Two Hurt In Mercer Wrecks In Early Morning Crashes
In Mercer County two people were injured slightly and two drivers faced traffic charges after separate crashes on U S 32 north of Bramwell and near Bluefield. Shirley Dyson suffered a lip laceration in a second collision involving Anthony Carosi. Ronnie Scott reported a parked car hit by a hit and run on Falls Mills Road. Troopers C F Little and W A Johnson investigated.
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U. S
Bramwell
William Morgan
Bluefield
Shirley Dyson
Montcalm
Ralph B. Dyson
Dyson
Anthony J. Carosi
Seconday
Carosi
Ronnie Scott
Falls Mills
Mercer County
C. F. Little
W. A. Johnson
NFO seeks justice probe over meat price hikes
Corning Iowa AP The National Farmers Organization asked the U S Justice Department to investigate meat price increases announced by major packers and chain stores. NFO president Oren Lee Staley said telegrams allege collusion and price fixing to force higher farm prices, with a plan to hold livestock off the market to press for contracts.
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Corning
Iowa
AP i
National Farmers Organization
U.S. Justice Department
Oren Lee Staley
Rea. Mo
NFO
Justice Department
Chai
NFC
Staley
WVU College Of Law To Honor Robertson As Outstanding Alumnus
Morgantown AP State Atty Gen C Donald Robertson will be honored at a September 21 dinner as WVU College of Law outstanding alumnus of the year. The award comes from the WVU Phi Alpha Delta chapter, a national legal fraternity, with Robertson a Clarksburg resident.
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Morgantown
C. Donald Robertson
West Virginia University College of Law
Robertson
WVU
Phi Alpha Delta
Phe
Clarksburg
Ex-Prime Minister of Poland Succumbs in London
General Felicjan Skladkowski, Poland's prime minister at the outbreak of World War II, has died in London at 77. A physician by training, he had not practiced for years and lived quietly in a south London suburb. his death nine days ago went largely unreported by British media.
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London
Felicjan Skladkowski
Poland
Skladkowski
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertising and Circulation Note
Short clipped yearbook style note from Bluefield Daily Telegraph outlines Associated Press use of dispatches and local news publication access, with subscription rates and circulation details, plus carrier delivery and audit bureau membership references.
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Daily Telegrapp Printing Co
Bland Street
Biad
Associated Press
Atom
Iso
Maiic
Bures
AumeOrs
Fey
Deaths and Funerals Affects Several Families
Obituaries from Bramwell to Beechfork note Rowland Toy, Virginia Tuggle, Hazel Hairston, and others. Survivors include spouses, siblings, and children. services set at Mercer, Richlands, Hust-Scott, and Adams funeral homes with beechfork and Maple Gap cemeteries mentioned. Local heart fund donations requested in Toy case.
Longtime Bluefield matriarch and relatives mourned
Mrs Marcella Grace Gentry Brown 39 of North Mercer Street Bluefield died at home Saturday. She was born in Independence Virginia and survived by her parents several children and siblings. Funeral services and burial will be in Independence with date to be announced.
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Samwel
Caroline Toy
Bramwell
Merchant Marine
American Railway Express
Leonard Cole
de Land
Fla
S. E. Massey
Orlando
Leonard Toy
Mercer Funeral Home
Bluefield
Woodlawn
Virgnia
Juanita Tuggle
George B. Tuggle
Long Branch
Raven
Ben Johnson
Maple Gap
Grat Horton
Joan Herndon
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Richlands
Holiness Church
Linda Sue Johnson
Swords Creek
John B. Johnson
George W. Tuggie
Dewely L. Tuggle
Ben
Martha Stevenson Johnson
Near Maple Gap
Eleanor Shelton
Ruby Johnson
Stewart
Andrew Johnson
Easley
Gordon. Johnson
Fort Wayne
Ind
Nancy Blankenship
Virgil Blankenship
Moundsville
Edgar
William Taylor
Homer
Hubert Blankenship
Hurley
Kenneth Blankenship
Walford
Alex Payne
Grundy
Harvey Mullins
Jolo
Earnest Mounts
Vansant
Mary Christian
Bradshaw
Virginia Funeral Home
Debra Lynn Osborne
Gaines
Sarah Osborne
Red Ash
Madalene Davis
Doris Ann Lawson
Pineville
Patty
Mary
Linda
Betty Osborne
Johnny
James
Tommy
Roger Osborne
Hust-Scott Funeral Home
Lee McGrathlin
George Bautrokovitz
Wharncliffe
Mingo County
Williamson
Russia
United Mine Workers of America
Ruth Cantrell
Julian Cline
Albert Jarvis
Beechfork
Adams Funeral Home
Gilbert
Marcella Grace Gentry Brown
North Mercer Street
Independence
Joe Gentry
Geraldine
Samuel
Buford
Marlin Brown
Gwendolyn Marcella Perry
Roanoke
William
Lawrence Gentry
Washington, D. C
Frances Carter
Joanna Bradshaw
Kaye Perry
Phoebe Fuller
Harman
Didema Browning
Greenbrier Baptist Church
Dolphus Blankenship
Evans Bailey
Cosby Conaway
Grundy Funeral Home
Browning
Funeral service for Lula Davis Crabtree in Rocky Gap
Mrs Lula Davis Crabtree 81 of Rocky Gap Virginia funeral Tuesday at 2 p m at Sunny Point Methodist Church near Rocky Gap officiated by High Ireson and Rev George Arnold burial in Crabtree Cemetery Shawvers Mill Virginia
