Devrick Heads to Carolina for Chamber Institute
Cecil Devrick, Point Pleasant Chamber of Commerce director, attends the Chamber Institute at the University of North Carolina. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, it aims to train executives and address national chamber issues. Devrick will present West Virginia Night for top class achievement in 1961.
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Point Pleasant
Cecil Devrick
Point Pleasant Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce Institute
University of North Carolina
The
Chamber of Commerce of the United
Derrick
Three Men Extradited To State Prison From Mason County Jail
Three men were moved from Mason County jail to the state prison at Moundsville by the sheriff's department. The inmates are Elmer Wheeler Kenneth L Saxton and David Wills.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Moundsville
Sheriff's Department
Elmer Wheeler
Kenneth L. Saxton
David Wills
Gallipolis Pool Sees 84 Register for Lessons
Approximately 84 persons registered Monday for swimming lessons at the Gallipolis pool. Recreation director Coach Jack Olcott says registration continues through Friday with 35 in beginners, 20 in intermediate, 15 in swimmers, 2 in senior life saving, and 12 in junior life saving. Lessons start Monday.
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Gallipolis
Jack Olcott
Olcott
Civil Action Filed in Surry County Court
Zola Doby files civil action in Circuit Court against Everett Meade Rayburn Jr seeking $2000 plus interest for unpaid Superior Court judgment rendered February 20 1961 in Surry County North Carolina.
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Point Pleasant
Circuit Court
Zola Doby
Everett Meade Rayburn, Jr
Superior Court of
Surry County
N. C
Television Program Listings and Schedule Discrepancies
The Messenger notes it is not responsible for errors in listings when stations fail to provide corrected schedules. The page lists evening and late night programs across NBC CBS and other networks with times and titles such as Tonight News Weather Sports Perry Como Weathercast and The Tonight Show.
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The
Messenger
Radio Schedule Fragments and Theatre Time Listed
A jagged listings fragment shows dated times for news weather sports and theatre segments. Entries include 11 00 News 6 45 11 10 Weather 11 15 Sports 11 20 Tonight 1 Theatres 1 30 News 10 90 Raciney 1 35 Daily Word 10 30 Brinkley.
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Agrie
Cain
Jim Thacker
NBC News
Fiatm
News TV
Ann Southerr
Jan Murray
L. Young
Dr. Malone
Hollywood
Perry Como
Brinkley
Weber
Mr Youngs
Dr Malone
Jack Denton
Price Right
Television Schedule Fragment with Songs and News
A jumble of time slots lists programs, news, weather, sports, and variety segments across a broadcast day. Items include Sea Hunt, Cinderella, Your Song, News, Weather, and Round Table, with multiple repeats and garbled entries.
Television Schedule for Charlestes WCHS Channel 8
A local TV guide lists program blocks for WCHS Channel 8 including News at 6 00 6 40 Weather 6 45 News 7 00 Trackdown 7 00 Bugs Bunny 8 00 Bach Father 8 30 New Breed 9 30 Your Song 10 Theatre 10 30 Congress 11 00 News 11 10 Weather 11 15 11 20 Movie.
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van Dyke
CBS News
Mr. D.A
Doble Gillis
News
Skelton
Lena Bod
Gary Moore
Masterson
Congress
McGraw
Rincord
Weather
Bugs Bunny
New Breed
Round Table
West Point
Bud Starcher
Jane Wyman
Lalanne
Queen VW
Newsstand
Window Shop
Naked City
Smith
Ss S
University
Groucho
Maogie
Dee Bride
Luci
Ann Reider
Cain's Hundred and Reds Baseball Preview
TV previews note 7:15 p.m. Reds baseball from Cincinnati at Pittsburgh and 10 p.m. Cain's Hundred a drama about a man exposing a city’s produce market kingpin who silences evidence.
