Yogi Bear Steals Spotlight From Adult TV Debuts
TV critic Fred Danzig previews The Yogi Bear Show as a grownup viewing choice while noting it challenges the kiddy label. He references Ed Norton’s syndicated debut, Jackie Gleason’s new format, Murrow’s CBS shift, and other upcoming NBC ABC CBS moments with concise, period-tinged commentary.
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New York
UPI
Yogi Bear
Art Carney
Ed Norton
Bill Hanna
Joe Barbera
Screen Gems
Yogi
Mr. Bear
Missionary Lyle Peterson to Speak on Japan Experiences
Fayetteville church hosts Rev. Lyle Peterson of Kochi Japan for a Sunday 6 pm talk. In 11 years in Japan he has visited remote fishing and mountain villages with a Christian message, working with three local pastors to serve towns without pastors. Peterson, a Carney Michigan native, held pastorships in Picayune Mississippi and Slidell Louisiana, with four children and a furlough year spent in Richmond Virginia before returning to Japan.
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Fayetteville
Lyle Peterson
Kochi
Japan
Fayetteville Presbyterian Church
J. Edwin Stanfield
Stanfield
Peterson
Catherine
Carney, Mich
Wheaton College
Columbia Seminary
First Presbyterian Church of
Picayune
Miss
Slidell
Wrong Man Discharged From Mercer Jail
In Princeton a mix up at Mercer County Jail led to Sam Jones being released after the jailer called his name for discharge. The other prisoner, 23 year old Sam Jones, slept through the switch and took the release, while the intended man awaiting grand jury on a felonious assault charge remained in custody.
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Princeton
Mercer County
Sam Jones
Howver
Jones
Sam Ones
Almanac Highlights for January 31, 1961
The entry notes today is January 31 the first day of the year with 334 days left in 1961. Historical items include births of Franz Schubert Eddie Cantor and the policy shift of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany in 1917. Roosevelt’s 1934 dollar devaluation to 59.06 gold points are listed, with Thoreau’s quote on simple pleasures.
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United Press International
Venus
Mars
Franz Shhubert
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Eddie Cantor
Germany
Roosevelt
Present-For You and Yours Astro-Guid e
Self-reliance is advised as you cannot rely on others for help. People around you act selfishly, but focus on their own affairs. The outlook improves in the early evening so keep social plans. Past note recalls Andrew Jackson narrowly escaping the first presidential assassination attempt on January 30, 1835 when the gun misfired.
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Andrew Jackson
Meat prices unlikely to drop as costs stay high says expert
A report notes a large feed grain supply for hogs cattle and poultry in the coming year. Despite the abundance, meat prices are not expected to fall because other operating costs will stay elevated.
Zodiac Forecast Briefs for Aries to Libra
The snippet gives daily guidance by sun sign. Aries seeks gain today. Taurus may need to adjust plans. Gemini urges tact with coworkers. Cancer notes others seek advice. Leo urges not to press own wishes. Virgo eyes optimism and future gains. Libra finds ample problem solving options.
Surplus Food Adds Butter Beans for West Virginia Aid
West Virginia’s surplus program expands from rice and flour to butter beans pork and dried eggs aiding over 300000 people. Officials noted McDowell and six other southern counties have the highest recipient totals while eligibility rules require low incomes and annual review by social workers.
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Carlo J. Salzano
United Press International
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Mary Ritz
Williamson
Mingo County
Polly Stumbo
John F. Kennedy
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Federal Agriculture
State Department of Public Assistance
DPA
Hubert Perry
Needy Association Aids Fire Victims
Fayette Needy Association aided twelve members of the W. H. Hamilton family after their Fayetteville Route 2 home burned. Director Charles DePaugh announced 187 meals served at the association home in January 2023, bringing total meals since August to 11,309. Mary Brown described the two days menu of vegetable soup sausage hamburgers potatoes white beans cornbread and chocolate milk. Donations by mail are welcomed to E. N. Goode at Merchants & Miners National Bank of Oak Hill. food and clothing donations are greatly needed. The group has clothed 5,387 people.
