True And Actual Values Wanted By West Virginia Assessors
West Virginia assessors were urged by State Tax Commissioner John Field to set property on the books at true and actual value. The emergency meeting followed a Supreme Court ruling striking 100 percent valuation for Kanawha Bank stock, highlighting conflicts with Senate Bill 3 and annual appraisal surveys used to allocate state aid.
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Charleston
Kanawha County
State Supreme Court
John A. Field Jr
Kanawha
Field
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Supreme Court
Kanawha Valley Bank of Charleston
Tax Commissioner
House
John M. Slack Jr
Two Auto Collision Injures One in Marion Va
A two auto crash in Marion Virginia injures one person and causes about 300 dollars in damage to both vehicles. Alta P. Wilson 46 of Grant Virginia and Sam C. Brooks 44 of Marion Route 3 were involved. Wilson suffers a leg injury but is released after medical care. Both drivers face reckless driving charges and are ordered to appear in Mayors Court July 3 night.
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Marion
Willey Colley
Alta P. Wilson
Grant
Sam C. Broooks
Brooks
Wilson
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area
Obituaries report the deaths of Edna Baker Beyer in Baton Rouge and multiple local residents. The notices list survivors, relations, and funeral plans including services in Jenkinjones Pocahontas and Falls Mills with interments at Roselawn and Maple Hill Cemeteries.
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Henry T. Beyer III
William
Phillip
James Beyer
Ruth Pickering
Cleveland
Ohio
William Baker
Princeton
Roy Baker
Los Angeles
Calif
Obituary: Dillon C. Jay Jr. of South Charleston
Dillon C. Jay Jr. 48 of South Charleston died in Jackson Kentucky on Thursday after a sudden illness. He formerly lived in Bluefield and moved to Charleston about 12 years ago. He is survived by his wife Gayle B. Jay his mother D. C. Jay of Charleston one daughter Nancy Jay and one son Dillon C. Jay II. Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Simpson Chandler Funeral Home in Charleston with burial in Cunningham Memorial Park, St. Albans.
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Clyde E. Robertson
Mercer Street
Beckley VA
Joseph
Mary Guill Robertson
Ramona ‘Taylor Robertson
Joe
Ferri Leigh
Estell Addison
Blanche Blevgins
Baltimore
C. W. Hall
Jenkin Jones
Harry Pressley
Gary
Ervin James
U. S. Navy
James
Holden
Jack
Bluefield
Jenkinjones
Western Electric Company
Hawkins Funeral
Hall
Roselawn
Kenny Smith
John P. Jackson
Gene Nolley
Jim Vickers
Ray Farmer Jr
Benny Proffitt
Pocahontas Baptist Church
Roselawn Memorial Cemetery
Isom Henderson Ramsey
Pocahontas
Bluefield Sanitarium
Flora Shumate Ramsey
William Lester
Roanoke
Dennis H
U. S. Army
Ft. Belvoir
Jess
Gilbert
Jim Miller
William Hayton
Oscar Asbury
Herbert Butt
Robert Page
Luther Workman
Bill Burns
Ira Price
Ashley T. Gibson
Wharnecliff
Arizona
Linda Gibson
Joan Gibson
Janice Gibson
Katherine Gibson
Danville
Rayborn Gibson
Talmage Gibson
H. C. Gibson
Baisden
Hazel Davis
Springfield
Ohio
Levi Gibson
Beech Fork Cemetery
Adams Funeral Home
Dillon C. Jay Jr
South Charleston
Jackson
Charleston
Gayle B. Jay
D. C. Jay
Nancy Jay
Dillon C. Jay II
Simpson-Chandler Funeral Home
Cunningham Memorial Park
St. Albans
Funeral notices from Switchback Welch and Bluefield areas
Obituaries list multiple local deaths with service details. Mrs. Betty Tac ket t of Switchback and Mr George W Williams of Upland receive 2 p.m. services at local churches with interments planned. Mrs Ollie Shupe of BoisSEvain, and Tom W Booker of Welch have prayers and burials scheduled at mapped cemeteries in Bluefield and Belcher Mountain.
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Shupe
Ollie
Boissevain
Boissevain Methodist Church
Maple Hill Cemetery
Bluefield
Booker
Tom W
Welch
J. Douglas Mortuary
Belcher Mountain Cemetery
Police Seek Local Cabbie in Auto Theft Case
A 35 year old Safeway cab driver Robert Dawson and a female passenger Wilma Klinger were missing after leaving Bluefield Wednesday afternoon en route to Beckley. Police say a warrant is out for Dawson on auto theft. The pair were last heard when Dawson called about a fare to Pittsburgh worth 125 dollars. Authorities checked Pittsburgh hospitals and the homes of the woman’s parents without success.
