Former McDowell Man Killed In Hunting Accident
Howard Douglas Mullins 24 of McDowell County was shot in Craig County near New Castle Virginia at 7 15 a m Monday The single bullet entered his left cheek and exited the back of his head The rifle lay across his chest and was not fired Authorities have no lead on the shooter Funeral services set for Thursday at 11 a m at the Church of God Warrior Mine with burial in Vance Cemetery Bradshaw Mountain
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Craig County
McDowell County
Howard Douglas Mullins
Mullins
New Castle
Jerry Dickerson
Dickerson
Howard Mullins
Phyllis Matney
Alexandria
Virginia Shambler
Tampa
Fla
Amizetta Mullins
Bill Chaffins
Germany
Church of God At
Warriormine
Willard Porter
A. J. Gardner
Vance Cemetery
Bradshaw Mountain
Chmara Speaks At Bluewell Lions Club Meeting
Bluefield High School head coach John Chmara was guest speaker at the Bluewell Lions Club gathering in Bluewell. He presented football trophies to Bluewell Little League players and cheerleaders and showed season highlights with Nick Colabro. Joe Vinciguerra led the meeting with guests Aaron Poff and Garvis Walker attending.
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John Chmara
Bluefield High School
Bluewell Lions Club
Frankie
Bluewell
Chmara
Nick Colabro
Bluefield
Beaver - Big Creek
Beaver-Parkersburg
Aaron Poff
Bramwell
Garvis Walker
Lions Club
Youth To Get Mental Hearing At Welch
A psychiatric examination is ordered for Philander William Arrington 17 of Welch by McDowell County Criminal Court Judge Leon P Miller during a bond hearing. He faces grand jury action or a felonious assault charge and will be taken from jail to a Bluefield hospital for evaluation. The report will be part of the bond case as Arrington’s parents hired new attorneys delaying proceedings.
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Philander
William Arrington
Welch
McDowell County
Juvenile Arrests on North Mercer Street in Bluefield
A 17 year old Bluefield juvenile was arrested late Monday by Bluefield City Police on North Mercer Street for operating a motor vehicle with a revoked permit and defective equipment. The youth posted a $125 bond Tuesday evening and is slated to appear before Judge John McGhee.
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Bluefield
Bluefield City
North Mercer Street
John McGhee
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Shipping Notice Note
The fragment shows a Bluefield newspaper masthead with rates and contacts. It mentions Associated Press affiliation, carrier delivery, and subscription pricing for West Virginia, plus advertising representation details.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Meray the Dal Daily Fasc
Odns Moly Telegramat Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
West Virginia
Eanee “Audit Bureau of Circular Advertising
The
Katz Agency, Inc
Telephone
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield and Surrounding Areas
Multiple obituaries detail survivors and service arrangements for Maria Bretti Antonio Bretti and Johnny Meadows among others. The notices mention churches, cemeteries, funeral homes, and family members across Bluefield Princeton Peterstown Welch Ikes Fork and surrounding towns.
Regin a Bradley infant dies in Suitland Md
Regina Dawn Bradley three month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Bradley of Suitland Maryland died Sunday morning at home in Suitland She is survived by her parents one brother Scottie James Bradley paternal grandparents Opie and wife of Lindside and maternal grandmother Anna Lee Shaver of Lindside Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p m at Broyles Funeral Chapel Peters town with Rev Harold Cox interment at the Bradley Cemetery Peters town
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Johnny Meadows
Rock Camp
Ronceverte Hospital
Lurich
Andrew Meadows
Cora Belle Meadows
Helen Hedrick Wickline Meadows
Douglas Dunn
Peterstown
Louise Ray
Springfield
Lucille Miller
Laura Jane Neel
Manassas
Lilly Thomas
Lindside
Jhana Jo Meadows
Edward Wickline
U. S. Army
Germany
Larry Wickline
Richmond
Benny Wickline
Karen Jane Wickline
Fred Meadows
St. Louis
Brownie Meadows
Broyles Funeral Chapel
Union
Hubert Groves
Hertzel Mills
Mountain View
Wikle
Carl Brown
Bob Mann
Lowell Davis
Jack Harvey
Herbert Pitzer
Doug Ferguson
Clark Hedrick
Thomas
Isiah P. Riffe
Ikes Fork
Welch
U. S. Steel Corporation
Gary
UMWA
Bethany Regular
Asabelle Pate Riffe
Barbara June Riffe
Loulleyn Riffe
Hanover
Paul Riffe
Newport
Mervin
Arnold Riffe
Falls Mills
Maxie Trent
Kimbolton
Ohio
Essie Cook
Aberdeen
Lilus Riffe
Abbottstown
Fanning Funeral Home
Saeger
Bethany Regular Baptist Church
Riffe
Anthony H. Sproles
Brushfork
Washington County
Moses and
Serida Dye Sproles
