Cains End Teaching Careers In Putnam After 280 Years
In Buffalo West Virginia the Cain teaching dynasty ends as Emma Cain retires after 40 years and J M Cain after 51 years. The couple and relatives total 280 years in Putnam County schools. Their descendants continue teaching and studying education, with three grandchildren pursuing teaching.
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Cains
Putnam
Harry Ernst
Buffalo
Putnam County
Cain
West Virginia
A. J. Cain
Emma Cain
J. M
Cavis
J. E
Virgie Cain
O. Land
Virgie
Emma
University of Florida
State Supreme Court Rejects Kanawha Will Appeal
The State Supreme Court unanimously refused to review a Kanawha County case about interpreting a 23 year old will. Ted Gay Jr. sought an appeal from a ruling that excluded him from sharing in his grandfather’s estate. He contended the share would have gone to his late father.
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State Supreme Court
Kanawha County
Ted Gay Jr
Three Charleston Firms Bid on State Printing Contracts
Three Charleston firms, Rose City Press Mathews Printing & Lithographing Co and Jarrett Printing Co submitted bids on three state printing contracts to cover books pamphlets and related work for two years. Bids ranged from 77 181 to 83 685 for book and pamphlet work. Contracts await governor approval with new local bidding rules expanding state work to local printers.
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Charleston
Rose City Press
Mathews Printing & Lithographing Co
Jarrett Printing Co
Kanawha County
O. A. Wiblin
Mathews
Rose City
Jarrett
Thieves Raid Four Places Across City Burglary Week
Police report four burglaries over the weekend with nearly $3,000 in goods and cash stolen. Berle Vending Machine Co. lost 1358 dollars from a front-office safe beaten open Sunday night. Eskew Smith and Cannon at Brooks and Smith Streets saw twelve televisions taken, later recovered in weed-strewn area near two suspects, Aaron Lawson and Walter Edwards, jailed on possession charges. Additional losses at Truman's Drive-In and Christy’s Hide-A-Way included merchandise and vending machines damaged by rear-entry break-ins.
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Berle Vending Machine Co
MacCorkle Ave
5. FE
Eskew
Smith
Aaron M. Lawson
Milton St
Walter Edwards
Wertz Ave
Truman
Bigley’ Ave
Christy
North
Charleston
Thompson Announces June Court Appeals Docket
Intermediate Judge William Q. Thompson released the June term appeal docket listing dozens of cases set for trial. The schedule names defendants in Bastardy and Appeal actions with dates ranging June 25 to July 9 and notes all city and justice court appeals will be returnable on the term’s first day with pleas due and trial dates fixed.
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William Qt .Thompson
James
William Roncagnione
City Appeal
Franklin
Arthur
Sterling Leon Bailey
Jackie D. Coon
Basterdy
Fred Hudnall
James Chester
Johnson
Billy
Gene Pauley
Wesley Rouse
Il Wwalter Sayre
Robert Wehrle
Helen Wolfe, Jr
Stephen S- Balser
Brooks-Bass
Wetzel W. Boggess
Frank Bowles
Homer -Burford
Alfonzo] Fox
Ira Gibson
Robert Gibson
John Hall
Roy C. Harmon
Earl Hamilton, Jr
Henry Haywood
Wettress Ray Johnson
Une
Wesley A. Lain
John J. Lynch
Robert William
Mahone
Roy Mullohan
Robert Mullens
Cloyed Lee McCoy
Parley L. McClanahan
George H. McC
Woman Sentenced to Year for Manslaughter in Child’s Death
Ethel D Byrd 29 of Rugby Street pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Intermediate Court and received 12 months in county jail for the April 8 shooting of 4 year old Charles William Jackson during a quarrel with her husband. The case followed an earlier trial where a jury failed to reach a verdict.
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Ethel D. Byrd
Rugby St
Charles William Jackson
Iband
Hana
Residents oppose closing of right of way near Falling Rock
The action seeks to stop the closing of a right of way between a lot near Falling Rock and U S 18, with a proceeding against Mr and Mrs Holly Runyon and others. The West Virginia Supreme Court declined to docket another case involving the State Board of Dental Examiners seeking an injunction to restrain Huntington from practicing dentistry without a license. Earlier Cabell County Circuit Court rulings favored the board against Harold Pud Perdue who was accused of making dentures and related appliances.
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Falling Rock
U. S. 18
Holly Runyon
West Virginia
State Board of Dental Examiners
Huntington
Hearing set on appeal from water rate increase
A hearing was granted on a petition from the city of Elkins regarding a water rate increase. The Public Service Commission scheduled the hearing for next Tuesday to review the appeal.
