Six Vehicles Crash on Pineville-Oceana Road
A chain of rear and side collisions on the Pineville Oceana road involved five cars and a truck. About 1:30 p.m. no serious injuries were reported. Byron Toler of Mullens drove a 1941 sedan as he pulled onto Route 10 from the Cowshed Restaurant parking lot, triggering a series of crashes that left several vehicles damaged and scattered along the highway.
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Pineville
RNS
Oceana
Mullens
Byron Toler
Toler
Segan
Ralph P. Shannon
Shannon
Con
Mount Hope man named in marijuana indictment in Fayette
Fayette Circuit Court grand jury returns marijuana related charges against Arnold Walher Mount Hope, listing numerous co defendants for theft breaking and entering and copper wire theft from Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates with totals ranging from $26.50 to $941.05 across multiple counts and properties.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette
Arnold
Wal- Court
Mount Hope
Charles Whitlock
Karl Krause
Charles Wesley Treadway
Ivan NH. Kincaid
Granville Stout
Melvin Fannin
Eastern Gas and Fuel
William Clyde Burrows
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Herman Henry Stone
Josephine Ratliff
Willis Shepherd
Bud Cory
Harold Fuller
Cory
Dorman Lee Red
Earl Caldwell Dam
H. E
Martin Estep
Clyde Gray
Emory Delmore
Eastern Gaserty
Arden C. Augustine Lopez Jr
Ferontous
Fuel Associates
Frank Arcadia
John Clyde Burrow
Vernon Leeland
HHS
L. T. Mea
M. King
Campbell
William Lee Camp
Albert Darrel Barker
Dondows
Registate
Dell
Chesamon
Peake and Ohio Railway
Ugal Critchley
John
Midrowsky
Mildred Crowder
Alice Gilberts
Roberterty
Franklin Clendenin
Billy Whitlock
Board of Education
Ing
W. K. Clarence McCormick
Bowyer
Dewey
Thomas Clement
Bernard Ray
William Burrows
Vernon Lee Pbell
William Lee Camp-t
Meadow Bridge Considers Driver License Ordinance Action
Meadow Bridge Town Council discusses a proposed ordinance requiring all drivers to obtain a town operator's license at the next meeting. Read amid topics on gross sales tax, signal rights, illegal parking, and dog tax enforcement. The council plans cases against noncompliant taxpayers and weighs a full-time town officer.
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Meadow Bridge
ANS
Homer Elkins
Danese Road
State Road Commission
Elgie Hicks
Layland
Ouis Smith
W. T. McClanahan
James E. Glenn Taken by Death
Mullens notes the death of James E. Glenn about 4 am Thursday. He was about 55 and operated Kath rine's Cafe on Broadway Street for several years. He died a few hours after hospital admission in Charleston following major surgery before Christmas. The body lies at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home Mullens. Arrangements incomplete.
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Mullens
RNS
James FE
Glenn
Broadway St
Charleston
Mullens Hospital
Robertson and Foglesong
Gauley Bridge Water Co Seeks Rate Increase
Gauley Bridge Water Co requests higher water rates for customers in Gauley Bridge and vicinity. The Public Services Commission will hear the proposal next Monday as the company says it is losing money.
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Gauley Bridge Water Company
Charleston
Gauley Bridge Water Co
Gauley Bridge and Vicinity
Public Services Commission
U.S. 60
Gauley Bridge
Buffalo Creek Water Co
Earlings
Logan County
Amherst Coal Co
Accoville
Braeholm
Riley
France
Amherstdale
Robinette
Latrobe
Lundale
Buffalo Creek
Joe D. Blair
Man
Meadow Bridge Personals and Local Visits
Meadow Bridge notes list residents and visitors including Mrs. Robert Miller and Miss Katie Miller in Baltimore, James Vandall returning to Charleston, and Norma Patterson visiting Baltimore. Other items mention patients at Hinton Hospital, and several Meadow Bridge residents visiting relatives in Danese, Beckley, and Washington.
Cozort Undergoing Treatment After Heart Attack
Wade Co zort is in Wyoming General Hospital Mullens after a heart attack at home. He is expected to stay about ten days. Nearby, Mr and Mrs John Rush Cook Jr and son Craig of Norfolk Virginia visited relatives here. Pie James Brown, stationed at Cherry Point with the Marines, is on leave with his parents and plans a Caribbean cruise January 14. About 5 260 new pneumonia cases are reported daily in the United States.
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Oceana
RNS
Wade Cozort
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Cozort
John Rush Cook Jr
Craig
Norfolk
Pie
James Brown
Cherry Point
N. C
Marrines
Hugh Brown
Brown
James
Liss Bellamy
Hamlin
Rites Set Today For W. D. Wren
Funeral services for William Deggs Wren 62 Mullens were at 1 pm at Mullens First Presbyterian Church with Rev C Worth May of Beckley officiating Burial followed at Wildwood Cemetery Beckley Masonic rites planned at the grave Wren died Wednesday in a Beckley Hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage at home while on vacation from his job as a conductor for the Virginian Railway
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Mullens Rns
William Deggs Wren
Mullens
Mullens First Presbyterian Church
C. Worth May
Beckley
Wildwood Cemetery
Wren
City Service Apts
Virginian Railway
Legion appoints G S Callison to national post
Oak Hill resident G Steele Callison was named a general member of the American Legion national membership and post activities committee. He was notified by National Commander J Addington Wagner and will serve until the 1956 fall meeting of the National executive committee.
