Patient Recaptured and Fire Ravages Beckley Open Air
Police report the escape of mental patient David Cella who was recaptured near Sissonsville after fleeing Huntington State Hospital. A fire at Beckley Open Air Theater on Stamford Road destroyed the admin building and concession area with workers indicating an internal origin but officials noting blasts from nearby construction. Beaver volunteers and high school workers saved the projection room. owner Jack Clemens plans rebuilding and a summer reopening.
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Esca
Sissonsville
David Cella
Raleigh County
Cella
Huntington State Hospital
Huntington State Police
Barboursville
Beckley Open Air Theater
Stamford Road
Jack Clemens
Stamford
Clemens
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beaver
Raleigh
J. H. Walker
Vance Drive
Beckley
Shears Hooper
Odd
W. C. Lilly
Shady Spring
Boyd Pettry
Naomi
L. G. Daniel
Whitesville
Dr Boyd Speaks At Beckley Presbyterian Church
Pre Easter services at Beckley Presbyterian Church will be led by Rev. Robert F Boye ThD professor at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education Richmond Va. Born in Raleigh he studied at College of Charleston and Columbia Theological Seminary and earned a doctorate at Union Theological Seminary. He will preach at morning worship and 730 pm each evening Sunday through Wednesday with topics Who Is Jesus Three Lessons from John Three A Threefold Parable Jesus and His Bible and The Gospel of the Resurrection.
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Beckley Presbyterian Church
Robert F. Boye
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Richmond
Boyd
Raleigh
N. C
College of Charleston
Charleston
S. C
Columbia Theological Seminary
Decatur
Union Theological Seminary
North
South Carolina
Columbia Seminary
Jesus
John
Travel Council To Seek Funds Travel Council To Seek Funds
The Raleigh County division of the Mountainaire Travel Council plans to raise its share of an $8,000 goal for a six county drive. Only $999 in unsolicited gifts has been received to date. Raleigh, the largest county, is expected to contribute at least $2,500. Groups and individuals volunteered to solicit donations from retailers, wholesalers, restaurants, oil firms, utilities, and doctors. Some groups lack volunteers in the legal, manufacturing, building, and real estate sectors.
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Raleigh
Mountainaire
Travel Council
Raleigh- Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Francis Berg
John Kern
M. W. McCollam
T. L. van Stavern
meter maids graduate in Chicago city hall ceremony
Chicago's first 21 meter maids were graduated at City Hall in a ceremony featuring a Chicago Fire Department glee club performance. The event highlighted a playful Irving Berlin song revised for the occasion, celebrating the new graduates who issue parking tickets with a smile.
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Chicago
UPI
City Hall
Chicago Fire Department Glee Club
New Version Of Old Game At Courthouse
Local attorney Robert Sayre questioned the whereabouts of a 3 by 4 foot composite photo of Raleigh County attorneys from 1940. The picture should hang in the Circuit Court room, but only a copy remains in Criminal Court. The search began as Sayre sought help from janitor Ted Brown, who recalled hanging it about four years ago but not seeing it recently.
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Robert Sayre
Circuit
Raleigh County Association
Sayre
C. Harold Hanks
Ted Brown
Four Complete Sewing Course Finishes in Raleigh County
Four 4-H clothing leaders completed the two day training “Getting the Most out of Your Sewing Machine” in Raleigh County. The course was run by Cooperative Extension Service Appalachian Center WVU in cooperation with Singer and the National 4-H Service Committee. Participants were Mrs. O. C. Hutchison, Mrs. John Pate, Mrs. H. H. Harvey, and Mrs. G. P. Henderson. The program covered machine care, adjustment for fabrics, attachments use, and teaching methods for 4-H members.
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Raleigh
Mary Nell Godbey
O. C. Hutchison
John Pate
H. H. Harvey
G. P. Henderson
Cooperative Extension Service
Appalachian Center
West Virginia University
Singer Sewing Machine Company
National
4-H Service Committee
Chamber Alters State Meeting Schedule Plan
Beckley Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce announces shorter but more frequent meetings for directors executive committee and coordinators. Executive committee and department coordinators will meet at 5 p.m. on second and fourth Thursdays to work out disagreements and prepare recommendations. Directors will vote at noon on the third Thursday.
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Beckley - Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce
Robert F. Hamilton
Chamber
Board of Directors
Hamilton
Slate Fall Fatal At Oglebay Norton Mine
Okey P. Combs 56 of Fairdale Raleigh County was killed Thursday when a slate fall at the Oglebay Norton Coal Co mine near Eunice crushed his chest. An obituary is on page 2.
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Okey P. Combs
Fairdale
Raleigh County
Oglebay-Norton
Jennings Enters Guilty To Petit Larceny
Roger Jennings, 17, pleaded guilty to petit larceny before Judge Harry L. Mc Creery after being charged with breaking and entering a Piney View grocery store. The thefts included transistor radios and batteries, watches, and two bubble gum machines totaling about 300 dollars. Sentencing set for 10 a.m. April 26 amid additional charges against two adults and a juvenile.
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Roger Jennings
Harry L. McCreery
Atty. C. Berkley Lilly
Jennings
Piney View
William Bonner
West Virginia LWV State Council Meets at Downtowner Inn
The League of Women Voters of West Virginia holds its biennial State Council meeting at the Downtowner Inn in Wheeling today and Saturday. Milton Patton of West Virginia University speaks at tonight's banquet on Critical Issues in State Policy Development. Delegates will adopt the annual budget hear chair reports and set next year’s policy agenda.
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League of Women Voters of
West Virginia
Three New York papers plan merger cutting nearly two thousand jobs
The World Journal Tribune Inc merger of Herald Tribune Journal American World Telegram would shed about 819 newsroom advertising and office jobs. Guild officials estimate roughly 1,100 craft workers face dismissal with total cuts near 2,000 of 5,700 positions. Antitrust inquiry continues as date eyed around April 11.
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New York
UPI
New York City
American Newspaper Guild
World Journal Tribune Inc
Herald Tribune
Journal-American
World-Telegram
Thomas J. Murphy
Antitrust Division
U.S. Justice Department
Two WV school groups elect new officers
At two day meetings in Morgantown the West Virginia Association of School Administrators named James B. Bruffey president and Fountie Williams vice president with B. G. Pauley as secretary treasurer. The West Virginia School Boards Association elected Richard N. Schnacke president and W. Quentin Smith as vice president along with Frank E. Watson as secretary treasurer.
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Morgantown
UPI
West Virginia Association of School Administrators
West Virginia School Boards Association
James B. Bruffey
Randolph County
Fountie Williams
Harrison County
B. G. Pauley
Marion County
Treaser
Richard N. Schnacke
Wetzel County
School Boards Association
W. Quentin Smith
Wood County
Frank E. Watson
McDowell County
Rotary Speaker Ermon Lature Set for Beckley Club
Beck ley Rotary Club will host Ermon Lature Community Activities Coordinator at C P Telephone West Virginia as speaker at Black Knight Country Club at 6 p m Leslie Gates April program chairman will introduce Lature.
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Ermon Lature
C & P. Telephone Co
West Virginia
Beckley Rotary Club
Black Knight Country Club
Leslie Gates
Lature
Grandview Park opens Easter Sunday pending water repairs
Superintendent Hunter Boggs says Grandview State Park picnic area will open Easter Sunday if water line parts arrive in time. He expects recreation areas to open Memorial Day, with Grandview possibly earlier if weather permits.
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Grandview State Park
Hunter Boggs
Grandview
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