County Can't Depend On Tourist Industry Alone
Raleigh County seeks diversification as Delegate Abrams urges bringing industry to Rhodell and surrounding areas. He notes three potential plants and highlights tourism cannot lift all towns, citing Honey In the Rock, Grandview Park, the county airport, and a coal town museum. A Q and A followed.
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Rhodell
RNS
Raleigh
A. David Abrams
Rhodesl
Raleigh County
Abrams
Becksley-Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Beckley Business Development Corp
Virginia
Beckley
West Virginia
Robinettes Seek $500 Scholar Ship Finalists Honor
Three time winners on the Dick Reed Record Hop aim to reach the finals for a $500 scholarship by singing Sad Movies in the Lennon Sisters style. Rose Ann 10 Wilma Jeans Nellie 8 are daughters of Howard and Wiseman of Glen Morgan. They perform 6 to 7 p m Saturdays on WCHS TV and come from a family of 10 with all singing except the two month old baby. Great aunt Mrs J E Mays of Beaver accompanies them to singing conventions and owns a second hand piano. They attend Glen Leigh School and Glen Morgan Community Church.
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Robinettes
Rose Ann
Wilma Jeans
Nellie
Howard Wiseman
Glen Morgan
Lennon Sisters
WCHS
J. E. Mays
Beaver
Glen Leigh
Glen Morgan Community Church
Mabscott Council Considers Alley Access Road
Mabscott Town Council heard an engineer from the State Road Commission discuss adding an access road from an alley into Lilly Highland Addition. The only road in the addition was closed when Route 16 relocated. May 1 was set as Clean-up Week with James Sparacino and Richard Basham as co chairs. Earl Bays sought support for a little league softball club, and the cityREC announced partial financial aid. Whitestick Street resurfacing plans were discussed with a letter to SR C about project timing and state assistance.
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State Road Commission
Lilly Highland
Mabscott Town
H. V. Waybright
Waybright
James Sparacino
Richard Basham
Earl Bays
Mabscott
John Gravley
Bolt Local To Hold Saturday Meeting
There will be an important meeting of United Mine Workers Local 1132 at Bolt Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. L. B. Aliff, president, urges all men with back wages and vacation pay due to attend.
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United Mine Workers Local 1132
Bolt
L. B. Aliff
Surveyor FFA Chapter Wins Area Contest
The Parliamentary Procedure Contest in FFA Area IV at Greenbrier High School was won by Nie Bailey and James A Lilly, advisors. This marks the second straight year the Surveyor Chapter has claimed the honor.
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Future Farmers of America
Two Beckley men discharged from Beckley Hospital
Mack Maples and Dan Janutolo, both residents of Beckley, were discharged from Beckley Hospital on Thursday after a period as patients. The men had been receiving treatment locally for some time.
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Beckley
Mack Maples
Dan Janutolo
Beckley Hospital
April 27 Set For Selecting Park Directors
Park Board Chairman B. H. Hopkins said a called meeting at 4 p.m. April 27 in the courthouse will select two directors for the 1962 season at Little Beaver and Fitzpatrick Parks after reviewing applications. Each director will name personnel to be allotted by the board. Also on the agenda is a purchase discussion for a low-boy to haul a bulldozer.
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Park Board
Little Beaver
Fitzpatrick Parks
B. H. Hopkins
Hopkins
Lewis Chevrolet Co
Seventh Easter Sunrise service at Blue Ridge Gardens
The Rev. Shirley Donnelly of Crab Orchard Baptist Church will deliver the sermon at the seventh annual Easter Sunrise service at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. The Shores of Eternity will be the topic. Beginning at 6 15 a.m. the program includes special instrumental and vocal music with other area ministers participating.
