Beckley Teacher Named for National Science Foundation Program
Mrs Marian Lowe head of the Mark Twain High School mathematics department is chosen to participate in National Science Foundation Academic Year Institutes. She will study at the University of Virginia Charlottesville for a master’s degree and attend a Summer Institute at the University of Florida with her family traveling from Beckley to Gainesville on June 13. She requests a year off from teaching and from her post as organist at St Mary’s Methodist Church Beckley.
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Mark Twain High School
National Science Foundation
United States
Arkansas
Virginia
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
University of Florida
Lowe
A. J. Corns
Billy
Richard
Beckley
Gainesville
St. Mary’s Methodist Church
Mabscott teen Carolyn Garten named CYF of the month
Carolyn Sue Garten, a senior at Woodrow Wilson High School and Flying Eagle Band member, has been selected as CYF of the month at Mabscott Independent Christian Church. She serves as president of the Young Peoples Sunday School Class and secretary of the CYF, and is the 17-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Melvin Garten of Mabscott.
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Carolyn Sue Garten
CYF
Mabscott Independent Christian Church
Christian Youth Fellowship Organization
Young Peoples
Woodrow Wilson High School
Flying Eagle Band
Melvin Garten
Mabscott
Integration leader King speaks at Freedom Rally in Los Angeles
MLK Jr., at a Birmingham Birmingham rally, declares segregation a new form of slavery and urges freedom for all, whether in Birmingham or Los Angeles. Senate leaders including Hubert Humphrey push a resolution for a U.S.-Soviet test ban, arguing it would curb radioactive contamination and nuclear proliferation. Pope John XXIII marks his 81st birthday with reflections on birth and death as universal constants.
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Los Angeles
Martin Luther King Jr
Birmingham
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D-Minn
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Murphy Will Speak Here Organizes SME Meeting Tuesday
Joseph Murphy of New York national director of service for Sales and Marketing Executives International will headline a 6:30 p.m. Tuesday dinner gathering for 75 to 100 area sales and management executives at the Black Knight County Club. About 350 invitations were issued by Alan Sussman I Wilbur Bays and R R Brown with guests including Alfred Land Charles Harold Hudson Hufford W R Cooke Earl Perry H Edward Steele and Jim Strump. Active clubs operate in Bluefield Huntington and Charleston with Wheeling in progress. SME is endorsed by the local Chamber of Commerce.
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New York
Service For Sales and Marketing Executives, International
Black Knight County Club
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Sussman
I. Wilbur Bays
R. R. Brown
Alfred Land
Bluefield Sme Club
Charles Harold
Bluefield Hardware Co
Hudson Hufford
Chicago House Publishing Co
Bluefield
W. R. Cooke
Mercer County
Earl Perry
Perry Brokerage
H. Edward Steele
Bluefield Supply
Jim Strump
Bluefield Newspapers
Huntington
Charleston
Disclosed
Wheeling
Chamber of Commerce
SME
Rev Shank Urges Church To Embrace Missionary Duty
The Rev Robert Shank of Grosse Ile Mich told St Stephen s Episcopal congregation in Beckley that the church must get down to brass tacks or be lost. He warned that ten years hence a third of the world s people will be Christians and criticized rosy church growth figures. He spoke of his Alaskan mission and urged Christian nations to avoid merely westernizing. Shank, now associate rector at St James in Grosse Ile, plans to take a mission group back to Alaska. He lectured in Beckley Bluefield Charleston and attended a missionary rally in Bland County Va.
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Grossele, Mich
St. Stephen's Church
Beckley
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Korea
Tetlin
Alaska
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Bluefield
Charleston
Bland County
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Memorial Day Poppies Missing Maker in Elkins
ELKINS AP For 30 years Mrs H W Daniels has handmade 150000 artificial poppies used by the American Legion to decorate veterans graves in Randolph County. Now 87 and hospitalized since last July she cant continue, leaving Memorial Day ceremonies without the familiar red flowers. Daniels widow of World War I hero Capt H W Daniels, a physician killed in France, remains recalled by local service ties and a family history marked by wartime sacrifice and loss.
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Elkins
Flanders Fields
H. W. Daniels
Science Shrinks Piles Without Surgery With Preparation H
New healing substance Bio-Dyne, discovered by a world famous research institute, shrinks hemorrhoids, stops itching, and relieves pain without surgery. Case after case shows actual reduction while easing discomfort. Available as suppository or ointment under the name Preparation H at drug counters.
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New York, N. Y
New Site For Legion Meet To Be Announced
Commander Chester Matney of the West Virginia American Legion says Huntington is likely the site for the state convention, probably the weekend of August 14, pending a few details. Wheeling and Charleston remain under consideration if Huntington plans falter. Huntington Post 16 invited the convention last Friday after Bluefield posts withdrew due to concerns over accommodations for Negro Legionnaires. Nadia Benasciotti, 2, drowns in a well in Metz, France, after water-planting with her brother for Mother's Day.
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Bluefield
Tot
Metz
France
UPI
Nadia Benasciotti
Lester Town Council Accepts Citizens Party Slate
The Town Council of Lester met in special session at 8 p.m. Friday and formally accepted the slate of candidates of the Citizens Party for the June 4 town election.
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Lester
Citizens Party
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