Grain Trials On View At West Virginia University Field Day
POINT PLEASANT A field day at Reymann Memorial Farms Wardensville on Friday June 6 will showcase small grain and clover variety trials. Associate Prof. Collins Veatch notes winter wheat trials compare Butler Vigo with Thorn and 17 other varieties while winter barley includes Kenbar Wong Kentucky No 1 and more. The spring oats trials list 26 varieties such as Andrew Ajax Clinton Bonda Mindo Shelby Zephyr. Tours will be supervised by university agronomists and open to interested visitors.
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West Virginia University Agronomy
Reymann
Wardensville
Collins Veatch
University Agricultural Experiment Station
Wong
Kentucky
Andrew
Ajax
Clinton
Bonda
Mindo
Shelby
Zephyr
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Youth Fellowship Officers Elected at Vaught Memorial
In Point Pleasant the Vaught Memorial Methodist Youth Fellowship elected its officers for the coming year. Phyllis Melton was chosen president, Freddie Thorn vice-president, Judy Copley secretary, John Sumner song leader, and Tommy Adams usher. Bob Sumner will serve as reporter.
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Point Pleasant
Vaught Memorial Methodist Youth Fellowship
Phyllis Melton
Freddie Thorn
Judy Copley
John Sumner
Tommy Adams
Bob Sumner
National Hospital Day celebrated at Lakin State Hospital
The fifth annual National Hospital Day events at Lakin State Hospital featured Dr. N H Dyer praise for mental hospital progress and remarks that mental illness deserves treatment like physical illness. About 600 attended a 10 am courthouse square program, hospital tours, music by the A Cappella choir, talks, a Florence Nightingale talk, a barbecue and band concert, with plans and committees announced for the celebration.
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Point Pleasant
Lalin State Hospital
N. H. Dyer
Lakin Hospital
West Virginia State College
M. M. Bateman
Carrie Davis
R. N
Florence Nightingale
Kenneth W. Shaffer
Roy W. Eschenaur
State Board of Health
Chamber of Commerce
Joe F. Burdett
West Virginia Board of Control
Wayne Foster
Holzer Hospital
Lakin State Hospital
Everett Winston
Dyer
A. D. Belton
West Virginia State Medical Society
Johnson
Hattie Dickerson Toler
Henri Stein
St. James Episcopal Church
Charleston
Mitchell Bateman
Loratius McKenzie
Charlotte Campbell
W. C. Bowie
Robert Greene
William Bateman
Geneva Webster
Appalachian Wage Boost Is Approved
Appalachian Electric Power Co. said the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers accepted a 5 percent wage raise and other benefits in a new contract. About 4000 workers in Virginia and West Virginia will get the increase and vacation changes effective April 1, with cost to the company about $750,000 yearly.
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Point Pleasant
Appalachian Electric Power Co
International Brotherhood of Electric Workers
M. O. Wilson
Roanoke
J. R. Watkins
System Council
IBEW
Wilson
Virginia
West Virginia
Wage Stabilization Board
Personal News From Point Pleasant Families
Carrie Sirouack of Charlestown spent the weekend with her parents Homer and Mrs. Smith in Leon. Elwood Smith and family of Lincoln Avenue visited Homer and Mrs. Grahan in Leon on Sunday. Robert Mace and daughter Cynthia, of Leon, are visiting relatives in Grantsville.
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Carrie Sirouack
Charleston
Homer Smith
Leon
Elwood Smith
Lincoln Ave
Homer Grahan
Robert Mace
Cynthia
Grantsville
Point Pleasant Flower Show Highlights and Attendees
The Point Pleasant Woman's Club gardens department held its annual flower show at the Ordnance School, with a dance program from Andrew Pavlish school pupils and performances by dancers from Mason County and Gallipolis. Awards honored formal and informal arrangements, potted plants, miniatures, and various iris and begonia displays. The event included a corsage workshop and multiple club members and guests from New Haven and Gallipolis.
