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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1962
Page
3
Evening crowds filled the fairgrounds as the 4-H exhibit hall run by Roscoe Plumley of Pineville Wyoming drew steady attention under the grandstand amid the day’s busy activity.
Elaine McNeely daughter of Mr and Mrs Orlan McNeely wed Itmann and Earle Cooper Shamblen son of Dr E L Shamblen and Mrs Ruth Shamblen at First Christian Church Augusta Ga The double ring ceremony was conducted at 8 p m by Rev William T Watts The bride wore a white sheath with Italian neckline carried a white Bible centered by a white orchid veil of illusion from a white pillbox Matron of honor was Mrs Carol Burdiss Miller Best man was Gene Miller Others included Mr and Mrs Carl Cooper Bride a 1959 Mullens High School graduate attended Morris Harvey College and Mountain State Memorial Hospital School of Medical Technology employed at Shepherd Hospital Charleston Groom a Sarasota High School graduate attended University of Florida member of Kappa Sigma and holds BS from Morris Harvey College He is now in the U S Army After 10 weeks in Chicago they will live in Augusta
Mount Hope RNS reports Virgil Dillon and family visiting George Cody Baxter in Martinsville Virginia this week. Roy Hoskins and son Roy Jr of New Castle Delaware have returned home after a week with Thelma Boyd. Tom Read and children Nancy and Tommy of Silver Spring Maryland visit Beulah Jean Butler’s parents. Nokie Thompson vacationing in Texas.
Mr and Mrs Fred Redden announce the birth of a girl on August 13 at Raleigh General Hospital Beckley. Vicki Lynn weighs eight pounds four ounces. Mother is the former Miss Janie Williams.
Mrs. Robert Woollard of Grace Street is a patient at Kanawha Valley Hospital in Charleston after surgery. Mrs. Marshall Smith and Mrs. Goldie Martin of Eau Gallie Florida visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jones and Mrs. Nannie Beck on Grace Street for Friday dinner. Don Stephens returned home from a Nation Wide Insurance meeting in Columbus Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ray Jennings and children Butch and Cindy of Cleveland Ohio visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jennings and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Surface before returning home. Mrs. W. D. Roop of Cunard is a patient at Oak Hill Hospital undergoing treatment.
Mercer County Court resumes as Lt Charles Fox testifies against Patrolman Theodore Land in a 1950 Crowder-Freeman auto agency burglary. The case links seven Bluefield police members to thefts dating to 1946 with trials scheduled through autumn. Fox and Land allegedly pried open a showroom door and safe, splitting about $599 each.
A Pineville town council hearing heard three residents from the Jackson Hill area protest low water pressure. Water superintendent James McDermitt outlined plans to double plant capacity, add a 200000 gallon storage tank, lay a six inch line from city limits to Jackson Hill with a 100000 gallon tank, create a Bowman Bottom loop for fire protection, and extend storage to Mullensville when possible. Settle Engineering to prepare an estimate, with 1959 costs projected at 125000 to 150000 dollars.
Fayetteville Arrowhead Homemaker's Club met at the Beck with 4-H Camp for a picnic. Mrs Joseph Crosier urged forgetting small worries and focusing on family friends and home. Next gathering set for Mrs Darrell Pennington's Maple Road home with several members listed. The note also mentions a Vienna big wheel built in 1898 to mark Emperor Franz Joseph's 50th anniversary.
In a Fayetteville circuit court hearing Judge Charles L. Garvin Jr. completed the annexation of Collins High School property into the City of Oak Hill. Oak Hill officials and Fayette County School representatives attended, with no objections raised, as property boundaries were reviewed in court.
Wyoming Grand jury in Pineville returned eighteen felonies and five misdemeanors including two murder indictments. Howard Atwell faces slaying of his son Timothy on May 20 near Indian Creek. Jerry Alvery McCroskey charged in Hill Warrick death. Tex Willie McCroskey indicted for aiding in Arbe Day slaying July 12 on Route 10 near Pineville. Billy J. Sizemore indicted for manslaughter in Day’s death. Nora Slayers charged for attempting to kill Virginia Cecil on July 14.
Mimi Lewis ten daughter of Mr and Mrs W M Lewis Pineville underwent an emergency appendectomy Saturday at Stevens Clinic Hospital Welch.
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