Committee Chairs Named by Jr. Women Club
OAK HILL The Junior Woman's Club executive board appointed standing chairmen for the year at a Wednesday meeting at president Mrs. O W Dixon Jr's home. Appointees include Mrs. Carl Sanger program committee Mrs. Thomas Martin finance committee Mrs C P Miller Jr social service committee Mrs Sidney Lucas telephone committee Mrs John Resides tellers committee Miss Mary Greenawalt publicity committee and Mrs Helen Kinzer scrapbook committee. Final plans for a style show at the Monday meeting were discussed and hostesses named. The junior convention will be held at Fairmont May 12 13.
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OAK Hill
Junior Woman’s Club
O. W. Dixon
Carl Sanger
Thomas Martin
Mirs. C. P. Miller, Jr
Sidney Lucas
John Resides
Mary Greenawalt
Helen Kinzer
Juanita Scott
Miller
Sanger
James Shelton
Isabell Sessler
Mary Elizabeth Thomas
James Perry
Drema Thornburg
Kathleen Wood
Dixon
Fairmont
Oak Hill Lions Club
S. E. Morton
H. R. Cole
F. W. Dickinson
J. E. White
Frank Shipe
Mt Hope Seniors Present 3 Act Comedy Mother is a Freshman
Mt Hope High School Senior Class will stage the three act comedy Mother is a Freshman on Friday April 28 in the high school auditorium. Peggy Graff plays a mother entering college while her daughter protests with Betty Kody as the daughter and an ensemble including Jo Ann Blake Bob Evans Bill Patteson and Loretta Jones directing the production with Pointer College figures and students in supporting roles.
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Mount Hofe
Mt. Hope High School
Peggy Graff
Betty Kody
Jo Ann Blake
Mrs. Miller
Bob Evans
Dean
Gillingham
Pointer College
Bill Patteson
Michaels
Mary Carolyn Bookman
Sylvia
D. Graff
Bunny
Mary Ann
Witt
Helen
Sally Roberts
Carrie
Ann Coleman
Clara
Pat Thompson
Marge
L. D. Clark
Bobo
Tommy Long
Jack
Ed Treadway
Howie
Jack Hinte
Bill
Loretta Jones
Colleges Entered In Speech Festival In Montgomery
Ten colleges including West Virginia University and Marshall are entered for the annual Inter-Collegiate Speech Association festival in Montgomery. Examinations in extemporaneous speaking and oratory proceed with judges from Ohio University. Registration began at 10 AM with events at Conley Hall and Little Theatre. public attendance is invited.
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Montgomery
West Virginia University
Inter-Collegiate
Kibler
Charlotte Prudich
Chandler Shaw
Bill Parker
Gordon Clark
Jean Kimble
Herman Cransfield
Charles Oguro
James Brackman
John Hurley
Lorin C. Staats
Speech Department
Ohio University
Conley Hall
Little Theatre
Pineville Singing Convention at Campus Church of God
A singing convention will be held at the Campus Church of God in Pineville on April 23 under Mallory District youth sponsorship. All quartets trios and duets are invited to attend.
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Pineville
Church of God
Mallory District
Fractures Left Arm In Mullens Hospitalized Youth
Raymond Smith, a T-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Brown Smith of Alpeca, received treatment at Mullens General Hospital Tuesday for a fracture of the left arm.
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Brown Smith
Alpeca
Mullens General Hospital
Blake Wilson Cases Set for Hearings Today
Fayetteville court opens with combined Blake taxi dispute and Wilson case set for trial in today’s Fayette County Court session. Jurors awarded Kenneth Hanner $1,000 in a damage suit against Grover C. Pugh for a October highway accident while flagging traffic near Prince. Frankie Allen received $5,200 for injuries from a winter crash on U S Route 60 near Falls View in a Ja cobs driven car.
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Blakes’ Taxi
H. E. Wilson
Wilson
Blake
Fayette County Court
Kenneth Hanner
Grover C. Pugh
Hanner
Prince
Pugh
Frankie Allen
Clarence E. Morton
Miss Allen
William J. B. Jacobs
Falls View
Nancy Lively
J. E. Lively
Rahall Motor Sales Company
Herman Winston
W. L. Booth
Carl Cutright
Macel Jenkins
Roy M. Venable
Rappold Funeral Rites Saturday
William A. Rappold 70 of Danese dies Wednesday night in a Montgomery hospital. Funeral at 10 a.m. Saturday from Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home chapel with Rev Father Lawrence Sullivan officiating. Burial in End of the Trail Cemetery. Survived by wife Ida Ennis Rappold, daughter Cecilia Valentine, two sons Russell and Aloysius, two sisters, three brothers, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. Body to home at 4 p.m. Friday.
