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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1949
Page
22
About 50 entrants are listed for the Radford Junior Chamber of Commerce regatta at Claytor Lake. Vic Scott of Forest Hill New York, a three time Albany to New York City marathon winner, competes in class C alongside Doug Creech of North Carolina and the husband wife duo Henry and Eleanor Shakeshaft of White Plains New York.
Scouts plan a district Camporee with activities led by the camp director at the Gietrich area. The event runs across a weekend with tents pitched and organized programs for all units.
A Travel notice promotes the Healing Springs hotel in Crumpler Ashe County North Carolina on the New National Parkway. It highlights a famous mineral spring, excellent food and comfortable accommodations for a summer visit.
May sales at seven Charleston W V department stores rose five percent from May 1948, while Huntington stores fell four percent. Charleston’s January May period rose six percent year over year. Huntington dipped five percent. A 16-store West Virginia group gained one percent for May and January May. The Fifth District overall slipped two percent in May. Obor Conquers All is the state motto of Oklahoma.
Dewi McGalliard, 28, goes on trial in Essex county circuit court in Tappahannock for the March double homicide of his sister Mrs. Helen Spindle and her husband Frank Spindle. Police arrested him in Knoxville after the victims were found shot in their Loretto apartment above Frank Spindle’s auto shop.
Morgantown reports the Public Health Training Center, housed since 1938, will move from Morgantown to South Charleston after August 1. Senior Sanitarian O. R. Lyons will relocate with the center, which may revert to broader health worker training in addition to sanitarians.
The notice touts affordable pricing and urges patients to bring complicated and other prescriptions to the shop. It emphasizes patient patronage and offers continued service by medical men recommending the establishment.
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