Brushfork Methodist Church
Lula Walton Sproles
Carl G. Sproles
Bluefield
Iva Lee Woodley
McMinnville
Mercer Funeral Home
Herbert Herman Sr
Anaheim
Calif
Pittsburg
U. S. Air Force
General Electric Corp
Utica
N. Y
McDonald Douglas Corp
Masonic Lodge
Shrine
Sarita Bailey Herman
Saltville
Glade Spring
Patricia Celeste Herman
David
Richard
William Francis Herman
California
Herbert Herman Jr
Ogunquit
Maine
Walter Wolverton Herman
U. S. Marine Corps
Puerto Rico
Bernice Segal
Mildred Freelander
Florida
Dorothy Cohen
Maryland
David Herman
Pennsylvania
Henderson Funeral Chapel
Abingdon
Knollkreg Park
Regina Dawn Bradley
Joe Bradley
Suitland
Scottie James Bradley
Opie Bradley
Anna Lee Shaver
Harold Cox
Bradley
Funerals held for Alvin Stewart and Veda Akers in Appalachia
Rev. Alvin Otho Stewart 73 of Tip Top Va dies. Service today at 2 p.m. at Bluefield Church of God with burial at Grandview Memory Gardens. Pallbearers listed. Honorary pallbearers include regional ministers. Mrs Veda Akers 61 of Cov es Wyoming County dies. Funeral today at Bailey Chapel Princeton with burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers named. husband George P. Akers survives.
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Clarence Edward Murphy
Welch
McDowell County
Fanning Funeral Chapel
Jaeger
Oliver Roberts
Jaeger Memorial Cemetery
Roderfield
Gary
Harvey
Mary Murphy
Cecil
Charles Murphy
Saeger
Kathleen Lester
Betty Bailey
Chicago
Helen Bailey
Barbara Kennedy
Cereda Kenova
Charlie M. Murphy
Pikeville
Bertha Williams
Stewart, Va
Pauline Walker
Columbus Murphy
Junior Murphy
Amonate
George W. Seaver
Princeton
Paul Carter
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bluefield
Princeton Road
Roy Rich
Tommy Kiser
Elmer Kiser
Leroy Beckner
Evans Fitzgerald
Akers
Veda
Covés
Wyoming County
Bailey Funeral Chapel
Lonnie Blankenship
Buddy McKinney
Ray Curtis
Wiley Akers
Oscar
Elmer
Carlos Shrewsbury
George P. Akers
Bank Robbery Probe Seeks Two Men in Petersburg Heist
FBI agents and State Police pursued two armed suspects described as six feet tall, about 200 pounds, after the First National Bank of Petersburg robbery at noon Monday. About $34,000 was taken. no arrests had been made. A customer and employee were tied and later released by other patrons who arrived as the robbers fled in a red late-model car.
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FBI
First National Bank
Peterstown
Ex Bluefield teen held on Los Angeles murder charge
Frankie L. Thomas, 19, a Bluefield native, was arrested after entering the Bluefield police station claiming to have been beaten. Los Angeles police said he stabbed Henry Price, 35, a laborer, in a hotel room following a fight. He is jailed in Bluefield on a murder charge awaiting extradition.
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Bluefield
Los Angeles
Frankie L. Thomas
Thomas
Jones Street
Andrew L. Dodson
Henry Price
Routine McDowell County Board Meets Tonight
Superintendent P. K. Martin said the meeting will cover routine business and not a special session to act on a junior high principal's potential dismissal. Charges must be written and a hearing held in the first week of December, with prior warnings cited.
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McDowell County Board of Education
P. K. Martin
Martin
Daily Telegraph
Bridge Club Meeting Postponed for Nov 29
The mid week bridge and whist tournament sponsored by the mid week bridge club of the Bluefield Community Center will be postponed until November 29.
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Bluefield Community Center
Demands cut across Bluefield State amid campus turmoil
Bluefield State College President Wendell G. Hardway halted student activities to restore order after window breakages and tire slashing. Police patrols increased as six new Demands joined a 41 item list calling for administrative shakeups, expanded black studies, open facilities, more student control, and various campus reforms. Four visiting Concord College students denied involvement in violence linked to a controversial faculty letter.
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Bluefield State College
Wendell G. Hardway
Hardway
Bluefield City
Princeton
Bluefield
BSC
Student Union
Concord College
William B. Bennett
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Jack Nestor
Lloyd Davis
P. E
Pearson
Thompson
Robertson
Jackson
Human Rights Commission
Union College
Schenectady
N. Y
Bluefield State
California College
Denial of West Virginian Hotel Sale To Long Island Buyer
Spokesmen for the West Virginian Hotel in Bluefield deny reports that a Long Island man purchased the hotel to convert it into a nursing home. Attorneys and bond holders say no sale happened and the hotel will likely remain a hotel.
