Mother and Daughter Hold Active Mabscott Home
Mary Jane Akers age 94 and daughter Martha Rose 75 live on Mabscott Hill where they work a one acre garden from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. each day and then make meals rugs quilts and clothes. They canned 13 quarts of cherries this season and last year 75 jars of apples plus 200 jars of produce. Akers mother of eight sons and four daughters weaves flax, wool and makes clothes for 12 children and still wears bonnets her husband died at 93. Rose taught school riding a horse to Camp Creek and Raleigh and Wyoming counties. she has six children six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Mary Jane Akers
Martha Rose
Mabscott Hill
Akers
Lewis
Josephine Akers
Mercer County
Wyoming
Mercer
Raleigh
Rose
Shelby Rose
Camp Creek
Heart Fund Campaign Hits All-Time High in 1965 West Virginia
The 1965 West Virginia Heart Fund campaign reached a record high with just over 170000 raised, surpassing 1964 by about 21000. Raleigh County total rose to 6229 from 5699, while Fayette, Wyoming counties also posted gains with chairmen named for each.
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Heart Fund
West Virginia
Raleigh County
A. C. Thompson
Elkins
West Virginia Heart Association
Raleigh
Danny Watson
Fayette County
Wanda Farrish
Oak Hill
Wyoming County
Ruth Lynch
Mullens
Head Start Class Totals 49 at Glen White School
Glen White Junior High Elementary hosts forty nine pre school children in Head Start. Instructors include Frances Jennings Miss Margaret Sullivan and Nadine Wade with volunteer helpers Penny Milam Ann Halstead Kathy Frye and Kay Sawyers. Children learn sharing group work and etiquette.
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Glen White
Frances Jennings
Margaret Sullivan
Nadine Wade
Jennings
Sullivan
Crab Orchard
Wade
Prosperity School
Penny Milam
Ann Halstead
Kathy Frye
Glen View
Kay Sawyers
Lester
Neighbors Invited to Send News to Raleigh Register
Fayette Raleigh and Wyoming county residents are urged to report local events to Raleigh Register correspondents marked by the RNS logo Regional News Service. List of contacts with names and phone numbers across Crab Orchard Fairdale Flat Top Glen White Herndon Mullens Maple Fork Mabscott Matheny Mount Hope Mullens Pax Pineville Ravencliff Sabine McGraws Glen Fork Souls ville Rock Creek Sophia.
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Fayette
Raleigh
Wyoming
Raleigh Register
Marge Rhodes Rowe
Fairdale
Glen Daniel
C. W. Walker, Jr
Ghent
Cordie Nugen
Glen White
Donnie Nuckols
Herndon - Covel
Maple Fork
Nancy Bowyer
Mabscott
Elizabeth Robinson
Matheny
Jesse
Oceana
Pam Stewart
Mount Hope
Margaret Maychio
Pax
Hazel Mowell
Pineville
Jack Martin
Ravencliff-Sabine-McGraws
Glen Fork
Soulsville
Elizabeth Williams
Mullens
Deeds On File Record of Real Estate Transfers
Real estate deeds recorded in the county clerk office show transfers in Eunice Marsh Fork Town District and Harper Trap Hill District with values noted for some and none declared for others. Notable entries include Carr to Ida May Halstead $2,700 and Dickens to Levert at $5,500, along with several transfers on State Route 3 and Old Paint Creek Road and multiple tracts in Beckley Town District.
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Alice Carr
Ida May Halstead
Eunice
Marsh Fork
Carr
Delimeda Phipps
Revelle Phipps Holdren
Ronald Holdren
Wanda Phipps Reid
John Reid
Paint Creek Road
Edward and
Elva Phipps
Dellmeda Phipps
Revelle Phipps
Sunset Mausoleum
J. FE
Sara Otto
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Maggie
Quince Dickens
Lee
Ethel Levert
Bolt
Trap Hill
Egbert
Gladys E. Johnson
Norman E
Madeline Buchanan
Lilly Ridge
City of Beckley
Mary Jane Keiser
Joan R. Evans
William F. Davis
Healthy feet tips for staying young on the go
A health column advises foot care for active living. It covers proper socks, shoe fit, heel height, and rest during long excursions, plus blister care and quick caution against opening blisters with pins. It also notes harmless use of Arlidin and potential side effects. The piece includes a photo caption about Head Start centers in Glen White with local families.
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Larry Keaton
Walter Keaton
Hotchkiss
Glen White
Donald Cooper
Johnny Cooper
Lester
Karen Duncan
Ronald Duncan
All Counties Submit Education Plans For Study
All 55 counties submitted plans to participate in the Comprehensive Educational Program passed by the 1965 Legislature. State School Supt. Rex M. Smith said plans cover mathematics science social studies foreign language vocational agriculture guidance and school lunch.
