Princeton News Former Athens Couple Celebrate 50 Years
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. White observed their golden wedding anniversary on June 9 at their Roanoke Virginia home. More than 100 guests attended, with out of town visitors from Princeton Peterstown Glen Lyn Hileah Fla and Miami. Mr White a retired N and W engineer and the couple were born in Mercer County and previously lived in Elgood and Athens.
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L. E. White
Athens
Palm Avenue
Roanoke
White
Joe Thorn
Frank Short
Princeton
F. G. Goodwill
S. H. East
Gertrude Cales
Maude Pettrey
J. B. White
Herbert White
Tina Cheatwood
Bill Johnston
Peterstown
Everette White
Virginia counties spend heavily on schools in 1955
Virginia county governments spent 170.7 million dollars in the 1955 fiscal year, with schools accounting for about 75 percent of per capita costs. The report notes rising instructional expenses driven by teacher salaries, changes in capital outlays, and a 1956 per capita debt rise tied to school-building bonds. Total revenue and federal aid increased, while local source funding lagged.
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Richmond
Virginia
J. Gordon Bennett
John S. Battle
Bennett
State Literary Fund
Tanglewood Garden Club Honors New Members At Dinner
The Tanglewood Garden Club held a June dinner to honor Princeton club’s new members and their husbands and installed officers for 1957 58 led by Mrs E Tess Bowling. New president is Mrs Howard Peters and other officers include Mrs John Richards vice president and Mrs Woodrow Smith recording secretary.
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Tanglewood Garden Club
Princeton Club
Robert Bingham
Princeton Park
Dick Daisey
Howard Peters
Daisey
William Reynolds
J. C. Freeman
J. R. Bingham
A. K. Maynard
Walter Dempsey
William Linkenhaker
Woodrow Smith
John Rich
Wood
Jerry Neely
Beckley
Bowling
Three State Colleges Get Foundation Funds
West Virginia colleges Bethany, Davis and Elkins, and West Virginia Wesleyan receive Ford Foundation gifts totaling 212,500 as final payments in a national program to bolster faculty salaries. The grants go to endowment funds, with incomes used to raise instructors’ pay. Bethany receives 83,500. Davis and Elkins 60,000. Wesleyan 69,000.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Ford Foundation
Bethany
Davis and Elkins
West Virginia Wesleyan
Wesleyan
Yugoslav Latchstring Out For Mao Tze-Tung
In Belgrade a government spokesman said Mao Tze-Tung would be welcome in Yugoslavia and that the decision on a visit to the country is not known. The latchstring is out for Red China's chairman, and the official noted the invite stands irrespective of timing.
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Belgrade
Red
China
Mao Tze-Tung
Mao
Tito
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