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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1962
Page
6
Local TV listings show WSAZ WOAY Huntington Oak Hill and affiliates WCHS Roanoke Charleston wcrys Bristol WHIS Bluefield offering a slate of programs across channels including webBJ and other regional stations.
Highlights include Dr. Edward R. Annis discussing medical care policy on Meet The Press at 6. Then Bullwinkle, Donald Duck analysis, a Drake premiere with Court Intrigue, TV Guide Award Show hosted by Dave Garroway, Seven Keys to Baldpate on DuPont Show, and Soul Of A Monster featuring a hypnotic murder twist.
AP reports major networks reshaping fall schedules with 28 new programs among 91 offerings. Highlights include Lucille Ball leading a new comedy slate, WWII action plots across ABC, NBC’s The Virginian, rodeo-centered Westerns, and no new private eye series. Old favorites return with films and Voice of Firestone revived.
About 450 steam locomotives are on display across museums and public parks. The exhibits highlight historic rail technology and engineering heritage for visitors nationwide.
In Bluefield in 1929 WHIS marks 33 years of service from its West Virginia Hotel studio. The station’s first two hour broadcast featured The Lion's Club Quartet and local talent. The TV Guide Awards host Dave Garroway with Art Carney and Judy Holiday highlight tonight at 9.0, followed by George M. Cohan mystery farce Seven Keys to Baldpate with Fred Gwynne.
Blair, a Norfolk and Western Railway executive, was elected a director of Bluefield Supply Co. at a Friday board meeting in Bluefield. J. Taylor Frazier announced Dixie Appliance Co. has acquired Philco distributorship in 34 eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and Ohio counties and will open a Huntington warehouse. The firm reported its best five months profit since 1959 and declared a quarterly dividend. Blair is a Virginia native and VP coal traffic with the railroad since 1923.
Blair, long associated with Bluefield, served as general superintendent of the railroad's western division from 1952 to 1957. He married Miss Al cine Hamilton, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Hamilton, and their daughter Catherine Blair Fisher was born in Bluefield and lives in Roanoke. Blair also served as a director of the First National Bank, Bluefield.
The Foley Sisters from Matoaka will perform on Judy Compton's Womans Whirl program on WHIS TV Channel 6 at 1 p.m. next Thursday. The trio includes Pauline 19, Louella 18, and Helen 10.
Heavy Friday selling on the Board of Trade wipes out gains as lawmakers kill Kennedy farm program. Corn led losses amid talk of renewed farm support extensions. old crop soybeans attracted steady support on dwindling supplies and 90 million bushels through price support loans.
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