Disputed case to be tried before Clear Fork magistrate
Lon Maddox of Wellston and Packsville faces trial in Clear Fork District Court after a venue dispute. Maddox, charged with improper licenses on his automobile, alleges bias by judges and says he primarily resides in Ohio where his wife and five daughters live. He contends the arresting constable used an Ohio-licensed car to ticket him and questions fairness of all prior venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colcord
RNS
Lon Maddox
Wellston
Packsville
Raleigh County
Paysh Fork
Poy Clay
Clear Fork
Justice of the Peace Court
Maddox
Acord
Clay
Court of Justice
L. G. Daniel
Daniel
Ohio
Deadline Set For Submitting Teacher Examination Forms
Bluefield State College announces a Jan 9 deadline for prospective teachers to submit applications for the National Teacher Examinations to Educational Testing Service in Princeton. The Feb 7 testing day at Bluefield includes common exams plus optional subject tests with a detailed schedule and admission ticket instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Bluefield State College
Educational Testing Service
Nassau St
Princeton
N. J
J. Jee Irving
Department of Education
Educational Test Service
Addiiton
Mrs. Nora Manns Dies at 90 in Mullens Funeral Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. Nora Manns, 90, Mullens, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church Mullens with Rev. N. Lewis of Beckley and Rev. H. A. Parham of Mullens officiating. Burial follows in Irondale Alabama. She died Monday in a Mullens hospital. Survivors include three sons Clarence Manns Henry Manns and Rev. J. T. Manns, a daughter Sallie V. Manns, and eight grandsons, eleven granddaughters, and nine great grandchildren. The body rests at C. D. Trent Funeral Home Beckley, then at the church one hour prior to services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stirrat
Sallie V. Manns
Mulgis
C. D. Trent Funeral Home
Pax Personal News Recaps Holiday Visits Across Towns
Pax Personal News lists multiple holiday and weekend visitors to Beckley and nearby towns. Families including McNeely, Gibson, Lively, Ford, Dangerfield, Murdock, Robinson, and Janney are noted as hosting or being hosted for Christmas and weekend gatherings. Locations include Beckley, Scarbro, Montgomery, and Edwight with guests from San Diego, Akron, and Marshalltown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PAX
Richard McNeely
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
Bert McNeely
Delia Lively
Dave Gibson
Jim
Stevie
San Diego
Calif
Orville Lively
Carol Sue
Beckley
Hurl Lively
Clifford
Nancy
Edwight
Oral Lively
Bill
Betty
Bob Emerson
Billy Keith
Robert Ford
Robbie
Marshalltown
Del
Fords
Laindy Ford
Scarbro
Fred Dangerfield
Akron
Ohio
Kenneth Dangerfield
Virgil Dangerfield
Carl Murdock
Sandra
Carl
Tracy Lively
Eugene Robinson
Longacre
J. D. Janney
Beckley Hospital
Hugh M Cook Rites Saturday
Funeral services for Hugh M. Cook will be held at Sun Hill Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. Charlie Cooper officiating. Cremation burial in the family cemetery. Cook, 73, of Sun Hill, died at 7:50 a.m. today after a short illness. born in Oceana in 1885, he was a 44-year veteran teacher in the Clear Fork area and longtime Methodist member. Survivors include his wife Martha Toler Cook, two sons Hugh M. Jr. and Eugene, four brothers, a sister, and three grandchildren. The body was moved to the home at 5 p.m. today from Evans Funeral Home in Oceana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun Hill
RNS
Hugh M. Cook
Sun Hill Methodist Church
Charlie Cooper
Cook
Oceana
Welch
L. P
Fanny Marshall Cook
Clear Fork
Methodist Church
Martha Toler Cook
Hugh M. Jr
Eugene
Don D
Alva L
Logan
Kermit A
Morgantown
Noel
Akron
Ohio
Lilly Toler
Evans Funeral Home
Boone County Political Squabbles Died in 1958 Unite Party
In Boone County the 1958 party splits and a move to create a new county faded after Sheriff Dell White led Democrats to renew unity. The disputes centered on party leadership and a House of Delegates race, with Dennie Lee Hill gaining seniority as a delegate after winning the general election. The "Old Pro" White called the friction beneficial for party strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
