Wyoming Bands to Appear in Beckley Parade
Five Wyoming County bands will join the Armed Forces parade in Beckley on May 16 under Walter Duncan parade chairman. Bands include Glen Rogers High, Conley High, Mullens High, Pineville High, and Baileysville High. Floats also listed by Dixie Lee Bryson entries chair. Annie Martin Mount Hope dies after brief illness. survivors include two daughters, six grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending at C. D. Trent Funeral Home Beckley.
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Beckley
Wyoming County
Walter Duncan
Glen Rogers
Louis Kaman
Conley
A. C. Allen
Mullens
Ray Richard
Pineville High
Joe Bragg
Baileysville High School
J. A. Casper
Duncan
Tom
Dixie Lee Bryson
Grady Whitlock
Ford, Inc
Bevs Buick, Inc
Duncan Catron Motor Co
Raleigh Motor Sales, Inc
Jan’s Dancing and Modeling School
Beckley Lincoln Mercury
Beckley Women’s Club
Beckley College
Appalachian Tire Co
Boy and
Girl Scouts
Mount Hope
Annie Martin
Robert Martin
First Baptist Church
Julia Jasper Missionary Society
Dahlia Martin Tate
Vashti Coles
Akron
Ohio
C. D. Trent Funeral Home
Woman Injured In Collision At Oak Hill Virginia Street
A collision about 7 4 p m Thursday on Virginia Street Oak Hill left Quindorah Sue Coone injured. Gayle E Coone was shaken and cut while the pickup owned by New River Supply Co was badly damaged. Patrolman Pat Watters said Phillip Woodson Thomas drove a 1953 car into the Coone pickup. Coone was hospitalized for shock and minor injuries.
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Oak Hill
RIIS
Virginia Steet
Pat Watters
Phillip Woodson Thomas
Scarbro
Gayle E. Coone
Wade Street
Coone
Quindorah Sue
New River Supply Co
Watters
Mullens High Names Queen Candidate for Armed Forces Day
Mullens High School selects Kathy Jo DAntoni 16 of Mullens as Queen candidate for the Armed Forces celebration in Beckley on May 16. She is senior, president of National Honor Society, head cheerleader, with six years cheering, and member of Rainbow Girls Future Homemaker of America Sub Debs and Future Teachers of America. She was a Girls State delegate last summer.
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Mullens
RNS
Mullens High School
Queen of Armed Forces
Beckley
Kathy Jo D'Antoni
Doran Avenue
Lewis D'Antoni
D'Antoni
National Honor Society
Rainbow Girls
Future Homemaker of America
Sub Debs
Teachers of
Amer- Clubs
Girls’ State
Youngster To Undergo Series of Operations
Bonnie Sue Dotson, 13, of Pineville, will start a sequence of surgeries on arms hands legs hips and feet at Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia. The procedures over two to three years follow polio and club feet diagnosed at infancy. Her guardians include Miss Silas Brooks and Mrs. E. E. Williams, who accompanied her by train, as Bonnie recalls hoping to wear pretty dresses like other girls.
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Pineville
RNS
Bonnie Sue Dotson
Shriners Hospital
Philadelphia
Reece Stanley
St. Mary's Hospital
Huntington
Lonnie Brooks
Silas Brooks
Delphia
Bonnie
Autopsy Set On Nearly Faceless Man In West Virginia Case
Lewisburg authorities schedule autopsy to confirm identity of a body found in a Newport News coal car. Sheriff Tuckwiler seeks fingerprint and dental proof as Coroner Rainelle prepares the examination led by Dr. Willis Gerrard and Dr. Peter Ladewig. The investigation centers on Eliza Reynolds case with Billy Moore admitting to the killing and Patricia Reynolds and a brother alleged to have aided burial.
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Lewisburg
Newport News Va
Eliza Raynolds
David Tuckwiler
Greenbrier County
Reynolds
Rainellé
Quinwood
Willis Gerrard
Charleston
Peter P. Ladewig
Billy Moore
Ansted
James
Billy
Patricia
Chesapeake and Ohio
Fayette 7 8 Division Spelling Bee Tonight
Twelve seventh and eighth grade contestants from ten schools compete in Fayetteville with prize presentation by Chuck Balding. Judges H F Frazier and E B Eskew. winners advance to Beckley for the Tri County spelling bee and possible entry to the National Spelling Bee in Washington in June.
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Fayetteville
Chuck Balding
James E. Murphy
Fayette County
Arlene Parish
Ansted Junior High
Ruth Ann Broshears
Lansing Elementary
Mountain Cove
Trict
Brenda Hines
Glen Jean
Cecelia Bolton
Sts. Peter and Paul
Sue Eagle
Gauley Bridge
Nancy Jo Nelson
Falls View
Falls
Mike Todorvich
Page
Judy Bruce
Montgomery
Kanawha
Joy Beall
Carol Joan Kessler
Divide
Nuttall
John Poindexter
Lillian Poindexter
Layland
Quinnimont
Man Falls 25 Feet at Mine. Minor Injuries Reported
Paul McKinney 38, tipple man at the Deerfield mine, fell 25 feet head first through a hole in the tipple floor while sweeping coal dust. He was treated at Wyoming General Hospital for facial, head, and arm injuries, with a dislocated left little finger. Also treated were J E Nowlin 58 for a finger injury and Charles Ross 15 after a bicycle wreck.
