State Baptist Music Meet This Week At Central St. Church
The West Virginia State Baptist Music Convention meets at Central Street Baptist Church from Friday to Sunday with Rev. A. Abram as pastor. Activities include solos by Miss Mavis Steele and Miss Watts, various district choirs, sermons, memorials, and youth programs led by A. J. Jones and N. N. Parker. The event features pre-convention activities, district reports, and a memorial period, concluding with final reports and a program Sunday afternoon.
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Eaton
Pink Creek
No. 2
N. N. Parker
Thne
Mavis Steele
Abram
Voice of the State
New River
Big Creek
Ora R. Middleton
Jeanne T. Pollard
Miss Watts
A. W. Woods
Beckley
Harold Greene
Guyan Vailey
Tug River
First Days Journal
Jeannie T. Pollard
Guyan Valley District
Éharge
Young People’s Department
Bernice Henry
Stratton High School
J. L. Hagwood
Logan County
Hershal Alexander
Davis Parnell
Julia Gladys Watts
West Virginia Baptist Music Convention
Cental St. Baptist Church
New Era Baptist Music Convention
Louisville
Kentucky School For the Blind
Abyssinian Baptist Church
New York
N. Y
W. Va. Baptist Music Convention
W. M. Harvey
New Era
A. Abram
West Virginia Baptist Convention
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Willia Scales
A. K. Minter
Ida M. Hairston
J. S. Butts
Cecil Montgomery
Bertha Turpin
C. B. Rutledge
Annie Brown
Della Mack
F. G. Darlone
Tmusic
Cas
Charleston
William R. Miller
H. E. Davis
Marine Corps
Vir
Swith
Ginia Anthony
Inlleader
Parris Island
S. C
Robert G. Fritz
Lan- Wace Weaweda Tvanaaband Aa
Drue
Flora Grasly
Pore
West Virginia State Baptist Convention
A. J. Jones
Ora Middleton
Ethel Miller
Ophelia Jasper
N. Dillard
Lillian Anthony
Co. W. Wiley
J. M. Johnson
Jeanne Pollard
Lirs
Beatrice Bess
Dorothy Alexander
Virginia Anthony
Addye Houchils
J. A. Lester
H. Saunders
George
Joyce
Joyn Radford
Russell Matthews
Robert Majors
Harold Green
D. E. Craft
Flova Crasty
Loving Funeral Slated Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgie Mae Loving, 43, will be held at 2:30 PM Tuesday at St Matthew A M E Church with Rev. G D Toler and Rev. N W Burton officiating. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park. Body to be moved from Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor to the church one hour before services.
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Georgie Mae Loving
St Matthew A. M. E
G. D. Toler
N. W. Burton
Greenwood Memorial Park
Sprague Jurday
Ritchie and Johnson
Convict Escapes While Viewing Deceased Uncle
In Pittsburgh on June 8 a year old convict on a court order to view his uncle Thomas Toner died body at Wasecko Funeral Home escaped after pushing aside two deputies once handcuffs were removed. A 50-man dragnet searched the south side for Gilbert Walters, who began a 10 to 13 year burglary term May 3 and has a 1945 record for robbery burglary and firearms violations.
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Pittsburgh
Hye
Gilbert Walters
Walters
Western Penitentiary
Thomas Toner
Wasecko
West Virginia University Year-End Honor Roll Highlights
As second semester opened, WVU announced student honoraries and top scholars from the area. Key names include Thomas Mays Mullens Earth Sciences Honor Group Barbara Burton Hinton Botany Honor Society Raymond Duda Alley David Haga MacArthur Harold McDowell Summersville Earl Mollohan Oceana Clayton Bostic Thayer John Young Montgomery and more. The piece salutes dean’s list engineering biology journalism and nursing awardees and notes Homecoming committee leaders and the Queen selection. It closes with reflections on a year of academic and extracurricular achievement and a clipping about a kitten-feeding toy nursing bottle solution.
