New River Gorge projects eyed for Grandview area parks
Preliminary reports from a Bluefield workshop show Grandview State Park and Raleigh County parks including Stephen's Branch 4-H Park and Fitzpatrick among beneficiaries in National Park Service plans for New River Gorge development. Recommendations cover Bluestone Gorge recreation area, an administration building at Grandview, and a survey for an Allegheny Parkway spur.
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Bluefield
Grandview State Park
Raleigh County
New River Gorge
National Park Services
Area Redevelopment Administration
Grandview
Stephen's Branch
4-H Park
Fitzpatrick
Babcock State Park
Hawk’s Nest
Bluestone
NPS
Fifth
Bluestone Gorge
State Parks Division
Department of Natural Resources For Administration
Jeep Doctor to Speak Across Raleigh and Coal River Areas
Dr Ota G Walters known as Mexico Jeep Doctor will spend two weeks touring churches in the Raleigh Baptist and Coal River Associations. Sponsored by the American Baptist Home Mission Society she, a former medical missionary in Mexico since 1928, now based in Clarksburg, will speak at Glen White Beckley Mabscott Sweeneysburg Shady Spring Seth Racine and Coal Marsh churches with dates from January 9 to 16.
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Ota G. Walters
Ritchie County
Mexico
Coal River
American Baptist Home Mission Society
Walters
Clarksburg
Yale
China
Baptist Latin America
Peabla
Oraca
Miahuatlan
Glen White Baptist Church
Glen White
Memorial Baptist Church
Beckley
Calvary Baptist Church
Mabscott
New Prospect Baptist Church
Sweeneysburg
New Haven Baptist Church
Shady Spring
Healings Street
Seth
Racine Baptist Church
Racine
Coal Marsh
Jury Indicts Beckley Man for Involuntary Manslaughter
Raleigh County Grand Jury returned an indictment of involuntary manslaughter against 13 year old Michael David Reedy of Bailey Avenue for fatally shooting his 62 year old father Richard Clarence Reedy on December 21. The charge followed earlier presentments listing voluntary manslaughter. The panel also rejected indictments in several other cases and returned multiple other indictments including grand larceny drunken driving and forgery.
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Raleigh County
Edward Alfred Lyons
Lauren Ave
David Donivin William
John Kopec
Anna G. Chapman
Donald Jarrell
Delmar Milam
Aubrey Goodall
James Harling
Kenneth Mason Worley
Delfin Earl Kincaid
Marion McGuire
Dillard H. Foster
Jerry Texas Rice
Robert L. Huffman
Fabian Larry
Jimmie Dean Houck
Everett Calloway Pauley
Phillip Utt
Clarence Nelson Wray
Francis Jacob Holt
Michael David Reedy
Odie Meador
Warren Marritt
B & L Lumber Co., Inc
Okar Harris
Garfield Jennings
Harry Milam
Centen nial plan highlights West Virginia pride event
Engineers heard why West Virginia celebrates its centennial with a 1963 focus on state pride, tourism gains, and a traveling gala. A $380000 budget and $400000 already approved by the legislature aim to fund a yearlong celebration featuring an eight car train exhibit and Boy Scout camp with state representation. Officers for 1962 were installed, led by C T Shackelford as president and S Austin Caperton Jr as first vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Sullivan
C. T. Shackelford
S. Austin Caperton Jr
H. L. Kirkpatrick
Robert R. McClung
Cecil H. Graham
Beckley Job Applicants File for Work at E S Office
Twenty nine persons filed applications for work at the Beckley office of Employment Security Monday. They included one bus girl, one waitress, one orderly, one day worker, five sales clerks, two general office clerks, one book binder, one cashier, one pipe fitter, one taxi driver, one tractor trailer driver, one auto mechanic helper, one ambulance driver, one service station attendant, one power shovel operator, two truck drivers, for construction laborers a route man, a foreman, and a spot welder.
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Beckley Office of Employment Security
29 Men Sign For AF Duty So Far This Month
Twenty nine men enlisted in the Air Force at the Main Recruiting Station in Beckley during January. Names include Gary B. Headley, James M. Davis, Jerry G. Beavers, James R. Sanson, John L. Roysden, James G. Rinick, James E. Withrow, Melvin R. Gunter, Robert C. Ellison, William Sizemore, Lonnie Shupe, Steven Short, Julius Orban, Robert M. Morris, Chester Burrell, Walter Douglas, George Fulkes II, Edward Blume, Gerald Staats, Russell Bennett, Edward Jahn Jr., Raleigh Willson, Paul Badgley, Roger Holcomb, Walter Shalap, John Gibson, and Harry Bays. They reported to Lackland AFB Texas for basic training. Enlistees for officer training school were Eugene Shade and Patrick Dotson Jr at Lackland.