RNS
Boone County
Dell White
Democrat
Democrat Party
Oceana School Break-In Reported by Local Sheriff
Principal Berlin McKinney of Oceana Grade School No 2 said juveniles broke into the school Thursday night by a furnace room window. Soda and candy were stolen or spilled. desks were opened and papers scattered. Sheriff Bert Short and three deputies investigated. State Police Trooper J D Fairchild took fingerprints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oceana
BIS
Berlin McKinney
McKinney
Wyoming County
Sherif
Bert Short
J. D. Fairchild
State Police
Fayette County Garden Council to Hold Third Flower Show
Ansted ANSTED—The Fayette County Garden Council announced its third annual flower show will be held in fall 1959 with Mrs. Forrest Smith as chairman. The meeting at Falls View, Mrs. J. E. Woodfin’s home, named Miss Dollie Greiner chair of the program series and Mrs. Mae Puckett secretary. Assessments are due to the county treasurer by February 1. The council will co sponsor a WOAY television program with Raleigh County Council from 2 30 to 3 p m each Thursday, featuring Miss Greiner as program chairman. A nominating committee includes Miss Gladys Bary, Mrs. Woodfin, and Mrs. Ralph Taylor. The Ansted Garden Club will present a permanent table class award for future shows. Possible national speaker discussed for summer. Mrs. W. K. Vandell led the tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ansted
ANS
Fayette County Garden Council
Forrest Smith
Falls View
J. E. Woodf
Dollie Greiner
Lookout Club
Mae Puckett
Spade and Trowel Club
Oak Hill
WOAY
Raleigh County Council
Greiner
Gladys Bary
Woodfin
Ralph Taylor
Jean Vandell
Ansted Garden Club
Taxpayer assistance slated in Oak Hill WV district
West Virginia tax payer assistance is planned from 8 am to 5 pm starting Monday through April 15 at Oak Hill. The Oak French Friday and the April 15 deadline are noted as key dates for residents to receive help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
District of West Virginia
Lilly Haven Personal Notes and New Gilbert Birth
Lilly Haven news mentions Mr and Mrs Ed Thornsbury and children visiting Delford Parsons in Newton over the holidays. Also reports Mrs Earl Cox and son Stevie admitted for treatment at Memorial Hospital. A daughter was born at 8 22 p m Sunday at Grace Hospital Welch to Mr and Mrs Charles Simpson Gilbert weighing six pounds five ounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilly Haven
Ed Thornsbury
Eddie
Paul
Mike
Sharon
Delford Parsons
Newton
Earl Cox
Stevie
the Man Memorial Hospital
Gilbert
Rns
Grace Hospital
Welch
Charles Simpson
Baisden announces birth of son at Grace Hospital Welch
Mr and Mrs Hilden Lester Baisden announce the birth of a son on December 30 at 2 51 PM at Grace Hospital Welch. The baby weighed seven and a half ounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baisden
BNS
Hilden Lester
Grace Hospital
Welch
Woman Hospitalized After Fall At Home
Mrs Garnett Cook 41 Brenton admitted to Stevens Clinic Welch for reduction of fractures in left ankle after falling down stairs at her Brenton home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brenton
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Garnett Cook
Retailer Blames Tax for Higher Prices
Arch Smith of Bluefield West Virginia complains that taxes on groceries and a home drinks tax raise prices. He urges repeal and asks readers to write to the West Virginia Grocery Trade Taxpayers Association in Huntington for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arch Smith
Washington St
Bluefield
W. Va
West Virginia Grocery Trade Taxpayers Association
P. O. Box
Huntington
Religion courses draw diverse enrollments at Bluefield State
Bluefield State College reports 24 students enrolled in three religion courses for the 1958 59 term led by instructor Robert H. Firth. Courses include Old Testament Literature Religious Beginnings and Christian Ethics with adult evening options. Second semester begins Feb 4 with four courses led by Firth including Religion in Western Culture New Testament Literature and a World Religions survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Bluefield State College
