Fayetteville Welcomes Two Women to City Council
Fayetteville marks a first with two women on its council Mrs Ruby Rotan sworn in to fill the late Luther Rotan and Mrs Virginia Batton appointed to replace resigning A K LaFon The council also asked the water board to extend an eight inch Platt Street line add a water storage tank and install another street light in Academy Court area Town superintendent J H Allen reported on West Virginia League of Municipalities and the new State City Managers Association meetings at Blackwater Lodge and Blackwater Falls State Park confirming officers and aims to boost municipal efficiency and state city manager proficiency.
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Fayetteville
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Ruby Rotan
Virginia Batton
Platt Street
Academy Court
West Virginia League of Municipalities
Blackwater Lodge
Davis
League
Allen
Blackwater Falls State Park
Elmer W. Prince
Victor H. Bortnick
William L. Kell
Modern Machinery Install Causes Miner Layoffs at Blue Pennant
Modern mining equipment installed by Glegora Coal Company at Blue Pennant shifted from pan line to shuttle car haulage. The change reduced staff by 15 workers and officials said some employees would be reassigned to other jobs as they become available.
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Blue Pennant
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Glegora Coal Company
Fire Damages Armory in Richwood
Fire damaged the ceiling at the New Richwood Armory on Sunday. The Richwood Volunteer Fire Department responded at 10 30 a m discovering fire in the right wing where painters stored paint. The armory is under construction and an oil burner explosion due to lack of oxygen caused the blast. Damage described as slight.
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Richwood
RNS
New Richwood Armory
Richwood Volunteer Fire Department
Damage Set At 800 In Iroquois Blaze
Fire destroyed part of Harold Rise home in Iroquois causing about 800 dollars in damage. Crews battled the blaze in sub freezing temperatures after it was spotted around 12 45 a m. Fire Chief Clyde Newsome says a defective flue is suspected. Neighbors helped move belongings from the Semet Solvay Company house to safety.
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Mullens
ANS
Harold Rise
Iroquois
Clyde Newsome
Kise
Semet-Solvay Company
Early TB Diagnosis Boosts Recovery Prospects
The note emphasizes that earlier discovery and treatment of tuberculosis improves chances of recovery, underscoring the value of prompt medical attention and timely care for TB patients.
Wyoming Mission Society Members Attend Executive Meet
Mrs Mary Thomas presided over the executive board meeting of the Women s Missionary Society of the Rockcastle Association at First Baptist Church Welch. Officers nominated were approved for the coming year, with a fund-raising plan based on society size and a non compulsory year donation. The spring rally date and place will be announced, host church to provide coffee and dessert. delegates to bring sandwiches.
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Wyoming Mission Society
Welch
Oceana
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Mary Thomas
Women’s Missionary Society of the Rockcastle Association
Perry Scott
Otis Cook
First Baptist Church
Thomas
John Short
Pineville
Irene Lathan
Love Gift
Mrs. Barton Rites Tuesday in Ansted Chapel
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Jane Murry Barton will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Thomas Funeral Home Chapel Ansted. Burial follows at Willis Cemetery. The 79 year old widow died at her Graydon home after a five year illness. She was born in Motherwell Scotland April 8 1879 and was a Baptist. Survivors include husband Richard six sons Thomas M Lexington Va John Rand Richard Jr Sylvester Joseph H and Charles Ansted Frank Navy Whit ing Field Fla two daughters Rosa Ann Hess Palmetto Fla Frances Clark Kanawha Falls 33 grandchildren 26 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Hostesses were Mrs Lathan and Mrs Hilda Taylor Welch.
