Eight clinics and club meet slated at Health Center
Mercer County Health Center in Green Valley hosts eight clinics this week. Activities include general disease clinic today at 11 am, tuberculin skin tests, immunizations for diphtheria pertussis tetanus and smallpox, a Tuesday adolescent clinic, cardiovascular clinic Wednesday, and Friday tuberculin tests plus pediatric clinic by appointment. Kiwanis Club meets Tuesday at 6:30 pm at the clinic. Center hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm weekdays. closed weekends.
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Mercer County Health Center
Green Valley
Mercer Regional
Green Valley- Glenwood Kiwanis Club
New York Girl Wins Tchaikovsky Contest
Jame Marsh, 24, from New York City, won the Tchaikovsky international singers contest in Moscow. She received the first prize of 2750 dollars and the gold medal after study at Oberlin College.
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Moscow
Jame Marsh
New York City
Miss Marsh
Oberlin College
Ohio
Virginia Tech hosts 101 Upward Bound students
One hundred and one high school students from 11 Southwest Virginia counties and Danville will attend a six week summer program at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. The group includes 56 boys and 45 girls and comes from Carroll Craig Danville Grayson Giles Montgomery Pulaski Smyth Tazewell Floyd Washington and Wythe counties. Prof. Jack H. Williams directs the project which aims to expand educational horizons and provides ongoing counseling after completion.
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Virginia
Danville
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg
Jack H. Williams
Bland
Williams
Bland County
Carroll
Craig
Grayson
Giles
Montgomery
Pulaski
Smyth
Tazewell
Floyd
Washington
Wythe
Memorial Okay For Medicare At Princeton Memorial
Walter Campbell in Bluefield announced Princeton Memorial Hospital will be eligible to participate in Medicare starting July 1. The hospital earned eligibility from the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare after meeting criteria to ensure quality care for older patients. Campbell presented a letter of agreement to hospital administration and noted the approval followed lengthy consultations with hospital and medical care experts.
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Princeton Memorial Hospital
Walter Campbell
Social Security
Bluefield
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Campbell
Princeton Memorial
John Gardner
Poland and Red China Sign Cultural Exchange Pact
Poland and Red China sign an agreement to cooperate in culture education radio and television and exchange of students in a broad cultural pact announced from Warsaw.
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Poland
China
Warsaw
Red China
Marines Hit Strong North Vietnamese Unit Near Hue
U.S. Marines backed by artillery and air strikes battered the 212th North Vietnamese Battalion near Hue in the northern marshlands. About 300 enemy killed, Marines suffer some casualties, and fighting continued as troops dug in and pursued cave fortifications. Local Vietnamese troops seized radio gear from Hue, while Buddhist dissident Tri Quang near exhaustion after a 19 day fast.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Hue
Associated Press
Bob Gassaway
Marine Task Force Command
Tri Quang
Nguyen Cao Ky
Duy Tan
Lagion
Dean Rusk
Viet Nam
Canberra
Australia
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
U.S. Marine Division
Trang Luong
Westmoreland
Hawaii
Binh Dinh
Qui Nhon
North Viet Nam
Clock Installed by Henry VII Still Tells Time
A clock placed on London’s Tower Bridge by Henry VII about 425 years ago continues to keep time, marking a rare medieval timepiece still functioning in modern era.
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London
Tower Bridge
Henry VII
Lumber Plant Fire Smolders In Martinsburg
A major non fatal blaze at Martinsburg veneer and lumber facilities burned a veneer pile earlier and damaged adjacent Beidler Electric. Firefighters spent Saturday and Sunday cooling smoldering ruins as about 100 men battled the flames with eight injuries and one hospitalized. Officials expect damage in the hundreds of thousands with nearby offices also threatened.
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Harold Catron
Martinsburg Veneer Co
Beidler Electric Company
State Road Commission
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
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By Hank Ketchem
AF & AM
William Douglas Wooten
W.M
Robert D. Turner
Tos
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Polly
Dean Martin
Mercer
W. Va
Elizabeth Martman
Shelley Winters
Sidney Poitier
New York
Petie
Cafe Rendezvous
North
Thich
Princeton Music, Inc
Mercer St. Peton
Your Complete Music Center Sheet Music
King Leblanc Holton Band
Gibson + Harmony - Kay
Baldwin & Wurlitzer
MGW Refrigeration Company P
Princeton
Mercer County
Martinsburg
Wheby’s
Radio - TV
BGW
COLOR
Television Antenas
Motorola & Admiral
Gesundfirits
United Leuel Gas
Princeton, W. VA
Ustomers
Jumbia Gar
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