Third Revival Session Set for 8 p m Tonight
Dr Robert J Wells leads the Christ for Southern West Virginia revival at Recreation Building with an 8 pm address. Senator Harley Kilgore warns of national peril and urges spiritual renewal as Mayor Hedrick welcomes participants. Past revival leaders and local singers assist, with plans for Billy Sunday’s widow to appear before the campaign ends.
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Southern West Wirginia
Harley M. Kilgore
Robert F. Wells
Alvin J. Cook
Grover C. Hedrick
Robert J. Wells
Christ
West Virginia
Harley AM. Kilgore
Beckley
Grover G. Hedrick
Dr. Wells
Kilgore
International Council of Christian Education
Aubrey
Q. Halstead
Mrs. Wells
Vas
Forrest Schickedanz
Bartonville
Fle
Church of the Brethren
Crab Orchard
Billy Sunday
Insurance Convention Opens at Greenbrier Hotel
The West Virginia Association of Insurance Agents holds its annual convention at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs. Casualty and fire problems headline the agenda as the event runs through Wednesday with speakers including Francisi W. Potter of Eelna Casualty and Surety, E H Leyeke of Fidelity and Casualty New York, and James O'Connor of the F C S Bulletin.
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Associated Press
West
Area Model Plane Contest Sees Foreign Winners At Shady Spring
The Tri-State Model Airplane meet at Shady Spring High School displays out of town champions. Ed Wimmer of Roanoke wins jet speed while local Beckley club members set a club speed record in other divisions. Winners include J B Meredith Roanoke first in speed Class A and Bob Douthat Bluefield first in Class C D speed with multiple Roanoke and Charleston motor trophies.
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Ed Wimmer
Roanoke
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Beckley
McKinney Stohers
Bluefield
R. R. Winsley
RH. Frasier
Shartstan
Bill Skews
Bitterfeld
Donald Wilson
Graydon Graham
Gass
Coal City Child Douglas Lilly Funeral Today
Final rites for three week old Douglas Preston Lilly son of Mr and Mrs Hershel Lilly were held at 2 pm today at Coal City Community Church. He died at 12 40 am Sunday in a Beckley hospital. Williams Funeral Home of Sulphin in charge. He is survived by four brothers and three sisters along with paternal and maternal grandparents. Interment followed in Coal City Cemetery.
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Beckley
Williams Funeral
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Roger Lee
Freddy
Sidney
Mason
Susie
Jiady
Lois
Charles Ly
Corliss
Alva Meadows
Fire Toll Hits 13 As Hills and Rain Aid Firefighters
West Virginia briefs report mounting flames in Willow Mountain and surrounding woods as a 20 to 60 mph wind challenges crews. Fire across 800 to 1,800 acres yesterday, with rain showers slowing spread. Parachuting firefighters and volunteers called to reinforce lines after a deadly Mann Gulch era tragedy.
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Military chiefs to return today after Europe mission
America’s top military planners completed a 10 day flying tour of Western Europe meeting British Danish French Portuguese Dutch and Belgian chiefs. They reviewed joint planning and command structures for the pact forces and inspected U S troops in Germany and Austria.
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New Elementary School Planned at Jumping Branch
Summers County Superintendent J L Perry announces an architect will be named to prepare plans for a new elementary school building at Jumping Branch. The item notes the selection process and upcoming development in Hinton.
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Hinton
Jumping Branch
Summers County
J. L. Perry
Hope Youth Hearings Held After Service Station Robbery Attempt
Chief William Bellows of Oak Hill Police reports a 15 year old Mount Hope youth is jailed after an attempted robbery at Howell's Keystone Service Station. Patrolman G C Martin says the suspect was surprised by the owner while trying to open the cash register and fled. A warrant was obtained and the youth was arrested with other officers at his home and is awaiting a hearing before Judge Goode.
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Mount Hope
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Howard Janney
Claude Williams
1T. Hope
I Goode
Moose Group Plans Wednesday Picnic Near Beckley
Women of the Moose will travel to Little Beaver Dam near Beckley Wednesday at 4 30 PM for a picnic. Airs Mary McDonald was installed as an officer. Opal Weatherford named as lower chairman for the coming year. Opal Mann, chair of Moosehart alumni, will run the next chapter night program. Rav Arthur L. Mahr, pastor of First Lutheran, leaves Parkersburg for Grace Lutheran Church in Chicago.
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Women of the Moose
Little Beaver Dam
Beckley
Mary McDonald
Opal Weatherford
Opal Mann
Moosehart
Parkersburg
Arthur L. Mahr
Grace Lutheran Church of Chicago
Tumor Removed From Two-Year-Old Judy Carpenter
Two year old Rae Carpenter of Morrice Michigan survived a major operation to remove a tumor described as the largest of its kind seen by University Hospital staff. Doctors called the condition an included twin and indicated the cause remains undetermined. The tumor had collapsed Judy’s right lung but a three hour surgery released the lung and it now functions.
