Wyoming County Band Clinic Set for Thursday and Friday
The Fifth Annual Wyoming County Band Clinic convenes in Pineville on Thursday and Friday with Herbert Tiemeyer as guest conductor. Bands from Baileysville Oceana Glen Rogers Mullens and Pineville join a 74 member Clinic Band performing Monticello Overture Yoecala Cathedral Canyon Arranger's Holiday Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
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Pineville
RNS
Wyoming County
Herbert Tiemeyer
Baileysville
Oceana
Glen Rogers
Mullens
Monticello
Yoecala
Assault Charge Placed On Theodore Penn
Fayetteville report says Theodore Penn, 32, Pax, was jailed Saturday night after a fight in the Long Branch pool room. Deputies charged him with felonious assault for slashing Ernie Hunter in the face with a knife. A preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. Monday before Magistrate R. C. Godsey. Deputies Pete Withrow and O. B. Legg investigated.
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Fayetteville
Theodore
Penn
Pax
Fayette County
Long Branch
Sheriff's
Ernie Hunter
WM A. mi
R. C. Godsey
Pete Withrow
O. B. Legg
Push Em Toney Push Em Toney
The Printer reports a paper shortage that forces all but one local printing concern out of business. The crisis hits small presses, with one remaining firm keeping steady operations amid supply cuts and rising costs.
Beckley printers warn of collapse amid paper shortage
In Beckley area, rivals announce impending closures as a paper shortage hits. BNC Printing claims supply dominance and seeks customers for letterheads, invitations, forms, and more, while offering job openings for workers from closing shops.
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Beckley
BNC Printing
Beckley End
Golf Round Recalls Hogan Articles and Local Names
Golf matched with Dana Sebert, Tom Shrewsbury, and George Mom yester day, while readers discussed Ben Hogan articles. The piece includes numerous local names, a light April Fool gag, and an ad for BNC Printing.
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Dana Sebert
Tom Shrewsbury
George Mom
Ben Hogan
Moss
Tom
George
Car Accident Victim Rites Slated Thursday
Ralph Trenton Payne 38 of East Oak Hill dies in a two car crash on Page Road at Kincaid. Five others injured including driver Charles Mason Corbitt 19 of Cincinnati in critical condition. Funeral set Thursday at 2 p.m. at Church of God with burial in Payne Cemetery Scarbro.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Ralph Trenton Payne
East Oak Hill
Church of God
Payne Cemetery
Scarbro
Raite I. Payne
New River Co
Oakwood
Page Road
Kincaid
Charles Mason Corbitt
Cincinnati
Ohio
Fayetteville man listed in serious condition after Route 61 wreck
John Jefferson Bufour, 25, Route 3 Fayetteville, was found pinned in his car after a Sunday morning crash on Route 61. He was discovered around 8 a.m. by Oak Hill worker Charlie Clawson and remained under treatment at Oak Hill Hospital with extensive injuries from the collision.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Fayetteville
John Jefferson Bufour
Oak Hill Hospital
J. R. Lilly
Bufour
Lilly
Charlie_Clawson
Clawson
Officer Election Set By Junior Women Today
Madison Junior Woman's Club plans a 7:30 p.m. meeting in the Memorial Building to elect officers. Afterward, members will roll bandages for the Cancer Loan Cabinet of the county.
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Madison
RNL
Madison Junior Woman's Club
Memorial
Cancer Loan Cabinet
Dr A L Hunter Taken by Death in Pax Home
Dr A L Hunter 75 of Pax died at home Sunday night. Born June 8 1831 he graduated from a Louisville medical college and belonged to the Masonic Blue Lodge Beckley and the Beni Keadem Shrine Charleston. He is survived by wife Barbara and two sons Harry L Madison and Homer G Pax. The body is at the Hunter and Hunter Funeral Home Madison pending arrangements.
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Pax
A.L. Hunter
Louisville, Ky
Medical College
Masonic Blue Lodge
Beckley
Charleston
Barbara Hunter
Harry L
Madison
Homer G
Sorority Sponsor Quits Position at Concord College
Delta Zeta National Sorority sponsor Miss Ora Peters, librarian, resigns after 28 years guiding Delta Sigma Epsilon before its August 1956 merger with Delta Zeta. Advisory board named includes Mrs. Thomas Lowery, Mrs. Betty Grainger, Miss Ruby Holland, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Miss Louis Gentry, Miss Virginia Hatcher, and Mrs. Roy Eades.
