Wyoming County School Board Approves Budget
The Wyoming County Board of Education approved a budget of 2,818,209.77 for the year, adjusted teacher load to 425, and discussed personnel moves. They rejected a bill to replace the burned old bus garage, approved 3 leaves, and considered hiring an attendance director, windows for Itmann, and a new plumbing and heating system for the Itmann addition.
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Pineville
BNS
Wyoming County Board of Education
Jesse Morgan
P. E. McGraw
Levy
Charles H. Bower
Stephen Hogg
Mullens
Morgan
Herndon High
Bower
C. F. Mundy
Munday
Don D. Cook
Archie Lusk
John Shufflebarger
Mundy
Gilbert Goode
Elvin W. McKinney
Bailey
Lida Rose
Syreda Matney
Baileysville
Ina G. Lane
Barker Creek
Bernard Shannon
Wilma Southard Christiano
Ben Dunman
Frances DeBerry
Mildred Hays
Margaret Sue Morgan
Elizabeth Kuhn
Sandra Sue Beckelheimer
A Clay
Soulsville
Sabs Jim
Bob Mink
Pineville Motor Sales
Lewis D'Antoni
Mullens High School
Wyoming County
Clair L. Cook
Itmann
Earl McGraw
Paul England
England
Wyatt Replaces Sonny Phillips As Mullens Coach
Tracy C. Abe Wyatt hired as Mullens High School head basketball coach at the Wyoming County Board of Education meeting. A Pineville High School graduate, Wyatt has coached Mullens before and taught science for about 15 years. Jan Caldwell hired as assistant coach. Caldwell is Mullens High School alumnus from 1954 with a Marshall College BA, teaching biology and physical education. Band members at Clear Fork High School to report Monday. band director Helen Haywood announced. St Helena exiled to the South Atlantic earns revenue from postage stamps for collectors. reports note no internal mail system. Open wires along haulage roads in underground mining once accepted, raising ignition risk. Promotion of non-conductor underground communication systems urged.
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Geneva Archibald
Beulah Bower
Bobby Ray Morgan
Huff Consolidated
Don Nuckols
Marie Calvert
Itmann
Gyneth Tilley
Gladys Waddell
Key Rock
Marilyn Shipman
Ralph Elswick
Kopperston School
Lorraine Anderson
Laurel Branch
Chesley Angle
Justine Walls
Glen Lafferty
Long Branch
Harvey Loneman
Milam Creek
John Beckelheimer
Carolyn Waggoner
David Robertson
Pineville
Harlon Brown
Jeraldine Price
Lyman Bailey
Elda Manning
Margie Coller
Road Branch
Ellen Folden
Shuffleberger School
Mr. Doss
Wyoming County Trade School
Alice Toler
Baileysville
Virginia C. Smith
Oceana High
Wanda Beverly
Jesse Lester
Katheryn Tickle
Lilian Bailey
Tott McGraw
Effie A. Delp
Cora Glover
C. L. Cook
Oley Clay
Adkins
Virgil Nash
Road
Ray Brown
Elizabeth Matney
Covel
Pineville High
Betty Cordle
Wolf Pen
Warner Walker
Jesse
Oceana No. 1
Serene Worrell
Oceana No. 2
Margie Adams
RNS
Tracy C
Abe” Wyatt
Mullens High School
Wyoming County Board of Education
Pineville High School
Wyatt
Concord College
Mullens High
Mullens
Herndon High School
Glen Rogers
Jan Caldwell
Marshall College
Clear Fork
Clear Fork High School
Helen Haywood
St. Helena
South Atlantic
Isle
Holden Mine Disaster Cause Probably Will Never Be Known
State Mines Department reports the Holden Mine fire likely has an unknowable cause. Evidence points to an electrical short in wooden roof supports starting the blaze that trapped 18 Logan County miners on March 8. Dense smoke and carbon monoxide killed them within minutes. two escaped through parallel entries.
