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DyiiUiihyaiity uuimj' rtmntuui*. • . . • r./ • .-.I ... - 'r «*; . . .jolden Triangle—Where Education, Agriculture and Industry Meet: RAOFORD, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, P. M. APRIL 24, 1961 -TELEPHONE RADFORO 639*2136t'.SEVEN -CENTS'By BILL HAYSRadford Youth takes oyer. the city government.Monday on “You- ^ajrry Edward Walker, ih Government Day.’* ...Radford High School v$tudents will man ,the * various ; job£ and- City Nurse. Gloria. McDaniel-will posts in the city from City Coun- be Medical * Examiner.cil on down.Youth Governm^n^ Day ha 6 be-In the Police, Department, Jakie Slushes y/iil be Chief of Police wilhcome an annual evtfnt in the city i Police Sergeants Gary Pruitt,which serves to help yputji of the city understand the operation of municipal affairs. ' • .As Walt Disney said, “YouthMike Roach, Fred Medley , and N.C. Bishop..1 • . 0 4 In the Fire Department GaryAtkinson will be Fire Chief and* of the to-grow^ and-develops largely by ex- Rohny Lor/injcoio .wili.be AsK-stant am it•chievcment. When this respect! Ferrell, and Terry Looney.,11/dim* laigmjr uj jjuhImoujiu ,wiu,ui. : airinumple. it seeks the esteem of those Chief. Fire Engineers wjll be Ran-f respects-' for character' and a- ! dolpli Wh^tU^W^l^ni F’oid, • Lioyd. , * . _ . ' ' |* • # r-i «■ . ■ . V _ V. ............v.v iv •• • '.it' ....♦ •• •Aaron S.lone .John -Freemanand example are mutual among groups coming together on a ccim-Street Superintendent ‘ will be Keith Coated, Superintendent of/tmon ground, the influenced one j Public Utilities -will be Ronald upon another is enormously mul- Hammond and hip assistant- Will-be John Hamblin. -Bill Gibson will be Utftity Cashier and Phil Thomas will be in charge of Transportation. Time keeper will be Dale Harris. ,The Chairman of the School Board is Jennie. Roberts and Stephen Boling is School Superintendent whose assistant will be Karen Haas.tiplied. 'Steering GroupPlan^ for the day y^efe under the direction of a steering committee made up of City Manager Frank Force, Kiwanis President Paul Steele, High School Principal M. G. White, and Radford High i School. Government. Teacher.. Mrs* W. B. Hatcher. •The day .begins at 8:35 with an ,RecriuitAn Director is Linda*•1 4* .« « « « « f « i* _ ♦____t .« • 1 4 A A my «assembly in the High School Auditorium. From 8:45 until 9 a:m.' announcements and assignmentss fall will be made by Mrs.. Haicher and ysican . Forcelt; •low is jp, so orablc beforet evi-The day, officially begins at 9 a. m. as the students go with their, municipal counterparts.For those students not directly participating in a city office *.or job, a tour of the cit,y and its -Ta-cilities will be conducted for thechild grade 1 Vitv on a-cough, io are 10 are ;e dis-an bp insureoil tine school ical or larents physi-t thechild school health ready 1001 so maxisocial *them-o par-lainted :s”.~ It it link rogress schoolrest of them from 9 a.m. until 1* ' ap.m. •At I p.m. a lunch is scheduled in the high' schoof cafeteria for city officials, Kiwanis representatives, and the Senior Government class.The invocation .will be asked by Wanda Sutphin . with remarks by Mayor Sam Mattox, Paul Steele, and -Youth Mayor . Aaron Slone. M. G. White will make announcements at the time. - ’ ■ ’Council’ Meets - From 2 until 3 p.m. Student City Council will meet in the cafeteria.Student City Councilmen are Mayor Aaron Slone, Lewis Webb, Jr., Bob Meglemere, Jeffrey Bain, and John Freeman.Students who will man city judicial and constitutional positioris are Cynthia Cox, Circuit Judges Susan Beller, Treasurer; John Lucas,’ Commissioner of Revenue; Tom Tilley, tJity Sergeant; Morgan Scott, Commonwealth Attorney; Connie Layne, Circuit Court Clerk; Joyce Vermillion, • City Clerk-Auditor;. Robert Young, Municipal Court Judge; Pat Sturgeon, Clerk af'the Municipal Court, and Nancy Thomas, City Attorney.Bain with assistant Betty Newby and Shirley Vicars. • . •The Welfare Director is Gene Farmer whose assistant is Dorothy Earles. Librarian is Charlotte ’ Mussel-man whose assistant is Patsy Jones. .Bill Copenhaver, Jr.x -V %.’