Girls Fellowship Guild Organized at Memorial Baptist Church
Leah Effingham publicity chairman leads the group with Mary Ellen Molina and other members to foster Christian personality and home life among girls. Organizing chair is Margaret Cook with Wanda Miles as association guild chair. meetings set for the first Friday each month at 7 30 p m with counselors Hattie Wickline and Pearl Cawley. The Sally Peck Fellowship Guild for ages 11 to 19 formed at Memorial Baptist Church with Barbara Farthing as chairwoman Betty Dunn vice chair Barbara Brierley secretary Jeanie Wickline treasurer Sharon Crum love gift Beth Thompson White Cross named as officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leah Effingham
Mary Ellen Molina
Karen Foster
Cathy Bryant
Becky Beaver
Mavis Effingham
Deanna Bainbridge
Tion
Missionary World Outreach
Margaret Cook
Association Guild
Wanda Miles
Hattie Wickline
Pearl Cawley
Sally Peck
Memorial Baptist Church
Barbara Farthing
Betty Dunn
Barbara Brierley
Jeanie Wickline
Sharon Crum
Love Gift
Beth Thompson
White Cross
53rd Anniversary Scouts Observe Scout Week Nationwide
The Seneca District and Appalachian Council join 5.2 million Scouts in observing the 53rd anniversary of the Scout Movement. Cub packs, Boy Scouts and Explorers host blue and gold open houses, potlucks, demos, and courts of honor while inviting new members and pledges. Karen Lynn Short serves as Beckley College mascot cheerleader with ties to local families and the basketball team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca
Appalachian Council
Boy Scouts of America
America
Raleigh County
Dale Mosslander
Beckley College
Karen Lynn Short
Bob Short
Dixie Ave
Karen
Sophia Church Members To Present Play Outside
About 40 members of the Sophia Freewill Baptist Church will present a play Saturday at 7 p.m. at Sophia First Baptist Church under direction by Mr and Mrs Jack Stovall. Background music by the Family Four Quartet and special singing by the church choir precede the play with other groups joining in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Freewill Baptist Church
Sophia First Baptist Church
Dewey Wilson
Jack Stovall
Family Four
French Williams
Freewill Church
Freewill Baptist Choir
Hatcher Quarter
Martin
18 Volunteer As Red Cross Gray Ladies Expands to Pine Lodge
Eighteen women volunteer as Gray Ladies at the Veterans Administration Hospital and Pine Lodge Nursing Home. A training session Tuesday in the Bank of Raleigh Community room covered Red Cross history, Gray Lady uniforms, and organization structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Pine Lodge
Veterans Administration Hospital
Bank of Raleigh
Deane Brooke
Raleigh County Red Cross
Robert Thomson Jr
Verne Tucker
Paul Barwood
Gray Lady Service
James Roberts
National Red Cross
K. D. Bowers
Staff Aide Service
Gray Lady
Lurch Thompson
Raleigh County
James Tanner
Veterans Hospital
R. C. Jones
Tanner
Kathryn Carrigan
Paul R. Copeland
Brooke, Beaver
Earwood
Beckey
Brooke Hall
Charles Lilly
Elsie Fagans
W. J. Barbour Jr
Fitzhugh L. Banks
Polly Tankersley
W. V. Riddle
Leon Houchins
Howard Slack
Rex Tolliver
Elton Pate
Crawford L. Wilson
Jesse A. James
Cullen Riffe
Jacob Scott
James E. Thompson
D. D. Holliday
G. Wayne Prince
Council Meet Tackles Loitering and Key Access
Town Council aired complaints about excess loitering at Town Hall and too many unauthorized keys in circulation. Mayor Cole was tasked to revoke all keys and reissue only to authorized personnel while noting ADC workers used the hall on cold days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
Roy Smith
Smith
Orville Duppee
Francis
Duppee
Leo Brrci
Alex Huybert
Sixteen students named for National Engineers Week honors
Seven more students were chosen to join 9 other Raleigh Fayette and Wyoming county high schools representatives for a February 18 banquet at Beckley Hotel Ballroom. Each school selects its top senior in math and physical science, and each will receive a pocket slide rule. The Appalachian Chapter sponsors the sixth annual awards program with the theme America’s Engineers Build for the Future.