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Eugene
Orrin Davis
Charles Jarrell
W. C. Byrd
Tom Stowers
Gilmer Updyke
Small Dose Radiation Warns Of Hereditary Damage
A U N report by the Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation warns that even tiny radiation doses can cause hereditary harm in people and may have immediate effects on exposed individuals, especially unborn babies. The panel urges worldwide action to minimize exposure from medical X rays fluoroscopes isotopes and related devices and favors ending nuclear test explosions.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Seminar Set Tuesday By Woman's Society
Members of the Women's Society of Christian Service for the Tazewell District Holston Conference Methodist Church will hold their annual fall seminar on Tuesday September 11 at the Virginia Avenue Methodist Church in Bluefield Virginia Registration begins with coffee at 9 30 a m and the seminar starts at 10 a m
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Women's Society of Christian Service
Tazewell District
Holston
Methodist Church
Virginia Avenue Methodist Church
Bluefield
Dublin Airman Dies in Missouri Stairwell Fall
An airman second class, Harold Reese Martin, 20, of Dublin Virginia, died after stumbling and falling into a basement stairwell at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base near Kansas City. He had been stationed at the base two years. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Martin.
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Kansas City
Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
Harold Reese Martin
Ruchard R. Martin
Dublin
Airmen escape serious injury as cabin simulator catches fire
At Brooks Air Force Base two officers Captain Carl C. Fietcher Jr and Captain Dean B. Smith escaped serious harm when a sealed space cabin simulator caught fire during a 14 day flight test. The fire started in the control panel and the capsule was badly damaged. Fietcher was treated for smoke inhalation and Smith remained for observation.
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San'“Amponio
Tex
Air Force
School of Aerospace Medicine
Air Force Systems Command
Brooks Air Force Base
Carl C. Fietcher Jr
San Bernardino
Calif
Dean B. Smith
San Antonio
Pietcher
Lackland Afb
Smith
Brooks
Notables honor priest at star studded charity dinner
About 1600 movie and civic notables including President Kennedy and Pope John XXIII attended a $10 plate dinner for Rev. Patrick Peyton C S C celebrating his 20th year as a family prayer crusader. Loretta Young appeared with estranged husband Tom Lewis, fueling talk of a reunion though no reconciliation was stated.
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Hollywood
Kennedy
John XXIII
Loretta Young
Patrick Peyton
C.S.C
Scranton
Notre Dame University
Miss Young
Tom Lewis
Lewis
Britain's Entry In Mart To Be Aired By 16 Countries Today
London AP reports 16 Commonwealth leaders meet to weigh Britain joining the European Common Market. Prime Minister Macmillan opens talks with the government’s fate at stake if he fails to justify joining Europe. French President De Gaulle and West Germany's Adenauer signal European cooperation without Britain.
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Britain
London
Europe
Macmillan
de Gaulle
France
Chanellor Adenauer
West
Germany
Commonwealth
Welder-Tinsmith Charged in Morgantown Slaying
Police filed a murder charge against 31 year old welder-tinsmith David A. Davis in the Saturday night slaying of Bonnie Duckworth 26 in Morgantown Monongalia County jail held Davis a father of three whose wife is expecting another child. Duckworth was shot in the head with a .22 caliber pistol while sitting in front of her home after an apparent dispute. Authorities pursue the case.
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Morgantown
Bonnie Duckworth
Monongalia
David A. Davis
Danny Palmer
Briton Made Mountaineer at Camp Dawson Picnic
Gov. Barron named Lt. Col. John Woodhouse an Honorary Mountaineer at Camp Dawson during an outdoor picnic. Woodhouse led more than 100 British guerrilla fighters in mock battles with American troops over 17 days, ending with 11 British and 35 American losses as the unit heads to Ft. Bragg then England.
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Kingwood
W.va
Barron
Camp Dawson
John Woodhouse
Great Britain
22Nd Special Air Service Regiment
Woodhouse
Gov
West Virginia
King
Ft. Bragg
N.C
England
William P. Yarborough
US Army Special Warfare Center
Jee F. Burdett
West Virginia University
Paul Miller
Baby Stars Reported by Mt Wilson Observatory
Astronomers at Mt Wilson Observatory report a class of UV Cell stars, tiny dwarfs with low mass and luminosity. They show brief outbursts of radiation and likely form from condensed space dust and gas, with hydrogen and calcium in their spectra. They may be very young, turbulent objects akin to T Tauri stars, undergoing unstable color and brightness variations. The study on low luminosity variable stars continues.
