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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1960
Page
7
Mrs. Robert Akers spoke at the Cedar Grove and Glasgow Woman's Club meeting in Cabot Hall Glasgow. She described Dresden Craft and a non firing at home method, demoing five color ideas and four ways to paint figurines for home decor.
All veterans and interested residents are urged to attend a Sunday meeting at 2 p m at Oceana Town Hall to discuss forming a National Guard unit. Eldon Cook acting mayor says a unit could be a platoon of the Logan Detachment with Capt. Jack Cregar and an assistant attending from Logan.
Janet Kahle of Concord College receives the James Lewis Howe Award from the Blue Ridge Section of the American Chemical Society. The honor goes to the outstanding chemistry and chemical engineering major at each of nine Blue Ridge institutions. The award honors Dr. James Lewis Howe, a platinum metals expert and Washington and Lee University historian. The presentation was by Dr. Helen L. Whidden at Roanoke College Salem Virginia during a section meeting. Concord attendees included Miss Kahle Robert Bennett Professor A. H. Montgomery and Mrs. Ben W. Bin.
Donnie Cook, 17, named BYF er of the Month for January at Toneda Baptist Church Oceana. He has served as youth fellowship president vice president and treasurer and is Rockcastle Association witness chairman. A senior honor student at Oceana High School he managers football teams and leads school clubs The Tomahawk Times business manager and yearbook staffer.
A Mount Hope Christian Church stork shower honored Mrs. Dudley Burgess formerly Theresa Bryant. Hostesses were Mrs. H. C. Brown Mrs. Page Humphrey and Mrs. Robert Andrews. Prizes went to Mrs. Nelson Davis Mrs. Carol Williams Mrs. June Lancaniese and Miss Joan Sink. Attendees included Mrs. Elsie Bryant Mrs. Bernard Burgess Mrs. Deck Vance Mrs. Tissue Mrs. Mary Bailey and others.
Newark New Jersey Magistrate Joseph F Walsh fined himself 15 for driving through a red light. He told the patrolman who arrested him that his wife agrees he was wrong.
Historical notes describe dogs serving in early warfare with leather armor bearing spikes and knives for combat, transitioning to modern roles such as scouting and first aid. The fragment outlines a shift from armored dogs to utilitarian military tasks.
A charting conference for 4-H members will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Building dining room Fayetteville. Harley V. Cutlie of Jackson's Mill, assistant state 4-H club leader, will lead with hosts the 4-H Pin Weavers. Eligible members are 15 plus with two years of club work for charting and 14 plus with one year for pre charting. John D. Cutlip, Fayette County 4-H Agent, urged all members to attend.
OCEANA RNS Governor Cecil H Underwood will speak at a Lincoln Day Dinner in February if plans by the Wyoming County Republican League proceed. Date and other speakers to be announced. The group, formerly the Young Republicans Club, has new officers: Stacy Mullens president Ralph Cook vice president Lloyd Blackburn secretary treasurer Billy E Jackson assistant secretary treasurer Executive Board Toney May Roy Lee McCoy Bill Browning.
At Ameagle Presbyterian Church a Willing Workers Club meeting approved assisting the Ameagle Parent-Teacher Association with a spaghetti dinner January 30 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the school. Two new members were accepted, and hostess Mrs. Carl Hamilton will host the evening.
Oak Hill Elementary School auditorium hosts a PTA meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday to plan the spring talent show with members to form the cast.
Acy Aliff filed as a candidate for justice of the peace in the Oceana district under the Wyoming Circuit Clerk. A lifelong Democrat and longtime deputy under five sheriffs, he cites experience and aims to serve the public fairly and honestly.
RNS report five Selective Service registrants from Local Board No. 21 Mullens are ordered to report for armed forces physical examinations. The five are Okey Ray Griffith of Basin Paris Landon Brown and Landon Bruce Lusk of Cyclone Dempsey Lee Lilly of Oceana and Jerry Bailey of Baileysville.
Oceana Fire Chief Bernard Bailey completed investigations into two fires on Tuesday. The Hash residence at Kopperston suffered 1000 dollars in insured building damage and 1500 dollars in uninsured furnishings, started by a Hash child. A Lilly Haven store owned by Mrs Lena Graham sustained 1500 dollars interior damage with insurance coverage. cause undetermined.
Charles A. Duncan, 54, died of a heart attack at his Oak Hill home. Services were held at Collins Funeral Home Chapel in Glen Jean at 2 p.m. with Rev. Robert Madoski officiating. Burial followed at High Lawn Memorial Park. He was born February 17, 1905 in Oak Hill and survived by his father S. E. Duncan, two brothers Samuel E. Jr. and Curtis E., a daughter Norma Sue O Neal of Tice Florida, and his church membership in Oak Hill Brethren Church.
The Local Board No 3 in Fayetteville has called eight registrants for armed forces physical examination on February 4. Names include Virgil Ralph McClung Alvin Mason Dahmer Robert Walter Traynham Jack Clarence Bishop Ralph Clyde Rakes Greeley Jackson Lewis Joe Leon Neal and Charles Floyd McGhee.
Ameagle parents and teachers discussed buying a school freezer and issuing membership cards at Monday night’s PTA session attended by about 25 people. A spaghetti supper planned for January will raise proceeds toward the freezer, with Willing Worker’s Club aiding the effort. Mrs. Joyce Withrow led the meeting.
There are over 68,000,000 passenger cars on the nation’s highways today. Automotive advertisers, who invest more money in daily newspapers than any other group of advertisers, spent $159,227,000 in newspapers in 1958 to reach the drivers of these cars.
The Women of Mount Hope Presbyterian Church will hold a dinner meeting on February 7 with Mrs. W G Callaway as chair for the World Missions talk. At the January meeting Mrs. W A Haslam spoke on Understanding the Bible, focusing on Matthew chapters five to seven.
Intermediates in Mount Hope Scout Troop No 6 planned activities including two skits for next meeting and a study of citizen division in handbooks. They prepare for their first class rank and next week begin taking cookie sale orders, with a farewell party for Cecilia Ann Harless who moves to Staunton Virginia.
Mr and Mrs Hillard Malcolm Long of Beards Fork announce the birth of a daughter on January 20. The baby weighed five pounds eleven ounces and joins the family as a new arrival in the community.
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