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Thomas Mays
Mullens
Earth Sciences
Barbara Burton
Hinton
Botany
Raymond Duda
Alley
David Haga
MacArthur
Harold McDowell
Summersville
Earl Mollohan
Oceana
Clayton Bostic
Thayer
John Young
Montgomery
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Lmselves
John Frisk
Oak Hill
Frank T. Wheley
Beckley
George L. Dean
Richwood
John W. Dietz
Winona
James R. Roe
Mill Point
Bill M. Matena
Man
Larry G. Shuck
Rainette
Frazier Miller
Bluefield
Floyd O'Dell
Dreamt Wyant
Daily
Atheneum
Ben W. York
Prince
Barbara
Nottingham
Rhodell
RNS
Air Force
Durbin
Marion Brooks
Eerie
Helvi School
Ats Ana
Charles Herdackie
Robert Haynes
Fayetteville
Mary Horn Ue
Cedin Shrek
Areseen
Mother Cat
Dominic Gaziano
Pemberton
David Naga
Mountain
Princes Jones
Robert
White
Nathaniel Kennedy
Jane Mel
Swimersville
West Vir
Asrginia University
West Virginia University
Smith Services Set On Tuesday Funeral Held for Julia Smith
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Central Baptist Church for Mrs. Julia Smith. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park. She died Friday morning in a local hospital and is survived by her son C. W. Wiley, sister Elena Griffin, and brother Watson Batty. The body remains at Co. D. Trent Funeral Home.
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Central Baptist Church
Julia Smith
A. Abram
Greenwood Memorial Park
New Mines Chief Named Co-Chairman for Spring Meeting
Crawford Wilson of Beckley will co-chair a technical session Friday at the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute spring meeting. Wilson, newly appointed West Virginia mines chief, will help lead three technical sessions over Friday and Saturday in Fairmont covering all coal mine operation phases. C. R. Bourland of Mount Hope serves on the executive board and Beers committee for the event.
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Beckley
Crawford Wilson
West Virginia Coal Mining Institute
Wilson
West Virginia Mines
Fairmont
C. R. Bourland
Mount Hope
New River Co
Institute
Coal briquets to be swapped at Boy Scout jamboree
Beckley chamber and West Virginia coal will represent at the International Boy Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge pa. W Q Sydnor Jr says 100 coal briquets will be sent for swapping with scouts from other nations. The briquets allow nations to advertise their country during the jamboree. The idea came from Al Suler Roanoke formerly a Virginia Railway agent in Beckley.
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Beckley Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia Coal
Forge
W. Q. Sydier Jr
Sydnor
Suler
Roanoke
The
Virginia Railway
Beckley
Chamber of Commerce
Eisenhower Names University Professor to Advisory Committee
Dr. Ray O. Duncan dean of West Virginia University School of Physical Education and Athletics has been named to President Eisenhower's Citizens Advisory Committee on the fitness of American Youth. He has served as national president of the American Association of Health Physical Education and Recreation and is invited to attend the first conference on Sept 9-10 at West Point with Vice President Nixon presiding.
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Eisenhower
Citizens Advisory Committee On
Ray O. Duncan
West Virginia University
Duncan
American Association of Health, Physical, Education and Recreation
United States Military Academy
West Point
Nixon
Kaiser Names Ravenswood Manager for Kaiser Construction
Dwight A. Dougherty, formerly assistant director of construction at a major eastern firm, is named resident manager for Kaiser Construction Co. in Ravenswood. He will oversee all construction and related activities at the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp site a few miles south of Ravenswood. Kenneth F. Goodson, former resident manager for Kaiser on the project, died in an April auto wreck in Ohio.
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Ravenswood
W. Va
Dwight A. Dougherty
Convent Station
Henry J. Kaiser Construction Co
Kaiser
Oakland
Calif
Daugherty
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Kenneth F. Goodson
Kaiser Construction
Ohio
Welllle Say
A. D. Belton
Juveniles Held In Theft Of Bike
Beckley police arrested three juveniles Friday night on bicycle theft charges from the home of Jimmie Bowling Jr. at 118 Laurel Terrace around 9 30 p m The youths will appear before juvenile judge Harry W L McCreery on Saturday Officers are seeking a hit and run driver whose car struck a parked vehicle owned by Charles Ritchie near Beckley Hospital Saturday night The vehicle was described as a 1950s Hudson
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Beckley
Jimmie Bowling Jr
Laurel Terrace
Harry WL. MccCreery
Charles Ritchie
Parkersburg
Ritchie
Beckley Hospital
Engineer unit move prompts second meeting with Army Secretary
Len Chapman Revercomb will press Army Secretary Brucker for retaining the 100th Engineer Co. at Prince or replacing it with another unit there. After a Friday conference he reported hope the present company stays or another Army unit is placed at Prince if the engineer unit moves to Ft Belvoir Virginia. Weeks earlier the Army Engineers announced plans to move the bridge-testing unit to Virginia.
