Lions Zone Meeting scheduled March 18
Oak Hill Lions Club to hold zone conference in Oak Hill on March 18 with presidents and secretaries from Oak Hill Beaver Beckley Bradley Mount Hope Mabscott and Sophia attending. Also plans Cub Night on April 22 and spring style show on March 26 at Oak Hill Elementary School Auditorium.
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Oak Hill
RNL
Oak Hill Lions Club
Wood Poling
Mount Hope
G. Steele Callison
Zastauiiak Brothers
Michael
Ronald
Mindeh
Railroad Orders Cut in Manpower
The Virginian Railway ordered a manpower cut at its Elmore and Mullens shops, idling 24 workers. Twenty at Elmore and four at Mullens will lose jobs as shipments decline, effective 3 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday respectively. The railroad plans further gradual adjustments with 25 new diesels arriving, first on March 17.
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Mullens
RNS
Elmore
Virginian Railway
Wyoming Hospital Lists Admissions Week Ending March 6
Wyoming General Hospital records admissions for the week ending March 6 listing numerous patients across Mullens Ravencliff Otsego and nearby towns. Names include Mrs Mamous Greer Glen Rogers Joe Burwick and Catherine Horton among others with multiple cases from Mullens Corinne and New Richmond. Dr George Fordham advises 12 year old Catherine Horton of Corinne sleep on her tummy while burns heal after a house coat fire. her mother Mrs Roy Horton treated for burns to a hand.
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Mullens
ANL
Wyoming General Hospital
Mamous Greer
Glen Rogers
Joe Burwick
Oceana
Elda Thornton
Stephenson
Hillard Edwards
Amigo
Clarice Graham
Martha Brooks
Ravencliff
Dorothy Fitzwater
Rebecca Jane Wilson
Corinne
Bethel Lane
Bud
Nellie Coleman
Betty Sue Holloway
Rhodell
Alice Knuckles
Tralee
David Rinehart
Otsego
Norman Farthing
Caloric
Ina Mae Basham
Slab Fork
Walter Collier
Elzie Roberts
Keyrock
Josephine Smith
Catherine Horton
Coriin
Carrie Ball
Phoebe Blevins
New Richmond
Donna Farmer
Oakley Blevins
Robert Frye
Frank Calloway
Wyco
Deloris Pendry
Wyoming
Thelma Stone
Pineville
Shirley Akers
William Milam
Luther Hinchee
Francis Sizemore
Cora Kershner
Lucy Ella Cox
Allen Junction
George Fordham
Roy Horton
Eagle Rites Wednesday At Sewell Valley Home
William Reuben Eagle, 68, a retired farmer and Sewell Valley Baptist Church member, will have funeral rites at 2 p.m. Wednesday at his home. He died Sunday after an extended illness. Interment will follow in Sewell Valley Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, a step-daughter and six step-sons.
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East Rainelle
RNS
William Reuben Eagle
E. B. Powers
Sewell Valley Cemetery
Wallace and Wallace Mortuary
Eagle
Sewell Valley Baptist Church
Wade Eagle
Abbott Infant Rites Held
Funeral services were held for James Howard Abbott II, five months old, at Cook Funeral Home Cedar Grove with Rev. B L Moss officiating. Burial followed at Montgomery Memorial Park after the infant died Saturday morning at Charleston General Hospital. He is survived by his parents and paternal grandparents Leroy Abbott Huntington and Mrs Ira Stone Chesapeake. The mother, former Miss Lillian Galloway of Los Angeles, disappeared February 22 after boarding a Handley bound bus to visit her son.
Idleman Dies at Oak Hill After Heart Attack
Oran Glenn Idleman age 45 of Scarbro died in an Oak Hill hospital shortly after admission at 5 p m Monday death attributed to a heart attack He worked today for Appalachian Electric Power Co Born October 5 1908 The body is at Tyree Funeral Home Arrangements incomplete
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Oak Hill
RNS
Oran Glenn Idleman
Scarbro
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Tyree Funeral
Webb Rites Held Today in Hazy Funeral Service
Funeral services were to be conducted at 2 p.m. today for Quincy Webb 39 of Hazy at Freewill Baptist Church. Rev Wace Webb officiated with burial in Adkins Cemetery Naoma. Webb died Sunday in a Charleston Hospital. He is survived by wife Ruth Ash Webb a daughter Nancy and three sons Thomas Teddy and Buddy all at home. Also surviving are mother Lula Webb Edwight three sisters Della Dickens Pine Knob Lina Brown Newfoundland Ky Dana Henderson Olive Hill Ky and two brothers Gifford Parker Webb Edwight.
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HAZY
RNS
Quincy Webb
Freewill Baptist Church
Wace Webb
Adkins
Naoma
Webb
Charleston
Ruth Ash Webb
Nancy
Thomas
Teddy
Buddy
Lula Webb
Edwight
Della Dickens
Pine Knob
Lina Brown
Newfoundland
Dana Henderson
Olive Hill
Gifford and
Parker Webb
Hilltop Resident Dies at Beckley Hospital
Theodore Daniels, 47, of Hilltop, died at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Beckley Hospital after a Thursday admission. His last employer was Oswald. Oak Hill Band Boosters sponsor a spaghetti dinner at Collins High School Cafeteria today from 5 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $1 for adults and 60 cents for students and children.
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Hilltop
RNS
Theodore Daniels
Beckley Hospital
Oswald
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Band Boosters Club
Collins High School
Bowling center accident injures 15 year old pin setter
Paul Raymond Spence of Caloric, a 15 year old pin setter, was struck by a flying pin at Mullens Bowling Center on Monday. He suffered a deep cut under his right eye and received treatment at Wyoming General Hospital.
