Robertson Manager Asks Medical Official To Resign
Senator A Willis Robertson’s campaign manager urged Dr. K M Cox to resign as secretary of the State Board of Medical Examiners over soliciting funds for Senator William B Spong Jr. Cox faced scrutiny for using board influence to pressure doctors and bankers for campaign support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Willis Robertson
K.M Cox
State Board of Medical Examiners
Robertson
E. E. Willey
Willey
Cox
Portsmouth
Bank of Virginia
Virginia
Chaiman
Banking and Currency Committee
Dr. Cox
Spong
Kennedy
Bill
Sen. Robertson
Vanes Banking Association
Sen. Robbertson
Tidewater
Road contract set for East River Mountain tunnel segment
The segment south of Princeton will set a contract this year with final section entry to be let in 1967. The East River Mountain tunnel will be designed and built by West Virginia with Virginia paying half the cost. Virginia will also fund a second large tunnel through Big Walker Mountain costing at least 30 million as part of the I-77 project. Whitton denied funds from the federal interstate highway trust fund were spent on national parks, citing federal law forbidding such use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
East River Mountain
West Virginia
Thse National Parks
Richlands Fair pony show crowns eight classes in record turnout
A record crowd at the Richlands Fair and Stock Show pony events in Richlands Virginia watched 51 entries compete Friday night. Judges awarded top finishes across eight classes with riders ages six to sixteen and ponies 45 inches and under. First place winners included Jack Frost Susan Lynch Lebanon and Black Jack Gary McCann Moonlight Stables Tazewell among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richlands
Jim Rasnick
Jack Frost
Susan Lynch
Lebanon
Just Dandy
Martha Lynch
Peanuts
Terry Garet Persinger
Lightning
Sue Stanton
Patsy Persinger
Black Jack
Gary McCann
Moonlight Stables
Tazewell
Goldie
Lisa Persinger
Bee Stuart
Rosedale
Freddie Cox
Lady
Ann Haywood
C. M. Myer
Cedar Bluff
Kathy Stonewall
Sandy Stuart
Golden Boy
Jimmy Durham
Jimmy Safewright
Trixie
Tony Mullins
Caprian Eble
Tony Thompson
Bob
Diablo
Carol Myers
Two Services Slated At Mt Olive Church
On Logan Street in Bluefield Mount Olive Baptist Church schedules two Sunday services. Host pastor Rev J J Howard presides with Rev Harvey Doggett delivering the 11 am sermon and Rev P D Edwards at 3 pm A soloist will be Mrs Lucille Gardner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Olive Baptist Church
Logan Street
Bluefield
J. J. Howard
Harvey Doggett
P. D. Edwards
Lucille Gardner
Marriage License Application Filed in Mercer County
One marriage license application was filed in Princeton by Alfred E Keller of Freeman and Goldie Irene Rose of Bluefield. A divorce suit titled Hubert McKinley Burton Jr. vs Tula Marie Burton was also filed at the Mercer County Courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Princeton
Alfred E Keller
Freeman
Goldie Irene Rose
Bluefield
Hubert McKinley Burton Jr
Tula Marie Burton
Last Meeting Ends Virginia Pupil Placement Board Era
Virginia’s State Pupil Placement Board met for the last time as the General Assembly abolished it. Chairman E. J. Oglesby denounced integration as a failure while recalling the board’s role in desegregation. The outgoing members noted thousands of Negroes were placed in white schools over six years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
E.J. Oglesby
Charlottesville
Oglesby
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
A.L. Wingo
Edward T. Justis
State Department of Education
Almond
Honaker Boy Hangs Himself in Jail
Lenny Walker Crabtree 18 of Honaker Va. hanged himself with a sheet in Russell County Jail Lebanon Va after four weeks in custody. He faced a felony charge and a preliminary hearing set for Friday June 24. Survivors include his mother Sophia Crabtree Honaker, stepfather Billy S Honaker, brother Jimmy Crabtree, sister Margie Mae Crabtree and several half siblings. Funeral arrangements were announced for Sunday at 2 p.m. EST with the body moved from Honaker Funeral Home to the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Pruner
Commonwealth
Russell County
Sophia Crabtree Honaker
Billy S. Honaker
Honaker
Ame
Jimmy Crabtree
Margie Mae Crabtree
Castlewood
Honaker Funeral Home
Two Teens Hurt In One-Vehicle Wreck Near Speedway
Deborah Ann Crews 16 of Princeton underwent emergency treatment at Bluefield Sanitarium after a late Friday night crash at Speedway. Bobby Frederick Goodall 16 of Athens was hospitalized at Princeton. Crews sustained cuts and bruises. full injuries pending tests. State Trooper E C Lucas investigated. Goodall was driving when the vehicle lost control.
