Bluefield Virginia group eyes plant jobs and school study
The Community Improvement Association of Bluefield reports a garment maker may open a plant here employing about 70 with payroll above 50000 annually. Plans include a joint venture with Space Craft Inc., a vocational school in Springville, and a slogan contest.
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Bluefield
Community Improvement Association of
Graham Hedrick
Tazewell County Board of Supervisors
Hedrick
Pemco Corporation of
Space Craft, Inc
Huntsville
Ala
Hudson Huffard, Jr
Tazewell County
Springville
Huffard
Delano Compton
Frank Denardo
H. E. Kiser
Paul Trent
Irvin Rich
Jay Metcalfe
Senate rejects space funding cut in 42 to 38 vote
The Senate defeated a 10 percent cut to the Apollo Project in a 42 to 38 vote after brisk debate on space spending. It then approved a new NASA authorization of about 5.25 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, sending the measure back to the House for conference.
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Washington
Senate
Sens
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
National Aeromautics and Space Administration
Morse
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
House
House Conference Committee
Paul H. Douglas
Ill
Fulbright
NAACP Delegates Rally in D C Over Mississippi Disappearances
About 2,000 NAACP delegates protested around the Justice Department in Washington, demanding federal action after the Mississippi disappearance of three civil rights workers. Roy Wilkins met with Attorney General Kennedy to press for protection of civil rights workers and Black citizens amid constitutional limits on immediate action.
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Washington
National Association For the Advancement of Col People
Justice Department
Mississippi
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Wilkins
Kennedy
Wheat Shipment Diverted to Nepal
Five thousand tons of wheat from a U.S. aid program, initially sent to India, are redirected to western Nepal to feed hungry villagers after their last rice crop failed. Nepal airline plans to airdrop food to isolated mountain villages.
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Katmandu
Nepal
India
U.S
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Reader Notice
Advertising and publication notice from Bluefield West Virginia editor listing Associated Press rights and subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery across zones. Mentions West Virginia coverage and Audit Bureau of Circulation affiliation.
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Teleerage’ Printing Ray Co
Car Street
Bluefield
W Va
Associated White
Focal News
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Kattency
Ex Buchanan Man Is Killed In Arlington Construction Fall
Oscar Van Dyke 21 of Hyattsville Maryland died Tuesday when scaffolding gave way at a seventh floor level in Arlington Virginia. A former Buchanan County resident, he was survived by his wife a son two sisters and his parents. Funeral services were set for Friday in Harman Virginia with burial at Mud Lick Cemetery and the Grundy Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Buchanan County
Oscar van Dyke
Hyattsville
Arlington
van Dyke
Grundy Va
Harlan van Dyke
Grundy
Lucille Sutherland van Dyke
Kenneth Dewayne van Dyke
Home
Helen
Nadine van Dyke
Harman
Regular Baptist Church
Johnny Clevinger
John Lane
Elmer Church
Mud Lick
Grundy Funeral Home
Gervis Belcher
Hales’ Bottom
Falls Mills
Cravens
Bluewell
Roselawn
James Garfield
Louisa Delpha Clevenger Belcher
Consolidation Coal Company
Pocahontas
Iscel Bolin Belcher
James Belcher
Baltimore
David Belcher
Green Valley
Kenneth Belcher
Mabel Baker
Bluefield
Linda Scott
Thomas A. Belcher
James G. Belcher
Evittsburg
Floyd Elswick
Ashby Angus Scott
Sinks Grove
Monroe County
Ronceverte
C. C
Betty Carraway Scott
Vida Hinkle Scott
Robert Scott
Hilda Johnson
Lewisburg
Paul Scott
Caldwell
Links
Rice
Jaeger
Welch
Bon Air
Tenn
Ameady
Susie Farley Rice
Church of God
Mattie Lee Rice
Ruby Sue Rice
Susie Bramlett
Josephine Hall
Ike's Fork
Harvey Rice
Amead
Dorothy Alverta McVey
Richlands
John H. McVey
Marylyn
Karen McVey
James Micheal McVey
U. S. Army
Texas
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Carrey M. Meadows
Mary Emma Cordle
Louise Beverly
Vienna
Pasco C. Ball
Council
Cleveland
Ohio
Hattie Ball
Labetlbert Ball
James E. Ball
B. W. Ball II
Lexington
Edith Collins
Nola Kiser
Mable Mihaly
Lucille Batchelor
Mary Jo Ropalski
Corinth Baptist Church
James P. Shortt
Honaker
J. D. Compton
John D. Compton
Swords Creek
Virgie Breedlove Compton
Mary Lockhart
Panther
Lois Vaughan
Petersburg
Ike Compton
Johnny Compton
Myrtle Shelton
Charles Compton
Akron
Swords Creek Methodist Church
Perry Herndon
Francis Barton
Trual Brown
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Break-In Reported On Boone Street
A thief entered Curtis Stamper’s home at 233 Boone St Bluefield by breaking a rear window after the family left June 22 and returned June 24 Missing items include an electric heater an electric lamp a gold ring toys and clothing Bluefield police files list value at 95 dollars
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Curtis Stamper
Boone St
Bluefield
Stamper
Musical Program Slated Sunday at Bluefield Church
An afternoon service and musical program will be held Sunday at 3 o clock at the Tabernacle Baptist Church of Bluefield Virginia. Rev James A Palmer pastor. deacons in charge and sermon by the pastor. Music by Union Gospel Singers Golden Gate Baptist and Tabernacle Baptist Choir with Harold Spencer as soloist.
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Tabernacle Baptist Church
Bluefield
James A. Palmer
Union Gospel Singers
Golden Gate Baptist
Tabernacle Baptist Choir
Harold Spencer
Too Good Too Soon Says BC Teens Drive Riskily
The British Columbia Automobile Association reports safety experts say teens drive fast to seem skilled, missing that highway experience is essential to become a safe driver.
