Pineville Election Faces Citizens Tuesday
Pineville voters will decide whether to reelect Mayor Vaughan Stewart and the incumbent slate reflecting a record of improvements including street work and new town hall. The Citizens ticket led by Everett Collins fields six candidates for council, with five seats open and the recorder C Virgil Shannon running on both tickets. A three year levy for paving and street repairs is also on the ballot.
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Pineville
RNS
Vaughan Stewart
Polning
Stewart
People’s
H. E. Crews
Fred Huffman
Edgar Rose
Claude Farley
John Thomas
Citizens
Everett
Ram" Collins
Avery Dixon
Eugene, Neal
Dewane Belcher
John Lege
Braxton Ball
C. Virgil Shannon
Svate
Elections set in 30 West Virginia towns
The Associated Press reports municipal elections will be held tomorrow in at least 30 West Virginia cities including Morgantown Keyser Benwood Buchanan Welch and Wellsburg. Incumbent mayors face varied opposition while several towns report unopposed slates and multiple wards seek council seats.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Morgantown
Keyser
Benwood
Buchannon
Welch
Wellsburg
Raphael Deegan
Henry Crebs
Martyn Luegar
West Virginia University
Republican Party
Marshall County
Glen Dale
John J. Higgins Jr
Lee E. Dixon succumbs at 82 in Mullens
Lee Ed mond Dixon age 82 dies at a Mullens hospital after a recent stroke causing a fall at the Akers home. He was born May 13 1876 in Franklin County Virginia and was a Roanoke silk mill worker retired and lived with his daughter Her man L Akers family. Surviving sons Willie and James a step daughter Helen Turnbull and a twin brother preceded him. Funeral planned 2 pm Wednesday at Oakey's Church Street Chapel Roanoke with burial at Evergreen Cemetery Roanoke.
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Akers
Roanoke
Dixon
Sally Lou
Mullens
Oak Hil
Franklin County
Virginia
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Willie
James
Newport News
Helen Turnbull
Oakey
Local notes on visits and hospital stays
Mrs. Della Lively returns from Edwight after visiting son Earl Lively and attends nephew Clifford Lively's graduation. Alfred Keffer discharged after a two day hospital stay. Several families host guests and attend graduations at Marshall College and Beckley Hospital with updates on health and travel.
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Della Lively
Edwight
Earl Lively
Clifford Lively
Guyandotte
Mich
Maggie Lively
Alfred Keffer
Raleigh General Hospital
Daphne Humphrey
Dena Lively
Henry Canterbury
Hazel Lively
Jesse Humphrey
Crestline
Conway
Omhar Spencer Jr
Stanley and
Gary
Baltimore
Othar Spencer
J.D. Janney
Spencer
Douglas Bland
Jerry
Donna
F. C. Aviation
Noel Spencer
San Diego
Calif
J. D. Janney
Beckley Hospital
Frank Tyree
Elaine
Larry
Marshall College
Huntington
T. J. Shumate
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Shumate
Bernard
Alfred
Millville
N. J
Inlaw
Ben Butterfield
Roger
Danny
Valpariso
Ind
Harry F. Walters
Tommy
Judy
Dwight
Pamela
Havre de Grace
Butterfields
Fred Tuthill
Indiana
Butterfield
Mary Ann Null Heads Pen Pals at Fayatteville High
Mary Ann Null was elected president of the Pen Pal Club at Fayetteville High School. Officers include Judy Garvin as vice president Jo Anna McClelland treasurer and Juanita Clay secretary. The club honored guests at a Friendship Hall buffet and initiated new members. Judy Allen was named assistant to the sponsor Mrs Louise Smith. Linda Carson and Janelle Houchins received club emblems before leaving for other schools. A special guest was Mrs Charles L Garvin Jr.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Mary Ann Null
Pen Pal Club
Fayetteville High School
Judy Garvin
Jo Anna’McClelland
Juanita Clay
Friendship Hall
The
Methodist Church
Louise Smith
Judy Allen
Linda Carson
Janelle Houchins
Charles L, Garvin Jr
Births Reported at Wyoming General Hospital Mullens
(RNS) Five births recorded at Wyoming General Hospital include Michael James Lester a six pound five ounce boy born May 25 to James F. Lester and wife of Rhodell Susan Arlene King a seven pound ten ounce girl born May 23 to Luther Peyton King and wife of Mullens Debra Lynn Cole an eight pound seven ounce girl born May 25 to Hubert E. Cole Jr. and wife of Mullens William Eugene Covey a eight pound two ounce boy born May 22 to Johnny E. Covey and wife of Mullens Clayton Gibson a seven pound fifteen ounce boy born May 22 to Paul Edward Brooks of Corinne and wife.