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Deborah Ann Crews
Mirs
Roy Crews
Rt. 2
Princeton
Bluefield
Speedway
Bobby Frederick Goodall
Athens
State Road Commission Improves Roads in the County
The State Road Commission operates road work in the county. A two mile resurfacing on Secondary 1301 1302 near Prosperity Wind Mill Gap will finish next week. Crews will begin a six mile resurfacing on Secondary 12 Lashmeet Rock. Brush cutting on U S 460 Bluefield Princeton Oakvale. Ditch cleaning on Old Bluefield Princeton Bluewell Montcalm. Additional programs are under consideration by the Road Commission.
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The
State Road Commission
Prosperity
Wind Mill Gap
Lashmeet
Rock
Bluefield
Princeton
Oakvale
Bluefield-Princeton
Bluewell
Montcalm
Road Commission
Jack Harvey
Road hearing set for July 7 in Princeton
A large delegation of Bluefield residents is expected at a July 7 hearing at Princeton City Hall to discuss the 460 corridor between the West Virginia Turnpike and Glen Lyn Virginia. Officials say the corridor will generally follow existing 460 and provide residents a chance to express opinions on better county roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Princeton City Hall
Jackson
West Virginia Turnpike
Glen Lyn
E G Otey Leader in Bluefield Banking and Civic Work
E G Otey 71 a prominent Bluefield banker and civic leader died after a heart attack in June. He chaired Mercer County Bank and Bluefield area projects, promoted the $800000 fund drive for a new Fincastle Country Club, and held board roles with several banks and businesses. He received multiple honors including a 1960 honorary law degree from West Virginia University and the Better Citizens Award in 1955. The family requests donations to the Heart Fund or Bland Street Methodist Church building fund in lieu of flowers.
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Fincastle Country Club
Double Gates
Otey
Mercer County Bank
Princeton
Southwest Virginia Bank of Pocahontas
Joe Va
Bank of Pocahontas
Pocahontas Bank
Ees One
Bluefield
Fincastle Country Cub
Bluefield Country Club
Bluefield College
Bluefield - Princeton Industrial Corporation
Consolidation Coal Co
W. M. Ritter Lumber Co
Virginian Railway
General Telephone Co
Southeast
St. Luke’s Hospital
West Virginia Armature Co
Flat Top Insurance Agency
Governor’s Commission
West Virginia
Industrial Council
Better Citizens
Riley - West Post
American Legion
Beta Gamma Sigma
West Virginia University College of Commerce
Bluefield Jaycees
West Virginia University
Concord College
West Virginia University Economics Communttee
Heart Fund
Bland Street Methodist Church Building Fund
First National Bank of Bluefied
Mercer Counsiam
Henry Bowen
Charles Frgge
W. A. Noell
J. W. Shott
J. W. Tyson
J. E Wagner Jr
Richard J. Wood
J. C. Anderson
O. H. Ballard
A. S. Barksdale Jr
L. G. Bowling Jr
Allen C. Coppinger Jr
B. S. Clements
W. R. Cooke
Walter W. Burton
Bills Sign Fullback Shelby Mansfield From NC State
The Buffalo Bills signed free agent fullback Shelby Mansfield from North Carolina State. Mansfield rushed 175 times for 626 yards last season for NC State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Bills
Shelby Mansfield
North Carolina State
Mansfield
N. C. State
Deaths and Funerals From Bluefield Area
