Seven Injured In McDowell County Auto Crashes
Two separate crashes in McDowell County injured seven people on Thursday. In Davy, Joan Cook and Gracie Cook sustained minor injuries along with Ruby Patrick and others. Robert Blevins faced charges after colliding with a truck. In Jaeger, Mary Alice Addair and Deborah were lightly hurt when Leon Addair’s car hit a White tractor-trailer driven by David Alexander. Damages totaled about 2400 dollars.
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McDowell County
Davy
Joan Cook
McHellan
Ala
Gracie Cook
Wyoming
Ruby Patrick
Robert Blevins
Lynce
Kenny Scarberry
Sun Hill
Grace Hospital
Scarberry
A. K. Dozier
Blevins
Jaeger
State Rt
Mary Alice Addair
Volpe Considers New England Favorite Son Bid
Gov John Volpe of Massachusetts hints at seeking New England support for 1968 Republican nomination. Governor Volpe weighs challenging Romney and may influence regional backing as contenders gather in a presidential race.
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Jackson
Wyo
Rhode Island
John H
Michigan
George W. Romney
New England
White House
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
Grand Teton National Park
Dinner Dance Set At Fincastle Tonight
Fincastle Country Club hosts an informal dinner dance Saturday July 1 with Jan Campbell and his orchestra. Dinner at 8 p.m. dancing at 9 p.m. A social hour precedes the dinner at p.m. Buffet served at 7:30 p.m. Pro Shop may arrange foursomes and reservations go through the club house.
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Fincastle
Fincastle Country Club
Jan Campbell
Federal Funds Approved for West Virginia Highways
Senator Jennings Randolph says the Senate committee on roads approved 27,147.84 in federal aid for West Virginia highways. He notes 5,324,034 was deferred last November by President Johnson.
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Washington
Jennings Randolph
D - W.va
Senate ’ Committee On
West Virginia
Johnson
West Virginia Weekly Mail Rate Listed
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph advertises a week by mail option for West Virginia readers at 26 dollars per year with first and second sections available and others furnished.
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Bluefield
Obituary notices from Bluefield area deaths listed
Obituaries and funeral notices for Mrs. Josie Moon Robert H. Tinsley Mary Viola Stafford Georgia Webb Clarence L. French George Andrew Anderson James Munsey Maude Moss Jones Bill Huffman and others outline service times locations such as Mount Mariah Baptist Church Oak Grove Cemetery and Galilee Baptist Church with relatives survivors and pallbearers named across multiple towns in Virginia and West Virginia. Funeral details include dates times and burial sites for several residents including Maybury Bluewell Princeton Welch Pearisburg and Vansant.
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Josie Saunders Moon
Maybeury
Mount Mariah Baptist Church
McKinley Raymore
J. W. Hairston
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluewell
Virginia
Robert
Linda Hairston Saunders
Bluefield Sanitarium
Samuel Moon
Mary H. Mitchell
Columbus
Ohio
Catherine Gilliam
Blanche E. Dowell
Bluefield
Betty L. Sanders
Shirley M. Jackson
Cleveland
George Hairston
Gilliam
Ed Hairston Jr
Baltimore
William D. Hairston
Roanoke
Robert Lee Hairston
Mary S. Lane
Rosa B. Nance
Irene Moon
Stevenson Moon
Maceo Moon
William Moody
Cincinnati
Pocahontas
Union Funeral
Prince- Hall Lodge No. 7
The
Missionary Society
Robert H. Tinsley
Arlington
McDowell County
Galilee Baptist Church
Sam Cannady
Bedford
Lula Richie Tinsley
Reveae E
Mary Viola Stafford
Kee St
Princeton
Narrows
Indian Mills
George W
Sarah J. Ellison Leftwich
J. E. Stafford
Princeton First Baptist Church
Princeton Order of Eastern Star
Mercer
Summers Counties
J. E. Stafford Jr
Welch
J. C. Dillon
Robert Hogan
Hinton
Concor
Fred Dillon
Kenneth Bragg
Resthaven
Hode White
G. K. White Sr
Les Cole
Jack White
H. J. Crute
J. A. Gott
J. C. Spencer
Hobart Wood
Noel Corns
Leonard Burress
Roy Farris
TEL
Women’s Missionary Society of
First Baptist Church
Maude Moss Jones
Ind
Vint Moss
Burkes Garden
Main Street Methodist Church
Tazewell
Lee Boye
W. E. Mustard
Maplewood Cemetery
Grover Funeral Home
J. P. Buchanan
Bill Moss
Jess
Walt Lampert
Bob Davis
Jim Hoge
Joe Jones
Bill Bundy
Jimmy Harman
Funerals listed for Shinault Dalton Walker and Bowser
Obituaries announce the funerals for James Frank Shinault nine of 1220 Hill Ave Bluefield today at 2 pm at Mercer Funeral Home Chapel burial Woodlawn. Pallbearers include Raymond Compton Gary Bowling and others. Robert Edward Dalton 80 formerly of Bluefield will be buried at Monte Vista with pallbearers named. Alice Walker of St Louis and Howard Bowser of Princeton have services scheduled with pallbearers named.
