Fayette County Results Show Kessler Leads in 85 Precincts
Unofficial returns from 85 of Fayette County's 100 precincts show Jasper Kessler leading the Democratic ticket for county commissioner with 12,679 votes to Republican Martin Manion's 3,479. Other results include W. N. Jasper unopposed for state senator, Cleveland M. Bailey leading in Congress Third District, and Neely trailing Sweeney for U.S. Senate. Several incumbents won reelection to the House of Delegates, with detailed precinct tallies for each race.
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Fayetteville
RNL
Orval Kessler
Fayette County
Kessler
Martin Manion
Ansted
Manion
W. N. Jasper
Lewisburg
Fayette
Sweeney
House of Delegates
Joe Lilly
Oak Hill
Hobart Booth Jr
Lilly
P. H Kelly
Montgomery
Nell Walker
Winona
U. S. Senate
Neely
Congress
Bailey
Lightburn
State Senate
Booth
Kelly
Walker
Gordon Billheimer
H. E. Shawver
Donna St. Clair
J. C. Young
Nuttall
Justice of the Peace
W. R. Blizzard
Logan County
Withrow
Byrd
Keenan
Jackson
Merritt
McDonald
Thornbury
Cook
Butcher
Napier
Sheets
Thompson
Barber
Combs
Flannery
Williams
Pocahontas County
Morgan
Staggers
Phillips
Chenoweth
Alderman
McLaughlin
Board
Greenbrier
Blue
Kee
Wth
Jasper
Bennett
Bowling
Clendenen
Jones
Lile
Bowman
Monroe County
Blule
Parker
Ballard
Matney
Copeland
Nicholas County
Crislip
Berzito
Askew
McClung
Elizabeth Kee
Fred O. Blue
O. Roy Parker
Fred Thomason
R. N. Matson
Criminal Court
Walter Vergil Ross
Robert L. Stewart
Election Returns From Other Areas
Unofficial results from several counties show Senate and House races, with Sweeney leading Neely for U.S. Senate in Logan and Summers counties, Blue and Kee contesting Fifth District Congress, and various county offices including commissioners and delegates. Mercer and Roane areas report key leads for Kee and Parker, while Greenbrier and Nicholas show mixed results across senate and delegation races.
New Committee Named for Club at Oak Hill
A membership committee was appointed at Redbud Garden Club in Oak Hill to approve applications before voting on candidates. New members Luther Greene and Leftrich Broyles joined, and Miss Emma Hepler spoke on Old Fashioned Herbs in Modern Gardens. Members were urged to bring terrariums and gardening gifts for VA Hospital patients.
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Oak Hill
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Redbud Garden Club
Kelly Williams
Sunnyside Drive
Clyde Dancy
Thelma Burgess
J. D. Burgess
Mary Deprich
Emma Hepler
Verne Harvey
Fayette County Garden Council
Oak Hill Garden Club
Luther Greene
Leftrich Broyles
Otis Johnson
John Harris
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Leonard Carter
Wanda Farrish
Edward Duncan
John Harast
Margaret Davis
Shumate Suffers Fatal Attack Rites Thursday
Funeral services for Trent Massey Shumate 67 of Harvey will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Tyree Funeral Home chapel with burial in High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill. A retired miner and Baptist, he died Monday night in a Harvey store. He was born June 8 1887 in Buckingham Court House Va. Survivors include wife Nettie four sons four daughters two brothers two sisters four half sisters and five grandchildren. Body to be moved to his residence at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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Harvey
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Trent Massey Shumate
Tyree
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
The
Baptist Church
Shumate
Buckingham, Court House, Va
Nettie
Bernard
Elmore
Clayburn
Columbus
Robert
Akron
Arlene Epperly
David
Richmond
John
Gate City
Maggie Comper
Lexington
Gracie
Stevens
Irene Rigsby
Betty Rever
Norfolk
Stella Tucker
Cruse
Fayette Roads Passable Today
Fayette roads are open but slick after six to eight inches of snow in Fayette County since noon Tuesday. Chains advised. major highways open yet hazardous. Plow crews worked overnight, with several stretches including Glen Jean Hill Price Hill and Fayetteville Hill impassable at times. Traffic moving steadily. minor fender benders and ditch incidents reported. Greyhound buses running a little behind schedule Beckley to Charleston.
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Oak Hill
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Fayette County
State Road Commission Office
Glen Jean Hill
Price Hill
Fayetteville Hill
Greyhound
Beckley
Charleston
Charter Night Slated for Fayetteville Lions Club
The Fayetteville Lions Club charter presentation banquet is set for 6:30 tonight at Memorial Auditorium dining room. Oak Hill Lions Club president Clarence Bruffey will call the meeting to order, with W. R. Cooke presenting the charter. Carl B. Vickers will accept for Fayetteville, and Myron Renick will toast. James C. Hill will deliver the principal address. About 250 attendees are expected, with Lions from southern West Virginia in attendance.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayetteville Lions Club
Memorial Auditorium
Clarence Bruffey
Oak Hill Lions Club
W. R. Cooke
Carl B. Vickers
Fayetteville Club
Myron Renick
James C. Hill
Vienna
Lions Clubs
Robins H. Kent
West Virginia
Boy Scout and companion rescue three from gas fumes
Two Mullens youths Dickie Davidson and Bobby Rhoades saved three children from deadly gas fumes when improvised vents from two heaters failed. Phoebe 15 Jimmy 12 and Kay 3 were revived with oxygen and artificial respiration after rescuers alerted a nurse, a doctor and neighbors.
