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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1961
Page
2
Senate and House vote to approve Kennedy’s social security measure speeds to the president for signature. The act lets men retire at 62, boosts minimum payments, extends coverage, and could begin Aug 1 with a planned cost rise and payroll tax changes for workers and employers.
In Jerusalem Adolf Eichmann disputes a Red Cross report that he led Nazi camps. He asserts he did not criticize Himmler and claims he could not entertain criticizing superiors in front of foreigners during his eighth day of testimony.
Bluefield State College will award certificates to seven men who completed 600 hours in auto mechanics under the West Virginia Employment Security area vocational program in the H L Dickason Technical Building. Since October 1960 over 60 men used the college facilities. last month 21 trainees earned certificates in masonry mill-cabinet and related fields. The next program begins July 5 including auto mechanics brick masonry drafting mill cabinet upholstery shorthand typing and related subjects.
A single vehicle crash on Catron Street in Marion Virginia injures three women. Mrs. Foyt Tibbs 45 Mrs. Nona Hester Tibbs 39 and Elaine Tibbs 19, all of Marion, were identified by officers. Foy Tibbs hospitalized with head cuts and abrasions. condition listed as injured and released.
Obituaries note numerous deaths in Welch, Tazewell and Grundy areas. Details list survivors, church services, and burial plans across Maxwell, Monte Vista Park, Woodlawn, Thorpe, Mechanicsburg, and local cemeteries with service times and funeral homes. Names include Mrs. Tiny Trivett Williamson, Kathleen McClanaghan Marshall, Antonette Malasky, Ora Stafford Mustard, Adolph Lysczyk, and Maggie Lena Clyburn, among others.
A southwest West Virginia development group led by Frank G. Tsutras and Williamson Mayor John H. Brown attended a meeting in Charleston. The Tug-Ohio-Levisa-Sandy Improvement Association pressed for a highway linking Geredo Kenova to the West Virginia Turnpike and I 77 near Bluefield Princeton, with regional allies proposing a South Point Ohio river bridge.
Charleston AP report says State Police Sept. W. E. Burchett announced promotions of three enlisted personnel. Harry M. Starbuck promoted to sergeant and moved from Ripley to Parkersburg. Cpl. C. W. Andrick to sergeant with transfer from Sdt. C. R. Holbert Weston to Spencer. Sgt. C. N. Otto from Logan to Weston, and Cpl. A. A. Barney from Weirton to Elizabeth, with Cpl. H. H. Meador from Franklin to See Cpl. J. A. Shrout from Triadelphia to Franklin and Cpl. C. W. Tighe from Elizabeth to Weirton.
Miss Lucy Pearl Kester of 105 Logan St Bluefield Virginia will lie in state at St Marys Episcopal Church Friday at 1 pm with Dr Lawton Riley officiating Burial follows in North End Cemetery Hellsvilla The body has been returned to the residence from Wagner Funeral Home and will be taken to the church an hour before services Pallbearers are Ralph Hughes William Osborne C L Shufflebarger E L Holsapple Harry Burton George Graham Lowell Dillon and R W Jessee
BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech dormitory project sees ST. C. Brittain Co. of Decatur Georgia as apparent low base bidder with a bid of 1 574 219 dollars. J M Turner and Co of Roanoke close behind at 1 577 000 dollars. Five firms submitted bids.
An athletic minded former Bluefielder will join a 1940 reunion at the West Virginian Hotel at 6 30 p m. Joe Gordon Lowder survived a Pacific war crash and a Siagon camp before recovery. He trained in Fairview and Charleston, played for Charleston High and Marshall, and served with the Navy Air Division. He later helped fly the retro rocket to Cape Canaveral. Lowder is married to Gwendolyn Kinsey of Charleston. they reside in Charleston with sons Eric Craig and Kevin.
Telephone firms in Japan struggle with number allocation as digits carry fortune or fate. Certain sequences command high prices for auspicious numbers while unlucky patterns are sometimes given to外国 visitors.
Mercer County Health Center completion triggers moves in Bluefield and Princeton buildings. Health Department equipment shifts to West Virginia Veterans Affairs and Public Assistance. Bluefield spaces become for Urban Renewal Authority City Planning Commission and City Engineer. Princeton X-ray clinic space goes to Public Assistance. a state forester’s office fills a small Health Department area.
The Senate approved Kennedy plans to reorganize the Federal Trade Commission and Civil Aeronautics Board by 47 31 and 37 33 votes respectively, despite opposition over delegation of powers. The moves mark two Senate victories and two defeats for the president on reorganizing federal agencies.
A 553 mile system links New York State through the extents of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey the Massachusetts Turnpike and other major highways strengthening regional road travel plans and transportation ties.
The Associated Press reports mostly sunny and warm conditions across West Virginia and Virginia with highs of 86 to 92, cooler 78 to 84 in the mountains. Saturday brings partly cloudy skies, hot and more humid conditions.
Seoul AP report says the United States will relinquish control of Kimpo International Airport near Seoul on July 5. U S Air Force units will continue to use the airport after the handover.
The Clinch River facility will reach 675,000 kilowatts with the Appy Plant expansion. Major construction is on schedule, including low and high pressure turbines, a ten story outdoor boiler, a near completed 500 foot stack, and one of the nation’s largest cooling towers. The tower spans 393 feet with a 84 foot base width and 59 feet height, housing fourteen 24 foot fans to cool condenser water at up to 110 000 gallons a minute.
Bids will be opened on July 2 at 10 a.m. in Huntington by the U S Army Engineers for the sale and removal of buildings in Summersville Reservoir area. Names Bryant Morris Hart McClung Roberts McKinney Harlow appear in the notice.
Mary A. Craft, a former Beaver High School instructor and university-trained teacher, died early Thursday at St Elizabeth Hospital in New York City. She lived in Bramwell, Mercer County, and had recently resided in New York City. Survivors include three brothers N Y and Alfred Craft of Bramwell. The body will arrive in Bluefield and be moved to Pocahontas Union Funeral Home before services in Bramwell. Rosary tonight, mass Saturday at St Elizabeth Catholic Church Pocahontas. burial in Monte Vista Cemetery. Pallbearers named.
The State Department denied East German decrees restricting Allied air corridors to West Berlin and affirmed unrestrict access. NSC discussions at the White House considered the crisis, while Defense plans for a possible military showdown remain secret though outlines of several contingencies are known.
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