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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1964
Page
7
A six week coal mining short course at Sophia High School led by West Virginia University ended Friday with 46 area miners taking exams. The program trains for mine foreman certification and promotes safety and efficiency in mining.
A WVU conducted program in Sophia features miners in a written examination with Raymond Bowers testing gas, Vernon Lawson and Joseph L. Withrow inspectors from the Dept of Mines, James H. Johnson assembling safety lamps, and William Hensley taking an air reading with Milton Hitchew as a Dept of Mines inspector present.
W. Jackson principal at Shady Spring High School released enrollment plans for 1964 65 new students moving into the district should pre enroll Monday August 31 between 10 am and 2 30 pm at the school freshmen attend homeroom at 8 am Tuesday September 1 with enrollment that day and others report 8 am Wednesday September 2 for instructions lunches are to be brought and bus schedules mirror last year domain.
470 horse and pony entries across 54 classes mark the Dry Hill Prosperity Fair and Horse Show on Saturday. Co chairs D Woody Kinzer and Larry Stover announce record turnout with top honors to riders from Beckley, Princeton, Peterstown, Shady Spring, and Charleston among others, plus multiple memorial and sportsman trophies awarded for best groomed horse and standout equitation, including King Genial ridden by Joan Smith.
Woodrow Wilson High School begins the new term with a staggered schedule. Juniors and seniors report Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. for assemblies and class assignments, followed by sophomores Wednesday in the same process.
Two bids were submitted by Rubin Construction Co of Princeton and Wipperman Construction Co of Beckley to Raleigh County Schools Superintendent John Saunders at 2 p.m. Monday. Rubin bid 267,000 with line items adding 16,000 for a classroom suite deducting 900 for bookcases 500 for plastic paint and deducting 10,000 for cabinets. Wipperman bid 268,000 with identical line items adjusted as 13,176 add 1,761 deduct 275 and deduct 11. The school board will set the contract at a later date.
Sen Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota donned a chef’s hat at a Iowa beef promoters barbecue and grill flanked by reporters. He joked there was nothing he would rather broil than Republicans, highlighting his lighthearted approach amid campaign events in Atlantic City coverage.
James Vaughn, 35, of Eccles, after a two day manhunt by state police and a sheriff's deputy, was arrested along a railroad track in Eccles. He faces felonious assault and a peace warrant in Raleigh County Jail. Rufus Vaughn remains in fair condition at Beckley Hospital from a .22 caliber gunshot to the stomach.
An ad promotes FASTEETH powder to secure upper and lower plates for comfort. It claims firmer fit with no gummy taste, is alkaline, resists sourness, and helps odor. It urges readers to buy at drug counters nationwide.
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