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Associated Press
Ann Akboh
Rae Carpenter
University ‘Hospital
Vernon L. Boersma
Hospital
Judy
Ralph Carpenter
Morrlee, Mich
Foreman Hospitalized By Infection in Hand
MABEN John B. Brown, general mine foreman for the West quiz Coal Company, is hospitalized in Beckley for an infection in his left hand. The injury occurred when a glass jar he was carrying bait shattered, cutting tendons and an artery in a finger during a fall. He entered the hospital late in the week.
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Maben
John B. Brown
West Quiz Coal Company
Beckley
Pippin Rites Set Today In Tenn
Funeral and burial rites are planned in Pines Flats Tennessee for Frank Pippin about 47 who died at a relative's home Saturday at 4 p m He was a retired Virginian Railway engineer of South Mullens and had been in failing health He lived there with the Virginian since 1926 Surviving are his wife two children Frank 11 and Guur tney 8 of South Mullens and three sons and a daughter by a former marriage.
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Pines Flats
Tenn
Frank Pippin
South Mullens
Tennessee
Ifel
The
Virginian
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Guurtney
Mullens Driver Fined For Road Law Violation
Mullens resident Emmett Smiley paid a 25 dollar fine and costs for reckless driving on State Route 18 early Saturday after his car skidded off the highway near Amiga, plowing into a roadside garden. No injuries were reported.
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Ife
R. M. Stovall
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Siram M McKinney
Lumbermen to Meet at Beckley Hotel Dinner
Retail lumber dealers of the Beckley trading area will hold a regular session at a dinner meeting at the Beckley Hotel at 7 p.m. today.
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Beckley
Virginian Shopmen Cut 50 Percent By New Reduction
Mullens and Elmore shops of the Virginian Railway announce a 50 percent workforce cut effective today. R. G. Bennett Jr. said the measure affects 56 percent of the Mullens area staff and includes 1 cent adjustments across shop divisions. The move trims first, second, and third tier positions by about five percent each.
Quake Toll Rises in Ecuador Above 4600
Quito Ecuador The toll from the earthquake climbs past 4600 with damage estimates totaling about 520 million in 29 mountain towns Thousands injured Ecuador's cabinet meets to authorize urgent actions for reconstruction Defense ministry reports 2000 troops deployed in worst hit zones Air Force ferries medical aid and relief planes from Balboa to Quito carrying plasma serums drugs
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Matewan Youth Killed in Wreck on Route 20
A 16 year old Matewan girl Betty Jon was killed and three West Virginia residents were injured in a head on crash about 20 miles from Portsmouth. The Ohio highway patrol reported two cars collided in dense fog on U S Route 20. Nine people were hurt in the broader incident and National Guard drill schedules were adjusted as guardsmen take a week off after returning from Fort Knox.
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Portsmouth
Matewan
W. Va
West
Ohio Highway Patrol
U.S
Barlow
Fort Knox
Reverend William L. Stidger Dies in Massachusetts
In Newton Massachusetts Reverend Dr William L Stidger 64 a Boston University theology professor died at home He joined BU in 1929 and introduced radio preaching courses He contributed to many radio programs and authored 33 books including Those Amazing Roosevelts (1944) born in Moundsville Virginia Fort Worth style summary of obituary tone.
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Massachusetts
Associated Press
Newton
Mass
Fwilliam L. Stidger
Boston University School of Theology
Moundsville
Doctor Gets 70 Year Term at Hard Labor
Dr. Robert C. Rutledge Jr. of St. Louis was sentenced in Cedar Rapids to 70 years in prison for the lover triangle slaying of Byron C. Hartman. District Judge J E Heiserman called the offense serious and vicious and ordered the term served at Fort Madison State Penitentiary as hard labor.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Robert C. Rutledge, Jr
St. Louis
Byron C. Hartman
J. E. Heiserman
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
Nine-Pound Son Born to Mrs Seagraves in Portland
In Portland born yesterday is Nicholas Delano Seagraves weighing nine pounds one ounce to Mrs. Van H. Seagraves. He is the first great grandson of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Sistie who played as a child in the White House during President Roosevelts early years.
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Portland
Ore
Eleanor Roosevelt
van H. Seagraves
i*Sistie
White House
Roosevelt
Nicholas Delano Seagraves
Beav er couple welcome daughter Christine Kyle Amick
Mr and Mrs Dana Kyle Amick of Beaver announce the birth of a daughter Christine Kyle Amick born August 8 at 12 15 PM at Raleigh General Hospital. Mrs Amick is the former Lois McDaniel.
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Beaver
Christine Kyle
Raleigh, General Hospital
Amick i
Lois McDaniel
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