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Ora Peters
Delta Sigma Epsilon
Delta Zeta
Thomas Lowery
Bluefield
Concord College
Betty Grainger
Ruby ‘Holand
Athens
Elizabeth Martin
Louis2 ‘Gentry
Princeton
Virginia Hatcher
Roy Eades
West Virginia police raid 3 counties on gambling liquor crackdown
State Police raided 6 Marshall County taverns and clubs in the Northern Panhandle, 11 Mineral County sites in the Eastern Panhandle, and 3 Boone County establishments. About 35 slot machines were seized in Marshall County while 13 Boone arrests included drinking and illegal whisky sales. Mineral County raids yielded 14 arrests across 11 sites. Major Basil E. Wright said the operations were to curb gambling devices with minimal manpower.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Marshall County
Panhandle
Mineral County
Boone County
Basil E.wright
Charleston
Benny
Blue Bird
Court House
Madison
Rock Tavern
Rock Tavern, Club '89
W.va
Highway Grill
US. 250
Highway
Mingo Grill
Tipple Club
iDeCalos Bar
Blue Ribbon Cafe
Deches Tavern
Owl's Club
Benwood
Club Peso
American Citizens Club
Merry Tavern
Upper Potomac Valley Shrine Club
Nancy Hanks
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Moose Lodge
Washington - Smith American Legion
Marty’s Place
Ridgeley
Hazel B. Fair
Department of Public Safety
Shooting Fatal To Cannelion Man
A Cannelion man, Mike Emeline Jr., 20, died after a shooting at a Can petite tavern Saturday night. Obed Holdren, 20, also of Cannelion, was arrested on murder charges and held for arraignment before Magistrate C. R Bess. Emeline was hit by a 30-30 rifle bullet through the chest. others fired shots struck tavern walls.
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Montgomery
Cannelion
Mike Emeline Jr
Canpetite
Obed Holdren
W. N. Brackenrich
Holdren
C. R Bess
Boomer
Emeline
Officers Elected By Tech Student Chapter At WV Tech
Montgomery Edsel Dancy Jesse Denny Hylton Rainelle and James Piercy Clintonville were elected chairman vice chairman and secretary treasurer of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering student chapter at West Virginia Tech. P M Gray is faculty sponsor. ASEE, the largest U S technical society, sponsors the group under the West Virginia Section. It marks the third engineering society organized at the college this year.
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Montgomery
Edsel Dancy
Jesse
Denny Hylton
Rainelle
James Piercy
Clintonville
American Institute of Electrical Engineering
West Virginia Tech
West Virginia
ASEE
P. M. Gray
United States
Morrison Rites Scheduled Today
Funeral services for Margaret Catherine Morrison were set for 2 p.m. at Rich Creek Church of God with Rev. J Blackwater and Rev. S C Johnson officiating. Burial would follow in Rich Creek Cemetery. The 63 year old died Saturday at her Rich Creek home after a five year illness. Her body was moved to her daughter Arion Candler's home in Rich Creek on Sunday from Broyles Funeral Home in Peterstown and would go to the church an hour before the service.
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Peterstown
RNS
Margaret Catherine Morrison
Rich Creek Church
Arion Candler
Rich Creek
Broyles
Scott High Students Govern Madison Today
Madison will be governed today by a new student city council elected from Scott High School. James Hayner serves as mayor with David Curry as recorder and Elizabeth Rose, David Mossey, Bobby Rodgers, Jerry Tawney, and Paul Kingery as council members. The group was elected last week after a three week campaign.
