Montgomery Ward New Profit Sharing Plan Outlined
Eve Breck outlines Montgomery Ward and Co at Beckley outlet new employee benefits. Profit sharing contributes 25 to 50 cents per dollar, 80 percent hospital coverage, retirement contributions reduced by 50 percent, extended vacation scales, and a straight salary plan for most selling staff. Also Singer contest details, Prudential agent award, and staff moves at Beckley firms.
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Beckley
Montgomery Ward and Co
G. L. Piper
Montgomery Ward
Airstream dealers meet. caravan plan announced at Chicago
R C Swim of American Sales and Service Beckley joined 115 other Airstream dealers at a national conference at the Edgewater Beach Hotel Chicago Illinois. Andy Charles board chairman announced an Around the World Caravan to begin in September for trailer owners. Charles said it is the first national meeting by any trailer maker. Regional and local Dealer Home Comings have been held at Santa Fe Springs California and Jackson Center Ohio.
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R. C. Swim
American Sales and Service
Beckley
Airstream
Edgewater Beach
Chicago
Ill
Wally Byam
Andy Charles
Charles
Santa Fe Springs
Calif
Jackson Center
Ohio
Henry L Walker attends Red Cross Aquatic School
Mrs Edythe Lunstrum of Montgomery Ward fashion, Henry L Walker son of Mr and Mrs Henry L Walker 224 Westwood Dr, left Friday for the American Red Cross National Aquatic School at Camp Limberlost near Lagro Indiana Sunday through June 19. A Woodrow Wilson High School graduate, he lifeguarded at Black Knight Country Club last summer and swims for the club team. In 1961 he placed in a state swimming meet in Charleston. At Woodrow Wilson he was in Key Club and wrestled three years track two years and football one year. He attends First Baptist Church of Beckley and plans to attend college this fall.
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Henry L. Walker
Westwood Dr
American Red Cross National Aquatic School
Camp Limberlost
Lagrange
Ind
Woodrow Wilson High School
Black Knight Country Club
Charleston
Woodrow Wilson
Key Club
First Baptist Church of
Beckley
Henry
Pope Began Studying Russian Before Death
Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna reports in Osservatore Romano that Pope John XXIII had started studying Russian several months prior to his death. The pope's personal confessor disclosed the language study in the Vatican city paper.
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Vatican City
UPI
John XXIII
Msgr
Alfredo Cavagna
Osservatore Romano
West Virginia Centennial program runs 62 minutes on Capitol steps
Charleston ceremony clocks precise times for invocations and speeches marking WV’s 100th birthday. Notable events include Lincoln statehood skit, Kennedy address, flag raises and 100 gun salute, with bands and choirs performing from 2:30 to 3:32 p.m. local time.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia Centennial Commission
Robert F. Kennedy
Capitol
West Virginia
Union
Centennial Commission
Weirton High
Oak Hill Centennial Boys
Capitol Lobby
Weirton
WVU
Paul A. Miller
Samuel Cooper
Joseph H. Hodges
Wheeling
Fred G. Holloway
Miller
G. Wayne Smith
James McIntyre
Dr. Smith
Weirton Band
Stars and Stripes
W. W. Barron
Virginia
Robert Y. Burton
Mordecai Johnson
Howard University
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Arthur J. Goldberg
Oak Hill Boys Choir
Battle Hymn of
The
Republc
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
Patty Sturgill to Teach Vacation Bible School at Sophia Church
Sophia Freewill Baptist Church schedules a Vacation Bible School beginning Monday with Miss Patty Sturgill as main teacher. Sturgill, a 1962 Lynchburg General Hospital School of Nursing graduate and 1959 Sophia High School alumna, plans missionary work in Campinas Brazil after further study in Portugal. The program theme Traveling God's Highway runs through Friday with close by church activities and a staff including Mrs. Coy Barr and Mrs. Orville Payne.
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Tion Bible School
Sophia Freewill Baptist Church
Patty Sturgill
Vernon Sturgill
Sophia
Lynchburg General Hospital School of Nursing
Lynchburg
Patty
Freewill Baptist Bible College
Nashville
Campinas
Bazil
Freewill Baptist Mission
Brazil
Lynchburg School of Nursing
Baptist Student Union
Student Nurses Association
Virginia
Louisa Mae Alcott
Freewill Baptist Bible
Centennial Civil War Exhibit Slated for West Virginia Event
A U S Army exhibit on the Civil War will highlight at the West Virginia Centennial Celebration in Beckley June 26 to 29 at the Appalachian Power building. Officials say the free display, produced with the National Civil War Centennial Commission, uses electronics to show Fort Sumter to Appomattox, with a film, diorama, audience panel and medical progress comparisons.
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U. S. Army
West Virginia
Beckley
Raleigh County Centennial Committee
Appalachian Power
South Kanawha Street
Army
Chief of
National
Fort Sumter
Appomattox
America
Fort Moultrie
Printing museum plans outlined at Beckley workshop
West Virginia Printing Industry Inc members discussed establishing a printing museum at West Virginia Tech. Plans call for a permanent exhibit showing printing history with antique type and equipment. The shop opened to visitors, who could watch presses run and ask operators questions. about 100 printers attended from WV, VA, and MD.
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West Virginia Institute of Technology
Memors
West Virginia Printing Industry, Inc
Biggs Johnson Withrow
Beckley
W. M. Houchins
Tech Printing Institute
Houchins
Stanley Ness
Robert Iden
West Virginia University Office of Publication
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
School begins daily at nine, invites all families
Reverend French D. Williams, pastor, notes Mrs. Charles Angell and Mrs. Woodrow Jones invite everyone to attend the school which opens at 9 a m each day.
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Charles Angell
Woodrow Jones
French D. Williams
Raleigh County enacts Type II Sabin vaccine makeup drive
Raleigh Countians totaling 2,516 received the Type II Sabin oral polio vaccine at Sunday makeup clinics. The Raleigh County Medical Society reported 45,316 residents, or 56.2 percent, have now completed the Type II vaccination series. Those who missed Sunday doses must obtain immunization from their family doctor as the series finishes with Type II vaccine on September 22.
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Raleigh
Raleigh County Medical Society
Open House Draws 5000 at Honey in the Rock Motel
Traffic clogged the W Va 3 and US 192 intersection for three hours as more than 5,000 people visited the Honey in the Rock Motel open house. The 29 unit facility had been in use by travelers since May 15 with amenities including a swimming pool conference room governor’s suite gift shops laundry and rooms with telephones and televisions.
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W. Va. 3
U. S. 1921
Honey In the Rock
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Beckley Brothers
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C. L. Vest
Orchard Court
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Ovee Power Co
Madison
Kentucky Power Co
Louisa
West
P. E. Doss
J. R. Carman
T. W. Adkins
H. H. White
W. G. Davis
J. W. Helton
J. L. Pack
J. W. Helton Jr
David L. Pack
Beckley Life Underwriters
National Life Underwriters Associations
Richmond
Life Underwriters Training Council
Beckley Insurancemen
Ed Richmond
Prudential Life Insurance Co
Appalachian Power Co
Cabin Creek
Ovee
Thomas West
B. F. Goodrich Co
Marietta
Tampa
Goodrich
Marshall University
Tom W. Trent
Boothe Avenue
General Motors
E. M. Overholt Jr
Buick Motor Division
Cincinnati
Trent
Bays Buick
Ward Sales Leadership Club
Beckley Ward
Valley Bell Dairy Inc
Annie Stover
Edythe Lunstrum
Red Cross
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Kentucky
Hill
Hill and Hill Dist. Co
Louisville, Ky
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Charlotte
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Piedmont Airlines
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