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Vancouver
B.C
The
British Columbia Automobile Association
Weather by The Associated Press
Virginia sunny with humidity dropping and highs near 80. Possible isolated thunderstorms. West Virginia much cooler and drier with sunny skies and highs around 80 or in the 70s.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Police Seek Two Escapees From Pruntytown Work Detail
State Police hunt two prisoners who fled from a work detail at the Industrial School for Boys in Pruntytown. Eugene Blizzard, 23, of Mineral County and Delbert Ledsome, 23, of Marion County, may have escaped separately. Blizzard faces one to 10 years for grand larceny and Ledsome one to 10 years for breaking and entering.
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Grafton
W.va
Industrial School
Pruntytown
Eugene Blizzard
Mineral County
Delbert Ledsome
Marion County
Blizzard
Ledsome
Huttonsville
Four-Year-Old Boy Fatally Crushed In Driveway Incident
In Terra Alta West Virginia a four year old Preston County boy Robert Dillsworth Jr aged 4 was fatally crushed when a rolled back truck moved over him in a Salt Lick driveway. The child apparently released the brakes and the vehicle rolled backward knocking him down. The boy died en route to a local physician.
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Terra Alta
W.va
Robert Dillsworth Jr
Preston County
Salt Lick
Guard Hears Wilkinson at Bluefield Old Guard meeting
Bernard Wilkinson of Bluefield spoke at the Bluefield Old Guard weekly meeting at Trinity Methodist Church on Wednesday at 10 15 am his topic Strength For Daily Living He urged making each day count and starting with faith and assurance Sixty people attended the gathering with several congratulations for golden wedding anniversaries and musical remarks by members and guests reflections on hospitalizations illness and absences were noted with vice director J S Dudley presiding and H E Spence and Dudley leading the devotionals
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Bernard Wilkinson
Bluefield
Old Guard
Trinity Methodist Church
W. C. Forlines
C. E. Kiser
W. J. Ellis
M. K. Tabor
Clyde Tibbs
W. V. Bowman
W. H. Jesse
Frank Pafford
E. L. Byrd
Three Gas Firms Seek Merger in West Virginia
United Fuel Gas along with Manufacturers Light and Heat and Cumberland and Allegheny Gas asked the Public Service Commission to consolidate their distribution into Columbia Gas of West Virginia. The plan would serve about 206000 customers and keep rates unchanged, awaiting Federal Power Commission and SEC approval.
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Charleston
United Fuel Gas Co
Manufacturers Light and Heat Co
Cumberland and Alleghney Gas Co
Public Service Commission
Columbia Gas of
West Virginia
Columbia Gas System
James S. Phillips
UFSG
Phillips
Federal Power Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
United Fuel
Cumberland
Manufacturers Light and Heat
Panhandle
Mexico Beach Mayor Provokes By Bustier Remarks
Mexico City AP report from Acapulco where Mayor Roberto Morlett Sutter was asked what he would do if women wore breast-baring bathing suits on beaches. He said he would go to see them but would have them prosecuted as mayor of the Pacific resort.
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Mexico City
Acapulco
Roberto Morlett Sutter
Pacific Resort
Crucial Hour Near Khanh Shapes Viet Nam War Outlook
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh urged rapid action in South Viet Nam as the crucial hour in the anti Communist war arrives. The article notes U.S. ambassadorial shifts, Taylor's appointment, and global reactions from Izvestia Tokyo Thailand and Peking, with Lodge returning to plans for political campaigning.
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South Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
U.S
Rach Gia
Gulf of Thailand
Maxwell D. Taylor
Henry Cabot Lodge
Moscow
Izvestia
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Viet Nam
Taylor
Tokyo
Yomiuri
United States
Hanoi
Radio Peking
Red China
Chen Yi
Pathet Lao
Laos
Thailand
Thanat Khoman
Lodge
John F. Kennedy
South
William W. Scranton
Obituary highlights multiple Monroe County deaths
James Samuel McMann 84 died at home in Hollywood Monroe County. Former assessor, board of education president, and Bruffey Memorial Methodist Church member. Survived by wife Birdie Hoylman and 19 other relatives. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday Broyles Funeral Chapel Union, burial Salem Cemetery Organ Cave.
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James Samuel McMann
Hollywood
Monroe County
Bruffey Memorial Methodist Church
Board of Education
That County
Union Masonic Lodge
John A
Mattie Davis McMann
Birdie Hoylman McMann
Clarence E. McMann
Oceana
James L. McMann
Lookout
Organ Cave
Death notices for Leland Wilson and Harry Handy
Leland Wilson formerly of Anawalt and Detroit Michigan died Monday in a Detroit hospital. The body is being brought to Lugo's Funeral Service in Buckfield for funeral arrangements to be announced. Harry Hugh Handy age 31 formerly of Princeton died at Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond after an illness of several months. Seaver Mortuary in Princeton is in charge of funeral arrangements which remain incomplete.
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Leland Wilson
Anawalt
Detroit
Mich
Lugo
U Efield
Harry Hugh Handy
Princeton
Medical College of Virginia Hospital
Richmond
Seaver Mortuary
Court Tries To Clarify Bonds And Airport Plans
The court reviews bids for a 355 foot airport extension with the lowest bid at 1.101 million, far above available funds even with federal aid. Alternatives including local student labor and borrowed federal equipment failed. a landfill or lake project may be pursued if the plan falters.
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Thomason
Bluestone Gorge
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Scottsdale, Ariz
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Matoaka
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Kirksville
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Las Cruces
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Ward Wright
Johnny Jones
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Germany
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Spencers Curve
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H. H. Handy
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Bramwell
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