Beckley Drives Dollars for Scholars Surpass Goal
The Dollars for Scholars drive in Beckley raised 2036.61 dollars in a record single night. Funds support Woodrow Wilson High School seniors seeking further education, with volunteers from local clubs and sororities aiding the effort and totals expected to climb toward 13000 by drive’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Scholarship Foundation
Beckley
Scholars
John W. Shumater
Bradley
Key Club
Woodrow Wilson High School
Woman’s Club of
Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of
Maria Martin
Tom Dickenson
Loretta
Police Beat Seven Arrested On Theft Charges
Beckley police and state troopers arrested seven people on theft related charges including grand larceny breaking and entering and shoplifting. Four men were jailed for grand larceny after a $108 cash theft from Stanley Texaco on Se cond Ave. A getaway car stood across the street at the Dairy Queen. Other arrests included a Mount Hope man for breaking into Ted's Esso, a 12 year old charged with petit larceny at ARH Hospital, and Gary Barnabi on shoplifting at Heck's Discount Center. Two men faced drunken driving charges and three motorists were cited for traffic violations. A brush fire on WJLS property was extinguished and two accidents produced about $1 900 in damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Stanley
Texaco
Second Ave
Kenneth Stanley
Beckley State
Rocky Leonard Cresce
Mount ‘Hope
Ted
Esso
Bradley
Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital
Gary Barnabi
Sprague
Heck
Bypass Plaza
Barnabi
James Hubbard Jr
Prenter
Clarence Simons
Princeton
Hubbard
David J. Meneghini
David George
MacArthur
Jerry Lee Smallwood
Rt. 2
Roger Allen
Raleigh
South Fayette Street
George Hill
Smoot Ave
G Street
Hill
Allen
Stuart FE. Pauley
Patley
Ruth E. Toombs
Columbus
Ohio
Mount Hope
Pauley
Toombs
Bluestone Council backs Moore road plan for Southern WV
Bluestone Development Council members led by executive director B B Brown Jr endorse Gov Arch Moore Jr s 80 million road program in a letter to the Governor The council notes funds will largely aid Southern West Virginia and calls the projects vital to regional economic development and transportation links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluestone Development Council
Arch Moore Jr
Council
B. B. Brown Jr
Brown
West Virginia
Bluestone Council
Ballots Cost 2481 for May 9 Primary Election
The May 9 primary ballots will cost taxpayers 2481.60 dollars after the only bid from Biggs Johnston Withrow was accepted. Circuit Clerk Harold Hanks said the firm BJW will print 34,084 official Democratic ballots and 840 samples, plus 11,283 Republican official ballots and 840 samples, with a total of 45,337 official ballots and 840 samples. The Central Printers firm declined to bid saying the ballots are too long for their equipment. The meeting was held at Lester Head Start Center during a regular monthly session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Hanks
Biggs- Johnston-Withrow
Hanks
Robert McClure
Central Printers
City Avenue
Beckley
BJW
Trap Hill
Cou
Republican
Education
Lester
Weather details and extended forecast with regional data
The report provides airport conditions for a 24 hour period ending at 10 a.m. with high 79 and low 61, winds W at 20 mph, pressure 29.98, and sunrise sunset times. It notes greens and lakes levels, seven open gates at a New gauge, and extreme highs 98 Cotulla Texas and 11 Winnemucca Nevada. Extended forecast through Monday shows scattered rain chances, overnight lows in 40s and 50s, and daytime highs in the 60s to 70s. The Tivoli gardens in Copenhagen founded by Georg Carstensen with City of Copenhagen as landlord and a 1995 lease. 1972 season opens May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenbrier
Hinton
Cotulla
Tex
Winnemucca
New
Copenhagen
UPI
Tivoli
Georg Carstensen
City of
Flanagan Attacks Merritt Over Workmen's Comp Stand
Democratic candidate William F. Frank Flanagan charges incumbent Mary Martha Merritt protects coal company budgets while opposing workmen's compensation increases. He notes Merritt's Tuesday claim of higher coal taxes and says living costs rose in 1972 and compensation should follow. Flanagan, a coal miner from Helen, runs on increased benefits in his platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F
Frank” Flanagan
Mary Martha Merritt
Flanagan
Merritt
Becaue
Helen
Fayette Teens Named Finalists In West Virginia Teen Pageant
Miss Barbara Eunice Hopkins 17 of Beckley joins Cheriann Barbera 16 of Mount Hope and Toni Lynn Lively 15 of Longbranch as finalists for the 1972 Miss West Virginia Teenager Pageant to be held June 10 in Charleston. Approximately 50 contestants compete under the theme Whats Right About America. Hopkins aims for a dance career and participates in Woodrow Wilson High activities. Barbera is sponsored by Burgerland Drive-In. Lively plans to teach or counsel junior high students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Eunice Hopkins
Barker W. Hopkins
Dry Hill Road
Beckley
Fayette County
West Virginia
Daniel Boone Hotel
Charleston
Sybil Shaffer
Cheriann Barbera
George Barbera
Mount Hope
Toni Lynn Lively
Harry E. Lively
Longbranch
Jall
America
Miss Hopkins
Woodrow Wilson High School
Senate
Beckley Presbyterian Church
Barbera
Burgerland Drive
Bus Driver and Mother Drop Charges After Hearing
A Raleigh County school bus driver Glen Shumate of Lester dropped assault charges against Mrs. Rachel Carter after a Town District Magistrate hearing. Carter dropped a trespassing warrant against Shumate and agreed to pay for broken eyeglasses. A group of Lester parents planned to meet Trap Hill High School principal George Covey to discuss alleged harassment of students on Shumate’s bus.