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Holden
Charleston
State Mines Department
Logan County
Oak Hill Council Moves to Create Gross Sales Tax
Oak Hill council votes to instruct the city attorney to draft a gross sales tax ordinance after warnings from merchants. The measure would raise about 31000 and help lift the 1960 61 budget to around 114756 with funds from licenses fines meters and liquor tax. Without new revenue the city faces cuts to street park and maintenance and may close the city park next summer.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Fayette County
S. C. Higgins, Jr
Joe Keatley
Council
Keatley
W. R. Bennett
Bennett
Ex-Tech Star Named Collins Hoop Coach
Bobby Foster, former West Virginia Tech basketball star, is named head basketball coach and assistant football coach at Collins High School by Fayette County Board of Education. He has coached at Parkersburg and Hamilton Junior High, with two years at Parkersburg High. Foster, a Montgomery High School graduate, played four years at Tech and was a senior on the 1957-58 team that went 31-2. He will teach physical education.
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Neal Baisi
Foster
Tech
West Virginia Quartet Convention Meets Sunday in Hilltop
The West Virginia Quartet Convention will hold its annual session at the state headquarters of the West Virginia State Baptist Convention this Sunday. Worship opens at 11 a.m. with Beauford Clemmons presiding. lunch is served at 1 p.m. for 75 cents a plate. Christine McCaskell leads the afternoon devotional and song program. The theme is Fellowship and the hymn What a Fellowship. Quartets include Silver Tones, Stanaford, Starlight Gospel Singers, Mount Hope, Bells of Joy, Slab Fork, Victory Specials, Huntington, Kings of Glory, Cunard, Five Gospel Singers, Rayford, Canaanites, Eskdale, Gospel Gleaners, Bluefield, Melody Five, Charleston, Spiritual Harmonizers, United, Spiritual Harmony Four, Beckley, Royal Trumpets, Glen Jean. several soloists also participate.
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Silvertones
Stanaford
Starlight Gospel Singers
Mount Hope
Bells of Joy
Slab Fork
Victory Specials
Huntington
Kings of Glory
Cunard
Five Gospel Singers
Rayford
Man Escapes From Hospital At Mullens
A 35 year old Clear Fork man Robert Harvey crawled from a second story window at Wyo ming General Hospital on Tuesday. He slid down a metal glide and fell about 15 feet fracturing both heels. He was admitted Sunday for nausea and nervous condition and was to be transferred to Radford Virginia for mental health care. Police had intervened earlier when he tried to leave without sedatives.
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Mullens
Rns
Clear Fork
Wyoming General Hospital
Robert Harvey
Harvey
Radford
Mullens Hospital
Cian Sendive
Ross E. Newman
Oak Hill Businessmen Oppose City Gross Sales Tax
Oak Hill council debates replacing lost revenue with a gross sales tax. Local businesspeople including Ray Singer, Charlie Miller, and N. M. Steen urge expense cuts instead, while Dr. E. S. Hamilton warns the levy could devastate the community. Mayor Keatley cites sewer, street and hydrant costs as reasons to tax.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Ray Singer
East End
Joe Keatley
Charlie Miller
N. M
Steve’’ Steen
Miller
Steen
Keatley
R.N. Noyes
Pete” Kesler
Kesler
Noyes
Council
E. S. Hamilton
Dr. Hamilton
Mount Hope
Hamilton
Oakwood
Lochgelly
New River Company
Kaymoor
New River
Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company
J. S. McClain
McLain
Long Airbox Company
Charged With Rape Boone Man To Face Grand Jury Action
Herbert Harvey Runion of Sylvester is jailed in Boone County awaiting grand jury action on a rape charge. The arrest was made by Constable Johnny Proton after a hearing before Magistrate Charles Casto. Sheriff Dell White and deputies led an investigation with statements from the daughter and her sister. The accused, a nonreader on public assistance, is father to five other children.
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Sylvester
RNS
Boone County
Dell White
Herbert Harvey Runion
Runion
Johnny Proton
Charles Casto
Whitesville
White
Roscoe Payne
Boone County Prosecuting Attorney
Department of Public Assistance
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Wyo. County
Sonny Phillips
Abe Wyatt
Trailerload Sale
Youngstown
Deli
Rejed
Heur
Youngstown Convent
Beckley
Crab Orchard Road
Collins Hoop
W.va
Man
Boone
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