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Mullens
Wyoming General Hospital
Michael James
James F. Lester
Rhodell
Susan Arlene
Luther Peyton King
Debra Lynn
Hubert E. Cole Jr
William Eugene
Johnny E. Covey
Clayton Gibson
Paul Edward Brooks
Corinne
Adult Education Topic At Fayette Sorority Meeting
Mrs Altice Proctor spoke to Xi Alpha Theta Chapter Beta Sigma Phi on adult education its history and need for lifelong learning. She noted aging affects learning rate and urged use of all resources to stay current while outlining plans for a social year and future activities. The next gathering June 10 at City Park will be a hamburger fry hobby party.
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Oak Hill
ANS
Altice Proctor
Xi Alpha Theta Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Proctor
Louis Hussar
Hubert Watson
John Duda
Everett Bragg
Ruth Easton
James Painter
D. C. Rapp Jr
R. R. Thomas Jr
Ernest Fazio
William Moore
O. W. Dixon Jr
Glen Rogers and Beckley residents visit, travel records
Glen Rogers residents move to Glen Daniel. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Virgil McNeill with family in Indiana. Box family splits visits to Beckley Marion Baltimore. Other locals host Air Force members, Marshall College student Carolyn Robertson returns from Huntington. Infant Harvey Dewaine Johnson home after hospital stay.
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Glen Rogers
Charles Sheppard
Glen Daniel
Virgil McNeill
Sidney Box
Marion
Ind
Box
Aubrey Nuckols
Huntington
Joe Wesley
San Pedro Calif
Bolt
Beckley
Charles Taylor
Washington, D. C
Kenner Brown
Keith Brown
Washington
Vivian Benson
Enfield Walters
Harvey Dewaine
Wayville Johnson
Wyoming General Hospital
Amul- Tens
Harvey York
Boy Scouts Tour Bluefield Armory
Twenty members of Boy Scout Troop 5 visited the National Guard Armory in Bluefield on Thursday night with Scoutmaster Lloyd Bright and committee members Harry Stewart Jess Gravely Haven McKinney a parent. Captain George Nucko demonstrated artillery including a carbine rifle and M one oh six a radio system and a tank tour.
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Tommy Burcham
Haven McKinney
Jack Allen
Gale Stewart
Butch Bolen
Ralph Butler
Raymond Branham
Richie Rice
Paul Ritchie Jr
Tommy Worrell
Gerald Graham
Pat McGhee
David Williams
Larry Fields
Wayne Compton
Jimmy Elkins
Donald Oxley
Bill Kingdon
Mrs. F Balding Feted At Stork Shower In Fayetteville
A stork shower honoring Mrs. Franklin Bud Balding was held Wednesday night in the Legion Home Chestnut Room. Hostesses were Mrs. M E Lives and Mrs. Georgia Marie Balding. After games, the guest opened her gifts and dessert was served to a large group of attendees.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Franklin
Bud” Balding
Chestnut Room
Legion Home
M. E.lives
Georgia Marie Balding
Charles Balding
Forrest L. Thomas
W. L. Dunlap
Clinton Lively
Alice Painter
Charles L. Daniels Jr
Harald Williams
Joann Feazell
Ruth Ford
Barbara Radford
Betty Bishop
Ethel Tennant
Anna Oxendale
Flora Mae Copley
Sandra Stone
Karen Akers
Judith Entzminger
Martha Lively
Janice la Fon
Loretta Rakes
Lorraine Whaples
Edna Roebuck
Eva Williams
Peggy Miller
Robbie Oxendale
Edith Dillon
Ethel Radford
Virginia Radford
J. C. Blume
Keith Hunt
Bland K. Hesse Jr
Marriage license applicants filed in Fayette County
Fayetteville notices list 14 couples filing marriage license applications in the Fayette County Clerk's office. The pairs include Toney Adkins and Geraldine Adkins, Patricia Sampson, Kathryn Irene Martin, James F. Fox and Leola Small, Rodney Jones and Victoria Triplett, Martin Kroan Jr and Patsy McCune, James L. Murphy and Sherry Rice, Teddy Moore and Linda Payne, Clinton Minor and Cynthia Cuthbertson, Bobby MacMillion and Julia Wriston, Max Nichols and Claudette Bess, Shirley Treadway and Helen Sampson, Ernest Woods and Dorothy Meadows, Nevil Wriston Jr and Georgia Bailey, among others.