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Washington,nana
Mt. Wilson
Cal
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Carnegie
Milky Way
Akers To Address Bluefield Rotarians Tuesday
Charles C. Akers production superintendent of United Piece and Dye Works Bluefield Va will address Bluefield Rotarians at the weekly meeting Tuesday noon at the West Virginian Hotel. He will discuss textiles taken for granted.
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Charles C. Akers
United Piece and Dye Works
Bluefield
Ben Tilson Attending National Paper Trade Convention
Ben Tilson of the Paper Supply Company Bluefield W V attends the National Paper Trade Association Fall Convention and Paper Show in Chicago at the Conrad Hilton from September 9 to 11. The association includes about 1 100 distributors handling over 3.1 billion dollars in sales annually. The three day event centers on Dynamic Paper Distribution with sessions on distribution warehousing and related topics. Over 15 manufacturers showcase new paper products.
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Chicago
Ben Tilson
Paper Supply Company of
Bluefield
W. Va
National Paper Trade Association, Inc
Conrad Hilton
N P.T.A
Thompson Reported In Good Condition After Surgery
Career diplomat Llewellyn F. Thompson, 58, was reported in good condition at the Air Force Academy hospital after a kidney stone removal. The 45 minute operation was completed Saturday night and he is expected to stay about two weeks with no complications anticipated.
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AIR Force Academy
Colo
Llewellyn F. Thompson
U.S. Air Force Academy
Thompson
UN to Send Teachers to Algeria for Aid
Paris AP dispatch reports UNESCO will deploy teacher aid to Algeria beginning in the fall term at an initial estimated cost of $200,000. The program aims to support education in the war-torn country through the U NESCO initiative.
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Paris
U. N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Algeria
Adviser Sees Berlin Crisis Deepening for Western Interests
Washington AP A Defense Department adviser warns Berlin is now more dangerous than when the Wall went up last year. Paul H Nitze says Soviet threats and Communist moves risk encroaching on vital Western interests including access to the city, keeping a Western military garrison, and preserving West Berlin viability.
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Washington
Defense Department
Berlin
United States
Paul H. Nitze
East Germany
Nitze
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Americans Life Span Over 70
The Public Health Service reports that the 1961 birth life expectancy in the United States rose to 70.2 years, the first time the average for newborns surpassed seventy. The figure reflects slower declines in mortality due to health progress and demographic shifts in age structure across decades.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Wyoming Town Dips To 7 Above
Temperatures rose to the 90s in the Deep South while a predawn freeze chilled northern and central Rocky Mountain states. Big Piney Wyoming tied a record low of 7 above zero as West Yellowstone 16 and Rawlins 19 marked the cold spread.
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Deep South
Rocky Mountain
Yellowstone
Mont
Rawlins
Wyo
Big Piney
Zers
Cotulla
San Angelo
Tex
Yuma
Ariz
Needles
Uncle Sam’s Top Spy Dies at 78 in San Diego
William Warwick Corcoran once dubbed Uncle Sam’s master spy of World War II died at age 78 in the U S Naval Hospital San Diego after more than two weeks of hospitalization. He earned the Medal of Freedom in 1947 for locating Peenemunde V 2 rocket sites and helped guide Allied bombers to Hamburg and other targets.
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San Diego
Calif
William Warwick Corcoran
U.S. Naval Hospital
Corcoran
Foreign Service
Germany
Peenemunde
Dulcie
la Jolla
U.S
Gothenburg
Sweden
Hamburg
Britain
Bat Radar For Blind Developed at Lockheed
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co scientists unveil a "bat radar" to help a blind person spot obstacles. The bulky device uses dry-cell power to emit supersonic pulses and conveys bounce-back sounds via earphones to guide the user through openings and past furniture and people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paso Alto
Calif
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co
Alvin E. Brown
Brown
Plane missing after London to Harrisburg flight
FAA searched airports Sunday night for a small plane overdue on a flight from London Kentucky to Harrisburg Pennsylvania. The gold and white Mooney Mark 21 left London around 3 15 p m with a pilot presumed to be Hoffman aboard.
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Charleston
London
Harrisburg
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Hoffman
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WVU College of Law
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Hlazel Evelyn Hairston
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Hairston
Riley
Stamaford
Bluefield Late College
Raleigh
Rufus Hairston
Earl Hairston
Texas
Eunice Nicholas
Art Greene
Roy Randolph
Central, Baptist Church
Richie and Johnson Funeral Home
Taylor Blankenship
Hariey
Debra Osborne
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Sella Beasley
Arrobvella Beasley
Peterstown
Giles Memorial Hospital
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Woman’s Society
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Roller Floral Co
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