March of Dimes Chapter Faces 27000 Debt Despite Campaign
Faytte County March of Dimes meets in Oak Hill to discuss a 27000 owed to Marmet Hospital for polio patient treatment. So far 1960 campaign raised about 4000 with 1000 more expected, plus 2000 from Mothers’ March and funds from balloon sales, dance, and a basketball game. Donations still welcomed via the Oak Hill office.
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Oak Hill
ANS
Fayette County
March of Dimes
A. S. Bragg
Glen Jean
Marmet Hospital
March O’ Dimes
Marie Coffman
Montgomery
Kingston
Cime
Fayette
Coffman
Bragg
Sportsmen Club To Meet In Oak Hill Tonight
Fayette County Sportsmen Association will meet at 7 30 p m in Oak Hill City Hall. Speaker is Roger Schoumacher district forest Ranger Richwood. Group will discuss cooperating with the State Conservation Commission to create a lake in Fayette County similar to the Raleigh County project.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Fayette County
Fayette Youth Rally Held at Mount Hope Baptist Church
About 145 Fayette County youth attended the Fayetteville Baptist Church rally in Mount Hope. The program covered the Japanese Baptist Camp ToHaku with dedication of funds raised by BYF groups. Next rally set for March 8 at Mount Hope and a Recreation Lab is planned for Feb 20 at Mount Hope Temple led by Eber Bowles.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Fayette County
Fayetteville Baptist Church
Larry Bailes
Cotton Hill
Tohaku
Marvin Davis
W. M. Pennington
Harry R. Dias Jr
Harry Dias
Malinda Davis
Sarah Bergendahl
Martha Pennington
Martha Garvin
Jane Walker
Susie Humphrey
Mary Kathryn Mann
Carol Lynn Summers
Jerry Lewallen
Carl Lambert
Patsy Humphrey
Charles Kidd
Eddie Garrett
Faith In
Association
Mount Hope Baptist Temple
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Eber Bowles
The
Baptist Temple
Huntington
Four Held In Fayette B E The T and T Market Burglary
Four Boomer men aged 19 and 22 are held in Fayette County Jail for investigation into an early Sunday breaking and entering at the T and T Market. Missing items include 25 cartons of cigarettes four radios clothing and other merchandise. Officers found most of the loot in an outhouse at Lonnie Stevenson home.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette County
T and T
Boomer
J. Zane Summerfield
Lonnie Stevenson
James Miller
John Depriese
Albert Hayes
Summerfield
L. K. Toney
Gene Rader
Stevenson
Grocery Store Damaged By Fire in Pineville
The Mick or Mack Grocery Store in East Pineville was hit by a fire about 3 am on Tuesday. Three refrigerator compressors were gutted. the rest of the building was undamaged. Owner Robert Beavers credited the Pineville Fire Department with quick work and noted a call from a second floor occupant alerted him.
