Engineers to Begin Survey Thursday at Oak Hill Jaycee Meet
Oak Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce with 42 members met at City Diner and discussed plans for the year. A civil affairs committee will avoid meetings, Christmas tree committee eyed, house-to-house toy drive with Boy Scouts, and a transportation project to shuttle Oak Hill High School students to games ensuring maximum car occupancy.
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Oak Hill
Council For Christmas
Daycees
Jaycees
Boy Scouts
Oak Hill High School
New Teachers and Courses Set for Opening Day at Three Schools
Oak Hill Fayetteville and Mount Hope prepare for a new school year with 25 transfers and 525 students expected at Fayetteville. Oak Hill adds art and speech, welding and new staff including Miss Fetice Jobe and Mrs. Patricia Johnston. Mount Hope expands faculty with three new members and shop work by Edward Kenny. Driver education resumes at Fayetteville using a 1949 Ford supplied by Jane W. Motor Company. Classes run in two sessions daily.
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Wester Oak Hill
Oak Hill
Fayetteville
Mount Hope
Oak Hill High School
Paul Mackey
Art Husic
Patricia Perry
James Trent
Thurmond McKinley
Vernon Horner
Albert Burgess
Joline Yabiouski
Delver
Oak Hin
King Cole Chevrolet Company
Betty Puckett
Mount Hope High School
Edward Kenny Willeach
Janice Walkers
Stanley Alberchinski
Genen
al Fayetteville High School
Dan
HL Perdue
Wanda Hatcher
Alexander Feher
Robert Richards
Fletcher Arritt
Ralph Haugh
Jane W. Motor Company
Mount Hope Bus Road We Use May Meet Survey Delay
Survey for a proposed Bureau of Mines building in Mount Hope could affect the school bus access road behind the high school. Mayor Bernard Rocke said the survey may encroach on Fayette County Board of Education property and could result in the road being lost to the school. The exact impact will be determined after government engineers finish work.
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Adam Seat
Rocke
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Mount Hope Child Has Polio Case
Richard Lee Rhodes five year old son of Mr and Mrs Jess Rhodes Mount Hope is a Marmet Hospital patient with a mild polio case. Fayette County health officials report the total polio cases to date has reached 21.
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Fayette
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OAK Hill
Richard Lee Rhodes
Jess Rhodes
Marmet Hospital
Fayettte County
Fayette County
Kopperston Black-Faced Teams Aid Infantile Paralysis Victim
A minstrel softball game in Kopperston raised 331 for Charles Morgan, infantile paralysis victim of Leu Morgan, with 1,000 spectators. The event featured black-faced players Scotty and Tarheel Ruby and Ale, plus humorous stunts, a five foot bat, and radio support from WWYO.
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Tarheel Ruby
Ale
Arnold Ha
Virgil Burkett
Walter Boshell
Ill Boshell
Henry Andrews
Jess Cline
Hugh Nichols
Fred Lambert
Lloyd Cook
John Pomeroy
Cecil Tipper
Cyrus Williams
John Pike
Big Goble
Malcolm Matthews
Edsel Workman
Eilil Cooper
Andy Horney
Lester Buckley
Howard Hkins
Robert Liddle
Lionel Weir
Peter Goodwin
Dudley Browning
Paul Fleenor
Bill Workman
Virgil Arnole
Bill England
Gable Cline
Willie Pomeroy
Pineville Rotarians Plan Army Film Show
Pineville Rotary Club to screen the Army educational film China Crises on September 26. The film follows the Aly Force and the Flying Tigers. It marks the first use of the fit procurement program for civic groups sponsored by the Military Manpower Commission of Heckley.
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Pineville Rotary Club
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Flying Tigers
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Heckley
Montgomery Concert Group Incorporated Receives State Charter
The Montgomery Concert Group Incorporated, a non profit organization formed to promote entertainment education and cultural activities, received its state charter today. Incorporators include Carl L. Kennedy Robert Jackson and Andrew W. Vickers all of Montgomery.
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Mess TC STARLESTON + Upper Kant
Vernon M Vernon obituary services in Glen Jean
Funeral services for Abner M. Vernon a former Fayette County resident who died August 16 in a St Louis hospital will be held at 2 30 pm Thursday from Collins Funeral Home Glen Jean with Rev Gilmer H H Cross officiating. Burial at Highlawn Memorial Park Oak Hill. Vernon's death followed a four week illness due to a hemorrhage. He was born March 6 1904 at Mt Hope and belonged to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a brother Everett Vernon and several sisters and children including Atarvin Vernon of the US Manns Mrs Margaret Flint Mrs Fuanita Raver Mrs Viola Rowell and Mrs Dorothy Hecox.
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Willer Glen
Mt. Hope
Brotherhood of
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Everett Vernon
Indiana
Pearl Montgomery
Hope
Tabby Young
Parkersburgs
Polly Mervith
Perry
Fit
Atarvin Vernon
Manns
Margaret
Flint
Oak Hill
Fuanita Raver
Glen Jean
Viola Rowell
Dorothy Hecox
Long Beach
Calif
Construction Begins On Oak Hill Road Projects
Oak Hill area roads started yesterday with Acme Construction resurfacing about five miles on State Route 61 between Oak Hill and Kincaid. State crews also repave 2.4 miles of Dempsey Road under supervision of F J Shu inate.