Robert H. Firth
Firth
Life Magazine
Egypt
Greece
Rome
United States
Pineville High presents three one act plays next week
Pineville High senior class stages three one act plays in the school auditorium with a total cast of MM young performers and crews over 20 under directors Frances Bailey Joe Baum and Mrs Joe Bragg. The Haunted Bookshop opens the program with Mary K Sherman as Jennie Abbott and a large cast led by Charles Porter Joe Childress Carole Collins and others. The Life of the Party follows with 13 cast members including Roger Cline Terri Moore Linda Shepherd Belva Kiser Adrian Waggoner and more. The Ghost of Pumbin Holler closes the night with Jerry Tilley Kathryn Gwinn Delores Simpson Jerry Thomas Davis Johnson and a mountain family ensemble. Curtain at 7 30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
Pineville High School
Frances Bailey
Joe Baum
Joe Bragg
le Roma Rose
Mary K. Sherman
Jennie Abbott
Charles Porter
George Abbott
Joe Childress
Jim
Carole Collins
Nancy
Beattie DeBord
Archibald
Rita Sparks
Maid
Kitty Goode
Mary Merriweather
Ralp Craft
Mr. Sidney
Joyce Simmons
Rose Sidney
Peggy Varney
Miss Addison
Donald Payton
Judy Martin
Fred Garrett
Cecil Eller
Roger Dean
Dallas Mullens
Raymond Snuffer
Gerth
Jerry Tilley
Kath
Glen Rogers Personal Notices Holiday Hospital Visit
Mrs. Sidney Rox once of Glen Rogers and Beckley now in Marion Indiana remains a patient at Wyoming General Hospital Mullens. Her husband has recovered enough to be released. They came from Marion to spend holidays with sons in law and daughters in Glen Rogers and Beckley. Mrs. Box slowly improves staying several days more. Ervin Saulsburg and wife have returned home to Baltimore after visiting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Rogers
Sidney Rox
Beckley
Marion
Ind
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Virgil McNeill
Roy Gilespie
McNeill
Box
Ervin Saulsburg
Baltimore
McNeil
Gilespie
Pineville boy treated after knee injury from fall
Kenneth Bowles ten year old of Pineville was treated at Grace Hospital in Welch Monday for contusions to the right knee suffered in a fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
Grace Hospital
Welch
Kenneth Bowles
Integrated school in Bellwood destroyed by fire
In Bellwood Fayette County fire marshal to investigate a blaze that destroyed a three room integrated grade school on West Virginia 20. About 60 students grades one through six attended the school with fifty percent being Negro. Principal Marie Griffith reported the fire began in a rear classroom and noted wiring concerns. The East Rainelle Volunteer Fire Department contained the flames.
First Baby Born in Wyoming County in 1959
The first baby of 1959 in Wyoming County arrived at 2 06 p m Thursday at Wilkinson Clinic Pineville. The girl weighed five pounds 11 1/2 ounces and is daughter of Mrs Julia Church Mullens. Her parents are divorced. The baby has been named Tomomy Jo. Mrs Church is also mother of three boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
RNS
Wyoming County
Wilkinson Clinic
Julia Church
Mullens
Tomomy Jo
Missing Car Salesman Returns To Charleston
Paul Keeney a 33 year old car salesman missing since Sunday returned to Charleston via bus routes from Columbus to St Louis and Tulsa. He told a Gazette reporter he regained his senses only 24 hours earlier in Tulsa and admitted smashing his office in a frenzy. Police say he may have left town for financial reasons but insist no foul play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Marmet
Tulsa
Oklo
Paul Keeney
Charleston Gazette
Kenny
U. S. 60
Here
Keeney
Bill Markham
Kanawha
Weaver Lambert Funeral Sunday in Fanrock
Weaver Lambert 49 died at his Fanrock home at 10 07 p m Thursday from a brain tumor. Born August 9 1909 in Fanrock he was son of the late Robert and Alice Lambert. Survived by wife Tavie Short Lambert one son Ernie Lee five brothers and four sisters. Funeral set for 1 p m Sunday at Brier Tabernacle with Rev Raymond Lusk and Rev Edgar Beverley. Burial in Fanrock Cemetery. Body to be moved from Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home to his residence Saturday afternoon.
