Point Pleasant Junior High Band Earns Superior Rating
Point Pleasant Junior High School Band received superior ratings at the Region 12 Junior High Band Festival in Ripley. Judges A E Raspillaire and Charles Collier praised the band for performances of Ballad from Bambi and Aria and Fugue, with director James Andrews and chaperones Don Humphrey quoted on the praise. Wahama Junior High also participated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Ripley
A. E. Raspillaire
South Charleston
Charles Colliert
Morris Harvey College
Leroy Jackson
Handel
James Andrews
Andrews
Don Humphrey
Wahama
Farm Meeting Plans For 26th Electrification Conference
Plans are finished for the 26th annual farm and home electrification conference to be held March 27-29 at the state 4-H camp at Jackson's Mill. James L. Copeman of Monongahela Power Co. serves as co chair for the program with Genevieve Williams of Charleston and Gertrude Humphreys of West Virginia University will be toastmistress at the banquet on March 28 at 6 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Jackson's Mill
James L. Copeman
Monogahela Power Co
Copeman
Genevieve Williams
Charleston
State Board of Education
Gertrude Humphreys
Cooperative Extension Service
West Virginia University
State Farm and Home Electrification Council
Eight Speeders Fined in Point Pleasant Court
Eight speedsters were fined ten dollars and costs each after arraignment before Justice of Peace A. M. Goodwin. Additional fines were imposed for drunkenness and other charges, with two defendants ordered to monthly non support payments and jailed for failure to post bond. Moose women meet. Henderson School PTA to host a science demonstration Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Justice of Peace A
Brooks Coleman Glover
James Riddle
Cecil Cody
William L. Zerkle
John William Nibert, Jr
Walter Reitmire
Point Clinic Admissions and Discharges
Mr and Mrs Oscar Grimm of Letart welcomed a daughter. Mrs Clara Staats of Middleport, Mrs Alma Freeman of Cheshire admitted. Discharges include Mrs Lula Reed of Point Pleasant and Earl Nibert of Glenwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Grimm
Letart
Clara Staats
Middleport
Alma Freeman
Cheshire
Lula Reed
Point Pleas
Four EUB Churches Form One Congregation
Four Evangelical United Brethren Churches in Point Pleasant voted to unite into a single congregation led by Rev. Donald Pringle. The merger passed 3 to 1, with plans for a new church on Route 2 in Flatrock to house the combined group. Officers will be elected April 8 for the Good Shepherd Evangelical United Brethren Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EUB
Point Pleasant
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Donald Pringle
West Virginia
Eckard
Trinity
Greer
Mt. Zion
Mt. Oliver Or Morgan Church
Flatrock
Pringle
Oak Thomas
Good Shepherd Evangelical United Brethren Church
Mason Grade School Plans Annual Carnival
Mason The Mason Grade School PTA will stage its annual carnival Saturday from 3 to 8 p m. The PTA also voted to buy 28 costumes for Spanish classes. Next meeting set for April 2. Mrs. Lieving presides, nominating committee named. Scout groups presented stories and songs. More than 250 people were served refreshments after the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason Grade School
Mason
PTA
Letart
Raymond Lieving
Donald Cook
Lorena Weiss
Edwin Baldwin
Cecil Smith
Homemakers Set March 27 Meetings
Two Mason County homemaker clubs schedule gatherings on March 27. The Mason Homemakers meet with Mrs. Evelyn McDaniel at 7 30 p m. A lesson leaders training on freezing foods for year around use is set for 1 30 p m at the extension office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Homemakers Farm Women’s Clubs
Mason Homemakers
Evelyn McDaniel
Dr Scott to Speak Ro tary Club on Mental Health
Dr Karl Scott of Lakin State Hospital will address the Ro tary Club on mental health at 6 15 p m Wednesday at the Moose Home. A separate item notes the South Kanawha Discussion Group meeting Monday at 7 30 p m at the Barker home on South Side. A legal notice for a foreclosure suit in Athens County Ohio names Arthur and Grace Fultz as defendants and details a mortgage and property chain with a March 27 1962 filing deadline.
