Johnny Allen Shines as Potomac State Star
Fayetteville freshman John Allen is hailed by Potomac State College officials for athletic prowess and top academic standing. Coach and professors praise his 19.9 season average and 3.8125 grade average, while local papers feature him as a West Virginia basketball hero amid tournament prep and possible offers from major colleges.
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George Armstrong
Allen
Johnny
Clifford Allen
Grandpop
J. H. Allen
Pasquino
Cumberland
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Potomac State Catamounts
West Virginia College Conference
Potomac State
Suitland
Frank Neal
Neal
Binghamton
N. Y
Hutchinson
Kan
Harry R. Smith
Navy
West Liberty
West Virginia State
Catonville Junior College
Salem College
Kenneth F. Haines
Department of Modern Languages
John
John Clifford Allen
Fayetteville High School
Activities Set By Wye Circle OCEANA WSCS March Plan
Oceana Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service outlines March activities at a joint circle meeting. Events include World Day of Prayer on March 4, a March 10 WSCS meeting with specific hostesses, and the March 15 Wyoming County Sub-District Town and Country Church Conference with seven county churches. The program centers on City Missions Toberman Settlement House and features leaders Arlene Drake and R. C. Hatfield with multiple assistants.
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Oceana
ANS
Oceana Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service
WSCS
B. L. Morgan
Pres Wright
Vida Chambers
Earl Cook Jr
Wyoming County
Town and Country Church
Toberman Settlement House
Arlene Drake
Circle No. 1
Thomas Evans
Harlan Ellenburg
Ples Wright
Drewey Mitchell
R. C. Hatfield
Doyle Rine
Herman Hopkins
Ray Shannon
H. K. Meredith
E. G Shannon
Hugh Miller
Laura McKinney
Uhar
World Day of Prayer Slated in Mount Hope
A World Day of Prayer event titled Labourers Together With God will be held at 1 30 p m Friday at Mount Hope Methodist Church. The program features a dramatization and is connected with the United Council of Churches. Local leaders include president Mrs Anthony Puskas and vice president Mrs Robert Lilly with others from Mount Hope churches on the executive board. A practice is planned for Thursday at 1 30 p m and participating churches span Mount Hope Christian Mount Hope Baptist Temple Mount Hope Presbyterian Mount Hope Assembly of God Mount Hope Church of God Mount Hope Pilgrim Holiness Kilsyth Free Will Baptist and Mount Hope First Baptist.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Mount Hope Methodist Church
United Council of Churches
Anthony Puskas
Robert Lilly
Harold Hock
H. C. Brown
Puskas
Fayetteville Plans Educational Campaign on State Economic Council
Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission moves to educate residents about the new state Economic Development Council. Chairman C. R. Hill Jr. said a survey plan will not be recommended yet. the city would cover about 50 percent of costs, potentially 2500 dollars, for a comprehensive community improvement plan.
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Fayetteville
RNL
Planning and Zoning Commission
State Economic Development Council
C. R. Hill Jr
Hill
Girl Scout Council to be organized in Boone Logan counties
A meeting in Madison organized a Girl Scout Council for Boone and Logan counties. Committees will survey the area and report needs at the next gathering in Logan in March.
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Girl Scout Council
Madison
RNS
Boone
Logan Counties
Madison Memorial Building
Logan
Ravencliff Social Notes Busy With Visits and Moves
Local families in Ravencliff Beckley Mullens and surrounding areas share weekend visits and relocations. Mr. and Mrs. David Trump moved from Ravencliff to Beckley. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lucas relocated from McGraws to Ravencliff. multiple relatives visit, host, or reside in Beckley Mullens Sabine Glen Rogers and Scottown Ohio.