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Point Pleasant
Gardens Department
Point Pleasant Woman's Club
Ordnance School
C. G. Bauerle
Andrew Pavlish
Mason County
Gallipolis
Francis Klein
Jackie Capehart
Mason
Susie McCoy
Diane Capehart
Judy Shinn
Diane Parsons
Sharon Niday
Patty Harrington
Ray Profitt
Nolan Swackhammer
C. J. Hyer
Richard Newell
Star of Bethlehem
W. S. Waldie
T. Stribling
Howard Carder
O. V. Knipp
Alton Jordan
James Adie
Carder
Club
Werner Yunker
Walter Geilker
C. A. Johnson
M. W. Dawson
Gordon Blessing
S. C. Wilhelm
Roy Eschenaur
Ray Somerville
John H. Hutchinson
Edith Goetz
I. G. Wolden
Elmer Ebersbach
James Ferrell
J. Smith Roush
D. M. Dorsey
Virgil Siders
Delbert Staats
Charles Gammon
James Rayburn
Warren T. King
Charles J. Hyer
H. D. Coyner
Edward Swint
Raymond Musgrave
Werner Yonker
J. S. Rhoades
L. M. Miles
William Heslop
Dora Elis
Marjorie Waldie
Mary Foglesong
J. E. Toney
French City Garden Club
New Haven
J. L. Stewart
Philip J. Wolpert
Lodge Meetings Set For Tonight And Monday In Leon
The Orpha Rebekah Lodge meets tonight at 7 30 p m in the Fourth St hall. The Leon Homemakers Farm Women's Club gathers Monday at 8 p m in the Leon Lodge Halls.
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Orpha Rebekah Lodge
Fourth St. Hall
Leon Homemakers Farm Women's Club
Leon Lodge
Women of the Moose Meet for Ritual Practice
The Women of the Moose will gather Wednesday at 8 30 p m at the Moose Home for ritual practice.
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Moose
Services Wednesday For Randal Blain Stewart
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Bethel Church for Randal Blain Stewart who died at his home Monday at 4:30 a.m. He was born April 18, 1952, son of Thomas E. and Bessie Boyer Stewart. Surviving are four brothers Edwin Gary Orland and Thomas F E Stewart, all at home. Friends may call at Crow Funeral Home after 10 a.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Bethel Church Cemetery.
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Point Pleasant
Bethel Church
Randal Blain Stewart
Thomas E
Bessie Boyer Stewart
Charleston Road
Edwin
Gary
Orland
Thomas FE
Stewart
Crow Funeral
Class Day Observed At Point Pleasant High School
Point Pleasant High School held a class day in the Main Street gymnasium after a flag raising ceremony. Seniors presented writings with an Indian theme read by Jake Ratney, with music by Phyllis Whittington, Mary Lou Whittington, and Mary Jane Wells.
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Point Pleasant High School
Main Street
Betty Jo Lee
Jake Ratney
Miss Lee
Phyllis Whittington
Mary Lou Whittington
Mary Jane Wells
Donald Waldie
Jim Thorn
Mary Jo Carrick
Waldie
Mike Easly
Thelma Toney
C. H. Withers
Ashton Man Arraigned for Breaking and Entering
Gene Jax Long of Ashton was arraigned before a local magistrate on a breaking and entering charge and waived to the Grand Jury. He was arrested Saturday by state police and sheriff officers after a break‑in at John Hughes’s Ashton store on April 3 with currency reportedly missing. bond was set at $1,000 and he remains in county jail.
Divorce suit filed in Point Pleasant by Pauline Lee
Pauline Lee has filed a divorce action against Forrest Lee in the circuit clerk’s office at Point Pleasant. The case seeks dissolution of marriage with proceedings to determine alimony and division of any property.
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Point Pleasant
Circuit Clerk
Pauline Lee
Forrest Lee
Weekend visit by Cos sin and Rairden family
Mise Violet and Velva Mae Cossin of Charleston spent the weekend with their parents Mr and Mrs L T Cossin in Leon. Donald Rairden, employed in Charleston, also visited his parents Mr and Mrs George Rairden in Leon over the weekend.
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Mise Violet
Velva Mae Cossin
Charleston
L. T. Cossin
Leon
Donald Rairden
George Rairden
Kellogg's All-Bran Claimed to Restore Regularity
A New Jersey woman says after trying many laxatives she found relief by daily Kellogg's All-Bran. The ad claims the cereal provides bulk, vitamins, and non habit forming help, offering a double-your-money-back promotion if not satisfied after ten days.
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New Jersey
Kellogg’s
Kellogg's
Battle Creek
Mich
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