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Mullens
Paul Raymond Spence
Caloric
Mullens Bowling Center
Wyoming General Hospital
200 Year Old Bones Found Under Union Church
Workmen uncover parts of skeletons believed to be Indian under the Methodist Church in Union Monroe County. Two skulls and other bones, dated at about 200 years old, lie two feet underground. One skull may be an Indian woman aged 40 to 50. Bones will be buried at Greenhill Cemetery after basement completion. One skull may be sent to New York museum for study.
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Union Methodist Church
Joel Lemlinson
Union
Monroe County
Joe Tomlinson
Monroe Theater
Dr. Schatzman
Lester Deskin
Goodwin
Greenhill
Tomlinson
Museum of Natural History
New York
Clark Peters
Fayette Safety Group Sets Panel Discussion
Fayette Holmes Council announces a six member Accident Prevention Clinic Committee chaired by Andrew Easton to study fatalities at 15 Fayette Council mines. The program committee includes George W Coffey and Francis Foster among others. media work via radio and newspapers will publicize meetings.
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Mines of Fayette Council
Holmes Safety Association
George Bryan
Partment of Mines
U. S. Bureau of Mines, Management, and Labor
Andrew Easton
State Mines Department
Frank J. Furin
Mount Hope
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Conrad Lawson
Whipple Umwa
Russell Matthews
Kaymoor Umwa
Howard C. Thompson
Beckley
State Department of Mines
W. J. Skaggs
Ansted
Gauley Mountain Coal Co
Bryan
George W. Coffey
Summerlee
New River Co
Francis Foster
Lochgelly Umwa
Virgil A. Hensley
Page
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Wilbur Figenbrod
New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co
C. C. Watson
UMWA
Fayette Holmes Council
George Crouch
Minden Umwa
John McDonald
Summerlee Umwa
James Lindley
Roscoe Harris
Brooklyn Umwa
Clyde Rumons
Lochgelly
New River Safety Council No. 1
United Mine Workers
John Harsony
J. Frank Simm
Fayetteville
Howard Gillespie
Winona Umwa
Pineville Bans Unused Ice Boxes Under New Law
Pineville Town Council passes an ordinance banning unused ice boxes and refrigerators. Boxes must have doors removed or be locked with owner-held key. Exemptions apply to sale or repair displays under supervision. Violations carry up to 500 dollar fine or six months’ imprisonment. A town cleanup date will be announced by Mayor Vaughn Stewart.
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Pineville
ANL
Vaughn Stewart
Meeting Change at Pineville Presbyterian Women
The regular meeting of the Women of the Pineville Presbyterian Church will be held tonight at 7 30 p.m. at Mrs C S Smith home with co hostesses The date was moved from Thursday March 11 to Tuesday for convenience of members Mrs R S Bowers president will preside urging good attendance
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Pineville
RNS
The
One of Largest Spans on State Turnpike Bluestone River Bridge
Princeton report details the Bluestone River Bridge joining at Bluestone Gorge on the West Virginia Turnpike. American Bridge Division of U S Steel builds 74 spans along the Charleston to Princeton stretch, with 46 completed and the rest advancing. the Bluestone is deck truss with 1334 feet, slated for steel-up by May 1.
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State Turnpike
Princeton
Bluestone Gorge
American Bridge Division
U. S. Steel Corp
Bluestone River
Bluestone
Kanawha River
Charleston
Dave Maxwell
Pike
Maxwell
Four Mile Fork
Fast Bank
Oak Hill
Four Mile
Bluestone Bridge
Carrton
Dinner Tonight at Princeton Training Union Program
Le Roy Leland and fellow ministerial students from Nebraska and Indiana teach the Bible lesson at the Men's Interdenominational Bible Class in Fayetteville. They travel to Princeton to lead the training union program at First Baptist Church, while MIBC members will dine with the Spanishburg Methodist Church ladies.
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Fayetteville
RNS
LeRoy Leland
Blue Springs
Neb
Bob Jones University
Greenville
N. C
Widow sues jail officer over Mount Hope jail fire
In Charleston a widow, Mrs. Frank Bennett of Mount Hope, filed a $3,500 suit in U.S. District Court naming Patrolman Claudie J. Williams and the New Amsterdam Casualty Co. The complaint claims Williams breached duty by arresting Bennett, imprisoning him without water or toilet facilities or fire prevention, and leaving the jail without supervision.
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Charleston
Mount Hope
Claudie J. Williams
New Amsterdam Casualty Co
U.S
Frank Bennett
Williams
Bennett
Laurel Rebekah Lodge initiates new member at Oak Hill
Oak Hill report notes initiation of Mrs Addie Errington as the Laurel Rebekah Lodge joins at Knights of Pythias Hall on Thursday March 18. The meeting, presided by Noble Grand Mrs Dotsie Tennant, lists ill members Mrs Clara Neely Elsie Taylor Nina Yates Mrs Jerry Brewer and Mrs Jane Randall. About 12 members were present.
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OAK Hill
RNS
Addie Errington
Laurel Rebekah Lodge
Knights of Pythias Hall
Dotsie Tennant
Noble Grand
Clara Neely
Elsie Taylor
Nina Yates
Jerry Brewer
Jane Randall
Visitation in Honor of Mrs Gladys Mullins
A formal visitation will be held to honor Mrs Gladys Mullins Worthy Grand Matron on Tuesday March 16. The event gathers members and dignitaries from the organization to celebrate her official visit and leadership.
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Gladys Mullins
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Fayette
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Saturday Post-Herald
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Neville ST
Beckley, W. VA
Fayetteville High School
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Norma
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Sarah Lee
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Summers County
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Kentucky
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America
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Frankfort, KY
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