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Safeway
Bluefield
Beckley
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Safeway Company
Robert Dawson
Wilma Klinger
Dawson
Pittsburgh
Greyhound Post House
Connellsville
R. T. Jones
Car License Offices Stay Open Late For Plate Rush
The Charleston AP reports the Department of Motor Vehicles will stay open until 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday to issue 1958-59 license plates. Commissioner Hubert A. Kelly says there will be no extension of 1957-58 tags and the office will close next Thursday evening through Monday morning for employee rest after the final rush.
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Charleston
Department of Motor Vehicles
Hubert A. Kelly
Kelly
Beer Commissioner's Office Extends Saturday Hours
Charleston AP reports the Beer Commissioner's Office will stay open until 4 30 p m Saturday to issue beer licenses for the new fiscal year starting next Tuesday. Regular Saturday close is noon.
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Charleston
Circuit Court Divorces and Custody Orders Authorization
Circuit Court orders grant divorces in multiple chancery cases with custody awards and child support payments ranging from 10 to 50 dollars weekly or monthly. Several parties resume maiden names, and deeds record real estate transfers in Princeton and Bluefield with nominal sums.
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F. Morton Wagner
Clarice Price Ray
Jarvie L. Ray
Defendent
Barnise Jeanette Shaffer
Darrell Eugene Shaffer
Vada Ruth Thompson
Paul J. Thompson
Kyle H. Thompson
Nancy Thompson
Virgil Allen Thompson
Fruit Industry Film Shown At Lions Club Luncheon
A Lions Club luncheon in Bluefield featured a film on West Coast fruit packing and shipping to eastern markets. Sam C. Douglas gave the intro, Kenneth Cole chaired his last meeting, and Kenneth Shrader was installed as the new president. The club also noted a Tag Day by Bluefield High School Band.
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Bluefield Lions Club
West Virginian
Sam C. Douglas
Kenneth Cole
Kenneth Shrader
Bluefield High School
Probers Seek Transatlantic Jet Tanker Flight Records
Brattleboro and Wright Patterson reports describe two KC135 jets setting flight time records for a transatlantic run to Brize Norton England. Planes Alpha and Brava completed London to New York legs in about 5 hours 28 minutes each. Cocoalis, the crashed craft, carried Lt Broustas with the highest logged AF hours. An identification team was dispatched from Wright Patterson AFB to process crash victims as Westover officials noted a Sunday or Monday timetable.
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Brattleboro, VI
Joseph C. Sweet
Chandler
Ariz
James E. Shipman
Kansas City
Kan
John B. Gordon
Raleigh
N.C
Donald Gabbard
Los Gatos
Fla
Joseph G. Hutter
Miami
Brize Norton Air Base
England
Air Force
National Aeronautics Assn
Royal Air Force
London
New York
Alpha
Brava
Cocoalis
C Broustas
Broustas
Pentagon
Wright Patterson Afb
Ohio
Westover
Poff Named for Fourth Term at Roanoke GOP Convention
Rep. Richard H. Poff, Roanoke attorney Richard F. Pence opposition, and Gov. Almond backing shape a high stake 6th District GOP gathering in Roanoke. Rep. Charles R. Jonas to speak. district chairman Lewis Wohlford expected to be re elected. Salem Mayor James I. Moyer to deliver keynote.
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Roanoke
Richard H. Poff
Virginia
Richard F. Pence
Poff
Almond
Poff-Pence
Pence
Congress
Ted Dalton
Charles R. Jonas
North Carolina
Puff
Eisenhower
Jonas
Washington
Lewis W. Wohiford Jr
Wohiford
James I. Moyer
Salem
Majors Named For YMCA Membership Campaign Drive
Chairman Thomas K. Bruce announced E. S. Bud Stowers Jr as major of the Blue Division and E. S. Douglas major of the Red Division for the YMCA membership enrollment drive next week. Stowers and Douglas will recruit seven teams each with captains leading them and will hold a kickoff meeting Tuesday night to receive instructions and select prospect cards.
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Thomas K. Bruce
E. S
Bud” Stowers Jr
E. S. Douglas
Y.M.C.A
Stowers and Douglas
Stowers
Jack S. Bailey
John C. Shott
William A. Looney
Arthur E. Carroll
J. R. Kemp
E. Daniel Wells Jr
Roberta Linn Improves After Respiratory Infection
Hollywood AP reports singer Roberta Linn has improved and was removed from the hospital’s critical list. She was admitted Sunday with an infection of the respiratory system.
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Hollywood
Roberta Lin
Weekend Weather Forecast For West Virginia And Virginia
The Associated Press reports fair conditions in West Virginia with highs from 75 to 80 in the east and 80s in the west. Sunday brings warmer, mostly fair weather with a chance of afternoon thundershowers in the northwest. In Virginia expect mostly sunny skies with highs 75 to 80 in the mountains and 80s elsewhere, followed by fair and warmer conditions Sunday.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Virginia
Ex-Resident's Son Named To West Point
John Markle Grimshaw 17, son of Superior Court Judge John Grimshaw and Mrs. Grimshaw of Paterson New Jersey, has received notice of appointment to West Point Military Academy. He will enter July 1 after graduating from Kentucky Military Institute on May 25 and is credited to Congressman John M Robison of Louisville for the acceptance.