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Minden
W. H. Hamilton
Fayette
Mary Brown
Io E. N. Goode
The
Merchants & Miners National Bank of
Oak Hill
Zink Farm Owners sue over trespass by telephone firm
Fayet teville RNS reports Oak Hill family owners of the 93 acre Zink farm seek $10 000 damages from Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co alleging trespass and illegal work on their property including cable stringing tree removal and shrub cutting. The civil suit in Fayette County Circuit Court accompanies a State Road Commission condemnation case for eight acres for the Oak Hill Expressway with right of entry for contractors and utilities. The Vecellio and Grogan grading paving contract for the expressway segment from Main Street to New Summerlee Road awaits weather. Plaintiffs include Sue Zink widow of W Brainard Zink and heirs Maude Zink Blanche Poundstone Clara Stegal and John M Zink and Ruth Zink.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Zink
East Oak Hill
Chesa_peake and Potomac Telephone Co
Fayette County
State Road Commission
Oak Hill
Road Commission
Main Street
Summerlee Road
Vecellio and
Grogan
Vecellio
Sue Zink
W. Brainard Zink
Henry
Oak Hill Photographer Named to National Council
Oak Hill photographer Frank E. Mauritz is elected to the National Council of Professional Photographers of America Inc. He and other members will serve a two year term through Dec. 31, 1962 and serve as delegates at the 70th Exposition and Professional Photography and the Ninth National Industrial Photographic Conference in New York City July 29 to August 4 at the Statler Hilton. The council includes 197 leaders from all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Canadian provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
National Council of Professional Photographers of American, Inc
Frank E. Mauritz
Lawton E. Osborn
Statler Hilton
New York City
Washington,d. C
Chapter Queens Chosen By Oak Hill Sorority
Oak Hill Beta Sigma Phi council selects 1961 chapter queens for Beta Theta XI Alpha Theta XI Alpha Rho. Queens will be crowned at the Sweetheart Ball at Oak Hill Armory 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Proceeds support Collins High School Band Boosters for uniforms.
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Oak Hill
Beta Sigma Phi City Council
Ivan Bush Jr
Beta Theta
Eugene Holt
XI Alpha Theta
Fred Dickinson
Gamma Epsilon
Thomas James Jr
XI Alpha Rho
Oak Hill Armory
Collins High School Band Boosters Club
Bush
Betty Widay
Beta Theta Chapter
Holt
Kitty Sue Ballard
Beckley
Discount Corp Sues Over Promissory Note Balances
Associates Discount Corp an Indiana company filing in Fayette County Circuit Court to recover 1241.86 plus 37.25 interest on a 3593.88 note from Addison Hall Morris Creek dated December 27 1958 to Raines Edsel Inc and 692 plus 110.72 interest on a 1316.20 note from Homer Aliff Scarbro dated January 7 1960 to Fleger Motors.
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Fayetteville
ANS
Associates Discount Corp
Indiana
West Virginia
Discount Corporation
Fayette County
Addison Hall
Morris Creek
Raines Edsel, Inc
Homer Aliff
Scarbro
Fleger Motors
Pine Grove Mission Society Organized
Ravencliff reporters note Pine Grove Baptist Church hosted a Tuesday night meeting to form a Ladies Mission Circle. Officers elected include President Mary Lilly and Vice President Ella Perry with Mildred Trump as secretary and Alice Ellis as treasurer. Members Acord, Gentry, Brooks, Mosely, Lafferty, Pearl Lafferty, and Helen Canterbury attended. The next meeting will be the third Monday monthly.
