Narrows High Band Performs At Sun Fun Festival
The Narrows High School Band under Ronald Skeens joined forty bands in Myrtle Beach as contest results crowned an Ohio group with 100 members in first place, a Pennsylvania 225 member band second, and a 150 member North Carolina ensemble third.
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Narrows High School
Ronald Skeens
Myrtle Beach
S. C
Ohio
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Skeens
Helen Blackburn
Dan Huffman
James Johnston
W. F. Lambert
Jack Jessie
Terry Johnston
John Hamblin
James Johnston, Jr
Melanie Chambers
Local church groups report growth and visits in Giles County
Mrs. Ade Shrader’s visitors include Lorin Wells family and Mrs. Russell Bailey from Ypsilanti. Women’s Society of Christian Service at Rich Creek met with Euna Lee Allen presiding and notes on miracles and today. Lominack earns doctor of divinity in Nebraska. family in Norfolk. Narrows Christian Women Fellowship groups close year with gifts, goals met, and June 22 general meeting planned.
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Ade Shrader
Narrows
Lorin Wells and Sons
Russell Bailey
Ypsilanti, Mich
Women’s Society of Christian Service
First United Methodist Church
Rich Creek
Fellowship Hall
Euna Lee Allen
Velma Stables
Katherine Gwinn
Christian Women's Fellowship of the First Christian Church
Edward Lamb
Fred Rumons
Sycamore
William M. Jarvis
James Everett Bradley
Jarvis
Government Pushes Fight To Halt Mine Drainage
The Ohio River Basin Commission heard testimony from federal and state officials on efforts to halt acid mine drainage pollution along the basin. The meeting in Cincinnati aimed to consolidate actions and coordinate policy across jurisdictions.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River Basin Commission
David Maneual
Appalachian Regional Commission
Washington, D. C
ORBC
Commission
R. J. Bernhagen
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Bernhagen
Ohio
John Roberts
Kentucky Department of Natural Resources
Illinois
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Ohio River
West Virginia
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Separate State Mishaps Claim Lives Of Two
Two one car crashes in West Virginia killed Leonard Hall 45 of Lenore Mingo County and Rosalee Toler 33 of Belva Monroe County near Peace Springs. Hall died on a secondary road after a rollover near Laurel Creek while Toler perished when her car plunged over a bank on route 3 as her husband drove.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Leonard Lee Hall
Rt. 1
Lenore
Mingo County
Hall
Laurel Creek
Rosalee P. Toler
Monroe County
Belva
W.va
Peace Springs
WVU To Host AAACE Meeting And HQ Move
West Virginia University will become the national headquarters for the American Association of Agricultural College Editors in July. AAACE, with about 600 members, edits and distributes ACE Quarterly and ACE Newsletter. The transfer from Auburn University will occur during the annual Tucson meeting July 9 to 12.
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Morgantown
W.va
West Virginia University
American Association of Agricultural College Editors
AAACE
ACE
Auburn University
Alabama
Tucson
Ariz
Grant Awarded For Road Work In West Virginia
The Bureau of Outdoor Recreation awarded a 26402 grant to the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources for paving 1.25 miles of road from State Route 8 around Moncove Lake in Monroe County. Senator Jennings Randolph announced the funding, noting it will be matched by state funds. The lake lies near Gap Mills about 15 miles east of Union.
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Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
U. S. Department of the Interior
West Virginia
C P Telephone seeks 36 million rate hike in Virginia
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co asks the Virginia State Corporation Commission for a 36 million dollar rate increase to fund a 600 million statewide construction program. Residential bills could rise up to one dollar monthly, new phones twenty five dollars, and several long distance and business charges would also rise.
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C&p Telephone
Richmond
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
State Corporation Commission
Lee C. Tait
C&p
SCC
Tait
Virginia
Concord Teacher To Study Abroad In Summer Institute
Concord College language instructor Mrs Margot Ormes will attend the Summer Institute in Salamanca Spain from June 22 to August 29 under University of Virginia sponsorship. She then moves to Charlottesville for a teaching assistantship in the Spanish Department and to pursue a PhD under a Philip Francis duPont Fellowship.
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Margot Ormes
Concord College
Salamanca
Spain
Univrsity of Virginia
Ormes
Charlottesville
Philip Francis duPont
Irving businessmen market timed safe to thwart holdups
Irving Texas two local businessmen Charles Williams and Joe Arrington unveil an electronic safe designed to deter grocery and service station robberies. The device is time controlled and dispenses small amounts of cash at intervals to secure daily receipts.
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Irving
Tex
Charles Williams
Joe Arrington
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