Conventions Set in Two Southwest Virginia Towns
Republicans meet at Gate City to nominate for the state senate with Glen Williams and Dr. Dan Gabriel as contenders to succeed Roy Lee Wolfe Jr. Democrats gather in Abingdon for Bristol and Washington Smyth districts with Bradley Roberts the sole announced candidate to replace Stuart Carter. Incumbent Sen Tom Phillips faces little opposition.
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Associated Press
Senate
Virginia
Gate City
Scott and
Lee Counties
Scott County Court House
Roy Lee Wolfe Jr
Wolfe
Glen Williams
Jonesville
Dan Gabriel
St. Charles
Williams
Gabriel
Lee County
Scott County
Commonwealth
Hagen Richmond
Abingdon
Bristol City
Washington
Smyth Counties
Washington County Court House
del. Stuart Carter
Bristol
Washington County
Carter
Bradley Roberts
Roberts
Smyth County
Tom Phillips
Spending Units Get Notice On Deadline For Debt Payments
Charleston(AP) Auditor Edgar B. Sims and Henry L. Ash, state finance head, issued a memo to spending units on deadlines for payment of 1955 59 funds. Warrants on unexpended portions may be drawn until July if expiring June 9. Invoices must be presented before July 30 with certification of received materials. Departments urged to submit early and no later than July 25 due to check processing. Special consideration for labor and materials bought through contract for repair and alteration.
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Charleston
Edgar B. Sims
Henry L. Ash
Ash
Sims
Hinton Man Named To Hospital Post
Ralph Steele, longtime business manager at Weston State Hospital, will become supervisor of administration in the state Mental Health Department. Homer C. Ellison of Hinton will take over as Steele’s successor at Weston, starting July 15, with Steele remaining in place until then. Emil Baldwin of Huntington State Hospital will transfer to Spencer State Hospital as business manager next Monday.
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Huntington State Hospital
Spencer State Hospital
Baldwin
Huntington
Weston State Hospital
More Sows in West Virginia Produce Larger Litters
Charleston AP reports West Virginia sow farrowings reached 13 000 in spring up from 11 000 last year. Virginia posted a 93 000 head spring pig crop up 21 percent from 81 000 in 1958. The 1959 WV spring crop averaged 7 pigs per litter, a state record and third highest in the nation.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Federal
Virginia
Funeral notices and obituaries from region’s churches
Services for Mrs. Melinda Hair Hairston are conducted at Mount Calvary Baptist with interment in Oakwood Cemetery Princeton. Survivors include her mother Susan Chappell Washington and husband Robert Hairston plus two daughters and three grandchildren. Other Obits note Jease Gillespie of Bluefield Virginia Side merchant. Mary Walker of Hemphill. Bessie Sink of Wellsburg. Loyd Cumby of Falls Mills. Stuart Campbell of Bland Street Church area. Interments follow at Maple Hill Oak Grove Monte Vista Roselawn and local cemeteries.
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Melinda Hair
T. E. Stevens
Oakwood
Princeton
Hairston
Lewis and
Susan ‘Washington Chappell
Mercer County
Usher Board
Willing ‘Workers Club
Mount Calvary Baptist Church
Susan Chappell Washington
Robert Hairston
Multiple Obituaries Notice Read In One Fragmented Roll
John Hypes Taylor four year old son of Mr and Mrs Robert Taylor of Abbs Valley Va died early Thursday evening in Clinch ae Clinic after admit Funeral services will be Sunday at the Abbs Valley Mission at 2 p m with Rev Oden Lockhart in charge Interment in Harman Cemetery Abbs Valley Body to the home of Buford Hypes Abbs Valley today from Pocahontas Union Funeral Home Mrs Louis Riedel of Portland Ore former Bluefield resident died Thursday in a Portland hospital Survivors include husband three sons Junior Dick and Don Riedel two daughters Pat and Mary Lou Riedel of Portland and several relatives Funeral service today 2 30 p m at Bantins Mortuary Chapel Portland with