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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1960
Page
6
A city wide preaching mission launches Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Mount Hope School auditorium and continues daily through March 6. Sponsored by the Mount Hope Ministerial Association, the series features Romans 1 16 as its theme. Services will rotate churches each day with an offering collected only on Sunday evenings.
Oak Hill Cub Scout Pack 126 hosts its 10th Blue and Gold Banquet at Collins High School cafeteria starting 6:30 p.m. The event honors members and adult leaders with corsages for den mothers and service pins for leaders. Notables include Dr. Harry Duncan and Charles Knotts. Rev. Draper to give the invocation. J. K. Gallaher as toastmaster. The program aims to last about 90 minutes.
Dr. C. H. Patterson of Westminister Presbyterian Bluefield will speak in the Mount Hope area. The announcement came from Mrs. W. G. Callaway world mission chairman of Mount Hope Presbyterian Church.
Bargain Days organized by the Oceana Rotary Club run Thursday through Saturday with local merchants promoting sales. The Oceana Woman’s Club hosts a spaghetti supper Saturday 5 to 7 30 p m at Kopperston Recreation Building with proceeds to Laurel Park Swimming Pool. Co chairs are Mrs Otis Cook Mrs Virginia Price and Mrs Earl Wilson. The front page sales paper notes it may be the last chance to buy a Laurel Park Swimming Pool family pass for 30 dollars as time payment is withdrawn.
Evangelistic services at First Church Oceana begin Friday at 7 30 p m led by Rev Al Tedder from St Petersburg Florida He will travel to Cincinnati Ohio where he will continue his mission after the Oceana event.
Miss Gladys Bary president of Fayetteville Woman's Club receives official call to the 54th annual West Virginia Federation of Woman's Clubs convention set for March 17 to 19 at The Greenbrier. Local delegates include Miss Eary and Mrs. A L Huddleston with vice president Mrs. Carl B Vickers planning one day. Southwestern District hosts with Mrs. Robert P Van Blaricom as chairman.
Oak Hill Baptist Church Men's Fellowship will host a Friday meeting with guest speaker Don Alderson an engineer with the West Virginia State Road Commission The event follows a dinner in Fellowship Hall John Daniels of Oak Hill chairs the Men s Fellowship Rev Randolph F Johnson the church pastor will conduct the singing
Rainbow Girls plan Heart Fund Drive for Sunday with assembly members meeting at 1 p.m. in White Shrine Hall. Miss Linda Trail presided at the Monday gathering and a practice session is set for 7 p.m. at the hall. Next meeting is March 14 at 7 p.m. Attending Eastern Star and Masons included Mrs. Pugh, Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Dwaddle, the mother advisor, Mr. Cope, Milton Winston, and Robert Williams.
Brenda Louise Stewart celebrated her 13th birthday with a party at her Rockview home. Hosts Mrs. Dennis, Mrs. Carmel Hill, and Miss Rita Stewart organized games and refreshments for attendees from Pineville, Rockview, Matheny, New Richmond, and nearby areas.
J E McKinney of Mullens High School is a finalist in the 1959 60 National Merit Scholarship Corp competition. The 17 year old, president of the National Honor Society, Hi Y Club chaplain and WVU electrical engineering student nominee, earned a merit certificate and high test scores. The program awards four year stipends based on need and achievement.
Mrs. C. R. Hill of Highland Avenue is selected by the Oak Hill Elementary PTA as West Virginia Mother of the Year. The four children and nine grandchildren highlight her community service roles with the Daughters of Colonial Wars and the American Revolution, the Red Cross, and Girl Scouts while she helps organize local civic groups.
Road Commissioner Patrick ot Graney announced Baker Edward Lyon of Keyser as Mineral County maintenance superintendent. Lyon assumed duties Feb. 15 succeeding Earl Kemp who resigned Feb. 5 to run for Mineral Sheriff. Lyon had served as assistant maintenance superintendent since June 1957.