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Raleigh
Lester
Lorena [Wallace
Trap Hill High School
Joe Rodriguez
Rachel Carter
Glen Shumate
Raleigh County
Shumate
Carter
Grace Green
Covey
Green
Gertrude Joyce
Katie Carter
Skelmersdale Housewife Halts Strip Show Plan
In Skelmersdale England Pat Birchall interrupted a planned strip show and called police just as it was about to begin. Her husband Clarence chairs the local Socials Club which hosted the event. She warned a disturbance would occur if the show proceeded. In Romford England Janice Chirgwin won a local carnival queen contest with twin Tina as runner up.
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Skelmersdale
England
UPI
Pat Birchall
Birchall
Clarence
Skelmersdale United Socials
Birchalls
Romford
Janice Chirgwin
Tina Chirgwin
Obituaries and Funeral Notices with Local Names
Death notices for Cora Wright of Stamaford Andrea Dawn Matherly infant Darlington Sheryl Lynn Darlington and Carolyn Kay Catlett of Stamford list funeral plans graveside rites and burial dates plus local chapels. Public notices include painting services loans and pest control advertisements from regional firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright Wright
Cora Price
Stamaford
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Elmer Day
Greenwood Memorial Park
Ritchie & Johnson Funeral Parlor, Inc
Matherly Matherly
Andrea Dawn
Kenneth
Ruby Coburn
Matherly
Shady Spring
Phillips
Cool Ridge
George Speck
Rose & Quesenberry Funeral Chapel
Darlington Darlington
Sheryl Lynn
Charles T. Darlington
Beckley
Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home
Montgomery Memorial
London
Catlett Catlett
Carolyn Kay
Jimmy
Carolyn Catlett
Stamford
Davis Cemetery
Maple Fork
Robert Keaton
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. A. Thornhill Jr
Estelle
Thornhill
West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
American Trial Lawyers Association
Delta Sigma Theta
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Beta Phi Beta
Woman’s Club
Ethelbert Scott
Richard Agee
Hallye Norman Jefferies
Corey O. Mitchell
I. F. Salon
Leslie Carter
Teresa Winner
Mary Ann Turner
E. Y. Bowman
W. David Mullins
Margaret Braun
D. D. Crawford
Catherine Pate
Grace I. Rue
Prospero Gogo
Charles Meadows
H. M. Jernigan
John L. Welch
Cleola Boyden
Wilfred Wooddell
Alan Staton
James L. Fink
John Mahaffey
Grace B. Robinson
William D. McLean
Verne L. Tucker
George A. Miller
Warren D. Elliott
Christine Clay
F. Leon Neal
Ruth Laren
Ernest J. Haddad
Carlyle Bolen
Ruth C. Pyles
J. Watkins ‘Haynes
Norman C. Booker
Edward Ketchka
Caroline Banks
Laura Rossmeyer
Robert B. Sayre
Fred Hurt
WWHS
Dairy Queen
Robert Little
Akron
Tyrone Moore
South
Fayette Street
Andrew T. Campbell
Hunter St
George Lewis Young Jr
Mills St
Edmond
Buddy
Hannah
Stratton Junior High School
Andrew Durgan
Helen Dobson
St. John Male Chorus
Springfield
Charleston General Hospital
Sever Myelitis
Raleigh County Bank Today
WJLS
Armory Dr
Beckley Fire Department
Delores Hannah
Raleigh County Sheriffs
BDC
CAA
Fayette
Beckleyan
Barbara E. Hopkins
Webb & Neal Funeral Home
Ralph Jackson
Vance Dr
Blue Ridge! Memorial Gardens
DIAS
Jessie Bolt
Memoriam
Lottie Maynor
Call Gene Crone
Bank
Roberts Loan Co
P. O. Box
Wheeling
W. Va
Cash Aone People’s S Finance Co
PRINCE ST.__PH
Tele-Tech Radio & TV
S. Oakwood Ave
Halstead’s
Wright’s Radio & TV
Crab Orchard
Hotpoint
Ous
Ponace St
Joseph ST
TIMEX
Ake
Eric
Neville
B &J
Crown Cleaners
Tri-State
Tri-State Exterminating Company
Tri-State Exterm. Co
Tristate Corp
Oak Hill
Raleigh Iiracle
Duraclean
E. Jessup CO
City Ave
William R. Manning
Myers Pumps
Glen Daniel, W. V2
J. C. Shumate Drilling Water and Industrial
Soi P.m
Box
Coal City
W. Va. Va
J. C
M. Simmons
Jan Campbell Music Co
Dial
Lilly’s Drug
Abortion Assistance
Will Darrell Persinger
Route 3
Lilly's Drug
Will J. Arnold Massey
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Rattan
Charles MacDonald
Route 1
Aeom
Edward Lambert
Glen Morgan Trading Post
Sophia
Prince Lunch
Prince Street
Orersons
Robert L. Amick
Beckley Newspapers
Mountain Top Drywall & Painting Co
E. Lowell Foley
Sam G. Foley
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