interment in Portland John H Epling 89 of Narrows Va died Thursday in Dublin Va native of Giles County lived in Monroe County Survivors include half brother Charles Epling Rich Creek Va half sister Mrs Rose Medley Kire Va funeral conducted today at 1 p m Fairview Christian Church Keenan burial in church The body at Broyles Funeral Home Unico Pallbearers Francis Paul Roy Epling Kent Medley Clifton Francis Rice Marko Pietsa 73 Bluewell died Friday cousin John Pietsa McComas funeral Cra vens Montcalm burial Woodlawn Cemetery Pallbearers John Evan Bob George Shoda Tony Zelotz John Begovich Jack Shudina Vjeko Rinzich
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Jease
Gilesper
Tazewell Avenue
Bluefield
Virginia
Graham Christian Church
Clarence Smoot
Ernest Worrell
Maple Hill
J. Grat
Sallie A. McMullin Gillespie
Springville
U. S. Navy
Graham Christain Church
Graham Kiwanis Club
Harman Lodge No
Af&am
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Ben Bates
Sutter Davidson
Hudson Huffard
Barnes Gillespie
Bus McNeer
Paul Trenton
Jimmy Barnett
Judge V. L. Sexton Jr
The
Missionary Society of the Church
Mary Walker
Hemp‘hill
Welch
Halifax
Hemphill
F. M. Walker
Mount Grove Baptist Church
Church Missionary Society
Page Funeral Home
Bessie Dorton Sink
Wellsburg
M. C. McNeal
Tazewell
McNeal
Sink’s
Regis M. Sluss
John Hypes Taylor
Robert Taylor
Abbs Valley
Clinch Ae
Eva
Finna
Mary
Shirley
Joan Taylor
Robert
Eugene Taylor
Annie Mae Hypes
Abbs Valley Mission
Oden Lockhart
Harman Cemetery
Buford Hypes
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Louis Riedel
Portland
Ore
N. E. Hombort Street
Imperial Ice Cream Company
Junior
Don Riedel
Pat
Mary Lou Riedel
Bantin
John H. Epling
Narrows
Dublin
Giles County
Monroe County
Charles Epling
Rich Creek
Rose Medley
Kire
Fairview Christian Church
Keenan
Church
Broyles Funeral Home
Unico
Francis, Paul
Roy Epling
Kent Medley
Clifton and
Francis Rice
Marko Pietsa
Bluewell
Yugoslavia
John Pietsa
McComas
Cravens
Montcalm
Woodlawn
John
Evan
Bob
George Shoda
Tony Zelotz
John Begovich
Jack Shudina
Vjeko Rinzich
Elbert Hurst 83 Charleston Funeral Held in Union
Elbert Hurst 83 of Charleston died Thursday in a Sweet Springs area hospital. He was a Baptist and survived by daughter Audrey Henderson South Charleston son G F Hurst Charleston brother Abbett Hurst Charleston and two grandchildren. Funeral conducted today at 4 p m at Broyles Funeral Home Union with burial in Green Hill Cemetery.
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Elbert Hurst
Charleston
Sweet Springs
The
Baptist Church
Audrey Henderson
South Charleston
G. F. Hurst
Abbett Hurst
Broyles Funeral Home
Union
Green Hill Cemetery
Funerals for Peters Clark Dial Gunter Held Today
Obituaries list services for Mrs. Peters 76 Union at Union Methodist Church with interment at Green Hill Cemetery. William McK Dial 60 Bartley at Bartley Baptist Church with Hartwell Cemetery interment. Robert Gunter 59 Kyle to be reflected at Kennett Funeral Chapel Northfork and IOOF Cemetery Ivanhoe Virginia.
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Clark
Union
Union Methodist Church
Green Hill Cemetery
Dial
William McK
Bartley
Bartley Baptist Church
Hartwell Cemetery
Gunter
Robert
Kyle
Ennett Funeral
Northfork
Ioof
Ivanhoe
Orioles Field Chief Speaks To Lions Club
The Bluefield Orioles field manager Bob Hooper spoke at the Lions Club luncheon at the West Virginian Hotel. A former major league star with the Indians and Athletics, he praised the team’s potential as greater than last season citing stronger infield and power but voiced caution about pitching.
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Bluefield Oriole
Bob Hooper
Lions Club
West Virginian
Hooper
Cleveland Indians
Philadelphia Athletics
Bill Bivens
Orioles
UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjold Heads to Europe
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold departed by plane on Friday for a brief trip. He will spend a few days at his summer residence in Sweden before traveling to Cairo and Geneva.