Four Arlington residents Judy Blevins Justine Cook Jerry Bailey and Claude Bailey depart Glen Fork for positions in Washington D C after weekend with families. They are the children of local residents and will work in the federal capital.
LOGAN AP Four men accused in the theft of 6000 dollars worth of blasting caps have been bound to the May term of the Logan County Grand Jury. Daniel Boone Simpkins and Lloyd Mullins of Accoville Lloyd Hatfield of Lundale and Claude Spurlock of Big Creek were freed Tuesday on 500 dollars bond after a preliminary hearing. They face charges of breaking and entering Amherst Coal Co Slagle and Island Creek Coal Co on specified dates. Sheriff E A McDonald said deputies recovered all but seven or eight of the 64 cases taken.
Mount Hope Commandry No. 22 Knights Templar holds its annual dinner at 6 15 p m Thursday in the dining room FR A special conclave at the Masonic Hall follows to confer the Orders of Malta and Red Cross for a large class of new candidates Commander James P Allen urges all to attend Refreshments after the meeting.
RNS report from Pineville says Mr. and Mrs. Junior Lilly and Mrs. J. L. Harmon hosted a Baptist Youth Fellowship gathering at Rockcastle Baptist Church on Friday. Members in attendance included Greta Browning Brenda Barrett Christine Brooks Priscilla Belcher Jean Stewart Sandra Hill Donna Lilly Linda Lilly Caroline Cooper Patty Cooper Anita Workman Ralph Stewart Claude Stewart Ronnie Ellison E. I. Hill Jr Frank Birchfield Jim Belcher Vern Ellison Alvin Johnson Jerry Stafford Skippy Stafford Danny Pack and Rev L B James.
A stork shower Friday at Mars Chilton home honored Mrs. J Earl Wipperman was co hostesses Virginia Morgan Earl Toler Kethel Stewart Hattie Maynor attended. Gifts were opened from a long list of local ladies including Mrs George Cook Kethel Stewart Florida Privett Harold Maynor Elbert Maynor Vivian Blanken ship Virginia Morgan Earl Toler Mayma Short ridge Philip Goins and many others.
President Eisenhower invites Charles R. Blosser Jr. of the West Virginia Institute of Technology to the President's Conference on Occupational Safety in Washington March 1 to 3. He heads the Tech industrial arts department as over 3,000 leaders from industry labor health and government will attend to reduce on the job deaths and injuries.
Mount Hope High School delegates to Know Your State Government Day are Margaret Sutphin and Denny Criss. The event in Charleston starts Monday with a 10 a.m. session at the State Capitol House chamber, presided by Dr. Richard E. Shearer. The program features a keynote by Dr. Carl Frasure, a 12 p.m. luncheon, and an open house at the Charleston headquarters.
The Wyoming County Circuit Court Grand Jury returned 23 indictments Tuesday including 3 misdemeanors and 20 felonies. Names include Charles Jerome Johnson Jr Kopperston armed robbery. Garland Perdue grand larceny. Gary Cook grand larceny car theft. Bobby Sowards and Roger Hamilton grand larceny and theft. Sentences and dates vary with guilty pleas and court dates through March and April.
Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce invites members and prospects to a 12 15 p m luncheon Thursday in the Hotel Hill club dining room. President Otho Ray calls the first general meeting since taking office with no formal program planned for the Dutch treat affair.
Bay's Buick, Inc. sues Herman D. Shumate for $2891.20 in Wyoming County Circuit Court. case filed February 17. plaintiff was represented by D. Grove Moler of Mullens. Also noted: Herbert Morgan sues Luther Day for $286.37.
Barbara Joyce Easter and A lC Rodney Sanders were married in a single ring ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday at Independent Baptist Church Glen Fork. The couple will reside in Denver Colorado where Sanders will be stationed.
Mrs. Johnny Carper was honored at a combined household and stork shower Friday at Mrs. F. A. McClellan home. Co hosts included Mrs. James Murray Mrs. William Lush Mrs. Millard Hatfield and Mrs. Alvin Hendricks with a long list of guests.
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