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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1959
Page
10
Weekly bridge questions present South hands and bidding sequences with vulnerable and nonvulnerable scenarios. Readers are invited to provide optimal bids for each described hand, with answers promised on Monday.
The letters discuss marital strain from a wife tired of a paralyzed husband not contributing, a reader’s question about dating teens and budgeting, and a response advising the husband to become useful and a suggestion to handle a dinner bill by asking to charge until tomorrow.
A Kentucky family backs away from unnecessary injections after a son nearly dies following a penicillin shot. The column cites a Journal of the American Medical Association follow up on fatal reactions and urges doctors and patients to avoid nonessential use, favor desensitization when needed, and rely on physician judgment.
In Liverpool the 11,000-ton liner Apapa sails for a West African cruise after 75 African seamen including the service staff go on strike before embarkation. Passengers take over chores as the crew protests.
The Public Service Commission studied a South Penn Natural Gas Co petition to raise annual revenue by $36 650 affecting about 3 800 customers across 23 West Virginia counties. Testimony claimed a 1958 operating deficiency near $30 000 and a 64 percent return for 1957. The proposed raise adds 69 cents monthly for the average residential customer with a $1 minimum kept and seven cent per 1 000 cubic feet increases in three steps.
Two California businessmen were injured when their single engine plane crashed while attempting an emergency landing in a meadow east of Elkins. Pilot Gunnar Sondeno of Hollister suffered a right arm injury and passenger Walter Hansen of Sacramento sustained a severe back injury.
Fragmentary ad copy offers needlecraft patterns with 6 by 17 inch motifs and several variations. It mentions a 35 cent price plus 5 cents per additional pattern and directs readers to send payment to a New York post box. The text references Laura Wheeler Needlecraft and a Chelsea Station mailing address.
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