Wyoming County High School Science Fair Set In Mullens
The third annual Wyoming County High School Science Fair takes place Friday and Saturday at Mullens High School auditorium with about 45 local projects and 35 from Ben Dunman. Judging runs 4 to 7 p.m. Friday by a Concord College committee. Winners will be named in physical and biological science divisions with multiple placing awards. Public viewing is 1 to 10 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Superintendent Jesse W. Morgan will address winners at 9 p.m. Friday. County fair winners may enter the Bluefield regional fair April 9 to 11.
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Wyoming High School
Mullens
RNS
Wyoming County
Jesse W. Morgan
Bluefield
Mrs. Kenneth Cooper Honored At Shower
Lillydale RNS report notes Mrs Kenneth Cooper was honored with a stork shower by the Ladies Aid of Lilly Haven Baptist Church at the residence of Mrs Bob Frazier. Prizes went to Mrs Dewey Lafferty Mrs James Acord Mrs Roy Trent and Miss Sue Cooper. Out of town guests included several named Coop ers and Miss Yvonne Harless from Logan.
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Lillydale
RNS
Kenneth Cooper
Lilly Haven Baptist Church
Bob Frazier
Dewey Lafferty
James Acord
Roy Trent
Sue Cooper
Luther Vance
Lola Clay
James C. Acord
Wandall Morgan
Waldo Cook
Jerry Lusk
George Taylor
K. C. Griffith
Wayne Graham
Jim Frazier
Ladd Jasper
Oscar Blankenship
J. B Brooks
Wylie Byrd
Henry Allen
Jim Stepp
Linda Cooper
Billy Joe Cooper
Edna Cooper
Marriana
Yvonne Harless
Logan
Mossy Woman Honored With Stork Shower At Mossy
Mrs Roy Payne Mossy was honored with a stork shower Friday night at her mother in law Minnie Payne s residence Hostesses included Mrs Dallas Rinehart Mrs Homer Powell Mrs Billy Aliff and Mrs Lacy Payne Attendees included Mrs Claude Legg of Oak Hill Mrs Jessie Smith Mrs Eugene W olford of Beards Fork and several others including Mrs O N Tichenor and Miss Sandra Payne
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Claude Legg
Oak Hill
Jessie Smith
Eugene Wolford
Beards Fork
O. N Tichenor
Cethas Miller
Hope Tichenor
Drema Pinkerton
Maggie Aliff
Elbert
Sandra Payne
Jew Aliff
Rushie Stover
The Owl Newspaper Staff Gears Up for March Issue
Miss Elizabeth Williams sponsors Glen Rogers High School The Owl as a noon activity. Editor Robbie Tolliver leads with assistant editors Betty Tackett and Camden Cook. Sports editor Roger Stone joins Delmar Gentry. society editor Dix Tolliver. humor editors Darla Canada Kenny Sizemore. Junior class prepares for May issue to learn the process.
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Elizabeth Williams
Glen Rogers High
The
Owl
Betty Tackett
Camden Cook
Robbie Tol
Liver
the Owl
Marion Brooks
Roger Stone
Delmar Gentry
Dix Tolliver
Darla Canada
Kenny Sizemore
Iroquois Residence Destroyed By Blaze
A house in Mullens was destroyed and a second structure damaged by overnight fires. Bill Brehm woke to smoke from a furnace in a utility room, escaped in his underwear, and reported no insurance. Firefighters from Mullens contained the blaze with help from neighbors, with later alarms at the Harmee Hollow home of Ella Billings. Damages were not extensive.
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Mullens
RNS
Bill Brehm
Brelwn
Billy Cook
Mullens Volunteer Fire Dept
Semet Solvay
Brehm
Tralee
Mullens Fire Department
Iroquois
Glen Hoge
Larry Steele
Cook
Harmee Hallow
Ella Billings
Billings
Beartown Couple Welcomes Six-Pound Son at Grace Hospital
A son weighing six pounds one ounce was born to Mr and Mrs Melvin Steele of Beartown at 3 30 am Saturday in Grace Hospital Welch.
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Beartown
RNS
Melvin Steele
Grace Hospital
Welch
Singing Convention at Carbondale Church Set
The Fayette County Singing Convention will be held at Carbondale Baptist Church near Smithers on Sicday at 2 pm, announced Kari Taylor secretary treasurer.
