Students decorate VA trays for Veterans Day hats
Fifth grade To Decorate Trays At VA Bill De Paulo and Patricia Keaton from St. Francis de Sales Parochial School display patriotic hats crafted by Raleigh County Chapter of the American Junior Red Cross. Hats will decorate tables at the Veterans Administration Hospital for Veterans Day. The school reports 192 students with Daniels Elementary achieving 100 percent Junior Red Cross enrollment. Red Cross funds buy supplies for tray favors and VA hospital decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill de Paulo
Patricia Keaton
St. Francis de Sales Parochial School
Raleigh County
Red Cross
Veterans Administration Hospital
Daniels Ele
Mentary School
Red Coss
Still Together In Scouting in Raleigh County
A trio from Mrs A S Johnston's Girl Scout Troop remains active in Raleigh County Girl Scout Council. Betty Mc Lean Annabelle Laing and Mrs J E Otto, daughter of Ida E Ballengee, continue serving in leadership roles and uphold the council’s traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty McLean
Annabelle Laing
A. S. Johnston
Raleigh
Girl Scout Council
Ida E. Ballengee
First County
Poor Sports Clash With State Hunting Laws
Conservation officers target flagrant violations of hunting rules including sharing overabundant game with friends to evade daily bag limits. Chief Art Bachman says undercover officers will patrol fields and woodlands all season to secure convictions, while stressing that adults who mislead youths into false reports are equally guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Bachman
Bachman
Conservation Commission
Ex-Beckleyan Ends Nisei Claims Work After a Decade
Enoch Edward Ellison formerly of Beckley led the Japanese Claims Section of the DOJ for nearly ten years and helped close out the program in Monday ceremonies. A Silver Spring, Maryland resident, he oversaw the unit since its inception and participated in the final restitution to Americans of Japanese ancestry. The last payment, 19,704 dollars, went to the New Washington Oyster Co. for oysters taken during wartime detention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch Edward Ellison
Beckley
Department of Justice
Silver Spring
Enoch L. Ellison
Grace Elli
Beckley Ave
United States
Pearl Harbor
New Washington Oyster Co
West
Anderson Discusses Education Objectives at Sylvia PTA
Mason Anderson assistant superintendent Raleigh County Schools spoke to Sylvia School Parent-Teachers Association during American Education Week outlining aims of a strong education program, noting current accomplishments and shortcomings. He answered questions on county school financing while PTA leaders announced committees and a prize for the classroom with most parent participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason Anderson
Raleigh County
Sylvia School
Parent - Teachers Association
Anderson
John van Dyke
John Stinson
W. W. Wheeling
L. L. Reckart
R. T. Sims
Lacy Treadway
Congress
Paris Sutphin
PTA
John Kushner
Sylvia
Delegation reviews model coal mine at New River Park
Beckley delegates including Harry Anderson and Mayor A K Minter visited the New River Park site off North Oakwood Avenue to study placing a 300 foot long exhibit coal mine and an Epic Drama project. Anderson noted a five foot coal seam and possible funding from mined coal.
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Minter
Anderson
Grandview State Park
State Park
The
Conservation Commission
Kincaid Sentenced 20 Years For A and P Robbery
Ralph James Kincaid Mullens proclaimed innocence as Raleigh County Court sentenced him to 20 years in the state penitentiary after a jury found him guilty of February armed robbery at the Beckley A and P. The total term includes 15 years plus five for a prior conviction, with parole history shaping the docket alongside two co-defendants in a brief session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph James Kincaid Mullens
State Penitentiary
Raleigh County Criminal
Harry L. McCreery
McCreery
Kincaid
Beckley A and P
A and P
Winona Bnk
Winona
West Virginia
Paul Mann
Raleigh
Mann
Henry Floyd Mitchem
Mitchem
National School of Aeronautics
Care
Beckley _Newspapers
Art Linkletter on Kids and TV at Arizona State Fair
Radio and TV host Art Linkletter delighted 3,500 Phoenix residents at the Arizona State Fair with a lively Houseparty show. He showcased a 92 year old stage coach rider, a live Christmas ham gift wrap duel, a horse gallop, and a four child conversation, while stressing preplanned questions and school involvement as the secret to engaging moments. Linkletter’s approach ties to his best selling book Kids Say the Darnedest Things and recent syndicated clips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art
Linkletter
Housearty
Phoenix
Soviets Find Iron Ore in Kursk Belor region
Soviet geologists report charting iron ore in the Kursk Belgorod basin about 350 miles south of Moscow. A Gubkin mining combine has opened deep and open cast mines beneath a thick watery clay layer. Iron is mined by artificial freezing with shafts through frozen earth nearly 200 yards deep. Government scientists predict large scale mining would start this spring to supply Moscow’s industrial area.
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Moscow
Kursk-Belgorod
Gubkin
Great Basin
Mrs Witherspoon To Return Home Wednesday From Louisiana
Mrs James W Witherspoon of 307 Beaver Ave is due home Wednesday afternoon by plane from New Orleans. A member of the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church U S she has conducted workshops in Louisiana since November 2 visiting Monroe Baton Rouge Shreveport and other cities.
