George Peabody College
Nashville
University of Tennessee
Memphis
Georgia Tech
Atlanta
American Chemical Society
Alpha Chi Honor Society
Thane
Jean Langston
Mammoth Spring, Ark
the Baptist Church
Conservation Will Be Rep Kee's Subject
On this week's Kee Report Congressman James Kee discusses preserving America's natural beauty and its role in attracting tourists. The program is endorsed by President Johnson and highlights West Virginia scenery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kee
James Kee
West Virginia
America
Johnson
Local News Ledger Lines Remain Unclear
Fragmentary archival note shows years 1998 and terms like Bland Street and Bissheld. Mentions Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Lacks coherent event. reads as publishing notice fragment with generic agency names and address hints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bland Stree
Bissheld
Jump In Gas Rates Sought by Cabot Corp
Cabot Corp requests a rate increase for 21 000 retail customers across 14 West Virginia counties. The proposed base rate would rise to 2.35 per 1000 cubic feet from 2.20, with PSC hearings set for Sept 13 and new rates effective Nov 1. Counties named include Kanawha Wood Roane Jackson Putnam Fayette Summers and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
Cabot Corp
Public Service Commission
PSC
Wood
Wirt
Ritchie
Gilmer
Calhoun
Roane
Jackson
Putnam
Kanawha
Clay
Nicholas
Raleigh
Fayette
Summers Counties
Appy Safety Director Speaks to Kiwanis Club
Appalachian Power Co. safety director Charles Yearout addressed Green Valley Glenwood Kiwanis on summer hazards including boating heat insects and snakes. He presented slides on poisonous plants and vegetables. Kiwanis official Thomas A. Taylor announced the annual picnic for next Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Bob Roberts Farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Yearout
Appalachian Power Co
Green Valley
Glenwood
Bob Roberts
Daily Vacation Bible School Enters Second Week
The Daily Vacation Bible School at Community Christian Church on Marshall Street continues into its second week. A closing program and exhibit are planned for Friday at 7 o'clock. Rev. N J Dickerson is the church’s minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Christian Church
Marshall Street
N. J. Dickerson
Deaths and Funerals in West Virginia Obituaries
A slate of obituaries from Alderson and surrounding towns notes the deaths of Mina Henley Thompson 95 of Alderson Benigno Chaos Sr 65 of Tucson Ariz and Ulysses Gram Hensley 72 of Clear Fork among others Funeral services are planned at Johnson Memorial Methodist Church and New Richmond Chapel with burial at Wallace Memorial Cemetery Cook Cemetery and more. The notices list survivors including children grandchildren and spouses along with funeral details and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mina Henley Thompson
Alderson
Alex R. Thompson
Carel H. Thompson
Edgewood Bluefield
West Virginia
National Mothers’ Foundation
Fayetteville
Greenbrier County
Johnson Memorial Methodist Church
Care
E. P. Mann
Renick
H. H. Jones
Washington, D. C
Ronald Talkington
Wallace Memorial Cemetery
Clintonville
Lobban
Benigno Chaos Sr
Tucson
Ariz
Davy
McDowell County
Spain
Manuel
Rosa Chaos
Elizabeth R. Chaos
David E. Barentt
Elizabeth Chaos
Antonio Chaos
Lynchburg
Benigno Chaos Jr
St. Peters Catholic Church
Welch
Sylvester Staud
Woodlawn
Chapel of Fanning Funeral Home
Joe
Benny
Albert Lopez
Max Rodrigues
Henry Paul
John Sczernces
Dan Long
G. H. Barnett
Buster Green
Joe Pisano
Frank Conte
George Yorkovich
Ex Whitewood Man Killed in Chicago Auto Crash
Billy Victor Cooper 30 formerly of Whitewood Va and Chicago resident died instantly in a Chicago car crash early Sunday. Survived by wife Lucille Justice Cooper and four children plus eight siblings and a deceased brother from the Korean War. Body to arrive at Hurst-Scott Funeral Home Richlands Va with arrangements pending word from Josh Cooper in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Victor Cooper
Chicago
Ill
Whitewood
Cooper
Millard and
Garnett Cole Cooper
St. Lawerence Insurance Co
Lucille Justice Cooper
Karron Netta
Sharon Etta Cooper
Billy Victor Cooper Jr
Bettie Tristan
Sacramento
Calif
Lois Nicholson
Tuscumbia
Ala
Thelma Murray
Plains
Josh W. Cooper
U. S. Army
Germany
MacArthur Cooper
Richmond
Gary Cooper
Thurman
Graham Cooper
Jimmy Cooper
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Richlands
Josh Cooper
Golden anniversary marks first trans continental call
This year commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first telephone call across the United States linking the east and west coasts. The historic call demonstrated rapid national communication expansion and the grind of early long distance networks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wythe Market Report From 1917 Auction Sale
The Wytheville Livestock Market sold 1 517 head including hogs veal lambs and cattle. Hogs ranged 21 to 24 dollars per hundredweight and lambs fetched up to 26 50 while slaughter cattle brought 13 to 21.25 dollars per hundredweight. Bulls cows and cutters posted varied prices across classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wytheville
Utility
Cutter
Paving Set for UR Bluefield and Princeton Avenues