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Reds
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Cain
Tractor Turns Over Leaves Man Burned And Injured
Gallipolis 33 year old Lloyd Fry escaped serious injury but suffered bruised and burned legs when a farm tractor overturned on Beaver Adamsville Road. He was treated at Oak Hill Hospital and released. Fry and his 13 year old son had been hauling hay. the machine toppled as he tried to turn it.
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Gallipolis
Lloyd Fry
Oscar H. Fry
Cora
Beaver- Adamsville Road
Fry
Oak Hill Hospital
Haskell Bloomer
Tameron Fry
Edward Fry
Miss Flora Is Married In North Carolina Ceremony
Miss Virginia Marie Flora wed Charles Henry Glass on June 3 at the Dobson Methodist Church parsonage in Dobson North Carolina. The couple, both Point Pleasant High School graduates, reside with the groom’s parents.
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Point Pleasant
Delbert Flora
South Side
Virginia Marie Flora
Charles Henry Glass
John M. Glass
Sand Hill Rd
Dobson Methodist Church
Dobson
N. C
Baxton T. Dixon
Point Pleasant High School
Darwin Funeral Ties Family, Local Visits Noted
Darwin residents attended the funeral of Mrs. Eva Mease Letart W Va. Relatives and friends from Burlingham, Dublin Ind and West Carrollton Ohio visited and helped care for the Cowen family while Rev Earl Cowen remains hospitalized. Several members planned trips to a Modern Woodmen convention in Denver and others visited kin in Athens and Syracuse.
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Darwin-Burlingham
Jim Smith
Darwin
Eva Mease
Letart
W. Va
Doris (Cowen) Greene
Winter Haven
Fla
Cowen
Earl Cowen
Doris
Carlos Cowen
West Carrollton
Junius Clark
Katheryn Cowen
Dublin
Ind
Clarence Story
Indiana
Belva Sloan
Bertha Gill
Ward Smith
Homer Story
Doris Greene
Katheryn Clark
Rodolph Burson
Burlingham
Ralph Kern
Sico
William Hart
George Zeigler Sr
Floyd Buck
Athens
Ernest Cullums
Rob Leifheit
Lizzie Blackwell
Denver
Colo
James Hazelton Jr
James Hazelton Sr
Pomeroy
Leona Winebrenner
Syracuse
World’s Fair West Virginia Day events mark 99th birthday
Mr and Mrs Walden Roush of Mt Vernon Ave attend Seattle World’s Fair and plan to join West Virginia Day activities on June 20 commemorating the state’s 99th birthday. Rev and Mrs Jerome Rodgers of Huntington visit Point Pleasant. Sprenger family returns from Houston after attending granddaughter Patricia Bell’s wedding in Tulsa.
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Walden Roush
Mt. Vernon Ave
Seattle
Roush
West Virginia
Jerome D. Rodgers
Huntington
Point Pleasant
Rodgers
Christ Episcopal Church
George Sprenger
Fourth St
Houston
Tex
Dorothy
Martha Sprenger
Texas
Patricia Jane Bell
Tulsa
Okla
Eugene Gibbs Bell
South
Toledo Pl
Henry Henderson Barrett, III
Henry Henderson Barrett, Jr
Columbus
Dan McNaughtan
Sprenger’s
TV Tonight Highlights A Busy 1960s Lineup
At 8 p m Bachelor Father features Peter the medicine man as he faces a tonsillectomy. New Breed Part II shows Lt Adams frustrated by solving a police slaying. It Takes a Thief follows with a Miller tale of a robbed man. Dobie Gillis has Dobie dumped by campus girls. Red Skelton stages a gunfighter visit with Don Knotts. Garry Moore hosts Don Knotts Alan King Barbara McNair with Burnett and Kirby as regulars.
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Grege
Adams
Dobie Gillis
Dobie
Maynard
Red Skelton
Deadeye
the Gunslinger
Don Knotts
San Francisco
Garry Moore
Garry
Alan King
Barbara McNair
Carol Burnett
Durward Kirby
TV Guide Listings and Local Club Meeting Notice
Channel and time listings for TV movies across channels with titles Kathleen Mind Reader Winning Ticket and others plus a local golf association meeting notice at Hidden Valley Country Club in Point Pleasant inviting all women members to attend Wednesday at 7 30 p m at the clubhouse.
