Truth About Stephen's Lake Proposed Facilities Voted
This Raleigh County voters guide details Stephen's Lake recreation plans tied to a special levy. Glen P. Daniel, Lake Stephens Tourism Development Authority member and Trap Hill High School coach, outlines facilities from fishing and beaches to docks, cabins, and a 100-site tourist trailer court. The plan aims to tap a $1.2 million federal grant and boost local employment and economy. Citizens are urged to vote on Saturday.
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Stephen’s Lake
Raleigh County
Lake Stephens
United States
Raleigh
Department of Natural Resources
Raleigh Countians
Area Redevelopment Administration
Nurses Tour Wright Patterson Air Force Hospital
Detachment 202 of the U S Air Force sponsors a three day nurses tour at Wright Patterson AFB Ohio. About 50 student nurses from Abington Virginia left Beckley by special bus with Major Herman E Mace and others to tour modern medical equipment and the hospital guided by Air Force medical specialists. A banquet at the Officers Club features address by leading Air Force medical personnel.
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Air Force
Wright - Patterson Afb
Ohio
Abington
Beckley
Herman E. Mace
Charles McNeil
Paul Salyers
Robert Kohler
Bristol
Officers Club
U. S. Air Force
French American forces hold fair game exercise near Toulon
French and American troops joined a week long air sea drill off the southern coast of France. U S aircraft carriers Saratoga and Enterprise participated alongside other ships in the exercise that began Monday.
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Toulon
France
72 Volunteers Earn Awards At VA Hospital Ceremony
At the Veterans Administration Hospital annual Award Night, twenty two volunteers were honored for long service with patients. Hospital director Dr. R. C. Jones and volunteer director James W. Tanner presented certificates, with remarks praising volunteers for easing patient isolation and aiding the hospital mission of care.
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Veterans Administration Hospital
R. C. Jones
James W. Tanner
Jones
Dr. Jones
D. R. Pisegna
VAVS
Kathryn Kerrigan
Miss Kerrigan
Veterans Administration Volunteer Service
Mary McVickers
Salvation Army
Pisegna
Anner
C. F. Bloch
Garland Buchanan
Sylvia Cavillo
Bonds Forfeitures In Beckley City Court
A total of 563 in bonds was forfeited Monday night in City Police Court. Beckley residents Maggie McCallahan and Clifton Haynes each forfeited 100 bonds on moonshine charges. Others include John C. McKinney 87 forfeited for reckless driving and lights and license violations. Harry R. Collins 20 for speeding. Bill Tennett 34 for drunkenness and trespassing. Kenny J. Gilkerson 100 for reckless driving. Gladys Lively Cadle 20 for fighting. Cora Lee Potter 39 for fighting and drunkenness. Claudie L. Sturgill Jr. 5 for red light. Marie Gardner 25 for shoplifting. Derrel Morgan 20 for unnecessary noise and license. Hazel Scott 5 for dog violation. Six people totaled 108 on intoxication charges amid other court actions, with Charles William Brownlee appealing a drunk driving conviction and posting 500.
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Beckley
Maggie McCallahan
Clifton Haynes
John C. McKinney
Harry R. Collins
Mabscott
Bill Tennett
Kenny J. Gilkerson
Cranberry
Gladys Lively Cadle
MacArthur
Cora Lee Potter
Coal City
Claudie L. Sturgill Jr
Midway
Marie Gardner
Mount Hope
Atkinson
Johnstown Road
Vance Drive
Derrel Morgan
Hazel Scott
Charles William Brownlee
South Oakwood Avenue
Beckley Nazarene zone plans District Assembly in Summersville
The Beckley Zone Pastors Conference of the Church of the Nazarene met at the Glass House on Monday to prep for the July 15 District Assembly in Summersville. A film promoting personal evangelism was shown as ministers from 11 churches gather for the 10 zone series with over 100 ministers expected to participate.
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Beckley Zone
Church of the Nazarene
Glass House
Summersville
James
Pate
West Virginia
Vienna
Beckley
Alderson
Athens
Bluefield
Oak Hill
Pineville
Welch
Gap Mills
Peterstown
Princeton
Hinton
Local Guardsmen Scheduled for Dunbar Firing Range
About 80 West Virginia National Guardsmen from Troop C 1st Reconnaissance Squadron Beckley and Howitzer Battery Ronceverte will depart Saturday for the Dunbar Firing Range for annual familiarization firing. They will stay overnight at the Dunbar Army and return Sunday.
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West Virginia
PTA Meet Slated at Beckley Junior High School
The final PTA meeting at Beckley Junior High is set for 7 30 p m Thursday at the school. New officers will be elected and the Boys and Girls Chorus directed by Mrs Oscar Williams will present the program. The public is invited to attend.
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Parent Teacher Association
Beckley Junior High School
Oscar Williams
Distribution Set Commodities at Newton Meadows Place
Distribution of commodities will be distributed at Newton Meadows place on Pluto Road from 8 a m until 5 p m Thursday and Friday. erry bond for his release from custody.
