Annual Christmas program by Woman's Club draws crowd
About 175 clubwomen and guests filled the Park Avenue clubhouse for the WCB annual meeting. Guests included Mrs. Phares E. Reeder and Miss Ivonne Perez of Uruguay. A tableau of the Nativity and musical numbers highlighted the evening as a resolution supporting a central commission to regulate educational TV and radio programs was adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Phipps
Woman's Club
WCB
Park Avenue
Fred Hays
Phares E. Reeder
Dunbar
Ivonne Perez
Uruguay
Hal Laughlin
Bill Brown
O. W. Brown
Miss Inez
Korea
Pinecrest
Beckley Women of the Moose and Local Groups Host Christmas Events
A Tuesday notices roundup lists Beckley Chapter Women of the Moose canceling a candlelight service rehearsal at St Matthew AME Church. PTA St Francis de Sales meets at 7:30 p.m. other groups plan Christmas dinners, parties, and programs at venues including Beckley Winn Hotel, Masonic Temple, Town and Country Drive In, and homes across Beckley and Crab Orchard, with speakers and festive gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Matthew Ame Church
Mill St
Sigma Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Beckley Presbyterian skating party and youth event
Members of the Pioneer Class will skate today from 7 to 9 p.m. meeting at the church at 6 30 p.m. A Senior Youth party is scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Women s Bible Classroom at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Presbyterian Church
Women’s Bible
Menu from Maddox featuring roast goose and sides
The menu lists grape and grapefruit cup, roast goose with apple sesame seed dressing, sweet potato pudding, buttered Brussels sprouts, compote of prunes and chestnuts, rye rolls with butter or margarine, lemon sherbet, thin chocolate wafers, and beverages including coffee, tea, and milk.
St. John’s Port Compared to British Isles Proximity
The source notes St. John’s Newfoundland is closer to the British Isles than any other North American port, highlighting its strategic geographic position for transatlantic routes and maritime activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s
Newfoundland
British Isles
Briarcliff Club Member to Appear on WOAY TV
Mrs. James Mahoney of Briarcliff Garden Club will present Biblical Gardens on Garden Club of the Air at 1 p m Wednesday over WOAY TV Channel 4. She will discuss Bible plants and their modern equivalents using a Bible plants book with illustrations. The program, narrated by Mrs. Hazel Phillips, is near the year’s end. Briarcliff Club president is Mrs. E R Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briarcliff Club
Woay-Tv
Garden Club
Woaytv
Channel 4
James Mahoney
Briarcliff Garden Club
Hazel Phillips
E. R. Harris
Local Obituaries and Military News Fragments
A cloud of notices covers deaths and visits across Roanoke and nearby towns. Mrs. M D Ayers dies at 101, funeral today at 2 pm in Roanoke. Families gather as airmen Hodges and Meadows visit relatives in Virginia and North Carolina over holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Light
Summers Street
Roanoke
M. D. Ayers
Kessler to Spend Holidays With Rural Acres Family
Private Samuel B. Kessler of Fort Gordon Georgia, U S Army, will be a holiday guest of his parents Mr and Mrs S W Kessler on Rural Acres Drive. Miss Sandra Penny Phillips, a Concord College freshman, also mentioned in the note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry R. Hodges
Carl Hodges
Bradley
U. S. Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Maine
Jack Roop
Tolley Dr
James Hodges
Chanute Afb
Carol
Samuel B. Kessler
Ft. Gordon
U. S. Army
Mrs
S. W. Kessler
Rural Acres Drive
Sandra Penny Phillips
Concord College
Army Private Meadows Weds Connie Ballard in Charleston
Parents Mr and Mrs Clifford Meadows of 205 Sheridan Ave announce the marriage of Pfc Meadows stationed with the 82nd Airborne at Ft Bragg to former Miss Connie Ballard daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Ballard Jr of Charleston. They will visit Mrs Meadows parents Mr and Mrs G G Kidd of North Oakwood Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Meadows
Sheridan Ave
Pfc. Meadows
82Nd Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg
Connie Ballard
J. J. Ballard Jr
Charleston
Teresa Kidd
G. G. Kidd
North Oakwood Ave
Coates Family to Welcome Cincinnati Couple for Holidays
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Coates of Cincinnati Ohio will arrive Friday to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. A B Coates at 100 Crescent St. This holiday homecoming brings together the family for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Coates
Cincinnati
Ohio
A. B. Coates
Crescent St
Marriage Permit Applications in Raleigh County Clerk’s Office
Applications for marriage licenses listed in Raleigh County Court clerk records include Walter Lackie Blackwell Jr. and Sophia Cameron. Dreama Deloris Boggess and Neil Elwyn Bays. Sandra Christine Burnette and Richard Keith Crowley. Sue Tabor and Charles Claypool Jr.. Terry Lynn Wilson. George Randall Horton and Frances Hodges. couples range in ages from 16 to 26 and originate from Slab Fork Glen Daniel Garrison Arnett Loraine Glen White Eccles and surrounding communities.
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Raleigh County
Walter Lackie Blackwell Jr
M. F. Cameron
Sophia
Dreama Deloris Bauguess
Orville W
Lida Marie Boggess
Slab Fork
Neil Elwyn Bays
Kenneth and
Wilda Bays
Sandra Christine Burnette
Glen Daniel
Richard Keith Crowley
Charles and
Athol Crowley
Garrison and
Garrett
Sue Tabor
Sylvia Tabor
Arnett
Charles Claypool Jr
Charles
Elsie Claypool
Terry Lynn Wilson
George
Vernon Wilson
Eccles
George Randall Horton
Helen Horton
Lorain
Ohio
Frances Kayetta Hodges
Thurman
Bessie Hodges
Glen White
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clubwomen
Woman's Club of
Beckley
Arlena Miller
Doris Maynor
C. C. Pyles
M. G. Jarrell
H. C. Avis
Artcarved
Caemenenes
Erigs
Neville St. Dial
Ciub
Woman's Department of
Women of the Moose
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Beckley Business and Professional Women's Club
Beckley-Winn Hotel
Pauline Boyden
Bostick Avenue
Woman's Mission Society of Memorial Baptist Church
Mount View Elementary School
Parent-Teacher Association
Robert Cahn
Bethlehem
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Howe Street
Xi Alpha Gamma
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Carl Bunch
Temple St
Crab Orchard Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Roby Blevins
Close
G.C. Murphy CO
W. Main ST
H&m
Havana
Tilda
Princeton
Bluefield
Welch
Presi
American Home Department
Eva Allen
Carter Street
Delbert Bowen
Springfield
Stanley Taylor
James Hornbeck Jr
Kanawha Valley Hospital
Taylor
Helen
Taylor Emory
Enterprise
Norfolk
Woody Emory
Midway
W.A. Mills
Crab Orchard
Athens
Mrs. Wilmer Phillips
Iris Kay
Laren Ave
Bill Bair
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
James W. Bair
Harper Road
James A. Bair
Fairborne
Wright - Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio State University
Bair
B. M.weaver
Harmon L.lushbaugh
W. C St
Gergory Lindsey
Raleigh General Hospital
H. F. Lushbaugh
G. W. Bragg
Erio Lane
James Terrero
Ashland
Maude Terrero
Norman Richard Meadows
N. C
Frederick Meadows
Salisbury
Garbees
Slim Jims
Prince
Prince Matchabg
Penney
Brentwood
Dacron and Cotton
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