Funeral Rites Thursday For William Curtis Cook
Funeral services for William Curtis Cook will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Advent Christian Church, Clear Fork. Burial will follow in Cook-Graham Cemetery near his home. Cook, 52, shot himself with a 20 gauge shotgun at 8:45 a.m. Monday at his Oceana Road home near Baileysville, apparently despondent due to ill health. He was born November 9, 1907 at Baileysville. Survivors include a brother, George, Hanover. The body will be removed from Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home to the residence at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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William Curtis Cook
Advent Christian Church
Clear Fork
Cook-Graham
Cook
Oceana Road
Baileysville
George
Hanover
Robertson and Foglesong
Five Jailed Over Holiday Weekend in Mullens
Five drivers were jailed in Mullens over the New Year holiday weekend after police say they drank too much. Charlie Mann failed to negotiate a turn, hit a fire plug, and crashed, drawing rapid arrests as crews moved cars. Clarence Owen, Pete Holuski, and others faced counts, with licenses revoked and fines imposed. One collision near Monticello led to the arrest of Willford Lusk, jailed on a $50 fine. Hawthorne, Mann, and Owen were fined and license revoked by the Mullens city judge.
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Mullens
RNS
Charlie Mann
Lusk
Highland Avenues
Si Cline
Mann
Mullens Moose Lodge
Pineville
Ater
Jack Pizzino
Glen Fork
Verne Morgan
Monticello
Herndon
Morgan
Willford Preston Lusk
Covel
Muriel McKinney
Lisk
Wyoming County
Terry Lester
Guyandotte Avenue
Water Hawthorne
Black Eagle
Matlens
Wendell W. Cook
Cline
Hawthorne
Owen
Clyde Newsome
Hinte Infant Funeral Today
Grave side services for Judy Ann Hinte were held at 11 a.m. in Hill Top Cemetery. The day old daughter of Everett and Louise Smitty Hinte died Sunday afternoon at home. Born in Oak Hill Saturday, she leaves paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Herman Hinte of Lochgelly. Tyree Funeral Home of Oak Hill arranged the funeral.
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Lochgelly
RNL
Judy Ann Hinte
Hill Top
Everette
Louise Smitty Hinte
Oak Hill
Herman Hinte
Tyree
Meetings Set In Mount Hope Town Schedule
Mount Hope schedules a week of meetings across Scouts and church groups. Brownie Scout Troop No. 7 meets at Mount Hope Elementary at 3 30 p.m. Den No 4 Cub Scouts meets at Mrs J T W Howard’s home at 3 30 p.m. Intermediate Scout Troop No 6 meets at Clinton Apartment Building at 3 p.m. Women of Mount Hope Methodist Church gather at 7 30 p.m. Circles at Mount Hope Baptist Temple hold 7 30 p.m. meetings. Additional circles and troops convene various 2 3 30 p.m. times through Wednesday, plus church groups at 7 30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Mount Hope
RNS
JT. W. Howard
Clinton
Women’s Society of Christian Services
Mount Hope Methodist Church
Robert Jeter
Minnie
John Hager
Mount Hope Christian Church
Morton Givens
Brownlie Scout
den No
Robert Dower
Bradley Presbyterian Church
White Shrine
Anna Cope
Jennie Cope Carter
Den
Edward Martin
Judge Charles Garvin Seeks Re election in West Virginia
Judge Charles Garvin, elected in 1952 for an eight year term in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of West Virginia, filed Monday for re election as a Democrat in Fayette County. The circuit split into Fayette and Nicholas counties from 1961, making Fayette the 12th and Nicholas the 28th circuit. Garvin, born September 12, 1916 in Claremont, Fayette County, is a West Virginia University graduate and former Fayetteville mayor with a long legal and military career. He and his wife Jo Ann Adamson have three children, Judith Ann, Charles L. Garvin II, and Margaret Jane. He served five years in the Army Air Corps during World War II, attaining the rank of major, then returned to law practice and public service. He is active in local churches and organizations and holds multiple bar association memberships.
