Mercer County Airport board debates McGlothlin resignation
Mercer County Court split as two members refused to accept airport manager C W McGlothlin’s resignation while O D Compton voted to accept it. The panel discussed appointing Paul Shrewsbury to replace William Stafford, a decision later questioned for legality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Calfee
Mercer County Court
Mercer
C. W. “‘Cotton
McGlothlin
O. D
Compton
William ‘‘Bill
Stafford
Airport Authority
Paul Shrewsbury
Matoaka
Donald Anello
Bernard Wilkinson
Brookins Taylor
Bluefield
David Knight
House of Delegates
Melvin Grubb
Byron W. Satterfield
Shrewsbury
Walter Burton
Princeton
Burton
Taylor
Halsey
Anello
Ethel
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Publication Details
The notice lists the Bluefield Daily Telegraph as established in 1693 and published every morning by the Daily Telegraph Printing Co at 412 Blane Street Bluefield with Associated Press affiliation. It outlines subscription rates by carrier and mail, West Virginia domestic rates and asks readers to apply for other zone rates, and mentions advertising managers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Blane Street
Bluefield
W. Ve
Associated Press
Sis News
West Virginia
Mathews, Sheence
Church Group Elects Officers for Coming Year
Bluefield PFNA chapter elected Quintin Hughett as president and Hoyt E. Stone as vice president Norman Gray as secretary Mrs Sylvia Mae Hill as treasurer and Don Elliot as board member at large The PFNA gathers 20 plus area congregations to foster interdenominational fellowship and gospel outreach The November meeting included farewell remarks for outgoing president Douglas Morgan and noted Hughett is pastor of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Princeton
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Pentecostal Fellowship of North America
Quintin Hughett
Hoyt E. Stone
Norman Gray
Sylvia Mae Hill
Don Elliot
PFNA
Neal Heil
Douglas Morgan
Greenwood
South Carolina
Pentecostal Holiness
Second Street
Highland Avenue
Princeton
Byrd urges haste for Bailey Lake flood project
Sen. Robert C. Byrd pressed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accelerate the R. D. Bailey flood control project in Wyoming County. In a letter to Col. Kenneth McIntyre he warned that delays raise costs and extend the period without protection. Byrd proposed hiring an extra contractor for any segments not on schedule. the $108.5 million project aims to finish in 1976.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, W. Va
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Wyoming County
Kenneth McIntyre
Corps
Huntington
W. Va
Robert C. Byrd
Byrd
Jarrett To Discuss Area Drug Problems
Mercer County Intermediate Court Judge Howard Jarrett will discuss the illegal drug situation in the county at a Bluefield Elks meeting on November 15, starting at 8:30 a.m. The spokesman said the public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Howard Jarrett
Bluefield Elks
Music Set For Dance At Princeton Youth Center
The Leaf will provide music for a dance at the Princeton Youth Center on Saturday from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Admission is $1.25 per person and Youth Center membership cards are required for admittance, says Director Carl Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton Youth Center
Carl Howard
Youth Center
Deaths and Funerals in Virginia and Florida
Obituaries note the deaths of Bane Van Dyke 71 of Ocala Fla formerly of Jewell Ridge and Richlands Va with funeral plans in Ocala. Maria Baker 76 of Coalwood dies in Welch hospital. services pending. Walter W. Lester 49 of Tazewell Va dies in Johnson City Tenn. veterans groups to conduct graveside rites. Clarence O St Clair 74 of Princeton Va dies. funeral at Davis Funeral Chapel Oakvale. Millard T Campbell 45 of Swords Creek Va found dead in Richlands Va hotel room. survivors listed. Mullens Funeral Home handling arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. T. Campbell Millard Thomas Campbell
Rt. 1
Swords Creek
Richlands
West Virginia
Lola May Jamison Campbell
Hobson Campbell
Washington, D. C
Helen Miser
Borman, Mont
Dorothy Compton
Roanoke
Clara Reed
Germany
Ralph Campbell
Guy Campbell
Raven, Va
Harry Campbell
Woodbridge
Mullens
Patricia Ann Quinley dies in Grundy hospital
