Pineville High School group seeks 15 improvement projects
Pineville leaders presented a list of 15 proposed improvements to the school board, urging upgrades including a dedicated general science room, football field enhancements with drainage and sod, a larger dressing and storage building, a stone front wall, and a new heating system for four classrooms. The plan also calls for repairing the incinerator, elevating and landscaping the area behind the school, and adding a pump to the heat tunnel. The board backed a long range program and possible fundraising to fund the work.
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Pineville
ANS
John B. Thomas
Pineville High School Improvement Association
Claude Phillips
Walter Day
Wesley Brown
Jess W. Houck
Pineville High School
Houck
Jess Morgan
William Lewis
Eugene Noble
Mangus Olsen
D. W. Hollinger
Mount Hope First Baptist to Install New Pastor
Mount Hope The First Baptist Church will install Rev W A Leonard as pastor Sunday at 3 pm. Leonard a Claymount Biblical School graduate studied at Washington Baptist Seminary. He formerly served as minister of education at New Southern Baptist Church in Washington DC. Installation services begin Thursday at 7 30 pm with Rev Luther Fletcher of Garten delivering the message and First Union Choir providing music.
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Mount Hope
First Baptist Church of
W. A. Leonard
Leonard
Claymount Biblical School
Washington Baptist Seminary
Washington, D. C
New Southern Baptist Church
Luther Fletcher
Garten
First
A. W. Wood
Columbus
Ohio
First ‘Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church of
Officers Kept By McGraw PTA Officers Kept By McGraw PTA
The John McGraw Parent-Teacher Association will retain its officers for another term. President Guynath Shumate and Vice President Maxine Tolliver will lead. Rose McGraw continues as secretary-treasurer in her sixth term. The meeting discussed enlarging the playground, postponed a planned dinner, and scheduled the May 6 potluck. Committees named and a program of readings, songs, and prayers outlined the evening. Refreshments for 45 were provided by hostesses and volunteers.
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Louise Cozort
Joyce Perry
Janice Meredith
Rose McGraw
May Clay
Jay Morgan
Rita McGraw
Ruth Clay
Louis Kaman
Patty Sams
Clarence Bower
Brahm
Ethel Tolliver
Faye Tilley
Anita Tolliver
Alma Brown
Mr. Frog
Lawrence Vaught
Eddie Clay
Laura Shumate
Ole Virginie
Francis Ann Shumate
Fayette Eligible For Assistance
Fayette County shows 19,960 people or about 30 percent of residents eligible for surplus food commodities under pending Area Development legislation. Population fell 25 percent in a decade from 82,443 to 61,731. Monthly eligible totals from Oct to Feb: 18,805 17,816 17,992 19,345 19,960. Oak Hill Office of Employment Security estimates about 450 locals may qualify for extended unemployment compensation under a West Virginia federal agreement.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette County
James Kee
Elizabeth Kee
Kee
Oak Hill
Various Local Social Visits and Illness Notices in Mount Hope
Mt Hope items note several families visiting relatives in Huntington Pineville and Columbus Ohio. Illness keeps Mary Jean Brady at home while Stevie Myers improves after illness. Carl Lambert returns to the University of Alabama as a freshman after home stay. Florence Duncan spends weekend with son Earl Duncan in Glen White. Foster, former New River Co. worker, now with AAA in Richmond. Mary Ellen Stover returns to Saint Marys Notre Dame after Easter break. Ammar of Pulaski visits Mount Hope to plan a Ladies Dress Shop. Donald Hunter and son visit family in Mount Hope from Wharton.
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Mount Hope
RNS
R. C. Simpkins
Fred Byest
Huntington
Mary Jean Brady
John Brady
Stevie Myers
P. A. Taggart
Carl Lambert
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Ala
J. W. Lambert
William C. Ward
Blanche Cook
Billy Ward
Pineville
James Twohig
W. C. Walker
Springdale
Florence Duncan
Earl Duncan
Glen White
Ralph Dorsey
Bill Martin
Robert Martin
Columbus
Ohio
F. E. Foster
Richmond
Foster
The
New River Co
American Automobile Association
Mary Ellen Stover
Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame
Ind
Mary McCool Stover
Sheaffe Ammar
Pulaski
Ammar
Donald Hunter
Wharton
W. W. Hunter
Willard J. Moore
Walter Wiley Cited By Insurance Firm Man of the Quarter
Walter V Wiley, an insurance representative from Whitesville and native of the area, was named Man of the Quarter by The Life Insurance Company of Virginia in the Charleston district office for outstanding sales and service. He has been with the company since 1958 after two years in the U S Army in Germany. The citation followed a quarterly honors program recognizing top performers.