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Point Pleasant
Women's Golfing Association
Hidden Valley Country Club
Golf Association
Rio Grande Methodist Parish Meeting Report
Laymen of Rio Grande Methodist Parish gather at Bidwell Church for a meeting. Attendees include Rev and Mrs James Lewis and Matt returning from the Methodist Conference at Lakeside. Several visiting relatives and friends from Athens Gallipolis Columbus Salina Kerr Kerrville and Rutland are mentioned with multiple family connections.
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Bidwell
Rio Grande
Bidwell Methodist Church
James Lewis
Matt
Lakeside
C. C. Kerr
Athens
Jeannette Brenamen
Cleo Chevalier
Gallipolis
William Chevalier
Georgia
William Fraley
Charles Ellison
Idelle Morehouse
Mark
Tony
Salina
Kans
Ivor Morehouse
George Keith
Kerr
Jeanette Brenamen
Charles Sims
Columbus
Sylvia Eno
Ryal Installed as President of Gallipolis BPW Club
Mrs Ryal was installed as president of the Gallipolis Business and Professional Women's Club at the Farmers Hotel with officers Mrs Rollins secretary and Miss Clendenin treasurer. Mrs Elliott was absent. Delegates named for the national BPW convention in Los Angeles July 14.
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Gallipolis
Bette Ryal
Gallipolis Business and Professional Women's Club
Farmers Hotel
Marianne B. Campbell
Margaret Rollins
Mary Clendenin
Thelma Elliott
Lena Pleasants
Ryal
Injured Boy Admitted After Head Injury at Service Station
Robert Lee Hatten 14 son of Mr and Mrs William Hatten Bidwell Route 2 was admitted to Holten Hospital at 9 15 pm Monday for observation of a head injury. He was playing with another boy at a service station in Rodney when he fell and struck his head. His condition is reported as satisfactory.
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Gallipolis
Robert Lee Hatten
William Hatten
Bidwell
Holten Hospital
Robert
Rodney
Mrs Burris Dies Monday at 71 in Apple Grove
Mrs. Willa Wallis Burris, 71, died Monday morning at her Millstone Road home. She was daughter of Henry Lee Wallis and Ann Brown Wallis, married June 29, 1914 to Jona E. Burris, member of Millstone Church. Survived by husband Lawrence, one son, four grandchildren, three great grandchildren, one niece. Funeral Wednesday 2 pm at Beale Chapel Methodist Church, burial in church cemetery. body lies in state an hour before service. Stevens funeral home notified. South Kanawha group to meet Saturday at Mason County 4H Youth Camp with 6:30 pm picnic and business session. Names and ages of several local service workers listed.
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Point Pleasant
Willa Wallis Burris
Millstone Rd
Henry Lee
Ann Brown Wallis
Jona E. Burris
Millstone Church
Lawrence E Burris
Apple Grove
Venceil Lohse
Chauncey
Mary Scott and Lorna Bowles Admitted in Ripley Robertsburg
Point Ceinic records show Mrs. Mary Scott of Ripley and Lorna Bowles of Robertsburg admitted to the local facility.
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Mary Scott
Ripley
Lorna Bowles
Robertsburg
Homemakers Meet in Mason Hosted by Mrs Frank Reynolds
Mason Homemakers Club will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday June 26 with Mrs Frank Reynolds as hostess and Mrs John McDaniel as lesson leader. Sir William Wiseman confidant of Woodrow Wilson and later banker in New York dies at 77. Gallipolis pool records 600 entrants on a big day.
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Point Pleasant
Frank Reynolds
Mason
Mason Homemakers Club
John McDaniel
New York
Sir William Wiseman
Woodrow Wilson
Wiseman
Miss Arline Roush Wins Return Camp Scholarship
Miss Arline Roush Mason County 4 H Club representative to conservation camp received a return scholarship to attend the camp next summer. She is a Hill Billie 4 H Club member daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Roush Letart Route 1 and will be a senior at Wahama High School this fall.
