Rural Programs Get 729,520 Grant for McDowell County
A 729,520美元 rural poverty grant to the McDowell County Chapter of the Council of Southern Mountains at Welch was approved by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The funds support a cultural exposure tour for 120 children, a remedial reading program with six trained teachers, eight community centers plus a ninth center for clothing distribution, and related materials and staff. The program runs with state and federal cooperation under local leadership.
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McDowell County
Council of Southern Mountains At
Welch
Office of Economic Opportunity
James Kee
Jennings Randolph
Robert C. Byrd
Ed Thomas
Council of Southern Mountains
Rev. Thomas
Washington, D. C
West Virginia University
Bankers Will Elect Officers At WV Group V Conference
Some 230 banking representatives from Mercer McDowell and Wyomin g counties in Southern West Virginia gather in Bluefield for the West Virginia Bankers Association Group V Conference. Officers will be elected at a 7 15 p.m. dinner after golf and recreation. current head is J E Kuhkle of Peoples Bank Mullens with Basil L Jackson and William T Hall holding the other top posts.
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West Virginia
Bluefield
West Virginia Bankers Association Group V
Bluefield Country Club
Mercer
McDowell
Wyoming
J. E. Kuhkle
Peoples Bank of
William T. Hall
Commercial Bank In
Jackson
Autos Damaged In Intersection Crash at Bland and College
Two late model sedans collided at Bland Street and College Avenue Bluefield around 5 p.m. Wednesday causing $326 in damages. Sharon D. Mit chin and Patricia L. Bourn were the drivers. No charges were filed. Lt. Roy Humphreys led the investigation.
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Bland Street
College Avenue
Bluefield
Sharon D. Mitchin
Union St
Patricia L. Bourn
Fulton St
Milchin Auto
Bland
Bourn
Roy Humphreys
Mercer Man Hurt In Cycle Accident
Robert L. Hutcherson, 38, of Rt. 4 Bluefield, was injured in a motorcycle crash near Smith's Transfer on the Airport Road. He endured multiple abrasions and X rays were ordered for possible skull, shoulder and chest injuries at Bluefield Sanitarium.
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Robert L. Hutcherson
Rt. 4
Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitarium
Smith
Newspaper masthead fragment from Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Incomplete telegraph notice shows the Bluefield Daily Telegraph masthead with address Bland Street Bluefield W Va and notes Associated Press affiliation and subscription rates context.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Aa SD
Quarien Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
Mrs Johnston Succumbs at Bluefield Sanitarium
Mrs Dean V Johnston Sr 60 died Wednesday afternoon after a long illness. A Bluefield resident born Nov 25 1904 in Bluefield she was the former Eve lyn Dudley. Survived by husband D W Johnston two daughters Bet ty Jean and Mrs Frank Wrenn one son Dean Johnston Jr two grandsons funeral services under Hawkins Funeral Home arrangements with friends invited after 4 p m.
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Bluefield Sanitarium
Wyoming St
Evelyn Dudley
Howard Dudley
Geona Dudley
Bluefield
D. W. Johnston
Betty Jean Johnston
Frank Wrenn
Arlington, Va
Dean Johnston Jr
Hyattsville
Danny Johnston
David Johnston
Hawkins Funeral Home
Mary Boland Actress Dies After 50 Year Stage Career
New York AP report notes Mary Boland died at 90 in her Essex House apartment. The Philadelphia born actress left Sacred Heart Convent in Detroit in 1901 at age 15 to pursue theater, later spanning horse and buggy Broadway eras to midcentury Hollywood.
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New York
Mary Boland
Broadway
Manhattan
Hollywood
Miss Boland
Beverely Hills
Calif
Essex House
Central Park
Sacred Heart Convent
Detroit
Constantine and Queen Await Heir at Mon Repos Palace
King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie await their first child at Mon Repos in Corfu. When asked if he prefers a boy or a girl, he replies he simply wants a healthy child, noting the baby will be the heir to the Greek throne.
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Corfu
Greece
Constantine
Mon Repos
Anne-Marie
Judge Doubles Returns to UR After Retirement
Judge M. Ray Doubles, former dean of University of Richmond Law School for 17 years, will return to the law school on retirement from the Hastings Court Part II bench. He will teach law part time after stepping down September 1.
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Richmond, Va
M. Ray Doubles
University of Richmond Law School
Doubles
Hastings Court
Police Seek Applicants for Bluefield Patrolmen Posts
The Bluefield Police Civil Service Commission calls for applicants for patrolman jobs with the Bluefield Police Department. Starting salary is 337 dollars per month. Exams will be held at the Municipal Building with exact date to be set.
