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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1961
Page
8
Mount Hope Federated League announces a birthday and activity calendar to be available next month. Ten Senior Girl Scout Troop No. 6 members will be pictured. Committee members include Mrs. Carter and several local volunteers with Harnsbarger as ex officio president. The listing and ads committees are named. two Olympiads noted in U S history.
A. J. Ellis of 216 Tenth Street his wife Ada and Hugh D. Lowe of New Hope Road Princeton were injured in a one car crash near Kingwood Preston County while returning home from Morgantown after attending the West Virginia Penn State football game. Ellis suffered a dislocated hip bruises cuts and shock.
Maple Fork report: Mrs. Lara Johnson of Cincinnati visits Mrs. Josie Sweeney this week. Mrs. Bill Jewell is patient at Beckley Memorial Hospital undergoing treatment.
A Tuesday incident left Mrs. Ellis with a dislocated shoulder arm injuries bruises and cuts. Both Ellis and Lowe, a construction engineer for District 10 State Road Commission, were treated at Kingwood Hospital with Lowe later released."
Dorothy PTA at a Monday meeting urged action to enclose stairways as fire safety for second floor students per the fire marshal. They may contact school officials and Board of Education president Carl Jarrell if no satisfactory reply. The group also discussed a basketball court, a flagpole, a damaged ceiling pole, a deep freeze funding split, and a kitchen screen door. Mickey Mantle hit six of 31 homers batting right in 1959.
The Philathea Circle of Mount Hope Baptist Temple met at the home of Mrs. Dave Humphrey to finalize plans for a Layman’s Dinner and a Congregational Dinner in the church Fellowship Hall. Mrs. Fred Dixon led the program with a Thanksgiving theme, and Miss Becky Humphrey was welcomed as a guest. Members listed include Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Twohig, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs. Eans, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Humphrey, Miss McCutcheon, and Mrs. Salmon.
In Williamson County a Mingo County couple, Sally Mae Jessie and Ernest W. Jessie, were sentenced to six months in jail and fined $100 each on child neglect charges after the death of their 18 month old daughter from pneumonia. Four other children, ages 6 months to 12 years, are with Salvation Army, while two are in Manone hospital for leukemia treatment and tests. Authorities questioned welfare use of about $165 monthly as investigators determine how money was spent.
The tallest mountain in South America is Aconcagua in Argentina. Its peak rises 22 834 feet above sea level.
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