Rebekah Lodge Installs Whitesville Officers
The Laboka Rebekah Lodge of Whitesville installed officers led by Lucille Graley as noble grand. Ruth Ash Pauline Canterberry Opat Nelson Mills Thompson Ann Burdiss Delia Abverson Leona Keen Hew Vickers Velma Humphries Mae Erwin Leafy Payne Sylvia Webb Grace Mikel Elta Armstrong Jean Cook attended. Guests from Charleston joined a covered dish dinner. Next meeting at 7 30 p m Monday.
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Whitesville Wrns
Laboka Rebekah Lodge
Whitesville
Lucille Graley
Noble Grand
Ruth Ash
Pauline Canterberry
Opat Nelson
Mills Thompson
Ann Burdiss
Delia Abverson
Leona Keen
Hew Vickers
Nancy Jolson Feted At Stork Shower In Glen Rogers
Mrs Nancy Jolson York was honored with a stork shower Monday evening at the York home hosted by Mrs Ruth York and Mrs Donnie Nuckols. Seven games yielded prizes to several guests and gifts were displayed by the honoree as refreshments followed.
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Glen Rogers
RNS
Nancy York Jolson
Ruth York
Donnie Nuckols
York
Hazel Gentry
Ruby Welshans
Mary Louise Sundin
Enfield Watters
Maxine Duncan
Ann Richardson
Myrtle Foles
Welshans
Sundii
Beulah Presley
Gentry
Marie Fortner
Faurice Jeffrey
Carol Sheppard
Margie Durham
Michardson
Duncan
Charlotte Allen
Mildred Brooks
Hattie Wesley
Gas rate rise hits eleven counties in West Virginia
Fayetteville reports a 35 percent average hike in monthly gas bills approved by the Public Service Commission. Leo D. Jackson notes about 20 000 consumers in 11 counties including Wirt Wood Calhoun Ritchie Roane Kanawha Jackson Fayette Raleigh Wyoming and Summers are affected. Protests have been filed in Charleston.
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Fayetteville
RNS
West
Ginia
Leo D. Jackson
Fayelte
Godfrey L
Commission
Wirt
Wood
Calhoun
Ritchie
Roane
Kanawha
Jackson
Fayette
Raleigh
Wyoming
Summers
PSC
Charleston
Parole Violators Back In Raleigh
Two Raleigh County men Buddy Ray Thompson and Eugene Meyers were arrested in Glen Rogers by Raleigh County deputies and jailed for parole violations. They were later to be returned to Beckley for a hearing. Thompson had just been released after 18 months for breaking and entering a high school. Meyers had been released in December after a Raleigh County school break in.
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Pineville
RNS
Raleigh
Wyoming County
Home of
Friends
Raleigh County
Zina French
Farole
Robert Dean
Beckley
Thompson
West Virginia
Glen Rogers
Meyers
Bids Submitted On Mines Center At Mount Hope
Two bids were filed to finance a new U S Bureau of Mines research center at Mount Hope. Equitable Life of Iowa offered five percent interest as the apparent low bid. A Charleston area group bid five and five tenths percent. The center is slated to cost sixty thousand dollars. A community sing follows at Laurel Grove Baptist Church Friday at 7 30 p m with song leader Robert Sweeney of Sweeneysburg in charge.
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Washington
RNS
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Mount Hope
Equitable Life of
Iowa
Charleston
Logan
Beckley
Bluefield
Laurel Grove Baptist Church
Robert Sweeney
Sweeneysburg
Unions Meet Over New Madison Area Hospital Plan
Madison WV area miners and families seek local hospital. O Dell Mullins notes Saturday meeting at Memorial Building to report on welfare payments and employee counts from Westmoreland Wharton and Van locals. Four unions sent reps last week to discuss appeal for a Madison hospital to speed medical care.
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Madison
RNS
O'Dell Mullins
Westmoreland Union
Memorial Building
Westmoreland
Wharton
Kincaid Reelected Chairman of WV Tech English Club
Montgomery Oak Hill senior English major Franklin Kincaid was reelected chairman of the newly formed English Club at West Virginia Institute of Technology. Other officers named include recorder Phyllis Crane and commissary officer Ann Gay.
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Montgomery
Oak Hill
Franklin Kincaid
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Phyllis Crane
Ann Gay
Pratt
Local residents visit family and friends across towns
Mr and Mrs Joseph Holly and Elaine Sharples visit in Pax with his parents Mr and Mrs J C Holly and plan to return Sunday. Mrs Roselle Sutton is hospitalized at Beckley Memorial after surgery. Charley Brown visits grandson Charles Stout in Chariton Heights then travels to Pax. Tom Foster hosts Leonard Sweeney and Suzie Maxwell Hill and visits with J2 Cochran and Mrs Clarence Cochran in Middleburg. Amos Janney and daughter Gail visit Blue Jay, guests of Tom Saunders. Jess Humphrey Henry Canterbury and Hazel Lively visit Charleston. Hartess White of Pax Branch heads to Waynesburg NC for several days.
