Maxwell Hill Honors Teams At Monday Banquet
Maxwell Hill Elementary School hosts a banquet honoring the 6th and 8th Maxwell Hill championship basketball teams. Lawrence Wiseman of Woodrow Wilson High will speak, with a film of the Beckley vs Wierton AAA final as a highlight. PTA plans and nominating committee actions are noted. Cub Scout Pack 127 opens the event with a flag program.
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Maxwell Hill
Lawrence Wiseman
Woodrow Wilson High
Inter
Beckley and
Wierton
Parent- Teacher Association
Don Darlington
Wayne Pettry
Don Williams
Tom Lilly
Tony Gonzalez
Fairdale PTA Meet Set Thursday Night
The Fairdale Parent-Teacher Association will meet at the school Thursday at 7 p.m. Business will include progress on forming a Little League for Fairdale and nearby areas. Plans also will be completed for the ham supper at the school on Saturday, May 5.
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Fairdale
RNS
Parent-Teacher Association
Little League
McSpadden retires. Sallye Bragg to lead Beckley office
Mrs. Beryl D. Bragg, familiarly Sallye, will continue as acting manager of the Beckley office of the West Virginia Department of Employment Security. She has served since May 15 1961 in place of M L McSpadden who resigned. Bragg, with 27 years in Beckley, has held multiple positions and is married to Beryl D. Bragg with two children.
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Beryl D
Sallye) Bragg
Grove Ave
Beckley
West Virginia
Department of Employment Security
Charleston
Bragg
M. L. McSpadden
McSpadden
Explorer Scout Cabinet Elects Paul Arnstein Chairman
Paul Arnstein of Post 6 at First Baptist Church will serve as chairman of the Explorer Cabinet for Seneca District Boy Scouts of America. He was elected Thursday with Fred Martina as vice chairman and William Brooks as secretary, with alternates named as Oscar Agee, Robert Ballengee, and Paul Hughes. Dale Mosslander, district executive, led a cabinet organization training session.
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Paul Arnstein
First Baptist Church
Seneca
Boy Scouts For America
Arnstein
Fred Martina
St. Mary’s Methodist Church
William Brooks
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Oscar Agee
Robert Ballengee
Calloway Heights
Unexpected Visitor Arrival in The Happiest Millionaire
Aunt Mary Drexel visits Mr and Mrs Drexel Biddle in the Curtain production The Happiest Millionaire to be staged April 25 28. Mrs Biddle jokes about the house being in motion as they gather boxing gloves and other items from the floor during the visit.
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Mary Drexel
Ross P. Daniel
A. J. Drexel Biddle
Clement Schulte
O. A. Phillips Jr
Mary
Books Bring Joy as Bullock Accepts Library Week Prize
Mrs. Stella G. Bullock thanks the Woman’s Club of Beckley after receiving a third prize check in the Raleigh Register National Library Week contest. She praises books as a daily, God given heritage and cites authors and ideas that shaped her life. Honorable mentions go to Lila Smargian of Pinecrest Sanitarium and Elizabeth Blue of Pine Lodge Nursing Home.
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Stella G. Bullock
George Bright
Woman’s Club of
Beckley
Raleigh Register National Library Week
Abraham Lincoln
John Cokesbury
Lila Smargian
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Elizabeth Blue
Pine Lodge Nursing Home
Countians Have More TV Sets Than Bathtubs
Raleigh County households own 17 561 television sets vs 15 027 bathtubs or showers. The Commerce Department reports 19 208 homes with washing machines and 16 202 with hot and cold running water. 12 511 units in sound condition with plumbing and 20 991 occupied. 13 991 owned homes. Median value of owner occupied homes is 5300 dollars. 11 995 homes have one automobile and 2409 have two. 195 have three or more automobiles.
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Raleigh
United States Department of Commerce
Commerce Department
Jreaters
Inventory Meet Set In Beckley
A Raleigh County Vocational-Technical Center session is part of a three area inventory program initiated by the U S Office of Education and State Department of Education. State School Supt Rex M Smith says the effort also covers hospitals colleges and manufacturing. William L Stormer will attend meetings in Clarksburg Charleston and Beckley on April 17 18 and 19 to discuss listing school boards and holdings.
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Raleigh County
State Education Department
Harrison County
Clarksburg
Charleston J
West Virginia Education Assn
Smith
Beckley Girl Earns High Grades In Florida
Miss Sandra Hoover of 1400 Maxwell Hill Road earned membership in Alpha Lambda Delta at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Eligibility requires a high scholastic standard with an average near A to B, and only about three percent of college women qualify. She is a mathematics major and was named to the dean's list for the first semester. her father, C. C. Hoover, is a general agent for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. in Beckley.
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Sandra Hoover
Maxwell Hill Road
Alpha Lambda Delta
University of Florida
Gainesville
Fla
C. C. Hoover
Elizabeth Allen
Maria V. Brady
Miss Hoover
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co
Beckley
University Alumni Adopt Constitution
The Raleigh County Chapter of West Virginia University Alumni adopted a constitution and by-laws at a brief reorganizational meeting held Tuesday. Thirty members from throughout the county attended the meeting in the Bank of Raleigh Civic. Ned H. Ragland, elected president at an earlier meeting this year, presided.
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Raleigh ‘County
West Virginia University
Bank of Raleigh
Ned H. Ragland
Horse Show Plans Form as Raleigh County Event Shaping Up
About 38 classes are to go in the Raleigh County Horse Show on July 15-16. The association announced the plans at a Monday night meeting and said national sponsors are needed while selling a for the event continues.
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Raleigh County
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