Airport plan eyed to serve six Virginia counties
Pulaski Virginia June 29 a coalition of Southwest Virginia mayors and CAA officials outlined a proposed commercial airport to serve six counties including Montgomery Pulaski Giles Wythe Carroll and Bland The project estimated at 375000 to 700000 would be built northeast of Dublin on State Route 100 with a 4200 foot runway and could receive up to half federal aid upon application local leaders expect the facility to spur industrial growth in the New River area and connect New York Chicago and Florida air routes.
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Pulaski
Southwest Virginia
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Dublin
Pulaski County
New River
CAA
Robert Metzmer
Pittsburgh
Best
Richmond
Steve Shelton
New York
Texas
Chicago
Prorida
Roanoke
Dublin Pulaski
C. B. Jackson
New River District
Montgomery
Giles
Wythe
Carroll
Bland
Norfolk Lawyer Emerges as GOP Chairman Contender
Lester S. Parsons, a longtime Norfolk Republican leader, pushes to succeed retiring S Floyd Landreth as Virginia GOP chairman. Roanoke support and local figures like Linwood Holten shape the bid. Emins says he would accept the post if needed. Parsons is billed as a veteran fighter with three and a half decades in politics.
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Norfolk
Lester S. Parsons
Floyd Landreth
GOP
Rouse Republican
Norfolk Gop
Parsons
Roanoke
Linwood Holten
Holten
Norfolk Party
Emins Today
Parsons For
Virginia
Weekend Weather Outlook for West Virginia Virginia and PA
West Virginia will be mostly sunny and warmer with humid conditions. Saturday highs 75 to 82 in the east and 82 to 88 in the west, with Sunday remaining warm and humid and scattered afternoon thundershowers. Virginia sees mostly sunny and warmer weather with highs 82 to 88 and a chance of thundershowers Saturday evening and Sunday. Western Pennsylvania expects mostly sunny warmth south and partly cloudy northern areas with high 80s and a Sunday mix of clouds and scattered showers or thundershowers. Tennessee bathed in sun Saturday and Sunday with isolated thundershowers and highs 84 to 88.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Drag Racer Fined Ten Days Jail In Bluefield Case
Municipal Judge James H. Martin fines Larry Grace twenty five dollars and sentences him to ten days in jail for drag racing a first offender. Grace appeals via Mercer county criminal court while Ben Yancey represents him. Juvenile case involves a 17 year old Bluefield youth with district court to hear the matter.
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Bluefield
James H. Martin
Larry Grace
Williamson
Jerome Katz
Ben Yancey
Grace
Mercer County Criminal Court
Dela Grace
Bland Road
Katz
Martin
Bluefield Kiwanis to Hear U S Chamber Official
Robert P. Butson, district manager of the Southeastern Division, U S Chamber of Commerce, will speak at the Bluefield Kiwanis Club meeting on the Hoover Commissions Recommendations. Dick Stowers chairs arrangements. Snakes can swim but cannot strike as far on water due to lack of firm support. their underwater bite is nearly as effective.
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Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Robert P. Butson
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Butson
Atlanta
Dick Stowers
Jet airliners to use Charleston airport
Capital Airlines will begin two daily Viscount turbo jet flights from Charleston West Virginia starting July 10. A southbound flight from Pittsburgh arrives at 9:30 a.m. and flies to Atlanta. the return from Atlanta arrives at 8:30 p.m. and heads to Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Service will be expanded this fall in West Virginia.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Capital Airlines
George Jackson
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Buffalo
Jackson
Charleston Boy Drowns Learning to Swim in River
An 8 year old Phillip Edward Elswick of Glasgow drowned while learning to swim in the Kanawha River near his home. Firemen recovered the body and a doctor pronounced death an hour later after resuscitation attempts. He planned to attend Nazarene Church boys camp starting July 23 in Summersville.
