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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1967
Page
6
The State Road Commission begins an origin-destination traffic survey in Mullens Wyoming County from Tuesday to Friday. Thirty staff will operate three survey stations to collect data on W V 16 and W V 54 with brief one to two minute stoppages. Inclement weather may delay the survey.
The section of West Virginia 54 between Maben and Otsego is active during upgrades while a future project aims to extend improvements from Otsego to Mulens.
Circles of the Woman's Society of Christian Service at the First Methodist Church plan meetings Tuesday at 7 30 p m since July 4 fell on a regular night. Circle 2 gathers at Mrs John Millers home and Circle 3 with Mrs R J Williams. Circle 5 meets with Mrs C W Burdiss Circle 6 with Mrs Ted Robinette Circle 7 at Mrs Vance Thompsons home and Circle 8 with Mrs Robert Shumate.
The automobile insurance industry led highway safety long before national awareness grew. The American Insurance Association notes that firms have promoted safety since 1922, spending at least 50 million annually. In 1959 the industry formed the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to combat the problem and supports major safety groups nationwide.
A Bluestone Presbytery meeting is set for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Oak Hill Presbyterian Church. Mullens residents Mrs Harold Bradford and daughter Peggy visit WVU in Morgantown for orientation and campus tours as part of their plans for education and housing facilities. The session discusses reorganizing the synod to form a new center in the Huntington area.
Vice squad detectives Ed Rifkin and Martin Eshoo said they were checking a tip that a north side peep parlor planned to introduce a dance named the Gaza strip. Rifkin is Jewish and Eshoo says he is of Arabian descent.
A Friday Oceana Town Hall gathering led by Congressman James Kee reviewed flood protection and water supply for Oceana, Matheny, Lillyhaven, and Lillydale. Officials from the Soil Conservation Service, FHA, EDA and local government outlined plans and funding for the R. D. Bailey Reservoir, Twin Falls Park, and three proposed watershed sites with aims to boost flood control and regional development.
The Wyoming County Rescue Unit dragged the Guyandotte River for two and a half hours Sunday after 13 year old Clarence Duane Brown drowned while swimming at Skin Fork near Green Camp. His body was recovered from about 15 feet of water near the dive site. Brown was the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Brown.
Pax PAX and other families frequented by visits from Marshalltown Iowa to Packs Branch and Weirwood as relatives gather. Harold Powers and Bennett families from Clarksburg joined. James Mullens improves after a week in Oak Hill Hospital.
A Soviet built Air Gui Nea airliner overshot the runway in Casablanca, Morocco, and struck a ground obstacle. The 102 passengers and crew aboard were reported unhurt, with the craft stopping some distance from the runway.
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