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Fayetteville
ANS
Fayette County
Mamie Fox
Leola Marjorie Small
Charles
Marjorie Small
Edmond
Rodney Richard Jones
Hope
Claudius H
Eva Jones
Victoria Marie Triplett
Oak Hill
Andy G
Gladys Triplett
Martin L. Kroan Jr
du Bois
Marlin
Martha Kroan
Patsy Ann McCune
Lawton
Earl and
Latisha McCune
James L. Murphy
Oscar
Beulah Murphy
Sherry Ann Rice
Lochgelly
William J
Mae Rice
Michael Lepto
Kilsyth
John
Helen Lepto
Patsy Epperly
Mount Hope
Louis
Arlene Epperly
Teddy Marshall Moore
Beards Fork
Walter
Elsie Moore
Linda Lou Payne
Kincaid
Wade
Opal Payne
Clinton Harry Minor
Cynthia Virginia Cuthbertson
Mose
Joelda Cuthbertson
Red Star
Bobby Gene MacMillion
Lonnie
Naomi McMillion
Julia Ann Wriston
Luther
Edith Wriston
Page
Max Dwayne Nichols
Paul
Stella Nichols
Claudette Ann Bess
Claude
Edith Bess
Shirley E. Treadway
Walker A
Ida Mae Treadway
Helen Virginia Sampson
Robert
Gertrude Sampson
Ernest Woods
Ernest
Mae Woods
Dorothy Meadows
Oak Hill WCTU Holds Dedication Ceremony
Oak Hill WCTU dedicates four children in a service led by Rev. Robert Matherly. Mothers named include Mrs. Shirley Sampson and others. Devotional by Mrs. Kenneth Burgess emphasizes home building with Jesus as cornerstone. Attendees listed. Pineville recipient earns National Radio Institute diploma in Washington.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Charles Tucker
Robert Matherly
Matherly
Christ
Shirley Sampison
Jimmy
Charles Underwood
Patricia Ann
T. D. Chapman
Sherrie Ahn
Bobbie
Kenneth Burgess
Jesus
Clyde Daney
J. P. Staten
Lillian Childers
Pineville
Ross
David Acord
Ploma
National Radio
D. G
Rites Incomplete For J Phillips
Final rites for John Wiley Phillips are incomplete as of noon. A retired farmer and former mine and road foreman, he died Sunday morning at Mullens Hospital from cerebral hemorrhage and heart disease. He leaves four sons, six daughters, four sisters, twenty two grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, and is at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home in Mullens.
