Essay Winners Named in Beckley Club Contest
Three Woodrow Wilson High School students won cash prizes in a 50 word limit essay contest on The Best Book I've Read This Year. John Misiti won first for Gulliver's Travels, W D McCauley second for Northwest Passage, Rebecca DePaulo third for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Seventy seven students entered.
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Woman’s Club of
Beckley
The
Register
John Misiti
Rebecca DePaulo
W. D. McCauley
Misiti
Say
Dents
Woodrow Wilson High School
George Chong
Woman’s Club
April Payroll Hits 421 050 For Raleigh County Board
The gross April payroll for the Raleigh County Board of Education was 421050 dollars and 57 cents. Net payroll after deductions for taxes, insurances, social security and loans was 325307 dollars and 55 cents.
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Raleigh County
Seventeen Trained In First Aid Course At Sophia High
Seventeen persons completed a standard first aid course at Sophia High School last week. Participants include Karen Acord Linda Acord Wanda Acord Ethel Canday Sherry Flower Carol Grams Ruth Ann Horton and Rosemary Cook of Slab Fork Verna Adkins Rita David Handy Mary Ann Farley Charlotte Marrs Rose Quesenberry and Sharon Whiting of Sophia Merilyn Pack and Loretta Perdue of Midway Nellie Shrewsberry of Pemberton. The Raleigh County Chapter of American Red Cross sponsored the course and Arlene M Meadows of Beckley taught it.
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Sophia High School
Karen Acord
Linda Acord
Wanda Acord
Ethel Canaday
Sherry Flower
Carol Grams
Ruth Ann Horton
Rosemary Cook
Slab Fork
Verna Adkins
Rita David Handy
Mary Ann Farley
Charlotte Marrs
Rose Quesenberry
Sharon Whiting
Sophia
Merilyn Pack
Loretta Perdue
Midway
Nellie Shrewsberry
Pemberton
Raleigh County
American Red Cross
Arlene M. Meadows
Beckley
Nepalese Sherpas Describe the Abominable Snowman
Sherpas describe the Abominable Snowman as covered in long reddish brown hair from head to toe. It stands upright like a human at night and moves with an ape like lope through the snow.
Cranberry PTA Elects Officers and polio clinic details
Mrs. E. R. Shawver is the new Cranberry PTA president with Clarence Gray as vice president, Mrs. George Karnes secretary, and Mrs. Opal Via treasurer. Dr. C. S. McKinney led devotions as the group discussed a May 25 polio clinic from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the school with Karnes, Ellis, and Shawver assisting. A 4-H Club program titled A Day in Camp was presented, and James B. Deck gave the benediction.
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E. R. Shawver
Cranberry School
Clarence Gray
George Karnes
Opal Via
C. S. McKinney
Emerson Little
Carl Ellis
Little
Cranberry 4
Special Coating Set For City Tennis Court
Beckley Recreation Board voted to coat a Glen Avenue tennis court with a special material to prevent cracking and peeling in heat as a trial before wider use. Project cost about 100 dollars as a preliminary measure and a budget committee including James B. Kesinger Paul Fourney Frank Barksdale and Tom Evans was named. Ginkgo trees, dating to prehistoric times, are no longer wild and are preserved by Chinese Buddhist priests who deem them sacred.
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Glen Avenue
Beckley Recreation Board
James B. Kessinger
Paul Fourney
Frank Barksdale
Tom Evans
Five Beckley Area Schools Launch Community Clean-Up
Principals from Sprague Tees Cranberry Prosperity and Bradley schools organize a district wide cleanup urging all residents between Beckley and Mount Hope to participate. Pupils will return home checklists showing completed tasks with posters bearing each student's name and a parent signed result. Projects include yard cleanup painting and fence whitening and tree whitening in yards and nearby areas.
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Beckley
Mount Hope Road
Sprague, Tees
Cranberry
Prosperity
Bradley
Mount Hope
J. B. Deck
Former Beckleyan Speaks At Woodrow Wilson High
Russell L. Dalton Charleston superintendent of motor vehicles and supplies for the Chesapeake Co spoke to Woodrow Wilson High School seniors and juniors on Hey Ingredients of Success. He will address social science classes at 11 30 a m Thursday. Dalton, a former Beckleyan, was district C&P plant manager here from 1954 to 1958. His wife is Wanda Biggs.
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Russell L. Dalton
Charleston
Chesapeake Co
Woodrow Wilson High School
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