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Pineville
RNS
Mick Or Mack
East Pineville
Robert Beavers
Beavers
Church Men Will Hear H Maxwell at February Meeting
Henry Maxwell, new member of the First Presbyterian Church men’s organization in Oak Hill, will address the group on church member duties. He will share experiences from a revitalized church and tie his talk to the Church Loyalty contest tracking member attendance for a possible 126 point three month total.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Henry Maxwell
First Presbyterian Church
Maxwell
New Jersey
J. W. Hottle
Central Avenue
Ufe
J. Paul Bavely
Youth Sunday Observed at Oak Hill Church
Oak Hill Presbyterian Church marked Youth Sunday with a sermon by Ann Klapp and Suzanne Noyes titled God Speaks To Us. The junior choir conducted by Sandra Jarrett performed Let us See the World and Lord Speak to Me, with Hi-Y members from Collins High School as guests representing the YMCA driven Christian character program.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Ann Klapp
Suzanne Noyes
Oak Hill Presbyterian Church
Sandra Jarrett
Hi-Y
Collins High School
The
Young Men's Christian Association
Valentine Tea Held By Scouts
Mount Hope Intermediate Troop No. 2 Girl Scouts hosted a Valentine tea at Mount Hope Elementary School. Guests included council members and troop leaders. committees planned decorations, invitations, refreshments, and a Friendship Circle closed the meeting.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Julia Cochran
Brenda Trottino
Judy Stover
Pamela Gilliam
Ralph Dorsey
Max McClung
Don Sanford
Fayette County
Roberta Reed
Valentine
Troop No. 2
Max Tolliver
J. Sc. Gwinn
Parks To Speak At Council Meet In Oak Hill
W R Parks district supervisor for the new Federal Bureau of Mines building area Mount Hope will address the February Joseph A Holmes Safety Council meeting at City Hall at 7 30 p m The talk ties to the coal mining division National Safety Council campaign to reduce roof fall injuries in mines Clyde W Runions Lochgelly safety council urges mining interest to attend The program notes roof falls cause about 60 percent of 1959 mine deaths with 31 percent of underground fatalities in small title 1 mines employing 14 or fewer workers
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Oak Hill
RNS
W. R. Parks
Federal Bureau of Mines
Mount Hope
Joseph A. Holmes Safety Council
City Hall
Parks
National Safety Council
Clyde W. Runions
Lochgelly
Safety Council
State
Federal
Bureaus of Mines
United Mine Workers
Organizational Jaycee Meeting Slated Tonight
Oak Hill invites men ages 21 to 35 to a 7 30 p m meeting at the National Guard Armory to plan a Junior Chamber of Commerce chapter. Temporary president James Lively says 20 signatures are needed for charter approval. Upper Kanawha Valley Jaycees assist.
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Oak Hill
ANS
National Guard
Chamber of Commerce
James Lively
Oak Hill Insurance
National Organization For Young Men
Oak Hill Jaycee
Okey L. Patteson National Guard
Jaycee
John Fox
John Donachy
Royal Oak Press
Beckley Jaycees
Upper
Kanawha Valley
Jaycees
Lively
Bill Nichols
Sam Fox
Huddleston to address Oak Hill Rotarians on Iran stay
Edward Huddleston visiting Oak Hill will speak to the Rotary Club at 6 15 p m at Hotel Hill about his 18 month stay in Iran. He and his wife and daughter Mary have returned home while his Morrison Knudsen International Construction team built access roads to a Dez River dam site funded by the World Bank.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Edward Huddleston
Hotel Hill
Iran
Huddleston
Mary
Middle East
Willia Mae Huddleston
Washington Avenue
Morrison-Knudsen International Construction
Dez
World Bank
Walter Kominsky
E. H. VanHoose
Oak Hill Club
Rotary International
Miami
Fla
Boone Case Certified To Supreme Court
A Boone County damage suit over mining effects on a mountainside was certified to the Supreme Court. Harold and Gene Thompson sue Shonk Land Co Garison Coal Co and Dorothy Mining Corp for 7500 claiming altered stream flow and other damage. The lower court held 1952 deed reservations did not permit the mining acts without liability.
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Charleston
Boone County
Supreme Court
Harold
Gene Thompson
Boone Circuit Court
Shonk Land Co
Garrison Coal Co
Dorothy Mining Corp
Thompsons
Ferndale
Sherman
Thompson
Missing Fayette Girl Found Safe In Fayette County
Fayette County Sheriff's office reports Betty Ward fifteen from Summerlee was located by a deputy at the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Station in Thurmond and returned home after being reported missing over the weekend.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette County
Boone Candidate Dinner Highlighting Democratic Candidacy
A Boone County Democratic Candidates Dinner is set in Madison at the Memorial Building this Saturday. U S Senators Gruening and Randolph will share speaking honors, with Randolph campaigning for re election to the U S Senate and Gruening assisting the party. Attorney General Bar r on also plans to attend as a gubernatorial candidate.