Patricia Ann Quinley seven year old daughter of Grady and Fannie Quinley of Patterson Virginia died Sunday night in a Grundy Virginia hospital. Survived by five sisters Margie Norma Jean Connie Sue Dianne Lee and Mrs Tommy Nickels and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Bill Nickels. Service Wednesday 11 a.m. at maternal grandparents home with Rev Dewey Ward Shortridge Cemetery on Little Prater near Grundy. Body removed from Grundy Funeral Home to grandparents residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Ann Quinley
Grady
Fannie Nickels Quinley
Patterson
Grundy
Margie Quinley
Norma Jean Quinley
Connie Sue Quinley
Dianne Lee Quinley
Tommy Nickels
Obituary: Robert L. Brooks 79 of Bluefield Va
Robert Lee Brooks 79 Bluefield Va died Monday at home after a long illness. He retired from Cole Baking Co and belonged to the Bluefield Chapter Old Guard. Survived by Lena Wolfe Brooks and three daughters Louise Hurt Jothy Jackson Irene Lester and three sons Herbert Howard Bobby, two brothers Jim Ed and I W Brooks, 14 grandchildren seven great grandchildren. Services 3 p.m. Wednesday at Dudley Memorial Chapel Bluefield Va burial Grandview Memory Gardens. Funeral home open between 7 and 9 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lee Brooks
Bluefield
Tazewell County
John C
Pricilla West Brooks
Cole Baking Company
The
Old Guard
Lena Wolfe Brooks
Paul D. Louise Hurt
Jothy Jackson
Chilhowie
Willie
Irene) Lester
Castlewood
Herbert C. Brooks
Howard L. Brooks
Bobby M. Brooks
Sandusky
Ohio
Jim Ed Brooks
Johnson City
Tenn
I. W. Brooks
Dudley Memorial Chapel
Robert Parsons
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Clifford Presley Dies After Apparent Heart Attack
Clifford Presley aged 57 of Chicago formerly of Capels died Sunday in a Chicago hospital after an apparent heart attack. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Douglas Mortuary in Welch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Presley
Chicago, Ill
Capels
Chicago
Douglas’ Mortuary
Welch
Claudia Eppling Dies at 60 in Princeton
Claudia P. Eppling 60 of Lake Bottom Princeton died Monday in a Princeton hospital memorial funeral directory in Princeton lists services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claudia Eppling
Claudia P. Eppling
Lake Bottom
Princeton
Robert Collins obit from Thompsons Valley Va
Robert Collins 65 of Thompsons Valley Virginia died Sunday night He was a retired lumberman with Mingo Lime and Lumber Co Matewan Survived by wife Maggie Dotson Collins four daughters two step children three brothers one sister thirteen grandchildren and seven great funeral conducted Wednesday at 2 p m at Greever Funeral chapel Rev Eddie Nash officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p m today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Collins
Robert W. 65
Thompsons Valley
Tazewell
Mingo Lime and Lumber Co
Matewan
Maggie Dotson Collins
Alice Deskins
Meta
Ernestine Hunt
Kimper
Ruby Estep
Edith Bailey
Ida Preece
Suffolk
John D. Potter
Baptist Valley Va
L. C. Potter
Portsmouth
Charles Collins Havelock
N. C
Hairston Collins
Newport News
Obituary for Tom Presley of Honaker Virginia
Tom Presley 88 of Honaker Va died Monday in a Marion hospital he was a lifelong Honaker resident a retired lumberman and farmer he belonged to New Garden Primitive Baptist Church Survived by four sons four daughters one brother one sister and 17 grandchildren funeral at Lebanon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Walter Breeding and Rev Scott Campbell officiating burial in Rasnake Family Cemetery near Cleveland Va service between 7 and 9 p.m. today
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Maria Baker
Coalwood
Welch
Cullen
Ellis
Ernie Smith
Floyd Baker
Truevine Baptist Church
Virginia Williams
Thorpe
Beatrice Parker
Detorit, Mich
Evelyn Boyd
Albert Baker
Dayton
Ohio
William Baker
Buffalo
N. Y
Melvin Getter Jeter
Rosa B. Patterson
Detroit
Arthur Smith
Philadelphia
Page Funeral Home
Tom Presley
Honaker
Marion
Presley
New Garden Primitive
Graham Presley
West Carlton
Tom T. Presley
Cleveland
Harless Presley
North East
Sam Presley
Kingsport
Tenn
James F. Smith
Harold Morris
P. G. Breeding
South Bend
Ind
Clyde Breeding
Edd Presley
Danville
Maude Honaker
Lebanon Funeral Home Chapel
Walter Breeding
Scott Campbell
Rasnake Family
Gransons
Funeral notices and services for Welch Princeton McDowell area
Funeral services announced for Domineck Batllo 53 of Welch at Our Lady Queen of the Apostles in Kimball with burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Lena Dangerfield Anderson 78 of Princeton to be buried at Roselawn Memorial Gardens after George W Seaver Chapel service. Bernard S Clements 91 of Glenwood Park Nursing Home to be buried Monte Vista. Thelma Potter 54 of McDowell to be buried Sunset Memorial Park Mountain City Tennessee.
