Campaign Launched Monday Schulte To Head Local Christmas Seal Drive
The Raleigh County 58th Christmas Seal campaign aims for a $14,000 goal to fund tuberculosis and respiratory disease work. Led by John and Betty Schulte, with Mrs. Odessa Lewis and other committee chairs, the drive seeks local support and new League members as the campaign opens. Raleigh County reports active TB cases and extensive X ray outreach last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Betty Schulte
Beckley Cut Flowers
Schulte
Raleigh County Turculosis and Health Association
Odessa Lewis
A. D. Belton
H. E. Melton Jr
Mas
Raleigh County
Lewis
Association
Raleigh
Honey Production Shows Increase In Past Years
Rev Earl P Cochran of Shady Spring highlighted a Rural Development Council report noting a 430 percent rise in honey volume and $50 000 in net over the past two years despite a poor 1964 season. He urged more state agriculture support and bee expert deployment while urging stronger forest fire penalties and powers for Department of Natural Resources officials.
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Rural Development Council
Chamber of Commerce
Earl P. Cochran
Shady Spring
Cochran
Department of Agriculture
West Virginia
Albert Beaty
M. Lane
Department of Natural Resources
No Changes Noted In Results Vote Canvass Completed
Court canvassing of votes from the Nov 3 election found a large write-in vote for Raleigh County surveyor. Harold Holt won 137 write-ins if upheld, with Quincy Gunnoe at 63. Other write-ins for various offices noted. totals list Johnson, Byrd, Slack, Lilly, and many local candidates. Official tabulations show Johnson, Byrd, and Lilly among top vote-getters in statewide races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold
Hank) Holt
Raleigh County
Gunnee
Leslie Gates
Gary Lilly
J. McNieshe
Cotton White
S. Thompson
Dave Eppling
Harry Peck
J. J. Mahoney
R. Witt
Dennis Leary
Elmer Warden
R. L. Carter
Michael Smiley
Hal Scott
W. D. Holliday
John Gates
T. G. Alley
Stephen Tackett
C. E. Johnson
Pat Perry
W. E. Straughn
James L. Wood Jr
Herb Alley
J. Wright
C. F. Fultz
Doony Lilly
Paul J. Fourney
Fourney
Truman L. Sayre
Anthony J. Sparacino
Lilly
Robert Ashworth
Tom Canterbury
Sparacino
Kermit Locke
Joseph Haga
R. L. Sayre
Don Hodson
George Ballard
O. L. Hedrick
Hughs
W. A. Thornhill
Ned Payne
L. T. Meadows
John Morgan
Neil Birch
D. D. Ashworth
Clay Crouse
John McKinney
Constable
Trap Hill
Billie Sullivan
van Bays
Asa Bolen
Jesse Gravely
Bedford Morris
Bob Davis
Mel Harvey
L. Sampson
Neil Horton
John Adams
William Thompson
J. A. Blackburn
Ben Workman
Roy Reid
Robert Hungate
Joe Dickerson
Odore Simpkins
H. H. Hibbs
Harold Hanks
John Peters
C. R. Richmond
Don Jarrell
K. K. Holt
Justice of the Peace
Joe Rodriguez
W. A. Burke
M. E. Tyree
S. C. Ballard
A. K. Minter Jr
A. J. O'Neil
Clyde Webb
Jack Akers
Lyndon Johnson
Barry Goldwater
U. S. Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Cooper P. Benedict
John M. Slack Jr
Jim Comstock
C. Donald Robertson
Donald C. Carman
Gus R. Douglass
Nicholas M. Homes
Supreme Court of Appeals
Thornton G. Berry Jr
Frank C. Haymond
George F. Beneke
Herman D. Rollins
Tracy W. Hylton
A. R. Kingdon
Okey A. Mills
C. W
Bill) James
Walter James
Minor L. Scott
C. Berkley Lilly
Salvation Army Baskets for Christmas Beckley
The Beckley Salvation Army will take applications for Christmas baskets in early December. The Citadel will be open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. during that period, Lt. Raymond Kitchen says. He invites clubs and organizations to use the Salvation Army as a clearing house to avoid duplication and reach every needy person. The Christmas Bath runs from Nov. 27 to offer Beckley citizens a chance to help. Volunteers are needed to staff the booths on December 8 and 14.
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Beckley
Kitchen
Mining Engineers Meet At White Sulphur Springs
The Central Appalachian Section of the American Institute of Mining Engineers met November 13 and 14 at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs with 280 engineers and guests attending a Friday banquet. Meetings in the Greenbrier Theater covered sulfur springs water pollution coal mining equipment maintenance and mine safety. Special guest programs included bridge parties style shows and Greenbrier tours with locals such as Mr and Mrs John Straton Beckley Mr and Mrs Thomas Howard Mount Hope Mr J A Barnell Beckley and Mrs Lloyd G Fitzgerald Mount Hope pictured at the event.
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Central Appalachian
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
White Su
John Straton
Beckley
Thomas Howard
Mount Hope
J. A. Barnell
Lloyd G. Fitzgerald
Sphur
Fitzgerald
Bealeton Association set for January meeting at church
The association will hold its next meeting Monday January 11 at 7 pm. The First Baptist Church of Beckley is tentatively named host church. Guest speaker Rev C Shirley Donnelly of Crab Orchard Baptist Church spoke. The Manning Family of Crab Orchard presented a music program.
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First Baptist Church of
Beckley
C. Shirley Donnelly
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Manning
Crab Orchard
Raleigh Association of American Baptist Men
D. O. Means
West Virginia Papers Included in WVU Library Checklist
WVU Library releases a bibliography listing 842 newspaper titles held in Morgantown and at the P. I. Reed Library. The guide notes microfilm on loan and highlights the earliest West Virginia paper The Potomak Guardian from 1790. Copies are $2. 70 Charleston titles, 44 Clarksburg, 36 Wheeling. foreign issues from East Africa and several countries.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
West Virginia University Library
Charles Shetler
WVU
Shetler
Louise C. Boger
Potomak Guardian
Shepherdstown
East Africa
Germany
England
Russia
France
Korea
Cuba
Australia
Formosa
Charleston
Clarksburg
Wheeling
Life Insurance Plan For Entire Family Offered
Modern Woodmen of America promotes a family life insurance plan with the home office in Rock Island Illinois offering coverage for all members under a single policy aimed at simplifying protections and premiums.
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Modern
Woodmen OF America
Rock Island, Ilincie
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League of Women Voters
Bank of Raleigh
Charles W. Wilson
Wilson
Virginia MacCleod
Howard J. Jackson
League
MacCleod
C. C. Lewis
Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association
Betsy Palmer
Tional
National Tuberculosis Association
Rev. Cochran
William M. Shanklin
Porter Lewis
Frank Barksdale
Gene Yeager
Bob) Richmond
Jimmie R. Crawford
Marsh Fork
Jack) Kyle
James Vaughn Jr
L. G. Daniel
Thomas Laverty
Victor Allen
Esco Browning
Orville L. Gunnoe
Freelan Webb
Richmond
M.F. Eye
Merlin Bragg
C. O. Smith
Clear Fork
Zachari Karantonis Jr
Clifford E. White
Hubert Alfred Stover
William Ezra Short
Lacy McClure Thompson
Arvel Allen
Clyde Rorrer
Salvation Army
Baptist Association
Kenneth Manning
James Means
W. R. Bablett
Waldo Jackson
Shirley Donnelly
Fletcher Mann
Paul O. Burdette
MR. Boston
Dutp Ony Lh
Boston Distiller Inc
Boston
Mass
Birad
W. Va
Wit Johnson
Eckley
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