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Charleston
Kanawha River
D. B. Presson
Phillip Edward Elswick
Glasgow
O. F. Carroll Jr
Lila Mae Elswick
Summersville
Here
Former Concord Men Earn Advanced Degrees
Rock West Virginia a Concord College alumnus earned a Master of Arts from Ohio State University on June 8 1956 after a July 1951 bachelor’s degree. Nathaniel P Grogan of Beckley West Virginia received a Doctor of Optometry from the Southern College of Optometry Memphis College on June 8 1956 after brief attendance at Concord College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord College
G. Neal
Rock West Virginia
Concord
Ohio State University
Athens
Neal
Nathaniel P. Grogan Beckley
West Virginia
Southern College of Optometry
Grogan
Memphis College
Princeton Man Hurt In Tractor Accident
John E. Bailey, 72, of Princeton, was admitted to Memorial Hospital with crushing chest injuries after a farm tractor passed over him. He fell from the tractor into the path of the drive wheels and remained in non critical condition as of last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Bailey
Princeton
Memorial Hospital
Bailey
Senate approves foreign aid bill amid clashes over cuts
The Senate passed a 4.56 billion foreign aid authorization by 54 to 25 after defeating attempts to reduce totals. The bill advances to conference with the House which favored roughly 3.8 billion, while Eisenhower supporters push for higher funding to sustain military and economic aid.
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Senate
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Sen. Langer
R-Nd
Sen
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
McCarthy
R-Wis
Bridges
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Republican Policy Committee
India
Sen. Smathers
Latin America
Congress
Free World Alliance
Western Union Seeks FCC Rate Increases
Western Union asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to raise rates on messages money orders and minor services. If approved annual revenues would rise by 11.4 million with hikes starting July 29. Increases would apply to intrastate and interstate messages and vary from five to thirty five cents beyond the first zone extended to 125 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Western Union
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Poznan Revolt Sparks Firefight Across Polish City
Reports say Poznan endured heavy gunfire as Red Polish forces attempted to quell rebels amid martial law. Officials warn of potential Soviet-backed aggression and widespread unrest. Emergency sessions and troop movements by Warsaw signal a tense crackdown.
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Berlin
Poznan
Lithuania
Estonia
Moscow
West Berlin
Telegraf
Red
Josef Cyrankiewicz
Wheeling Steel Banks Blast Furnaces Ahead of Strike
Wheeling Steel began banking its six blast furnaces in anticipation of a strike at midnight as the United Steelworkers contract expires. Production at Ohio River plants will halt tomorrow without a new agreement. Steubenville and Benwood furnaces were banked while the Bessemer converter at Mingo Junction was shut down, affecting about 15,000 workers.
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Wheeling
Wheeling Steel
United Steeles
Ohio River
Steubenville
Ohio
Benwood
Mingo
Junction
UMW Hospitals Name New Clinical Director
Dr. Gordon M. Meade of Washington has been named clinical director for the United Mine Workers new chain of 10 hospitals in the coal belt of Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky. He succeeds Dr. Aims C. McGuinness who has returned to private practice. The Beckley West Virginia facility was dedicated three weeks ago.
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Washington
Gordon M. Meade
United Mine Workers
UMW
Meade
Aims C. McGuinness
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Beckley
W. Va
Dickenson County Reports New Polio Case Among Unvaccinated
The State Health Department reported two additional paralytic polio cases in Virginia children who had not received Salk vaccine. One case was a 2-year-old boy in Dickenson County, where seven of Virginia’s 18 victims have occurred this year. The other case was a 22 month old in Portsmouth.
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Richmond
State Health Department
Dickenson County
Virginia
Portsmouth
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area Sanctions
Long obituary list notes Sr John Lacy Keatley of Speedway died at home from a heart condition. Survivors include wife, three children, siblings, and former deputies. Funeral at Speedway Methodist Church with multiple pastors. burial in Keatley Cemetery. Parallel notices honor Mrs Georgiola Watkins and Harold Pritt, among others, with services in Bluefield and Union, detailing surviving relatives and funeral arrangements.
