Suspen sion of Morris S Wonder Store License for Illicit Cigarette Sales
The State Tax Commission suspended Morris S Wonder of Oak Hill for 20 days after a hearing for illegal cigarette sales. Wender sold Lucky Strike cigarettes at 2.39 per carton and Kent and Viceroy at 2.52, below the Acts minimums of 2.53 and 2.65. The action bars sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products and soft drinks while leaving the general store license intact. Wender questioned the law’s constitutionality before the State Supreme Court.
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Charleston
UPI
State Tax Commission
Morris S
Wonder of
Oak Hill
C. Howard Hardesty
Wender
Kent
Viceroy
Hardesty
Ant
Wonder
State Supreme Court
Hinton mayor charged by police chief amid council clash
HINTON RNS The City Council reinstated Chief of Police C B Dye after a special session to hear charges against Mayor C S Dillon. Charges include Dillon suspending Dye while intoxicated and public drunkenness. Dye, 59, a veteran of 40 years in police work, faced Dillon’s accusations of misusing case assignments and targeting parking tickets.
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Dillon
Dye
Justices of the Peace
Oceana Gels ADC Workers Move to Laurel Park Projects
J C Hurst acting mayor and ADC supervisor reports five new workers assigned to Oceana bringing total to 12 with seven at Laurel Park for landscaping walls shrubbery and play structures while another crew of eight nears completion of cemetery beautification and citywide improvements including streets vacant lots and Fire Department Building work Hurst notes nearly finished projects and upcoming sewer line work around water works pool and park.
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Oceana
ANS
J. C. Hurst
Aid
Laurel Park
Norfolk and Western Railway, Co
Hurst
Swimming Pool
Pineville beauty contest deadline set for April 19
Entry deadline Noon April 19 for a beauty contest to be held April 23 in Pineville School auditorium. Rehearsal April 20 at 2 p.m. at Pineville High School with chair man Mrs Richard L Huffman in charge. Proceeds go to Wyoming County Society for Crippled Children and Adults.
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Pineville
RNS
Pine— One
Pineville High School
Richard L. Huffman
John H. Martin
Jim Franklin
Robert Adams
O. E. Wilks
Gentry
Bolt
Wronin County
Wyoming County Society For
Carolyn Hatfield Named BYF'er of the Month at First Baptist
Carolyn Hatfield of New Richmond, a Pineville High junior, was chosen BYF er of the month at the First Baptist Church of New Richmond. She serves as secretary of the church Women’s Society, teaches a Sunday School class, and has been Baptist Youth Fellowship secretary for two years.
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Carolyn Hatfield
Bill Hatfield
New Richmond
First Baptist Church
Carolyn
Pineville High School
Future Secretaries Club
Woman’s Society
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Skeleton Found While Razing House in Hinton
Workmen razing a Chesapeake & Ohio Railway house in Hinton uncovered bones believed to be part of a human skeleton. Police will send the bones to Charleston for pathologist examination. A local doctor suggested the bones may be a buried pelvic section and rib joints, possibly 40 years old and the bones might belong to a male, though non human origin remains possible.
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Hinton
UPI
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
B. L. Wheeler
Charleston
Pineville Custodian Resignation Accepted by Board
Wyoming County Board of Education accepted Hattie Gunter's resignation as custodian at Pineville Grade School No. 2 during a regular meeting in Pineville. A leave of absence was granted to Iaa R. Elliott Stephenson Grade School for the remainder of the school year. The board also retained Basin School as a meeting site for 4 H and other gatherings and approved bus usage for band clinics science fairs and athletic meets. They authorized new bus transmissions and Budd wheels for five forward speeds.
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Pineville
RNS
Hattie Gunter
Wyoming County Board of Education
Iaa
R. Elliott Stephenson
Wiseman Family Welcomes D. E. Wiseman Guests
Fayetteville notes guest visits from Arlington and Sarasota as Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Wiseman host their daughter Mrs. Dale Stump Jr and granddaughter Dee who arrived Friday from Virginia and plan to return to High Street. Also Mr. and Mrs. C. Earl Settle spent the weekend at home on Fayette Street. Ruth B. Dodd hosts her son Harold a Marshall University sophomore for a weekend visit.