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Montgomery
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Lawrence Sullivan
Trail
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Cecelia Valentine
Mahan
Russell
Newport
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Fort Benning
Kate Klein
Cincinnati
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Huntington
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Hurricane
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Vincent
Youths Arrested Following Crash in Oak Hill
William Bailey and Millard Law of Oak Hill are jailed for investigation over damage to R. R. Watkins’s garage on Summerlee Avenue after admitting Law released a brake on Delmont Stone’s car, causing a crash on Washington Avenue. Police Chief William Bellew reports the stolen vehicle was parked nearby.
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Oak Hill
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Millard Law
R. R. Watkins
Summerlee Avenue
William Bellew
Delmont Stone
Minden
Watkins
Bellew
Washington Avenue
Miss Norma Jean Daniels Weds Wilson Cooper in Beckley
Miss Norma Jean Daniels married Wilson Cooper in a Saturday ceremony at the Church of Christ in Beckley. The Montgomery bride is a Montgomery High School graduate and Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Cooper of Oak Hill, is a World War II veteran and graduate of Oak Hill High School and West Virginia Institute of Technology. The couple plans to reside in Mt. Hope with Mrs. Cooper wearing a black and white suit and red rosebud corsage while attended by Mrs. George E. Howell of Oak Hill.
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Annual 4-H Round-Up Scheduled for May 6
Fayetteville hosts the annual 4-H Spring Round-Up on May 6 at Camp Beckwith with a volleyball tourney, field events, and group assembly. Fayette County 4-H Leaders Association names Ira Rule as chair and lays out brackets for elementary and high school divisions, with rules on team entries and participant qualifications.
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Siby Jones
Hugh Cavendish
J. R. Deitz
John Scarbro
Sybil Jones
Blanche Upton
M. B. Cavendish
Grace Steele
J. R
Davis trio to tour Washington DC visiting friends
Mr and Mrs Ira Davis and Miss Janet Sowder of 9 Long Branch will depart tomorrow for Washington DC to spend several days visiting.
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Arbor Day Observed by Acorn Junior Garden Club
Acorn Junior Garden Club marked Arbor Day by planting a native white dogwood in City Park. The ceremony featured music by the group, scripture reading, Arbor Day proclamation by Mrs. J. W. Perry, history by Marilyn Thompson, forest planting by Fred Nuckels, a solo by Mickey Lowry, and a group rendition of The West Virginia Hills.
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J. W. Perry
Barbara Carpenter
Marilyn Thompson
Fred Nuckels
Mickey Lowry
West Virginia Hills
Nick Murick Dies At Rock Lick Home
Nick Murick of Rock Lick died at 8 20 a m today at his home. The body is at the Tyree Funeral Home where arrangements are incomplete. Gordons Have Son Mullens Sagt and Mrs H B Gordon of Aberdeen Proving Grounds Md announce the birth of their first child a 6 pound 1 ounce son Donald Lee at 9 30 p m Monday at the Aberdeen Army Post Hospital. Mrs Gordon is the former Ruby Jo DeWees daughter of Mr and Mrs J H DeWees of 1225 Guyandotte Avenue South Mullens
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Rock Lick
Tyree
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Mullens
Sagt
H. B. Gordon
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Donald Lee
Aberdeen Army Post Hospital
Gordon
Ruby Jo DeWees
J. H. DeWees
Guyandotte Avenue
South
Death of H L Tyree at 39 Rites Set Sunday
Hollie Lee Tyree of Scarbro Route 1 died at Oak Hill Hospital from a heart ailment after three weeks of illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Lick Fork Methodist Church in Massey, with burial in the family cemetery at Searbro. He was born April 27, 1911, son of James A and Betty Canterbury Tyree, survived by wife Violet, one daughter Linda Lee, three brothers Francis Vernal and Trenton, a sister Lazella Powers, and a prior removal of the body from Tyree Funeral Home to the residence.
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Scarbro
James A
Betty Canterbury Tyree
Methodist Church
Violet Hardway Tyree
Linda Lee
Francis
Vernal
Kingston
Trenton
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Mich
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Tyree
Kopperston Personal Notices Roundup
Mr and Mrs Milton Harper and sons of Blacksburg Va return home after visiting his parents in Kopperston. Bobby Wilson returns home after emergency appendectomy at Beckley Hospital. Mrs Frank Lamine of Montgomery visits Kopperston parents. Cleophus Short attended exhibition game in Bluefield. Virginia Price visited Lerena. Buckley family visited in Pomeroy Ohio. Joyce Bailey weekend in Wharton with Flora Jean Dalton. Cleophus Short weekend in Beckley. T H Bailey family weekend in Wharton with Parrish family. Atkins family returned from Webster Springs after funeral of miner brother. Edwin Estep family weekend in Sophia. Mary Clark and Bernard Mastin weekend in Bluefield.