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John Lacy Keatley
Speedway
State Road Commission
George W
Mary Martin Keatley
Miss Burton
George
Billy
Mary Jane
Bird
C. W. Bowles
Funneral Pe
Tomorromedway Methodist Church
L. A. Dorsey
Lloyd Stidman
Robert Dean
Keatley
Leslie Keasinger
Ernest Kessinger
Burless Cunningham
Dewey Cox
Julius Pennington
Boyd Phillips
Robert Rowland
Robert Pennington
Fred Phillips
Jimmie May- Derry
Paul Davis
Clarence Elmore
Everette Keesee
Tub Hill
Arthur Jones
WSCS
Frinceton
Harold Lynch Pritt
Union
Newton Nelson Pritt
Mannie Catherine Lynch
Union Rotary Club
Monroe Todas If and AM Lodge
Eastern Star 122
Hillsdale Presbyterian Church
Pritt
Ethel Ellison
Pearl Livesay
Suvivors
Harold Loyd Pritt
New Holland
Bobby Gene Pritt
Fort Meade
Deweyand Pritt
E. Givens
Kennan
Russell V. Kettle
Hillsdale
Carl G. Pritt
Union Ae
Re B. Shiplett
D. C. Craft
Green Hill
Monroe Lodge
AF & AM Lodge
Methot
Broyles
Broyles Funeral Home
Cora Lee Jamison
Raven
Richlands
Buchanan County
John Keene
Mack Jamison
Leonard
Chicago
Ill
Carlos
High Coal
W. Va
Elmer
Red Ash
Luther Hall
Francis Perdue
Garrison
Eddie Breedlove
Shorts Gap
Mollie Cole
Myrtle Keene
Richard Keene
Hurst Scott
Davis Dunn
Coalwood
Agnes Wilson
Bluefield Sanitarium
Tazewell Baptist Church
O. E. Bradshaw
Maplewood Cemetery
Greever Funeral Home
Tazewell
John Grose
Hiawatha
Rct
Grose
Princeton
Everett Grose
Violet Grose
Lorraine Watkins
Montcalm
Bill
James
Wallace
Nila
Cpl
Carl Calfee
USMC
Carfee
Matoaka
Japan
US. Marine Corps
Bluefield
George H. Brown
Calfee
Sherman Calfee
Sherman Caffee
Norma Broyles
Geraldine
Springton
Connie
Seatie
Wash
Michael
Seatle
Dale
Cletus
John Foley
Matoaka Christian Church
Mount Olive Cemetery
Lashmeet
Carrie Riffe
Carrie Cline Riffe
The
Fork
Wyoming County
Panning
Jaeger
Flem Stepp
Clyde
Oliver Roberts
Jaeger Memorial Cemetery
Roderfield
Flower Fearer
Obituaries and funeral notices from Virginia towns
Multiple obituaries list Wiley Jones 68 Abbs Valley at Bois sevain Methodist Church with interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. Wiley Franklin Bennett 96 Bluefield dies. service at his daughter Vina Haga's home Pocahontas. burial Swim Family Cemetery. Garland Bruce Edwards 71 Birchleaf service at Sand Lick Primitive Baptist Church. burial family cemetery. Loretta Mitchell 18 Centralia Washington service Browns Chapel Stoney Ridge Tazewell burial Browns Cemetery. William Everett Whaley 38 West Jefferson Ohio service Short Ridge near Beartown. burial Short Ridge Cemetery. George Cecil Young 48 Frigsden service Lowder Chapel near Shawsville with family cemetery nearby.
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JONES
Wiley
Abbs Valley
Boissevain Methodist Church
Woodlawn
Bennett
Wiley Franklin
Bluefield
Vina Haga
Pocahontas
Swim
Edwards
Garland Bruce
Birchleaf
Sand Lick Primitive Baptist Church
Mitchell
Loretta
Centralia
Wash
Browns Chapel
Stoney Ridge
Tazewell County
Browns Cemetery
Whaley
William Everett
West Jefferson
Ohio
Short Ridge
Beartown
Young
George Cecil
Frigsden
Lowder Chapel Mae Church
Shawsville
Department Stores Business Declines in Fifth District
In Richmond Virginia on June 29 the Federal Reserve Bank reported a 20 percent drop in department store sales in the fifth district for the week ending June 23 from the prior week. Despite the decline, representative stores in 11 principal cities posted a 5 percent rise over the 1955 week. For four weeks, sales were 9 percent above the year-ago period, and year-to-date totals were 3 percent higher than last year. The district includes Virginia Maryland West Virginia the Carolinas and the District of Columbia.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
The
Car
District of
Columa
New Martinsville Man Drowns in Proctor Creek
The body of George Plants 45 of New Martinsville was recovered from Proctor Creek. Sheriff Lee Francis said Plants a construction employer was driven to Proctor by taxi Tuesday night and appears to have slipped from an embankment and drowned early today. An initial accident finding noted $85 in his clothing.
