Suffocation Blamed For Deaths of 2 Tots
In Mullens area two infants died in their sleep from apparent suffocation within 24 hours. Five month old Joel Brent Ward, son of Mr and Mrs Jackson Ward, died between 1 and 7 am Monday at relatives home. Four month old Loretta Gerill Whitt, daughter of Mr and Mrs Garrett P Whitt, was found dead in bed at her Bud home shortly before 8 am Sunday. Graveside rites for Whitt set for 8 pm Wednesday. burial in Bud Cemetery. Ward born November 24 1953 in Roanoke Virginia. Survivors listed for both families include parents, grandparents, and siblings. Funeral arrangements and family statements noted.
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Garrett P. Whitt
Bud
Whitt
Bud Cemetery
Conley High School Band and Chorus Concert Tonight
Conley High School Band and Chorus perform in the school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. with guest soloist Mrs. Helen Dobson from Beckley. Director James H. Miller states the program, themed Springtime, offers a varied selection.
Oak Hill Exchange Grows in Telephones and Staff
A. W. Burdette, longtime Oak Hill manager, recalls Oak Hill’s switchboard expansion from one to 13 by 1954 as the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. grows the local network. The exchange now serves many towns and 2,515 telephones with 34 operators, and rural facilities are being extended. Burdette, born 1891 in Kanawha County, plans retirement while the firm eyes future dial systems across West Virginia exchanges.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Oak Hill
Zula Pridemore
Ruth Hamilton
Pearl Wynne
Telephone Company
Hugh Smith
Harry Price
W. Burdette
Margaret Stover
RNS
Thurmond
Mt. Hope
Fayetteville
Kanawha County
Minnie Garten
Hinton
Oak Hill Company
Scarbro and
Wine Grove
Burdette
George A. Yocke
Montgomery
West Virginia
Fellowship Awarded to D. Cox for Biological Science
Donald D. Cox of Pineville has won a $1,600 Syracuse University fellowship to study biological science next year. He is an assistant professor at Marshall College, taking leave in September to pursue a PhD in biological science with plant ecology research. He earned a BA in 1949 and an MS in 1950 from Marshall, and has studied at Ohio State and Michigan State. He is married to Lucille Cecil and they have a three year old daughter.
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Pineville
ANS
Donald D. Cox
Lettie Cox
Syracuse University
Marshall College
Cox
Marshall
Biological Science
Ohio State University
Michigan State College
Lucille Cecil
Bryant Cecil
James F. Hunter in Heart Attack At Home
James F. Hunter 75, a retired miner, was stricken with a heart attack at his White Avenue home at 4 a.m. Monday. The attending physician ordered no visitors for three to four days as he remains under care at home.
Rites Wednesday For Gilbert Cook
Funeral services for Gilbert P. Cook 63 former manager of the Sands and Co South Mullens store will be held at his residence 10 a.m. Wednesday He died of a heart attack Monday at his Goodwins Ferry Virginia home Interment will be in the family cemetery around Pearisburg Virginia The body rests at the Cook residence from 10 p.m today from Givens Funeral Home Pearisburg He lived in Mullens 20 years before moving to Virginia in January with retirement ill health Surviving are his wife Ora Minnix Cook three brothers and five sisters all out-of-state residents
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Cooks
Virginia
Ora Minnix Cook
Integration and Its Implications Discussed by PTA
The Conley Parent-Teacher Council will hold a Thursday night meeting at the school to discuss integration and its implications. The session begins at 6 30 p m and will be the final gathering of the current term.
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Mullens
RNS
Conley
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MacAlpin Coal Co
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Pagoda Super Market
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Itmann
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