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Mullens
Paul McKinney
Deerfield
McKinney
Oceana
Covel
Wyoming General Hospital
J E. Nowlin
Stephenson
Mullens Hospital
Stephenson Mine
Charles Ross
Bud
Glen Rogers Band Heads to State Festival
Glen Rogers High School Band members in the All State Band traveled to Bluefield for the festival rehearsals and performances slated today and Saturday. The group includes Sandy Sturgill Becky Pizzino Trila Turner J B Easter Loraine Lamb and Betty Tackett. They departed Glen Rogers at 6 am Friday and auditioned at 11 am.
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Glen Rogers
RNS
Bluefield
Sandy Sturgill
Becky Pizzino
Trila Turner
J. B. Easter
Loraine Lamb
Betty Tackett
Glen
Anderson Barker Rites Saturday
Funeral services for Anderson B Barker will be held at his Barker residence at 1 p.m. Saturday led by the Rev Pete Bonds. Burial follows at Riverside Memorial Park in Orgas. Barker 52 died in Norton Virginia after a long illness. He was a World War II veteran and coal miner. He survived by wife Anna Louise, mother Mrs Manthia Barker of Sylvester, four sons Douglas Tommy Roger and Kenneth all at home, four brothers Russell Herman Albert Ernest, and four sisters Gladys Shorter Violet Harless Martha Pittman and Vivian Pittman. The body will be taken to the home from Armstrong Funeral Home in Whitesville at 5 p.m. today.
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Jarrolds Valley
RNS
Anderson B. Barker
Barker
Pete Bonds
Riverside Memorial Park
Orgas
Norton
Tommy
Roger
Kenneth
Russell
Herman
Sylvester
Albert
Elyria
Ohio
Ernest Baker
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gladys Shorter
Violet Harless
Martha Pittman
Malvin
Ark
Vivian Pittman
Rock Creek
Armstrong Funeral Home
Whitesville
Schedule Set for Rebels Rec Hall May Activities
The Rebels Rec council announced May use of the hall with all Saturdays reserved for the senior high group 7:30 to 11. Today the hall opens to seventh and eighth graders. May 8 senior high, May 15 seventh graders, May 20 senior high 8 to 11 with no Friday use, May 25 council meeting, May 29 seventh and eighth graders. Junior high nights run 7 to 10, private rental $5 for two hours or $8 for four hours.
State Band Festival Slated In Bluefield
Oceana High School sends a 50 piece band to the state festival in Bluefield with an all-state concert slated. Auditions will be held at Beaver High School. The band performs An American Folk Rhapsody Glory and Honor Scottish Rhapsody and Southwest Panorama. About 2,500 band members from 40 schools participate. Director George Brewster. Carol Grossie reports.
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Oceana
BIIS
Bluefield
Oceana High School
Beaver High School
OHS
Grundman
Rachmanioff
Rhoads
Dillon
Janie Bowman
Judy Dalton
Bobby Hager
Patty Duty
Eulanna Tyree Conley
Carol Toler
Billie Berta
George Brewster
Carol Grossie
Virginian Okeh Merger of 2 Railroads
Virginian Railway stockholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of merging with Norfolk and Western. ICC hearing date sought. merger plan sets exchange ratios 0.55 N and W stock per Virginian share and share-for-share preferred exchange. Vote totals set a record for Virginian stock, with 92.38 percent of outstanding shares cast.
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Norfolk, Va
Virginian Railway
Norfolk and Western Railway
Norfolk & Western
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Virginian
Frank D. Beade
Beale
Icent
Road
West Virginia
Cast Field
Norfolk
Ex Constable Moran Fined for Moonshine Transport
Dewey Moran Bud Mountain a former Barker's Ridge District constable pled guilty to transporting moonshine whisky. Magistrate Grant Taylor imposed a total of 109.50 in fines and costs. Moran's 1952 model sedan was seized for disposition by federal tax unit agents. State Trooper Stanley Epling Deputy Verne Morgan and E. P. Whited reported two gallons of whisky found in Moran's car, with one gallon in front and one in the trunk. Moran jailed overnight pending arraignment.
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Stanley Epling
Verne Morgan
E. P. Whited
Morgan
Bud
Moran
George Anderson Fined for Petit Larceny
Mullens West Virginia: George Anderson a 19 year old hospital orderly arraigned before Magistrate Bill Houck on a petit larceny charge Wednesday was fined 20 dollars and sentenced to 69 days in the Wyoming County Jail. Anderson, a resident of Tams, was charged with stealing a set of fender skirts from a car owned by Myron Legg. Legg spotted the fender accessories the next day as Anderson drove by the Mullens service station en route to work and filed a police complaint. Anderson said his younger brother gave him the skirts after his arrest by State Trooper Stanley Epling.
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Mullens
RNL
George Anderson
Bill Houck
Wyoming
Anderson
Tams
Myron Legg
Stanley Epling
Ebbetts Field Still Open for Possible Major League Use
Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn remains available to a major league team as St. John’s University schedules three games at the old Flatbush park this spring. Baseball is still played there and the venue could host future pro action.
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Ebbets Field
Brooklyn
N. Y
Brooklyn Dodgers
St. John's University
Flatbush Park
Wanted contact for weekly payment plan on furniture
Wanted manager seeks reliable person to assume payments of 3.00 weekly on a 3 piece bedroom suite with mattress, springs, pillows and bedspread plus a soon used electric range and a 7 piece living room suite with tables lamps and seating, with weekly payments of 2.00 to 3.00. Contact Mr. West at Tomchin Furniture Company 601 Mullens West Virginia.
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MR. West
Tomchin Furniture Company
Mullens, W. Va
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