Accident Toll Rises to Eight at Midpoint of Holiday
The West Virginia death toll for the Memorial Day period climbs to eight. Victims include Brent Tabor 8 of Kegley killed when his bicycle was struck on West Virginia 10 near home. James Jefferson 21 of Weston died from a crash on U S 19. Fire victim Walter Brown 1 of Squire McDowell County. Allen Cobb 15 of near Masontown drowned in the Cheat River. Four injured in the overturned car.
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Kegley
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Claude Wright
Rock
James A. Jefferson
Weston
U. S. 19
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Allen R. Cobb
Masontown
Cheat River
Preston County
WVU Alumni Day Programs Ahead of Commencement
Morgantown students and graduates prepare for Alumni Day including an alumni lunch in Men's Residence Hall and the WVU Alumni Association annual meeting where new officers will be elected led by toastmaster Dale G. Casto. Emeritus Club inductees from 1907 and earlier marked the event amid plans for the 88th commencement to honor about 1200 degrees.
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State safety expert calls drivers lax in monster of road risk
West Virginia Safety Council director Charles Hopkins urged Charleston business leaders to curb driver laxity in protecting families on highways. He argued most accidents result from driver error and urged measures including fatigue breaks, double door latches, seat belts, back-seat children, spring bumpers, and returning round tires to reduce property damages and fatalities.
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the Gazette
West Virginia Safety Council
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Charleston American Business Club
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Polish-born student tops Bethany graduating class
Thomas Burgenthal, 22, a Polish-born survivor of four Nazi concentration camps and recent naturalized citizen, graduates summa cum laude from Bethany College. He earned a 3.99 average, studied history and political science, and held multiple student leader roles. He will receive honorary degrees at commencement with Vice President Nixon and Gov. Underwood in attendance.
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Paterson
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Benson, Ariz
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Odd Nansen
Norway
East Side High School
South Charleston Band Concert At Mound Park
The Second Army Band, a 45 member group from Ft. Meade Maryland, performs this afternoon at Mound Park in South Charleston. The program features martial melodies current tunes and classical adaptations. If rain moves the event indoors to the U S Army Reserve Armory at F St and MacCorkle Ave.
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MacCorkle Ave
Dawn Patrol Breakfast By Aero Club At Kanawha Airport
A dawn patrol breakfast will be held from 9 to 11 a m tomorrow at Kanawha Airport sponsored by the Kanawha Valley Aero Club of Charleston. Invited guests include Gov Underwood state road commissioner P C Graney Sr and the three man county court. Invitations have been sent to airports in Beckley Bluefield Clarksburg Cowen Elkins Fairmont Fayetteville Martinsburg Morgantown Parkersburg Princeton Spencer Welch Weston Wheeling White Sulphur Springs and Winfield.
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Fairmont
Fayetteville
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Weston
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Winfield
State Meeting Of Osteopaths In Charleston
The American Osteopathic Assn president Dr Robert D McCullough of Tulsa heads the speaker list for the West Virginia Osteopathic Society convention in Charleston starting tomorrow. About 100 osteopathic doctors are expected June 24 with lectures on fractures aged care fatigue blood clotting. Dr Walter B Goff will run business sessions and Dr Frank E Pick of South Charleston will be installed as president at the Monday banquet.
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Detroit
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Dayton
Ohio
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State Health Department
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McCullough
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Dunbar
West Virginia Society
Frank E. Pick
South Charleston
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Princeton
Baptists Adopt Integration Policy at Convention
American Baptist Convention with 6000 churches votes to admit ministers and members regardless of race or origin. The policy calls for ministers chosen on character, equality in education employment housing and political activity, and rejects segregation and exclusive groups.
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American Baptist Convention
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Clerics' Association To Meet At Restaurant
Oak Hill Scarbro Ministerial Assn. holds its monthly meeting at 6 p m Monday in the Glass House restaurant Beckley Rev Edward Kocher secretary says no speaker named dinner guests include members wives D C Giltinan Dick Stata Fred C Alley and Ruth Miller
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Parade Opens Bible Schools in Oak Hill Churches
Vacation Bible Schools at five Oak Hill churches begin Monday with a kickoff parade led by attending children. Oak Hill Methodist, Jones Avenue Church of God, First Baptist, First Brethren, and First Presbyterian host two week or one week sessions led by directors Mrs. E N Goode, Mrs. Rita Basham, Mrs. Fred Jasper, Mrs. Harold Hall, and others.
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Jones Avenue Church of God
Rita Basham
Jesus
First Baptist Church
Fred Jasper
First Brethren Church
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Judge Studies Dispute Over Coal Land in Webster County
Federal Judge Ben Moore weighs damages claims between Juliette Coal Co. and Necho Coal Corp. over 1000 acres in Glade District. Juliette seeks 533000 for breach of contract claiming merchantable coal. Necho seeks 150000 alleging misrepresentation. Trial began January 7 with no jury and has paused for depositions and additional tests.
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Glade
Webster County
Juliette Coal Co
Charleston
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Hazelton
Necho
Juliette
Neche
Moore
Shaggy Hair Triggers Jail Break Reported In Dunbar
Waverly Chambers, 25, legless former inmate from 424 Greenway Ave South Charlester, escaped county jail farm at Dunbar claiming a haircut was needed. He fled Monday after being denied a haircut, called deputies to midtown garage, and was recaptured. He had been sentenced to one year on February 13 for assaulting his wife.
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Dunbar
Greenway Ave
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State College to Have Baccalaureate Sunday
Bishop William C. Bishop of Brooklyn New York will deliver the baccalaureate address at 7 30 p m tomorrow in the auditorium at West Virginia State College. Virgil Flinn former Kanawha County superintendent of schools will speak at the 62nd annual commencement at 4 p m Monday.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
West Virginia State College
Virgil Flinn
Kanawha County
Georgia Man Will Address Church Group at Oak Hill
A Decatur educator will speak at 11 a.m. June 9 in the First Presbyterian Church Oak Hill Rev R P Robertson announced the service will feature Dr William Childs Robinson professor of theology at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia Miss Mary Lee Smith of Charleston was named director of Christian Education for the church and will start duties Monday during the summer months Miss Smith is a senior at the General Assembly's training school in Richmond Virginia
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Decatur
First Presbyterian Church
R. P. Robertson
William Childs Robinson
Columbia ‘Theological Seminary
Georgia
Robertson
Mary Lee Smith
Charleston
General Assembly
Richmond
Smith
Fayette Couple Sues Builders Over Damaged Home
Solomon and Lavennia Smallwood file a $3,500 damage suit in Fayette County Circuit Court against Montgomery construction firm partners John Miller Jr. and Carl L. Miller of Miller Brothers Construction Co. for defects in the house built for them at Harlem Heights.
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Fayette County
Harlem Heights
Montgomery Construction
Solomon
Lavennia Smallwood
John Miller Jr
Carl L. Miller
Miller Brothers Construction LO
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