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Bluefield
Long Island
New York
William T. Hancock
Hancock
Charleston
Tom Longs
Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce
Longi
Hotel Hill
Oak Hill
Northfork
McDowell County
Work Camp Escapee Still At Large In Virginia
A 38 year old escapee from Camp 31 at Gratton Virginia serving a one year term for non support remains at large. Herman Matney of Buchanan County fled the Virginia work camp around 4 p.m. Saturday authorities said. The search was ongoing Tuesday night as officials continued their hunt.
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Gratton
Herman Matney
Buchanan
County
Virginia
Woman Hurt In Two Car Crash At Maitland Route 52
Welch woman Barbara Morgan, 34, was admitted with a fractured back after a two car collision on Route 52 at Maitland. The crash involved Monica Chapman 61 and Harold Morgan 37, both of Welch, with Chapman's 1962 model car and Morgan's vehicle. Patrick Morgan, 3, was uninjured. No charges were filed.
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Welch
Maitland
J. W. Kinsey
Barbara Morgan
Monica L. Chapman
Kinsey
Morgan
Patrick
Stevens Clinic
Guilty Plea Set Aside in Hicks Arson Case
William Harrison Hicks of English had his guilty plea for arson in the fourth degree set aside by McDowell County Criminal Court Judge Leon P. Miller. Hicks sought a jury trial claiming the original plea was made at his father’s urging and not voluntary. the case was docketed for the January term.
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William Harrison Hicks
McDowell County
Franklin Is Kiwanis Guest at Bramwell Club
Dr. C. McCoy Franklin pastor of First Presbyterian Madisonville Tenn spoke to Bramwell Kiwanis at 7:30 p m in the Masonic hall about childhood incidents in western North Carolina He noted he could not read or write until age 21 and pursued seminary education Guests included Tommy King Bob Williams Simon Bourne Bob Goosen C Crawford Connor Goodby and members attended U S Marine Corps Band Concert at Brushfork Armory Band sponsored by Spanishburg Bramwell High School Band Boosters
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C. McCoy Franklin
First Presbyterian Church
Madisonville, Tenn
Bramwell Kiwanis Club
Masonic Hall
Bramwell
Dr. McCoy
North Carolina
Northfork Kiwanis Club
Tommy King
Bob Williams
Simon Bourne
Bob Goosen
C. P. Crawford
Jerry Connor
John Goodby
U. S. Marine Corps
Brushfork Armory
Spanishburg
McDowell Lifer Seeks Freedom From 1961 Murder Conviction
Earl Hansford Martin, 36, of Skygusty, serving a life term at Moundsville Penitentiary for the 1961 murder of Constable Max Webb, seeks relief as the West Virginia Supreme Court orders a hearing on whether his involuntary confession and lack of counsel affected the trial.
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West Virginia State Supreme Court
Leon P. Miller
McDowell County
Martin
Welch
West Virginia
State Supreme Court
High Court
A. C. Cunningham
J. Strother Crockett
Max Webb
Thorpe
Youth Found Near Burkes Garden After Sunday Missing
A five year old from Washington County was found Tuesday at about 1 a.m. after being reported missing while hunting Monday. Authorities said the boy was located near Burkes Garden Virginia by the Richlands Rescue Squad.
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Washington County
Burkes Garden
Richlands
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Bluefield Daily Apd
McDowell
Arrington
Maria Bretti
Cumberland Road
Italy
Joseph
Maria Anne Bonelli Attisani
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Antonio Bretti
Vito Bretti
Thomas Bretti
Norwood
Mass
Joseph Bretti
Hawkins Funeral Home
Mrs. Macy Higginbotham
Macy C. Higginbotham
Thorn St
Davis and
Pamala Stinson Thorn
Kee Street
Clarence Murphy
Edward Charles McIintosh
William E. and
Louise Heath McIntosh
RFD 1
C. D. McIntosh
Fred Heath
Memorial Funeral
Mrs
Bertha Caves
Bertha Martin Caves
New Hope Road
Denmar State Hospital
Beard
Hinton
Harrison
Alberta Nichols Martin
Earl Belcher
Flint Mich
Sam Belcher
Virginia Nicewander
Coopers
Mable Rigney
Arlington, Va
Dewey Martin
Ravenna
Fred C. Johnston
Carolina Ave
Beckley
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Paul Hall
Johnston Family
Black Oak Mountain
Charlie
Camnellia Lindsey Johnston
Lena Jane Johnston
Carl
Edward Johnston
Melvin Johnston
U. S. Navy
David C. Johnston
Johnny Johnston
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Howard Jones
Earl Goff
Gladys Munsey
Milbourn Warren
Bill
Earl
Arlie Johnston
Edward Charles McIntosh
Regina Bradley
Bridge Club
Bennett
Franklin
McDowell Lifer
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