West Virginia GOP women hear attacks on Kennedy era record
Mrs Dorothy Elston of Delaware labeled Kennedy as misused and abused West Virginia in 1960 at the Fifth District meeting of the West Virginia Federation of Republican Women held at the West Virginia Hotel. J Strother Crockett and Joseph G Neal spoke on grassroots momentum and mobilization efforts in districts statewide.
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Kennedy
West
West Virginia
Dorothy Elston
Middletown
Del
National Federation of American Women
Bronx
New York
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
South Charleston
Welch
Martinsburg
Delaware
Mobile
Ala
Neal
Harold Neely
GOP
Republican Party
Fifth Congressional District
Virginia Federation of Republican Women
Sam Buckson
Elston
E. E. Jones
Bluefield
Republican State Executive Committee
Strother Crockett
House of Representatives
J. A. Granger
Republican Woman's Club
Joseph G. Neal
Huntington
W. Va
M.O.R.E
Ruth Tilson
Alderson Man Hurt In Fall From Tree
Roy Hunter, 45, of Alderson was taken to Bluefield Sanitarium in serious condition after falling about 20 feet from a cherry tree. He was reported in the tree Monday morning and underwent surgery at midnight.
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Roy Hunter
Alderson
Bluefield Sanitarium
Hunter
Airline services begin at New River Valley Airport
Commercial airline service started at the New River Valley Airport in Dublin Virginia when two passengers boarded a Piedmont Airlines flight to Cincinnati The airport built by eight localities at a cost of nearly 1 million dollars will be served by five Piedmont flights daily.
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Dublin
New River Valley
Piedmont
Cincinnati
Graham High School Class of 1952 Reunion Plan
A meeting of the Graham High School Class of 1952 will be held at the town hall in Bluefield Virginia Thursday night at 7 30 for final arrangements for the class reunion to be held on July 7.
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Graham High School
Town Hall
Bluefield
Sheriff Blasts City Over Longstanding Vice in Bluefield
Sheriff E D Bazzie accuses Bluefield city government of tolerating vice and gambling for 25 to 30 years after an arrest case. He calls for cleanup and holds the city responsible for on going problems.
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Cregger
Bivens
Bazzie
City
E. D. Bazzie
Mercer County
Bluefield
Birchisia Daily and Sunday Contact Lineups
Local newspaper masthead text presents credits and contact details for Birchisia Daily and Sunday. It lists Associated Press attribution, circulation auditing, advertising representation by Kaw Agency, and a phone number.
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Peetenes
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield and Gratton areas
Obituaries for Mrs. Eula B. Puckett Russell 55 and Jesse Perkins Bourne 71 note services in Bluefield and Gratton with relatives in multiple Virginia and Ohio cities. Also listed are Arlene Mae Brown 62, Virginia Cunningham 70, Alpha O Quilln 25, and other survivors, with funeral details.
Obituary notices for Estep and Smith in Grundy area
Joseph William Estep 54 of Roseann Virginia died Sunday morning in Richmond heart attack. Survived by wife Gladys Crutchfield Estep son Wayne D. Estep five sisters and parents Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Estep. Body moved to Floyd Estep residence Kelsa with arrangements incomplete. Pearl L Smith Beckley Road Princeton died Monday morning in Beckley hospital. Brought to Lugo’s Funeral Service with arrangements to be announced.
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Alpha O’quinn
Curtis O’quinn
Prater
Grundy
Dora Boyd
Bobby Boyd
Evans Bailey
Dolphus Blankenship
John Hess
Boyd Cemetery
Virginia Funeral Home
Joseph William Estep
Roseann
Richmond
Matthew Estep
Kelso
Gladys Crutchfield Estep
Wayne D. Estep
Trenton
Mich
Lilly Estep
Lassie Step
Kelsa
Pearl Thommen
Blanche Lester
Pearl L. Smith
Beckley ‘Road
Princeton
Beckley Hospital
Lugo
Funerals announced for local residents in three towns
Eva Jane Wood of Camp Creek will be laid to rest Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Primitive Baptist Church with burial at Fairview Cemetery. Harvey Edward Sheiler of Princeton at 11 a.m. in George W. Seaver Chapel with burial at Monte Vista Park Cemetery and pallbearers named. Cleveland S. Fowler Jr. of Bluefield to be interred Tuesday at Bratton Memorial Chapel. Johnson Ray of Pocahontas to be buried at Bryant Memorial Cemetery with Bramwell lodge graveside rites.
