County funding boosts math science and language programs
The county expands National Defense Education Act aided modern language, mathematics, and science instruction with $45,263.82 in federal funds matched by county support. Upgrades include lab equipment, fume hoods, microscopes, visual aids, and reconditioned apparatus, plus careful inventories and cost-saving measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Brumfield
Larry Wills
Mark Twain
Virginia Jacobs
State Department of Education
Mark Twain High School
Velmer Lilly
Joseph C. McComas
Kilsyth Driver Pays Fines On Three Charges
A Kilsyth man released from Raleigh County Jail at 12 40 a m Sunday after serving a day and paying fines totaling 30 and costs on three charges. Franklin R Ward was jailed Saturday on illegal passing driving with license revoked and operating a vehicle with improper registration. He paid fines and costs per charge. Howard L Hayes St Albans posted an 83 50 bond Sunday on a drunk driving charge. Basil G Duckler Crab Orchard posted 500 bond for release after being jailed Saturday night on a breach of peace charge. A peace warrant against Wilson Shuck Fireco was withdrawn and court costs paid for his release Sunday. Shuck was arrested Saturday night by a deputy sheriff. warrant issued by Magistrate Cotton White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Franklin R. Ward
Howard L. Hayes
St. Albans
Hayes
Basil G. Duckler
Crab Orchard
Burke
Wilson Shuck
Fireco
Shuck
Cotton White
High Honor Seniors Recognized By Beckley Women Club
The Woman's Club of Beckley will honor Woodrow Wilson High School high honor seniors with a buffet at the club's Park Avenue clubhouse on Monday evening May 2. The Youth Committee led by Hazel Davenport plans the event with wide club participation and invites parents and Raleigh County school officials to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Club of
Beckley
Woodrow Wilson High School
Park Avenue
Hazel Davenport
Robert Amick
Lee Burleson
George Yazell
Joe L. Smith Jr
Raymond Skiles
John Wood
C. S. Lewis Jr
Jack Bazarree
C. Burke Lynch
E. E. Bibb Jr
Ted George
Vivan Lilly
Joseph Vargo
Fred Hurt
Sam Cohn
W. C. Covey
Ted Kessinger
N. S. Lilly
Lawrence Thorne
Albert Wheley
C. D. Sebert
Joe Lilly Jr
Keith Lipscomb
Raleigh County
Woman's Club
Social Security Survivor and Disabled Child Benefits Policy
Disability benefits for a child generally continue for life while the child remains unmarried and fully disabled with no substantial gainful work. For a person born in November 1959, about six years of WW II work credits may qualify. applying now is advised. A later shift to spousal benefits is possible if higher than own-work benefits.
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Social Security Office
County Students Give to Three Drives Across County
Raleigh County students donated a total of 972.39 to the American Red Cross March of Dimes and Easter Seals. Contributions came from numerous schools and communities including Institute Fairdale Montcal-Stickney Eccles Junior High Cranberry Shady Spring Beaver Morton-Reaves Central Richmond High Piney Oaks and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
American Red Cross
March of Dimes
Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Red Cross
Institute
Fairdale
Montceal - Stickney
Eccles
Cranberry
Workman's Creek
Richmond High
Piney Oaks
Fairview
Shumate
Abraham
S‘amford
Jarrell
Crab Orchard
Pemberton
Beaver
Riley
Odd
Table Rock
Collins
Crippled Children's Fund
Montroal-Stickney
Crescent
Glen White Junior High
Morton- Reaves
Central
RMI
Whitby
Spruce
McKinley
Bragg
South Glen White
Mount Tabor
West Wickham
No City Beer Permit Causes Man's Arrest
J. T. White age 85 operator of the Chicken Box on South Fayette Street was arrested by City Police at 10 40 p m Sunday and charged with selling beer without a city beer license He was ordered to appear in Police Court tonight to answer the charge Also ordered in Police Court tonight is James R Paulette age 22 of Skelton He was arrested by City Police at 12 45 a m today on a charge of speeding
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. White
South Fayette Street
James R. Paulette
Skelton
Future Homemakers meet at Concord College theme Youh Can Do
The southern region meeting of Future Homemakers of America met at Concord College in Athens with attendees including Stratton High School representatives Barbara Jackson Charlotte Caner and Brenda Evans and their faculty senior Mrs Bernice Tyree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Future ‘Homemakers of America
Concord College
Athens
Stratton High School
Barbara Jackson
Charlotte Caner
Brenda Evans
Bernice ‘Tyree
Record U S tourists set 1960 travel surge abroad
U S tourists prepare for a high travel year with over two million Americans expected to go abroad in 1960 and about 800 000 of them to Europe. Transportation advertisers target readers through newspaper ads, with companies spending an estimated 50 million dollars last year, up 17 percent from 1958.
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U. S
Europe
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Virgil A. Sarrett
Raleigh County Vocational School
Shady Spring High
Chesapeake ‘and Potomac Telephone Co
Appalachian Power Co
Egeria High
McComas
McAlpin School
Paul
Lanny
Phillip Gibson
Ronald Tacket
Garry Moore
Bank of Raleigh
Kanawha Streets
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Seagram
Seagram Distillers Company, &. Y.G
Lota
Chilldren
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