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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1960
Page
8
Newly elected officers for the Cirstville Elementary Eighth Grade class are Nancy Toney president, Patty Lester vice president, Bonnie Daniel treasurer, Nancy Shepperd secretary, with Principal Buel Stover serving as class sponsor.
Mr and Mrs R Harold Beverley of Oak Hill announce the birth of their first child, a girl named Joni Lynn, born at Oak Hill Hospital on November 15, weighing eight pounds eight ounces.
The notice names Carrie Lynn Caldwell daughter of Olie Caldwell of Oak Hill and a father stationed in Japan, son of Robert Beverley of Bradley. It notes Brewers use charcoal to control the flavor of their beer.
Mount Hope Elementary School hosts its annual carnival with grade level prince and princess selections nine to six grades. Winners include Wayne Williams Anita Toney and Sammy Gregory Dreama Williams. Multiple classroom volunteers managed games, bake sale, fortune telling, weight guess, shooting gallery and prize drawings at the school auditorium in the evening event.
Caldwell, 18, of Carlisle, was treated as an outpatient at Hill Hospital for a cut above the eye, shock, and bruises after a collision on U S Route 21 near Hill Top. State Police investigated. details unavailable. The car she rode in ran off the highway while the driver swerved to avoid two cars that had collided moments earlier and blocked the roadway.
West Virginia Hillbilly editor Jim Comstock has been invited to appear on WOR in New York for an hour long TV show and five hours on radio to defend his 16 page tabloid being called corny and to explain why he prefers the hillbilly label over sophistication.
Pax PAX reports Ed ward Helm family and Shawn Renae returning to St Albans after a ten day vacation visiting relatives. Wayne Janney travels to see grandmother Virginia McGraw and uncle Donald Akers. Thelma Stover Alan and Roger Mullens Jack Murdock Ronnie Sophia visit Janney home. Jean Moss a barber student spends holidays with grandparents Robert Belcher. Trooper and Mrs Arthur and children visit Louie and Burman Wilson. Ivy McGuines and Reddy Robertsburg weekend visit D. R. Vass. Sunday guests Bernard Hall and daughters Joann and Dianna of Terry. Nancy Pettry Wesleyan student at Buckhannon spends holidays with A. W Pettry. Jeff Gosman joins from Ridgwood. Walter Crookshanks and sons Carl and Dale visit William Maynor.
The Rockin Teens, a Wyoming County student dance band, provided music for a Beaver Recreation Center dance on Wednesday in Beaver. Accompanying band members were Jerry Matthews, Mike Daniels, Larry Larson, Kenny Easter, and David Jones.
The Mullens Hi-Lights staff includes Shirley Compton editorial editor and cartoonist Pam Carr feature editor and business manager Brenda Smith page four editor and business manager Pat Hall sports editor and cartoonist Brenda Harless page six editor Other officers are Aleitha Courington Sharon Aldridge exchange editors Carolyn Vaught circulation manager typists Judy Shumate John Stump Jim Taylor Patricia Lawson and Yvonne Kirk
A Thanksgiving Day blaze in Bluefield destroyed seven dry kilns, a planing mill, a garage, a company store and two offices, leaving 19 people homeless and a million dollar loss estimate. Five houses burned as fire crews from Bluefield West Virginia and Bluefield Virginia fought the flames. unknown exact damage and records lost.
Kopperston Presbyterian Church Choir has begun practice for a Christmas cantata The Miracle of Bethlehem Members meet for parts at homes and at the church twice weekly group rehearsals directed by Mrs Carl Mack with pianist Mrs Earl Wilson The cantata will be performed during Christmas week with a date to be announced The choir includes Mrs Helen Estep Mrs Ellea Gillenwater Mrs Joan Walker Mrs Carrie Goble Mrs Richard Cassel Miss Frances Dillo Mrs NeVajo Adams Mrs Lucille Burgess Miss Kaye Estep Miss Carol Grosse Mrs George Asbury Mr Jim Fultz Rev Murray Page Johnny Wilson Miss Linda Sauls and Bill Baldwin
The First Presbyterian Church choir in Oak Hill will present a patriotic cantata at 5 p.m. on December 5. Pastor Rev. R P Robertson announced selections chosen to suit the God and Country theme.
At Pineville Elementary School guest achievement night drew 50 McGraws 4-H members led by Naomi Saddler. Awards went to 14 members including Daymon Clay agricul ture, Conrad Dillon, Frankie Acord beautification, Sue Laverne Clay clothing, Leonard McMillion entomology, Gerald McGraw field crop, Michael McGraw gardening, Donnell Shumate health and home economics, Sharon McGraw, Jackie Lou Clay home improvement, Daymon Clay leadership, Patricia McGraw recreation, Charles Lilly swine, and Donnell Shumate community. Some winners also earned state fair honors in Lewistown August.
Baileysville reports a ten grade student Ernie Lambert of Brier Creek sustained a gunshot wound to the left arm in a hunting accident near his home on Thanksgiving Day. He is treated at Stevens Clinic in Welch. Conservation Officer Ivan Pizzino investigates the incident.
Recent visitors to Mrs. Clyde Baldwin, patient two weeks at Memorial Hospital Beckley, included Clyde Baldwin and family, Burleigh Walker, William Harper, Eldren Hamilton, Ray Burgess, Kenneth Toney, the Rev. Murray Page, Robert Thacker, Calvin Payne of Kopperston, and Ronald Baldwin, Carrie Evans of Matheny.
Oceana High School Dance Band will attend a Dance Band Clinic at Gorby’s Music House in South Charleston to improve musicianship and promote band organization. The Saturday clinic features Concord Commanders from Concord College with Prof. William E Caruth conducting.
OCEANA ANS Three Oceana High School students Dora Hendricks Sandra Bucks ley and Roger Cook will attend the Square Dance Festival at Camp Thomas E Lightfoot this weekend November 25 27 under sponsorship of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates They depart today for the camp nine miles out of Hinton Accompanying them is Kopperston recreation director Carl Mack Kopperston Keystone Wharton and Eccles will be represented by teenagers attending the festival.
Mr and Mrs Oley Stewart will leave Saturday for Wayne New Jersey where both have accepted employment They recently enrolled their son Billy in Lincoln Park School in Wayne and will make their home there The Stewarts have a daughter Mrs Paul Stiles and son Buford who live in Wayne
In Baltimore an AP report says a man refused entry to a bus after the driver suspected drunkenness stood in front of the bus for 10 minutes. The bus waited as the man then boarded a taxicab, delaying service briefly.
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