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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1967
Page
14
The 1967 Lions Club Horse Show in Tazewell and North Tazewell Va schedules 41 classes across three shows at the Tazewell Fairground. Friday features 15 classes at 7 30 pm with additional 13 at 1 30 and 7 30 pm Saturday.
Rep. Richard H. Poff of Virginia was named vice chairman of the National Commission for Reform of Federal Criminal Laws. Former Gov. Pat Brown announced the appointment at a Washington news conference, with Louis B. Schwartz named director. The panel was created under Poff’s 89th Congress legislation.
Ten job openings for Bluefield State College students start July 1 and run six weeks under the OEO College Work Study Program. Applicants must enroll in Dean Joseph Turner’s office and be admitted for Fall enrollment. Eligible students proceed to the Mercer County Opportunity Office for interviews. Only one applicant has applied through Dean Turner so far.
FBI agents captured Joseph Leroy Newman 31 a top ten fugitive on a Jersey City street corner. He escaped from Lorton Virginia with five others on February 10 and is linked to the shooting of a Washington DC detective. Newman used the alias James Fields and offered no resistance. A federal grand jury charged him with escape and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, followed by an assault charge.
A statistical survey reports Australian missionaries serving abroad rising from 2,851 in 1959 to 4,416 in 1965, an increase of 1,565 over the period.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade shifts to Pleiku highlands to face regular North Vietnamese Army troops. Brig Gen John R Deane Jr says the war will be different with more disciplined foes, fewer mines, and deadly mortars. Local peasants pick tea as U S and VC taxes flow in.
The Wyoming County clerk in Pineville reports licenses granted in the past week. List includes Tracy Bowden 23 of Kopperston and Aloma Gibson 18 of Kopperston. Danny Baize 20 of Gilbert to Kathy Bishop 17 of Ike's Fork. multiple couples from Brenton Marianna Lynco Oceana Ravencliff Mullens and Floyd Virginia.
Sweden’s NK in Stockholm serves as a showcase for Swedish arts and handicrafts. Delegates at the United Nations sit on NK made chairs. The store’s catering department once prepared a full course meal for 70 and flew it to Kenya.
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