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Bluefield Police Civil Service Commission
Bluefield Police Department
Maxine Holm
Police Civil Service
William J. Winters
Robertson Seeks Fair Delegates In Constitutional Convention
Robertson argues for district based apportionment for House delegates with a 100 member cap. He labels the current plan unfair under one person one vote but notes a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling approved a convention apportionment deemed illegal for a legislature. Governor Smith cautions that Robertson’s view could threaten convention validity.
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Robertson
Tennessee Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Gov. Smith
Death of Mrs Stella Kahle Widowed Judge Kahle’s Widow
Mrs Stella Turner Kahle dies Wednesday at Riverview Nursing Home Narrows Virginia after a long illness. She lived at 2023 Jefferson Street Bluefield and was former Roanoke resident. Survived by two sons William Kahle and James Kahle Jr and daughter Mrs Sam Morgan, ten grandchildren. Body at Mercer Funeral Home Bluefield. funeral plans incomplete.
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Stella Turner Kahle
James S. Kahle
Mercer County
Riverview Nuring
Narrows
Jefferson St
Bluefield
Anderson
Ind
James Kahle Jr
Loutherville
Mercer Funeral Home
Former state official Ruth Maley sentenced in flood relief case
Ruth Maley, former State Commerce Department employee, received 1 to 10 years in prison for mishandling about $12 000 in federal flood relief funds. Judge Thompson denied a new trial, granted a four month stay, and an appeal was announced.
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Charleston
State Commerce Department
Ruth Maley
Kanawha County
William J. Thompson
Thompson
Barracks Planned for Six Women Scientists in Antarctica
Cmdr. W. H. Withrow of McMurdo Station reports the United States will build a barracks for six women scientists. The women’s identities and arrival date were not disclosed during the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Antarctic Society briefing.
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N.Z
United States
McMurdo Station
Cmdr
W. H. Withrow
U.S. Navy
Canterbury
New Zealand Antarctic Society
Switch To Decimals Uneasy In Britain
LONDON AP Britain s promised changeover to the decimal currency system is not going easily Treasury spokesman Niall Macdermot told the House of Commons Conservative member Sir Godfrey Nicholson suggested the country is not ready for such a change and only ee ee a i
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Treasury
Niall Macdermot
House of Commons
Godfrey Nicholson
Eggee Ee A
Electric Power History Talk At Bluefield Old Guard
The Bluefield Old Guard met at Trinity Methodist Church with 70 members and one visitor. W J Gillespie and Ira Henderson presented a program tracing electricity from residential meters to plants, plus central electronic computer use in Canton Ohio serving six companies.
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Bluefield Old Guard
Trinity Methodist Church
Canton
Gasoline Fire Damages Car On College Avenue
A gasoline leak caused a car fire on College Avenue in Bluefield on Wednesday at 3 07 p m. The 1962 four door sedan driven by Frances Chandler of Fincastle Estates Bluefield Va sustained about 300 dollars in damage. Firemen contained the blaze to the engine bay after an explosion under the hood and an odor of gasoline.
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College Avenue
Bluefield
Frances Chandler
Fincastle Estates
Red Deputy Assures Ceylon of Friendship
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister N P Firyubin during a visit to Colombo pledged continued Soviet friendship and goodwill toward Ceylon after meeting Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake during his tour of Moscow missions.
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Red
Ceylon
Colombo
N. P. Firyubin
Moscow
Dudley Senanayake
Deaths and Funerals Prolific West Virginia region
Funeral services are set for Alfred S. Hudgins Jr 43 of Parker California who died after a home fire in Fresno. Other obituaries include Charles Pierce Dillard 49 Amherst Ohio and Beryl Vance Eaton 33 Ociala Ohio with services in Bluefield Princeton and Princeton area. Survivors listed for each include spouses children and siblings, with thorough burial plans and calling hours.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Katherine Gillespie
Funeral services for Mary Katherine Gillespie 80 of Bluefield Va will be held Friday at 4 p m at Graham Funeral Home Chapel Rev Clarence Smoot officiating burial in Maple Hill Cemetery She was a native of Tazewell County Va widow of Robert Gillespie died Wednesday at the home of son Frazier Gillespie The service lists numerous survivors and pallbearers Graveside rites for infant Lillie Jo Pearson will be conducted today at Oak Grove Cemetery Bluewell Rev W A Day in charge The infant is survived by a twin sister and other relatives Lugo's Funeral Service is handling arrangements.