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Twelfth Judicial Circuit
West Virginia
Fayette County
Fayette
Nicholas
Nicholas County
Claremont
C. L. Garvin
Anne Rosyth Anderson Garvin
Cunard
Fayetteville High School
Charles L. Garvin
Fayetteville
Margaret Jane
Army Air Corps
Pear Harbor
Garvin
West Virginia University
College of Law
H. E. Dillon Jr
William R. Laird III
LaFayette Post No. 149
American Legion
Moose Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Phi Delta Phi
Phi Sigma Kappa
Johnson Rites Set Wednesday
Funeral services for Carl R. Johnson, 59, formerly of Charmco, will be held at Woodlawn Presbyterian Church in Auto at 1 p.m. Wednesday with burial in the church cemetery. He died Sunday in Administration Hospital, Miss. Born November 20, 1900, in Nathan's Creek North Carolina, he was the son of James and Lillie Phipps Johnson. Survivors include six brothers and one sister. The body remains at Nickell Funeral Home in East Rainelle and will be taken to the church one half hour before the service.
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Charmco
RNS
Carl R. Johnson
Woodlawn Presbyterian Church
Auto
L. A. Sanders
Johnson
Administration Hospital
Miss
Nathan’s Creek
N. C
James and
Lillie Phipps Johnson
R. E
Charles
Charmee
Rex
Nettie
James
Tioga
Tom
Nitro
Gene Johnson
Richwood
George Casto
East Rainelle
Nickell Funeral Home
Labor Relations Board to Hear Area Cases
The Ninth regional office of the National Labor Relations Board has been granted facilities in Fayette County Courthouse Fayetteville for formal hearings on Wednesday and Friday starting at 10 a.m. Each case will require one day. No local information on the cases is available.
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Oak Hill
ANS
National Labor Relations Board
Cincinnati
Ohio
Fayette County
Fayetteville
Mary T. Buxsel
Sky Thorn Rites Set Wednesday
Funeral services for Sky B. Thorn, 59, of Fayette Street, will be held Wednesday at Kee Street Methodist Church with Rev. Crickard and Rev. Dickerson officiating. Burial follows at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Thorn died Monday at 9 45 a m after a six year illness from a heart condition. He worked as a carman for the Virginian Railway before illness ended his career. Survivors include wife Alma Perdue Thorn, sister T J Higginbotham, brother Charles M Thorn, and half brother Dr Davis B Thorn. The body will be moved from Seaver Mortuary to the home at 4 p m today and to the church one hour before the service.
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Princeton
RNS
Sky B. Thorn
Kee Street Methodist Church
R. L. Crickard
D. W. Dickerson
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Thorn
Fayette Street
Davis
Pamela Stinson Thorn
Virginian Railway
Alma Perdue Thorn
T. J. Higginbotham
Charles M. Thorn
Levern
Davis B. Thorn
Oak Hill
Seaver Mortuary
Last rites for Mamie Campbell in Fayetteville
Mrs Mamie Lenora Campbell aged 60 of Route 2 Fayetteville dies in Beckley hospital after a long illness. Funeral in Dodd Payne Chapel conducted by Rev E L Clower at 2 pm Wednesday with burial in Coal Run Cemetery Cunard. Survivors include husband Jacob Campbell three sons two daughters a brother six sisters and 20 grandchildren.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Mamie Lenora Campbell
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
E. L. Clower
Coal Run
Cunard
Campbell
Route 2
Beckley
Laurel Creek Holiness Church
Jacob Campbell
Thomas J
Robert
Route
Charles
Edith Seay
Polly Jones
Jackson Lee Carte
Modena Sexton
Oak Hill
Ila Nutter
Kimberly
John Caldwell
Sorrell
Marion Carte
Hico
Oak Hill reports two weekend break ins
Oak Hill establishments were burgled over the weekend with no arrests. The Oak Hill Hardware Store was entered Sunday night via a side window, with 15 pocket knives and 92 cents missing. The King Theatre was broken into Friday night through a front door window, but nothing was stolen.
