Okmulgee Driver Wins National Trucking Award for Heroic Acts
Paul C. Crim of Okmulgee Oklahoma earned the national 1959 Driver of the Year honor from the American Trucking Associations for a lifetime of accident free driving and life saving actions. He steadied a burning fuel spill at Tulsa in a near disaster and saved other motorists and a drowning friend while delivering for Hugh Breeding Inc. Crim earlier served in the Army and began professional driving in 1933.
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Washington, D. C
Paul C. Crim
Crim
Hugh Breeding, Inc
Tulsa
State of
Oklahoma
Associated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma
North Griffin Street
Okmulgee
Claremore
Salina
Hopkins Truck Co
Ponca City
Okla
Midcontinent Petroleum Transport
H. C. Price
Bartlesville
Pacific Theater
Hugh Breeding Company
Annual Spring Livestock Survey Get Underway in Virginia
Farmers are urged to return Virginia Crop Reporting Service survey cards to update state livestock totals including cattle calves milk cows hogs sheep horses and mules. Chief Statistician Thomas L Stuart says higher response improves accuracy for the spring pig crop forecast and national pig crop, with last year’s cash receipts totaling 11300000 from meat animals 80744000 from poultry and 78738000 from dairying.
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Thomas L. Stuart
Virginia
Stuart
Richmond
U. S. Post Office
Crop Reporting Service
Charles Town Educator Takes College Post
Dr. James M. Moler, Wright Denny School principal in Charles Town, W Va, will serve as Coordinator of Field Services after Paul Yost moved to Berkeley County Supervisor of Schools. Moler trained at Shepherd College Berea College Duke University University of Virginia. He began teaching in a three room school at Bakerton and became Wright Denny principal in 1939. He is a Jefferson County native married to Katherine W Moler.
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Shepherdstown
W. Va
James M. Moler
Wright Denny
Charles Town
Paul Yost
Berkeley County
Moler
Shepherd College
Berea College
Duke University
University of Virginia
Bakerton
Wright Denny School
Dr. Moler
Jefferson County
W.va
Katherine W. Moler
Emmart Named To Petroleum Post
Wade C. Emmart of Winchester was elected to the board of directors of the Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association at the annual Richmond meeting. Emmart of W. H. Emmart & Son has chaired oil robber efforts statewide and will serve until 1962.
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Wade C. Emmart
Winchester
Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association
Richmond
Emmart
W. H. Emmart & Son
Edward Cheyfitz Washington Dies at 45
Edward T. Cheyfitz, 45, a labor management consultant, died Sunday after suffering a massive coronary thrombosis last Monday, according to AP.
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Washington (Ap
Edward T. Cheyfitz
Yugoslavian Leader Storage Puzzle
A compact clue reads as a Saturday prompt about a Yugoslavian leader and a storage place. The answer likely links a name or term tied to a storaged location, inviting a cross word style solution.
Photos of World War II graves for next of kin
Rep J Vaughan Gary backs a program to provide colored aerial photos of overseas World War II graves with a grave photo inset upon request. The effort, limited to WWII dead, aims to comfort families and avoid targeted outreach to Virginia survivors.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
J. Vaughan Gary
D-Va
House Appropriations Committee
Gary
Americans Battle Monument Bureau Commission
Virginia
Defenders Rally For Massive Resistance Drive In Virginia
Richmond AP report on the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties endorsing a return to massive resistance to school integration. Robert Crawford and leaders pledge to elect a legislature willing to resist federal encroachment and defend states' rights amid sessions and a convention that criticizes integration and church roles. Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin urges Virginians to stand firm against federal pressure.
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Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
Robert Crawford
Farmville
Crawford
Almond
Georgia
Marvin Griffin
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Griffin
Warren County
United Nations
United States
Spiritual Brotherhood of Man
Charles Moses
Appomattox
Russia
Joseph Chandler dies. father of Kentucky governor
Joseph S. Chandler, 88, father of Gov. A. B. Chandler, died Sunday. He entered a hospital May 15 with a kidney infection and cerebral spasms. He was born in the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks.
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Morganfield
Jospeh S. Chandler
Kentucky
A. B. Chandler
Missouri Ozarks
Elis Olsson Pioneer Kraft Pulp Leader Dies at 79
Elis Olsson former head of the Chesapeake Corp of Virginia and a pioneer Kraft pulp and paper manufacturer died Sunday at 79. He was born in Karlskoga Sweden.
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West Point
Elis Olsson
Chesapeake Corp
Virginia
America
Kraft Pulp and Paper
Karlskoga
Sweden
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Petroleum
Edward Cheyfitz
Beetle Istra
Manufaction Turer
Scotchman’s
Next of Kin
Joseph Chandler
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Old — Strong Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sete
Melrose
SAFEW
Old Virginia
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Riverside
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