Obituaries list Hazel Fletcher 55 of Bluefield died on arrival after illness. Also noted are Robert Wright 50 of Pounding Mill and others with service details, survivors, and funeral home arrangements. The notices include relatives across Bluefield, Rocky Gap, Nemours, and Narrows with multiple services scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Jane Fletcher
Third St
Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitarium
Rocy Gap
Callie Hawks Duncan
Rocky Gap
Kim Duncan
Willetta Matthews
Roderfield
Robert James Starling
Irene Miller
Mary Ann Taylor
Nancy Lowery
Orlando
Fla
Joe Griffith
Nemours
James W. Caudill
Jas Caudill
Willis Caudill
Frank
Archie Caudill
Brady Daisy Underwood
Cleveland
Ohio
Vince Mullins
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
William Martin
Donald Linkous
Rosehill Cemetery
Bastion
Richard Underwood
Steve Matthews
Jess Underwood Jr
Kenny Frey
John Griffith
Kimball Man Robert Lee Adams Found Dead at Home
Robert Lee Adams of Kimball was found dead Friday morning. Death attributed to natural causes with time of death not established. He was brother of Mrs. Marjorie Sinkford of Bluefield. Funeral arrangements are pending with Sinkford Richard son Funeral Home in Keystone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lee Adams
Kimball
Marjorie Sinkford
Bluefield
Sinkford - Richardson
Mrs Martha Turpin Dies After Long Illness In Tazewell Va
Mrs Martha Turpin of Coalwood died Thursday in a Tazewell Virginia hospital after a long illness. The body was sent to Page Funeral Home in Welch for funeral arrangements to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Turpin
Coalwood
Tazewell
Page Funeral Home
Welch
Kimball man dies of natural causes reported
Robert Adams of Kimball died of natural causes early Friday morning. His body was moved to Sinkford Richardson Funeral Home in Keystone pending funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Adams
Kimball
Sinkford-Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Rufus G Via 57 Dies After Long Illness
Rufus G Via of Orchard died Friday at 4 p.m. at his home after a long illness. The body was taken to Broyles Funeral Chapel of Peters Town. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Rufus G. Via
Orchard
Broyles Funeral Chapel
Peterstown
Funeral notices from Richlands to Princeton and Honaker
Frances H Proffitt 76 Richlands dies with funeral Sunday 2 p.m. at Richlands Tabernacle. Burial Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery. Frank Carter 59 Princeton dies. funeral Saturday 2:30 p.m. Memorial Funeral Directory. Charlotte Ann Wilson 61 Honaker dies. funeral today 2 p.m. Swords Creek Methodist. Clarence E Starks 56 Bastian dies. funeral Sunday 3:30 p.m. Bastian Union Church. Burial Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Proffitt
Frances H
Richlands
Richlands Tabernacle
Grat Horton
Arvil Holmes
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Farmer Funeral Home
Robert Evans Jr
Bobby Evans
Alvin
Robert Holmes
Dave
James Horton
Carter
Frank
Athens
Princeton
Resthaven
Clarence Bailey
Lowell Austin
Lenard Mincey
Joe Bragg
Bill Rice
Z. E. Farley
Bob Moore Installed as Great Bluefield Jaycees President
Bob Moore of WHIS-TV Bluefield will be installed as president of the Greater Bluefield Jaycees at tonight's annual installation meeting and ball at the Brier Club. He will serve July 1, 1966 to June 30, 1967, succeeding Dave Shields who becomes regional Jaycees vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Moore
Whis-Tv
Bluefield
Greater Bluefield Jaycees
Brier Club
East Cumberland Road
Moore
Dave Shields
Shields
The
Jaycees
