State Adjutant To Install Post 32 Officers
New Officers of American Legion Post 32 will be installed Tuesday with State Adjutant Tommy Jones of Charleston officiating at ceremonies in the Memorial Building. The meeting at 8 p.m. in Room 10 will include Albert Allen’s induction as adjutant for a fifth term and installations for Paul R. Gunter, Ralph T. Bergen dahl, George Hajash, Ira Holiday, Harry Ingale, W. M. Houchins, Melvin Roberts, Kermitt A. Locke, Basil Sweeney, Roy Keister, and Roy Barber.
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American Legion
Tommy Jones
Charleston
Memorial
Memorial Building
Albert Allen
Allen
Paul R. Gunter
Ralph T. Bergendahl
George Hajash
Ira Holiday
Harry Ingale
W. M. Houchins
Melvin Roberts
Kermitt A. Locke
Basil Sweeney
Roy Keister
Roy Barber
Questions and Answers for Vets on VA Benefits
A digest of VA benefit questions with concise answers. Topics include eligibility for medication, home loans for widows, converting life insurance, burial flags, education timing, replacing DD-214, GI dividends, and choosing approved educational programs. Key points clarify entitlement, limits, and administrative steps.
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Veterans Administration
National Service
Roanoke Man Promoted To Land Management Supervisor
Joe F. Wilson Jr. of Roanoke Virginia is named supervisor of land management for Appalachian Power Co the new post to oversee real estate not used in operations effective August 1 W S White executive vice president announced Wilson a Damascus native served as second lieutenant in World War II and joined Appalachian in 1945 progressing from rodman to properties representative in Roanoke by 1963.
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Joe F. Wilson Jr
Roanoke
Appalachian Power Co
W. S. White
Wilson
Appalachian
Damascus
U. S. Army Air Force
Lynchburg
General Office Real Estate
Morris Harvey Sets Registration Dates
Morris Harvey College announces fall semester registration for Aug 26 to 28 with classes starting Aug 30. Evening registration runs Aug 26 from 5 30 to 8 30 p m. All students register Aug 27 9 a m to 4 p m and Aug 28 9 a m to 12 p m. New students must contact admissions by Aug 16.
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Morris Harvey
Charleston
Morris Harvey College
Meteorites Defined as Landed Meteoroids on Earth
Meteorites are meteoroids that have reached the Earth's surface, becoming solid fragments from space. They are studied to understand material from the solar system and early planetary formation.
Sunrise Plans Rental Gallery Display at Art Gallery
The eighth annual Rental Gallery Exhibition will be shown at Sunrise Art Gallery in Charleston during the week of Aug 8 with an informal opening 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. An Aug 14 youth art Hapning runs from 10 a.m. A Garden Center display titled How Does Your Garden Grow appears with a beaded flowers class on Aug 11 at 10 a.m. A 12 foot python Geraldine is on special exhibit. Children will see 100 Fathoms Down Weather Station Edisonia Discovery Wall and more. The Planetarium hosts Beyond Apollo at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and The Summer Sky on Tue Thu at 1:30 p.m.
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Sunrise
Charleston
Center of ‘Art and Education
Myrtle Road
Geraldine
Weather Station
Edisonia
Discovery Wall
Woodland Indians
Galaxy Room
Hapgood Doll House
Museum
New Sound
Livestock Sales at New River Market Bring $10,671
Wednesday sales at the New River Livestock Market totaled 10,671.14 dollars from 144 head sold by 68 consigners to 82 buyers. Prices ranged across cattle hogs sheep and poultry with top hogs at 20.25 and horses at 55 to 155 dollars among other lot figures.
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New River
Minor L. Scott
Play Area Gets Funding To Improve City Playground
Form Adds To Play has obtained matching funds from the U S Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Playground supervisor James Calvert says the project will be paved to eliminate water ponding after rainy summers. Mrs Pauline Hayes is the Scott Avenue playground director.
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U. S
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
James Calvert
Jround
Pauline Hayes
Scott Avenue
Federal Officials To Tour Health Plan Facilities
HEW and Appalachian Regional Commission officials will inspect health programs in West Virginia Virginia and Kentucky. The tour includes MFHP clinics Beckley Clarksburg Elkins Mullens Bluefield Grundy Lynch and other sites with multiple health agency representatives visiting from HEW and regional offices.
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Department, of Health, Education, and Welfare
West Virginia
Clarksburg
Elkins
Family Health Service Project
Beckley
Mullens
Bluefield
MCHS
Daniel Gomory
Community Health Services
CHS
Erik Farag
Office of
Community Health Programs
James H. McDowell
George T. Weber
Frank Piecuch
Mary Vander Werf
John Seggerson
Com
Ralph Rasnick
Virginia
Appalachian Health Services
Helen Johnston
HEW
Maryland
Karl C. Hope
Pennsylvania
So You Want To Be There Are Many Chances To Help
Column offers career guidance in social work and hotel motel management. It notes strong 1970s demand for social workers with master or bachelor degrees, growth in new motels, and suggests referencing U S Labor Department bulletins for detailed field data. It invites readers to submit questions to SO YOU WANT TO BE.
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Judy
United States
Council On Social Work Education
O. N
Philadelphia
Hotes
U.S. Labor Department
U.S
Washington, D. C
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Park Ave
New York
N. Y
Honey in the Rock show draws crowd at Grandview Park
A Wednesday evening showing of Honey in the Rock at Cliffside Amphitheatre Grandview State Park drew 354 attendees from 11 states including Florida Maryland Michigan New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Virginia and West Virginia Three groups Mercer County 4 H Logan Neighborhood Youth Corp Nicholas County Youth Foundation attended totaling 56 61 and 155 respectively The run total for Honey reaches 11237 with Hatfields and McCoys at 20110.
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Cliffside
Grandview State Park
Florida
Maryland
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Mercer County 4-H
Neighborhood Youth Corp
Logan
Nicholas County Youth Foundation
Harvard University Named for Immigrant Puritan Minister
Harvard University is named for John Harvard an immigrant Puritan minister who died in 1638 leaving half of his estate and 400 books to the school Britannica notes the naming honors the donor.
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Harvard University
John Harvard
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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