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New York
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Sweden
Cairo
Geneva
Moody Urges Coal To Fight For Market Share
Joseph E. Moody president of the National Coal Policy Conference urged the coal industry to push back against federal policies. Speaking at the American Coal Sales Assn. meeting in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia he called for a national fuels policy to conserve energy and bolster national security. He criticized imported oil and gas for unfair competition and warned coal must win its fair share of expanding markets.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Joseph E. Moody
National Coal Policy Conference
Moody
Washington
United Mine Workers Union
29 Charlottesville Negroes Seek Entry Into White Schools
Charlottesville VA Twenty nine Negroes previously assigned to Negro schools have asked the city school board to place them in white schools. Superintendent Fendall R Ellis said actions on the requests will occur next week and that names of admitted students will be made public then. The board received the applications on the final day allowed by the court approved plan for appeals. Earlier 11 Negroes were admitted to all white schools for September nine to Venable Elementary and two to Lane High School. Most applications were mailed and many used forms from the NAACP.
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Charlottesville
Fendall R. Ellis
Venable
Lane High School
Ellis
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Pike Sets Record With Ten Thousand Trucks In Week
The West Virginia Turnpike logged 10 000 trucks in one week for the first time since it opened in 1953. Through the week ending Wednesday, truck traffic rose 15 percent this year versus last year and toll-road revenue from trucks increased 18 percent. Last week’s total revenue from all vehicles was 84 900 dollars, the fifth largest since opening. The all-time weekly high is 93 099 dollars in the week ending July 3, 1957.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Body Of Ohio Man Found In River
The body of Donald Phillips, 30, of Crown City, Ohio, was found in the Ohio River about three miles south of where his clothing was located earlier. He had been missing since Tuesday night. The coroner ruled the death a self infliction. Phillips' family testified he had been despondent.
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Huntington
Donald Phillips
Crown City
Ohio
Phillips
West Virginia
Robert 5. Barrett
Cabell County
Committee Formed to Fight Auto Thefts in Buenos Aires
A defense committee against auto thefts has been formed in Buenos Aires with car dealers, insurance men, and the auto club alarmed by rising thefts. A U.S.-built new car sells here for about $10,000.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Auto Club
Princeton Youth Waives Hearing On Armed Robbery Charge
Randall Thompson an 18 year old described as a Navy deserter from Corpus Christi Texas waived preliminary hearing and was held for grand jury action on armed robbery and burglary charges. He allegedly burglarized a Hall s Ridge Road residence and robbed Shrewsbury Texaco Service Station at Thorn Street about 1 40 a m Friday. Police recovered the gun used and the money with officers including Dyer Thorn Hedrick Crotty Pettrey Kessinger Jewel involved.
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Princeton
U. S. Navy
Randall Thompson
Navy
Corpus Christi
Texas
Hall
Ridge Road
Larry Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury
Texaco
Thorn Street
Hall’s Ridge
W. R. Dyer
Joe Thorn
W. R. Hedrick
Jack Crotty
Jay Pettrey
Don Kessinger
Jand Railway
T. R. Jewel
Harrison Urges Grass Roots Backing for Anti Court Bill
Virginia Attorney General A B Harrison Jr urged grass roots support for Rep. Howard W. Smith’s bill to curb the U S Supreme Court. He told the accountants society of Virginia the measure would curb preemption doctrine used by Congress and the court. He said his disagreement is with the decisions, not the Supreme Court, and noted the bill has passed the House and moves to the Senate.
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Roanoke
Virginia
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
U. S. Supreme Court
Harrison Jr
The
Accountants Society of Virginia
Smith
Congress
Supreme Court
House
Senate
Harrison
Accountants
American Missile Program Criticized in WV VFW Speech
Martinsburg AP A reserve Army officer criticized United States missiles and the lack of unified effort across armed services in a Friday speech to the West Virginia Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Lt Col Ben Hechler of Huntington urged a strong national defense to preserve freedom. T. C. Connell of Killeen Texas was the main speaker. Lowery of Weirton present senior.
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Martinsburg
America
West Virginia
Khrushchev to Meet Kekkonen Before Finland Trip
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will hold a full day of private talks with Finnish President Urho Kekkonen in Helsinki before starting a formal three day visit in August. The session signals a preparatory phase for the state trip.
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Helsinki
Finland
Nikita Khrushchev
Urho Kekkonen
Weekend Weather Forecast West Virginia and Virginia
West Virginia will be partly cloudy and very warm with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers on Saturday. Highs 86 to 92 statewide, 78 to 85 in the mountains. Sunday remains warm and humid with more afternoon storms. Virginia trends variable clouds and very hot humid conditions with scattered thundershowers Saturday and Sunday, highs 90 to 95 inland, 85 along mountains and coast.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Four Nominees Named For West Virginia Journalism Hall
Martinsburg editor Gilbert McKown announced four nominees for the state journalism hall of fame. Nominees include John Alburtis who founded the Berkeley Intelligencer in Martinsburg, Charles Burdette Hart former editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer, William H. Barger founder of the Keyser Mountain Echo and Mineral Daily News, and Calvin W. Price longtime editor Times. Ballots will be distributed soon with two inductees to be chosen for the biennial honor at the WVPA fall meeting in Fairmont.