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James W. Witherspoon
Beaver Ave
New Orleans
Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church
U. S
Witherspoon
Louisana
Monroe
Baton Rouge
Shreveport
Songer Corrects Defect in Raleigh Court Suit
Songer James E Songer formerly listed as the defendant in a Raleigh County Circuit Court suit was the plaintiff and received a judgment of 390.65 from Anderson Wilson. Wayne Morgan Laws of Prosperity, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Wayne Laws, earned a Navy commendation ribbon with medal pendant for heroism in rescuing a jet pilot off Florida on December 12 1957.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E. Songer
Raleigh County
Monday Register
Anderson Wilson
Wayne Morgan Laws
Wayne Laws
Secretary of the Navy
Thomas Gates
Laws
Navy
Florida
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Annabelle
Jonke
Felicia Griffith
Farr
Kmthopes
Robert Mitchum
Pee Ty
Bya Er
Ank
Beckleyan
Nisei
A&p
Bob Thomas
Phoenix, Ariz
Art Linkletter
Dorothea
Songer
Arn rNee
Goins Goins
Mattie
Martha Ann Marshall Beck
Helen
Charles A. Beck
Williams and Craven
Helen Baptist Church
Dewey Wilson
Wayne A. Sisk
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
William E. Morris
Taft Gilmore
Bill Lewis
Ray Sisk
Milburn McKinney
Elzie Blevins
Willams & Craven Funeral Home
St.clair St.clair
Walter Jennings
Beaver
Keyser Bryant
Roy Shrewsbury
Airport Road
Holiness Church
Bill Moore
Jimmy Baer
W. W. Lusk
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Kenneth Meadows
Eugene Kincaid
Jack Gravely
H. J. Burnette
Joe Shrewsbury
Arnold Wilburn
Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home Florists
WEBB
Crab Orchard
W. Va
Memoriam
Henry McGhee
Wife and Children Funeral Directors
Keyser - Bryant Funeral Home
Douglas T. Bryant
Oakwood “Ave
Robert L. Amick
Peeney Newspapers
Western Auto
Floor Landers
Gray Lumber Co
Crab Orchard Dial
Todd's Grocery and Hardware
Harold Williams
James R. Webb
Dial
Fabulon
Foster Hardware Co
Main St
Sander & Edger
Beckley Ice & Feed CO
Fabu
Buckley Photo Service
Church Street
World Book Encyclopedia
Delmas Elkins
Burgess Street
Peckley Newspapers Corp
Kidd’s
N. Oakwood
B. BE. Silverman
MacArthur
Open Air Theatre
W.va
John W. Eye
Neville St
Lovitz
W. C. Rogers Plumbing & Heating
Temple St
Wright
Ashworth & Sparks, Inc
Prince St Beckley
Venetian Blind Laundry
Aaron Venetian Blind Cleaners
Highlander Duraclean
Wille
Brothers
Hinton
Lewis Transfer & Storage
Piney Ave
White Pine Gray Lumber CO
Jan Campbell Music Co
Farmer's Market
Mary
Raleigh Insurance Agency
Lilly Building
Main Street
Jim Green
Avon Cosmetics
Jennings St
Meawinn Pagen
Jack D. Lilly
Lilly's Men’s Shop
Walter's Insurance Agency
McCorkie Avenue
South Charleston
Fayette
Greenbrier
Nicholas
Pocahontas
Webster Counties
Avon
Avon Megr
Richwood
Lewisburg
West Main Street
White Sulphur Springs
New York Area
Huntington
Broadway Huntington Station
N. Y
New York
Fayetteville
Mr. Brown
President
Beckley Newspapers
Appalachian Hardwoods, Inc
Care Beckley Newspapers
Roy A Jones
R. cL
Stinson
East Beckley
R. E
Bibb Snyder
Nature Shop
AKC
Chow
Pekingese Stud Service
Julia Game
near_ Skelton
Jersey
Harrison Mills
Sophia
Beauty Shop
Jill
Coleman
Poultry and Supplies
Suddreth
Earl Mann
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Edward Bays
Treadle Singer
Foster Hardware, Inc
Amana
Louise Walker
Dry Hill
J. L. Mills
Barber Greene
Savage
R. C. Huffman
Florence Meadows
Singer Sewing Machine
Necchi
KIRBY
Electrolux
Wyoming Avenue
Lena Oe
Dowdy Sewing Center
Zenith
Ashworth Firestone
Prince St
Hopkins Country
B. H. Hopkins
Savalier
Jalousie
Beckley Insulation Co
Beckley Maytag
Wringer
Kroger
Beckley Glass
Alex N Breckinridge
N. Oakwood Ave
Dee Ling Cole
Lexley Super Market
Prince Street
Walker
Philco
Predicta TV
Beckley Music & Elec
South Point
Ohio
Highway 52
Morrison Grain CO
P. O. Box
Ironton
Quality Lumber & Supply Co
City Ave
Cash
Hill-Rohrer Lumber CO
Ave
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