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New Martinsville
W. Va
George Plants
Proctor Creek
Lee Francis
Francis
Plants
Proctor
Sobeloff Clears Senate Judiciary Committee on 4th Circuit Nomination
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved eight to two the nomination of Sobeloff to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals amid Southern opposition over school integration. Senators from both parties signaled varying support, with McClellan voting present to press for full Senate action. The panel will forward the nomination next week after preparing majority and minority reports.
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Washington
Simon E. Sobe
4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Senate Judiciary Committee
Dse
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Eisenhower
Sobeloff
Maryland Court of Appeals
Justice Department
Johnston
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
McClellan
D-Ark
South Carolina
Sens
Butler
R-Mo
Dirksen
R-Ill
Watkins
Utah
Langer
R-Nd
Kefauver
Dtenn
Hennings
D-Mo
O’mahoney
D-Wya
Neeley
Dwya
Daniel
D-Tex
Wiley
R-Wis
Walker
Idaho
Jenner
R-Ind
Johnson
Baltimore
Supreme Court
A . Sobeloff
Sobe
Sen. Robertson
D-Va
4Th Circuit Court of
Maryland
Virginia
Carolinas
West Virginia
Road Camp Escapee Remains At Large
Fairbanks Jackson Dabney a 25 year old Richmond Virginia man escapes from Road Camp 29 at Honaker Virginia and remains at large as of 11 p.m. last night authorities describe him as 5 foot 8 inches tall with black hair brown eyes weighed 131 pounds and wearing a prison work uniform. Dabney was sentenced to 15 years for robbery from a Richmond court and has a cut scar on his right forearm.
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Fairbanks Jackson Dabney
Richmond
Honaker
Dabney
Richman
Postmaster Explains Bluewell Station Bids Meeting
The postmaster will explain bids for the rural Bluewell station at a meeting in the main post office Bluefield on Monday. Interested bidders should attend to receive all available information. Bids close July 10 and must be sealed. The meeting is at 1 p.m. in the postmaster's office.
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Bluefield
Bluewell
Ln P
Ofce
Welch Bridge Project Bid Okayed By State
Charleston reports the Road Commission recommended accepting low bids on eight projects totaling 1.822 million dollars. Three projects will be funded entirely by state funds while five federal aid projects await action by the U S Bureau of Public Roads. Bids were opened last Tuesday with Acme Construction Co winning the 0.149 mile Coney Island bridge approaches contract in Delaware County for 108,589 dollars.
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Charleston
Road Commission
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
McDowell
Coney ‘Island
Acme Construction Co
Ley
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Tasker Bliss
Peyton March
Army
U. S. Army
Webster Anderson
Philadelphia
Arthur E. DuBois
Quartermaster General's Office
Bluefield Kiwanians
Kanawha
Weather Bureau Forecast
U.S. Witner Bureau
Western Lakes Area
Mississippi Valley
Arizona
Great Plains
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast States
Rockies
California
Foreign Relations Committee
Communist Party
Warsaw
Prankfurther Rundschau
East Germany
Rundschau
League of Free Jurists
East Berlin
Free Jurists
Cyrankiewicz
Warsaw A
Umw’s Hospitals
Funerat Sr
John Keatley
Georgiola Watkins
Columbus
Bluefield Sunder
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
J. H. Easley
Phyllis Darlan
Phyllis DeBrick Darien
W. DeBrick
North Street
Sanary
France
Toulon
Alain Darlan
Kaye Kellum Huntington
Eric DeBrick
W. E. DeBrick
Darlan
Nace
George Peabody College
Nashvalle
Sune
Warm Springs Foundation
Warm Springs
Andy Clapp
Dott
Mrs. Davis Dunn
Welch
ENS
Commerce St
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