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Madison
RNS
Madison I
Scott High School
James Hayner
David Curry
Elizabeth Rose
David Mossey
Bobby Rodgers
Jerry Tawney
Paul Kingery
Scott High
Fayette March of Dimes Drive Raises 18565 for Local Chapter
Fayette County residents raised 18565.33 for the Fayette County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the 1957 March of Dimes campaign. Countywide activities contributed 13262.48, with Mother’s March and school drives totaling 765? followed by other community gifts and telethon events. Campaign director Pat Hamilton will not return in 1958 due to other commitments, thanking Mauritz and Fayette County citizens for a successful three campaigns.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Fayette
Fayette County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Frank Mauritz
Pat R. Hamilton
Activites
Ansted
Lions Club
Fayetteville
Junior Woman's Club
American Legion Auxiliary
Gauley Bridge
T. S. Waldo
Kingston
Kenneth Legg
Lookout
Montgomery
Gordon Billheimer
Mount Hope
Collins High School
Pax
WW. T. Blankenship
Smithers
John Cavalier
Thurmond
Earl Bellew
Marie
Coffman
Mary Waldo
Woay-Tv
Hamilton
Mauritz
Hinton Youth Reported Missing Spends Saturday Night Missing
HINTON RNS Jackie Lee Palmer a 11 year old son of Mr and Mrs Ray Palmer of Lowell has been missing from his home since 10 am Saturday He is about 5 11 tall weighs 120 pounds brown eyes light brown hair and was last seen wearing a red cap and jacket blue denim trousers and brown boots He carried a 22 caliber rifle in a box and a stall suitcase with a few clothes His parents believe he is heading to West Palm Beach Fla and he reportedly has about 8 or 9 dollars and may seek employment.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Rainbow Girls To Solicit For Red Cross Drive
Mount Hope Rainbow Girls begin Red Cross Fund Drive the first time the assembly has participated. Rev. J. B. Perkins and Sanford McNeely chair the drive with Eva Ann Park heading the campaign. House to house calls started Saturday, with a multi-captain committee organizing in sections under Zenna Hoke Bonnie Smith and other captains.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Red Cross
Assembly
J. B. Perkins
Sanford McNeely
Eva Ann Park
Rainbow Girls
Flora Twaddle
Accident Victim Rites Tuesday
Funeral services for Danéa Lee Cooper will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Layland Church with Rev. W. M. McDaniels and Rev. C. E. Nutters officiating. Burial will follow in End sore trae Cemetery near Clinton ville. The 21-year-old Fayette County man was electrocuted Sunday morning while assisting James Pugh of Lawton to erect a television aerial on Pugh's house when a wind shifted it into a high tension line. Cooper, of Kathryn, was pronounced dead on arrival at Beckley Memorial Hospital. Pugh remains hospitalized at Beckley Memorial for burns on his feet. Cooper, a Ripple-man for Branch Fuel Co. at Laurel Creek, recently celebrated his first wedding anniversary. Born in Kathryn, he was a member of United Mine Workers Local 5877. Survivors include his wife Nancy Ann Blevins Cooper, his parents William Lee and Ethel Lewis Cooper, six brothers Carlos and Junior of Newark, Ohio, Jimmy of Lawton, Wilfred of Stamford, Billy and Eugene of Jamestown, Pa., and two sisters Mae Coffman of Nashville, Tenn., and Virginia Earls of Huntington. The body will be removed from Nickell Funeral Home in East Rainette to his home at 5 p.m. today.
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Lawton
ANS
Danéa Lee Cooper
Layland
W. M. McDaniels
C. E. Nutters
Endsore Trae
Clintonville
Fayette County
Cooper
Kathryn
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Funeral Home
James Pugh
Pugh
Branch Fuel Co
Laurel Creek
United Mine Workers
Nancy Ann Blevins Cooper
William Lee
Ethel Lewis Cooper
Carlos
Junior
Newark
Ohio
Jimmy
Wilfred
Stamford
Billy
Eugene
Jamestown
Mae Coffman
Nashville, Tenn
Virginia Earls
Huntington
Nickell Funeral Home
East!n
Rainette
Wilsons Injured In Car Accident Near Sundial
Perry Wilson and his wife Emma were injured in a Saturday crash on State Route 3 near Sundial Whitesville. Wilson was released after treatment at Raleigh Boone Clinic. Emma Wilson was taken to Charleston Memorial Hospital with a broken vertebra in her neck. An Armstrong Funeral Home ambulance transported her. A tire blowout tossed the car into a hillside. car damage not yet estimated.
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Whitesville
RNS
Perry Wilson
Pineville
Emma
Raleigh - Boone Clinic
Sundial
Wilson
Charleston Memorial Hospital
Armstrong Funeral Home
Manerva J. Cook Rites Incomplete
Funeral services are incomplete for Mrs Manerva Jane Cook who died at 9 20 p m Sunday at the Rockview home she shared with her son Virgil Cook and his family Death was due to age She was a life long Wyoming County resident thrice married longtime member of Rock Castle Baptist Church Surviving children include Rev E Hill Keyrock W S Hill Sinks Grove Miss Grate Hill West Orange N J Mrs L O Bailey Beckley Mrs Ray Edwards Beckley and Virgil Cook Rockview The body is at Robertson Foglesong Funeral Home Mutens
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Rockview
Riis
Manerva
Jane Cook
Cook
Virgil Cook
Wyoming County
Rockcastle Baptist Church
Rothview
E. [. Hill
Keyrock
Body of Missing Boy Found in the Guyandotte River
The body of one of three teen boys missing after a boat capsized two months ago was recovered Sunday in the Guyandotte River near the Logan Country Club. State police say the remains likely belong to Ray Hayes, 15, Harold Jeffrey, 15, or Charles Hughes, 15, though immediate identification was not possible.