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Madison
RNS
Boone County
Madison Memorial Building
U. S
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Jennings
Randolph
West Virginia
U. S. Senate
Gruening
W. W. Barron
West Virginia Lions Clubs
Congress
Fire Damages Wyoming Home in Series of Blazes
The Oceana Volunteer Fire Department raced to a stove fire at the Thornsburg home in Lynce causing about 1500 dollars in damage. the couple, married last week, escaped with minimal loss due to neighbor action. Earlier fires destroyed a Clear Fork house owned by Conley Dean valued at 4000 dollars with no insurance, and a Davin residence on a faulty flue rating 10000 dollars, with furnishings worth 8000 dollars partially insured. Bailey cites ongoing issues with an old phone number and notes a meeting at Town Hall at 5:30 pm with a telephone official and the mayor to address the system change.
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Oceana
RNS
Harold Thornsburg
Lynce
Oceana Volunteer Fire Department
Lewis Breedean
Thornsburys
Conley Dean
Clear Fork
Dean
Bailey
Davin
Joe Parton
Fire Department
Town Hall
Telephone Company
Lilly to Represent Glen Rogers at Engineers Week Banquet
Larry Lilly a 17 year old Glen Rogers High School senior with straight A grades for four years will represent his school at the Engineers Week Banquet at the Beckley Hotel on February 22. He is active in Hi Y Tri M Society Student Council band Honor Society Future Teachers of America and marching and concert bands.
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Glen Rogers
Larry Lilly
Glen Rogers High School
Beckley Hotel
Larry
Joe Lilly
Ravencliff
Tri- M Society
Future Teachers of America
Notable Student Plans Chemical Engineering Career
The student recalls participation in Your State Government Day and Boy's State last year and being a National Merit semifinalist. He aims to study chemical engineering at West Virginia University after high school graduation.
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West Virginia University
Miss Clara Hiser Injured in Pax School Fall
Pax resident Miss Clara Hiser daughter of the Rev and Mrs Homer Hiser was treated and released at Beckley Memorial Hospital for a broken vertebrae after a fall on a Pax School flight of steps Sunday.
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Pax
Clara Hiser
Homer Hiser
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Family Escapes Unhurt In Wreck In Ohio
Keith Billups of Cleveland and his family escaped injury when his car lost control at Princeton and struck a bridge abutment. They were traveling to Pax to visit relatives and to Bluefield to see the Boles family. Vehicle damage was about 350 dollars. The wife, son John Keith, and nieces Kathy and Karen Boles stayed at relatives’ home. Billups returned to Cleveland by train on Sunday.
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Pax
RNS
Keith Billups
Cleveland
Ohio
Princeton
Ernest Billups
Bluefield
Mack Boles
Billup
John Keith
Kathy
Karen Boles
Sunny
Son Born to Mr and Mrs Jackie Coleman Pax
Mr and Mrs Jackie Coleman announce the birth of their first child a son named Jody Aaron born at noon Monday in Oak Hill hospital. The baby weighed six pounds 11 and one half ounces. The mother is Karen Janney daughter of Amos and Mrs Janney Pax. The father is Roy Billings son of Mr and Mrs Roy Billings Long Branca.
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Pax
Jackie Coleman
Jody Aaron
Oak Hill Hospital
Karen Janney
Amos Janney
Roy _ Billings
Long Branca
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Robert Gresham
R. P. Robertson
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
Danny Davis
Morgantown
Sandra Sturgill
Loraine Lamb
Brenda Shaver
Morgan Hotel
Louis Kaman
Council
Rotarians
Boone
Boone Candidate
Wyoming
L. Lilly
Boll
Danny Pyy
Copryedd Kendre, Geattree of
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Jim, Rennet Pam Efayge
Roy
Gorrells
Iron Range
Kenneth Gorrell
Appalachian Power Company
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