Military Men In The News At Home And Overseas
Several West Virginia servicemen are featured. Pvt Clarence E B Schoolfield of Beckley lives at Tams with wife Carol and parents Mr and Mrs John Schoolfield. entered the Army in 1959 and trained at Fort Hood Texas a 1955 Byrd Prillerman High School graduate. Privates James Foster and Gale R Higgins completing advanced armor training at Fort Knox Kentucky both Beckley area natives. Melvin C Anderson promoted to private first class at Fort Bragg assigned to the 82nd Airborne. Army entry May 29 1959. basic at Fort Jackson and jump school at Fort Bragg. 1959 Woodrow Wilson High School graduate. Pvt Harold D Worley completing recruit training at Parris Island and infantry training at Camp Lejeune. Pvt Raymond E Cook serving with the Second Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. Pvt E Donald Fox assigned to Signal Corps at Fort Gordon home in Price Hill. Two Hurst brothers aboard USS Franklin D Roosevelt on a seven month Sixth Fleet tour. Specialists Emory L Elkins and James P Plumley earned expert infantryman badges in Mainz Germany. Elkins son of Rev and Mrs Homer Elkins Hilltop. Plumley son of Ernest Plumley Mount Hope. both West Virginia natives with local schooling details.
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Augsburg
Germany
Clarence EB. Schoolfield
Carol
John Schoolfield
Tams
556Th Medical Company
Army
Fort Hood
Tex
Byrd-Prillerman High School
Fort Knox
Beckley
James Foster
Gale R. Higgins
Foster
Edna M. Foster
Elliott High School
Higgins
Joseph Higgins
Clark St
Woodrow Wilson High School
Fort Bragg
N. C
Melvin C. Anderson
Quillie Anderson
Bailey Ave
82Nd Airborne Division
Fort Jackson
S. C
Anderson
Marine Corps Depot
Parris Island
Camp Lejeune
Pvt
Harold D. Worley
Delbert Worley
Poplar St
Mullens
Signal Corps
Fort Gordon
E. Donald Fox
Price Hill
Ted Fox
Bradley
Mount Hope
Beckley Junior High
RNS
Sixth Fleet
Mediterranean
Johnny F. Hurst
Fireman
Gilmer J. Hurst
Sidney J. Hurst
Saxon
505Th Infantry
Mainz
Emory L. Elkins
Homer Elkins
Hilltop
James P. Plumley
Ernest Plumley
Elkins
Fort Ord
Calif
Meadow Bridge High School
Glenville State College
Plumley
Mount Hope High School
Carolyn
Three Men Named As Inspectors In West Virginia
Crawford L. Wilson announces permanent mine inspector appointments for Almont Hicks 1408 Maxwell Hill Rd James M. Cook Midway and R. L. Keaton Bradley. Hicks and Cook assumed July 1 Keaton’s appointment effective today all three serve at Beckley mines office covering Winding Gulf and New River region after a year probation.
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Crawford L. Wilson
West Virginia
Ten Hired At Bluestone Reservoir Project
The Governor's STEP program starts with 10 laborers hired at Bluestone Reservoir from 250 applicants. Interviews for Babcock State Park and Camp Creek State Forest jobs were set for today, with 40 to 50 more to be added within a month as equipment arrives. The project budget totals $95,000, with $154,000 at Babcock and $97,000 at Camp Creek.
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Bluestone Reservoir
Babcock State Park
Camp Creek State Forest
David Gilpin
Conservation Commission
Bluestone
Bull Falls
Crumps
Camp Creek
Damaged furniture owner recounts interstate accident
James Osborne of Cleveland Ohio was traveling to Bristol Tennessee when the auto trailer he was transporting detached from two small children. none were injured. Osborne noted the furniture was not insured.
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James Osborne
Cleveland
Ohio
Brisol, Tenn
Ing
Osborne
All’s Not Fun At Coney Island Review
A 1930s era novel set on Coney Island follows Zale and friends through jealousy, violence, and disillusion as they confront an adult world they barely grasp. Mandel’s first success reappears with feverish emotional intensity against a backdrop of political menace, though the prose drags in places.
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Zale
Coney Island
Nannie
Paul
Fishie
Marcia
Jessie
Lyn
Daniel
Zara
Kiugs
Otto
Bull
Cumber
Current Best Sellers and Notable Reads
A compact review listing fiction and nonfiction titles including Advise and Consent, Hawaii, The Leopard, The Constant Image, Trustee From The Tool Room, May This House Be Safe From Tigers, Folk Medicine, The Law and the Profits, The Enemy Within, and Mandel’s continued career. The passage notes Mandel’s reluctance to give up writing and portrays his characters as raw, tense figures in a dark somber narrative.
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King
Jarvis
Parkinson
Kennedy
Mandel
Social Security Proofs for Early Retirement Benefits
A guide detailing documents needed to speed payment of first Social Security checks. Bring proof of age such as a birth certificate or acceptable alternatives. If widowed, bring death and marriage certificates and children's birth records. For self employed or employed claimants, provide tax returns, wage records, and earnings evidence. If missing proofs, ask the office for accepted alternatives.
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Social Security Office
United States
Bureau of Vital Statistics
District Director of Internal Revenue
Golden Tube Sentry Unit and Accessories Sale Ad
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Golden Tube Sentry
Golden Satellite
Golden
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Winston
Depression
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Stalin
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Hawaii
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di Lampedusa
Constant
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Shute
North Fayette St
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Wallace Noble
N. Kanawha St
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Oom Idene
London News
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Chambray
S. M
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Clearaway
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