Walhonde Park dedication draws hundreds near Montcoal
In Montcoal area, hundreds attended the Walhonde roadside park opening near Walhonde Roadside Park after dedication ceremonies held Saturday. Raleigh County Sheriff Okey Mills praised Armco Company for community efforts while labor and management leaders commented on past labor relations. The park will be open daily from 8 am to 10 pm with barbecue pits available and families urged to bring their own charcoal.
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Montcoal
RNS
Coal River Area
Walhonde
Raleigh County
Okey Mills
Armco Com
Coal
Mrs N Terry Rites Tuesday in Oakvale
Funeral services for Mrs Nettie Terry 44 of Oakvale will be held at Hardy Methodist Church at 2 9.m. Tuesday conducted by Rev Leonard Repass with burial in Harding Cemetery. She was born December 3 1914 in Oakvale and died in a Princeton hospital. Surviving are three sons Richie Donald Marvin, three sisters and three brothers plus half siblings. Body at Memorial Funeral Directory Princeton then taken to church an hour before services.
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Oakville
Rms
Nettie Terry
Hardy Methodist Church
Leonard Repass
Harding Cemetery
Terry
Oakvale
Princeton
W. R. Foster
Bertha Foster
Richie
Donald
Marvin
Toledo
Ohio
Harold Meadows
Willowton
Pat Gordon
Winchester
Fred Lavender
Bill
Gene
Curtis
Myrtle Shannon
Bluefield
W. E. Foster
Alexandria
Experimental Garden Established In Wyoming County
An experimental vegetable garden, the first of its kind in Wyoming County, is set up under West Virginia University Extension Service guidance. The site on D. L. Shannon’s Sun Hill farm near Oceana will trial about 20 vegetables including a new half runner bean and six sweet corn varieties.
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Wyoming County
West Virginia University Agriculture Extension Service
William Nixon
D. L. Shannon
Sun Hill
Oceana
Nixon
Shannon
Neil Mullens
Pineville
Ted Belcher
Sand Gap
Wolfe Elected To Tech Council
Calvin Wolfe, engineering major from Clarksburg, won a special run-off for junior class representative on the 1959 60 West Virginia Institute of Technology Student Council, defeating Dennis Spriggs of Huntington after a prior campus election tie. Wolfe is a veteran and Beta Kappa Chi member and assumes office this week.
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Montgomery
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Calvin Wolfe
Clarksburg
Dennis Spriggs
Huntington
Wolfe
Beta Kappa Chi
Fayette Embezzler Trial Date Changed
Fayetteville RNS reports Lawrence Hurt, former Montgomery liquor store manager, faces embezzlement and theft charges. Trial postponed to a later year as civil suits proceed. he was instructed to obtain counsel. Other cases against Lewis Saunders and William Fish were struck from the docket after sustained demurrers.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Lawrence Hurt
Montgomery
Fayette Circuit
Charles L. Garvin Jr
Lewis D. Saunders
William R. Fish
Roller Speaks At 100F Meet
R. A. Roller of Charleston was guest speaker at the Boone Lodge No. 170 IOOF annual banquet in Madison IOOF Hall. The event marked the 140th IOOF founding and the Boone Chapter’s 39th anniversary. Longstanding members received life memberships in the order.
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Madison
RNS
R. A. Roller
Charleston
Boone Lodge No
International Order of Odd Fellows
IOOF
Boone
Lodge
Woman's Club Installs New Officers At Meet
The Pineville Woman's Club held a dinner meeting with guest speaker Mrs. Edgar Steele Jaeger Southern President of Women's Clubs. She installed six new officers led by Mrs. Charles E Richner as president and outlined leadership and program planning. The club discussed football, river clean up, litter control, and a May dinner dance while supporting Camp Gallahad and a Moran Morgantown workshop. Six new members joined and activities include youth center sponsorship and a frame and lens drive for glasses.
