This Is The Man Who Will Influence County Lives
John W Saunders is named to begin duties as county school superintendent on July 1. The East regional leader brings a wartime Air Corps background, a Columbia master's, and a decade as Shady Spring High principal. Saunders vows education quality, expanded gifted programs, and ongoing program revisions to keep pace with the world while guiding a budget for more than 20,000 future citizens annually.
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Eve Breck
John W Saunders
Saunders
Columbia University
Trap Hill High School
Woodrow Wilson High
Mount View Junior High
Shady Spring High
Shady Spring High School
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Board of Appeals
State Secondary Schools Activities Commission
Gordon Eisman
Secondary Schools Association
County Education Association
Beckley Elks Lodge
Elks Board of Trustees
The
Lions
West Virginia Wesleyan
Baptist Church
Lillian
Social Security Administration
Stoco
Teeth saved by dentists fuel future dentists training
In West Virginia, practicing dentists gather extracted teeth for dental students at WVU Medical Center. Dave and Jack Wallace, third year WVU dental students and Shady Spring graduates, describe using teeth in anatomy and endodontics classes while planning to practice together after service.
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Dave
Jack Wallace
Glen Morgan Brothers
West Virginia University Medical Center
Jack
E. W. A Glen Morgan
Francis and
Theresa Edwards
Beckley
Dental School
Ture
Shady Spring High School
Florida State University
Marshall College
WVU
Marshall
Shady Spring
Glen Morgan
Old Fashioned Barbain Days Display Opens in Beckley
Antique shoe lasts shown in Heber Street windows at the G C Murphy Co as part of Old Fashioned Barbain Days celebration sponsored for the second year by Beckley Business Bureau members The observance runs June 26 to July 3 coinciding with Honey in the Rock and the Mountain State Folk Festival.
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Ing
Stoco
Nelson Bragg
Woodrow Wilson High School
Air Corps
Patterson Field
Heber Street
G. C. Murphy Co
Barbain
Beckley Business Bureau
Mountain State
Bargain Days Feature James Spangler in Beckley Antique Mill
Beckley shopkeeper James Spangler owns an antique coffee mill showcased in a display. Beans placed in the upper compartment are ground by hand, with the drawer visible and opened in the picture.
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James Spangler
Beckley
Water Suit Verdict in West Virginia Court
Jurors awarded 1,116.72 to nine Harper Heights residents in suits against George W. Willis of Willis Water and Gas Works for inadequate water supply in 1957. Each plaintiff received 124.08. Witnesses testified delaying tubs and buckets daily. PSC ordered service March 18, 1957. engineer Dennis Leary appointed January 1958. conditions improved after corrections. Judge Norman Knapp ordered jurors to report Wednesday at 9 a.m.
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George W. Willis
Willis Water and Gas Works
Harper Heights
Willis
Public Service Commission
PSC
Dennis Leary
Beckley
Leary
Clay S. Crouse
Tommy Joyce
Thomas Wiley
John M. Moore
Woodrow Johnson
George Johnson
Walter Snyder
Lonnie Morris
Tent Banks
Martha Banks
J. W. Maxwell
Norman Knapp
Circuit Court
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Sherman C. Trail
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38Th Infantry Division
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D. W. Bryson
United States
Yugoslavia
Athens
Eccles
Lynch, Ky
McDowell County
Miami, Fla
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
California
Rodefield
John W. Saunders
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A. Or
Dallas Boothe
West Virginia University Dental School
Bryant
Clifford
Appalachian
Christian Business Men's Committee
Appalachian Bible Institute
Bill Robinson
South Charleston
West Point
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