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Battlo
Domineck
Welch
Our Lady Queen of the Apostles Catholic Church
Kimball
Father James Murphy
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bluefield
Princeton
William Kell
Mike Gianato
Sam Gattuso
Charles Larkin
Amedeo Amici
Joe Larkin
Fanning
Potter
Thelma
McDowell
Lewis Gentry
Mountain City
Tenn
Buford Cole
Sunset Memorial Park
Virginia Side Names New Town Manager From Hickory
Bluefield Virginia Side Town Council hires Sam Howard age 47 of Hickory North Carolina to replace Pick Lambert at a salary of 14000 dollars per year. Howard, president of Supreme Personnel and Management Association, will start within 15 days after council received 36 applications.
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Jim Gilberth
Sam Howard
Hickory
N. C
W. N. (Pick) Lambert
Bluefield
Howard
Supreme Personnel and Management Association
James H. Jones
Los Angeles City College
North Carolina State University
North Carolina
Jones
Beckley
Norfolk and Western Railway
Keys’, Inc
J. E. Pile
J. B. Harry
East End
Epperson Construction Co
Epperson
Virginia Avenue
Three Cons Address Local Drug Seminar
The Princeton fellowship hall hosted a Monday night seminar by five men including three ex cons and Chaplain Tom Miller. They shared drug experiences from Vietnam to Attica and urged honesty, education, and rehabilitation over punishment as they plan to continue discussions at a 7 p.m. session with experts on the panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dee Wilson
First Christian Church
Princeton
Tom Miller
Huttonsville Correctional Center
Social Concern
First Christian Church of
Attica
N. Y
West Virginia
Jay C
David
Vietnam
Nam
Gary
Navy
Miller
United States
Public Health
Lexington
Republican Club Meets Thursday in Princeton Circuit Courtroom
The Mercer County Republican Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Circuit Courtroom at the courthouse in Princeton. President Mrs. Carl Carper and Richard Wesley, chairman of the county executive committee, will discuss the recent campaign and future organization. All committee members are asked to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Republican Club
Princeton
Carl Carper
House of Delegates
Richard Wesley
Republican Executive Committee
Republican
Lusk Charged as Probe Continues in Fatal Bluewell Shooting
Mrs. Lusk died from three shotgun wounds after a struggle prior to the shot. Her husband, Lusk, was charged with murder as investigators led by Mercer County Prosecutor David Knight gathered evidence and worked into Monday night. Survivors include Henry Ford Lusk Jr, 7, Sandra, and 29 month old Charles Jeffrey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lusk
Princeton
Meadows
Kyle
Mercer County
David Knight
Charles Smith
Jim Harsh
Bob Baughman
ODES Initiates New Member During Meet
Nannie Martin was initiated into the Queen Esther Chapter No. 2 Order of the Eastern Star during the monthly meeting. Members set a Christmas party for December in the home of worthy matron Sarah Smith at 409 Hardy Street Bluefield, and voted not to meet again until the first Friday in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nannie Martin
Queen Esther Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Worthy
Sarah Smith
Hardy St
Bluefield
Service League to Hold Memorial for Maggie Fleshman
The Service League Meets The League for Service will gather at Bluefield Community Service today at 7 p.m. for a memorial service honoring Maggie Fleshman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Service League
League For Service
Bluefield
Maggie Fleshman
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Bluefield-Mercer Library Commission
Joseph Hatfield
Mercer Economic Opportunity Corporation
Hatfield
Rock District
EOC
Athens
Bramwell
Oakvale
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bailey Lake
Jarrett
Bane van Dyke Bane van Dyke
Ocala
Fla
Jewell Ridge
Anthony and
Julia Ann Johnson van Dyke
Jewell Ridge Coal Corp
Texaco
Cedar Bluff
Glenn’s Drive-In
Ocala Presbyterian Church
Edna Jones van Dyke
Lee
Pauline) Blevins
Phoenix
Ariz
Kermit
Mary Alice) Burres
Darrell
Judith) Bucklen
Bane van Dyke Jr
Omer Ketron
Edward Mullins
Henry van Dyke
Yukon
Walter van Dyke
Andrew van Dyke
Floyd van Dyke
Orlando
Walter W. Lester
Maplewood Cemetery
VFW
American Legion
Peery and St. Clair
Clarence O
ST. Clair
Jack) St. Clair
Rt. 3
Weynoke Coal and Coke Co
UMWA
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Army Medical Corps
Goldie Thomas St. Clair
Marsha St. Clair
Christiansburg
Jackie Parks
Clarence St. Clair Jr
Robert Lee St. Clair
Nevada City
Calif
E. L
Tom) St. Clair
Elkhorn
Estelle Greene
Sreesay
Davis Funeral
William Daniels
Veterans Council No. 1
Memorial
Frank Stepp
Harry Belcher
Fredda Sarver
Bland Street
Virginia Side
Town
Hickmans
Athens Crossroads
ODES
Warrenizing Cleaners
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