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Ravencliff
RNS
Ladies of
Pine Grove Baptist Church
Mary Lilly
Ella Perry
Mildred Trump
Alice Ellis
Aline Acord
Velvin Gentry
Ula Brooks
Violet Mosely
Engagement Told For Tennis Cope In Mount Hope
Mr and Mrs Henry Cope announce the engagement of their daughter Tennis Jean to John Michael Massing son of Mr and Mrs J W Massing of Mount Hope Plans are made for a summer wedding Miss Cope is a Mount Hope High School graduate attended Beck ley College and is a secretary at Mount Hope High School Massing is a senior at West Virginia University People and places named entities from the source are preserved in this compact card teaser format
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Mount Hope
RNS
Henry Cope
Tennis Jean
John Michael Massing
J. W. Massing
Cope
Mount Hope High School
Beckley College
Massing
West Virginia University
Kennedy interest in national fuels policy voiced
Rep. Elizabeth Kee says President Kennedy is greatly interested in a national fuels policy. She notes the idea won Democratic support from the President's Natural Resources Advisory Committee and that oil and gas interests have resisted previous efforts. Coal industry spokesmen complain of unfair competition and dumping residual oil.
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Washington
UPI
Elizabeth Kee
D-W.va
Kennedy
Kee
Natural Resources Advisory Committee
New Members Sought By Mt. Hope FBLA
Mt Hope High School chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America met to plan membership growth and discuss programs. Twenty nine members attended as Miss Judy Warren presided and Miss Helen Greer was chosen as reporter for the 1961 Mons Spei of Mount Hope High School.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Business Leaders of America
Mount Hope High School
Margaret Brady
Angela Vargo
Susie Humphrey
Judy Warren
Beverley Kemrite
Helen Greer
Mons Spei
Public Notice Statement of Personal Responsibility
Public notice states James T Lilly disclaims responsibility for debts or obligations made by others. Address listed as 464 TCW Pope AFB North Carolina. The notice is dated Tuesday and appears as a standard legal notice format in a local publication.
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James T. Lilly
Pope Afb
N. C
Beckley Mechanical Trades Licensing Notice
Notice to contractors in plumbing electrical heating air conditioning sheet metal and roofing in Beckley. Those active January 1 1961 may obtain a license without exam if applying by January 31 1961. After February 1 1961 applicants must submit to an examination. Copies of the ordinance and license forms available at the City Recorder office.
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City of
Beckley
City of Beckley
Mechanical Trades Board
City Recorder
Mechanical Trades Ordinance
Pineville Man Fined For Reckless Driving
Darrell Moran twenty from Pineville was fined twenty five dollars and costs and released on a reckless driving charge after a hearing before Police Judge Virgil Shannon at Pineville Town Hall Moran was later arrested on a separate count of leaving the scene of an accident. Miller twenty son of Mr and Mrs W A Miller of Pineville was struck by Morans car about 1230 a m Sunday and required 24 stitches to close cuts on his face and neck at Wyoming General Hospital. Moran was arrested at his home shortly before noon following alerts to Oceana Mullens and Welch police.
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Pineville
Darrell Moran
Virgil Shannon
Moran
Wyoming County
W. W. Bolt
Paul Goode
Darrell Miller
W. A. Miller
Mike Bazzie
Miller
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Oceana
Welch
Ravencliff Visitors and Local Travel Notes
Ravencliff residents and relatives visited over the weekend with several trips noted. Ronnie Lilly, son of the Lillys, visited his parents the Rev and Mrs Cameron Lilly. Roy Vaught of Slab Fork stayed with Mrs Goldie Vaught and Ralph Baily of Oceana also visited. Mrs Aden Tilley visited her son Ernest Tilley and family at Princeton, accompanied by sons Theodore of Sabine and Bradey. L T Kellman returned after visiting relatives H B Waller in Charleston and A B Daniel. Buddy Perry, son of Tony and Mrs Perry, returned from Beckley Memorial Hospital after treatment for a broken leg and remaining bedridden for weeks.
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L. T. Kellman
H. B. Waller
Charleston
A. B. Daniel
Buddy Perry
Tony Perry
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Funeral Notices From St. Francis De Sales Church
St. Stanek Domonick age 80 of 304 I Street died January 29 in a local hospital. Requiem high mass January 31 at 10 a.m. at St Francis de Sales. Burial Mt Calvary Sunset Memorial Park. Rosary January 31 at 8 p.m. Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Chapel.
