Camp Joy to host Scott Litton Day Open House
Salvation Army Camp Joy in the valley near Oakvale Road hosts an open house Sunday from 2 to 7 p.m. honoring Scott Litton for decades of promoting Camp Joy. Major Robert Boyce credits Litton with pushing for a better camp setting and turning the Lannondale pool area into today’s camp with Ladies Auxiliary hosting tours and 2:30 p.m. ceremonies.
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Salvation Army
Camp Joy
Scott Litton
Robert Boyce
Littton
Oakvale Road
Litton
Lannondale Pool
Strawberry Queen To Be Crowned At Bluefield Festival
The Strawberry Festival will crown the Strawberry Queen on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Appalachian Auditorium Bluefield West Virginia. Sponsored by Scott Street Baptist Church Helping Hand Circle the event supports girls attending summer camp with no admission charge.
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Appalachian Auditorium
Bluefield
W. Va
Scott St
Army awards $1.50 million air transporter contract
A $1,498,948 Army contract was awarded to Gichner Mobile Systems Inc of Berkeley Springs West Virginia for 177 air mobile transporters. Officials said the work would be done in Berkeley Springs.
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Washington
Gichner Mobile Systems, Inc
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
ICC urges immediate Penn Central merger clearance
The Interstate Commerce Commission petitioned a New York federal court to allow the Penn Central merger of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads to proceed now. It opposed delaying the deal to await a court ruling on three smaller eastern lines Erie Lackawanna Boston & Maine and Delaware & Hudson.
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N&w
ICC
Norfolk & Western
Penn Central
Erie
Lackawanna
Boston & Maine
Delaware & Hudson
Supreme Court
Penn and Central
Justice Department
SCC
Commission
Robert W. Ginnane
New York
Chesapeake
Low bids totaling over 1 million on 21 highway projects
Apparent low bids totaling 1,029,804.91 were received for 21 highway repaving and improvement projects in 19 counties. The SRC reported 20 projects involve 11223 miles of resurfacing, with the year’s contract settings dogged by bids totaling about 29 million.
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Charleston
State Road Commission
SRC
Mcdowell
Welch, Virginia State Line
U. S. 52
Break-in at Champaign Home Steals $197 Value
Police report a break in at Robert Wachel’s Champaign residence with intruder removing an aluminum screen door. Stolen items total $197 including a $100 chain and $10 in pennies.
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Champaign
Robert Wachel
BSC Summer School Enrollment Reaches 337 in 1967
Registrar William H. Brothers reports Bluefield State College has 337 students enrolled in the 1967 summer term, up 265 from 1966. Freshmen total 51 with many in Project First Step. sophomores 59, juniors 56, seniors 80. Part time and special students number 77 and 14 respectively.
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William H. Brothers
Bluefield State College
BSC
Eight Convicted On Disorder Charge In Roanoke
Eight men were convicted in municipal court for a disturbance in Roanoke's Negro section last weekend. A ninth arrestee's case was continued. About 500 to 600 people, mostly Black, were involved, with several injuries before order was restored around 2 a.m.
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Roanoke
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Raleigh
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Honaker Ave
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Bluefield, W. VA
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