Community Calendar for Bluefield events and games
The Bluefield Chamber of Commerce publishes a weekly Community Calendar listing four weeks of events. Items include baseball games at Bowen Field featuring the Blue Grays against Welch Elizabethton Bristol Kingsport Johnson City and others plus the Southern Appalachian Horse Show at Bluefield Stadium and Merchants and Buyers Week Convention at local hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sun
Welch
Blue Grays
Bowen Field
Elizabethton
Bristol
Bluefield C of C
Bluefield Country Club
Kingsport
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Bluefield Stadium
Merchants and Buyers Week Association
West Virginian
Matz
Johnson City
Matt Thurs
Friisp
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Color in One Quarter of 1950 US Feature Films
A 1950 US study notes that about 25 percent of the 400 full length motion pictures released that year were produced in color.
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United States
Birth of Pamela Ann in Berkley Michigan
Mr and Mrs James Sovin announce the birth at home on June 18 of their first child Pamela Ann weighing 8 pounds 6 ounces. The news item also lists numerous social visits and travels involving local families and relatives across several towns and states. The piece ends with a historical note about the longest canal said to be built in China many centuries ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RCA Victor
James Sovin
Berkley
Mich
Pamela Ann
Frances Smith
Keesler Field
Miss
U. S. Army Air Corps
J. B. Smith
Carl Carder
Alexandria
Lyle Lawrence
Waldorf
Tommy Slate
Sara Sue
Edentown
N. J
G. L. Slate
Alex Buzuma
New York City
Claude Davis
Velma
Robert Tate
Glen White
S. P. Warden, Jr
W. H. Roope
Newbern
Jess Wooten
Ronald and
Richard
Williamson
R. L. Boone
Michael Liss
Macspeth
L. I
N. Y
Wasil
Daniel Frederick
Ann Arbor
University of Michigan
Reedie Sells
Bluefield
Marie Foote
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
A. T. Jo
Thomas
Wallace Shrader
Cleveland
Alice Bain
Birmingham
Ala
Harry Bell
Norfolk
Mary Spinella
Gladys Peters
Charleston
C. FP. Ratcliff
Maybeury
Ethel Waltz
G. G. Brammer
Roanoke
W. W. King
J. C. Wooten
Beckley
Lee Lawrence
David Tate
Arthur Davis
Lashmeet
Blige Hodge
Bluefield Sanitarium
Iks
Hazel K. Slate
China
Tazewell Fire Loss Is Down
Tazewell Virginia June 23 Special With only 19 fires reported in Tazewell county since January 1 chief fire warden Hugh H Humphrey notes improved fire prevention awareness versus last year when fires were more numerous Weather conditions with frequent rains helping keep leaves and grass wet aided the record He credits the Keep Virginia Green campaign reinterpreted as Keep Tazewell County Green for public cooperation and protective service efforts.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Hugh H. Humphrey
Virginia Green
Tazewell County Green
Railway Conductors Meet At Eagles Hall This Afternoon
The Bluefield Order of Railway Conductors meets at 2 30 this afternoon in the Eagles hall with full attendance urged.
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Bluefield Order of Railway
Eagles Hall
Service Firms Fail To File Price Lists In West Virginia
West Virginia service establishments were required to file a ceiling price list with the district office in Charleston by June 15. Covered types include auto, shoe, radio and TV repair, household appliances, service stations, barbers, laundries, dry cleaners, tailors, parking lots, amusements, and more. Noncompliance risks penalties as stated by Russell Nichbow, district director.
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West Virginia
District Office of Price Stabilization
Charleston
Russell Nichbow
Fire Chief Injured Battling Trailer Fire In Montgomery
Montgomery June 23 Fire Chief Roger Nowinskie aged 40 sustained compound fractures to the right leg and head lacerations after being struck by a car while fighting a house trailer blaze. Attendants report his condition as satisfactory.
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Montgomery
W. Va
Roger Nowinskie
Tazewell Youth In Religious Fields
Tazewell youths returning from college to serve in religious work expand. Marianna Rowlett of Emory and Henry joins the Methodist Youth Caravan at Simpson College Iowa for seven weeks of service in northern Iowa. Sara Jo Greever becomes youth director and secretary at Martinsville First Methodist on June 15. Joe Dunaway of North Tazewell, Sewanee divinity student, aids Staunton Episcopal rector after teaching at William and Mary.
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Tazewell
Marianna Rowlett
P. L. Rowlett
Emory and Henry College
Simpson College
Idinaola
Iowa
Sara Jo Greever
J. J. Greever
First Methodist
Martinsville
Joe Dunaway
J. A. Dunaway
North Tazewell
School of Divinity
University of the South At
Sewanee
Also Mentioned on This Page
RCA Victors
Wewest
R.C.A
the Commercial Bank
Bluefield, W. VA
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
ORC
Sea Queen
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Yard
Newport
Nichols
Harry W. Biggs
J. J. Penn
Law & Commerce, Bldg
Oy Oat Lee
Vanity & Bench
EKCO
Boudoir
Duncan Phyfe
Davenport
Ammer
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