West Virginia Korean War Bonus Claims Start Soon
About 71 000 West Virginia veterans eligible for a Korean War bonus will begin filing tomorrow. The $10 monthly domestic service and $15 overseas rate max out at 300 for domestic and 400 for overseas service. First checks set for November 7 in Governor Underwood’s office.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Veterans Affairs
Cs, Collier Jr
West
Underwood
Collier
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department
Bonus Division
Veterans Department
Armed Forces
Washington
St. Louis
Navy
Air Force
Mt Hope Blast Wounds Three In Gas Station Explosion
Three men were injured at the New River Gulf Service filling station in Mount Hope West Virginia with one in critical condition. Johnny Fontana 30 of Mount Hope an employee suffered severe burns while Kenneth Heater 36 and Leonce Farrell 35 of Burnsville were treated and released. Fire officials believed a gas leak caused the blast which blew doors and windows and sparked a quick extinguishing effort by the Mount Hope fire department.
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Mount Hope
W. Va
New River Gulf Service
Howard Billings
Oak Hill
Johnny Fontana
Kenneth Heater
Leonce Farrell
Burnsville
Billings
Bradley's Winter Dress Sale Across Three Days
Bradley's offers dramatic reductions on winter cottons and dresses for three days. Select items drop from $2.00 to $10.00 with prices starting at $6.95, including Orion sweaters mostly Talbots, white fabric gloves at $1.00, and twenty-five blouses in cotton and silk marked to $1.95 and $2.95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradley's
Orion
Deaths and Funerals in Monroe County and Nearby Areas
Hettie Bostie Wickline 86 of Keenan Monroe County died at home after a long illness. Survived by daughter Mrs Roy Canterbury Lowell three sons Arleigh Raymond Russell, a brother the Rev Tilden Bostic, 14 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Services at Gates Baptist Church with burial in church cemetery. Grandsons pallbearers. Body at Broyles Funeral Home Union until service. Also noted are deaths of Mrs Clara Dunning and Mrs Roberta Craig Sr with funeral details and arrangements in New Jersey and Virginia. The list includes Dewey Stacy Welch. Glen Dillon Greenville. Matthew Wimmer Jewell Valley. Norman Perdieu Wilmore. Abel Coles Roanoke. Mrs Marion Clark Harman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hettie B. Wickline
Hettie Bostie Wickline
Keenan
Monroe County
Carl Wickline
The
Baptist Church
Roy Canterbury
Lowell
Arleigh
Raymond
Union
Russell
Ashland
Tilden Bostic
Oak Hill
Gates Baptist Church
A. B. Shifflet
Broyles Funeral Home
Robert T. Craig SR
Abingdon
Charles B. Snodgrass
Glade Spring
Frank Porterfield
Grundy
Noel Craig
R. T. Craig Jr
Glade Springs
William J. Legard
Bristol
Old Glade Springs Presbyterian Church
William F. Shouse
Williams Funeral Home
Chilhowie
Christian Church
Roderfield
Dewey Stacy
Welch
Welch Hospital
Blaine England
Hanover
Jaeger Memorial
Fanning
Jaeger
Vansant
S. W
Nora Stacy
Glen Arthur Dillion
William Dillion
Hans Creek
Greenville
Sue Ellen
W. E. Dillion
Manuel Fox
Forest Hill
Red Sulpher
A. B. Shifler
Gaps Mill
Homer Elkine
Lindside
Orchard Cemetery
Broyles
Peterstown
George
Jolo
Bill
Lillie ‘Horn
Harvey Horn
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Richard Kennedy
John Blankenship
Dave Wimmer
Whitewood
Norman Taylor Perdieu
Wilmore
N&w
Spouts Springs
Sam Perdieu
Rebecca Trent Perdieu
Elmo
Willie
Norman
Grace Coleman
Willis
Lynchburg
Emmet
Hotchkiss
Harvey
Perdieu
Fanning Funeral Home
Laeger
Calvary Baptist Church
Marion Alice Clark
Harman
G. B. Clark
Hattie Thurban
Mendon
George Armentraut
J. R. Witt
Clarence Mullins
Elswick
Harmon
Virginia Funeral Home
Funerals in Squire Swords Creek Prater and Matoaka
Funeral notices list Mrs Lloyd J Billings 20 of Squire at New Baptist Church with interment in Caretta Cemetery. Mrs Jake Hess 91 of Swords Creek at Richlands Tabernacle with interment in Dye Cemetery. Mona Beatrice O’Quinn eight of Prater at home with Bailey Cemetery. John M Stephens 80 of Matoaka at Matoaka Methodist Church with Resthaven Memorial Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hess
Jake
Swords
Creek
Richlands Tabernacle
Dye Cemetery
Swords Creek
Absenteeism Rises In Richlands Schools
In Richlands Virginia schools absenteeism climbs on flu like illnesses with no plan to close. Elementary cases rise from 127 to 140 this week while Richlands High School reports 165 on Monday and 170 on Tuesday.
