New Mullens band director to lead Tuesday fair
Mullens High School introduces Elbert Patton as new band director last month. He will direct the annual band sponsored sample fair in the MHS gym at 7 30 p m Tuesday. Patton is a Concord College graduate with music education training and prior leadership in college music groups. He succeeds Ray Richards. his wife Beverly also joined the MHS faculty.
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Mullens
RNS
Elbert Patton
MHS
Patton
Walter Patton
Eccles
Germany
Seventh Army
Trap Hill
Concord College
Concord
Music Educators National Conference
Kappa Sigma Kappa Fraternity
Future Teachers Association
Ray Richards
Beverly
Child Dies In Fall From Truck In Kimberly
Funeral plans for four year old Sharon Lynn Middleton who was killed Sunday when thrown from a truck driven by her father Allen Middleton are incomplete. The boy was crushed under the wheel as brakes failed and the vehicle ran up an embankment. Sharon is survived by sister Karen grandparents Mr and Mrs Farris Cravenstorp and Mr and Mrs Allen Middleton Sr. Her body rests at B C Hooper Mortuary Montgomery.
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Kimberly
RNS
Sharon Lynn Middleton
Allen Middleton
Deepwater
Fayette County
Karen
Farris Cravenstorp
Allen S. Middleton Sr
B. C. Hooper Mortuary
Montgomery
Contests Aimed at Boosting Legion Post Membership
At LaFayette Post 149 meeting in Fayetteville RNS reports a 200 member total, 150 under quota by Nov 16. A cash prize contest targets adding 40 members. Members pledge to recruit, a steak fry Sept 7 is planned, scouting progress noted, and drill team training sessions announced for past members. Robert Honaker wins Legion shirt door prize.
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Fayetteville
RNS
J. C. Blume
Walter Caldwell
LaFayette
American Legion
John Witt Jr
Charles Witt
Lonnie Rhodes
Frank Clinebell
William R. Hesse
Les Bradley
Charles Knotts
Robert Honaker
Legion
James Loving Dies in Summerlee Home
James Loving of Summerlee died at his Beckley home this morning. The body is at Trent Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
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Summerlee
James Loving
Trent Funeral Home
Beckley
Woodrow Brown Taken By Death
Woodrow Wilson Brown age 45 was found dead in bed about 7 am by his children after a period of illness likely pneumonia His wife Sally Hunt was hospitalized for surgery and his daughter Garnet found him The family includes six other children and multiple relatives The body lies at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home East Rainelle arrangements are pending
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Winona
Woodrow Wilson Brown
Brown
Sally Hunt
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Garnet
Pearl Teel
Kesler Brothers
Hico
Frances McMillion
Doris Shreeves
David
Charles
Roger
Lynn
Woodrow Jr
Henry Brown
Lookout
Eugene
William
John
Charleston
Jesse
Virginia
Mildred Holcolm
Ruth Hollingsworth
Brooklyn
Drowning Victim Ethel Baker Labeled Incomplete Rites
Summersville. Funeral plans for Mrs. Ethel Pauline Baker 41 of Gassaway are incomplete after she drowned in Muddlety Creek six miles north of Summersville around 2:30 p.m. Sunday. State Police say her car skidded while passing another on U.S. 19 and overturned in shallow back water. Dr. Summers Harrison ruled drowning as the cause. The body was moved from White Funeral Home to Bartlett Funeral Home in Gassaway.
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Summersville
RNS
Ethel Pauline Baker
Gassaway
Muddlety Creek
Here
John G. Wynne
Baker
Youth 14, Man Shot To Death In Wyoming County
Wyoming County officials forecast early prosecution of two men charged in separate gunfire deaths over the weekend. Earl Farrow, 14, of Glen Rogers died after a shotgun blast in a dispute involving a girl, while Leonard Berry, 39, a Black Eagle coal miner, died after a domestic-alcohol brawl amid a drive to resolve a quarrel with his wife. Bailey and Massie were arrested. Berry’s shooter Bell faced murder charges. Funeral plans for Farrow and Berry were announced, with authorities noting a second 14-year-old gun death in the county within weeks.
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Glen Rogers
Earl Farrow
Black Eagle
Leonard Berry
Berry
Young Farrow
Weedie Allen
Paris
Bud” Bailey
Harold Evans
Allen
Bailey
Evans
Jack Massie
Massie
Violet Furrow
Earl
Furrow
James Fairchild
Stanley Epling
Alonzo Stewart
Wyoming
Pineville
Evang
Fairchild
Mullens
Wendell W. Cook
Bessie Bell
Bell
Cook
Odessa
Clara
Reese Siler
Baptist Assn Elects Officers At 12th Session
The Fayette Baptist Association elected Rev. William H. Johnson moderator at its 12th annual meeting at Page Baptist Church in Oak Hill. Re-elected were Earl Christian as vice moderator and Blanche Youravish as clerk, with others named to the state board and ordination committee. The day included sermons, reports on Alder son Braddus College and the West Virginia Education Society, and a focus on Christian Education for next year.
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Oak Hill
RNS
William H. Johnson
Page Baptist Church
Fayette Baptist Association
Earl Christian
Scarbro
Blanche K. Youravish
Page
Joseph Crosier
Fayetteville
Walter Crosier Jr
Randolph Johnson
Oak Hill Baptist Church
Harold Huffman
Page Church
Roy B. Cruikshanks
Association
Women of the Association
W. H. Gates
Montana
Alderson-Broaddus College
Richard Shearer
West Virginia Education Society
J. C. Musser
Chandler
H. A. Frazier
Scarbro Baptist Church
Mrs Bernard Pratt Hospitalized After Ankle Fracture
Mrs Bernard Pratt of Hico was scheduled to return to Beckley Memorial Hospital Friday for further treatment of a fracture in her right ankle. She sustained the injury early this week.
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HICO
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Bernard Pratt
Local Social Notes From Oceana and Surrounding Areas
Oceana social news reports visits and guests from Mullens Barnabus and Sun Hill to Oceana hosting Emory and Earl White and Mr. and Mrs. Wade Cozort. Lena Cook of Barnabus visited Don and Mabel Cook in Oceana. Hugh M Cook’s family in Sun Hill hosted Dona and Barbara Harvey of Reedy. Betty Garrett of Oceana and Violet Garrett of Mallory travel to Illinois to visit their brother-in-law Joe Market and family. Edith Trent and daughter Daryl visited Welch.
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Oceana
RNS
Emory and Earl White
Mullens
Wade Cozort
Lena Cook
Betty Garrett
Violet Garret
Mallory
Illinois
Joe Market
Edith Trent
Daryl
Welch
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Mullens City
Bill Houck
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Frank
Violet Blankenship Furrow
Joan Sinecoff
Ravenscliff
Bobby
Pine Grove
Herbert Perry
Ravencliff
Evans Funeral
Danny Brewster
Indian Creek
Omer Toler
Accoville
Brewster Boy
Quality Lumber and Supply Co
City Ave
Spice Islands
Universal
Neville Street
Oceana Personals
Pruritus
Isodine Pharmacal Corporation
Playtex Park
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