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Air Force
Beckley
Gary B. Headley
Jessie B. Headley
Vienna
James M. Davis
Marjorie Davis
Parkersburg
Jerry G. Beavers
Clifford E. Beavers
James R. Sanson
Hazel L. Sanson
St. Albans
John L. Roysden
Roy L. Roysden
Cleveland
James G. F. Rinick
J. G. F. Rinick Sr
Charleston
James E. Withrow
Austin Withrow Jr
Nitro
Melvin R. Gunter
John Gunter
Skelton
Robert C. Ellison
Arthur C. Ellison
Dunns
William Franklin Sizemore
Luther F. Sizemore
Oak Hill
Lonnie Shupe
John Garfield Shupe
Midway
Steven F. Short
Estel L. Short
Rayford
Julius A. Orban
Andy Orban Jr
Robert M. Morris
Lonnie Morris
Beckley Chester J. Burrell
Clyde Burrell
Her
John N._ Bennett
Edward W. Jahn Jr
E. W. Jahn
Marietta
Ohio
Raleigh W. Willson
Robert E. Willson
Paul M. Badgley
Gene C. Sayre
Roger L. Holcomb
Lon H. Holcomb
Cowen
Walter E. Shalap
John E. Shalap
Summersville
John E. Gibson
Lynn B. Gibson
Newport
Harry Michael Bays
Jason M. Bays
Lackland Afb
Texas
Eugene W. Shade
Sylvester Shade
Hamlin
Patrick S. Dotson Jr
P. S. Dotson
Alloy
Stotesbury Museum gains supporter and teen cards sales
Stotesbury Improvement Association adds J A Blackburn as a donor of 50 dollars for the town coal-town museum project. Mrs Sam Leslie confirms Blackburns help. About 2000 membership cards at one dollar each are being sold. first buyer is George Warren Hodel of Glen Daniel. Upcoming church meetings span Daniels Beckley Sophia and Stanaford with January dates. George Titler UMWA District 29 president and six safety lamps plus an antique rescue cap are donated. Titler was the first donor.
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Stotesbury
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Pauline Davis
George Titler
District 29
United Mine Workers of America
Titler
Ministers To Break Bread At Every Third Meeting
The Beckley Ministerial Association held a business breakfast at St. Mary’s Methodist Church. They voted for a permanent breakfast program at every third meeting. The next two sessions will be at 10:30 a.m. on the first Monday in February and March, with April’s meeting as a breakfast, per Rev. Robert E. Mathews.
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Beckley Ministerial Association
St. Mary’s Methodist Church
Robert E. Mathews
Exercise Period Set For Classes In Raleigh County
A 15 minute exercise period for physical education students will start immediately in Raleigh County schools. At Beckley Junior High School a Monday meeting approved a unified program. Kenneth Wheeler, Stoco High School coach and fitness coordinator, proposed calisthenics for the first 15 minutes of each class. Instructors will record results and send them to West Virginia University for state study.
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Raleigh County
Beckley Junior High School
Kenneth Wheeler
Stoco High School
Kennedy
Barron
West Virginia University
FASTEETH Alkaline Powder Brings Comfort to Dentures
Do not fear embarrassing moments from loose dentures. Sprinkle FASTEETH on plates to hold teeth more firmly and feel more comfortable. It does not sour and helps control plate odor. Available at drug counters everywhere.
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Appalachian Chapter
West Virginia Society of Professional Engineers
Robert R. Griffith
John Hindsley
James A. Barnell
Harold E. Crickmer
River Gorge
Hinton
Cumberland
West Viraly
Big Stone Gap
James Kee
Elizabeth Kee
D-W. Va
Robert Squier
Richmond
U. S. Department of the Interior
Charles R. Montgomery
Wheeling
State Commerce Department
Ray DePaulo
ARA
J. R. Carr
John Howard McCulloch
Eugene Scott
del. A. David Abrams
D-Raleigh
Emile J. Hodel
John Faulconer
Robert Holliday
Earl Vickers
Montgomery
Robert Bowers
Pearlie Elmore
Fayette County
Beckley Bay
James Crawford
Charles Douglas Hornsby
Franklin Delno Roosevelt Carr
Harold Saunders
Wendell H. Stover
William Henson
James Robert Donohue
Sam Berilla
Harworth A. Jones
Fred Bryant
Edward Evans Greene
Bill Turner
Robert Saunders
Julius Marcum
Mac Ray Crook
Ronnie Waddell
Henry Sanford Hawks
House Shoes
Orion
Green
Penney
Carl Sullivan
State Centennial Commission
Beckley-Winn Hotel
Appalachian
Komen
Stotesbury Mines
Russell Shumate
Harvey Meadows
Shumate
Orchard Avenue
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Meadows
EGFA
Glen Daniel
Daniels Baptist Church
Daniels
First Baptist Missionary Church Society
Bluestone Baptist Church
Jumping Branch
Stanaford Baptist
Stanaford
Mountain Creek
Helen Baptist Church
Helen
First Baptist Church of
Sophia
Maxwell Hill Baptist Church
Downstair’s
New York
Elizabeth Underwood
Effie Gulley
Collegiate & Young Business Women’s Dept
W.va
The
John Beckley Campbell
Prince St
N. Kanawha
Dacron
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