Lions International speaker hails global friendship at Beckley
Gustav Stahl of Sweden, vice president of Lions International, told Beckley Lions Club members and guests that Lions help communities worldwide. He noted sight conservation as a major program and praised the club’s 30th anniversary celebration held at the Elks Club ballroom with a sense of home and fellowship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustav Stahl
Sweden
Ameria
Lions Internanational
Beckley
Lions Club
Elks Lions Club
Stahl
Lions Help
Lions Clubs
Dudley Simms
Charleston
Lions International
Simms
United States
South America
Clark Kessel
Beckley Club
Ollie Brown
B. K. Peter
James H. Shelton
Oak Dill
Walter Purdy
Ravenswood
Wood B. Poling
Mount Hope
Richard Ruff
Welch
All International Council
Sam Tucker
Jim Underwood
Mabscott
Jim Wade
Jim Wade Mount Hope; Joe Sparacino
Beckley Lions Club
Brown
Llub
Condemnation Proceedings Authorized For Stephen's Branch Dam Property
Raleigh County court authorized condemnation to take lands at Stephen's Branch dam site not already acquired, with H G Farmer allowed to sign a contract with Vecellio and Grogan Inc for clearing 95.4 acres. Bob Davis designated to permit West and McGraw to clear more acreage at original contract price. work to start in about two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen's Branch Dam
Vecellio and Grogan Inc
Bob Davis
West and McGraw
City Beckley to cut expenses with vacuum street sign shop
Beckley city council agreed to buy a vacuum applicator from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. for 350 to produce street signs in house. The machine will apply plastic letters to existing signs, saving money long term and reducing replacement costs. The plan follows a survey showing signs in deplorable condition and would allow sign production in the city garage by various workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
M. E. Tyree
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co
Tyree
D. E. Warden
State Road Commission
West Virginia Turnpike Commission
Turnpike
Council
Clarence Bibb
Beckley Business Bureau
Bibb
BBB
Grandview State Park
Guy Amato
Paul Phipps
George Chambers
Miller
Chamber of Commerce
A. K. Minter Jr
Cecil L. Miller
Planning and Zoning Commission
A. J. Corns
A. P. Leeber
Watkins Drug
Neville Street
W. L. Humphrey
Appalachian Power Co
New River Park
Exhibition Mine
Minstrel Tonight At WWHS Features Variety Acts
Woodrow Wilson High School hosts an 8 PM minstrel in the auditorium by the Flying Eagle Band. Acts include a magician, radio takeoff, and a sketch called Jimming Crickets plus vocal numbers, dances, and stage band performances led by student cast and faculty coordinators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette Meadows
Dianne Stover
Sandy Lilly
Janie Thompson
Studio I
Pocket Minstrel
Billy Joe Smith
Ernest Caffee
Ace O. Spades
William Roebuck
Pokerface Gregory
John Milam
Studio III
Susie Vass
Betty Clower
Charlene Hughes
Patricia Pennington
Jane Witt
Paulette Sparacino
Louise Breck
Sharon Trail
Paulette
Pamela Mullens
Alice Mullins
Barbara Cannaday
Mary Kay James
Rebecca Broome
Brenda Eller
Terry Owen
Ali Kazaam
Beckley to Send Reps to Washington on Low Income Areas
City of Beckley plans to send at least two representatives to a Washington session April 19 to learn how federal funds under the Low Income Areas legislation will be allocated and how to apply. Mayor Cecil L. Miller read a Byrd letter urging Beckley’s attendance, with Abraham Ribicoff and Paul Douglas also listed as participants. Council debated the wall on McCreery Street, approved a shuffleboard court project at New River Park, and authorized recreation plans to pursue federal funds. A truck for the Recreation Board was purchased from Raleigh Motor Sales after a bidding review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smitty) Smith
Raleigh
Samuel Pack
Fayette County
Raleigh County
Daniel Shumate
Alfred Beckley
Smith
Beckley
Washington, D. C
Cecil L. Miller
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Washington
Abraham Ribicoff
Health, Education and Welfare
Paul Douglas
Douglas
Jennings Randolph
Recreation Board
James Kessinger
S. H. Bridge
Kessinger
Bettina Construction Co
Fsnetter
New River Park
Truman L. Sayre
Council
Beckley Corp
McCreery Street
Sayre
FBC
D. E. Warden
A. A
Buck’’ Ross
Raleigh Motor Sales
Republicans Being Replaced At Pinecrest