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Point Pleasant
Carl Scott
Lakin State Hospital
Rotary Club
Moose
W. A. Barker
South Side
Arthur Fultz
Grace Fultz
Route 1
Nelsonville
Ohio
Kentucky
Jack Oakley
Roy E. Davis
Daniel W. Langley
Court of Common Pleas
Athens County
Athens
York
Finterprise
Enterprise
C. CP
N. FE
N. Line
Art Carsey
S. E
Lot No. 2
S. Line
N. E
Lot No. 10
Samuel Bowersock
George Badwell
Jennie Badwell
John Hartman
Wm. Parker Walker
Poffenberger Services Set for Charleston Resident
Last rites for Jess Poffenberger of Charleston will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Marks Methodist Church. He died Sunday of a heart attack at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs. Survived by widow Alva Young Poffenberger, two daughters in Michigan, a sister in Huntington, six grandchildren, and relatives, with body at Barlow-Bonsall funeral home in Charleston for visiting hours. He was a former high ranking U S Postal Department official in West Virginia and director of postal operations in 18 southern counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jess Poffenberger
Charleston
Marks Methodist Church
Poffenberger
Beni Kedem
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
O. D. Tennat
M. S. Poffenberger
Point Pleasant
U.S. Postal Department
West Virginia
Alva Young Poffenberger
William Jason
Dearborn
Mich
H. B. Crutcher
Detroit
K. B. Dabney
Huntington
WVU Hosts Animal Show Dedication at Livestock Event
The 1962 Little Eastern National Livestock Show at WVU Animal Husbandry Farm on April 14 is dedicated to Clyde Bonar. WVU Block and Bridle Club president Robert Adamson announced the tribute. Classes include five to reserve hogs, eight Hampshire sheep, nine Angus steers, and 19 Hereford steers, with top beef showmen advancing to a Grand Champion Showman final. A beef barbecue and entertainment will precede the events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
West Virginia University
Bonar
Robert Adamson
WVU
Hampshire
Pleasant Valley Hospital Notes Brief List of Names
A reader notice lists several individuals associated with Pleasant Valley Hospital notes: Mrs James Anderson of Clifton, Mrs James Shaw of Athens Ohio, Mrs George Hill of Racine, Mrs Samuel Salem of Point Pleasant, Mrs Edwin Stein Jr of New Haven, Francis MacQuire of Gallipolis, Mrs Josephine Crandol of Point John Carter Millwood West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Anderson
Clifton
James Shaw
Athens
Edwin Stein, Jr
New Haven
Hatfield Reserve Champion in West Virginia Burley Contest
William Hatfield of Gallipolis Ferry won reserve champion with 131 points in the West Virginia Burley tobacco production and marketing program contest held at Hamlin. Mason County also had multiple winners across classes, with participants from Gallipolis Ferry Hogsett Fraziers Bottom and Ash-ton, among others, as 109 growers from five counties competed. The meeting featured speaker John Heiskell of WSAZ TV and prize funding from Gus Douglass with a new Mason County tobacco growers board seat for O. S. Hanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
William Hatfield
Gallipolis Ferry
West Virginia Burley
Hatfield
Mason County
D. L. Hatfield
R. O. Dabney
South Side
Robert Baird
W. E. Kirk
Hogsett
J. S. Baird
Frank Yester
Burley Growers Association
Hamlin
W. Va
John Heiskell
Wsaz TV
Heiskell
Gus Douglass
State Department of Agriculture
O. S. Hanes
Pliny
State Tobacco Growers Association
Local residents named in unidentified notice
Clarence Pearson 33 of Lakin Cynthia Virginiann Cuthbert man 23 of Lakin Johnny Lee Westmoreland 25 of Salem Audra Kathryn Stew art Mayes 27 of Henderson named in a public notice fragment with readable identities.
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Clarence Pearson
Lakin
Cynthia Virginiann Cuthbertman
Johnny Lee Westmoreland
Salem
Audra Kathryn Stewart Mayes
Henderson
Ens Jerry Shepherd Attends Radar School
Ensign Jerry Shepherd son of Mr and Mrs D E Durst of 2314 Madison Ave attends the Air Controlman school at the Naval Combat Information Center School Glynco Naval Air Station Brunswick Ga The CIC trains Navy personnel in airborne and shipboard radar for early warning defense control of fast aircraft and antisubmarine warfare Shepherd a West Virginia University graduate entered the Navy in March 1961 Americans spend more than a billion dollars each year for professional laundry services.
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Jerry Shepherd
Point Pleasant
Navy
Ens
D. E. Durst
Madison Ave
Naval Combat Information Center
Glynco Naval Air Station
Brunswick
CIC
Shepherd
West Virginia University
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Glenwood
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Jean Warner
Evelyn Proffitt
America
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P.m
Dr. Scott
William D. Radcliff
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of Ohio
Common Pleas
Veter
Aia
Pol. Adv
Poffenberger Services
Last Rites
Barlow-Bonsall Funeral Home
Broughton
Adamson
Pleasant Valley Hospital
George Hill
Racine
Samuel Salem
Francis MacQuire
Gallipolis
Josephine Crandol
John Carter
Millwood
MR. K
Kita S. Khrushchev
United States
Cape Canaveral
Fla
U.S
Atlantic
Bill Hatfield
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