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Shirley Donnelly
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Bobby Darin crashes Mumbles set during filming
Earl Wilson reports Bobby Darin invites a stunt on the Universal lot to crash Marlon Brando on The Ugly American set while Darin and Sandra Dee work on If a Man Answers. The plan collapses when Brando is not shooting, and Darin reflects on his marriage and work with Dee. Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds are mentioned in industry context with Liz Taylor. Marilyn Monroe considers a Mexican style home near the beach and Dean Martin as potential leading man.
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Debbie Reynolds
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Harry Karl
Marilyn Monroe
Jose Belanos
Mexico
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Frank Tashlin
New York
Doris Day
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Alice Topping
Att’y Roy
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Tony Perkins
Orson Welles
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Israel
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Harwyn
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Jazz Gallery
Mamie Eisenhower
Roz Russell
Mamie
White House
Jackie Gleason
Eileen Herlie
All American
Richard Burton
Taffy Tuttle
JFK
Rome
Special Centennial Shows Considered Beckley On Schedule
West Virginia Centennial Commission weighs plan by James Hetzer to stage 34 performances in Charleston Huntington Morgantown Bluefield Fairmont Wheeling Parkersburg Martinsburg Clarksburg Logan Williamson and Beckley. Subcommittee reviews budget and travel troupe options as railroads underwrite car movement and 5000 copies of Banner in the Hills are funded. A $500 prize design contest for a commemorative stamp is approved.
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West Virginia
Beckley
West Virginia Centennial Commission
Huntington
James Hetzer
International Artists
Charleston
Morgantown
Bluefield
Fairmont
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Martinsburg
Clarksburg
Logan
Williamson
West Viras
Charles’ Hodel
Ittee
Bernard H. Jacobson
Earl Rucker
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
C&o
Balltimore & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
New York Central
West Virginia University
George Moore
Driver Charged With Hit-Run Near Beckley
Beckley man Harry E Moran 73 was charged by State Police with hit and run after a sideswipe collision with farm tractor driven by Virgil Phipps 57 on Valley Drive at 2 15 p m. Moran claimed not to see the impact. Damage estimated at 400 dollars. A separate incident on Mabscott Bridge involved a police cruiser rear ending a car driven by Clinton Keefer 27. no charges were filed.
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Beckley
Harry Edwin Moran
Granville Ave
Valley Drive
Virgil Phipps
Crab Orchard
Moran
G. F. Randall
Company D
Tpr
A. C. Bartlett
Mabscott
Clinton E. Keefer
South Kanawha St
Keefer
Bartlett
62 Certified For Commodities In Raleigh County
A total of 62 new applicants were certified Monday to receive commodities at the Raleigh County Court House. Applications for the surplus foods were renewed for 158, 12 were rejected. Those qualified brings the total certified in Raleigh County to 16,400 persons.
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Raleigh County Court House
Raleigh County
The Question Joins Idiom From Radio Quiz Take It or Leave It
A 1940 radio quiz phrase The Question entered everyday speech via Take It or Leave It. The jackpot era valued $64, reflecting mid century money standards. Future tech promises faster automation with a typewriter that prints spoken words, plus a research model printing in Japanese and potentially multilingual capabilities.
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Aber
Aries to Pisces Horoscope Digest 1962
The passage outlines daily zodiac guidance for each sign from Aries through Pisces with brief hints on planning vacations, solving delays, energy levels after conversations, restoring confidence, enthusiasm for life, discovering real causes behind complaints, jealousy, mood influences, completing unfinished work, and general mood notes. Field Enterprises, Inc. 1962.
Funeral services for Hubert Daniel Daniel of Saxon
Hubert Daniel Daniel, 40, of Saxon, will be buried in the Family Cemetery after funeral services at 2 p.m. Saturday in Cove Creek Community Church officiated by Rev. John Richardson. The body will be moved from Melton Mortuary to the residence Friday and then to the church one hour before the service. Arrangements by Melton Mortuary.
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Daniel Daniel
Hubert
Saxon
Cove Creek
John Richardson
Melton
Melton Mortuary
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