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Point Pleasant
Arline Roush
Mason County
Arline
Jack Roush
Letart
Route 1
Wahama High School
Holstein Twilight Meeting at Leslie Rayburn Farm
Les Rayburn will host the Holstein twilight meet at his farm in Point Pleasant. Dairy men and those interested in dairying are invited to attend a 7 30 p m Monday program including opening remarks by Clair Cottrill Jr president of the Southwestern Holstein Breeders Association, a cow judging contest, and talks on West Virginia bull studs and dollar values of dairy projects.
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Point Pleasant
Leslie Rayburn
Clair Cottrill, Jr
Southwestern Holstein Breeders Association
Mr. Rayburn
Woody Brown
West Virginia
Dick Chichester
Civil Suit Dismissed in Gallia County Court
The Loeb Electric Company of Columbus dismissed its suit for 192.24 in Gallia County Common Pleas Court against Max Elliott trading as Elliott Brothers. Two pending divorce actions granted Colene Rece custody of four minor children and James H. Rece ordered to pay 20 weekly. Helen J. Kiser granted temporary custody of three minors with Glenn A. Kiser ordered to pay 17.50 weekly.
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Gallipolis
Loeb Electric Company of
Columbus
Gallia County
Clerk of Courts
Colene Rece
Vinton
James H. Rece
Helen J. Kiser
Bidwell
Glenn A. Kiser
Cheshire Route 2
Firemen Plan County Drill Runs At Point Pleasant
A spokesman for the volunteer fire department asks residents not to follow or call during Tuesday night practice drills as it delays the session. Firefighters have been conducting summer drills and plan to extend runs to county plants soon.
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Point Pleasant
Pleasant Valley Hospital Birth Announcements
Births announced for Circleville Gallipolis Letart Point Pleasant and family names Ow ens Joy Winebrenner Queen Huff man Roach Van Scho yck Wheeler. Discharged Gary Gibeaut from Point Pleasant.
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Mary Winebrenner
Letart
Harold Queen
Circleville
Carl Joy
Gallipolis
Mark Allen Huffman
Point Pleasant
Thomas Roach
Blanche van Schoyck
Geraldine Wheeler
Mason
Gary Gibeaut
Neal attends sanitarians conference in Cincinnati
Gallia County sanitarian William F Neal is in Cincinnati at the National Association of Sanitarians 26th annual education conference sponsored by the Ohio Association of Public Health Sanitarians at the Sheraton Gibson Hotel. He will return to Gallipolis Friday.
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Gallipolis
William F Neal
Gallia County
Cincinnati
National Association of Sanitarians
Ohio Association of Public Health Sanitarians
Sheraton-Gibson Hotel
Neal
Engagement Announced for Miss Illa Jayne Pullen
Announcement from Mr and Mrs James Ray Pullen of Hurricane says Miss Illa Jayne Pullen will wed James Andrews of Point Pleasant. Andrews is band director at a School and son of Mr and Mrs A B Andrews of Elkins. The wedding is set for July 5 at Forest Burdett Memorial Methodist Church in Hurricane with a reception in the church social room. Miss Pullen works for Princess Coal Sales Co in Hurricane.
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Point Pleasant
Illa Jayne Pullen
Hurricane
James Andrews
James Ray Pullen
Andrews
Point Pleasant High School
A. B. Andrews
Elkins
Forest Burdett Memorial Methodist Church
Miss Pullen
Princess Coal Sales Co
Rotary Club Plans West Virginia Day Program
POINT PLEASANT Casto arranges the Wednesday night Rotary meeting program featuring West Virginia Day celebration of the state's 99th birthday. A board meeting will precede the regular dinner at 5 p m.
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Point Pleasant
Carroll Casto
Rotary Club
West Virginia
Board of Directors
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