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Dickie Davidson
Bobby Rhoades Jr
Boy Scout
Mullens
RNS
South Mullens
Phoebe
Jimmy
Kay
Hazel Floyd
Bobby Rhoades
Dickie
J. T. Davidson
Bobby
Robert Rhoades
Lone Republican Wins District Office In Wyoming County
W C Bailey Jr leads Democrats in Wyoming County votes for county commissioner with 5599 unofficial tally from 39 precincts. Elizabeth Kee leads in U S Senate race with 5556, while M M Neely tops Sweeney for the Senate. England and Bower win House of Delegates, Ellison unreported in some precincts.
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W. C. Bailey Jr
Wyoming
Pineville
Bailey
Elizabeth Kee
Fred O. Blue
M. M. Neely
Thomas Sweeney
U. S. Senate
Sweeney
J. Paul Bower
Paul England
House of Delegates
Bower
England
Karl Lilly
C. A. Ellison
Noah West
Sam Miniaci
J. R. McKinney
Hollandsworth Rites Thursday at Man
Funeral services for Paul R. Hollandsworth 54 a Man operator of a service station will be held Thursday at 10 30 a m in Bruce MacDonald Memorial Methodist Church Man with Rev Raymond L Moore officiating Burial follows in Sunset Memorial Park Beckley He is survived by three daughters Mrs Charles E Clay Huntington Mrs Pat Keskey Oakland California Miss Margaret Hollandsworth at home one brother Claude C Atlanta two sisters Mrs Hansford O NeAl Oak Hill Mrs Garten Harvey Beckley and four grandchildren The body lies at McNeely Funeral Home Man until one hour before services Pallbearers include Dennis Maynard Marvin Hurley James Clark Guy Black George Fadlovich and Herbert Hill.
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MAN
Paul R. Hollandsworth
Bruce MacDonald
Claude C
Atlanta
Gatwa
Hansford O'Neal
Oak Hill
Garten Harvey
Beckley
McNeely Funeral Home
Dennis Maynard
Marvin Hurley
James Clark
Guy Black
George Fadlovich
Herbert Hill
Parents Return Boys to Police
Two boys escaped from the Ced ar Grove Jail where they had been taken for questioning in recent robberies in Logan, Kanawha, and Fayette counties. They were returned to police by their parents on Tuesday. One is John Lee Whitt, 18, of Beckwith. his companion is a 17-year-old Beckwith youth. They said they escaped by prying bars loose. The third suspect did not escape.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Cedar Grove
Logan
Kanawha
Fayette
John Lee Whitt
Beckwith
Orville Lamb Jr. Dies in Service at Camp Kilmer
Orville Lamb Jr. 21, of Ravencliff dies Monday at Camp Kilmer New Jersey. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Toneda Baptist Church Clear Fork with Rev. H W Jarrett and Rev. Vernon Cook officiating. Burial in Kopperston Community Cemetery. Born August 15 1933 son of Orville and Millie Cook Lamb. Survived by wife Barbara, daughter Vickie, four brothers William Thomas Robert all Ravencliff, James overseas Korea, two sisters Catherine Bidoich and Margaret Lamb. Body arrives Welch 11 a.m. Wednesday and taken to the Evans Funeral Home Oceana at 5 p.m.
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Barbara Walker Lamb
Ravencliff
Vickie
William
Thomas
Robert
James
U. S. Air Force
Korea
Catherine Bidoich
Margaret Lamb
Welch
Evans Funeral
Oceana
Firm Fetes Employes Mullens
G C Murphy Co employees were honored at a Currie Hall banquet. Eight workers were recognized for sales promotion, receiving cash awards headed by Betty Blevins with 12.60 dollars. Store manager Gordon Skidmore praised the sales force and its community role as Pug Crotty and Lula Mays performed. Women of the Presbyterian Church Circles served southern fried chicken.
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Lula Mays
Young Crotty
Presbyterian Church
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Donald Heslip
C. A. Sweet
Raymond Compton
Quinnimont
Charles Bika
Adam Harmon
W. R. Workman
Foster L. Spencer
Mount Hope
Opie ‘Mann
Oak Hill Hospital
Oaval Kessler
Summers County
Hodge
McCormick
Fox
Mercer County
Andrew L. Clark
G. T. Johnson
Robert M. Richardson
E. L. Phillips
David L. Sims
Ben B. White Jr
Charter Night
Jimmy Floyd
Floyds
Dan Farley Jr
Floyd
Dave Arnold
Eddie Lawson
Ross
Bud
Wyco
Ellison
Republican Executive Committee
Curtis Darby
Hanover
Huff Creek
Baileysville
Blake Lusk
Billy Lester
Ira Jackson
Glen Morgan
Hollandsworth
Gulf
Gulf Super-Refining
New Gulf
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