Uncle Jack and the spider Khrushchev comic misadventure
In Cross Creek Tennessee Uncle Sudsy drinks and ponders a big spider weaving a web as he riffs on Khrushchev and communism. A drunken stumble ends with Sudsy toppled onto Aunt Minnie’s cactus, her scolding about common sense.
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Long cousins enter Louisiana governor race primary
In New Orleans two youthful Long cousins Speedy O Long and Gillis Long square off for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to be decided December 7. The race also features John McKeithen with clan backing, as a new generation reshapes Louisiana politics.
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U. S. Senate
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Huey P
Kingfish) Long
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Unlimited Feeding Not Advisable for Dairy Cattle
Government studies from Beltsville Maryland show unlimited feeding rarely pays. Individually rationed cows may justify extra feed, but groups fed without limit produced similar milk with higher feed, weight gain, and poorer feed efficiency.
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Beltsville
Art Workshop Slated At Bluefield State College
The Fourth Annual Art Workshop opens July 8 at the Technical Science Building Bluefield State College with three hours graduate credit approved by West Virginia University. Dr Barbara Drainer of West Virginia University leads the program featuring crafts weaving films and art education demonstrations. Display includes Mrs Martha Stephens painting and Robert Hustead watercolor and an official West Virginia Exhibition from all state colleges.
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Craftsmans Guild
Martha Stephens
Cedar Bluff
Robert Hustead
Uniontown
West Virginia
Bluefield
Drainer
Fairmont State College
Columbia University
Martinsburg hosts centennial Parade of Progress
An estimated 75 000 people crowded Martinsburg for the centennial Parade of Progress led by Jayne Mansfield. Gov. Barron and four U S senators attended as a 177 unit parade traveled 32 blocks under a shifting sky with heat exhaustion sending nine to hospitals.
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New Jersey
Virginia
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Barron
Berkeley County
Charleston
U.S
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Willis Robertson
Robert Byrd
Jennings Randolph
Arch Moore Jr
Harley Staggers
John Slack
Stephen Ailes
W. Preston Lane
Hagerstown
Cecil Underwood
The
Island Creek Coal Co
Huntington
Welch Scout to Represent Appalachia Council at World Jamboree
Eagle Scout Richard Gale of Scout Troop 9 Welch McDowell County will represent West Virginia Ohio and Kentucky at the 11th World Jamboree for Boy Scouts of America in Marathon Greece August 1 through 11 1963. He earned his Eagle rank June 28 at Camp Roland Bland County with over 100 merit badges awarded.
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McDowell County
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Boy Scouts of America
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Greece
Victor Nystrom
New York City
Europe
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Ohio
Kentucky
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Camp Roland
Bland County
Turn Out for Yanks Attendance Record at AL Ballparks
The Yankees set the visiting team attendance record across the eight ballparks used exclusively by American League teams.
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Yankees
Ex-Local Teacher Joins Jehovah's Witnesses Convention Team
Charles G. Thompson former Bluefield WV public school principal now district supervisor for Jehovah's Witnesses travels with his wife Helen to Milwaukee to staff the Around-the-World International Assembly 1963. The event runs June 30 to July 7 with over 50 000 delegates expected. Thompson and wife previously taught in Philadelphia and both graduated Bluefield State College.
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Helen
News Service Department
Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses
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Jones Street
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Brooklyn
New York
Virginia
Tennessee
Watchtower Society
Philadelphia
Bluefield State College
Kennedy Adds Free Night in Rome During Italian Visit
The White House says President Kennedy will spend a free night in Rome, delaying his Naples to Washington return. He will not depart Naples on July 2 and will now leave Rome for Washington on July 3.
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White House
Kennedy
Rome
Naples
Washington
Water in a bottle science trick explained
In a simple demonstration a bottle inverted over a paper mouth does not leak due to atmospheric pressure. Squeezing the flat sides slightly distorts the elastic glass, forcing some water out, and warming hands can expand the water slightly to release more.
East End Baptist Church Plans 2nd Homecoming
East End Baptist Church prepares for its second annual homecoming on Sunday July 28 with Rev Herman H Mauch director of the Norfolk based Calvary and Burrows Memorial ministries delivering the address Mauch born 1916 in Goodrich North Dakota and educated at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and Moody Bible Institute has led revivals across 14 states preached in Cuba Alaska and Canada and visited England Europe and the Mid East notes his long career and family includes wife Margaret Barker and two daughters Patricia Ann and Judith Marie
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Goodrich
N. D
Mauch
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Ill
Margaret E. Barker
Bristol
Patricia Ann
Carson- Newman College
Tennessee
Judith Marie
Granby High School
Norfolk
Pastors’ Conference
Wyoming Boy Wins On TV Say When contestant from Mullens wins prizes
Charles Norman Greene of Mullens Wyoming County appeared on NBC's Say When June 25 27 winning an automobile a television set tape recorder electric toaster hair dryer and an automatic washer and dryer He is a Mullens High School and West Virginia University alum and a first year WVU Law student His parents are Everett Greene Jr and Juanita Gadd from Princeton
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Mullens
Wyoming County
National Broadcasting Co
Everett Greene, Jr
Mullens High School
West Virginia University
West Virginia University Law School
Juanita Gadd
Princeton
West Point Names 4 Straub to Head Track Teams
4 Straub of Mt. Kisco New York will captain West Point's indoor and outdoor track teams next season, leading both squads as they prepare for upcoming competitions.
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Straub
Mt. Kisco
N. Y
West Point
Sudangrass Proposed To Avert Dry Season Pasture Loss
WVU extension agronomy expert Dr. Farrel J. Olsen Jr. advises farmers to plant Sudangrass as a temporary pasture crop to bridge dry midsummer months July and August. Sudangrass grows rapidly, recovers after grazing, is highly palatable, and can carry two to three mature animals per acre with fertilizer input up to 1000 pounds of 10-10-10.
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Farrel J. Olsen, Jr
West Virginia University
Olsen
Mountain
Tony Curtis selects movie girls amid stamp jokes
Hollywood reports the married star Tony Curtis, about to film Playboy, received more than 1000 submissions from hopeful young women. Producer St Margulies found Curtis tearing into envelopes while quipping he only wants stamps for his collection, not screen auditions.
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Tony Curtis
Playboy
St Margulies
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