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NAOMA
RNIS
King Wiley
Walter V. Wiley
Pamela and
Keery
Charleston
Walter
The
Life Insurance Company of Virginia
C. D. Rash
Whitesville
Wiley
Marsh Fork High School
U. S. Army
Germany
Guest greetings across families and towns
Bradley BRADLEY with Mrs. Homer Compton hosted relatives from Miami and Beaver plus Charleston visitors. Ralph Allen and Edith Allen joined Woodrow Bragg in Beaver. Kyle Allen Jr and Rose Ann visited Charleston. Fred Dixon and family stayed with Dixon relatives in Salem. Rev. Ernest Barley hosted Shir ley Kittinger and family from Christiansburg. Judy Stevenson, an eighth grader at Mount Hope Junior High, is ill at home.
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Ralph Allen
Roger
Richard
Carol Jr
Betty
Edith Allen
Woodrow W. Bragg
Sandra
Beaver
Kyle Allen Jr
Rose Ann
Charleston
Fred Dixon
Fred Dixon Jr
Salem, Va
Ernest Barley
Shirley Kittinger
Christiansburg
Judy Stevenson
Dan B. Stevenson Jr
Mount Hope
Three Principals to Speak at Mullens PTA Meeting
Mullens Parent-Teacher Association hosts tonight at 7 p.m. with Mullens High School principal Lewis DAntoni Paul Ritchie of Ben Dunman Junior High and Elbert Cook of Mullens Grade School as featured speakers. They will review current school work and upcoming term milestones and a short concert by the fifth and sixth grade band will follow under Elbert Patton. An officers election will be held.
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Long Branch
Parent- Teacher Association
Powell Morgan
Alex Kennedy
Byron Kennedy
Oceana
Kopperston
Morgan
George Puckett
John W. Shufflebarger
C. F. Mundy
Shufflebarger
West Virginia School Board Association
Black Water Falls
Mullens
ANS
Mullens Parent-Teacher Association
Lewis D’antoni
Mullens High School
Paul Ritchie
Ben Dunman
Elbert Cook
Elbert Patton
Beatings Bruise Children's Bodies And Minds Too
The column condemns corporal punishment, citing a DEFENDERS of the Rod of Wrath correspondent who argues for beating children. It argues beating harms lifelong behavior and body comfort, noting a father who raised five children under such belief leaves them body-shy and wary of physical contact. The piece criticizes the mindset, calling it harmful and hypocritical.
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Rod of Wrath
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Boston Training Director to Speak at Pineville Meeting
Wallace G. Strathern, Boston based training director of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, will address the Southern West Virginia Personnel Association at the Cow Shed near Pineville on How to be Human on the Job. A dinner precedes the 8 p.m. talk with extra seats available. the public is invited.
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Pineville
Wallace G. Strathern
Southern West Virginia Personnel Association
Strathern
Association
Alex E. Easton
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Boston
Mass
National Foreman’s Institute
Property Transfers For Oak Hill Expressway Details
Fay ette County records show deeds filed transferring Oak Hill property to the State Road Commission for the Oak Hill Expressway. Widow Victoria E. Riner received 34 985 dollars for six parcels and a seventh construction easement in East Oak Hill, plus parcels 105 1 through 105 7 with controlled access and specific square footage. Mr. and Mrs. T B Martin received 8 907 dollars for a parcel and a construction easement.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Fayette County
State Road Commission
Oak Hill Expressway
Victoria E. Riner
East Oak Hill
T. B. Martin
Fayetteville Voters Back Survey Funding Plan
Fayetteville Council approved matching funds for a federal state aided survey of community needs under the Urban Renewal plan. Estimated local share runs about 3000 dollars as planning grants could cover up to half the cost with remaining funds from non federal sources. A planning commission will be set up to guide a long range review and secure further assistance.
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Fayetteville
RNS
J. H. Allen
P. L. Elmore
Provid
Ing
State Economic Authority
Barron
Department of Commerce
Joseph Rosko
Federal Urban Renewal Commission
Allen
Oak Hill Office Opens Extended Unemployment Claims
The Oak Hill Office of Employment Security began accepting applications for extended unemployment compensation under a state federal pact. Manager Frances McClure estimates about 450 local residents qualify for the extension Congress recently approved. Eligible claimants should report the same weekday as their regular state claims to speed processing. backdated benefits mean no loss for those reporting between the 10th and 14th.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Employment Security
Frances McClure
Congress
Dog Saves Family in Princeton Fire
A pet dog alerted three people in a Princeton home on Monday as flames engulfed the house. Firefighters, hampered by a water shortage, fought for over an hour but the residence burned to the ground after the family escaped in time.
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Princeton
UPS
W. A. Robinson
Fred Simms
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