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Carbondale
Fayette County
Carbondale Baptist Church
Smithers
Kari Taylor
Lilly Heaven Personals Update of Local Visits and Guests
Sgt and Mrs Vaughn Quinn of New Cumberland PA visit her parents Mr and Mrs B H Yates. Harold Gene Yates and Richard Yates in the Air Force visited grandparents. Mr and Mrs B H Yates hosted son Gene Yates and family at Itmann. Sunday guests included Rev Robert Miller Coal Mountain Lloyd League and James Miller Lynco. Mrs Ross Jones and grandson Butch Price visited her son James Jones Beckley and her mother Flora Canterbury Coal City. John Jones in Hinton on business. Donna Lambert visited Sharon Jones Beckley. David Price stayed with grandparents Garfield Price Ravencliff. Mr and Mrs Rayborn Holliway guests of Sam Laxton family. A J Ruth and family with Jim Lewis and sons Jimmy Billy Tommy. Mabscott and Mrs Frank Worrell ill at home. Roy Elkins and sons Sundy David Jeffery visited. Mrs Ross Jones visited Mr and Mrs Bill Lambert. Sunday guests of Russell Lewis included Jim Lewis and sons Mabscott, Ruby Lewis and Blanch Blankenship Oceana.
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Lilly Haven
RNS
Vaughn Quinn
New Cumberland
B. H. Yates
Harold Gene Yates
Richard Yates
Air Force
Gene Yates
Itmann
Roy Elk
Garfield Price
Ravencliff
Rayborn Holliway
Sam Laxton
A. J. Ruth
Jim Lewis
Jimmy
Billy
Tommy
Mabscott
Frank Worrell
Roy Elkins
Sundy
David
Ae Jeffery
Ross Jones
Bill Lambert
Russell Lewis
Ruby Lewis
Blanch Blankenship
Oceana
Lynco Personalities and Local Visits Highlight Week
Mrs Jewell McPeak stayed with son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Sonny Schuman last week. Miss Drema League visited Mrs Ruby Jones Beckley Saturday. Lloyd League was guest of Mr and Mrs Bill Lambert and family Turkey Dip Friday. Harold McPeak returned from Stevens Clinic Hospital Welch after two weeks as patient.
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LYNCO
RNS
Jewell MccPeak
Sonny Schuman
Drema League
Ruby Jones
Beckley
Lloyd League
Bill Lambert
Harold MecPeak
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Mrs E Lilly Taken By Death
Elizabeth Lilly 67 died 11 15 p m Tuesday in a Hinton hospital after a two year illness. She was a lifelong Pipestem District resident and Primitive Baptist Church member. Survived by husband G Edward Lilly six sons and four daughters plus two brothers and a sister. Funeral Friday 2 p m Pipestem Knob Primitive Baptist Church burial at family cemetery
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Elizabeth Lilly
Hinton
Summers County
Overton
Millie Hubbard Shumate
Pipestem
Primitive Baptist Church
G. Edward Lilly
Clarence
Edward
Everett
Charles
Arnold
Baltimore
Milton
Irvine
Mae Houchins
Drema Allen
Eva Keaton
Ruby Keaton
Pipestein
Joe Shumate
Jennings Shumate
South Webster
Ohio
Laura Gravely
Beckley
Pipestem Knob Primitive Baptist Church
A. L. Neely
Owen Harvey Buria
Ronald Meadows
Legion Unit To Meet Monday
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 106 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Legion Home on Moran Avenue. President Mrs Bernard Vaught urged all members to attend due to important business to be acted upon.
Benefit Supper in Pineville Supports Crippled Children
A spaghetti supper at Cook Memorial Baptist Church Pineville 5 30 to 7 30 p m Saturday benefits the Wyoming Chapter of the Crippled Children's Society carried out by the church women per chairman John B Thomas. In Coal Mountain a daughter weighing six pounds nine ounces was born Saturday at Welch Emergency Hospital to Mr and Mrs Frank Morgan.
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Pieville
BNS
Cook Memorial Baptist Church
Pineville
Wyoming
The
Crippled Children’s Society
John B. Thomas
COAL
School Levy Would Abolish Tag Days
Raleigh County boards vote to abolish tag days via a special levy funded by a 1959 election. Sherman Trail explains buses, retirements set at 65 for staff, and a June 1959 bid for eight new 66 passenger buses. A recreation park behind Sylvia Elementary is approved for summer supervision.