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Richlands
Richlands High School
City Enjoys Rec Program Parties Across Seven Sites
Supervisors at seven city recreation program events report well attended gatherings at Ramsey and Wade schools Fairview Genoa Central and Hardy Street centers and the Bluefield Auditorium. Crowds of children were sizable but orderly and content with the activities including dolls footballs basketballs and more.
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Ramsey
Wade School
Fairview School
Genoa Junior High
Central Junior High
Hardy Street Recreation Center
Bluefield
Coppinger Discusses Bluefield Recreation Expansion Plan
Allen Coppinger Jr spoke to the South Bluefield Kiwanis on a long range program to add recreational facilities and buildings around the City Auditorium Municipal Stadium and Bowen Field. Ideas include enlarging Municipal Stadium, new lights for tennis, ice rink bowling facilities and an exhibition building. A lake near the ball park and a field house were also proposed with bond funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Coppinger, Jr
South
Coppinger
Osborne Engineering
Cleveland
Jim Henderson
Tommy Clevinger
Haskel G. Sluss
Uptown
Bartley Man Waives To Jury In Williams Fatal Shooting
Thomas Spence 44 of Bartley McDowell County waived to the grand jury for the fatal shotgun shooting of Samuel Williams 36 of Johnnycake at Williams home about 1 10 a m after an argument prior to a coon hunting trip. Williams survived by wife and six children, services set for 1 p m tomorrow with burial near Bartley.
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Thomas Spence
Bartley
McDowell County
Justice of the Peace
E. L. Mitchell
Samuel H. Williams
John
Spence
Williams
Joe Runyon
Yukon
Will L
Hettie Williams
Caretta
Cecil
Roby Williams
Jimmie
U.S
Korea
Harold
Fanning
Jaeger
Gas Lines Blown In Pike Floyd During Wave of Vandalism
Kentucky West Virginia Gas Corp reports four pipeline dynamitings in Pike and Floyd counties over a week. A 16 inch line near Turkey Creek was damaged and repaired. an eight inch line in Pike County also ruptured and repaired. Gunshots were fired at repair crews amid a labor strike now in its third week.
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Ashland
Kentucky - West Virgina Gas Corp
Pike
Floyd
James Wilson
Huntington
W. Va
Turkey Creek
Floyd County
W.C. Bombhoff
Pike County
Floyd Counties
Bomhoff
Oil, Gas and Atomic Workers
Local Cabs Seek Meter Readings in Bluefield
Two Bluefield taxi firms seek PSC approval to raise fares and install meters. Exam by Public Service Commission auditors in Charleston aimed at a 50 cent first mile rate plus 10 cents per half mile. Board favored meters. decision expected next week. attorneys Katz and Anderson represent petitioners.
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Bluefield
Public Service Commission
Charleston
Bluefield Board of Directors
Leroy Katz
Charles E. Anderson
Inland Confederate Navy Yard Remembered in Charlotte Plaque
In Charlotte a Civil War era Confederate Navy yard established in 1862 operated inland away from the sea. It produced ammunition and guns, repaired ordnance, and relied on local iron works for cannonballs and masts while the Union blockade held ports. The yard covered about 10 acres beside the old railroad. Mary Grimes Caldwell is the sole living person with direct knowledge, learned from her father who supervised the yard, and recent excavations found cannonballs at the site.
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Portsmouth
Navy
Charleston
S.C
Fort Sumter
Charlotte
North Carolina Central Railroad
Ion
Mecklenburg Iron Works
Mary Grimes Caldwell
Confederate Navy Yard
R. W. Grimes
Boissevain School Hurts From Flu Illness
Miss Dorothy Wainwright reports Boissevain School is operating but hampered as influenza like illness keeps nearly a third of pupils home. Enrollment is 306 with 91 absent in a day, and one teacher, Mrs. Sue Reed, also absent.