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Martinsburg
West Virginia Journalism Hall of Fame
Gilbert C. McKown
Martinsburg Journal
West Virginia Press Assn
McKown
WVPA
Fairmont
John Alburtis
Berkeley Intelligencer
Eastern Panhandle
Charles Burdette Hart
Wheeling Intelligencer
William H. Barger
Keyser Mountain Echo
Mineral Daily News
Keyser
Calvin W. Price
Times
Plane Crash Near Milan Kills Mixed Group of Foreigners
In a night crash near Malpensa Airport in northern Italy, a jetliner struck in rain as disaster crews battled flames for hours. Among the dead were Americans and Italians with French British Egyptian and Chilean nationals. Cardinal Monini offered absolution at the scene as searchlights revealed toys and wreckage scattered amid twisted metal. The plane had reported reaching 10 000 feet before the loss of contact en route from Milan to Paris and then to Chicago O'Hare.
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Giovanni Battista Cardinal Monini
Milan
Malpensa
Paris
Atlantic
O'Hare
Chicago
IWA
Alps
Soviet Diplomat Granted Refuge in U S Embassy Rangoon
In Rangoon Burma a 27 year old Soviet information officer Alexander Ureviteh Kaznacheev sought asylum and was granted refuge in the U S Embassy after disillusionment with communism He asked for contact with the U S Embassy and arrangements were made to fly him out of Burma The case follows another sensational Soviet embassy incident last May involving Col Michail I Strygine who tried to take his life and was returned to Moscow
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Rangoon
Burma
U.S
Alexander Ureviteh Kaznacheev
Moscow
International Affairs Institute
U.S. Information Service
Kaznacheev
Michail I. Strygine
Strygaine
Coeburn Man Dies After Car Mishap
Coeburn Virginia Joe Darrell Pridemore 209 died Friday from injuries after a non collision accident Wednesday. He was a passenger in a car driven by Raymond Meade of rural Coeburn. The wreck happened about four miles north of Cranes Nest Wise County on Route 649.
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Coeburn
Joe Darrell Pridemore
Pridemore
Raymond €. Meade
Cranes Nest
Wise County
Capital Route Recommended for I 64 Through Charleston
Engineering study favors a 19.63 mile I 64 corridor from Nitro to the West Virginia Turnpike east of Charleston. Cost estimated at 86.27 million versus 56.12 million for a Charleston bypass. Route includes eight lane Charleston segment and a new Kanawha River bridge near 36th Street. Public hearing eyed for late summer or early fall before federal review.
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Charleston
Nitro
West Virginia Turnpike
Vogt, Ivers
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Turnpike
Institute and Dunbar
Kanawha River
36Th Street
Kanawha City Bridge
Reed
4-H Short Course Concludes At Virginia Tech
Officers for the 1960 4-H short course and the 4-H All Star group were elected Friday as the annual event closed at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Sue Mustard of Tazewell County was elected first vice president. A share the fun program Friday night wrapped up the activities.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Sue Mustard
Tazewell County
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Southwest Virginia
Hinton
Mrs
Melinda Hairston
Gillespie
Bessie D. Sink
L. E. Cumby
Loyd Easley Cumby
Falls Mills
Falls Mills Christian
C. H. Patterson
Monroe Dodson
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Glen Brewer
Clarence Compton
Ernest Bowman
Junior Fletcher
Charles Cumby
Garnet Bowling
Carl Janutelo
Jimmy Farr
Buster Bryant
Louie Hall
Frank Moore
Alvin Janutolo
Edward Shrewsbury
Tommie Stevens
W. Campbell
Stuart W. Campbell
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
Clyde Hensley
Bland Street Methodist Church
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Dewey Miller
Garland H. Jones
Lennie Compton
C. E. Hammer
A. K. Penn
N. H. Mulkey
W. 8. Kirkpatrick and W. C. Ramey. Members of the Mrs. Bernard's Circle
Bland Street Church
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Mt. Zion Church
Bowen Land Auction Co
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