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Ansted
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Mary Jane Murry Barton
Thomas Funeral Home
Willis
Barton
Graydon
The
Baptist Church
Motherwell
Scotland
Richard
Thomas M
Lexington
John
Rand
Richard Jr
Sylvester
Joseph H
Charles
Frank
Navy
Whiting Field
Milton, Fla
Rosa Ann Hess
Palmetto
Fla
Frances Clark
Kanawha Falls
Democratic Victory Dinner Set In Madison Saturday
The Women's Democratic Club of Boone County will sponsor a Democratic Victory Dinner at the Memorial Building in Madison on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Senator-elect Robert C. Byrd will be the guest speaker. Five district committeewomen will each prepare a dish with party workers assisting. about 250 attendees are expected, including county officials, state figures, and national representatives.
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Madison
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Women's Democratic Club of
Boone County
Memorial Building
Robert C. Byrd
Christie Jarrell
Crook
Carl Estep
Peytona
Opal Harmon
Scott
Canissa Drenner
Sherman
Esta Dunlap
Washington
Thelma N. Hall
Women's Club
Thhey
Funeral services for Ken Hunt held in Bluefield
Funeral services for Ken Hunt were to be conducted at 2 p.m. today in Bland Street Methodist Church Bluefield by Rev. Clyde Hensley and Rev. Fred Oxendale. Burial in Rest Haven Cemetery Princeton. Hunt former Beckley and Richwood coach died unexpectedly while listening to a West Virginia Penn State game. Pallbearers included Jerome Van Meter athletic director at Woodrow Wilson High Beckley Leo McCoy James McKenzie Edward Judge Howard Gwinn O M Wicker Fred Williams Stanley Martin. Bluefield Central Junior High football team to serve as flower bearers. Born Rushmore Ohio February 20 1905 and Ohio University graduate. He coached at Beckley as assistant in 1931 and head coach at Richwood 1946 before retiring from high school coaching and taking junior high post in Bluefield.
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Bluefield
Ken Hunt
Bland Street
Clyde Hensley
Fred Oxendale
Resthaven
Princeton
Hunt
Beckley
Richwood
Jerome van Meter
Woodrow Wilson High School
Leo McCoy
James McKenzie
Edward Judge
Howard Gwinn
0. M. Wicker
Fred Williams
Stanley Martin
Bluefield Central
Rushmore
Ohio
Ohio University
Richwood High School
Harold L. Saul Funeral Tuesday
Funeral services for Harold L. Saul, 31, formerly of Stephenson, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Webb and Neal Funeral Home in Beckley, with burial in American Legion Cemetery. Saul, a 12-year Air Force veteran, was killed in an automobile accident near Sioux City, Iowa. He leaves a large family including his mother Doris Saul and nine siblings. Graveside rites will be by American Legion Post 32.
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Stephenson
Harold L. Saul
Webb and Neal
Chanel
Beckley
Everette R. Shafer
American Legion
Saul
Armed Forces
Sioux City
Iowa
Sioux City Air Force Base
Perry County
Ernie Saul
Doris Saul
Norfolk
Ralph
Harry
Glen
Jerry
Paul
Gloria Hunt
Kansas City
Betty Jo Harold
Meade
Jackie Shrewsbury
Coal City
Helen Louise Saul
American Legion Post 32
Street Worker Dies On Job In Oak Hill
William Cleveland Mays a 74 year old street sweeper for Oak Hill died on Main Street at 2 40 a m after a heart attack at work. He was born July 29 1884 in Comfort and was a member of the Oak Hill Church of God. Survivors include his son Joshua FE Mays of Comfort a daughter Elizabeth Mays of Oak Hill three step sons Cecil Mays of Comfort Joe Burgess of Lattus Teddy Burgess of Oak Hill and four step daughters Annie Painter of Rock Creek C Ohio Icy Childers of Oak Hill Hazel McDaniel of Chicago Illinois and Bessie Taylor of Albany New York two sisters L A Amick of Ella Ohio and Lennie Jarrell of Comfort. Funeral arrangements are incomplete body at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill.