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Oak Hill
F. J. Shu- Inate
Calvity
Acme Construction Company
Kincaid
Convict on the Run Captured After Escape from Camp
Fayette convict 26 year old Walter Lanier captured in Clay County after fleeing a road camp near Kingwood on August 20. He was among six inmates who escaped, with others still held in Preston County jail awaiting grand jury action on prison escape charges.
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Faycette County
Clay
Kingwood
Preston
R.doyle Halbrikter
Salisbury
Moundsville
Preston County
Tivo
Legion Post Plans Club Rooms for Oak Hill Members
Oak Hill Commander John Claypool announces Red Devil Post 59 has leased the second floor of the penny bus terminal on Lewis Street for a club room. Equipment for drinks is ordered and due about September 6 with a tentative opening September 5. Incorporators are Clara Payne S W Pree Henry Eine J A Martin and Clay J S Lewis. board members include John Donachy and L Epstein.
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John ‘Claypool
American Legion
Thas
Penty
Lewis Street
Clara Payne
S. W. Pree
Henry Eine
J. A. Martin
Clay JS. Lewis
John Donachy
L. Epstein
Post Board of Directors
Mount Hope Personali Mount Hope Personali ty Register
Mount Hope Ed Dower was taken to Oak Hill Hospital Friday night with a serious asthma condition. He is on oxygen and as well as can be expected, per his son A C Dower. Monday W P Lam of Detroit visited relatives in Mount Hope and purchased the Grill next to Oak Hill Theatre. Harrison O Ash Jr and Susan of Cleveland visited relatives in Scarbro. Electa Coine returned home after a Rabint General Hospital operation.
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Oak Hill Hospital
A. C.dower
W. P. Lam
Detroit
Mich
Airs
William Hickman
Charles Ash
Glen Jean
Lam
Joe Lilly
Oak Hill Theatre
Hickman
Harrison O. Ash
Rabint General Hospital
Route 20 Covered By High Water
State Route 20 was flooded by four feet of water near the Bluestone Dam southwest of Hinton. Heavy rain in the Kanawha watershed caused rapid rises in the Bluestone Reservoir, submerging the highway. A new roadway will replace the section once the high level bridge under construction across the reservoir is finished.
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Blirerstone
Hinton
State Road Commission
Kanawh
Bluestone
Thurmond Miner Hurt While Working
James Compton, 38, of Thurmond, was admitted to Oak Hill Hospital at 1 20 a m for treatment of his back and right shoulder after an injury at Hood Coal Company mines.
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Oak Hwill
James Compton
Thurmond
Oak Hill Hospital
Compton
Hood Coal Company
Stepfather Faces Trial Today For Murder of James Hubbard
In Wyoming County Court Glen Rogers Negro faces murder trial for killing James D. Hubbard on April 22 after a dispute with Hubbard's mother. The case proceeds despite defense requests for continuance and follows Hubbard's former football star status at Bluefield State Teachers College.
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Pineville
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Glen Rogers Negro
James D. Hubbard
Wyoming County Criminal Court
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Wyoming
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New Created Criminal Court
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Brumfield
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William Kenna Blackshire
Arlie Holmes
Gilbert Carpenter
Lester Williams
Harry E. Nixon
Virgil Glen Bond
Ira Brooks
Halsey Bailey
Graveside rites for three day old Drema Lockhart
Graveside services were held Monday afternoon in Bishop Cemetery Steeles for Drema Lockhart infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Freeman Lockhart Hanover. The infant died Saturday in Welch hospital. Survived by parents a brother and a sister.
Fifteen Additional Jurors Summoned for Wyoming Court Work
Fifteen jurors have been summoned for duty in the current term of Wyoming County Criminal Court. They were ordered to report at 9:38 a.m. today and include Jesse Gunter, Willie Cozort, Dorsey Freeman, Jack Chatin, Paul Goode, Carmen Hill, Gerald Neal, Clarence M. Church, Harley Cook, Andersen Adkins, Jesse Victor Adams, F. FE. Cook, George Atkins, Dennis Curry, Cyelone, and A. C Arneld.
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Wiver Pineville
Wyoming County Criminal Court
Jesse Gunter
Willie Cozort
Dorsey Freeman
Jack Chatin
Paul Goode
Carmen Hill
Pineville
Gerald Neal
Wyoming
Clarence M. Church
Rockview
Harley Cook
Hatcher
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Jesse
Victor Adams
Oceana
F. FE. Cook
George Atkins
Kopperston
Dennis Curry
Cyelone
A. C
Arneld
Morris Evans Farm Service Feed Prices Union WV
The Union West Virginia farm service lists daily feed prices for livestock and poultry. Includes various mash cot products, milk maker mixtures, calf starter, hog feed and horse feed with per bag discounts for larger quantities and burlap bags.
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A. J. Morris Evans Farm Service Union
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