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Ravencliff
RNS
David Trump
Beckley
Dennis McGraw
McGraws
Marquis Brooks
Michael
Karen
Robin
Pemberton
Clifford Lucas
Posey Tolliver
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Thursa Duncan
Johnny Duncan
Bud Allen
Freddie Wesley
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Everett Acord
French Brooks
Junior Sams
Dale Stewart
Newport News
Ward Stewart
Wayne Sizemore
Newsport News
Basil Sizemore
Charles Regina
Scottown
Ohio
Jess Trump
John C. Trump
James Baugh
Sabine
Irene Mullens
Terry
Pineville
Roy Brunty
Herbert Brunty
Baileysville
Bernard Brooks
Clare Brooks
Glen Rogers
Carl Ellis
Glen Fork
Virgil Ellis
Phyliss McGraw
Washington, D. C
Harry McGraw
Delegate Marshall West Undergoes Surgery in Wyoming
Marshall West of Oceana and a member of the House of Delegates underwent surgery at Wyoming General Hospital on Friday. His condition is listed as good with no further details provided about the procedure or outcome.
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Mullens
Marshall West
Oceana
House of Delegates
Wyoming General Hospital
Oak Hill Officials Meet With City Manager and Chamber
Attending the meeting were Oak Hill councilmen and W. R. Bennett city manager and secretary of the Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce.
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J. Alfred Taylor Jr
Oak Hill
W. R. Bennett
The
Special Levy Election Set for Oak Hill City
Oak Hill will hold a May 17 special levy election to extend a three year levy funding city park operations street and sewer maintenance without higher tax rates. The levy now raises about 12 500 yearly and with assessed value increases it should yield about 18 000 annually for three years. The council authorized City Manager Wallace Bennett to ask Appalachian Electric Power Co to increase street corner lighting from 1000 to 2500 watts at Patterson and White Streets and at Salem Road and Terry Avenue.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Wallace Bennett
Bennett
Appalachian Electrc Power Co
Patteson and
Whitte Sts
Salem Road
Terry Avenue
Court Refuses Boone County Mine Case Review
The Supreme Court denied the Thompsons appeal in Boone County seeking $7,000 from Shank Land Co., Garison Coal Co., and Dorothy Mining Corp. over alleged stream redirection and property damage from strip mining near Fern Dale. Justices Haymond and Berry absent. lower court had ruled reservations in a 1952 deed did not excuse liability.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Boone County
Frank C. Haymond
Thornton G. Berry
Harold
Gene Thompson
Boone Circuit Court
Shank Land Co
Garrison Coal Co
Dorothy Mining Corp
Thompsons
Ferndale
Sherman
Shonk Land Co
Shonk
Pineville High Concert Bands Spring Fundraiser
The Pineville High School Concert Band will host a spring concert on March 25 in the school gym. Featured pieces include Trumpets Wild, Night Beat, Footlifter March, Bells Across the Meadows, Camptown Race, Coronation March, and Best Loved Irish Melodies. Proceeds fund the band trip to the Apple Blossom Festival with a $15 prize to Winchester winners.
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Pineville
RNS
Pineville High School
Harold Watters
Sandra Snyder
Brenda Edwards
Barbara Jenkins
Harold Walters
Fillmore
Albert Ketelbey
Camptown
Stephen Foster
Meryerbeer
al Hayes
Winchester
H Riggle Attends State Agriculture Confab
Fayette County agriculture agent H L Jae attends a state conference of county agents in Jackson's Mill. The week long meeting covers dairy and animal husbandry poultry and agronomy training with extension specialists presenting new experimental findings.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Jackson's Mill
H. L. Jae
Fayette County
Firemen Hit Snag In New Construction Plan
Oak Hill firefighters face a protest from the Oak Hill Garden Club over the proposed site for a new fire department building. City officials will review the plan to place the facility on city property near the Kelly Avenue entrance, with funding to come from fundraisers and waived call pay. The project estimates a $10,000 cost and includes three vehicle stalls, a recreation room, kitchen, and dining area.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Arthur Akers
City Council
Kelly Avenue
Has
Li Cow
Earl Mullens
Walter Brown
Fire Department
Wyoming County Court Hears Recreation Levy Details
At Pineville the Wyoming County Court discussed funding for recreation and a Baileysville playground project. The Lions Club seeks county support while library needs about 12 000 annually for staff and 5 200 for equipment. Questions arose over a proposed junior college item in the 825 000 levy.
