BYF Rally Brings 132 Attendees to Oceana Church
The Rock Castle Association Baptist Youth Fellowship rally drew 132 BYF'ers, advisers, and guests to Oceana First Baptist Church. Guest speaker Rev. Bobby Morgan spoke on Vision and the importance of applying Christian principles early in life. Song leadership, scripture reading, and meditations were provided by church members as attendees from multiple area churches gathered for the event.
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Oceana
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Rockcastle Association Baptist Youth Fellowship
Oceana First Baptist Church
Bobby Morgan
First Church of God
Road Branch
D. D. Elwell
Cook Memorial Baptist Church
Pineville
Linda Davis
Mount Hope Residents Update From varied Army and College Posts
Mt Hope residents report moves and visits as Capt. N K Williams Jr and family live in Hollywood while he attends UC Berkeley. Mrs Williams is former Carol White of Mount Hope. Other notes include Mrs Gene Daniels joining her husband at Fort Knox, Mrs Pauline Hart with her husband in Fort Knox, and Edith Sneed recovering after a heart attack. J C Painter visits, Kilsyth and Concord College ties noted, plus Sunday guests of Robert Dower and a wedding announcement for Peggy Puskas to Tommy Bracey in Washington.
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Mount Hope
Rns
N. K. Williams Jr
Jane Ann
Linda Leigh
Dianna
Susan Dawn
Hollywood
Calif
University of California
Williams
Air Force Base
Kanasas City
Carol White
Gene Daniels
Fort Knox
Ada Bowden
Charleston
Fred Thompson Jr
Main Street
Graney
Pauline Hart
Edith Sneed
Don Wall
Deana
Dana
la Mirada
Daphna Painter
Kilsyth
Wall
Dixie Painter
Peggy Puskas
Anthony Puskas
Tommy Bracey
Washington, D. C
Rob Martin
Bill Martin
Beckley College
Lucy Howell
Stadium Terrace
B. J. Butler
Wisconsin Historical Society Drops 18 Inactive Chapters
The Wisconsin Historical Society decided over the weekend to drop 18 chapters that have been inactive for as long as 530 years.
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Milwaukee
UPI
The
Wisconsin Historical Society
Homemaker of Tomorrow named at Fayetteville High School
Miss Theresa Glee Beni of Fayetteville High School tops homemaking exam to become 1962 State Homemaker of Tomorrow. She earns a $1,500 General Mills scholarship with a chance for national titles and travel with her school advisor to New York City, Washington, Williamsburg, and beyond. Theresa is the daughter of Mrs. Catherine Irene Beni and the late Felix Beni.
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Fayetteville
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Theresa Glee Beni
Fayetteville High School
Beni
General Mills
New York City
Washington, D. C
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg
Theresa
Catherine Irene Beni
Felix Beni
Christian Missions in South America Topic at WSCS Meeting
Pineville RNS The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Service at First Methodist Church discussed Christian Missions in South America. President Mrs O E Wilks announced books Jesus and the Twelve ordered for sale by each circle. Members approved a $10 extra medical supplies donation and book purchases for Bible studies. Hostesses served refreshments to 22 members.
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Pineville
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Christian Missions In
South America
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Fellowship Hall
First Methodist Church
T. G. Morgan
C. H. Mathena
A. C. Swimm
O. E. Wilks
Jesus
John B. Thomas Jr
United Church Women
Presbyterian Church
Harold Griffith
Clarence Long
Vaughan Stewart
Clifftop Scouts Awarded at Court of Honor
At Troop 253 Court of Honor in Clifftop last week, Scoutmaster Blucher Allison presented awards to Greg Turner Butch Allison Dennis Lester Larry Cool first class. Jack Feltner Tony Malay Jimmy Spurlock Herschel Fugate second class. James Anderson Freddy Tolly Gary Stull Billy McGraw tenderfoot. Gary Stull new Scout. Dennis Lester Butch Allison Greg Turner Johnny Simms merit badges in first aid Don Stull Larry Cool Butch Allison chemistry. The honorees include Willard Lester George Feltner Junior Fugate Jimmy Spurlock Tony McVey Billy McGraw and Leonard and Freddy Tolly. Roy Stull taught the first aid merit badge class and a group demonstration was held.