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Eula B. Puckett Russell
Ervin Smith Russell
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
St. Luke's
Cleveland
John F
Elizabeth Honaker Puckett
Springville Christian Church
Order of Eastern Star
Bluefield
Hattie Elizabeth Russell
Walter Brown
Richlands
J. W. Eaton
R. H. Odell
Clovis H
Charles R. Puckett
Donald S
Jess E. Puckett
Dudley Memorial Chapel
Charles Sublette
Keith Auvil
Richard Arnold
Grandview Memory Gardens
Robert J
Bill Scott
George Bowling
Tommy Ringsatff
Glenn Tabor
Pat French
Gordon Mattox
Charlie Summers
Wright Valley Methodist Church
Friens
Virginia Cunningham
Princeton
Huntington
Burns Wornal
Norman G. Crawford
Williamson Cemetery
Ray Cunningham
Pikeville
Albritton Beasley
Cloyd Parker
Itmann
Bert Sloan
Conway, Ark
E. L. Moore
Roanoke
W. T. Aliff
Oak Hill
Wood
Eva Jane
Camp Creek
Primitive Baptist Church
Fairview
Bailey Funeral Hiome
N and W Reports Best Coal Week in Months
Roanoke Virginia AP Norfolk and Western Rail Way moved 25 779 cars of coal last week the strongest figure since 25 975 hauled the week ending November 18. The week beat 23 453 the prior week and 24 830 in the same week last year. Daily totals were 4389 5132 5160 5077 4671 and 1350.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway
Lugo Slightly Hurt In Ambulance Wreck Near Camp Creek
Earl T. Lugo of Bluefield suffered slight injuries to his hands when his ambulance wrecked on Flat Top mountain near Camp Creek. He said brakes locked in a curve, the vehicle hit an embankment and overturned. the ambulance was almost totally destroyed.
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Earl T. Lugo
Bluefield Funeral Directory
Flat Top Mountain
Camp Creek
Lugo
Public Schools May Not Prescribe Official Prayers
Black argues government lacks power to prescribe prayer in public schools and urges leaving religious guidance to individuals and communities. Justice Douglas concurs that the First Amendment requires government neutrality toward religion, protecting nonbelievers’ rights to their own beliefs.
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Black
William C. Douglas
Bluefield considers annexation benefits and costs for Double Gates
Council discussed annexing the 119 home Double Gates area to Bluefield Virginia. Estimates show sewer and water lines and street work totaling about 113 thousand dollars with annual garbage and lighting costs. If annexed residents would gain fire protection street lighting snow removal and FHA loan access.
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Earl Perry
Double Gates
Bluefield
W. N. Lambert
Man Fined Following Traffic Accident
Jessee Eugene West of Bluefield Virginia was fined 50 dollars for drunk driving and 100 dollars for hit and run and given a 24 hour jail sentence after a hearing before Squire Jim Belcher in Princeton Monday. The two car collision Sunday at 7 pm at Cumberland Road and Jefferson Street injured two people. Billy F Moore 27 Bluefield driver of the other car remained in fair condition at Bluefield Sanitarium with his wife treated and released.
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Jessee Eugene West
Bluefield
Squire Jim Belcher
Princeton
West
Cumberland Road
Jefferson Street
Bluefield Sanitarium
Billy F. Moore
Tauver Named President of Virginia Exchange Club
William E. Tauver of Winchester was named president of the Exchange Club of Virginia in Norfolk Virginia. The appointment comes as Tauver takes lead of the civic service group headquartered in Norfolk.
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Norfolk, Va
William E. Tauver
Winchester
Exchange Club of Virginia
Blackout Hits The Midlands
A major regional power outage affected Davenport Iowa to Kansas, lasting about two hours. Omaha and surrounding areas faced two hours without power while Strategic Air Command maintained operations. Officials cited a north Omaha plant issue and switching at Ft. Randall as causes in a cascading failure across NPPS OPPD and several utility interconnections.
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Omaha
Neb
Midlands
Davenport
Iowa
Nebraska
Ft. Randall
Missouri River
Lake Andes
S.D
Kansas
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Dewey J. de Boer
Executiv
Nebraska Pub Power System
Columbus
North Omaha
Omaha Public Power District
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Ft. Thompson
de Boer
NPPS
OPPD
Bureau of Reclamation
Iowa Public Service Co
Iowa Power and Light Co
Kansas Gas and Electric Co
Ashworth Church To Hold Youth Camp
Ashworth Memorial Methodist Church of Matoaka will run a day camp for junior high youths at Camp Creek State Forest in Mercer County from June 25 to June 29. Cars will depart the church at 9 a.m. daily as participants travel to the site. Rev. Ralph Thompson and Mrs. Claude Blankenship lead the camp.