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Calif
A. S. Hudgins Sr
Bluefeld
Gladys Dooley Hudgins
Elaine Hudgins
Bluefield
Ray Charles
Phelps, Ky
Stephens Hudgins
Alexandria
Leonard Hud
Charles Pierce Dillard
Amherst
Ohio
Tazewell
Tazewell Presbyterian Church
Leonard H. Gibbs
Maplewood Cemetery
Dillard
William R
Susie Ratliff
North Tazewell
Dayton
Beatrice Lockhart Dillard
Linda
Diane
Cathy Dillard
Kegley
Vance
Elmer Vance
Thomas Eaton
Thomas Eaton Jr
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Earl P. King
Vance Cemetery
B. J. Jackson
King St
Bryant Memorial Cemetery
Wolfe
J. E. Gibson
0. Jackson
Jemiah
Timothy Jackson
Ann Jackson
Lugo
Mary Katherine
Molly) Gillespie
Rollins Street
Via
Graham Funeral Home
Clarence Smoot
Maple Hill Cemetery
Gillespie
Tazewell County
Robert Lee Gillespie
Frazier Gillespie
Grove St
Henry Brooks
Adam
Charles A. Gillespie
Walter Gillespie
Ellen Clubb
Pocahontas
David Lewis
Jeff Lewis
Willie Lewis
Elwood Farley
John H. Puckett Jr
George Beavers
Lillie Joetta Pearson
Clarence Pearson
Point Pleasant
Pageton
Grace Hospital
Welch
Oak Grove
Bluewell
W. A. Day
Clarence Pearson Jr
Debra Lynn Pearson
Mose Cuthbertson
Harry Pearson
Bozoo farmer Carie M. Long dies at 84
Carie M. Long 84 of Bozoo died at home Tuesday at 7 p.m. after a six month illness. Born in Summers County he was a lifelong Bozoo farmer. Survived by son Damon Long of Bozoo daughter Frances Persinger of Union four brothers Charles Long Arthur Long Lewis Long Ray Long and sister Virgie Dunn two grandchildren. Preceded in death by wife Mary in June 1954. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. at Broyles Funeral Home Chapel Peterstown Rev. James Curtis officiating. Burial in Sarver Cemetery Bozoo. Body remains at the funeral home until service.
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Ken Adams
Jaeger
Welch Hospital
Wyoming County
J. H. and
Welle Cook Adams
Tishie Miller Adams
Kennie Adams
Stuart Cecil
Welch
Roy
Hubert Adams
Baileysville
Miley
Thurley Adams
Jesse
Virgil Adams
Dennis Long
Fanning Funeral Home
Church of God of
Carie M. Long
Bozoo
Summers County
Luther and
Cynthia Osler Long
Damon Long
Frances Persinger
Union
Charles Long
Arthur Long
Midway
Lewis Long
Rich Creek
Ray Long
Bluff City
Death notice for Fred R. Woodyard in Huntington obituary
Mrs. Berta Old Bailey of 220 Poplar Street Bluefield receives notice of the death of her brother Fred R. Woodyard aged 71 of 4100 Fifth Street Road Huntington. The funeral services are planned Friday at 2 p.m. at Roger Funeral Home with Rev Lee Oxley officiating and burial to follow at Woodmere Cemetery in Huntington.
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Berta Old Bailey
Poplar St
Bluefield
Fred R. Woodyard
Fifth Street Road
Huntington
Roger Funeral
Lee Oxley
Woodmere Cemetery
Funeral for Billy Victor Cooper in Chicago and Whitewood
Billy Victor Cooper, 30, of Chicago formerly of Whitewood Virginia, died in a Sunday morning auto mishap in Chicago. Funeral services will be at his parents home noon Saturday with Rev. Lee Hanemayer and Rev. Richard Kennedy officiating. Burial follows at Compton Cemetery on Compton Mountain. Body moved from Hurst-Scott Funeral Home Richlands Virginia to the Cooper residence.
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Billy Victor
Chicago
Inl
Whitewood
Millard Cooper
Lee Hanemayer
Richard Kennedy
Compton Cemetery
Compton Mountain
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Richlands
Tokyo Population Estimate Rises to 10.79 Million
The Statistics Bureau reports Tokyo, the world’s largest city, had 10,788,052 residents on May 1, up 92,459 from April.
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Statistics Bureau
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Saltville
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Talbott
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Clinton
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June Necessary
Richmond
Charlie Shrader
Lestridge Shrader
Boissevain
Maggie Asbury
Wesley's Chapel
Tannersville
Henderson Funeral Home
Beryl Eaton
Mary Gillespie
Pearson Infant
Maremont Muffler
TO Automotive Supply CO. Stores
Westgate Pharmacy
Westgate Shopping Center
Bluefield, Virginia
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