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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1968
Page
11
A reflective series examines the Black American experience from colonial times to the present, tracing invisibility and contribution. It notes the long struggle for equality, highlights pivotal Black figures and events, and questions future paths for Black Americans within U.S. history.
Saulsville church hosted a two day meet of the Friendship Baptist Association with worship services and ordination of Marvin Phil Ups to deacon. Visitors from surrounding counties and Virginia attended as Elder Wilbur McKinney led the series. The host church had just completed remodeling with new sanctuary walls and ceiling.
Pineville High School junior Miss Bobbie Hamilton, state Future Homemakers of America president, attends the national FHA meeting July 8 11 in Miami Florida. She will present the state flag at roll call, join a teenage panel, and attend officer installation. Accompanied by advisor Mrs Mary Collins, Hamilton is a former Pineville chapter president and leader in Junior Woman's Club, Student Council, and quiz bowl.
Mrs. Ash Hurst returns to Ravencliff from Atlanta after visiting her son and daughter in law Mr. and Mrs Neely Hurst. She traveled with daughter Mrs. John Cozort and granddaughter Susan along with the Shrewsbury family from Huntington. The group plans several days in Ohio before returning home. They visited Glen Fork to see L C Shrewsbury and stayed with Lucian Daigneaullt and his wife in Edwardaylile. The Rev Oscar Canterbury hosted guests and spoke at Glen Fork Baptist Temple as the party moved between Meadow Bridge and home.
Raymond Cools aged 57 was shot and killed at his home in Whitesville. A former justice of the peace and cos operator, he died from a single .38 caliber pistol shot in the back. Boone County prosecutor T. R. Mullins said the shooting is being investigated as accidental. The only other person present was Mrs Hunt. her statement remains unrevealed.
C W Blankenship of Clear Fork was honored with a birthday dinner at his home Sunday. Attending were his wife and numerous relatives from Pittsburgh to Halesville, with friends calling during the day.
Mullens locals and relatives travel for visits across West Virginia Virginia and North Carolina. Families from Mullens spend time in Charleston Ork Hill Roanoke Winston Salem and Harrisburg while others plan trips to San Francisco Disneyland and Myrtle Beach.
Pineville will start a Tidy 15 class for mine maintenance mechanics at Wyoming Vocational Technical School. The program is funded under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1982 and sponsored by the Wyoming County Board of Education.
A West Virginia youth, Michael G Kuhn, 13, of Fayetteville, was sentenced to an undefinite term at a federal youth center for the Nov 13 1967 Hartley National Bank robbery in Bedford County after pleading guilty to juvenile delinquency. He has spent over three months at the Ashland Kentucky center undergoing psychiatric examination and parole is recommended.
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An advertisement-style note touts Peristilela as a solution to slow digestion and discomfort. It claims Carter's Fills with its Inxative formula awaken peristalsis and ease lower intestinal issues, urging readers to take Carter's Pills for relief.
A Chicago survey cited by the Anti-Tobacco Center of America reports 52 percent of doctors do not smoke with many quitting recently due to evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer. The tablet aids nicotine reduction and fewer than 2 percent of 150000 users still smoke. info requests to the center in New York City.
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