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Oak Hill
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William Cleveland Mays
Main Street
City of
Mays
FBLA Shows Two Education Films at Mullens High
The Future Business Leaders of America group at Conley High School Mullens screened two education films. The first, Man's Confidence in Credit, traced credit history from The Mercantile Agency in 1841 to Dunn and Bradstreet and its global presence. The second, Better Typing at Your Fingertips, taught typing techniques showcased by Norman Saksving. Sponsor is Mrs. Kathleen Dobson.
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Mullens
America
Conley High School
Credit
Dunn and Bradstreet, Inc
Mercantile Agency
Lewis Tappan
United States
Canada
Norman Saksving
Kathleen Dobson
Fbla Group
Boone Courthouse Offices Close for Christmas Holidays
Boone County offices led by the clerk sheriff assessor and prosecuting attorney will close from December 20 to 29 for Christmas. Courthouses stay open. Boone Health Department and school board offices in the basement remain open. All county offices reopen December 29.
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Madison
BNS
Boone County
Boone County Health Department
School Board
New interdenominational center planned in Atlanta
Theological Center in Atlanta will absorb four Negro ministerial training schools Gammon Theological Seminary Morris Brown College Morehouse College and Phillips School of Theology forming a single center. The facility aims to begin operations in fall 1959 serving as a combined educational hub for Negro religious training.
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Atlanta
Atlanta University
Gammon Theological Seminary
Morris Brown College
Morehouse College
Phillips School of Theology
Jackson
Secondary Principals Discuss Proposed Commission Revision
Wyoming County principals met in Pineville to review a ten year revision draft of the Commission of Secondary Schools policies and criteria. The meeting listed items on accreditation periods reports evaluations school program and staffing, with attendees Harold Bailey Roy Stewart Carl Hazard Ronald Lee Cook Lewis DAntoni and Jesse Houck.
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Pineville
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Wyoming County Secondary Principals Association
Commission of Secondary Schools
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools Accreditation
Princi
Wyoming County
Board of Education
Harold Bailey
Baileysville High School
Roy Stewart
Herndon High School
Carl Hazard
Conley High School
Ronald Lee Cook
Oceana High School
Lewis D'Antoni
Mullens High School
Jesse Houck
Pineville High School
Pineville High School Band toPerform Concert
Pineville High School Symphonic Band of 66 members will give a concert in the high school auditorium at 7 30 p m Tuesday. Director Joseph Bragg announced the program which spans Handel selections to Mother Goose Jumps. Kitty Goode will perform Spiritual Rhapsody for piano and band.
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Pineville
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Pineville High School
Joseph Bragg
Handel
Kitty Goode
George K. Jones Rites Set at Mount Pleasant
Funeral services for George Ker mit Jones, 31, of Daytona Beach formerly of Mount Lookout, will be held at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday with Rev. T. W. Carter officiating. Jones died Friday from bullet wounds in a labor dispute. The body arrives today at White Funeral Home in Summersville and will be moved to his parents’ home in Mount Lookout tomorrow afternoon.
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Mount Lookout
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George Kermit Jones
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
T. W. Carter
Jones
Daytona Beach
Fla
White Funeral Home
Summersville
Gus B. Jones
Hearing slated for C Sherman at Oak Hill
Charles William Sherman, 19, is set to appear before Magistrate R C Godsey on a felonious assault and intoxication charge after an argument at Glen Jean. He is jailed in Fayette County. William Pryor, 17, is in fair condition with a chest stab wound at Oak Hill Hospital, with Sherman denying the accusation.
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Oak Hill
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Charles William Sherman
R. C. Godsey
Sherman
Fayette County
Fayetteville
Glen Jean
William Pryor
Pryor
Schedules Thursday Meet by WSCS Pineville
The Wo mens Society of Christian Service at First Methodist Pineville will hold its monthly meeting Thursday at 6 pm with a Pot Luck Dinner followed by business and worship. Members are asked to bring gifts for a needy child and a cash donation to the Methodist Children's Home Burlington. A distribution committee includes Mrs. E. F. Hays as chair and Mrs. Charles Waddell and Mrs. Edward Hawley.