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Pineville
RNS
Woman's Club
Edgar Steele
Jaeger
Women's Clubs
Elizabeth Smith
Steele
Charles E. Richner
E. B. Swimm
Toney Cline
Woman's Clubs
Lebanon
Clee Gifford
Darrell V. McGraw
Committee
Camp Gallahad
Charleston
Morgantown
Castle Rock Garden
Cancer Drive
Wyoming County
Carl H. McGuire
Harry Farmer
Charles Stone
Carl Hedinger
James Pizzino
Robert Stone
Mrs John Hess Honored At Montgomery Stork Shower
In Montgomery, Mrs. John Hess was honored at a stork shower at Montgomery Baptist Church. Hostesses Mrs. Audrey Cramblitt and Mrs. Eve Leyn Picarella presided as games were played and refreshments served to a list of attendees led by Mrs. Jackie Nickoson and including Mrs. Boggess, Mrs. Marie Gooch, Mrs. Antoinette Hedrick, Mrs. T. A. Kessler, Mrs. Kay Craig, Mrs. Margaret Kimble, Mrs. Henry George, Mrs. Jackie Bobbitt, Mrs. Beulah Jackson, Mrs. Bailey Moore, Mrs. Lena Russell, and Mrs. Evelyn Picarella.
Linda Brown treated after thumb laceration at clinic
Linda Brown, 15, of Glen Fork, was treated at Stevens Clinic in Welch on Wednesday for a cut to the right thumb after she cut it on broken glass.
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Glen Fork
Linda Brown
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Parker Rites Set Wednesday
Funeral services for Frank Parker will be conducted at noon Wednesday in the First Baptist Church Glen Rogers by Rev. S. W. Williams. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park Beckley. Parker died in a Beckley hospital Thursday and was a member of United Mine Workers Local 6004. Survivors include his son Otis in the Navy stationed at Newport Rhode Island. The body will be moved from Wright's Funeral Home Beckley to the church one hour prior to services.
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Glen Rogers
RNS
Frank Parker
First Baptist Church
S. W. Williams
Greenwood Memorial Park
Beckley
Parker
United Mine Workers of America
Otis
U. S. Navy
Newport
R. I
Wright
Massey Rites Held Today in Arnett Church
William Ward Massey aged 66 died Saturday in a Beckley hospital after a stroke. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today at Massey Branch Community Church Arnett conducted by Rev Wade Webb. Burial followed in the church Massey. Survivors include wife Mary Ann a brother Van of Arnett and five sisters Alice Wills Katherine Clay Corba Pauley Maude Bailey Bertha Peters. Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville handled arrangements.
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Arnett
RNS
William Ward Massey
Massey Branch
Wade Webb
Massey
Beckley
Mary Ann
Van
Alice Wills
Katherine Clay
Packsville
Corba Pauley
Dorothy
Sherman High Band Concert Set by Parent Teachers
The Sherman High School Senior and Intermediate Bands under director Ray Wiers will perform for parents and teachers at the Sherman High Parent-Teacher Association meeting tonight at 7 30 p m Mrs T L Stout will oversee the program
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Seth
RNS
Sherman High
Ray Wiers
Sherman High Parent-Teacher Association
T. L. Stout
Community Club Set to Hear Regional Library Plan
Lookout Community Club meets at 7 30 p m in Nuttall High School library to hear E W Gene Potter of Royalty Smokeless Coal Corp and club president William L Toney. A film Books Lots of Books outlines Fayette Raleigh County regional library plans with bookmobiles, 20000 books, 450 recordings and access to state university and Library of Congress shelves.
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Lookout
Fayette County
Lookout Community Club
Nuttall High School
E. W
Gene) Potter
The
Royalty Smokeless Coal Corp
William L. Toney
Club
Fayette
Raleigh
Potter
N. M. Steen
Oak Hill
Danese
Layland
Meadow Bridge
Toney
Mount Hope
Library of Congress
Oak Hill Sorority Installs Officers
Xi Alpha Theta Exemplar Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi held a candlelight installation of officers at Mrs. John Duda's home with retiring president Mrs. Louis Hussar presiding. New officers include Mrs. D. W. Dixon Jr. as president and Mrs. Mitchell Aide as vice president, as the group outlined Founders Day plans and a mothers’ dinner for May 8.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Xi Alpha Theta
Beta Sigma Phi
John Duda
Louis Hussar
D. W. Dixon Jr
Mitchell Aide
Ern
Hussar
Hobart Watson
Earl Banister Jr
Ruth Easton
O. W. Dixon Jr
Initiation Set By OES Today at Madison Chapter 121
Madison Chapter No 121 Order of Eastern Star will hold an initiation ceremony at its regular meeting at 7 30 p m today All members are asked to be present at the meeting.