Democrats install party faithful at Pinecrest Sanitarium replacing Republicans in several posts. MRS Hazel Hodges becomes director of orderlies earning 195 monthly. FRANK H Turner farm supervisor 245. KELLY Nottingham meat cutter 200. JOHN FARRISH milk pasteurization plant 270. Lockie Cannady succeeds Lois Browning as supervisor of waitresses. retirements cited and hires described as party-driven from Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Okey Mills
Hazel Hodges
Coal City
Orderlies
Talma Wright
Frank H. Turner
Crab Orchard
Dewey Ellison
Kelly Nottingham
Fayetteville
Harry L. Bowers
John Farrish
Beckley
Farrish
Virgil Lacy Wood
Wood
Nottingham
Charleston
Lockie Cannady
MacArthur
Lois Browning
Evangelism Workshop Planned At St Luke Lutheran Church
The church council finalized plans for an evangelism workshop to be held at St Luke Lutheran Church at 2 p.m. Sunday. The program details were arranged at a Tuesday night meeting held at 913 Woodlawn Ave in the home of Ralph Koiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke Lutheran Church
Church Council
Ralph Koiner
Woodlawn Ave
Boy 14 Taken To Beckley Hospital After Knee Cut
Larry Bothwell 14 son of Mr and Mrs Roy Bothwell of Bradley was treated at Beckley Hospital Tuesday for a cut to his right knee sustained while playing ball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Akers
Forrest Akers
Hedick Sr
Beckley Hospital
Larry Bothwell
Roy Bothwell
Bradley
Honey Playwright Earns National Honor
Playwright Kermit Hunter of Hollins College will be honored by the National Federation of Music Clubs at its national convention in Kansas City on April 26. Hunter, author of Honey in the Rock, is cited alongside composer Jack Frederick Kilpatrick of Southern Methodist University for their collaboration on Unto These Hills. They are preparing Wings of the Morning for Louisville and Next Day in the Morning for Jacksonville with other projects in development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit Hunter
Hollins College
National Federation of Music Clubs
Kansas City
Hunter
West Virginia
Grandview State Park
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Southern Methodist University
Louisville
Jacksonville
Fla
Samuel Jennings Treated After Hand Injury at Vandall Coal Mine
Samuel Jennings Odd was treated at Beckley Hospital Tuesday for an injury to the index finger of his left hand. He suffered the mishap when his finger was caught between a cutting machine and a timber at Vandall Coal Co mine in Midway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Jennings
Odd
Beckley Hospital
Vandall Coal Co
Midway
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Guy Graves
Fletcher W. Mann
Roy D. Millican
G. Pere
Goy
Kermit Locke
Cecil Graham
Walter Duncan
Per
Mrs
The
Per Gustav Stahl
Gether
Charter Lions
John Saunders
WWHS
Robert Zearn
Flicka Daniel
Barbara Gwynn
Joan Shumate
Mr. Bullfinch
Paulette Babich
Pru
Bunny Ramey
Sandra Miller
Jean Walker
Carol Terry
Joan Walker
Ethel Lilly
Joan Mills
Vickie Massey
Carolyn Taylor
Rita Pietrantozzi
Becky Broome
Charlotte Connor
Beverly Hurt
Sharon Withrow
Claudette Coleman
Frances Garland
Brenda Foster
Nancy Cooke
Martha Brown
Lynn Hoffman
Elaine Faull
Patty Houchins
Rita Meadows
Linda Underwood
Elizabeth Williams
Dale Vandall
Marcia Wooten
Jeanie England
Pamela Mullins
Suzanne Wiley
Rosalie Tassatino
Sharon Richards
Lynda Miller
Nora Taylor
Donna O'Neil
Barbara Melton
Shelia Jackson
Jean Bailey
Linda Sutphin
Carolyn Martin
Linda Wonder
Pat Pennington
Jerilynn Stover
Kathy Fink
Ruth Meek
Lana Wooten
Janet Thomas
Carolyn Leach
Carol Porterfield
Kitty Mitchell
Rose Ann Allen
Cheryl Faul
Vada Williams
Sue Mullins
Sandra Walls
Paul Lynch
Fred Ford
Frank Gieske
James Shumate
James Ballengee
Walter Suddreth
Jeannie England
Benny Watters
Frank Wilkerson
Eleanor Shortt
Karen Mitchell
Regina Cohn
Doris Peters
Shirley Shifflette
Suzanne Williams
Gloria Rahall
Linda Bell
Pam Mullins
Carolyn Garten
Drema Calvert
Beverly Whitehead
Herbert Chambers
Carrie Parker
Eula Millican
Mary Vass
Julian Williams
Herman P. Sparks
Douglas Schwank
Robert Zeurn
Tom Knuckles
Betty Allen
Erma Williams
Cheryl Faull
Stanley Osborne
Mickey Bowles
Teddy George
Eric Metric
Richard Knuckles
John Chapman
Helen Turner
Paul Arnstein
Dale Fazio
Billy Pilkington
Randy Taylor
Chester Stanley
Mitchell Wauhop
Francis Wilcox
Jackie Kyle
Margaret Dinkler
Sandra Shriver
Sandra Worrell
Carol Lively
Helen Cridlin
Janet Bruster
Pinecrest
Honey
Miner
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