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Stanek Stanek
Domonick
I Street
Rose and Quesenberry
Kanawha Street
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
Raymond Radziveta
Mt. Calvary
Sunset Memorial Park
Rose & Quesenberry Funeral Chapel
Egich Egich
Eli
Eccles
Melton Mortuary
St. Nicholas Creek Orthodox Church
George Simon
Dorvan Wilson
E. E. Strickland
Robert Cormack
Altice Altice
Roxie Mae
Raleigh
North Carolina
Beckley
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral
South Kanawha Street
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Ernest Barley
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China Coast
Murrow
Henry Steele Commager
Amherst College
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Mercer
the Almanac
Henry David Thoreau
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
VIRGO
Field Enterprises, Inc
Perry
McDowell County
South
Logan
Mingo
Kanawha
Wyoming
Needy Association
Oak Hill Family Sites
C & P Telephone Co
Oak Hill Sorority
Beta Sigma Phi
Dickinson
Sharon Miller
Sharon
Julius Miller
Morris Harvey College
James
Margaret Ellen Wooten
Sanger
Cherry Lane
Corportion
Pine Grove Mission Society
JFK
Mt. Hope Fbla
Walter L. Humphrey
Formica
Harvey Cabinet Co
Dickens Dickens
Grady Franklin
Melton
Mattsville
James Godby
Sand Lick
Whitney Blankenship
Elmer Loving
Rufus Vaughn
Roy Bennett
Hubert Herron
Sam Cangemi
Henry Brown
Walter Athey
Kenneth Harper
R. B. Herron
Denny Denny
James Matthew
Webb and Neal
Vance Drive
Mabscot Methodist Church
E. H. Fisher
Lester Tenney
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Charles Bowles
Edgar Sally
Joe Pachuta
John Aoe
Dewey Browning
Elmer Avis
Webb & Neal Funeral Home
Meador Meador
Lillie Emma
Mount View
Old Log Church
Pluto
W. W. Wills
A. H. Chapman
Meador Family
Noah Crotty
Edward Kingsley
Earl V. Richmond
Jesse Richmond
Frannie Meadows
James Meadows
Rose &Quesenberry Funeral Chapel
Means Lumber CO
Sisson St. Ph
City Ave
Douglas T. Bryant
Johnstown Rd
Quesenberry Funeral
Dial CI
Williams Funeral Home
Sophia
W. VA
Enen Newspapers
Prince Street
Beckley Newspapers
Robert L. Amick
Todd's
Beaver
Dial
E. Shrewsbury
Buckley Photo Service
Church Street
National School of Aeronautics
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Southern Institute of Graphic Arts
South Street
Nashville
Tennessee
Dalcroze
Dimitri Mitropolous
Finco & Rem
MacArthur, W. Va
Guaranteed Radio & TV
Dial CL
Harper Road Radio & TV
Sparks TV
Prince St
Wrights
Jennings Radio & TV
MacArthur
Halstead
Ashworth Firestone
W. C. Rogers Plumbing & Heating
Temple St
Morris
Lovitz Television
John W. Eye
West
Neville St
Thelma
Main _St
1St Frank's
Kanawha St
Jan Campbell Music Co
L. Gene Riffe
Raleigh Insurance Agency
Billy Clarke
J. C. Spence
Twin Oaks
Crab Orchard
Jim Green
Ignace Paderewski
Avon TV
Posey-Saxon
Dry Creek
Slab Fork
Raleigh County
Avon
Coalwood
Gure
Rev. Moore
Sprague
Midway Wrecking Company
Pluto Road
Onyx Walker
Deepwater
Earl Smith
Huntington
F.d.1.c
Drive
H. Neal
Mgr
Sophia Transfer Co
Midway
Fred Sparks
Cole’s
Sunrise Ave
Paul Daily — Hines
Rupert
F.H.A
Nickie
End Valley Drive
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