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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1961
Page
10
The column urges focusing on major aims and making decisive choices. It warns against hasty moves amid a confusing home emotional scene and recalls a housewife's 19th century iron weighed about 10 pounds with hot coals, noting a similar item is still exported to electricity-lacking areas of South America.
A 1961 Field Enterprises horoscope notes long term use of seawater conversion units, predicting over a thousand cities adopting the tech before 1980 with San Diego currently building one. Daily signs advise caution with relatives, cooperation at work, and prudent spending while highlighting home wiring and calm plans at home.
Pineville residents share weekend visits and travel as families visit kin across towns. John Teel returns to Marshall University after Easter break while students Connie Waddell Linda Mathena and Carol Mullens spend weekends with their parents. Local hosts include the Hawkins Kress and Broom families in Pineville and Crowley-Worrell Addition plus visits to Huntington, Madison, Hemphill and Charleston.
Mrs Darrell Tolliver was honored with a stork shower Friday night in the Coca Cola building recreation room in Pineville. Hostesses were Mrs Marvin Phillips, Mrs W W Bolt, both of Pineville, and Mrs Robert Pauley of Mullens. Prizes went to Pineville residents D T Daniels, Lee Schilling, and Delmida Daniels, and Mullens resident Howard Pauley. Guests included numerous Pineville and Mullens residents. Refreshments were served by the hostesses.
Fayetteville reports a series of livestock producer meetings today and Wednesday to discuss feeder calf and market lamb production. First session at 1 30 p m on Galvin Kenney Farm Hico. Panel at Meadow Bridge High School 7 p m features Joe Emch Calvin Kenney Paul Cole Ward Ashford John Flanagan and H L Riggle. Topics include Beef Cattle Record of Performance program cow and calf program market lamb wool production feeder pig production and pasture management. Third meeting Wednesday 930 am at Paul Cole Farm Danese.
The earliest definite traces of algebra appear in the writings of Ahmes an Egyptian who lived around 1700 B C or earlier this establishes a distant lineage for the science.
Guy F Quillen 40 of Gallup New Mexico formerly Crab Orchard died March 29 at Gallup. Funeral 2 p.m. April 4 at Caffee Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Cameron Lily. burial Sunset Memorial Park. Arnold Wesley Reed 40 of Norfolk Virginia formerly Sophia West Virginia died April 1 at DePaul Hospital Norfolk from injuries after being struck by a car. Funeral 2 p.m. April ? at First Baptist Church Sophia with Revs Dewey Wilson Cleve Young. burial Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Rose Quesenberry Funeral Chapel handling arrangements.
Mullens High School Band will be honored at its annual banquet Friday at 6 30 p m in the school cafeteria with the theme Living With Music. All band members attending are guests of the band association. parents buy tickets for expenses. Wayne Bond will MC. invocation by Diane Akers. senior members will sing two numbers. The speaker and majorette Judy Minter will introduce the speaker. A post banquet dance will follow in the cafeteria. Tickets from Elbert Patton. reservations due by Wednesday.
Fayetteville Lions will nominate officers at a Wednesday 6 p m meeting in the Fayette County Memorial Building dining room. President George L. Vickers says the nominating committee, chaired by Frank K. Mahan, includes Carl B. Vickers Eugene E. Houchins Tudor and Walter Caldwell. The group also announced the Zone Interclub meeting set for June 1 with Mount Hope Lions as host.
City Council in Oak Hill plans to review detailed gross sales tax regulations. City Attorney Higgins Jr. is to draft rules focusing on out of town businesses. Five holdout firms demand more detail before compliance. Some firms filed reports but paid nothing, and about 25 others made no returns for either quarter last year.
Almanac item for today April 4 1961 notes the 94th day of the year with 271 remaining and a near last quarter moon. It lists historical events including US flag redesign in 1818 Tyler becoming president in 1841 Rhodes will for Oxford scholarships in 1902 and North Atlantic Treaty pact signing in 1939. Thought for today quotes Thomas Carlyle.
A classified ad offers a $50 million trade for old hearing aids and supplies from Mountain State Hearing Aid Center located at 125 Main St with contact CL 3-6352. A separate help wanted note seeks an unattached lab person aged 20 to 455 for light housework with no children, contact CL 2-4242.
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