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Jackson’s Mill
UPI
Rex M. Smith
Smith
West
Army engineers set bid opening Aug 19 for Racine Locks project
The U S Army Corps of Engineers will open bids August 19 for work on the Racine Locks and Dam on the Ohio River near Letart Mason County The project includes three inch drive sampling core drilling hydraulic pressure testing and sealing holes with cement It will start about three miles downstream from Letart and Meigs County Ohio
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Huntington
UPI
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Racine
Ohio River
Letart
Mason County
Meigs County
Ohio
Woman Won 1460 Pound Bingo Prize Drifts from Hall
A London bingo player who was told she won 1460 pounds left the hall without leaving her name or address and even forgot to take the prize check with her. The incident highlights a forgotten winnings scenario unfolding at the local venue.
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London
UPI
New Freewill Baptist Church Planned for Fairdale
Ground-breaking ceremonies for a new Freewill Baptist church in Fairdale were led by Rev Wesley Grose. The church organized in 1944 with Rev Jake Adkins as first pastor and will sit on two donated lots, featuring a 2200 square foot sanctuary and 1500 square feet of classrooms over two stories. Trustees include Bob Allen George Barrett and Dwight Daniel with Mrs Bessie Daniel as church clerk. Ground-breaking work by men every Saturday proceeds toward construction led by builder Rev Gerald Hawley.
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Fairdale
Emma Daniel
Oceana
Glen Daniel
Wesley Grose
Jake Adkins
Gerald Hawley
Bob Allen
George Barrett
Dwight Daniel
Bessie Daniel
Bake Sale Drives BYF Fund at Glen White Church
Glen White Missionary Baptist Church Baptist Youth Fellowship members turn baked goods into funds. Mary Acord David White Phyllis Miller Karen Lambert Willa Acord Sandra Parent and Randy Canterbury head the bake drive. Joyce Hatcher serves as counsellor.
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Baptist Youth Fellowship
Glen White Missionary Baptist Church
BYF
Mary Acord
David White
Phyllis Miller
Karen Lambert
Willa Acord
Sandra Parent
Randy Canterbury
Joyce Hatcher
T W Wright Heads Shriners
T W Wright will lead the West Virginia delegation to the National Shrine-Isis Conclave in Charleston at the Milner Ruffner Hotel. Delegates from Beckley include L Goins and Mary Me Heard Bassett. State Attorney General C Donald Robertson and Charleston Mayor John Shanklin address the event. A parade is slated for Saturday afternoon with the Potentate and Commandress Ball that night.
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W. Wright
East Gulf
West Virginia
Charleston
Milner - Ruffner
Wright
Mecca Temple No. 1
Beckley
L. Goins
Mary Me
Heard Bassett
Mecca Court No. 1
C. Donald Robertson
John Shanklin
National Potentate and Commandress
Charles W. Peters
National Imperial Potentate
Atlanta
Margaret Peterson
National Commandress
Chicago
Melodrama at Grandview Aug 2 at Cliffside Amphitheatre
The Showboat Rhododendron tours presents Ten Nights in a Bar Room at Cliffside Amphitheatre Grandview State Park on August 2 to benefit West Virginians unable to travel to riverboat stops. The second act features dancers from Ethel Butler Studio and Beckley Dance Theatre. 1300 tickets at 1.50 for adults 0.75 for children sold at Honey offices Beckley Grandview Jan Campbells Music Store Melody Shop Beckley.
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Cliffside
Grandiew State Park
Rhododendron
West
Honey In the
Honey
Beckley
Grandview
Jan Campbell
Melody Shop
NOW YOU KNOW Divorces rise in the United States
United Press International reports that divorces in the United States increased by 4 percent from 1963 and nearly 10 percent above 1962 totals, according to the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department.
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United Press International
United States
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
West Virginia Recreation Plan Discussed in Philadelphia
State and federal officials discussed a preliminary draft of a statewide recreation plan for West Virginia in Philadelphia. Approval would let the state participate on a 50-50 matching basis with federal funds, said L R Greathouse, recreation coordinator for the State Commerce Department. The conference runs through Tuesday.
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Philadelphia
UPI
West Virginia
L. R. Greathouse
State Commerce Department
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Mabscott Home
State Road Commission
Pri
Simary
Secondary High
ADCU
National Youth Corps
SRC
Ed Hatcher
Norwich
England
Alistair Campbell Smith
Anglian Grill
Raleigh B Register
Rock Creek
Maude Parolari
Whitesville
Sophia
Russell Pegram
Valeigh
Wayne Brandstadt
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Timothy Wayne Waddell
Carl Elmer Waddell
John St
Nannie Walker
John St. Timothy
Carl Waddell
Sprague
Ruth Fortner
Wada Haga
Skelton
Myrtle Jones
Baltimore
Maggie Newson
Ilona Woods
Susan Painter
Harper Rd
Waddell
Linda Lou Fortner
Whitestick Odd Fellow Lodge
Paul Gunter
Noble Grand
Dallas Radford
Hume Vogt
Elgin Wall
Basil Anderson
Ronda King
KK. M. Neal
Inside Guardian
Delmas Elkins
Outside Guardian
Lawrence Brackenrich
The
John Holt
W. L. Johnson
Fred Williams
Left
E.S. Ferguson
H. B. McGraw
McGraws
Kyle Davis
Elgin Hall
Ross Neal
Glen White Byf Holding "Bake Sale
Mrs
Donnie Nickoll
T. W. Wright
Shriners
the Fairdale Freewill Baptist
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