Annual Meeting Of West Virginia Methodist Conference Opens
The West Virginia Methodist Conference opens in Charleston with about 1,000 ministers and lay delegates expected to attend through Sunday. Jooks Hays of Arkansas will address delegates, with Winto Houck reporting on pensions and Chester Fanin slated as principal Friday banquet speaker. Delegates for next year’s quadrennial general conference in San Francisco will be elected.
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Charleston
W. Va
Lloyd C. Wicke
West Virginia
Jooks Hays
Arkansas
Winto R. Houck
Board of Pensions and Permanent Endowment
Chester Fanin
Huntington
San Francisco
R. H. Daugherty
Bluefield
W. S. Patterson
Buckhannon
Henry R. High
Central
William E. Craig
Pairmont
J. L. Helm
Browns Creek Sewer Project Moves Forward in Welch
Welch June 5. Several workers arrived with pipe for the Browns Creek sewer line. Construction will begin next Monday after the city council ratified a contract with R. N. Hewitt Corporation of Charleston.
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Welch
W. Va
Browns Creek
R. N. Hewitt Corporation of
Charleston
McDowell Concert Group Plans Upcoming Season
Officers and members of the McDowell Community Concert association executive committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Appalachian community room to plan the next concert season.
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Welch
W. Va
McDowell Community Concert Association
Appalachian Community Room
Cumberland Silver Mine Legend Draws Mixed Traditions
In Big Laurel Virginia a feature traces Swift the explorer and pirate legends tied to a Cumberland silver mine. Historians debate whether Swift sought wealth by trade along the Cumberland and Holston rivers or as a raider. Narrative blends conjecture, rival theories, and legendary cave discoveries tied to Reams and Connelley.
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James Taylor Adams
Big Laurel
Swift
Jonathan
Jonathan Swift
Dublin
Ireland
London
America
Cumberland
Holston
Ohio
Reams
Connelley
Reames
Monday
McClintock
Cumberland River
Nashville
Haysi Graduation Set For Thursday
Special commencement exercisesmark the 1951 Haysi high school graduation in the school auditorium with the theme Youth Chooses Democracy. Pastor Rev D M Monroe delivered baccalaureate last Sunday in Grundy and the program lists awards diplomas and class members led by Peggy Sutherland and Fern Rose with J M Tarwater as sponsor.
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Haysi
Haysi High School
D. M. Monroe
Grundy, Va
Presbyterian Church
E .H. Anderson
Haysi Presbyterian Church
Our
Nadine Beverly
George Wright
Dennis Puckett
Lorraine Counts
Jean Lowery
Lorraine Burchett
Paul Arrington
Fay Long
Compton
Benny Arrington
Rodney Hakes
June Harlow
Mary Lou Jones
George Ball
Eugene Steele
Russell Engle
Robert Johnson
James Hay
James O Quinn
Billy Ray Rose
Fern Rose
Mabiel Hall
Mary Mullins
Imogene Stanley
Carolyn Ratliff
Pegsy Sutherland
Fayne Rose
Peggy Sutherland
Rodney Rakes
J. M. Tarwater
Lost mine legends near Holston and Clinch rivers
Stories say Swift killed a companion and left McKenney for dead while seeking a buried treasure. McKenney, blinded, recovered to tell the tale and tried repeatedly to reach the mine. Traditions place the site near the Cumberland headwaters or Breaks of the Cumberland, with other believers in Stone Mountain Virginia and near Coeburn Wise County. A deceased woman claimed a cave of silver bricks between Norton and Coeburn.
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Holston
Clinch
Swift
McKenney
The
Cumberland
Cumberlands
Forks of the Sandy
Pike County
Kentucky
John Freeman Beverly
Stone Mountain
Norton
Coeburn
Wise County
Tazewell Youths Graduate At Kentucky University
J B Heldreth Jr and Greever Crouse of Tazewell earned masters degrees at the University of Kentucky commencement in Lexington. Both were stars in football for the Tazewell Bull Dogs and Emory & Henry Wasps and chose physical education as their major. Crouse will be an assistant coach at Emory. Heldreth’s plans are unannounced.
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Tazewell
J. B. Heldreth, Jr
Greever Crouse
University of Kentucky
Lexington
Tazewell “Bull Dogs
Emory & Henry Wasps
Crouse
Emory
Heldreth
A. Ward
Cops Destroy Still in Isolated Tip Top Area
In a midnight raid near Tip Top officers led by Sheriff R B Thompson and deputies E L Mathena A K Harvey and Trubie Heldreth demolished a 40 gallon copper still and a 230 gallon mash cache prepared for whiskey. No operators were present and no arrests were made. the secluded site made removal impractical.
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Tazewell
R. Bown Thompson
E. L. Mathena
A. K. Harvey
Trubie Heldreth
Tip Top
Six McDowell Men Enlist In Air Force
Six young men from McDowell County left Welch for Beckley to finalize enlistment in the U S air force. Enlistees are Bobby F. Stroupe Hassel Junior Blankenship Havace Guy Polce Maste r James H. Miles Kyle Lawrence T. Sizemore Eckman and Charles Moreland Jr Roderfield they will report to Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio Texas for training.
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Welch
W. Va
Beckley
U. S. Air Force
Army and Air Force
Bobby F. Stroupe
Hassel Junior Blankenship
Havace
Guy Polce
Master
James H. Miles
Kyle
Lawrence T. Sizemore
Eckman
Charles Moreland, Jr
Roderfield
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Rent Control Officials In Welch Thursday
Welch West Virginia June 5 representatives from the Bluefield area rent control office will be in Welch Thursday to meet tenants and landlords with rent problems. They will be in room 203 in the post office building.
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Welch
W. Va
Bluefield Area
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Kansas State Historical Society
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