Fayette County bookmobile schedules nine routes in 1960s plan
Mrs C P Anderson Jr announces Fayette County Public Library bookmobile will visit Smithers Kimberly Powellton Beards Fork and Page Kincaid communities every other week from Memorial Auditorium Fayetteville. Driver A L Huddleston. 1600 books per trip. No Wednesday visits. Routes listed with precise times. Free service across nine routes starting with Route 2.
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Fayette County
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Kimberly
Powellton
Beards Fork
Page-Kincaid
C. P. Anderson Jr
Ansted
HICO
Lookout
Fayette
Fayetteville
Rev Winters Speaks At Area WCTU Meeting
Rev John S Winters delivered Inner Peace in Outer Space Age at the Jones Avenue Church of God WCTU gathering in Oak Hill. He urged peace through Jesus, cited Luke 2 and Christian living, and urged gifts to Beckley veterans hospital patients.
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Winters
WCTU
Oak Hill
RNS
John S. Winters
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Jones Avenue Church of God
Jesus
Mr. Winters
Dinner To Honor College Students In Mullens
In Mullens the Rotary Club plans a dinner to honor local students attending college or higher learning. John Hopkins surgery student Mullens will attend, sponsored by Moler. About 120 area graduates are expected to participate and will be contacted this week to attend, with invitations extended personally to all.
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Mullens
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Rotary Foundation
D. Grove
Moler
Tice
Mrs Spencer Hurt In Wreck
Kingston report says Mrs Bob Spencer sustained a facial cut after the car driven by her son Bobby left Mossy road and overturned. She received fifteen stitches for a right eye wound at Oak Hill Hospital. Driver Homer and Mike not injured. about $500 damage to the car.
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Kingston
RNS
Bob Spencer
Oak Hill Hospital
Bobby
Homer
Mike
James Kegley Funeral Today in Princeton
Funeral services for James William Kegley, 58, of 411 Kee Street, were held at 2 p.m. at Kee Street Methodist Church with Rev. Richard L. Crickard officiating. Burial followed in Oakwood Cemetery. He worked 27 years for Virginian Railway and belonged to Boilermakers Local No. 624. Born September 23, 1901 in Adkins Virginia, he was the son of the late James C. and Cellie Hendarlight Kegley. Surviving are his wife Ruby Griffin Kegley, son J. W. Jr. of Point Pleasant, daughter Ruth Robinette of Glenwood Park, and a sister.
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RNS
James William Kegley
Richard ‘L. Crickard
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Oakwood
Kegley
Princeton Hospital
Boilermakers
Adkins
James C
Cellie Henderlight Kegley
Ruby Griffin Kegley
J. W. Jr
Point Pleasant
Ruth Robinette
Glenwood Park
Memorial Funeral Directory Chapel
E. G
Miner Injured in Rock Fall at Mount Hope Coal Mine
Wiley M. Hatfield, 52, of Herndon, was treated at Wyoming General Hospital Tuesday for multiple cuts and bruises after a rock fell on his right hand at work for Link Coal Co. in Mount Hope.
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Mullens
Wyoming General Hospital
Wiley M. Hatfield
Herndon
Link Coal Co
Mount Hope
Fayette County Library Opens With Bookmobile Rollout
Fayette County and Raleigh County open free public library service with a bookmobile starting January 5 and the Fayette County Public Library in the Memorial Auditorium. The regional library is the sixth in West Virginia and the largest by books and population served.
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Beckley
N. M. Steen
Oak Hill
West Virginia
Memorial Auditorium
Fayette County Court
Raleigh County Court
West
Virginia Library Commission
Lire
Steen
Fayette County
Fayette
J. E. Stanfield
Annexation Plan To Add 142 Homes In Court Action
A proposed annexation involving 142 homes and about 600 residents will be filed Monday in the Tazewell County Circuit Court at Tazewell. Bluefield Virginia officials anticipate the addition of Beas Hill Park and Park View Heights could push the town’s Virginia side population over 5,000, with Bluefield West Virginia at about 21,000.
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Tazewell
Monce
Beas Hill Park
Park View Heights
Virginia
Twin City
W. Va
Labor Bill Discussed by Area UMWA Members
United Mine Workers locals from Kanawha Boone and Raleigh County met in Charleston to study and analyze the Landrum-Griffith Act of 1959. Congressman John Slack led a section by section analysis printed for members of Congress.
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UMWA
Whitesville
RNS
Landrum- Griffith
United Carbon Building
Charleston
United Mine Workers of America
Kanawha
Boone
Lower
Raleigh County
John Slack
Congress
Hearing Sef For B Holler Involuntary Manslaughter Case
A Municipal Court hearing is set for 25 year old Billy Eugene Holler over the apparent electric shock death of his wife Shirley Shrader Holler 23. Acting Coroner D C Speas says a fatal shock is possible as Holler described an incident with a live wire at their home while drinking. The death occurred after she collapsed at a hospital and a state electrical inspector supported the scenario. Holler is free on a $500 bond.
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Winston - Salem
N. C
Billy Eugene Holler
D. C. Speas
Shirley Holler
Shirley Shrader
Bilue
Holler
Carrie D. Kelly Dies at 66 in Thurmond
Funeral services set for Mrs. Carrie D. Kelly in Tyree Funeral Home Chapel at 2 9 p m Thursday Rev Carl Johnson Beckley. Burial at High Lawn. She died at 5 50 a m Tuesday in Oak Hill hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. Born February 25 1893 in Brunswick Maryland she was a member of Union Church Thurmond Order of Eastern Star past worthy matron and Thurmond Ladies Aid Society. Survivors include her husband Jackson William Kelly and four sons James Thomas Melvin plus others.
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Kelly
Thurmond
Oak Hill
Brunswick
Union Church At
Order of Eastern Star
Lopez Infant Rites Thursday
Funeral services for Tanya Lynn Lopez will be held at 12 30 p m Thursday in Steagel Chapel at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill Burial is in Odd Fellows Cemetery Oak Hill She was the one month old daughter of Mary Elizabeth Lopez of Whipple who died after a brief illness in an Oak Hill hospital Surviving are four brothers Charlie Wayne Lance and Roy Dale all at home
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Tanya Lynn Lopez
Steagel
Tyree
Oak Hill
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Mary Elizabeth Lomez
Charlie
Wayne
Lice
Roy Dale
Sunday Road Church Hosts Youth Rally in HICO
The Sunday Road Baptist Church hosted the December rally of the Hopewell Association Baptist Youth Fellowship with 81 attendees. Linda Kessler welcomed guests, and Karen Vandercoy led the songs. The Gauley Bridge BYF presented a Christmas pageant under Mrs. Vandercoy, while plans for the January rally at Gauley Bridge and a February Christian Citizenship Seminar were announced.
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HICO
RNS
Sunday Road Baptist Church
Hopewell Association Baptist Youth Fellowship
Linda Kessler
Carol
Karen Vandercoy
Jane Crawford
Gauley Bridge Byf
Big Clear Creek
Gauley Bridge
East Rainelle
Sunday Road
Gauley Bridge Baptist Church
Association Byf
Baptist Temple
Charleston
Byf’s
Miss Crawford
B. E. Vandercoy
Boy, 117, Delivers Go rilla Sales Pitch at Zoo
ST LOUIS AP Sales of postcards featuring Phil the Gorilla soared after 117 year old Tom Towson memorized a short speech for zoo visitors. Phil was stuffed and mounted after dying several months ago and proceeds from card sales go toward the exhibit’s $7,000 cost.
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ST. Louis
Phil
Tom Towsen
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