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Pineville
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Women’s Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church
John B. Thomas
Methodist Children’s Home
Burlington
E. F. Hays
Charles Waddell
Edward Hawley
School Remains Open at Oceana Grade School
Oceana Grade School No 1 resumed operations this morning except for one damaged classroom after a Saturday fire. Wyoming County superintendent Jesse W. Morgan says all third graders in that room should stay home until Wednesday morning.
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Oceana
Jesse W. Morgan
Wyoming County Superintendent of Schools
Nazarene Missionaries Begin Work in Brazil
In Campinas Brazil the first Church of the Nazarene missionaries begin work led by Rev and Mrs Earl Mosteller who previously headed Nazarene missionary efforts in Cape Verde for six years The Nazarene world mission force now includes 393 full time missionaries in 40 areas
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Campinas
Brazil
Church of the Nazarene
Earl Mosteller
Nazarene
Cape Verde Island
Nazarenes
Science Shrinks Piles New Way With No Surgery
New healing substance Bio-Dyne, used as Preparation H suppository or ointment, shrinks hemorrhoids, stops itching, and relieves pain without surgery. Case after case shows shrinkage and relief, with patients declaring piles no longer a problem. Available at druggists with money back guarantee.
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New York, N. Y
Shaffer Named Constitutions Committee Head
Madison lawyer Harry G. Shaffer has been named chairman of the State and Federal Constitutions Committee of the West Virginia State Bar Association. Fellow Madison attorneys H G Shaffer Jr. will chair the Grievance Committee and Mat D Bouldin Jr. serves on the Constitution and By Laws Committee.
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Madison
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Harry G. Shaffer
West Virginia State Bar Association
William W. Woodroe
H. G. Shaffer Jr
7Th State Bar District
Mat D. Bouldin Jr
Tuesday Services Set For J. Brown
Funeral for Julian Brown, 62, Mount Hope, will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Mount Hope Baptist Temple, with burial in High Lawn Memorial Park. Born in Spain in 1895, he was a World War I veteran, longtime merchant, and 36 years with New River Co. Survivors include wife Myrtle, son Bill of Wheeling, and two grandchildren.
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Mount Hope
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Julian Brown
Mount Hope Baptist Temple
William Cox
Ernest Barley
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Brown
Beckley
Spain
New River Co
Sutphin Funeral Scheduled Friday
Funeral services for Adderson W. Sutphin to be held Friday at 1 p m at Stephenson Methodist Church with Revs Philip Graham and Lonnie Blankenship officiating. Sutphin, 74, a retired Stephen son miner, died after a cerebral hemorrhage. Burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens near Beckley. Survived by wife Costella, sons Herland and Ferman, daughters Basil Danley George Schopfer Pauline Dickerson Morton Miller and Burless Lusk, brother Sid, sisters Florence Hare and Elbert Walls, and 21 grandchildren. The body to be moved from Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home Mullens to the Sophin residence Thursday afternoon.
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Beckley Hospital
Carrol County
Leander
Elmira Sutphin
Costella McKinney
Sutphin
Herland
Otsego
Ferman
Baltimore
Basil Danley
Leavittown
George Schopfer
Wilmington
Del
Pauline Dickerson
Morton Miler
Burless Lusk
Allen Juncetion
Sid
Prestonsburg
Florence Hare
Chappel
Elbert Walls
Peterstown
Robertson and Foglesong
Mullens
Sophin
Eddie Dowling Plans Busy Broadway Season
Eddie Dowling has a full Broadway slate including Starward Ark about space travel and The Can Opener set in a French prison. He may act in both, and says he will play the clever title role in The Can Opener if he cannot find a preferred replacement.
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New York
Eddie Dowling
Starward Ark
Dowling
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