■ 'v{!.■ x-'J*v.. /.** / • /V 1'■. frV.....,%t v .' v.Jeffrey Bain' Robert Megiemre\ :■ ' ‘\ • lA./.Arfi/.vV/, •.•, v. Sc.Lewis Webb, Jr.f • ... ///.■; ‘i. ►/.Pulaski Women GOPs Set MeetThe Pulas^ County Republican Women's Club will meet Monday, night; Apii 27, at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs, Curtis Grpham, Dublin. This an imoortaht Meeting and it. is urged that all members attend. Final plans will be made for delegates attending the Spring Conference of the Virginia Federation of Republican Women at Hotel Roanoke on May 1 and 2. Also plans are being made fpr the Chicken Barbecue, which the club sponsors annyally, in August.Curtis Graham, Chairman of the Pulaski County Republican Committee,. will* be .guest speaker at the meeting.- . ^Band In NorfolkThe Highlanders band of Radford College ieft by bus .this fn’orh-ing for Norfolk where they will perform vat the 1964 International Azaelea Festival.The band was iin Norfolk in March for a (Concert, tour of' high schools there/' : -‘Sight Conservation’- i/aJur c/A*A* MlHoward C. Houck,\ executive director of the Eye Bank iVi Roanoke, addressd the RadforcnUions Club last, night on sight conservation, and how Lions have helped make it an effective program.It all began ;4G years ago when Helen Keller tossed, out a chal* lenge-to the 55th Lions International 'Convention to do something about helping conquer the world of blindness. The Convention took her seriously arid made sight conservation their .chief goal. Through th4 years several aids to the blind have been introduced by the Lions such as the' use of seeing-'eye dogs and the. symbolic white cane. . |Nine'years ago an ‘Eye Bank’: .was organized by Dr.. E. G. Gill •! under the auspice^ of the.-Eye and Ear Foundation in Roanoke: A' vear later the Lions Clnhlt;;been completed, ranging fromi partial vision :to 20-20 vision without glasses. One413 year old blirid patient received an eye transplant from a 90 year old donor. Her vision in that eye is perfect, 20-20 without glasses,, She is awaiting a similar operation on the other eye*J. - • •• • I /Fourteen vitreoi/s eye implant (detached retina) operations have been performed. Here the vitreous fluid' from a donor’s eye is implanted into the patients* eye, forcing the retina back in place and restoring sight.During the' last nine mohths, the Lions through the Eye Bank and Sight Conservation Society have-conducted 289 eye examinations and 24 free eye operations such as atraightning crossed eyes and removing cataracts..- Twelve-w« n . - * - ••Area SchoolsorTo Good Will. r....“The Montgomery -County and Radford Schools gave 2362 bags of clothing and shoes 'to the Goodwill Industries' last week,” Rev. Lewis Ovenshire, Executive Director of the Goodwill, announced today. “We are very much pleased and'grateful for the wonderful response on the part of tlje Montgomery County and Radford. school children, teachers and patron^. These bags of clothing and shoes will mean many day* of work and wages for some v^ry worthy blind, crippled and disabled people,” Ovenshire said.Schools contributing in Montgomery 'Cpunty w.ere: Alleghany 108, Elliston-Lafayette .77, Auburn 254, Befview 127, Bethel 197^Gilbert Linkous • -.145, Majr.garet Beeks 245, ^Price's Fork' 175, Wakeforest .31, : Christiansburg Elementary H8; Weller Baker 97 and Friends Elementary 80 bags.
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Radford News Journal

Radford, Virginia, US

Fri, Apr 24, 1964

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