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Raleigh
Sherman C. Trail
Board of Education
Strake Walker
Everett R. Shafer
Beckley Recreation Board
Sylvia Elementary
South Kanawha Street
Recreation Board
Raleigh County
Riffe
Trail
Mason Anderson
Mary A. Null Named Fayetteville Best Citizen
Mary Ann Null, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Null, selected as Fayetteville High School Best Citizen by the senior class. An all A student, she holds roles in National Honor Society Thespian Troupe No 487 student council Pen Pal Club Pirate Peeper and school annual. active in band county band Rhododendral Girls State class play lead sophomore year and 1955 county science fair chemistry second place. Member of Gatewood Baptist Church youth fellowship president.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayetteville High School
Mary Ann Null
Ralph Null
Pen Pal Club
Fayette County
Miss Null
Gatewood Baptist Church
Unoccupied House Destroyed By Fire in Whitesville
In Arnett the four room unoccupied frame house owned by George Elkins burned early today. Eighteen Whitesville Fire Department members fought the fire starting in the kitchen. Rev R L Morrison pastor of Whitesville First Baptist Church was injured, likely with cracked ribs, and taken to Raleigh Boone Medical Center. The house was insured for 1500.
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Whitesville
RNS
Arnett
George Elkins
Whitesville First Baptist Church
Raleigh-Boone Medical Center
Piotrowski Named To Dean's List At William and Mary
William Piotrowski of Oak Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis L. Piotrowski, has been named to the Dean's List for the first semester at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is a physics major, meeting the college’s quality point criteria for recognition and privileges.
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Oak Hill
William Piotrowski
Francis L. Piotrowski
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg
William and Mary
Piotrowski
Film Presentation Is Scheduled Tonight at Lochgelly
Johnny Childress of the Appalachian Bible Institute will present the film Revolt in Berlin at the Lochgelly Presbyterian Church at 7 p m today. The film covers a communist who finds Christ and the public is invited per church treasurer Mrs. Ed Pennington.
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Lochgelly
Johnny Childress
Appalachian Bible Institute
Berlin
Lochgelly Presbyterian Church
Christ
Ed _ Pennington
Pete T. Acree Rites Thursday
Funeral services for Pete T. Acree will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Van Methodist Church, with Rev. RH Kennedy and Rev. Ray Crum officiating. Burial follows in Madison Memorial Park. Acree, 49, of Van Boone County, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was a coal miner and Freewill Baptist Church member. Surviving: wife Ruby, son Paul, daughters Judy Joyce Donna Gail, five sisters and two brothers. Hunter and Hunter Mortuary, Madison, to the church one hour prior to services.
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Van
Pete T. Acree
van Methodist Church
RH. Kennedy
Ray Crum
Madison Memorial Park
Acree
Boone County
Freewill Baptist Church
Ruby
Paul
Judy
Joyce
Donna Gail
Earl
Hazel
Opal Jones
Ruth Scott
Madison
Cleo Townley
Danville
Gertrude Crawford
Chapmanville
Fred Evens
Orlando
Fla
Hunter and Hunter Mortuary
Army unveils swift mobile off road transport types
The US Army Transportation Corps has developed new swift mobile off road transport designed to improve mobility in snow marsh and desert environments.
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US Army Transportation Corps
Mrs Marion Brown Dies in Virginia Hospital
Mrs Marion Brown 50 of Herndon Heights died of cancer early today at University Hospital Charlottesville Va after months of hospitalization. She was moved from Mullens to Virginia on Monday. Survived by husband Herbert. Body to Robertson and Foglesong Funeras Home in Herndon.
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Herndon
Marion Brown
Herndon Heights
University Hospital
Charlottesville
Mullens
Virginia
Herbert
Robertson and Foglesong Funera
Hearing Reset For Ira Mathena In Multi State Theft Case
Princeton WV March 9 hearing reset for Ira Mathena alleged ring leader in a multi state theft operation. Judge Walter W Ross granted continuance to allow a writ of habeas corpus petition. Mathena, a 45 year old Bluefield resident, faced extradition to Tazewell County Virginia and later a new warrant for breaking and entering an Anawalt West Virginia department store last year.
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Princeton
Ira Mathena
Mathena
Walter W. Ross
Tazewell County
Cecil Underwood
West Virginia
Bluefield
McDowell County
Anawalt, W. Va
Student Pastor to Lead Sunday Services at First Presbyterian
Mullens West Virginia report states Robert Field, student pastor at Pocahontas VA Presbyterian Church, will conduct Sunday worship at First Presbyterian in Bratton's absence. A prayer meeting at 7 30 p.m. Sunday will be led by Rev. Charles Mencer of St Andrews Episcopal Church who also led last Sunday's service. Bratton family left for a week of vacation in Cocoa Florida.
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Charles Mencer
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
Bratton
Cocoa, Fla
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