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Madison
Order of Eastern Star
Mullens High Student Injured by Firecracker Incident
Mullens High School senior Carol Buddiss, 17, required treatment for about 20 small cuts on her legs after gravel flew from a firecracker in the parking lot during noon recess. A male senior admitted tossing the explosive, agreed to pay the doctor's bill and apologize to Buddiss and her parents. he also received medical care.
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Mullens
ANS
Carol Burdiss
Mullens High School
Lewis D Antoni
Baisden Couple Welcome Daughter At Grace Hospital
Mr and Mrs Sherman Lester Baisden welcomed a daughter weighing seven pounds two ounces born Thursday at 12 02 am at Grace Hospital Welch.
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Baisden
Sherman Lester
Grace Hospital
Welch
Sherman High School Booster Club Improvements Listed
The Sherman High School Booster Club summaries its purchases since October 1955 including 60 band uniforms 10 majorette uniforms one head majorette and one drum major uniform costing 4598.39 in 1956 a public address system for 91.35 in 1957 refrigerated water coolers for 561 and 35 warm-up capes bought in 1958 for 625.50 to be delivered in August this year. Total clubhouse spending reaches 5876.24 with a treasury balance of 408.42 according to club treasurer Robert Kearns.
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Seth
RNIS
Sherman High School
Named To Offices On Scout Council
GAULEY BRIDGE RNS Named to posts on the Fayette County Girl Scout Council are Mrs. Robert B. Herndon vice president and Mrs. K T Robbins Cannelton secretary. Mrs Don Sanford of Mount Hope was elected president and Mrs J Rosser Long Jr of Fayetteville treasurer. They will be installed at the June meeting.
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Gauley Bridge
RNS
Fayette County
Girl Scout Council
Robert B. Herndon
K. T. Robbins
Cannelton
Don Sanford
Mount Hone
J. Rosser Long Jr
Fayetteville
Fifty Admitted To Mullens Hospital This Week
Weekly list of patients admitted to Wyoming General Hospital includes Rev. Charles Cox and numerous residents from Mullens Itmann Stephenson Corinne and surrounding areas. Names span many towns with dates from Saturday to Sunday detailing patients across multiple days.
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Mullens
ANS
Wyoming General Hospital
Charles Cox
Stephenson
Bessie Sizemore
Itmann
Loreta Sargent
Marianna
Arlet Johnson
Corinne
Pauline McKinney
Herndon
James Shuck III
Alexander Bell
Glen Rogers
Margaret Brooks Wolf Penn
Ronnie Brumfield
Thomas Johnson
Virginia Kennedy
Oceana
Myrtle Anderson
Lula Mullins
Rockview
Winnie McKinney
Maben
Alice Pauline Hodges
Francis Perkins
Alice Phillips
Pierpoint
Jenny Dooley
Phyllis Brooks
Vera Wooding Stephenson
Lillian Woolwine
Otsego
Frankie Ball
Allen Junction
Virginia Tilley
Fairdale
Gladys Hyton
Lashmeet
Rachel Lilly
Besoco
Eula Pennington
Timothy Dugger Bud
Tuesday
Shirley Lozier
Gypsie Lewis
Amigo
Rodney Bentley
Tralee
Patrica Ashley
Vernie Hern
Cyclone
Pauliné Janks
Mullen
Lula Shrewsbury
Glen Fork
Dorothy Cochran
Clear Fork
Buna Perdue
MeGraws
Harriet Hall
Charles Minter
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W. R. Maddy
Hinton
Roscoe Williams
E. L. Jones
Bessie Carroll
Paul T. Copeland
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Walhonde Park
Mrs. N. Terry
Bell-Ans
Bellans
Orangeburg
N. Y
Wyo
Tech Council
Prince
Wes
Roller
Woman’s Club
Meet
John Hess
Sylvania
Tungsol
Haddad
Main St
Seth Lions Club
Emory Tamplin
R. W
Brnle’ Richards
Board of Directors
Kenneth Kenney
Rupert Kearns
Sanford Meadows
J. P. Jarrell
Oak Hill Sorority
OES
Ments
Robert Kearns
Scout Council
Mullens Hospital
Ata
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