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James Henry Munsey
Carbondale
Colo
Pearlsnore
Roscoe H. Munsey
Pearisburg
Munsey Ceme
Loretta Perkins Munsey
James Munsey Jr
Winfred Parcell
Fort Lee
John Crews
Dewey Cline
Maybelle
Martha
Wilma Munsey
John L. Munsey
Raymond Munsey
Boise
Idaho
Givens Funeral Home
R. E. Brockman
R. R. Raub
Henry F. Warden Jr
Richard C. Rogers
Edgemont Baptist Church
Bowser, Howard
West Honaker Avenue
Princeton
Satuday
Bailey Funeral Home Chapel
Yandell Page
Roselawn
Kiwanis Club Changes Meeting Site in Bluefield
The Kiwanis Club of Bluefield Virginia changed its meeting site to the Bluefield Auditorium Restaurant during its Thursday session, the last at Virginia Side Masonic Hall. The club also donated a $102 check to the Temple Mission for Camp Roland, presented by Kiwanian Barnes Gillespie to director Mrs Evelyn Thomas. guest speaker was Rev.
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Kiwanis Club
Bluefield
Bluefield Auditorium
Virginia Side Masonic Hall
Temple Mission
Camp Roland
Evelyn Thomas
Barnes Gillespie
S Austin Caperton Coal Operator Dies at 69
S Austin Caperton of Slab Fork a veteran coal operator died aged 69 at his home after a long career with Slab Fork Coal Co the oldest operation on the former Virginian fields. He leaves two sons S Alln Caperton Jr and W Bernard Caperton and a brother Gaston Caperton of Charleston.
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S. Austin Caperton
Slab Fork
Helen Mason
S. All*n Caperton Jr
W. Bernard Caperton
Charlottesville, Va
Gaston Caperton
Charleston
Bluestone Baptists Plan Two Morning and Afternoon Services
Bluestone Baptist Church hosts two Sunday services with guest speakers Rev. J C Stitch at 11 a m and Rev. J W Wallace at 3 p m Music by the Men's Chorus and Senior Choir in the morning and Wallace's choir for the afternoon Sponsored by the Pastor's Aid Association with Rev Fred Thornton as pastor and Mrs Eunic Trent in charge of services.
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J. C. Stitch
Bluestone Baptist Church
J. W. Wallace
Pastor’s Aid Association
Fred Thornton
Eunice Trent
Single Statewide School District Proposed in West Virginia
West Virginia labor leader Miles Stanley urged creating a single statewide school district to improve funding and facilities. Speaking at West Virginia University he contrasted county spending and cited Hawaii as already using a single-district approach.
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Morgantown
Miles Stanley
Stanley
West Virginia Labor Federation
Aflcio
West Virginia University
Nicholas County
Hancock County
Hawaii
West Virginia
Industry Seminar Highlights Mercer Airport Expansion Prospects
The seminar chaired by W. J. Gillespie Jr. reviewed Piedmont’s regional airport plans and aircraft needs. Britt noted Mercer traffic could qualify for prop-jet service with runway extension to 6500–7000 feet, while 737 jets might reduce payload. Attendees from Bluefield area discussed plants in Princeton and Bluefield, and Kissinger described Virginia efforts to prepare communities for industry.
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Britt
Mercer Airport
Appalachians
Britt Seid Piedmont
Bluefield
Luther
Maidenform
North American Aviation and Dean Company
Instruments Princeton
Tazewell
United Piece Dye Works
Virginia adds three community colleges to new network
Three Virginia colleges join the state system on July 1 under new law, with Dabney Lancaster Community College Clifton Forge Wytheville Community College and Central Virginia Community College Lynchburg forming from Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia. Enrollment projections: Clifton Forge 400 Wytheville 500 Lynchburg 675.
