Concord College Homecoming Floats Color Event
Concord College students built vibrant decorative floats for homecoming, with Sigma Tau Gamma winning men's division for a blue and white napkin telephone under the slogan Dial V for Victory. Delta Zeta won women's division with a red white napkin Time Magazine featuring a lion head.
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Sigma Tau Gamma
William
Bill) Gaylor
Florida
Phi Alpha Chi
Phi Delta Pi
Everette Jennings
Jolo
Joel Brewster
Time Magazine
Delta Zeta
Concord Wins
Virginia
Twelve Female Clubs Showcase Float Parade Honors
Tops In Women's Division featured an eleven foot grand father's clock with a mountain lion head and a swinging football player as the gendulum between two goal posts bearing Now is the time to strike The Syncopated Clock played as the finale. Miss Sue Ferrell Princeton heads Sigma Sigma Sigma while Miss Freida Joy Riley Bartley has been nominated for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation senior math and physics major and Dean's List member. She serves as Cardinal Key treasurer and Women's Hall Council member and is a Kappa Delta Pi member and 1958 May Queen attendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane McCormick
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Sue Ferrell
Princeton
Freida Joy Riley
J. F. Riley
Bartley
College
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Cardinal Key
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Women’s Hall Council
Miss Riley
Kappa Delta Pi
College May Queen
Oak Hill Council Names Asst. Mayor
Oak Hill City Council named Gus A. Baumgartner assistant mayor and announced Police Chief Howard Janney will organize an auxiliary civil defense police force in West Virginia. A resolution honoring the late Mayor Henry Clay Brown was unanimously adopted, praising his fairness and leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
ANS
Gus A. Baumgartner
Howard Janney
West Virginia
Henry Clay Brown
Beckley Man Dies In Hospital
Gorge Scott of 105 West Moreland Ave died in a local hospital on Tuesday. The body is at Wright's Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorge Scott
West Moreland Ave
Wright
Carman Returns as Local Great Atlantic Manager
Sam G. Carman, newly named manager of the local Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. store, says the team is coming back home. He previously served as clerk and produce manager here from 1943 to 1954, then as assistant manager, before leading stores in Mullens and Kanawha City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam G. Carman
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Carman
Mullens
Kanawha City
Aegean island village runs teen art school on Tinos
In Pyrgos and nearby Ysternia on Tinos Island a three year art program trains about 40 teens in drawing sculpture and marble carving. Graduates earned scholarships to Athens School of Fine Arts with potential funds for further study abroad. Tuition and scholarships come from Evanghelistica Sanctuary Fund supported by island pilgrims.
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Tinos Island
Haseen
Aegean
Pyrgos
Ysternia
Athens
Romania
Bulgaria
Russia
Greece
Ghizi
Renieri
Litra
Sokhos
Halepas
Phitali
Vitali
Philippotis
Pyrgos and
Tinos
Nicholas Louvaris
Athens University
Paris Liaroutsos
Athens School of Fine Arts
Pyrgos Art School
Tinos’ Evanghelistica Sanctuary Fund
Nation wide fire losses rise sharply in June
June fire losses in the United States reached 90.048 million dollars, up 29.2 percent from the previous year’s 69.71 million. Fire hazards persist in cellars attics and stores. Beckley Fire Chief Otis Lyons urges ongoing elimination of dangers, saying 90 percent of fires and deaths are preventable.
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United States
National Board of Fire
Beckley
Otis Lyons
Beckley College Hosts World Famous Pianist Lyceum
Fredrick Sjobiarn, renowned pianist, performed at Beckley College in the third Lyceum Program. He offered serious and popular numbers and shared historical context between pieces. Born in Kansas, he now resides in California, with studies at Northwestern University and piano starting at age 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley College
Lyceum
Fredrick Sjobiarn
Sjobiarn
Kansas
Sjobiani
California
Northwestern University
Fayette Man Pleads Guilty in Shoplifting Case
James Jackson of Fayetteville was fined 25 dollars and costs and given 30 days in Raleigh County Jail after pleading guilty to shoplifting at Acme Super Market Valley Drive before Magistrate W A Burke. Jackson was arrested by State Police and jailed at 4 27 p m Tuesday.
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James Jackson
Fayetteville
Raleigh
W. A. Burke
Jackson
Acme
Valley Drive
George E. Peters
Coal City
Burke
Peters
George Hays
Beckley
Robert Bibb
Shady Spring
Bibb
Thomas Neal
Crow
J. F. Mays
Men suits to drop prices as wool costs ease
AP reports a hopeful start to next springs suits and slacks production with wholesale price declines of about five percent. Retail prices may fall by 2.50 to 3 per suit, while makers hope a 10 percent rise in unit sales from this year's totals. The industry targets campaigns to boost demand, including Ivy League styles and a newer Continental look, plus educational booklets and a color film to aid sales across various sectors. A public sale notice follows for Lillybrook Coal Co Store No. 1 in Lillybrook West Virginia with items listed and cash required day of sale.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
NEW York (Ap
United States
Father and Son
National Sales Executives Inc
American Institute of Men's and
Boys’ Wear Inc
Assa F
Lillybrook Coal Co
Lillybrook
W. Va
PABC
Lillybrook Coal Company
Wed
Funeral Notices From Local Area Honor Recent Departures
Deaths include Lavern Roark 24 of Resaco and Paris Brady Jones 170 Crab Orchard. Services set for Pine Resoco Methodist Church and Crab Orchard Baptist Church with burial at Ben Lilly Cemetery and Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Active pallbearers listed. arrangements by Keyser Bryant and Williams Craven Funeral Homes.