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Oak Hill
RNS
King Theatre
Rites Thursday For Mrs Blair in Oak Hill Chapel
Mrs Lucy Ann Wiley Blair aged 46 of Oak Hill died from leukemia in Oak Hill hospital. Last rites will be at 2 p m in Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill with Rev Ray Martin officiating. Burial at Hill Top. She was born May 25 1913 in County. Survived by sister Mrs Elsie Wade Alderson and half sister Mrs Nora Cale Hinton.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Lucy Ann Wiley Blair
Tyree
Ray Martin
Hill Top
Blair
Hinton
Oak Hill Hospital
County
Elsie Wade
Alderson
Nora Cale
Fayette Court Opens Today in Fayetteville
Fayette County Circuit Court opened for the January term with grand jurors ordered to report to hear presentments. Petit jurors are to report Monday for trial of first criminal cases from last term. civil hearings run first week with Friday set to hear pleas and set bonds in criminal cases.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette County
Charles L. Garvin Jr
J. W. Brown
Melvin Brown
Blaine P. Renfro
Ira E. Smith
R. F. Painter
Combs Funeral Home
Thelma Taylor Sandige
Toney Harry
Evangeline H. Tucci
Oscar R. Tucci
Marvin A. Adkins
Betty Adkins
Ralph C.lomas
Rose Thomas
Lonnie G. Rucker
Shirley J. Rucker
Lillian L. Ward
Andrew F. Ward
Robert E. Bowman
Margaret R. Bowman
Elmo G. King
Robert L. King
Ira M. Grzyb
Steve Grzyb
Betty Jean Judwick
John A. Judwick
Ronald R. Miller
Sue Ann Miller
Shirley Nottingham
Neil Nottingham
Janet Ann Thompson
Arnold Lee Thompson
Carrie Mae Vargo
Paul Vargo
Delma Wilson
Fayette County bookmobile launches free service today
Fayetteville starts regional bookmobile service with about 1600 titles. Fayette public library headquarters in Memorial Auditorium coordinates operation with Raleigh County, Beckley branch, and state agencies. The program, led by librarian Mrs. C P Anderson Jr and driver A L Huddleston, will visit communities on a rotating schedule, starting today with Route 2 and daily stops through Friday.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette County
Raleigh- Fayette
Memorial Auditorium
Fayette- Fayette County
Raleigh County
Beckley
Federal Governance Act
West Virginia Library Commission
Fayette and Raleigh
West Virginia
State Library Commission
Fayette
C. P. Anderson Jr
Oak Hill
A. L. “Slim
Page-Kincaid
Glen Ferris
Inn
Charlton Heights
Morrison's
Falls View
Village Green
Boomer
Mount Hope
Moses Services Set Wednesday at Mount Pleasant Church
Funeral services for Frank L. Moses, 71, will be held Wednesday at 2 p m in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church with Rev C W Carte officiating. Moses, a retired farmer and lifelong Mount Lookout resident, died Sunday in a Montgomery hospital after a short illness. He is survived by a sister, Mrs E O Epperly of Fayetteville. The body rests at Dodd Payne Funeral Home in Fayetteville until services an hour beforehand.
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Mount Lookout
RNS
Frank L. Moses
C. W. Carte
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Moses
Montgomery
Te Lookout
Mount Pleasant
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Fayetteville
Juvenile hearing set in Oak Hill break in case
Oak Hill Police filed a juvenile warrant in Fayette County Juvenile Court charging a local boy with breaking and entering the Oak Hill Finance Co on December 28. An 18 year old, Billy Alin Foster, also of Oak Hill, was implicated. Foster waived to grand jury action. The juvenile will appear before Judge Charles L. Garvin Jr. for a juvenile hearing. Several hundred dollars in damage was done to the company equipment.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Oak Hill
Fayette County
Oak Hill Finance Co
Billy Alin Foster
Foster
Charles L. Garvin Jr
Funeral services set for Henry S. Ruloff in Victor
Henry S. Ruloff 59 of Victor dies at Rothwell Coal Co mine from natural causes. Funeral by Rev. Guy H. Vaughn at Hopewell Baptist Church in Ansted Wednesday at 2 p.m. Burial in Coleman Cemetery. He leaves wife Lucille, two sisters Helena Millich and Agnes Pettry, son Jerry Wayne, daughter Trudy Ann, and was a World War I veteran and United Mine Workers member. Body at Thomas Funeral Home, Ansted, until service.
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Lucille Ruloff
Helena Millich
Victor
Agnes Pettry
McDaniels
Jerry Wayne Ruloff
Trudy Ann Ruloff
Thomas Funeral Home
Ansted
Agent Examinations Scheduled in Logan County
Marvin R. Kiger, for the West Virginia Insurance Department, will conduct agent examinations at the Logan County Courthouse on Friday. Notification of the visit has been sent to Coal River area residents by Insurance Commissioner C Judson Pearson.
Steel production shares in the United States by resource
The United States accounts for 36.2 percent of world steel output, 38.4 percent of iron ore, and 25.2 percent of coal.
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United States
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Harold L. Goodson
Alice J. Goodson
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Walker Willis
Phyllis I. Marshall
Eugene C. Marshall
Audra L. Martin
Desper S. Martin
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James G. Painter Sr
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Clairbel C. Lowe
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William D. Oxley
Ola P. Armstrong
Landon J. Armstrong
Arthur Bickford
Della M. Bickford
Marilyn F. Clark
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Warner Bros. Technicolor
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