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Ashworth Memorial Methodist Church
Matoaka
Camp Creek State Forest
Mercer County
Ralph Thompson
Claude Blankenship
Lackey Is Chosen Rotary President
Leonard Lackey of Kimball has been elected president of the Kimball Rotary Club succeeding John Gianto. Gianto presided at the final meeting of the fiscal year during a Ladies Night dinner at the Cow Shed in Pineville last week.
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Leonard Lackey
Kimball
Kimball Rotary Club
John Gianto
Pineville
Barksdale and Myers Named Democratic Campaign Co Directors
In West Virginia the Democratic campaign will be led jointly by J Howard Myers and A Barksdale Jr chosen at a Monday strategy meeting after the coal conference Barksdale editor of Sun set News Observer Princeton Myers longtime WV State Senate clerk and former Democratic State chairman Clarence C Elmore named assistant to the pair Approval came from WV Democratic Congressional delegation signaling the campaign start.
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Washington
West Virginia
J. Howard Myers
Barksdale Jr
Barksdale
Sunset News-Observer
Princeton
Myers
West Virginia State Senate
Clarence C. Elmore
Graham Elementary Opens Registration Week in Bluefield
Graham Elementary School in Bluefield Virginia will register new pupils the week of June 25 to 29. Principal W R Louthan announced that Virginia side students in grades one through seven who have not previously enrolled should register. Birth certificates and immunization records must be shown during registration.
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Graham
Bluefield
W. R. Louthan
Subpoenas Reach Major U S Steel Firms In Price Probe
U S Steel says the Justice Department issued subpoenas for executive telephone numbers and expense account data back to June 1961. Bethlehem Steel Jones & Laughlin Wheeling Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube also cited. Grand jury investigation into steel price increases follows.
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New York
US. Steel Corp
Justice Department
U.S. Steel
Dow-Jones Business News Service
Pittsburgh
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Wheeling Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Corp
Steel
Dow Jones
Bethlehem
Jones & Laughlin
Washington
Lee Loevinger
Antitrust Division
Feder
Newark
Littlesburg Church Holds Revival Along Route 20
Littlesburg Holiness Church conducts a revival meeting nightly at 7 30 ongoing until further notice. The event is held on Route 20 between Princeton and Bluewell with church spokesmen confirming details.
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Littlesburg
Route 20
Princeton
Bluewell
Richard Sayer Enrolls At Hargrave Military Academy
Richard Sayer a 15 year old son of A S and Mrs Sayer of Saeger McDowell County has enrolled for the summer term studies at Hargrave Military Academy Chat ham Va
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Richard Sayer
A. S
Mrs. Sayer
Saeger
McDowell County
Hargrave Military Academy
Chatham
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U.S. Weather Bureau
New England
Rocky Mountains
Pacific
Pacific Northwest
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Eula P. Russell
Jesse P. Bourne
Jesse Perkins Bourne
Gratton
Mount Olivet Church
James C
Ora Virginia Bourne
Hattie Hagy Bourne
James Osborne
George Etter
Kermit C
George C
James C. Bourne
Arnold W. Bourne
Rocky Gap
Myrtle Eberling
Ohio
George
Grat
Marshall
Arthur
Reece Bourne
T. T. Bourne
Poolesville
Bdy
Greever Funeral Home
Tazewell
Robert Et‘ter
Howard Bourne
Hugh Cox
James Sumner
Foster Vance
Forrest Neel
Frank Catron
George Young
Mrs
Arlene Brown
Arlene Mae Brown
Tracy Brown
Lashmeet
Abraham
Raleigh County
Jeff and
Rosetta Pugh
David Brown
Painesville
Chester Brown
Chicago
Eunice Fine
Beulah Haga
Washington, D. C
Joyce King
Greenbank
William Pugh
Beckley
Allie Bukland
Piney Harrah
Backus
Laura Ward
Kilsyth
J. H. McGuire
Bethel Freewill Baptist Church
MacArthur
Gilby Huffman
Blue Ridge Memorial Park
Prosperity
Mrs. Cunningham
Alpha O'Quinn
Joseph Estep
Roller Floral Co
Bland
N&w
State
Federal
Angie
Dickinson
Jessie
Granada
Federal Housing Administration
Crockett Hughes
Lambert
Perry
George Crabtree
Ryland R. Weisiger
Charlottesville
Camp Joy
Water Department
League of Virginia Municipalities
Futher
Seis
Rod
Ashworth Church
Lackey
Rotary
Sandra Dee Lue
Otras
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Paneer
Re'vasen
Thew United
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Ap Sig
The
P.T.A
Fairmont Foods Co
Bkews Yodey—Decors
Jimmie Rodgers
Luaeea PATTEN ‘chin Wille _ Linde Mutebingo
Steel Records
U.S
Hargrave
H. Robb French
Glenwood Park
D. W. Fossit
D.S.T. Childrens
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