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Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Tech
University of Virginia
General Assembly
Dabney S. Lancaster Community College
Clifton Forge
Wytheville Community College
Central Virginia Community College
Lynchburg
Danville Technical Institute
Clifton Forge College
Wytheville
S. A. Burnette
Henrico
Department of Community Colleges
Donald E. Puryear
Dabney Lancaster
Sherrard T. Moseley
Fred L. Wellman
Moseley
Kellogg Junior College
Wellman
United States Joins Tariff Signing on 7.5 Billion Trade Cuts
President Johnson orders the U S representative at Geneva to join 53 nations in signing new tariff agreements worth 7 5 to 8 billion dollars a year in imports and exports reductions. The program features a 35 percent average cut across many products, with specific cuts on machinery transport equipment and textiles. An antidumping code will apply fair procedures for goods sold below market value.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Geneva
Switzerland
William M. Roth
United States
Pontiff Opens Year Of Faith In St Peters Square
Pope Paul VI opened a Year of Faith marking the martyrdom of Peter and Paul with an outdoor consistory in St Peters Square. Twenty four new cardinals pledged obedience and received sapphire rings as the ceremony launched a year of prayers and religious observances for Catholics worldwide.
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Vatican Cityy
Paul VI
St. Peter and
St. Paul
St. Peters’s Square
Peter
Paul
Allison Shows Films At Kiwanis Club
Allison presents a travel themed program for Kiwanis Club members featuring a vacation trip to Boston Massachusetts and Niagara Falls New York. The Sahara Supper Club on North Street hosted the meeting.
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Allison
Kiwanis Club
Boston
Mass
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Sahara Supper Club
North Street
Promiscuity Allegations Rock School Staffing
A battle over the institution centers on alleged promiscuity at the school and claims of male visitors at night. Sarver defends the campus, blames staff for most problems, and notes underpaid workers and a missing superintendent since last July. Edith Nicholson is set to become superintendent Friday as Chauncey Browning rejects policy changes. Davisson’s inquiry is downplayed as limited.
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Davidson
Sarver
Davisson
Edith Nicholson
Bridgeport
Chauncey Browning
Wreck Kills Woman in City Street Collision
Angel belle Christman, 47, of Williamstown, was killed in a two car crash on a city street after turning left in front of an oncoming vehicle. Police said she drove from Rt. 1.
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Parkersburg
Angebelle Christman
Rt. 1
Williamstown
Sale notices for cars and trust property in Bluefield area
Notices describe public auctions for secured debts including a 1962 Chevrolet two door convertible with identification 21867B234130 and a 1960 Oideration two door with ID 63227W 15583. Also included is a trustee sale for parcels of real estate in Mercer County West Virginia with details of the deed of trust and auction time set for July 25 1967 at 10:00 AM at the front door Commerce in Bluefield.
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Chevrolet
McCann Motors
Marion F. McCann
Gefault
Tazewell
William R. Palmer
Geneva Palmer
Mercer County
West Virginia
Barger
City of
Bluefield
Sioca
Nainoeriea
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Mary Stafford
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Luther K. Webb
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Clarence L. French
Vansant
Vansant Church of Christ
Clarence Greenleaf
Jim Hill
Kenneth Overdorf
Looney Cemetery
Grundy Funeral Home
Millard
Cora French
Rocky Gap
Veteran's Hospital
Beckley
Alice Looney French
Leona Ferguson
Ypsilanti, Mich
Mattie Robinette
Mary Leftridge
Camp Creek
Harvey French
Kegley
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George Anderson
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Yards
St. Luke's Hospital
N. & W. Railroad
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Mamie M. Miles
Dan Neel
Harold Tabor
Lettie Albert
Perrott
Herman Anderson
Ted Williams
Knoxville
Graham Funeral Home
Ted Witt
John Bowes
Grandview Memory Gardens
James Munsey
Mrs. Maude Moss Jones
William Huffman
William Edgar
Bill) Huffman
Lebanon
Carterton
Peggy Blevins
H. F. Goolsby
Paul Thompson
George Ardis
Brad Gross
Castlewood
Charlie Chafin
Zadie Cox
Lebanon Funeral Chapel
L. G. Herndon
Russell Memorial Cemetery
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Guy H. Kissinger ,Jr
Virginia Division of Industrial Development
Kissinger
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