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Beckley Hospital
Frank Lamine
Montgomery
John Pomeroy
Kopperston
Cleophus Short
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Bluefield
Virginia Price
Lerena
Lester Buckley
Sandra
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Joyce Bailey
Wharton
Flora Jean Dalton
Beckley
T. H. Bailey
Barbara
M. D. Parrish
George Atkins
Webster Springs
Mr. Atkins
Edwin Estep
Kaye
Sophia
Mary Clark
Bernard Mastin
Oceana Social Notes Highlight Regional Visits
Oceana area residents share family visits and illness updates as Milan travelers Argel Cozart and children return from visiting Lacy Brown in Milan. Other guests include John Morgan and Rufus Jerrett in Davy, Jess Cook and J Rush Cook visiting Huntington, and patients at Logan General and Cy clone. Road trips to Lewisburg Ivan Ky and Pineville are noted with local hosts.
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Argel Cozart
Don L
Argel Lee
Bessie Blankenship
Milan
Lacy Brown
Brown
John Morgan
Rufus Jerrett
Davy
Annie Lusk
Jess Cook
J. Rush Cook
Huntington
Cook Cook
George Foler, Jr
Cyclone
Logan General Hospital
Lacy McMillion
Peggy
Lewisburg
Earl Cook
Herbert Caldwell
Ivan, Ky
Fudd Cook
Omar
Wanna C. Cook
Paul Young
Douglas
Pineville
Wayne C. Hatfield
Emmerson Shannon
Shannon
Ray Shannon
Welch
Mullens Area Park Drive Gains Support
A Mullens movement to secure land for a park near Barkers Creek in Herndon gains momentum. Park committeeman D Grove Moler contacts Pocahontas Land Company officials in Bluefield with favorable results. Three company reps unofficially back the project and suggest drafting a concrete plan for submission. State Senator Ward Wylie assigns Wyoming County agent Ernest Hays in Pineville to help prepare a rough Barkers Creek site sketch.
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Park
D. Grove Moler
Pocahontas Land Company
Moler
Pocahontas Concern
Ward Wylie
Wyoming County
Ernest Hays
Pineville
Farewell Party Honors Two Boys
Kenneth Keeney and John Rutherford prepare to leave for Kansas City Missouri to begin school. A farewell dinner Saturday hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nutter included guests Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith Mrs. Don Childers of Charleston Mr. and Mrs. Ike W. Cooper of Fosterville Mr. and Mrs. Jim Keeney Mr. and Mrs. Herman McNeely Mr. and Mrs. John Rutherford Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Keeney all of Prenter.
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Prenter
Kenneth Keeney
John Rutherford
Kansas City
Roy Nutter
Kenneth Smith
Don Childers
Charleston
Ike W. Cooper
Fosterville
Jim Keeney
Herman McNeely
Sunday Guests Include Brammer and Hale Families
Sunday guests visited Mullens and Welch relatives including Mr and Mrs T F Brammer from Mullens and Mr and Mrs Herold Brammer from Welch. Eva Coox visited sister Ethel Evans in Mullens. Rev Arnold Belcher and Billie Lugar spent the week at Jackson's Mill. Argel Cozart and children Don L Argel Lee and Bessie Blankenship visited Lacy Brown and family in Milam. Brown is ill at home.
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Pastor Honored Following Meet at Oceana First Baptist
The Rev Wayne Rollins hosted the Bible Class gathering and was honored at a surprise birthday party after the meeting with the theme Fellowship. Attendees included Ralph Marks Carroll Brooks James Gibson and several visitors as well as many church members from Pineville and local families.
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Oceana
Wayne Rollins
Oceana First Baptist Church
Mr. Rollins
Ralph Marks
Carroll Brooks
James Gibson
Jess Conley
J. S. Nunn
George Conley
A. T. Bonham
W. F. Manning
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John Claypool
Acie Stewart
C. L. Chambers
Paul Saunders
James Bell
Robert Patrick
Ruthl Conley
Raymond Cook
Ronald Lee Cook
J. R. Gibson
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Ivan Daniels
Homer Cook
David Stewart
Chilton Tucker
L. W. Lively
Posey
Ernest Conley
Jesse Conley
Betty Anne Cook
Virginia Claypool
Ruble Conley
Robert McKeehan
Brenda
Pineville
Mullens Personalities Visit Relatives in Harrisburg
Mullens residents share travel plans and visits as Chloe Mullens-Voters of Vanceburg Ky. visits her mother Mrs Gertrude Cowan. Mrs Milburn McKinney of Mullens Hill leaves for Harrisburg Pa then New York City for a weekend with relatives, accompanied by her sister Mrs Charles E Carson and niece Charles and Martha Carson of Huntington.
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Collier Avenue
Mullens Hill
Milburn McKinney
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Huntington
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