Ron Satterfield
Jim W. Bailey
Jack Linkous
Keith McKenzie
Charley Mays
Carl Thomas
Jim Barbary
Harold Brewster
Eddie McQuail
John Biggs
Bill Cundiff
Noel Harlow
Ray Williford
Wyatt
Young GOPers Gather Today in Charleston West Virginia
About 125 delegates are expected at the West Virginia Young Republican League meeting at the state capitol. President Wilhard Phillips Jr. says the group will discuss renaming to Young Republicans of West Virginia and moving the annual convention from July to October. Marshall University professor John S Callebs, a GOP Secretary of State candidate, will deliver the main address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
Young Republican League
Wilhard Phillips Jr
Elkins
State Capitol
Eure
Phillips
Young Republican’s of
John S. Callebs
Marshall University
Airport Study Progress At Chamber Luncheon In Bluefield
Chamber leader, First National Bank executive vice president from Jackson, spoke at the West Virginian Hotel luncheon outlining airport needs noting runways must reach 6 000 feet for jet traffic. He described budget balance and plans for better roads, a Bluefield football camp, and landfill disposal. The Lions Club installs officers at six thirty with social hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Pittsburgh
Bluefield
Lions Club
West Virginian Hotel
Lindsay Dula
M. T. (Buck) Meachum
Carl Poole
Preston Hamilton
Archie Phlegar
Charles Nichols
Taylor Moore
Eugene Wilson
Ed Carrigan
al White
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John F. Daffron
Associated Press
Weather Bursau
Lece
Rockies
Central Plains
Gulf Coast
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
W. V
Mt. Olive Church
Albany
Atlanta
Bismark
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Airbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
St.p
New Orleans
New York
Okla City
Omaha
Phoenix
Ore
Rap City
St. Louis
Salt Sk. City
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Winnipeg
Lenny Walker Crabtree
State
E. C. Lucas
Young Goodall
SRC
E.G. Otey
Bills
Mrs
Hazel Fletcher
Robert M. Wright
Robert McNeal Wright
Pounding Mill
Irene Lockhart Wright
William Wright
Baltimore
Glen
Robert Wright Jr
Delores Uphold
Everettville
Linda Weller
Sharon Wright
Henry Puckett
J. C. Lambert
Sue Brewster
Hubert Lambert
North Tazewell
Cyrus Hamby
Fleetwood
N.C
Rowena Patterson
Joseph Pease
Newburgh
N. Y
Methodist Church
Maxwell, Va
W. E. Mustard
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield - Tazewell Road
Greever Funeral Home
Brown Parker
Brown
Alderson Parker
Union
Greenbrier Valley
Roncevert
Alta Parker
Jim Parker
Smith
Ira’ Broyles
Harry Pyles
Carson
Remai
Broyles
L. E. Moore
L. E
Effie) Moore
Clearwater
Moss Funeral Home
L. E. Moore Jr
Ralph Moore
Knoxville
Joseph Hite
Joseph Daniel Hite
Narows
Garnet Thompson Hite
Peggy Hite
Narrows
Ernest Hite
Jessie Hite
Battle Creek
Mich
Herbert Hite
Elkton
John Hite
F. T. Hite
Radford
Riffe
Fairview Cemetery
George Necessary
George Mafayette Necessary
Rt. 1
Wytheville
Tazewell County
William and
Alice Turley Necessary
Flora Stevenson Necessary
Alice Hawkins
Grover Necessary
Claude Necessary
Camp Creek
Peery and St. Clair Funeral Home
Rufus
C of C
Bland
Cherry Street
Highland Avenue
Virginia Peninsula
Dee
Newport News
Niger Reo
Virginia Employment Commission
West Front Richlands
Appalachian Hardware
Appalachia
J. Os
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dey Dock Company
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