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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1958
Page
3
Charleston AP report says West Virginia will not extend the deadline for expiring auto license plates for the 1957 58 year though sales lag. By midweek 397000 of the 1958 59 plates issued versus 429000 a year ago. The slow uptake cited is a new personal property tax receipt requirement approved by the 1957 Legislature.
Richlands Virginia Troop 49 departs for two weeks at Camp Roland. Leaders Garnet Webb and Norm Rickey accompany the group along with for Scouts Billy Morgan David Jesse Mac Britts Teddy Taylor Paul Smith McLean Williford Bill Allen Mickey McGuire Jim Lindsey Chuck Greever Bill Williams Gaines Webb and Johnny Altizer.
The Flat Top National Bank of Bluefield raised its capital and surplus from $925,000 to $1,000,000. Executive vice president G. H. Lawhead announced the move yesterday. The rise came from transferring profits into surplus, and the bank is now permitted to make loans up to $100,000 to any one customer under federal regulations.
Five years into Henry Barnes's tenure Baltimore has rebuilt its traffic system with 25 000 work orders and a 7 million dollar program. The centerpiece is the world’s largest electronic traffic control network with 42 million dollars invested and 60 percent complete to manage over 1000 intersections by 1960. The system uses 20 computers, 14 radar detectors expanding to 32, and six minute timing cycles plus Barnes dances stopping traffic for pedestrians.
In Charleston AP dispatch Employment Security Director Henry L. Ash awaits final clearance of a federal state agreement to lengthen unemployment benefits in West Virginia. Once approved, the federal government will fund up to 12 additional weeks for jobless residents who exhausted 24 weeks, following a special legislative session.
Neil Boggs, latest information officer for the State Road Commission, has joined WSAZ-TV in Charleston as part of the news staff. The 29 year old Clay County native previously served as assistant news director at WCHS-TV and has worked as night city editor of the Charleston Gazette and with the International News Service in Atlanta and the Kansas City Star.
Marie Alice Colacione, 45, of Stonewood suburb, was found guilty by a Harrison County Criminal Court jury of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her husband 60-year-old Frank Colacione. She testified she held the gun during a silent quarrel but did not intend to kill him. Judge Arlos J. Harbert set July 19 for defense motions.
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