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Pineville
RNL
Wyoming County Cancer Society
Wyoming County Court
Harold Bailey
Baileysville
Bill Bailey
Charles Bower
Lions Club
Robert Bailey
Lions
Wyoming County Library Commission
D. Grove Moler
Paul Viers
Wyoming
Bower
Tom Smith
Wyoming County
Smith
Testimony continues in area forgery trial
In Princeton AP reports the Perdue forgery case moves into day three as prosecutors plan to call witnesses already named on the forged petition but who deny signing it. Defense hints at surprises while a jury eyed two petitions and city officials debated fraud suspicions.
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Princeton
Perdue
Jean Hudgins
Bluefield
C. CO. Ossie Perdue
Maxine P. Holm
Walter G. Burton
Mercer County
Walter V. Ross
Sandra Jarrett Runner-Up In Legion Oratorical Contest
Miss Sandra Jarrett, senior at Collins High School, finished second in the American Legion Oratorical Contest at Lewisburg. The seventh district includes Pocahontas Greenbrier Summers and Fayette counties. If the winner does not attend the state contest March 15 in Fayetteville, Jarrett advances. A four year scholarship awaits the state winner. H L VanCamp of Oak Hill chairs the contest.
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Oak Hill
RNL
American Legion
Lewisburg
Sandra Jarrettt
Collins High School
Pocahontas
Greenbrier
Summers
Fayette
Miss Jarrett
Memorial Building
Fayetteville
Jarrett
H. L. VanCamp
Mothers March of Dimes Formed by Glen Fork PTA Mothers
A Glen Fork Grade School PTA committee organized a Mothers March of Dimes with seven mothers participating. After a four minute march through the community they raised 56.01 dollars for the Polio Fund Drive. The event followed by school leaders noting completed Red Cross and United Fund drives.
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Glen Fork
RNS
Parent Teacher Association
Connie Pizzino
PTA
Edna Jo Bailey
Marie Bartell
Mamie Pizzino
Elsie Hurley
Betty Acord
Daphine Acord
Beatrice Lay
Ralph E. Stewart
Stewart
Mary Brooks
Wyoming
Chicago Woman Sentenced To Federal Reformatory
Enroseanna Robinson, a Chicago welfare center instructor, began serving a year and a day in the Federal Women's Reformatory at Alderson after hunger strikes and refusing to file income tax returns for 1954 to 1958. The judge had previously ordered jail time for noncompliance with IRS record requests.
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Chicago
Internal Revenue Service
Federal Women’s Reformatory
Alderson
Enroseanna Robinson
U. S. Public Health Service Hospital
West Virginia
U. S
Edwin A Robson
Cook County
U.S. Public Health Service
Robson
Reformatory
Court Dockets 75000 Suit Involving Auto Accident
Supreme Court docketed Monday a 75000 suit filed by Lucile Campbell against Riley Campbell and State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. for injuries from a car crash in Miami FLA on March 22 1958. Wyoming County Circuit Court overruled demurrers and certified case to higher court amid defense arguments about spousal liability and insurer liability.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Oceana
Lucile Campbell
Riley N. Campbell
State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co
Miami
Fila
Wyoming County
State Farm
Frank C. Haymond
Thornton G. Berry
Council For
Campbell
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J. Allen
Johnny Allen
Wye
Parkersburg
State Development Council
Jack Lloyd
Appalachian Electric Power Co
EDC
Lloyd
Appalachian
Montgomery
Montgomery Chamber of Commerce
Hill, Allen
Rosser Long
A. E. Whanger
Bob Staton
Yvonne Kirk
Mary Lamp
Phillip Waggoner
Pineville Band
H. Riggle
Oak Hill Garden Club
Pat Hamilton
Helen Sydnor
Garden Group
Sandra Jarrett
Mother's March
Federal
Hiram Walker
Hiram
Walker
Honk
Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc
Peoria
Illinois
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