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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 09, 1968

Page

7

Vocational Guidance Conference Opens Today

The state-wide Vocational Guidance Conference opens at Cedar Lakes near Ripley with Robert Bailey delivering the welcome. The four day event features a panel of eight firms and personnel directors to discuss what schools must provide, panels set for Thursday at 1 30 p m.

Charleston Cedar Lakes Ripley Robert Bailey Bailey Hulett C. Smith Smith Wyoming County West Virginia Joe F. Burdette Emma Lou Caldwell Cheasapeake Potomac Telephone Co Zack Laney C&o-B&o Huntington Paul Beckett Huntington Trust Co Charles Kiser International Nickel

Collins High Honor Society Visits Concord College

Senior members of Collins High School National Honor Society spent Thursday at Concord College Athens as guests of the faculty at lunch. Accompanying staff included Gerald Stover and Mrs Ed Pennington. Officers are Paige Janney president Faith Hanna vice president Patty Hamilton secretary Chiquita Mullins treasurer. Advisor is Mrs Shirley Donachy. Participants include Donna Roop Faith Hanna Chiquita Mullins Terry Humphries Bobby Dixon Paige Janney Eddie Michaels Kathy Young Paula Lane Patty Hamilton James Pennington Desmond Huddleston Eugene Alien Brenda Wolfe Connie Burford.

Oak Hill Collins High School Concord College Athens Gerald Stover Ed Pennington Paige Janney Faith Hanna Patty Hamilton Chiquita Mullins Shirley Donachy Donna Roop Terry Humphries Bobby Dixon

Tito's Rise From Poorest Roots to Yugoslav Leader

NEA European Correspondent recalls Tito born in Kumrovec where eight of 15 siblings died. left home at 15, worked odd jobs, locksmith, waiter. WWI sergeant major, captured by Russians, joined Reds, returned to lead Yugoslav communists for two decades. In 1941 he formed a 12000-strong Partisan force in the mountains fighting Nazis.

Tom Cullen NEA Belgrade Yugoslavia Tito Josef Stalin Stalin Communist Club Russia Kumrovec Siberian Reds Hitler Czechoslovakia Soviet Union

Initiation Held At Oak Hill Chapter No 107

Mrs Myrtle Roop was initiated into Oak Hill Chapter No 107 Order of Eastern Star Friday A motion passed to send 10 to the Masonic Home in Parkersburg and the Eastern Star Home at Millwood Mrs Mae Ferry reported on the Rainbow for Girls Assembly and announced Lydia Pugh grand worthy advisor would visit Dec 26 A special meeting set for Dec 29 for Pugh s initiation into the chapter Also notes on Tito and Yugoslavia with war casualties and Tito s resolve calling out Soviet pressure NEXT Soviet Ships Off Shore

Oak Hill Myrtle Roop Order of Eastern Star Masonic Parkersburg Eastern Star Millwood Mae Ferry Girls Assembly Lydia Pugh Oak Hill Assembly Miss Pugh Eastern Star Chapter

OES A Banquet Honors Mullens Officers

Mullens Chapter 100 Order of Eastern Star held a Christmas banquet in the Mullens High School cafeteria Wednesday honoring Mrs Betty J. Workman worthy grand matron and Clarence E. Wells worthy grand patron of West Virginia. Roderick Wood sang The Impossible Dream. Hazel Toler read a poem Ideals Are Like Stars.

Mullens High School Mullens Chapter 100 Order of Eastern Star Betty J. Workman Clarence E. Wells West Virginia Roderick Wood Glenna Wood Hazel Toler Agnes Cook Chrystena Wells Ina Elliott Merie Robinette Marion Nolley E. S. Elliott Wood Toler Myrtle Hughes Bernice Kline Lucille Hayes Nancy Jo Smith

Mullens High School Chorus to perform PTA program

The Mullens High School Chorus will present the Christmas program for the PTA meeting at 7 30 p m. The event features solos by Rodney Bentley Rayfus Parham Randy Harrold and David Chapman with songs Do You Hear What I Hear O Holy Night and For Unto Us a Child is Born from Messiah The program includes a choral reading O Wondrous Holy Night with listed cast and accompanists.

Mallens High School Randy Harrold Randy Bentley Rayfus Mullens RNS Mullens High School Parent- Teacher Association PTA Handel Barbara Compton Susan Conley John Lucento Jimmy Ratliff Calerie Stone Susan Wade Ida Elmadollar Diana Whitt Sara Jo Lusk Susie Wade Helen Thomas

Ingrid Bergman Signs for U.S. Film Return

Ingrid Bergman signed to star in A Walk in the Spring Rain for Columbia, marking her first movie in the United States in two years. The news was reported by United Press International.

Ingrid Hollywood UPI Ingrid Bergman United States Columbia

Church Group Honors Shut-In at Mount Hope

Mrs. Bessie Rhodes was honored Thursday night by Mount Hope Church of God Missionary Society in the Fellowship Hall. The program titled Gifts to Them For Christ opened with carols and prayers. Present were Mrs. Spade, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Evana, Mrs. Batten, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Lancianese and Mrs. Dolin, with gifts to the honored shut-in.

Mount Hope RNS Bessie Rhodes Missionary Society of the Mount Hope Church of God Fellowship Hall Kyle Spade Ronald Perry Eva Edwards Spade Lucile Evana

BSP To Remember Patients In Home

Gamma Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met at Mrs. Joan Knight’s Oak Hill home. A cultural program titled Nature was presented by Mrs. Joan Taylor who asked members questions about nature. A nursing home visit was planned to collect patient names and Christmas gifts were arranged. December 22 Christmas dinner at El Cid Club. executive meeting December 19 at Miss Barbara Bozo’s Scarbro home.

Oak Hill Gamma Ep Beta Sigma Ph Rob Joan) Knight Salem Road William Joan) Taylor Taylor el Cid Club Barbara Bozo Scarbro

Treats and Movies Planned for Fayette Pupils

LaFayette Post No 149 of the American Legion in Fayetteville arranged a Santa Claus visit at 6 p.m. on December 23 at Memorial Auditorium with candy and fruit for all grade school children. Free movies will also be shown at Fayetteville Theatre starting at 10 a.m. the same day. Volunteers to bag candy at the Post Home at 2 p.m. on December 22 include Harry Marshall James Bowling Joel Conner Claude Bess Les Bradley Harry Aliff Frank Clinebell Boyd Selvey William Hesse William Akers and Walter Caldwell.

Fayetteville LaFayette American Legion Santa Claus Memorial Auditorium Harry Marshall James Bowling Joel Conner Claude Bess Les Bradley Harry Aliff Frank Clinebell Boyd Selvey William Hesse William Akers Walter Caldwell

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