Area Methodist Pastors To Attend Conference
Fourteen area Methodist ministers will attend a three-day Ministers Spiritual Life Retreat January 12 to 14 at Camp Cedar Lakes Ripley. Sponsored by the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church the attendees include Virgil Comant Mullens Gare T Daniel Ansted R J Chenoweth Oak Hill William States Winding Gulf J B Dryfield Beckley Claude Colling Heckley District R H Kennedy Van Charles W Pugh Summersville William F Byrd Madison Charles Cameron Canvas C D Walker Kincaid William H Strout Pineville L H Greenwood Sophie and J B Perkins Mount Hope.
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Camp Cedar Lakes
Ripley
West Virginia
Sophia Water Workers Get Salary Increases
Sophia town council awarded pay boosts to water superintendent Buford Mann and assistant supervisor Raymond Owens after increased overtime due to new pumping equipment. Mann's salary rises to 275 and Owens to 200. The council also declined a fire department banquet request citing tax money limits.
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RNS
Buford Mann
Raymond Owens
Mann
D. B. Winfrey
James B. Deck
Fred X. Williams
Cool Ridge Man Pleads To DC
Maxwell Lilly of Cool Ridge pleaded guilty to drunk driving before Magistrate W A Burke. He was fined 50 dollars plus costs and had his operator's license revoked for six months. He had been jailed after a Sunday night collision between his car and a truck driven by James A Evans of North Tazewell Virginia at Cool Ridge. A separate charge of leaving the scene was dismissed.
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Denver
Maxwell Lilly
Cool Ridge
Raleigh
W. A. Burke
Lilly
James Abraham Evans
North Tazewell
Lumber Classifications Hardwood and Softwood
Hardwood comes from broad-leaved trees like maple ash oak walnut cherry birch and elm. Softwood derives from trees with needles or scale leaves such as fir pine cedar redwood and spruce.
Interracial Catholic Councils Grow Across 36 Communities
George K. Hunton New York council executive secretary says Roman Catholic interracial councils advocating equal treatment for Negroes and whites are active in 36 communities including eight in the South. He predicts there will be 50 by next summer.
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New York
South
George K. Hunton
New York Council
PTA To Meet Today At Morton-Reaves School
The Morton Reaves Elementary PTA holds its regular meeting this evening at 7 oclock in the school auditorium. President W O Ritchie urges all parents to attend. In Havana a daily newspaper was printed on bagasse paper from sugar cane by-products.
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Morton-Reaves Elementary School
Parent-Teachers Association
W. O. Ritchie
Havana
Border officers seek missing 26 foot trailer in Nogales
Federal officers at the Arizona border in Nogales were asked to watch for a 26 foot long trailer stolen in El Paso Texas. If it appears, officers should be able to spot it. Also cited is a 1958 Federal Reserve Board survey noting Americans hold assets totaling at least one trillion dollars.
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Nogales, Ariz
Arizona- Mexico
Nogales
el Paso
Tex
Federal Reserve Board
Elizabeth Taylor Named Hollywood's Most Talked-About Woman of 58
AP report details Elizabeth Taylor's rise and trials in 1958. From Mike Todd's fatal crash to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Two for the Seesaw deals, she dominates the year with Oscar chances, public scrutiny, and a string of film and TV successes alongside rivals Susan Hayward Ingrid Bergman and Millie Perkins.
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Hollywood
Mike Todd
Liz
Todd
Eddie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds
Luscious
MGM
Cat
Mike
Joanne Woodward
Raintree County
Susan Hayward
Georgia
Eaton Chalkley
Barbara Graham
Jean Simmons
Ingrid Bergman
Millie Perkins
New York
Anne Frank
Beckley Jaycees Seek Proclamation Jaycee Week
The Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce plans to ask Mayor A K Minter to proclaim the week of Jan 18 as Jaycee Week with a window display and church services. Jim Cain urged more new members, urged attendance at the state board meeting in Charleston Jan 23-25, and the group celebrated the Jaycee Food Lift success delivering 85 boxes of food valued around 1500 dollars to Stotesbury. Tom Marshall was set to speak at the Jan 26 meeting featuring a Distinguished Service Award and Bosses Night as wives attended. Meredith Trent noted Beckley College basketball games are popular and need more attendees.
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Beckley
Alan Susman
Beckley Jaycees
Salvation Army
Jaycees
Beckley Kiwanis Club
Bill Wilbur
Tom Marshall
Jackson
Miss
Meredith Trent
Faw
Engineer skips 15 cars in Lyndonville rail error
An eastbound freight locomotive halted at Ashwood six miles from Lyndonville after the engine crew left the caboose and 15 cars unaddressed. A motorist flagged the engineer, and the brakeman and conductor were found in Lyndonville, reporting the error.
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Lyndonville
N. Y
Ashwood
Knowledge Pays Off Morse Signal Saves Hamden Youth
In Hamden Connecticut a 16 year old boy named David Camp used Morse code to signal for help after being locked inside a building with no exterior door and a telephone. He flashed SOS with the overhead lights until a patrolman spotted the signal and alerted the owner who released him.
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Hamden
Salt Water Fishing Assn Leader Forecasts Bay Piers Use
Melvin Shreves, president of Virginia Salt Water Fishing Association, estimates about 300000 people will use fishing piers planned for artificial islands in the Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel project. The plan envisions a bay crossing on bridges to the islands and a tunnel under ship channels.
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Outlook
Bright
Hawaii pronunciation debate confounds state leader Quinn
Hawaii's William F. Quinn says he cannot settle how to pronounce Hawaii. He questions whether it is Ha-wy-ee or Hae wy-ee. He notes experts disagree and offers no final guidance.
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Honolulu
Gary
William F. Quinn
Hawaii
Quinn
Gate crashers use boat to smuggle passengers into fair
Authorities in Alpena Michigan cracked down after a man with an outboard motorboat ferried passengers upriver past a fairgrounds fence. He deposited them inside for half the price of admission at the gate, creating an unusual smuggling scheme.
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Alpena, Mich
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