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PAA Rnsi
Joseph Holly
Elaine Sharples
J.C. Holly
Roselle Sutton
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Charley Brown
Charles Stout
Chariton Heights
Stouts
Pax
N. F
Tom Foster
Leonard Sweeney
Suzie
Maxwell Hill
J. 2. Cochran
Clarence Cochran
Middleen
Blue Jay
Amos Janney
Gail
Tom Saunders
Charleston
Jesse Humphrey
Henry Canterbury
Hazel Lively
Hartess White
Pax Branch
Waynesburg
N. C
Miss Toby Ann Bragg Weds Lloyd Griffin in Lawton
Miss Toby Ann Bragg daughter of Mr and Mrs Julius Bragg Lawton became the bride of William Lloyd Griffin son of Mr and Mrs W D Griffin Men dow Bridge January 3. The Rev David L Lauderdale Lexington Va officiated. The couple both graduates of Meadow Bridge High School with Griffin a Marshall College psychology major and they reside at 1612 12 Third Ave Huntington.
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Lawton
Aliss
Toby Ann Bragg
Julius Bragg
William’ Lloyd Griffin
W. D. Griffin
Marshall College
Third Ave
Huntington
Wound Fatal To Fayette Man Legge Charged In Death
Princeton Oak Hill man Bobby Gene Clendenin 22 died at 3 45 am in a Princeton hospital from a bullet wound behind the right ear Edward Legg 22 of Lavender Sr is being held on open charge awaiting grand jury action A wreck on Route 21 preceded the shooting Legg said the gun belonged to his mother and went off during the car crash Clendenin served in the Army and funeral services are incomplete with survivors listed Morton and Clendenin family members in Oak Hill and Warren Ohio
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Princeton
Oak Hil
Bobby Gene Cléndennin
Duncan Ave
E. D. Bazale
Oak Hill
Edward Lege
Lavender Sr
Mercer County
Legg
Clendennin
Flat Top
Clendeniain
Delaware
Two Welch youths questioned in Pinnacle Creek shooting
Police questioned two Brown Creek residents, a 13 year old victim Ebbi Hicks Jr. was shot in the groin pelvis and transported from a Pinnacle Creek hill. The youths reported a third hunter, 19, who has since left for Ohio. Investigators narrowed suspects to two brothers, possible charges include negligent shooting with up to 1000 fine and hunting license revocation.
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Unui
Ebbi Hicks Jr
Pinnacle Creek
Welch High School
Hicks
Welch
Ohio
Browns Creek
Ivan Pizzino
C. W. Andrick
Military Men In News At Home And Overseas
Several soldiers and airmen are noted for recent training and postings. Pfc Carl Thornton completed a 25 week field radio and repair course at Fort Gordon Georgia and is the son of Mr and Mrs Joe Thornton of Mabscott. Specialist 3 James Owens completed leadership map reading and other courses at Fort Huachuca Arizona and is married to Cynthia Owens of Beckley West Virginia. Airman Basic Bokey Workman of Lester is studying personal equipment specialist training at Chanute Air Force Base Illinois. M Sgt William Bibb trained in atomic warfare tactics at Fort Riley Kansas and is the son of Mr and Mrs J Bibb. Pic Robert Dunford serves with Marine Aircraft Group II at Atsugi Naval Air Station Japan.
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Army
Southeastern Signal School
Fort Gordon
Carl E. Thornton
Joe N.thornton
Mabscott
Thornton
Fort Jackson
Stratton High School
Fort Huachuca
Ariz
C. James A. Owens
Cynthia
Simpkins St. Beckley
Owens
Long Island City
N.Y
Air Force
Bokey R. Worksman
Lester
Chanute Air Force Base
Ill
Pri
Mary
Lackland Air Force Base
Tex
Chanute
Fort Riley
Kan
William P Bibb
Marine Aircraft Group II
First Marine Aircraft Wing
Naval Air Station, Atsugi
Japan
Pic
Robert E. Dunford
Maynard C. Dunford
Western Pacific
Lawmakers Back Proposal To Man Space For Peace
Senate leaders and four former U N delegates voiced support for inviting U N members to join a program to man space for peace. Lyndon Johnson urged Russia and others share satellite data to make outer space a peaceful outpost. No immediate admin reaction.
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Washington
U. N
World Organizaion
Russia
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sparkman
D-Ala
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Cooper
R-Ky
Johnson
Senate
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
CBS
U.N
Outer Space
Senate Foreign Relations’ Committee
Johson
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al Stork
Mines Center
Eax
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Lloyd Griffin
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Oxfords
Nobil
Talon Ban
Neville St
Legge
McDowell
Hunter
Wya
Ming
Andrick
Perhans
Beane
Robert Bailey
Wyoming County Grand Jury
Young Hicks
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Fending
SRC
State Road Commission
Paul Johnson
Kopperston
Willard J. Pugh
Fayette County
Junior McHenry
Virgil Lyons
The
Machine and Metal Trades High School
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
O'Shaughnessy
Wallace Berry
Jackie Cooper
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