Mass slaying of seven family members shocks Canada
In Stettler Alberta police probe the murder of seven relatives inside the Cook home. Robert Cook, 22, held on murder charges after neighboring reports of his car mania. Bodies found in a grease pit under a garage shed with family members dressed in nightwear. The elder Cook had built the pit and was a garage mechanic.
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Stettler
Alta
Robert Cook
Cook
Ponoka Mental Hospital
Raymond
Daisy Mae
Cook Home
Young Cook
Prince Albert Penitentiary
Edmonton
Ge Stettler
Home Demonstration Group Discusses Foods in Lesson
The W Va Home Demonstration Agency group met at Rock Hill Baptist Church with Mrs. Sylvester Jones as health and nutrition chair. T. J. Livisay led two club lessons on nutrition and dental health and a tomato rose salad demonstration.
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Sylvester Jones
W. Va
T. J. Livisay
J. E. Holcombe
Godfrey Drops Last Of Original Crew
Arthur Godfrey ends his 12 year CBS team with announcer Tony Marvin in a very informal fall program. Marvin reflects on years of collaboration and storms overcome. Godfrey, recovering from lung cancer, plans to focus on radio from his Virginia farm.
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New York
Arthur Godfrey
Tony Marvin
Godfrey
Marvin
CBS
Arthur
Virginia
Deaths and funeral notices in McDowell and surrounding areas
Elmer Clagg 68 of Premier died Sunday in a Welch hospital. Survived by wife Vicie and large family across Kentucky Ohio Maryland and Washington. Funeral Wednesday 1 p.m. at Premier Pentecostal Church. Interment Appalachian Memorial Cemetery. Also includes notices for Jim Wilson Jr. 72 Squire Lloyd O'Dell 18 Lashmeet Malachi Osborne 88 Tannersville and Willard O'Dell youth of Lashmeet with service details and survivors.
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Vicie Clagg
Stella Sabel
Sycamore
Maryetta Young
Joplin
Betty Viorio
Shirley Ann Dulaney
Washington, D. C
Cecil Clagg
Montcalm
Marshall
Kenneth Clagg
Baltimore
Howard Cragg
Dayton
Ohio
Mildred Sturgell
Funerals for Local Residents Today and Tomorrow
Obituary notices list services for George Holpe 70 Filbert Alice Rose 72 Falls Mills Joe S Verdiglione 69 Roderfield Major Barton Baker 58 Bluefield Troy A Necessary 13 Bishop Mrs M. Jones 81 Bluefield Tazewell Road Mrs Lewis Rose 87 Davy John F Smith 73 Bandy Minnie B Sargent 73 Grundy Arwell Minton 72 Wallscreek with services in Catholic and Methodist churches and interments across Woodlawn Maplewood Dry Branch Highland Cemetery Russell Memorial and local chapels.
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Necessary
Troy A
Joe Necessary
Bishop
Alexander Methodist Church
Tannersville
Rose
Rites Set for Walker and Rose in Virginia and West Virginia
Thomas Walker 69 of Gary dies Saturday and will be buried at West View Cemetery after services at Temple Gate AZUA Church in South Hill Virginia with Rev T J Johnson officiating. He was a miner in UMWA and Rock Hill Baptist deacon survived by brother Daniel Walker and sister Anna Phelps. A second obituary notes George Edward Rose 63 of Sandy Huff near Saeger who died after two weeks illness in Welch hospital. He was resident of McDowell County since 1908 a retired miner with Rosetta Fraley Rose his wife and children Chester Wannis and Clyde. Funeral in Roderfield Christian Church with burial in Saeger Memorial Cemetery.
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Jim Wilson Jr
Squire
Richlands Clinic
Lilly Grove Baptist
Lugo
Bluefield
Bryant Memorial Cemetery
Pocahontas
H. B. Alexander
E. D. Mimms
UMWA
WMS
Mr. Wilson
Culpeper
Jim
Julia Wright Wilson
McDowell County
Jacobs Fork Coal Company
James Harrison Large
Hill Ridge
Dixon County
Clintwood
William Large
Freewill Baptist Church
Cora
Morgan
Carl
Arnold Large
Gusta Hill
Ruby Barton
Haddie Rose
Mansfield
Ohio
Colley Funeral Home
Hill Ridge Chapel
Luke Wright
Hie Mullins
Hill Ridge Cemetery
Thomas Walker
Gary
Temple Gate Azua
South Hill
Otis Jones
T. J. Johnson
West View
Henry and
Fannie Farrar Walker
Rock Hill Baptist Church
Mattie Phelps Walker
Daniel Walker
Anna Phelps
Long Island
N. Y
George Edward Rose
Sandy Huff
Saeger
Welch
Rosetta Fraley Rose
Cole Lambert
Chester
Wannis
Clyde Rose
Laeger
Christian Church
Roderfield
John Blankenship
Job
Vernon Adams
Ike's Fork
Saeger Memorial
Infant Danny Gross Dies at Three Months in Matoaka Area
Three month old Danny Gross, son of Fred and Betty Lou Gross of near Matoaka, died Monday night at home after two weeks. Born March 31 in Hiawatha, he is survived by sister Deborah. Funeral arrangements are pending at Bailey Funeral Home in Princeton.