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Beckley Hotel
Appalachian
West Virginia Society of Professional Engineers
Raleigh
Fayette
Wyoming
Appalachian Chapter
America
S. Austin Caperton
Caperton
Thhe
National Society of Professional Engineers
George Washington
United States
Mike Buffa
Mount Hope High School
Joe Buffa
Mount Hope
West Point
VPI
John Brady
Jackie Lee Epperly
Fayetteville High School
Hollis Epperly
Huse St
Fayetteville
West Virginia Institute of Technology
National Mathematics Association of America
Tommie Dove
Joan Hairston
Stratton High School
Annie Paige
Grant St
Joan
Future Homemakers of America
Future Teachers of America
Junior Red Cross Council
National Thespian Society
National Honour Society
Linus Pauling Chemistry
West Virginia State College
Charles R. Jones
Everett Lilly
Clear Fork
Burt Lilly
National Honor Society
West Virginia Club
M. E. Johnson
Eddie Lee Payne
Stoco ‘High School
C. C. Payne
Odd
Eddie
Raleigh-Wyoming Scholastic Press Assn
Stoco Smoke Signals
James Fink
West Virginia Story to film March 1 with Steven Hill
CBS and United Artists announce production on The West Virginia Story to depict automation in a coal town. Steven Hill will star, with filming set between Lincoln and Washington's birthdays or on March 1, extras from Stotesbury to be hired. The project may air as a special or as part of a CBS series for the 1963 64 season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Stotesbury
Columbia Broadcasting System
United Artists
Lincoln
Washington
Steven Hill
Michael Dann
CBS
Henry Spitz
United Artists Televi
Fred Coe
Local men listed in satisfactory condition after hospital admissions
Ed Hall of 305 Beaver Ave. is in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital after a heart attack admitted about 8 a.m. today. Ashby Harris, 42, of Danese, is in satisfactory condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital after an injury to his right leg when a motor he was lifting fell on it. admitted at 11:45 a.m. Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Hall
Beaver Ave
Raleigh General Hospital
Ashby Harris
Danese
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Commodities Distribution Open at Rock Creek and Shady Spring
Commodities will be distributed at Rock Creek from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Saturday, with Bill Blankenship urging heads of households to bring Social Security numbers. Additional helpings will be at Newton Meadows in Shady Spring Saturday and Monday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and recipients should bring their own containers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Creek
Bill Blankenship
Newton Meadows
Shady Spring
Army Enlists Five at Beckley Station for Fort Jackson Training
Five men enlisted at Beckley Recruiting Station and reported to Fort Jackson South Carolina for basic training. The enlistees include Jackie Lee Gardner of Switchback in aircraft maintenance Gary Stevens Finley of Bland in auto repair Robert Milton Hunter of Charleston in construction drafting Rennie R Wilson of Bluefield assigned to Fort Bragg and Clavel Furdie Bragg of White Oak in armor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Beckley
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Jackie Lee Gardner
Carmie Gardner
Gary Stevens Finley
Tyler Finley
Bland
Autio Repair
Robert Milton Hunter
Sherman Hunter
Charleston
Rennie R. Wilson
Carl Wilson
Bluefield
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Clavel Furdie Bragg
Furdie Bragg
White Oak
Armor
Uniform School Opening Dates Sought In Bill
A 1963 bill by Raleigh County delegates Mrs. W. W. Withrow and C. Berkley Lilly seeks a fixed statewide opening date for public schools. House Bill 328 would require the State Board of Education to set the annual start date, replacing county by county decisions that now vary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
W. W. Withrow
C. Berkley Lilly
Committee On Education
Withrow
Lilly
State Board of Education
Boards of Education
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W. P. Short
Mullens
Cheerleaders
Crah Archard
Glenn Ford
Hope Lange
Shadow OF the Cat
Barbara Shelley
William Lucas
T. L. Maynor
Paul Barewood
Richard Presley
O. H. Bose
Steve Solter
C. F. Bloch
Leeta Clemens
Council
James Taylor
Woodrow Wilson High School
Thomas A. Taylor
Lilly Heights Addition
West Virginia University
University of Cincinnati
M. G. Jarrell
David Webb
Marsh Fork High School
Kermit Webb
Bernard Gree
Uim
Tony J. Billings
Meadow Bridge
Gary Bowyer
Pineville
Clarence Brooks
Glen Rogers
Ewell Curtis
Woodrow Wilson
William C. Hoffman
Ansted
Madison W. Lowry Jr
Sophia
Earnest E. Okes
Milburn Rinehart
Larry Clay
Mark Twain
Natalie Wood
Richard Beymer
Russ Tamblyn
Rita Moreno
George Chakiris
Suet
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Glen White
Oral Farley
Roy Hendrick
Bob Cox
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