Urban Renewal Director George McCulloch says four lane paving on Bluefield Avenue and Princeton Avenue should start by September 1 and finish before winter barring bad weather. State Road Commission aims to bid in August and award if bids are suitable. Land acquisition for the Bluefield Avenue project should be completed once the avenues are widened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Avenue
Princeton Avenue
George McCulloch
McCulloch
State Road Commission
Bluefield
Books flood West Virginia classrooms to spark young minds
Nearly 250000 books are sent to rural one and two room schools in West Virginia under the Books for Appalachian program. The shipment, sponsored by the Council of the Southern Mountains, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and the Railway Express Agency, departed from Louisville, Kentucky for the Welch area to aid first through eighth grade students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
Council of the Southern Mountains
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Railway Express Agency
Louisville
Welch
Clarke County Boy Killed By Tractor
Clarke County Virginia 15 year old David Allen Keeler died when a tractor overturned on a Clarke County farm. He was the son of James Ray Keeler and a sophomore at Clarke County High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville, Va
David Allen Keeler
Clarke County
James Ray Keeler
Clarke County High School
Mrs Dowell Leads Vespers at Bluefield Center
Mrs Omega Dowell spoke at the Bluefield Community Center Vesper Hour on A Heavenly Vision from Revelation Chapter 4. She urged seeing hearing and knowing God’s mysteries and a better place for truth and spirit service while Jewel Wilson presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omega Dowell
Bluefield Community Center
John
Dowell
Jewel Wilson
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Susie Johnson
Alice Jenkins
Panzen Jones
Rosa Redmond
Ann Wilson
T. M. Stevens
James Cartr
Funerals announced for Minnie Mae Farmer and others
Minnie Mae Farmer of Wyoming Street will be laid to rest Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Mercer Funeral Chapel with burial in Valley Vista Cemetery. Charles Thomas Bowman 26 of Horsepen Virginia killed in a late Sunday highway crash. funeral Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Horsepen Christian Church and burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Tazewell. Tom Rdele 82 of Mullens dies Saturday. service 1 p.m. at Bethel AME Church Mullens with burial in Restlawn Cemetery Princeton. viewing with James McDougle Funeral Home and at the church prior to service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daisy C. Kiser
Lebanon
Bristol Memorial Hospital
Emmett Buckles
James Campbell
Tom Kiser
H. F. Campbell
Elizabethton
Tenn
Green Valley Church
Ralph Harris
L. G. Herndon
Russell Memorial Cemetery
Lebanon Funeral Home
Joe Pyle
Warren Jessee
James Tignor
B. Z. Jesse
W. G. Hylton
Russell Duty
Harold Mitchell
Anderson Cumbown
Rodrick Oliver Morefield
Maxie
Grundy
Bonnie May Moryfield
Robert Blankenship
Rockford
Liis
Wilson Kilgore
St. Paul
James Gentry
Damascus
Charles W. Morefield
Norfolk
Fred. J
Stanley Morefield
Maxey
Harman
Memorial Baptist Church
Jack Mutter
Temple Hill Cemetery
Castlewood
Virginia Funeral Home
Farmer
Minnie Mae
Wyoming Street
Bluefield
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Valley Vista
Claude Burkhart
Reese Gillespie
Daniel Williams
Charlie Nunn
Donald Gibson
Samuel Gibson
Fred Kinder
Bowman
Charles Thomas
Horsepen
Horsepen Christian Church
Maplewood Cemetery
Tazewell
Greever
Rdele
Tom
Mullens
Bethel Ame Church
David L. Smith
Restlawn Cemtery
Princeton
James McDougle
Bicycle Stolen on Union Street
Bluefield police investigated a theft of a bicycle from Union Street. A boy’s bike worth 73 dollars was stolen between noon and 1 30 p m while he visited a friend, according to Officers Mack Tolley and Bill Batley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Union
Marvin Munsey
Mack Tolley
Bill Batley
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ICC
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Associated Press
Albany
Albuquerque
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Miami
Milwaukee
Mpls-St.p
New Orleans
New York
Okla City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Ore
Rapid City
St. Louis
Salt Sk. City
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Winnipeg
Appy Safety
Kiwanis
Daily Bible School
Mina Thompson
Mrs. Daisy Riser
Grant Hensley
Ulysses Gram Hensley
Clear Fork
Wyoming County
New Richmond Chapel
Morgan Blankenship
Cook Cemetery
Oceana
Kipling
Toneda Baptist Church
Hatcher
Mercer County
Raleigh County
Victoria G. Hensley
Elmer Hensley
Ralph
Darrell
Ethan Hensley
New Plymouth
James Hensley
Jeffersonville
Ind
Marie Bailey
Ruth Chaffin
Salem
Ken Hensley
Abingdon
Louvenia Reed
Violena Hensley
William Stacy
William Burbage
Bill) Stacy
Rt. 2
Eva Magacy
Virgil Stacy
Hurley
Julia Justice
Roseann
Peggy Ferry
Rowe
Hubert Smith
Vasant
Mary Mutter
Oakwood
Greeley
Fred Stacy
Stacy
Joe Stacy
Blackie
Hibbert Stacy
Big Prater Baptist Church
Stuart Owens
Childress
Davis Cemetery
Ann
Rodrick Morefield
Mrs. Marie Smith
Marie Smith
Pocahontas, Va
Bluefield Sanitarium
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Lillie Pearson
Lillie Joetta Pearson
Clarence Pearson
Huntington
Grace Hospital
Lugo
Wythe
Tee Ward
Pypee
Wards
Raleigh St
Amore
U.S. Weather Bureau
mid-Mississippi Valley
Upper Lakes Region
Gulf Coast Region
Pacific Northwest
Great Basin
North Atlantic
Central Plains
Mississippi
Union Street
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