Nominees Face Big Test in November General Election
Unofficial returns from Tuesday's primary show several county and state races decided and others still tight. Democratic incumbent Harry E. Anderson narrowly leads for county clerk by 244 votes over Rev. R. H. Dean, with Buck Vines third. other incumbents like Judge Harry L. McCreery and Okey Mills win nominations while Van Hunter loses in circuit court clerk race. Local results detail county commissioner and prosecutor choices, assessor contest, and state level nominations in a see-saw tabulation across 114 precincts.
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Harry E. Anderson
Anderson
Rev. R. H. Dean
W. W. “Buck” Vines
van Hunter
C. Harold Hanks
Harry L. McCreery
W. H. “Piggy” McGinnis
Okey A. Mills
J. T. Jarrell Jr
Andy J. Lilly
Ira Whitlock
John P. Billups
Doan
Beckley
Anthony J. Sparacino
Paul J. Fourney
Harry Anderson
Easy) Ashworth
Harold Hedrick
Incumbents Defeated in Delegate Races at Raleigh County
Unofficial results from 114 precincts show Democrats Everett Shafer Roy Harmon Ned Ragland and Paul Vennari winning nominations for the House of Delegates. Republican winners Ben Tissue F W Roschi and Rev Samuel A Abram ran unopposed with a fourth GOP nominee to be named. Ward Wylie no opposition won Democratic state senate nomination for Ninth District. Numbers list Blackburn Burke Foster Hall Harmon Knapp Lee McNeish Ragland Shafer Shannon Thompson and Vennari with Shafer highest at 7,999 and Harmon 6,780.
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House of Delegates
Everett R. Shafer
Roy Lee Harmon
Ned H .Ragland
Paul J. Vennari
Raleigh
Ben Tissue
F. W. Roschi
Samuel A. Abram
Dr. Ward Wylie
Wyoming
Republican Senatorial Executive Committee
Blackburn
Burke
Luther Lee Foster
O. D. Hall
H. L. Knapp Jr
John D. Lee
M. D
James McNeish
Ragland
Shafer
Tracy Shannon
J. A. “Uncle Jim” Thompson
Leeber Wins Town District Seat on Raleigh County Board
In unofficial Raleigh County election returns A P Leeber defeats W H File Jr for the Town District member seat. Other elected include Marion Cook James H Trail and Carl Jarrell. Trail third 10 409 votes Jarrell 9 281 Cook 9 214. County board shifts with Callaway unopposed second member and Covey named president.
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A. P. Leeber
W. H. File Jr
Raleigh County Board of Education
Marion Cook
James H. Trail
Carl Jarrell
Leeber
Fife
B. C
Cotton” Callaway
Trail
Daniels
Jarrell
Dry Creek
Midway
Bal
Lots
Cook
Harold Lambert
S. Austin Caperton
Caperton
J. E. ‘Jesse’ Daniel
File
Woodrow T. Harris
William D. Nace
Brown H. Payne
Rites Incomplete For M. Thompson
The body of Milton Thompson of Mineral County lies at Durgan and Traynham Funeral Home awaiting funeral arrangements. He died Tuesday at the West Virginia Home for the Aged and Infirm in McKendree Fayette County, where he had resided since 1948.
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Milton Thompson
Mineral County
Durgan and Traynham
Thompson
West Virginia
McKendree
Fayette County
Meets This Afternoon To Meet on Thursday
The Women’s Improvement League meets at Mrs. Boston Clark’s home at 1 30 p m today. Open air services by Free and Independent Holiness Church on Harlem Heights lot 51 May 15 noon and 2 p m led by Mrs. Ida Smith. Smart Set Christmas Savings Club to meet at Mrs. Emmitt Hudson’s home at 1 p m today. Raleigh briefs note revival at St John Baptist Church of Raleigh ends tonight with a special board meeting at 5 p m Saturday. Regular services Sunday at 11 a m and 6 p m with Sunday School at 9 45 a m. St John Pastor’s Aid Society meets at Mrs. Maggie Green’s East Beckley 2 p m Friday led by Mrs. Lillian Carter. Mr and Mrs Roosevelt Kidd and daughter with Mrs Lula Green and children visited John and Me Eanes Sunday. Frank Carter patient at Memorial Hospital. M W Hannah of Ogden Va seriously ill at Mt Alta Hospital in Washington DC. Sister Miss Elnora Whiteside of Caer visited him Sunday.
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Free and Independent Holiness Church
Lot 51
Harlem Heights
Ida Smith
Smart Set Christmas Savings Club
Emmitt Hudson
Raleigh
H. E. Price
St. John Baptist Church
H. E. Davis
A. B. Monroe
St. John
Washington, D. C
Elnora Whiteside
Caer
Sunny
Juveniles Face Hearings On Burglary Charges
Two Tams juveniles are scheduled for hearings this week after state police arrested them Sunday for burglaries at two Crab Orchard homes.
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Tams
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Dean
Cmmity
Criminal Court
W. H
McGinnis
Harold H. Smith
Joe F. Burdett
Milton J. Ferguson
Robert H. Mollohan
J. Howard Myers
Albert D. Willer
John T. Copenhaver
Millard A. Holliday
Cecil H. Underwood
U. S. Senate
Joseph Acuri
Walter G. Crichton
John G. Fox
William C. Marland
Byron B. Randolph
al. J. Carey
Philip H. Hill
Chapman Revercomb
Tom Sweeney
Esta C. Wilson
Congress
Robert C. Byrd
John M. Eckard
Steve) Millhouse
Joel R. Belnap
F. Paul Chambers
Phil M. Conley
Garnett S. Doe
Walter S. Hallanan
Rush D. Holt
W. Fred Eisner
L. M. LaFollette
James O. Lakin
Fred O’grady
Revercomb
Sam B. Chilton
D. Pitt O'Brien
Holt Byrne
Howard G. Holbert Jr
Homer H. May
J. Alfred Poe
W .W. Trent
R. Virgil Rohrbough
W. G
Bill
Edgar B. Sims
E. Ray Reed
Carl Carey
Woodrow Wilson Cook
Denzil L. Gainer
Henry Clay Grusendorf
Joseph P. Seccuro
Orel J. Skeen
Theodore T. Forman
George T. Martin
Commissioner of Agriculture
Roscoe C. Beall
Howard Kay Dawkins
George R. Heidrich
Charles E. Jenkins
John T. Johnson
John M. Pierpoint
Charles M. Vaughan
Keith A. (King) Dunlap
Nicholas M. Homes
Supreme Court
Thornton G. Berry Jr
Leslie F. Given
Wright Hugues
Dayton Stemple
William H. Ansel Jr
W. W. Barron
John A. Field Jr
Everett Shafer
Ned Ragland
Paul Vennari
W. A
Gene’’ Burke
James E
Jay) Blackburn
County School Board
M. Thompson
Women's Improvement League
Boston Clark
Ock Hill
Sidney
Penney
Penney’s
DJ Pepper
Brentwood
Charmer
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