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City of
Elkins
Public Service Commission
Five Sentenced To Prison And Jail In Multiple Cases
The record shows three youths Judith Ann Stanley 18 Franklin Delano Powers 20 Roy Kyle Facemyer 18 were sentenced to one to ten years as probation violators by Judge William J. Thompson. Additional sentences include Henry Melvin Matheny 44 and Floyd Reed 21 for forgery two to ten years at Moundsville. Other defendants faced various penalties for issuing bad checks assault and battery and escape.
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William J. Thompson
Judith Anm Stanley
St. Albans
Franklin Delano Powers
Cedar Grove
Roy
Kyle Facemyer
Charleston
Women’s Prison
Peace Springs
Huttonsville Tedium
Henry Melvin
Matheny
Washington St
Floyd
Reed
Wilkesville
Ohio
Moundsville
George Shaheen Abdella
Quartier St
Drew
Robert Ely
Florida St
Gene Counts
Kentuck
Denver H. Hill
Piedmont Rd
Elmer Turley
Hansford
Arthur Elmore Smithson
Charles Russell Haynes
Denver C. Bennett
RFD
Lester J. Pennington
Sharon
Elmer Herman ‘Ollie
J. Arthur Elmore Smithson
Patton Hollow
Pametaene
Coal Use Urged in State Education Heating
State Board of Education faced protests from United Mine Workers over neglecting coal in campus building plans. Delegation argued bids for Fairmont State College student union and West Liberty College women's dormitory favored other fuels, urging coal boiler inclusion and lower bids for the dormitory project.
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State Board of Education
United Mine Workers
Fairmont State College
West Liberty State College
Michael Widman
Washington
UMW
John L. Lewis
Widman
Adolph Pacifico
Columbus
Ohio
Charleston
Cecil Urbaniak
Fairmont
Thomas A
Williams
International
Michael Gretchen
C. EL Benton
Cleveland
Bituminous Institute
The
National “Coal Asst
Benton
Education Board
Lee Spillers
Wheeling
Congressional
West Virginia
Union
West
Virginia
University and
West Liberty College
WVU
Marshall College
John Wpence
Baker & Coombs Inc
Morgantown
Concord College
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Institute
Youth Slips Wine to Jail Inmate Sentenced to Prison
Randall James Estep 18 of Charleston was sentenced to one to five years in the state penitentiary by Interim Judge William J. Thompson after pleading guilty to grand larceny and confessing to smuggling two-fifths of wine into the Kanawha County jail while at the Forestry Camp in Tucker County. He raised a 28-cent camp check to 28 dollars to aid a friend and refused to identify his accomplices.
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J. M
Cavis
Morris Harvey College
Putnam County
Pt. Pleasant High
Leon
Mason County
Cains
C. W
Red House
L. W
Nitro
Putnam County Vole Avo
C. M
Jim
Huntington East High School
Kanawha County
State
William J. Thompsod
Randall James’ Estep
RFD 6
Charleston
Estep
State Forestry
Tucker County
Thompson
Pigeons Claim Damages After West England Incident
A damaged report describes a wild bird escape in western England where about 2000 pigeons fled and later aimed for a return, while a separate trial from Edinburgh considered a jury verdict set aside due to alleged injuries. A Bristol pet shop case seeks wages and pain and suffering damages from an accused party.
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London
England
Caldwell
Edinburgh
Bird F
India
Bristol Pet Shop
Trial court slots inadequate verdict for damages
Common Pleas Judge Dennis R. Knapp set aside a $322 judgment in a $23,000 damage suit saying it was inadequate and granted a new trial. The case involves John Caldwell of Tuppers Creek and Noble Miller Sr. and Elbin Noble, with accident evidence from May 10, 1957, on Tuppers Creek Rd. The jury award was deemed too low given undisputed special damages totaling $352. The matter arose after a car driven by James Haynes struck a utility pole.
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Common Pleas
Dennis R. Knapp
John Caldwell
Tuppers Creek
West Liberty
Paul N
Noble
Miller Sr
Elbin
Grubb Casts. Construction Co
Wheeling
Knapp
Caldwell
Tuppers Creek Rd
James Haynes
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JE. Cain
Virgie ‘Cain
Eral
Taiwan
Ta-Hsueh-Shan
Eisenhower
White House
Constance Sue Rose
Thomas Hodgson Jr
Moorestown
N. J
Bausch & Lamb
A. May
Stonewall Jackson
Constance Sue
the Gazetteer
George Lawless
U. S
National Safety Council
Cornell University
National Education Assn
Nikita Kruschev
William Dennis Wood
Preston Lee Yancey
Outer Space
Benwood Stout
Miller
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