Laurel Garden Club Valentine Dinner Honors Members
Laurel Garden Club held a Valentine Dinner with Ray Bowling giving the invocation and M M Shumate welcoming. Pins were presented to Shumate and several members by Dr B W Steele. A mock style show featured Mrs Clyde Byrd directing with models including Mrs Roger Pritchett and others.
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Ray Bowling
M. M. Shumate
Cloyd Blankenship
Joe Cook
Vernon Lawson
James Kuhlke
Shumate
S. P
Roger Pritchett
Joseph Taylor
B. W. Steele
George Fordham
A. G. Gilreath
Charles Thrasher
Clyde Byrd
J. W. Arthur
Chinook Wind Named After Chinook Indians Origin
The warm dry wind blowing from the Rocky Mountains in winter and early spring is called a Chinook. It was named by early settlers who believed the wind came from the Chinook Indians near the Columbia River mouth.
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Rocky Mountains
The
Columbia
AEP System Goal Pledge to Customers
The AEP System aims to continually seek better electric service for all needs today and tomorrow. It commits to maintaining the highest quality service and to achieving this at the lowest possible cost.
Sweetheart Ball Set At Conley HS
The Conley High School Student Council sponsors its fourth annual sweetheart ball this Saturday from 8 p m to midnight. A Valentine king and queen will be crowned in ceremonies with the queen receiving a dozen long stemmed roses. Six couples representing each grade compete for the honors, last year's winners crown the new king and queen. The Dukes of Rhythm from Beckley provide music and the event is one of two major student council functions, the other being the spring banquet for athletes and honor students.
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A. Clemenceau Allen
Mrs. Stanley Cozort Feted With Shower
Mrs. Elbert Clay hosted a stork shower for Mrs. Stanley Cozort at the Clay home Friday night with hostesses Mrs. Clay and Mrs. Emnett Canada. Prizes went to Mrs. Frank Keaton, Mrs. Warren Lester, Mrs. John Canada, Mrs. Cecil Canada and Mrs. Clay. guests included multiple local residents from Maben and Hotchkiss, noting Mrs. Cozort’s prior name Dorothy Canada.
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Gloria Jean Canada
Carol Lester
Maben
Fred Tilley
Cecil Canada
Vern Clay
John Canada
Dennis Shumate
Peggy Tilley
Rachel Ann Clay
Hotchkiss
Delmar Ward
Frank Keaton
Glenna
Mary Ward
Billy Canada
Virgil Shumate
Governor Barron Leads Water Pollution Survey Tour
Gov. W. W. Barron will head a group of state and local officials on a water pollution survey tour of Raleigh and Wyoming Counties on April 5. He will be joined by State Natural Resources Director Warder M. Lane, members of the Water Resources Board, and the legislative committee on stream pollution in the Guyandotte basin. The tour ends with a public meeting in Mullens where Barron will be principal speaker.
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Charlestown
UPI
W. W. Barron
Raleigh
Wyoming
Barron
Warder. M. Lane
Water Resources Board
Guyandotte Basin
Mullens
England Denied Leave By Board For Re Election Campaign
Pineville RNS J Paul England a Pineville High School teacher and House of Delegates member had his request for a leave of absence to campaign for re election denied by the Wyoming County Board of Education at a Monday night session Leaves are not granted for campaigning The board approved a 1820 county agriculture budget Granted permission for Mullens Grade School exceptional children class to take a training pleasure trip to Bluefield with therapy chairwoman Mrs John Scoleri The Stephenson and Oceana classes may join similar trips A plan from the Woman's Club of Pineville to emphasize arts and music in county schools prompted board study and potential action before the next term Superintendent Kuhn suggested an art supervisor The board ruled unexpended bond funds must stay for their designated uses Teaching personnel actions included assignments substitutions transfers and leaves of absence with several personnel changes effective Jan 16 23 25 and 29 and a resignation Jan 25
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RNS
J. Paul England
Pineville High School
House of Delegates
Wyoming County Board of Education
Mullens
Blue
Robert E. Kuhn
Mary Etta Cook
Baileysville High School
Nita Vermillion
Ravencliff Weekend Guests RNS News Notes
Robert Lamb returned to Huntington after visiting his parents in Ravencliff. Guests included Hurley Blankenhip and their Princeton trip plans. Other weekend visitors were Mrs. Howard Ryatt of Logan and Shirley Lafferty who entered Wyoming General Hospital Thursday.
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Ravencliff
Robert Lamb
Orville Lamb
Huntington
Lamb
Hurley Blankenship
Princeton
Howard Ryatt
Logan
Price Lafferty
Shirley Lafferty
Wyoming General Hospital
Can
Aldo Descont
Charleston
Ward Stewart
Sherrill Pinson
Rufus Vaught
Glen
James Cole
Bob
Pate Brooks
Ida Clay
Soulsville
Bill King
Ft. Belvoir
George King
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