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Roark
Lavern
Resaco
Josephine
Keyser-Bryant
Roy Roark
Ghent
Pine Resoco Methodist Church
Luther Fletcher
Ben Lilly
James Lilly
Bobby Riff
Slim Elison
Frank Larry
J. B. Akers
Ordie Cole
Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home
Jones Jones
Paris Brady
Crab Orchard
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Donnelly
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Williams and Craven
Mose Pitzer
Claude Stone
Hollis Rhodes
Ira Crook
N. L. Knapp
W. H. Walker
Ladies of the Bird Bible
Williams & Craven Funeral Home
Carper Carper
Elia Elizabeth
Wesley Hedrick
Oakwood Avenue
Melton Mortuary
Hinton Methodist Church
F. D. Wyand
H. P. Hackney
Hill Top
Hinton
Mann Mann
Wilbur C
Newport News
Virginia
McGuire Veterans Hospital
Richmond
Deer Park Congregational Christian Church
Loyal
Calfee
Meadows
James Hamilton
Piney View
Stanaford Church of Christ
Vernon Mullens
Logan
Stanaford
Webb
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By Kay Allen
Carpenter’s Tools
Concord College
Oak Hill Council Names Asst. Mayor
City of
Brown
Aegean Island Village
Kapodistria
Lyons
Free World
Iron Curtain
Fayette
Business Mirror
Professional Directory
North Kanawha
Tyree
H. Crown
Brown Family
Keyser - Bryant Funeral Home
Douglas T. Bryant
South Oakwood Ave
Kyle Davis
Dial
North Oakwood
W Va
Paul Thompson
Dial ExXeter
Sam Black Church
Bluefield Monument CO
Bluefield
Robert L. Amick
Harold Williams
James R. Webb
Todd's Grocery and Hardware
Beaver
Foster Hardware Co
Main St
Sander & Edger Beckley Ice & Feed CO
Fabulon
Prince St
Sanders
Gray Lumber Co
Crab Orchard Dial CL
Gardner Gardner
Charles Walter
Stamford
Webb and Nekl Funeral Home
Vance Drive
Rev. C. W. Jones
Sunset Memorial Park
Webb and Neal Funeral Home
Bill Wardenski
Tom Ridenour
O. Gill
Tom Harris
Erick Freeman
Robert Harrah
Webb & Neal Funeral Home
Earl R. Huddle
Earl
Buckley Photo Service
Church Street
Cc & Odam
Daniels
Peckley Newspapers Corp
B. E. Silverman
Ben's Army Store
Neville St
Kidd’s
Oakwood Ave
Geo. W. Ballard
John W. Eye
West
Radio & TV
Dial CL
Prince St. Beckley
Lovitz Television Service
W. C. Rogers Plumbing & Heating
Temple St
Morgan Electric Service
Johnstown Road
Length Fost Hardware CO
Frank's
Aaron Venetian Blind Cleaners
Beckley, W. Va
Willey Brothers
Highlander Duraclean
Lewis Transfer
Piney Ave
Call Hominy Falls
Viking
Jan Campbell Music Co
White Pine Gray Lumber CO
Raleigh Insurance Agency
Lilly Building
Main Street
Jim Green
Avon Cosmetics
Jennings St. Dial
Jack D. Lilly
Lilly's News Shop
Walter's Insurance Agency
McCorkie Avenue
South Charleston
Babyland
Morristown
Tenn
Lewisburg
West Main Street
New York
Helen
New York Area
Huntington
Il Broadway Huntington Station
N. Y
Charleston
Logan, Williamson
Alemite Company of Maryland
Keenan Street
Baltimore
Maryand
Appalachian Hardwoods, Inc
Care Beckley Newspapers
Hopkins Country
B. H. Hopkins
MR. Woods
President Hotel
Roy A. Jones
R. and
J. H. Stinson
East Beckley
Uae
R. Bare
Bibb Snyder
AKC
Chow
Pekingese Stud Service
Julia Game
Skelton
Bosa PO Bonctor
Greg Johnson
Mill Reek
Luddreth
Beckley Hatchery
B. Earl Mann
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Call
Wilson
S. Kanawha
Price Bros. Beckley
Marion
North Carolina
Nestuiber Vectienoardare Sheen
Abaiaisuntumiee Etlemai Ae
DOY Appliances & TV
Acme Super Market Valley Drive
J. C. Meador
Coolridge
Dial ST
Foster Hardware
Maytag
Westinghouse
J. L. Mills Sophia
W Va Dia
Grandview
Bradford
J. W. Huddle
Clyde Street
Williamson
Frank’s Plumbing & Heating
Kanawha St
Klaus
McCreery St
Crystal Pools
Division of Water Conditioning
Piedmont Road
Singer Sewing Center
South Kanawha Street
Sunbeam
Atkinson
Johnstown
Ee Sewing Center
M. Walker
Hoover Sales and Service
Best Farner Sena
South Fayette St
BAI
Zenith New Picture
Sylvania
Capehart
Hoffman
Bendix
Zenith
RCA Table
Admiral Table
Ashworth
Meri ccc
Clark
Neville St. Beckley
Beauty Shop
Quality Lumber & Supply Co
City Ave
Southoint
Ohio
Highway 52
Morrison Grain CO
South Point
Ironton
Beckley Glass
Alex N. Breckinridge
N. Oakwood Ave
Beckley Insulation Co
Centra
Nevi St
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