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LOGAN
BNL
Guyandotte River
Here
Logan Country Club
Russell Hogg
Ray Hayes
Harold Jeffrey
Charles Hughes
Area Teachers Attend Science Mathematics Meet At Tech
West Virginia Tech hosted a conference for high school teachers on science and mathematics. Dr E J McShane of the University of Virginia spoke as a national consultant for AAAS Teaching Improvement Program. A panel including industry and education leaders discussed improving classroom teaching and cooperation among schools and colleges.
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W. Va. Tech
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Virginia
National Association
Tech
Association
West Virginia Department of Education
Sophia High School Mathematics Teacher Attends Meeting
Carl Neff a mathematics teacher at Sophia High School was among the attendees at the meeting indicating active participation by educators in the education discussion.
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Carl Neff
Sophia High School
Volunteer Fire Depts Meet in Boomer hosts hosts meeting
Twelve volunteer fire departments attended the March meeting of the Mutual Aid Association in Boomer with the Boomer fire department hosting. The association comprises upper Kanawha Valley departments working together in need. Represented were Malden Belle Glasgow Smithers Montgomery Pratt East Bank Chesapeake Marmet Cedar Grove Gauley Bridge and Boomer.
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Loomer
ANS
Mutual Aid Association
Boomer
Firemen's Mutual Aid Association
Kanawha Valley
Malden
Belle
Glasgow
Smithers
Montgomery
Pratt
East Bank
Chesapeake
Marmet
Cedar Grove
Gauley Bridge
Delinquent Registrant Notice for Oceana Resident
Mullens Selec tive Service Board 21 lists Lacy Blank enship of Oceana as a draft delinquent for failing to keep address updates. The board asks that anyone with this person’s current address notify the Mullens board.
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Oceana
Mullens
RNS
Lacy Blankenship
Selective Service Board No. 21
Oak Hill Youth Plan Temperance Week Activities
Oak Hill youths will observe Youth Temperance Week April 7 to 13 with a mayoral proclamation announced by Mrs. Kelly Williams. The Jones Ave Church of God hosted a 2 PM session, and plans include a May 16 day-long rally at Oak Hill Baptist Church led by Ethel Riddle and national youth temperance secretary Evanston Ill. Estelle Fisher led the devotional, with a vocal duet and a skit. The next meeting is April 25 at the Church of the Nazarene.
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Oak Hill
RNS
H. C. Brown
Kelly Williams
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Jones Ave
Ethel Riddle
Clarksburg
Evanston, Ill
National Youth Temperance
A. L. Rohrer
Beckley
WCTU
M. Gabriel
Parkersburg
E. W. Lambert
Estelle Fisher
Earl Mullins
C. B. Legg
S. E.campbell
Church of the Nazarene
Fayetteville Road
Boone County United Nations Association Meeting Today
The Boone County Association for the United Nations will meet in the Appalachian Room, Madison, at 7 30 p m to discuss the regional conference held March 29 31. President Larry Lyons conducts, Whitesville residents urged to join. A Rhode to attend and learn about work by the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 106 in regular meeting at 7 30 p m at the Legion Home with Mrs Edith Cook in charge. Darrell Payne and Peggy Reed of Otsego have applied for a marriage license in Wyoming County Clerk’s office.
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Whitesville
ANS
Boone County Association For the United Nations
Appalachian
Madison
Larry Lyons
Whitesville Area
Mullens
RNS
Rhode
Dendron
Asbe
Ion
Legion Home
Edith Cook
Paneville
Darrell Payne
Otsego
Peggy Reed
Wyoming County
Funeral Home Moves to New Kirk Building in Pineville
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home relocates to the Kirk Building in Pineville. The remodeled facility aims to serve the Pineville area with expanded space and improved access for the public. Coy Hash, manager, notes all services will be offered locally.
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Pineville
RNS
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Harry Ellis
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Charlie
Gordon
Tyree Funeral
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Richmond
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Hunter and Hunter Funeral Home
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Fash
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Nancy Carol Summerfield
Modelsville Junior Woman's Club
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Audhorlum
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Cook’s Department Store
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