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Len Chapman Revercomb
Army
Brucker
100Th
Prince
Ft. Belvoir
Army Engineers
Virginia
Oldsters Discuss Election in Rhodell
Three of Rhodell’s oldest men, Uncle John Graham 92, Uncle Dan O’Neal 78, and Uncle Bob Mitchell 70, retired miners and farmer, discuss the recent town election during leisure time. Uncle Dan quips they talked more about the election than about women. John and Dan are Raleigh County natives. Bob was born in Alabama.
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Rhodell
RNS
John Graham
Bob Mitchell
Dan O'Neal
John
Dan
Bob
Mit
Chell
O'Neal
Graham
Uncle Dan
Raleigh
Alabama
Raleigh County
Ex Helen Resident Dies In Tennessee
Mrs. Mabel Julian of Roan Mountain Tennessee, formerly of Helen, died Saturday. Survivors include a daughter Mrs. Virginia Shelton of Helen one brother Beecher Wiley of Beaver and six grandchildren. She was a niece of E H Christian of Beckley. Funeral services and burial will be at Roan Mountain Methodist Church on Tuesday.
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Mabel Julian
Roan Mountain
Tenn
Helen
Virginia Shelton
Beecher Wiley
Beaver
E. H. Christian
Lincoln St
Beckley
Roan Mountain Methodist Church
Prenatal Clinic Set at Raleigh County Courthouse
A prenatal clinic will be held Wednesday at the Raleigh County Health Department Office in the Courthouse from 2 to 4 PM. The event aims to provide basic prenatal care information and guidance to expectant mothers in the area.
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Raleigh County
New Non Surgical Pile Cure Claims Quick Shrinkage
A new healing substance named Bio-Dyne purportedly shrinks hemorrhoids and relieves pain without surgery. Reported cases show reduction and marked relief, with advertisers claiming piles cease to be a problem. The product Preparation Fi is offered as suppository or ointment with a money back guarantee from druggists.
Reform Judaism Adds Second Leader in US Union
The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Reform Judaism’s central body, names Rabbi Jay Kaufman as vice president to work with Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath. Judge Solomon Esner of Hartford says the move recognizes rapid growth and brings added executive and spiritual leadership.
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New York
Reform Judaism In America
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Judaism
Jay Kaufman
Maurice N. Eisendrath
Reform Judaism
Solomon Esner
Hartford, Conn
Instructors Appointed to WVU Faculty
The West Virginia University announces new appointments from its president's office. Lawrence Reppert joins Electrical Engineering, Betty Louise Idliller joins Mathematics, both Morgantown natives and graduates. Robert Lee Steele named assistant extension dairyman, with bachelor and master degrees. Bernice Buksoky and Herschel Roberts named graduate assistants in English, with Buksoky holding a California Pa. State Teachers College degree and Roberts a Glenville State Teachers College BA.
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West Virginia University
Department of
Electrical Engineering
Lawrence Morris’ Reprert
Betty Louise Idliller
Morgantown
Reppert
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Miller
American Chemical Society
Robert Lee Steele
Bernice Antoinette Buksoky
Donora
Herschel P. Roberts
Glenville
Buksoky
California, Pa
State Teachers College
Roberts
Glenville State Teachers College
Ben Warren Posts Bond on Drunk Driving Charge
Ben Warren posting bond before Magistrate Cotton White on a drunk driving charge. He was arrested by State Police at 10:30 p.m. Saturday and jailed in Raleigh County. Warren posted a $5 fine plus costs to Magistrate JE Mays. McGrady of Beckley was arrested for improper muifer.
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Cotton White
Ben Warren
Tams
Raleigh
JE. Mays
Tom Edward McGrady
Beckley
McGrady Wen
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Cleveland
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