Principal Burdette Named Superintendent in Point Pleasant
Mil ton A Burdette 55 longtime Central Grade School principal and Mason County teacher was chosen as four year superintendent by the county Board of Education. The Clifton Grade School crisis spurred a call for safety and possible razing with a town meeting planned and a church classroom option for the term.
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Point Pleasant
Milton A. Burdette
Leon
Central Grade
Mason County
Board of Education
Burdette
Ohio University
Mar
Betty Fox
PTA
Clifton
Curtis C. Ross
B. R. Workman
Jean Ward Harrison
Jesse Carpenter
Point Pleasant High School
Paul Powell
Superior Coach Sales Co
Charleston
J. D. Moore, Inc
Methodist Circles Hold Weekly Meetings in Point Pleasant
The Women's Society of Christian Service circles at Trinity Methodist Church held meetings last week. Priscilla Circle, Miriam Circle, Dorcas Circle, Martha Circle, Mary Circle and Rebecca Circle each met at members’ homes or the church with devotions, programs, and guest speakers.
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Point Pleasant
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Trinity Methodist Church
Priscilla
Chester Wamsley
Charles H. Johnson
L. Curtis Saville
Methodist Church
Leonard Miller
Miriam Circle
Velma Neal
Mary Brannan
Gene Crow
G. A. Biggs
England
John Brown
Dorcas Circle
John Carpenter
Jesus
Cynthia Saville
Clair Cheuvront
Martha Circle
Carney Heib
George Williamson
Rose Martin
Cheuvront
Heib
Circle
Grace Sefrit
Lionel Smith
John Devault
Mary Circle
Smith
Ralph Crump
William Vo
Youth Hurt Slightly In Car Accident Near Point Pleasant
William B. Blain 19 of Gallipolis Ferry suffered back cuts when his father's car left State Route 2 south of Point Pleasant at 12 20 am Thursday. He is in good condition at Holzer Hospital. The car veered off the highway through a fence. $25 damage to the fence. Car owned by Olin Blain. Sheriff’s department investigated.
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Iam B. Blain
Gallipolis
Point Pleasant
Holzer Hospital
Blain
Olin Blain
Slow Child Group Meeting in Mason County Auditorium
The Mason County Association for Retarded Children will meet Friday at 8 p.m. in the Appalachian Auditorium. They will discuss a proposed summer camp. The program features the Health and Safety Department with Dr and Mrs R L Slack as co chairmen and a listed committee of local members.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Association For Retarded
Appalachian
Health and Safety Department
R. L. Slack
Cochairmen
Warren Stewart
William Smith
Foreman Stevens
Jean Smith
John Sullivan
Douglas Singer
Leon Saunders
John Surgeon
Savanna Upton
Henderson Garden Club Meets at Tourist Center
Henderson Garden Club gathered at the Henderson Tourist Center with Mrs. Sharon Doss as hostess. Edyth Rogers will host the May 14 meeting at the same venue. Point Pleasant Library Highlights National Library Week with guidance material from April 21 to 27 at Point Pleasant High School.
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Point Pleasant
Henderson
Point Pleasant High School
West Virginia Tightens Driver Tests Across State
West Virginia will revise driver license exams starting next Wednesday. A 12 question written test will replace the oral exam and the behind the wheel test will be more detailed. The aim is to align with other states using questions from a driver handbook available from state police or motor vehicles department.
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Point Pleasant
Jack A. Nuckols
Motor Vehicles Commissioner
West Virginia
State Police and Motor Vehicles Department
State Police Or
Motor Vehicles Department
Centennial Circus Comes to Point Pleasant For Boys Club
The Centennial Big Circus and Wild Animal Exhibition arrives at Harmon Park Point Pleasant on May 21 for matinee and evening shows in aid of the Point Pleasant Boys Club. The event features one of West Virginia’s largest traveling wild animal zoos with more than 20 stars and acts.
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Point Pleasant
Harmon Park
West Virginia
Pleasant Valley Hospital Notes and City Manager Acquittal
Pleasant Valley Hospital reports include births for Leonard Smith and Leona Smith with connections to New Haven and Point Pleasant while discharges note George C. Henry of Gallipolis Ferry. In New York Joseph Mitchell the Newburgh city manager is acquitted in an alleged $20,000 housing developer shakedown case.
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Johnnie Lee Krebs
Henderson
Leona Smith
New Haven
Frank Woodall
Point Pleasant
New York
Joseph Mitchell
Newburgh
N.Y
Cancer Drive Starts Save a Neighbor Week in Mason County
The American Cancer Society launches its 1963 crusade in Mason County during the week of April 23 to 29 labeled Save a Neighbor Week. Residential calls will be made by volunteers including C. A. Pitzer as crusade chairman and local club members. The effort covers the New Haven area with cooperation from the New Haven Junior and Senior Women's Club, the Mason Mothers Club, and the Point Pleasant area clubs.
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Point Pleasant
American Cancer Society
Mason County
C. A. Pitzer
Crusade
New Haven
Mason
Mason Mothers Club
Point Pleasant Students Attend West Virginia Library Association Session
Five student library assistants and their advisor Mrs. Elsie S Bardin of Point Pleasant High School join Wahama High School librarian Mrs. Florence McClung at the West Virginia Library Association session in Huntington. Attending from Point Pleasant were John Murray Thom Clin Terry Hall Susan Dickens and Jane Sterne.
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Point Pleasant
Elsie S. Bardin
Point Pleasant High School
Florence McClung
Wahama High School
West Virginia Library Association
Huntington
John Murray
Thom Clin
Terry Hall
Susan Dickens
Jane Sterne
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20Th Century-Fox
Hollywood
The
Sheriff's Department
Mrs. Doss
Library
Centennial Circus
Pleasant Valley Hospital
Leonard Smith
George C. Henry
Ohio University Mothers
Coats
Banks
Altmans
Navy
Bermuda
Shapely Hemingway
Nelson Paige Craig Noble
Banlon
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