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Newton Meadows
Pluto Road
Erry Bond
Trap Hill Coach Glen White Speaks At Banquet
Glen Daniel, Trap Hill High School coach, addressed the annual athletes banquet at Glen White Junior High Elementary School. He stressed athletics' role in education while ninth grade players and cheerleaders received letters from Principal Paul Craghead. Emmet Parker coaches junior high. Craghead also leads the sixth grade team.
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Glen White
RNS
Glen Daniel
Trap Hill High School
Paul Craghead
Emmet Parker
Craghead
Thirteen Seek Work At Beckley Office of Employment Security
Thirteen applicants filed for work at the Beckley office of Employment Security on Monday. Occupations listed include clerk typist nurse aid sales clerk kitchen helper maid taxi driver stock boy truck driver service station attendant janitor and three construction laborers.
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Beckley Office of Employment Security
Weidensall Wins Permit for Home Basement Work
James E. Weidensall of 331 Allison Ave. obtained a City Hall permit Monday to add a basement under his residence. Estimated cost is 850 dollars with a permit fee of 10 dollars.
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James E. Weidensall
Ellison Ave
City Hall
Food distribution at Mabscott Town Hall set for midweek
Community event at Mabscott Town Hall aims to distribute food from 9 am to 9 pm on Wednesday and Thursday. Residents are asked to bring their own containers to receive meals.
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Mabscott Town Hall
Francis Nicewander Released From Raleigh County Jail
Francis Nicewander of Beaver was released from the Raleigh County Jail at 7 30 a m Monday after serving a sentence and paying court costs on a peace warrant.
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Francis Nicewander
Beaver
Raleigh
Iran's top general jailed for embezzlement and collusion
Iran's first four star general Abdollah Hedayat was sentenced to two years in solitary confinement and fined $25,000 by a military court. He was found guilty of embezzlement and collusion with American construction firms building frontier barracks.
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Tehran
Iran
UPI
Abdollah Hedayat
Combined
General Staff
Frontier Barracks
Clergy Prepare Beckley Baccalaureate Sermon Lineup
Seven Beckley ministers will take part in the Woodrow Wilson High School 1963 baccalaureate service on May 26 with Rev T M Waldron as principal speaker. Other pastors include C P Conley Jim Franklin Glenn Stewart and Charles Delaney. Invocation and benediction will occur at the May 31 commencement with Rev Kenneth Swank and Rev Reece Burns.
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Beckley
Woodrow Wilson High School
T. M. Waldron
First Assembly of God Church
C. P. Conley
First Church of God
Jim Franklin
Memorial Baptist Church
Glenn Stewart
First Methodist Church
Charles Delaney
St. Luke Lutheran Church
Kenneth Swank
First Baptist Church
Reece Burns
Methodist Temple
Beckley Ministerial Association
First Presbyterian Church
Mary McVicker
Salvation
Daniels Reinstated To Former Position in West Virginia
Charleston WV The West Virginia Division of the American Cancer Society announces Robert L Daniels has been reinstated as Field Representative for the Southeast territory of West Virginia covering 16 counties. Executive Director John Yeatts says the misunderstanding over duties is cleared and Daniels resumes his duties. Volunteers in the counties served are being notified of the restoration.
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Charleston
West Virginia
American Cancer Society
Robert L. Daniels
Southeast
John Yeatts
Daniels
Yeatts
Liberia voters head to polls for Tubman fifth term
Monrovia Liberia United Press International reports Li berians went to the polls to reelect President William Tubman to a fifth term in the first uncontested presidential election in the country’s history. Voting also chose a vice president and deputies to the 39 seat House of Representatives.
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Monrovia, Liberia
UPI
The Bertillon System Yields to Fingerprinting
The Bertillon system was once widely used to identify people by body measurements. Fingerprinting has replaced it as the more accurate method of identification.
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Daniel
Lester
Republican Executive Committee
Lester Area Recreational Development Council
Raleigh County Junior High League
Raleigh County Senior
Trap Hill
Mark Twain
Mount View
Shiloh
Acord
Vocational Technical Center
Marshall University
Marshall
West Virginia University
Beckley and
Concord
Lockie Patton Daniel
Surveyor
Sidney P. Daniel
Betty Riffe
By Glen P. Daniel
Glen P. Daniel
Air Force Base
Penney
Briggs and Stratton
Gine
Perneyv
Irment
Seneca
Appalachian Council
Sophia Cub Scouts
David Hatcher
James Porter
Randall Hatcher
George Edward Thornley
Mark Hurley
Kenneth Martin
Tracy Hatcher
Woodrow Darnell
Gene Powers
Nazarene
Sophia Cub Scout Pack
Dunbar Range
PTA
S.M.L
M. L
Waldron
Bertillion
WVA
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