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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
8
Public notices list street repairs in Bluefield and nearby Wheeling areas, with bids and service ads for roofing, flooring, plumbing, and home improvements. Classifieds include job openings for mechanics and sales, plus listings for loans, motels, repairs, and Jewel Box ads from Beckers Jewel Box in Tazewell and nearby towns.
Plans for the summer work on the sanctuary project at Conn Park are to be discussed by the A y and Blossom Garden Club sanctuary committee next Wednesday at 2 p m in the park. After the weekly fellowship at First Baptist Church, a film titled Simon Peter Fisherman will be shown by C W Brochard. The Past Matrons and Past Patrons of Princeton Chapter 583 OES meet for a pot luck supper at Halstead Park Tuesday at 6 p m. rain venue is Masonic Hall. VFW Auxiliary Mercer Post 2703 meets Tuesday at 7:30 p m in the Memorial building. The Forum Club meets Tuesday at 8 p m at Mrs J L Hart’s home. Mercer Post 2703 will send delegates to the West Virginia VFW encampment in Parkersburg June 27–30 to consider 38 resolutions. post officers will attend the Tuesday Memorial Building meeting.
Oil furnace, 1 350 gelien tank, table top electric hot water heater 30 gallons. 1 3 piece bedroom suite. All slightly weed. Call GA 5 287 or write Box 532 Princeton West Virginia.
Lincoln Seden, 49, offers a vehicle with extra good tires and radio. He will sell or trade for a lot or a low price house in the Princeton or Bluefield area, via Lilly Land Co.
Mercer County high school students will attend the Ninth Annual Miners Encampment. Five boys report June 26 to 28 with Taft Johnson coordinating mining activities for West Virginia College of Mining Extension Service. Local coal operators’ association funds transport and maintenance.
Kraft Television Theatre presents The Night of May Third adapted from Pearl Buck with Joan Davis in a story of a troubled couple and a Chinese artist. I Married Joan week features six filmed comedies with Joan and Brad Stevens in six plots including Predictions Party Line Wall Safe Alienation of Affections and Bombay Duck.
Seventeen persons were booked at the county jail over the weekend. Five drunk drivers and three drunks were processed plus a non support charge and a grand larceny case. Police issued tickets for speeding on Thorn Street and other streets while two juveniles faced license and operation charges. A 20 year old man received a license violation ticket. Troopers Bazzie and Kessell booked Thomas St Perre for grand larceny on Saturday night.
Dona Bennett hosts The Big Idea Monday nights at 7 on WHIS Channel 6. Siegfried Halbreich, a Polish pharmacist, describes deovies as a curved flat wire design that prevents spills from spouts. A hand truck variant aids lifting heavy loads up stairs. Percival Sax Jr. notes leverage in handles for easier movement. Other inventions include an automatic grinder and a mechanical drawing device.
Six governors split into three groups brief on the 1956 presidential campaign during NBC Today from Atlantic City. Governors Collins Knight Harriman McKeldin Williams Stratton participate with Emerson as moderator and Faye as guest columnist actress replaces Dave Garroway.
Washington economists from Humphrey and Martin outline reasons for the auto sales drop, blaming insufficient equity among buyers and near-identical 1956 models. They deny Curtice’s charge that Federal Reserve policy harmed auto credit, noting that installment debt rose mainly for nonauto purchases.
Uncontested divorce cases will be heard in circuit court today and Tuesday before Judge F Morton Wagner. Today includes surnames M to Z with 22 cases. Tuesday covers A to L with 31 cases. The August term docket will be set on July 17.
Princeton High School students planning to join summer band should register today at Knob School from 9 30 to 11 30. Knob School’s William director will register his students Monday afternoon from 1 30 to 3 30. Students must note each school's hours and be punctual.
Adjustment is granted for Westminster Presbyterian Church to modify a two story brick building on Lot 1 3 3 4 and 12 5 Section 84 Washington Street Warren FE. Brooke plans a one story brick dwelling on Lot 1 Section 1010 Auguste Street at the rear. Public hearing set for 8:00 p.m. in the Directors’ Room second floor City of Bluefield notice by Janet.
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