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Clifftop
Blucher Allison
Greg Turner
Butch Allison
Dennis Lester
Larry Cool
Jack Feltner
Tony Malay
Jimmy Spurlock
Herschel Fugate
James Anderson
Freddy Tolly
Gary Stull
Billy McGraw
Tenderfoot
Johnny Simms
Don Stull
Willard Lester
George Feltner
Junior Fugate
Tony McVey
Leon
Ard
Roy Stull
Pupils Send Valentines To Mexican Teacher
McGRAWS RNS The third graders at John McGraw Grade School are glad to give a valentine box to Miss Esperanza Lopez the Mexican exchange teacher who visited the school Thursday They prepared a decorated box and each pupil added a valentine to show how the box works Miss Lopez left Wyoming County for Charleston Monday after a month visiting Wyoming County Schools observing teaching procedures
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John Meredith Jr
Miss Lopez
Wyoming County
Charleston
Womanhood Week Guest Speaker Set by Bluefield Zetas
Miss Lucy Thornton of West Point a Hampton Institute graduate and Howard University Law School student will speak at the Theta Zeta Chapter Finer Womanhood Program Sunday at 11 a.m. at John Stewart Methodist Church Jones Street Bluefield. She worked through college balancing sorority activity and travel to Cuba after the Castro Revolution and was selected for the 1959 Southern Student Human Relations Seminar at Illinois. She has supported the Student Christian Association and appeared on TV network. Youths and public invited.
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Bluefield
Lucy Thornton
West Point
Hampton Institute
Howard University Law School
Theta Zeta
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc
John Stewart Methodist Church
Jones St
Miss Thornton
Cuba
Hampton Student Council
Southern
University of Illinois
Student Christian Association
Nine Men Enlist at Pineville Recruiting Station
Nine men enlisted in the Army at the Pineville Recruiting Station during January per Sgt. Clarence Snyder. Names include Seaford McClanahan Sabine Clarence E. Tilley Donald R. Snow Bobby W. Sizemore Franklin Graham William F. Cox James W. Frank Denver C. Fortner and Richard L. Lusk, with assignments ranging from combat engineers to Military Police and airborne. All were sent to Ft. Jackson South Carolina reception.
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Pineville
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Army
Clarence Snyder
Seaford McClanahan
Sabine
Clarence E. Tilley
Regular Army
Donald R. Snow
Mullens
Armory
Bobby W. Sizemore
Alpeca
Combat Engineers
Franklin Graham
Lillydale
William F. Cox
Military Police
James W. Frank
Gunman Sought After Pineville Service Station Shooting
Officers seek a mysterious shotgun shooter who fired two rounds through a plate glass window at Grove's Pure Oil Station in Pineville around 3 am. No entry attempt found. an inside door was riddled in the wake of the incident.
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Pineville
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Grove
Former San Salvador Missionary To Speak At Fayetteville Church
Evalena McCutcheon of Summersville will be guest speaker at Fayetteville First Baptist Church on Wednesday at 6 30 p m. She speaks on the School of Missions theme Our Christian Mission in Latin America. McCutcheon, a West Virginia native, led Colegio Bautista in San Salvador from 1926 to 1960 and earned El Salvador’s highest civilian award on retirement.
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Fayetteville
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Evalena McCutcheon
Summersville
Fayetteville First
Denison University
Baptist Missionary Training School
The
Baptist Missionary
San Salvador
Colegio Bautista
el Salvador
C. A
Former Mental Patient Stabs Mother To Death
Roy ee Dillow 26 of Montcalm admitted stabbing his mother Laura Dillow 62 to death with a butcher knife on Sunday after the Lord told him to kill her. State Police say he stomped her face and stabbed her 13 times then told neighbors what he had done. Preliminary hearing scheduled.
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Bluefield
UPS
Roy ~Ee
Dillow
Montcalm
State Police
Ed Guthrie
Guthrie
Grace Kelly
Jean Cooper Honored at Birthday Party on Price Hill
Jean Cooper was honored with a 2 p.m. Saturday party at her parents home for her seventh birthday anniversary. Hostesses were Mrs. Le land Cooper and Miss Jane Lee Cooper. Attendees included Jeanie Massey June Matheny Freda Cox Judy Ward and Janet Matheny.
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Price Hill
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Jean Cooper
Leland Cooper
Cooper
Jane Lee Cooper
Jeanie Massey
June Matheny
Freda Cox
Judy Ward
Janet Matheny
Willing Workers 4-H Club Meets with County Agent Plumley
Roscoe Plumley county agricultural agent and 4-H director spoke on gardening with emphasis on vegetables and small fruits at the Willing Workers 4-H Club meeting. Members viewed a gardening film, discussed fair trips, and conducted pledges devotions and demonstrations.