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Dorothy Wainwright
Boissevain School
Sue Reed
Weather outlook for Maryland Virginia and West Virginia
Maryland shows partly cloudy conditions in the west with cloudier windy and rainy parts in the east Friday high near 55 to 63. Virginia notes partly cloudy west and cloudy east with rain in the east and Friday highs 56 to 63. West Virginia expects partly cloudy Friday with highs around 60, milder Saturday. Tennessee forecast calls for partly cloudy mild conditions Friday and Saturday. Tides along the coasts reach 1 to 2 feet above normal in late tonight and Friday with small craft warnings in Maryland and Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Virginia
Atlantic
Chesapeake Bay
West Virginia
Tennessee
Former Virginia grid star Sauerbeck killed in Danville accident
John G. Sauerbeck 38 former UVa guard from the Bill Dudley era died at Danville Dairy Products Co plant. His jacket caught in a V belt, pulling him into a fly wheel. Survived by wife two sons three sisters and a brother. Rosary service Friday, Mass Saturday at Sacred Heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
John G
Jack) Sauerbeck
University of Virginia
Bill Dudley
Danville Dairy Products Co
Sauerbeck
Joseph M. Sauerbeck
Henry A. Wiseman Jr
City
Cavaliers
AF Reserve
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Flu Outbreak Could Trim Virginia School Aid
Virginia's superintendent Dr. Davis A. P. Paschall was asked by the state board of education to study how heavy absenteeism from flu and other illnesses may reduce local school divisions' state aid. Paschall will report at the December 5 meeting while Madison and Longwood Colleges report strained infirmaries and rising illness among students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Davis A. P. Aschall
State Board of Education
Paschall
Madison
Longwood
G. Tyler Miller
Miller
Francis G. Lankford
Bethlehem Has Rise In Income
Bethlehem Steel Corp reports net income of 40.05 million for the quarter ended September 30, 1957, earning 86 cents a share. President PA B Homer notes a leveling off in business but calls the level still very good. Nine months income totals 143.75 million or 3.11 a share, versus 99.69 million or 2.12 a share in 1956.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
B. Homer
Bethlehem Seel Corp
Homer
Bethlehem
Eugene Grace
Grace
Belmont
Mass
Brown University
McDowell Man Dies Of Injuries In Crash
Richard Mullins of Mohegan McDowell County died in Welch hospital from a single car crash in Hemphill Welch on Oct 5. The driver killed Charles Hartley 20 also of Mohegan, raising the county death toll to 22 and Mullins to 29. Police say the accident likely resulted from high speed as the car struck an overhead bridge abutment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Mullins
Mohegan
McDowell County
Welch
Hemphill
Mullins
Charles Hartley
Kenneth Payne
Keystone Rotary Dinner Hails District Governor Speaker
Keystone Rot ary Club hosted Keystone Speaker District Governor H Mansfield of Richwood at its dinner. He praised West Virginia clubs and the Keystone Club for community projects including Little League baseball, playground, and recreation center. Christmas street lighting duties were assigned to the club and city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keystone
Forest H. Mansfield
Rotary
Richwood
Keystone Rotary Club
West Virginia
Keystone Club
Herbert Calloway Sr
E. L. Cruise
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Army
National Guard
Mt. Hope
City and Coalfield
Clara Dunning
Roosevelt Hospital
Menlo Park
N. J
Dunning
Whitehorn Street
South Amboy
A. J. Nicarro
Thomas Lawrence Jeter
Martha Helen Chapple Jeter
Thomas J. Dunning
L. H. Schrader
Baltimore
Matthew Wimmer
Jewell Valley
James Logan
Wimmer
Mac-Dowell County
James and
Polly Wimmer
Laura Ward
Thomas Payne
Slem Jones
Walter Rise
Clarence Herron
Jack Wimmer
Riley
Sewell Wimmer
Gus
A. C. Judah
J. Eddie Galloway
Union Street
Paducah
Kentucky
Florence Lee Galloway
David
Kathy Madge
Elizabeth Anne
Abel Coles
Loud Ave
Roanoke
Lugo
Kiwanis
Nycake
D. L. Moye
Pike, Floyd
Jodrell Bank
England
N. C
Nana
America
Confederate States Navy Yard
North Carolina
East Trace Street
Navy Yard
Boissevain
Weather Bureau
Asheville
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Dallas
Denver
Jacksonville
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
St. Paul
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Seattle
Virginia Grid Star
Aerate Od
McDowell
Scott's Ball Field
Taxewell Road
Bluefield, West Virginia
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