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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1961
Page
9
Mercer County collected 202457.29 in relief aid for June from federal and state agencies. Of this 116665 went to dependent children and 1290 individuals received grants. The Medical Aid to the Aged program accounts for 38194.99, about one fifth of the total.
Deeds filed include J H Lilly Land Co to Lewis and Thelma Ponture for lot 27 Sagamore Rock District at 800, Immanuel Lutheran Church of Bluefield to Howard and Eula Brown for lot 2 Bluefield 5500, Mercer Memorial Hospital to 75 acres Black Lick Creek near Kegley Rock District at 100, J E and Ruby Champ to Thomas D and Joyce Woodring 45 acres Princeton Ingleside Road Beaver Pond District at 2500, Nel lie Brooks to J H White and Virgie White eastern part lots 2 3 Roundhouse addition at 1500, N L and Mary White to Dana and Norma Jean Shrewsbury lot 73 North View addition Princeton at 5700. guardians and bonds: Frank Hall Jr guardian for Bernard Price 20 and 2000 bond. Harold L Miller guardian for Marshal Stuart Miller 1200 bond. W T Morton administrator of Verta J Martin estate with 2000 bond. I M Adams Kathleen Bond and P P Dye as estate appraisers.
An order dismisses as compromised and settled the case of Roy D Bowie and Lois P Bowie trading as Esther Williams Swimming Pools of Southwest Virginia Inc against Morris J Fox Roger E Budner Appalachian Motels Inc. Mercer Memorial Hospital sues Raymond V Canterbury for 440.56 dollars in circuit court.
In Stone Town Zanzibar a pro Communist mood surfaces as walls bear red roosters for the Zanzibar Nationalist Party led by Sheikh Ali Muhsin. Chinese backing funds printing and radio operations while elections due in June may reshape East Africa’s political future.
The Bertha Farmer Sunday Class of Carr Memorial Church Glenwood meets at 7 30 this evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Sam Clark on the Old Bluefield Princeton Road. Garnet Wagner conducts the devotionals and Henry Kessler presides over the business session.
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