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Oak Hill
RNL
G. Steele Callison
The
American Legion
Callison
J. Addington Wagner
National Executive Committee
Madison Named Fayette Deputy and Legion Membership Talk
Madison named deputy by Sheriff Beckelheimer to fill a vacancy after Millard McGraw's resignation. He also serves as bailiff in Fayette Circuit Court and plans to resign his tax department post. Separately, Callison and Van Camp discuss Fayette Legion membership gains, with Cabin Creek Post 80 leading in quota achievement and districts reporting progress toward the 1956 goal.
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Oak Hill
Callison
H. L. van Camp
Dunbar
van Camp
Ben Gooch
Seventh District
Clendenin
Rainelle
Indianapolis
Legion
National Religious Emphasis Committee
Cabin’ Creek
Cabin Creek
White Sulphur Springs
Fayetteville
Rns
C. Madison
H. R. Beckle
Heimer
Millard McGraw
Ans
Madison
Fayette Circuit Court
Beckelheimer
McGraw
Ansted
Fayeteville
Grand Jury Fails To Indict Bivens in Mercering Case
Grand jury in Princeton West Virginia failed to indict Tom Bivens 41 year old constable on absconding payroll theft charges after he was treated at Weston State Hospital. The jury instead returned three murder indictments against Rufus Lusk Joe Stroupe and James C Webb in separate cases. Bivens case previously involved a 79469 payroll theft at the Bluefield bank and a late night plane trip to Mc Comas.
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Princeton
W.va
Tom Bivens
Bivens
Tri-State
Huntington
Bluefield
Mercer County
Ainport
American Coal Co
McComas
Weston State Hospital
Walter Burton
Owen R. Griffith
Criminal Court
Walter Y. Ross
W. C. Vivens Jr
Rufus Lusk
William G. Lusk
Montcalm
Joe Stroupe
Raymond Bowles
Pocahontas
Kimball
Bowles
Stroupe
James C. Webb
Robert Morris
Bramwell
Grand Jury
VFW Auxiliary Names Drafters for March of Dimes Plans
In Oak Hill the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary appointed Mrs. Edmond Duncan and Mrs. E. B. Gwinn to complete March of Dimes drive plans. The group met January 18 with members listing activities including hosting by Steve Gryzb and a December 24 basket distribution and a December 14 party for Beckley Veterans Hospital patients.
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VFW
OAK Hill
ANS
Steve Gryzb
Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Cncial
Edmond Duncan
E. B. Gwinn
Leara Summerfield
Margaret Wilkerson
Cletis Baughn
Veterans Hospital
Beckley
Funeral Sunday for Paul Cline
Funeral services for Paul Cline aged 66 of Sim ton will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday at his home with the Rev. Lloyd Ferguson officiating. Burial in the family cemetery at Simon. Cline died at his home Tuesday night. body moved from Evans Funeral Home at Oceana to his residence Thursday.
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Simon
RNS
Paul Cline
Simton
Lloyd Ferguson
Evans Funeral
Oceana
iPropps Funeral Slated Saturday
Funeral services for Ellis Propps 46 Orient Hill will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Orient Hill Tabernacle with Rev. Orndorf officiating. Burial in Sugar Grove Cemetery Quinwood. Propps a lumberman died Thursday at his sister Mrs Jose Crookshanks home after a long illness. Survivors include two sisters Mrs Crookshanks and Mrs Eliza Adkins of Oak Hill and a brother George Propps of Orient.
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Orient Hill
Ellis Propps
Orient Hill Tabernacle
Phil Orndorf
Sugar Grove
Quinwood
Wallace and Wallace
East Rainelle
Propps
Jose Crookshanks
Crookshanks
Eliza Adkins
Oak Hill
George Propps
Orient Bill
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Wyoming
Howard Swimms
Pine- Wreck
Swimms
Batton
Jane
John R. Cook
Clear
Ralph Moore Batton
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- Cook
Batlon
Phone Co
Gam i
Cook's
Mt. Hope
Laldy Dea Lee
James E. Glenn
James Vandall
Morris Hervey College
Ed Vandall
Meadow Bidge
Sandy Potter
Marshall College
Landisburg
Yvonne Smith
Meadow Bridge High School
Freda Hamond
Nettie Blankenship
Cleveland
Hinton Hospital
Velda Reynolds
Mgr
T. A. Reynolds
Beelick Knob
Gillis Miller
Danese
Roy Hilbert
Ruth
Miller Home
Robert. Hanshew
Judy
Sue
Rose Marie
Robert Skeets
Tommy
Frank Berry
Roger Dale
Fairborn
Ohio
Elmer Gwinn
Harold Gwinn
Mason Gwin
Robert Hanshew
Long Island
N. Y
Louis Gwinn
Boston
Mass
Cleat Gwinn
Navy
Salem
Buddy Patterson
Norma Patterson
Baltimore
Sound Burns
Tlign School
Welch Mount Hope
Patricia Walker
Steven's Clinic
Welch
Herbert Walker
Janice Walker
Robert Crum
Marines
Murphy Burns
Karen Harrah
West Virginia University
Lawrence Lewis
Bob Phillip
Beckley College
Charlotte Rogers
Raingtle
Chester Elkins
Lohan
George Parker
Washington, D. C
Jack Vandall
Oceana Personals
W. D. Wren
William D. Wren
Beckley Super Market
Kingan
Morrell’s Pride
Kraft
Philadelphia
L.F.G
G. S. Callison
National Post
West Virginia
District One
Orlon Cardigan
Bayon Hose
Absorbine Jr
Aice
W.t.grant Co
Neville Street
Rubenstein
Reg
Fox
Marion Lane
Bil McClung
Thomas Birl
Fred Fredricks
George Harris
David Darling
Elliott Warden
Edigond
Duncan
iPropps
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