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Danny Gross
Fred
Betty Lou Goins Gross
Matoaka
Hiawatha
Deborah
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Satchmo Seeks Rome Lights After Quick Pneumonia Return
Louis Armstrong known as Satchmo traveled from a Spoleto hospital to Rome after a rapid recovery from pneumonia last week. He toured the city and planned to see the lights, signaling a swift return to public appearances.
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Satchmo
Rome
Louis Satchmo Armstrong
Spoleto
Berwind Man Dewey McGlothlin Dies at Home
Dewey McGlothlin of Berwind died at his home on Monday. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Final details will be announced by the family.
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Dewey McGlothlin
Berwind
Denson
Arte
Welch
Final Hearing On Rail Merge Sees Support From Mayors Officials
The final hearing on the Norfolk and Western Virginian merger included statements from Bluefield Mayor Courtney Tanner Welch Mayor B F Howard Williamson Mayor John F Bronson and Wyoming County Court president Thomas Smith and others. N W officials noted decision likely lies with ICC finance division and no date was set. Officials described potential benefits for coal regions and cautioned about job losses and a plan to protect workers.
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Courtney Tanner
Welch
B. F. Howard
Williamson
John F. Bronson
Wyoming County Court
Thomas Smith
Wade Walker
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Sovereign Pocahontas Co
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Norton
L. J. Compton
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Irving Richardson
Williamson Coal Operators
Lewis Meadows
the Meadows Coal Co
Beckley
R. D. Bailey
Pineville
J. Taylor Frazier
Bluefield Supply Co
John P. Fishwick
Albus
ICC
Washington
Roanoke
N&w
Virginian
West Virginia
Southwest
Virginia
Princeton
Princetonians
Harry C. Wyatt
W. A. Noell
Western Division
Fishwick
R. B. Claytor
Paul Funkhouser
Jack Shannon
Tanner
Howard
B Son
Ball
Smith
Compton
Bluefield Chamber
Four Hurt in Hopewell Boarding House Fire
A fire in a rear second floor apartment of a Hopewell boarding house injured four people early Monday. John McDiarmid, the renter, was in serious condition, while Leroy Jacobs Samuel Stanley and Mrs B K Ballard suffered lesser injuries. Stanley and Jacobs jumped from a window and Ballard escaped outside with minor burns and smoke inhalation.
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Hopewell
John McDiarmid
Leroy Jacobs
Samuel Stanley
B. K. Ballard
Stanley
Jacobs
Colorado Students Plagued By Tumors
In Mesa and Garfield counties, Colorado, 40 high school students developed non malignant elbow tumors over four years. The U S Public Health Service notes the lesions form red sore nodules about ten days after appearing and the state health department suggests higher pool chlorine though the exact cause remains uncertain. Doctor C S Mollohan suggests the tumors may arise from leaning on desks.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
U. S. Public Health Service
Mesa
Garfield
State Health Dept
YMCA Men To Hear Convention Report
Thomas K. Bruce, president of the Bluefield Y's Men's Club, will report on the 37th Y's Men's International Convention at tonight's meeting at the Auditorium Restaurant. Bruce was a delegate among 33 countries at Green Lake Wisconsin. Edward Douglas will call for committee reports ahead of the Bluefield regional session August 15-16 with delegates from four states expected.
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Thomas K. Bruce
Bluefield
Y’s
Bruce
Green Lake
Wis
Edwar Douglas
Ae Bof
Tern
Russia Would Like To Buy Back Alaska
The Soviet Union offered 200 million dollars to buy Alaska in a gag at a luncheon. Soviet First Deputy Premier Frel R Kozlov told retired Admiral Alan G Kirk that they would pay 200 million, though he doubted sale. The U S bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for 7 2 million dollars.
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New York
Soviet Union
Alaska
Frel R. Kozlov
Alan G. Kirk
Moscow
U.S
Russia
Officers Investigate Raleigh Man's Death
An unemployed Raleigh County coal miner, Everett Akers aged about 45, was found dead outside his Amigo home with a rifle shot wound to the head. Deputies said the investigation would continue to determine if it was suicide. The body was taken to a Mullens mortuary in neighboring Wyoming County.