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John Markle Grimshaw
Superior Court
John Grimshaw
Paterson
N. J
West Point Military Academy
Church Of God To Host Sunday Program
The Missionary Society of the Church Of God In Christ presents a program led by Elder J. E. Gibson this Sunday at 3 pm. State Mother Lucy Christian of Pittsburgh will perform numbers, with Mother Julia Ward in charge.
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the Missionary Society of the Church of God In Christ
J. E. Gibson
Lucy Christian
Pittsburgh
Julia Ward
Welch Jaycees Crown Miss Patricia Donnelly at Pageant
Welch Jaycees crowned Patricia Donnelly 19 of Welch queen of the McDowell Miss West Virginia pageant held in the Pocahontas Theatre. Donnelly, WVU sophomore, will vie in the Miss West Virginia preliminary before possibly becoming Junior Miss America. Judge panel included Mel Barnett and Howard Meadows.
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Harry Camper
Welch
W. Va
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Patricia Donnelly
William F. Donnelly
Ward Nichols
Welch Merchants
Jackie Oblinger
Whis-Tv
Johnny Vallant
Mel Barnett
Howard Meadows
Whis Radio-Tv
al Modena
Bluefield, Jaycee Organization
William Looney
Bluefield Jay
Two Civil War Vets Made Honorary RCA Members
In Atlantic City on June 27, the last two living Civil War veterans, both Confederates, were granted honorary memberships in the Reserve Officers Association of the United States. Williams served as a forager and Sallings as a drummer boy. Delegates at the 32nd annual convention approved the recommendation of the executive board, after Col. Russell S. Wolfe of Houston proposed them.
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Atlantic City
N. J
You Auto Buy Now In Bluefield Promotion Ends Tonight
Shoppers in Bluefield have until closing time to enter a drawing for an all expense-paid trip to Miami plus $100 spending money. Ten finalist tickets from participating dealers compete in a final drawing to be announced on WHIS-TV and Reporter Jim Dalton.
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Bluefield
Florida
Miami
Whis-Tv
Channel 6
Daily Telegraph
Jim Dalton
W. E. DeMoss
Everglades Hotel
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Rey
H. T. Beyer
Henry T. Beyer
Baton Rouge
Barton Baker
Salvation Army
Aaron Dane Rolen
Orrin M. Rolen
Falls Mills Road
Reginald
Ronald
Ocie Rolen
James Neal
Falls Mills
Clarence E. Smoot
Dudley Memorial Mortuary Chapel
Maple Hill
Elmer
R. W
Ray Rolen
Ward Blankenship
Earl Blankenship
Herbert Taylor
Charlie Taylor
Almeda Clendenin
Mary Blankenship
Nannie Blankenship
Georgie Blankenship
Nannie Taylor
Arlene Hale
Bessie
Delores
Roxy Rolen
George W. Finney
Allen Junction
Wyoming County
Foglesong-Robinson Funeral Home
Tackett
Robert A
Switchback
Maybeury Church of God
Brush Fork
Williams
George W
Upland
Upland - Powhatan Methodist Church
Woodlawn
Coy Ray Taylor
Loretta Mildred Taylor
Billie Jean Woodyard
John Oliver Woodyard
Lusk
Mary Ruth Taylor
Joe Daniel Taylor
Dickason
Paul Everett Pennington
Bernice Juanita Pennington
Barbara Sue Hale
W. E. Copenhaver
LeRoy Hale II
Copenhaver
Charlie S. Roaten
Janet Roaten
Lions Meet
Probers
Chicago
Beaver High School
Lions Club
Joyce Wiley
Linda Brooks
Joyce Warner
Emilie Davidson
Donna Morris
Lillian Akers
Brenda Brooks
Linda
YMCA
Roberta Linn
Albany
Atlanta
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Buffalo
Boston
Cincinnati
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fort Worth
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
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Portland, Mo
Richmond
San Diego
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Seattle
Tampa
Winnipeg
West Point
Church of God Will Present
Virginia AvenUe
Bluefield, Virginia
Welch Jaycees Stage
Norma Jean Linkous
Nancy Smith
Doris Jean Willoughby
Northfork
Robbie Jean Spry
Bradshaw
Marshall College
Nancy Marie Hughes
Pageton
Mary Helen Banks
Alice Wilkinson
Coalwood
RCA
Weather Cooperates
Weatherman
Bluefield Auto Dealers Association
The
Electro Lab Inc
Leatherwood Company
General Electric
Admiral
Hoffmen
V.M. Hi Fi Record PLC
Big L
North St. Bluefield
South Bluefield
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