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Pineville
Rns
John Wiley Phillips
Phillips
Fife
Mullens
Cabin Creek
Wyoming County
Mary
Roy
Winding Gulf
Drew
George
Paul
Rockview
James Jordan
Charleston
Jack Cook
Harry Lamsbert
Chicago, al
Gladys Pendry
Jacksonville
Fla
Ted Hall
Bramwell
Mary Ann
Ollie Halsey
New Richmond
Lou Tolliver
Barden
Ohio
Flora Lambert
Blanchester
Nancy McCalister
Belle
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home
Mulens
Coal River Personal Arrivals for Memorial Day Weekend
Coal River area hosts guests visiting relatives over Memorial Day. Listed are visitors from Bremen Indiana Columbus Ohio Hamlin Ind Sylvester Itmana Detroit Michigan and Louisville Kentucky staying with Colcord residents such as the Stovers the Harrisons and Pettrys. Notable names include Richard Kreppe Julian Walk Everett Lilly Valley Williams Gene Stover and Clowney Stover with multiple families from Artie Clear Creek and surrounding towns.
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Colcord
RNS
Richard Kreppe
Bremen
Ind
Clayton Stover
Jesse Short
Norwalk
Coal River
Julian Walk
Etta’ Grace
Linda ‘Lou
Carol Sue
Columbus
Waller Arthur
Richard Hamilton
Darrell
Bobby
Richard Jr
Sylvester
Carl Pettry
Gon
Jackie
Indiana
Richard
Gary
Debbie Casteele
Itmana
Leona Thompson
ARTIE
Everett Lilly
Boston
Mass
Valley Williams
Lilly
Clear Creek
William Mickel
Decota
Bill Nelson
Charleston
Maxie Malago
Reba Jean Meador
Louisville
Meador
Gene Stover
Tina
Wilma
Deetroit
Mich
Clowney Stover
Eisenhower to Invite De Gaulle to Talks Next Week
Paris Figaro reports President Eisenhower plans to invite French Premier Charles de Gaulle to join next weeks talks with British Prime Minister Macmillan. The aim is to coordinate American British and French policy amid potential Soviet negotiations. Macmillan will visit the United States to speak at DePauw University and meet Eisenhower in Washington.
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Paris
Figaro
Eisenhower
Charles de Gaulle
Macmillan
Washington
Soviet Union
United States
de Pauw University
Greencastle
Ind
American Legion Award Denied To Non Citizen
Roswitha Bernhardt 17 a Hanover High School junior was denied an American Legion Auxiliary award because she is not a citizen. The Germany native and her parents came to the United States six years ago and have not yet become citizens. She was chosen by the school’s senior class and faculty as the most worthy girl in her class.
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Hanover, Mass
Roswitha Bernhardt
Hanover High School
American Legion Auxiliary
Germany
Auxiliary
Miss Bernhardt
Roswitha
Miss George Engaged To Dr. Robert Gast
Engagement announced by Mr and Mrs Austin Lee George of Pittsburgh Pa for Mary Elizabeth George to Dr Robert Charles Gast son of Mrs Hors lace Demund Gast of Mount Hope The couple has ties to Wellesley Goucher Marshall College and Carnegie Institute of Technology respectively.
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Mount Hope
Mary Elizabeth George
Robert Charles Gast
Austin Lee George
Pittsburgh
George
Wellesley College
Goucher College
Dr. Gast
Hors Lace
Demund Gast
Marshall College
Carnegie Institute of Technology
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Richwood
Romney
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Capon Bridge
Grant Town
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McMechen
Moorefield
New Haven
Northfork
Oceana
Parsons
Salem
Shepherdstown
Smithers
Thomas
Wardensville
Westover
Baileysville
Sarah
Ellen Trent
Stevens
Lee E. Dixon
Lee Edmond Dixon
Herman L. Akers
Highland Ave
Lee E, Dixon
Montcoal
Charlestor General Hospital
Christ Methodist Church, Charleston
Irene Charles
Jim
Whitesville
Fayette Sorority
Prince ST
Weslaghouse
Nharemington
Worldline
Westinghouse
Ashworth and Sparks, Inc
Pagoda Shopping Center
Harper Road
Beckley Superior Sterling Co., Distributors
Bluefield, W. Va
Shape of Tomorrow
New
Westinghouse Laundromat
Sales & Service
Ashworth & Sparks
Boy Scouts
Bluefield Armory
Fayette
WCTU
J. Phillips
Coal River Personals
Lke
Gen
American Legion
Robert Gas
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