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Fayetteville
Rns
D. E. Wiseman
Wiseman Ave
Dale Stump, Jr
Dee
Arlington
High Street
Sarasota
Fla
C. Earl Settle
Ruth B. Dodd
Fayette Avenue
Harold
Marshall University
Huntington
Citizens Of The Year Recognized At Banquet
At Mullens High School a Friday honor banquet named Anne Gail Sclater senior citizen of the year and Dickie Thompson junior citizen. Sclater, active in Thespians and clubs, serves as MYF president. Thompson plays basketball and football and belongs to Hi-Y.
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Mullens
RNS
Mullens High School
Anne Gail Sclater
L. C. Sclater
Dickie Thompson
W. H. Thompson
Anne Gail
Thespians
Tri- Hi-Y
National Honor Society
Future Homemakers Club
First Methodist Church
MYF
Dickie
Hi-Y
Store Employees Charged In Theft At Oak Hill
Three Oak Hill residents and former Oak Hill Furniture Store employees waived to a grand jury on grand larceny charges for four years of theft totaling about four thousand dollars. J. C. Jones, Dorothy Meadows, and Mary Sowers are named. investigation by State Police of Raleigh and Fayette counties and Oak Hill Police continues.
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OAK Hill
ANS
Justice of the Peace
Fayetteville
J. C. Jones
Dorothy Meadows
Mary Sowers
Hugo Bornheim
Raleigh
Fayette Counties
M. D. Yoho
Fayette County
Evangelist Stricken. Revival To Continue At Pine Grove
The Pine Grove Baptist Church revival will continue with Rev. Cameron Lilly of Hilltop Baptist in charge after visiting evangelist Rev. Herbert Perry fell ill and was admitted to Wyoming General Hospital Mullens. Hospital spokesman says Perry’s condition is good.
Investment Opportunity in West Virginia Stocks
Investment Opportunity Is now offering common stock to residents of West Virginia. F.D.R. is a new company financing and manufacturing in the aluminum trucking and institutional furniture industry. A limited number of shares at $3.00 each. For full details, write to the Financial Development and Research Corp. P. O. Box No. 8 Parkersburg WV. Please print name street city phone to avoid errors.
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West Virginia
F.D.R
Financial Development and Research Corp
P. O
Parkersburg
Cash Awards Made To Talent Show Winners
Fayetteville High School awarded first place prizes in a student council talent show held in the Fayette County Memorial Auditorium. Winners spanned dance vocal instrumental and miscellaneous divisions with a Best of the Show Dixie Land Jazz Band. Judges were external. show directed by Tommie Lee Dove.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayetteville High School
Fayette County Memorial Auditorium
Linda Gaye Smith
Donnie Marie Kuhn
Geneva Jordan
Joyce Jordan
Patricia Washington
Lamon Booker
Dorma Jarrett
Bill Parrish
P. D. Smith
Robert Tom
Tommie Lee Dove
Lia Vaglio
Ann Bibb
Billy Riner
Jimmy Jones
David L. Hypes
Cynthia Maddy
Collins High School
Oak Hill
Citizens League Meeting in Pineville Public Notice
The Wyoming County Citizens League plans a 7 p.m. meeting at Pineville Court House to organize for the 1963 Centennial and continue stream pollution abatement. Officers will be elected and district chairmen named. J Paul England, temporary chair, announced 5 to 10 000 trout may be stocked in Pinnacle Creek if two small bridges are built.
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Pineville
Wyoming County
Citizens League
J. Paul England
Pinnacle Creek
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Sandra Meadows
Sally Neal
Rose Marie Shumate
Pat McGhee
Betty Taylor
Larry Litteral
Robert Hodson
Paula Hale
Anne G. Sclater
G. M. Powers
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