You Auto Buy Week Parade Week Announces Beckley Event
Escapees Will Fight Return To Hopemont message outlines a Friday 3 p m Beckley parade with floats and exhibits by.areca merchants. The Woodrow Wilson High School Band will provide music and the National Guard color guard leads. A 6 30 p m dinner at the Beckley Hotel will launch You Auto Buy Week with W C Currey and J R Carr among speakers. Beckley Mayor A K Minter will read the proclamation.
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Areca
J. %. Sharp
Harry Comer
Burleson Motor Co
Beckley
National Guard
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley Hotel
W. C. Currey
Cincinnati
Buick Motors Division
J. R. Carr
Bank of Rafeieh
A. K. Minter
Five escapees from Hopemont Sanitarium captured in Corbin
Corbin police arrested McKinney Lester Kearns Thurmond Rice Elkins and two others after a car chase near Terra Alta. Elkins 29 was killed during a separate burglary attempt in Beckley local officials said the escapees fled a Terra Alta sanitarium in a stolen car and were later captured in Corbin Kentucky while another suspect remained at large in West Virginia.
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Hope
Ted
Corbin
Monument
Medl- Kinney
Lester
Hopemont Sanit
Hopemont
McKinney
William E. Kearns
Bill Roolng Elkins
Thurmond Rice
Charleston
Corbin City
Terra Alta
William Elkins
Beckley
Walter Lee White
Marshall County
Preston County
Sophia
Winchester
Lexington
Elkins
Jjames Dunn
Oakwood Ave
Martha Borrer
Dunn
M. E. Tyree
Raleigh County
Elmer Aleck Meadows
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Pemberton
Harp
Alex George
Aristes Me
Root
Whitley County
Williamsburg
Coal City PTA Sponsors Cubs For Local Scouts
The Coal City Elementary School PTA will sponsor a Cub Pack led by President Mrs. Austin B. Privett. All boys and parents are asked to attend at 7:30 p.m. today in the Masonic Building Coal City. Troop 301 and Lagits Council members will oversee the first meeting as Rex Johnson presents the charter and twenty-one boys earn tenderfoot badges.
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Coal City
Parent
Austin B. Privett
Masonic
A. Shumate
Lagits
Bar
Sponoers
Rex Johnson
Scouts Study Rock Formations In Appalachian Trip
Senior Scouts of Troop 75 Salt River studied sedimentary and metamorphic rocks during an afternoon trip through Southern West Virginia and Virginia. Led by W. Vines and William Critser, the group toured rounded rock formations shaped by water and erosion near Beckley and the Beckley Presbyterian Church area.
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Cruser
West Virginia
Virginia
B. K. Peter
Critser
Appalachian
United States
Beckley Presbyterian Church
Beckley Girl Among 14 Named Baptist Youth Fellows
Beckleyan student is named a member of the West Virginia Baptist Youth Fellowship Summer Disciplevan. The 14 teenagers will tour all 24 Baptist associations May 24 to June 27, presenting worship seminars and a dramatic program while installing new officers. Visitors include David Cliness Terry Densmore Brenda Hardin Skeens Sneed Jameson and others from Huntington Morgantown Charleston Beckley and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckleyan
West Virginia Baptist Youth Fellowship
Baptist Youth Fellowship
David Cliness
Huntington
Terry Densmore
Morgantown
Brenda Kay Hardin
Sandra Skeens
David Sneed
Charleston
Glen Jameson
Marmet
Susan Lowe
Beckley
Ted Nesbitt
Mourdsville
Barbara Pauley
Madison
Sharon Phillips
Fayetteville
Judy Stephens
Washington
John Thorsoury
Logan
Peggy
Varney
Raleigh
Shady Spring Baptist Church
Disciplevan
Sophia High School Commencement May 27 Program
Sophia High School holds commencement exercises on Tuesday May 27 at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium with the band directed by Arthur McInturn Jr. A varied program includes speeches by Reba Calhoun Betty Blevins Donald Farley Maribelle Dolly Richard Blackburn Linda Shumate Evelyn Rogers Loretta McCaleb Scarlett McKinney Patty Vaught and others. Diplomas will be presented by Fred X Williams with Mason Anderson assisting. benediction by Rev F C Calhoun.
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Suzann Morton
Reba Calhoun
Betty Blevins
Donald Farley
Maribelle Dolly
Richard Blackburn
Rollin
Jorden
Linda Shumate
Evelyn Rogers
Loretta McCaleb
Scarlett McKinney
Patty Vaught
Jack McVey
Rega Calhoun
Golden Trail
Arthur MeInturis
James L. Hornbeck
Sophia High School
Mason Anderson
Fred X. Williams
Board of Education
F. C. Calhoun
Maynor Baptist Church
Sophia Band
Dog Catcher’s Family Dog Bite Incident at City St. Joseph
James Shipley, the city dog catcher, reported his 13 month old daughter bitten by his own dog in St Joseph Missouri. Police issued a 10 day confinement notice for rabies observation for the dog.
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St, Joseph, Mo
James Shipley
Shipley
Joint Services Slated For Fire Victims
Triple funeral services are planned for Other Ray Laws and his two children Bobby and Diana after a early Monday fire in a rural Painesville home. D Carl McCartney Jr. also died in the blaze which destroyed the two story house. five others escaped with minor burns and shock.
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Ray Laws
Bobby
Diana
Rose and Quesenberry
Peace Chapel
Kanawha St
Don Lowe
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Laws
Painesville
D. Carl McCartney Jr
Beckley
Law
Alice Law
McCartney
Carl, McCartney Sr
Fern. Gravely
Jack Johnson
Mentor
Fist Aid Course Class Photo Participants Listed
The notice lists participants in a fist aid program with names: Bar bara Burley Mary Yaple Sue Smith Sandra Spielman Carol Lane Christian Sue McNeish Susan Scott and others led by Mrs C W Blevins and Mrs Hol Yaple. It mentions Ellen Gales Becky DePaulo Mary Lee Peter Nancy Hutz Louise Breck Button Lowe Ann Ratcliffe Stephen Cruser and additional leaders.
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Barbara Burley
Mary Yaple
Sue Smith
Sandra Spielman
Carol Lane Christian
Sue McNeish
Susan Scott
Patricia Burgess
Ann Francisca
Marilyn Wooddell
Linda Perry
Linda Aaron
Hol Yaple
Brenda Whitehead
Shirley Kendall
Sarah Williams
C. W. Blevins
Ellen Gales
Becky DePaulo
Mary Lee Peter
Nancy Hutz
Louise Breck
Button Lowe
Ann Ratcliffe
Land Stephen Cruser
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Baptist Discipleyan
Sophia High
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Lincoln
Beckley Veterans
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W. VA
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