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Pineville
Rns
Weaver Lambert
Fanrock
Lambert
Robert
Alice Kirby Lambert
Tavie Short Lambert
Ernie Lee
William
Tom
Baltimore
Frank
Matheny
Charley
Davy
Pierce Green
William Collins
Mullens
Wirt Morgan
Alec, Morgan
Hardward and Lumber Co
Baileysville
Brier Tabernacle
Raymond Lusk
Edgar Beverley
Robertson and Foglesong
Mossy Personalities Reach Local Health and Travel News
Lavella Rinehart is hospitalized at Beckley Memorial Hospital with a kidney infection and shows improvement. Jenny Buttrick returns home from Prosperity after a six week visit with her son in law and daughter. Lacy Payne comes home from Beckley Memorial Hospital after a 12 day stay.
Return of airman from three day Christmas leave
Airman Third Class Guy Shuck returns to Chanute Air Force Base Illinois after spending a three day Christmas leave with his parents Mr and Mrs George Shuck.
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AF Base
Pax
Rns
Guy Shuck
Chanute Air Force Base
Ilinois
George Shuck
Premiere Plans For Cordura Mark Pershing Anniversary
Columbia Pictures will premiere They Came to Cordura on the 99th anniversary of Gen John J Pershing's birth born 1860 in Missouri. Producer William Goetz notes the farm site isn’t exact for a premiere and the film centers on Pershing's punitive action against Pancho Villa before WWI. Tania Velia stars in Whiplash set in Cuba after fleeing Yugoslavia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
John J. Pershing
Missouri
Columbia Pictures
William Goetz
Cordura
Pershing
General
Goetz
Pancho Villa
Fayette's First Baby of 1959 Reported in Fayetteville
Fayetteville residents Mr and Mrs Robert Wesley Wilburn welcomed Fayette County's first baby of 1959 a son born at 508 a m on Thursday at Oak Hill Hospital The newborn's birth was reported by local officials and marked as the year's initial arrival in the area
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Fayette County
Robert Wesley Wilburn
Fayetteville
Payne Family Honored At Mossy Dinner Before Army Move
T Sgt Wade H Payne and wife and daughter were feted at a Sunday dinner at his mother Minnie Paynes home. The family is on leave from Germany awaiting a Wichita assignment. Attending included Paynes brothers spouses and children from Kenova Mossy Fayetteville Whitesville Procorsville Ohio Allen Ky Sumnerlee and other relatives and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Dawson
Kevin
Proctorsville
Ohio
James Gordon Payne
Allen
Dallas Rinehart
Bobby
Tommy
Aquilla Ray
J. P
Aliff
Billy Joe
Cecil Stover
Tracy
Randy
Drema Pinkerton
Steven
Minnie Wayleg
Letha Stover
Peggy Pinkerton
Donald Scarbro
Mossy
Tracy Watkins
Summerlee
Whitesville Moose Lodge Semi Monthly Meeting Sunday
Whitesville Moose Lodge will hold a semi monthly meeting at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Lodge Hall with Joseph L. Price presiding. A donations committee report will cover aid to needy members and Christmas season award winners. The lodge runs an annual dues drive offering lifetime membership chances. New Year's Eve dance was a great success with the largest Moose gathering in Whitesville since 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitesville
RNS
Moose Lodge
Joseph L. Price
Moose Fraternity
March Of Science Explores Solid Rocket Fuels
At Redstone Arsenal Harold Ritchey and Joseph Wiggins demo a solid rocket fuel, noting its high energy and reliability. The piece explains solid versus liquid fuels, recent tests delivering 450 000 pounds of thrust, and future potential including missiles like Minuteman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Ala
Harold Ritchey
Ritchey
Thiokol Chemical Corps Division
Redstone Arsenal
Joseph W. Wiggins
Wiggins
Space
Moon
Mars
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Pax Personals
Free Records
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Boone Demos
Oceana School
Garden Council
W. K. Vandell
Lilly Haven Personals
Pineville High
Ryn Gwinn
Paw
Maw
Bowles
Smorgasborl
Beckley's Finest
Beckley Hotel
Corner Main
Bellwood
Power Company
Mike Gladwell
Griffith
East Rainelle
Wyoming
Mossy Personals
Hollywood News
Breifs
Tania Velia
Yugoslavia
Cuba
Austria
Tania
Fayette
Paynes
March of Science
By Alton Blakeslef
Associated Press
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