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Rose Tolliver
Daisy Smith
Pete Shumate
Sandra Smith
Julie Vaught
Sandra Clay
Robby Sizemore
Jachie Vaught
Frankie Acord
John Perry
Jackie Clay
Recreations
Patricia McGraw
Rose Marie Shumate
Moose Women Hear TB Report at Moose Hall
The Moose Women chapter No. 190 met at Moose Hall with senior regent Georgia Frank presiding. Members planned a steak dinner for the nominating committee and the annual payees dinner, observed Hospital Chapter Night, and reported flowers sent to hospitalized members and funds donated for a needy patient. Kathleen Bradbury, county TB association secretary, updated on the TB Seal appeal. one new member enrolled.
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Kathleen Bradbury
County Tb Association
Beekeeping Bill Aims to Separate Foreign Bees
A House agriculture subcommittee approved a bill to empower the Agriculture Department to keep foreign honeybees from associating with American bees. Experts testified that foreign bees can carry a mite that could wipe out the American honeybee.
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Washington
UPI
House Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Scout-O-Rama Planned By Post in Pineville
Explorer Post No. 154 met in Pineville Legion Hall with 35 members and 6 adults. Jim Hedinger led, distributing cards. Ned Crews reported, and sergeants at arms were designated as flag keepers. The charter arrival will be presented by Pineville Lions Club. Scout-O-Rama tickets go on sale in early March for Kopperston. The group planned church visits, a grounds cleanup, and discussed finances for handbooks. Officers meet Sunday. next post meeting February 19.
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Pineville
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Explorer Post No. 154
Legion Hall
Jim Hedinger
Ned Crews
Dewey McKinney
First Methodist
Rockcastle
Church of the Nazarene
Cook Memorial Baptist
Victor Pais
Clarence Snyder
Ernie Hays
Sgt. Snyder
U. S Army
Welch
Robert Bailey
Jerry Bledsoe
Kenny Bowles
Everette Bowling
Grady Bowyer
John Scoleri
Glen Green
Post
Wallace Nobel
Randall Aliff
Ray Altizer
Danny Blankenship
Daniel Bledsoe
Jerry Downard
Jeff Caudill
Emmette Church
James Cook
Johnny Daniels
James Fatony
Sam Foster
Larry Green
Randy Holton
Ronald Hosch
Bobby Jenkins
David Looney
Bill Manning
Robert McKinney
Benny Noble
James Oliver
Ned Rogers
Lewis Sturm
Lloyd Swetnam
Gilmer Leads West Virginia In Highway Fatalities
Five rural counties posted the state’s highest highway fatality ratios with Gilmer County at six deaths and a ratio of 74.5. Braxton, Jackson, Pocahontas and Clay followed, while Kanawha had 43 deaths but a lower ratio of 17. West Virginia tallied 371 traffic deaths in 1961, up from 359 in 1960, with drunken driving involved in 94 fatalities. Kanawha led in total deaths. Wirt County had no fatalities for the second straight year.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Department of Public Safety
Gilmer County
Braxton County
Jackson County
Pocahontas County
Clay County
Kanawha County
Wirt County
Pineville junior class orders 75 rings for graduation
Principal Jesse W Houck reports about 75 members of Pineville High School's junior class ordered their class rings. The standard Minuteman rings will be ready for distribution in the summer or early fall, featuring a fold Minuteman on a black pearl ruby or blue stone, as in prior years.
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Pineville
RNS
Jesse W. Houck
COLONAID Promises 3 Way Relief For Aging Colon
An aging colon weakens propulsion of waste causing dry hard stools. Doctors cite a new laxative principle COLONAID offering three actions: prevent dry waste, rebulk and retone colon muscles, and gently stimulate lower colon reflexes. Claimed to relieve constipation overnight, safe for expectant mothers and not interfering with nutrient absorption. Introductory size 43.
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New Colonaid
Colonald
Fayette Dentist Speaks At Assembly In Fayetteville
Dr Edward H Warfield spoke at Fayetteville Elementary School on National Children’s Dental Health Week. He showed a film program, urged prompt dental care, proper brushing, diet, fluoride in water, and regular visits. Students in grades 1 6 are asked to submit jingles on dental health with prizes for best entry per grade.
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Fayetteville
ANS
Edwin H. Warfield
Assn
PTA
Warfield
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