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Beckley
Raleigh County
Amigo
Everett Akers
Akers
Mullens
Wyoming County
Va. Mental Workers Given 40 Hour Week
The 40 hour work week became a reality Monday for all employees in the state mental institution system. The shorter work week went into effect for all workers at the four mental institutions, the De Jamette Sanatorium at Staunton and the training schools at Petersburg and Lynchburg.
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Richmond
Staunton
Petersburg
Lynchburg
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Virginia
West Virginia sees widely scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers with cooler air arriving from the north. Tuesday cools, while Wednesday brings partly cloudy skies and cooler conditions. Virginia expects widely scattered afternoon thundershowers and cooler north, while the south remains hot. Tuesday turns partly sunny and cooler, with Wednesday partly cloudy and cooler.
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West Virginia
Virginia
West Virginia to Build War den Lake for Fishing
West Virginia will start construction on a new 44 acre fishing lake after groundbreaking ceremonies on July 8. The lake on Moore's Run, near Wardensville in Hardy County, will be named Warden Lake with Buckley Lages Inc. of Winchester, Virginia the contractor at a bid of 27722 dollars. Fish stocking planned include bass and bluegill. Mrs. Grady Warden Bradfield donated 150 acres for the project.
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Wardensville
W. Va
West Virginia
Warden M. Lane
Moore’s Run
Cacapon River
Hardy County
Warden Lake
Buckley-Lages Inc
Winchester
Lane
Grady Warden Bradfield
Almond Plans Visit To Shriners Meet
Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. tentatively plans a visit to the Shriners convention in Atlantic City July 5-9 as a guest of imperial potentate George E. Stringfellow. Stringfellow, a boyhood friend from Orange County, is a Virginia native who has lived in New Jersey for years.
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Richmond
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Shriners
Atlantic City
Almond
Imperial
George E. Stringfellow
Orange County
Stringfellow
New Jersey
Soviets Set Up Weather Posts on Arctic Ice
Twenty four automatic weather observatories were established by the Soviet Union on drifting Arctic ice to telemeter daily data to Siberian stations. A new arctic drift station on a ten square mile floe, 700 miles northeast of Wrangel Island, will host three meteorologists. The floe drifted 25 miles in ten days and may enter largely unexplored Arctic basin areas.
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Washington
Nana
Arctic Ocean
Siberian
U. S. Department of Commerce
Wrangel Island
Alaska
Huntington Man Dies After Collision Near Grayson
William Rucker 84 of Huntington West Virginia died after a car he rode in collided head on with a loaded tractor trailer on U S 60 near Grayson Kentucky. Gifford and his son Phillip 5 were injured while the truck driver Clifton Coleman Marmet West Virginia escaped injury. State Police said the car pulled from a side road causing the crash and the truck overturned.
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Grayson, Ky
William Rucker
Huntington
W. Va
U. S. 60
Here
Glenn Edward Gifford
Rucker
Gifford
Phillip
Clifton S. Coleman
Marmet
Watermelons Spill After Truck Overturns in Pulaski
A tractor-trailer carrying 1,600 watermelons overturned on a Draper's Mountain curve near Pulaski Virginia around 5 30 a m. The driver was not seriously injured and watermelons spread across the area as the vehicle plunged down an embankment.
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Pulaski
Draper’s Mountain
N W To Run Special Steam Train Roanoke Bluefield Jaeger Cedar Bluff
Norfolk and Western will operate a one day special passenger train Saturday from Roanoke to Bluefield and back via Jaeger Cedar Bluff and Dry Fork branch. Steam power will haul a varied consist including air conditioned coaches a diner and open gondola cars. Tickets 8 full trip 5 Roanoke to Jaeger. Purchase from Rail Museum Safaris or Douglas Fleet Jr.
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Norfolk and Western Railway
Bluefield
Roanoke
Jaeger
Dry Fork
Bluefield-Jaeger
Rail Museum Safaris
Lansing Drive
Douglas Fleet Jr
Tazewell
Norfolk and Western
Clinch Valley
States
District of Columbia
Trailer Smashes Into House In Pa. Crash Injures Three
A runaway tractor trailer with failed brakes rolled down a hill, rammed a truck head on, then struck a house, causing a fire and over 100000 dollars in damage. Injured were drivers Clarence Givens and Charles Rudolph and a boy, Clarence Givens Jr., 11, all from Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Wilkes-Barre
Clarence Givens
Clarence
Charles Rudolph
Somerville
Mass
Eisenhower and Nixon Tour Soviet Exhibit in New York
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon visited a Soviet exhibit in New York. They toured a model Soviet atomic icebreaker display and art work while discussing peaceful energy use and enjoying Soviet wines.
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A. N. Manzhula
Eisenhower
Kozlov
Nixon
New York
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Beckley Road
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