Anna Darlington Rites Planned
Funeral services for 92 year old Anna Darlington of Oak Hill are set for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Church of God in Winston with Rev Norman Foster officiating. Burial follows in the Winston family cemetery. She died Tuesday at 2:30 a.m. at her daughter Mrs. R L Robertson’s home. Born January 26 1863 in Kincaid she was the widow of A Owen Darlington and a member of Kincaid Methodist Church. The body will be moved from Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill to Mrs Robertson’s residence and then to the church one hour before services. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Anna Darlington
Church of God
Winston
Norman Foster
Cross mistaken for plane wreckage near Pineville
Wyoming County authorities acted quickly after reports of an airplane wreckage sighting near Pineville turned out to be a large 30 foot square cheese cloth cross used in a coal property aerial survey. Hunters reported the object, one man walked to Oceana to report, and police, sheriff and fire officials coordinated with the Crozier Coal mine to survey the area.
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Pineville
RNS
Wyoming
Sheriff’s Office
State and Pineville Police
The
State Road Commission
Wyoming County Volunteer Fire Department
Fred Cook
Crozier Coal‘and Land Company
Lynco
Cook
Elmo Cook
Ittmann
Itmann
Oceana
Bill Bolt
Paul Goode
Bolt
Joe Hansbarger
Goode
Hansbarger
Civil Aeronautics Commission
Patrick Henry Lester Rites Set at Bud
Funeral services for Patrick Henry Lester 60 of Herndon were set for 3 p.m. today at the Surman Regular Baptist Church in Bud with Rev. John Rinehart officiating. Burial will follow at Bud Cemetery. He died Sunday in Bluefield Sanitarium.
Island Creek to acquire Red Jacket Coal assets
Island Creek Coal Co. won approval to purchase all facilities of Red Jacket Coal Corp., Columbus Ohio, completing a long rumored plan. The deal would consolidate operations and expand Island Creek’s foothold in the regional coal industry.
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Island Creek
Red Jacket Coal Corporation
Huntington
Island Creek Coal Co
Red Jacket Coal Corp
Columbus
Ohio
W. M. Ritter Lumber Co
Red Jacket
Raymond E. Salvati
Salvati
West Virginia
Virginia
Mingo County
Coal Mountain
Wyoming
Wyoming County
Keen Mountain
Buchanan County
Pittsburgh Consolidation
Mullens Pastor Resigns to Take Tennessee Post
The Rev. John L. Payne Jr. resigns as pastor of First Presbyterian Church Mullens effective Jan 2 to become director of Presbyterian student work at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. A congregational meeting Sunday will consider his resignation, filed after his June 1952 appointment following Union Seminary graduation.
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Union A Seminary
Richmond, A
Oak Hill Man Hurt In Truck Accident
Linwood Oliver, 43, of Oak Hill West Virginia, a Turnpike toll collector, was trapped for nearly an hour in his wrecked pickup in a creek near Dothan. He was treated at Oak Hill Hospital for nose and forehead cuts and exposure after the Massey entrance relief duty.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Dothan
Linwood Oliver
Oliver
Massey
Madison resigns as Fayetteville police chief
B C Madison submitted his resignation as Fayetteville police chief to the Town Council. The move takes effect Thursday as he accepts a field position with the state tax department while remaining in Fayetteville. He has led the department since January 1 and previously worked as a city policeman and sheriff's deputy.
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Fayetteville
Rns
B. C. Madison
Madison
State Tax Department
Rites Thursday For Tree Victim
Fayetteville funeral notices Ray Carl Smith 22 Beckwith to have services at Dodd Payne Funeral Home Chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday with Dr James F Fame officiating Burial in Wilson Cemetery Beckwith He a timber worker for Elswick Lumber Co was killed Tuesday when a tree fell on him at Dempsey Survived by wife Sue Ann Smith three sons James Smith at home and step mother Lilly M Smith Charleston.
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Fayetteville
Rns
Ray Carl Smith
Beckwith
Dodd- Payne Funeral Home
James F. Fame
Wilson Cemetery
Smith
Elswick Lumber Co
Dempsey
Sue Ann Smith
James Smith
Lilly M. Smith
Charleston
Rotarian Meeting Sees WV Guard Major as Speaker
William Blake of Ronceverte, a major in the West Virginia National Guard, addressed the Rotary Club in Oak Hill Tuesday night outlining the organization’s benefits. Forty two members attended, with Dr. C. G. Dobey of Long Acre as a guest.
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Oak Hill
RNS
William Blake
Ronceverte
West Virginia National Guard
Rotary Club
Blake
C. G. Dobey
Long Acre
Glen Fork Rites Set for Youth
Arvil Lee Francis 18 of Glen Fork died at home from a brain tumor. Funeral at 1 p.m. Thursday at Glen Fork Independent Baptist Church with Rev. Leonard Church and Rev. Walter Norman officiating. Burial in Glen Fork Cemetery. Survived by parents Ernest and Cora Acord Francis and five brothers and three sisters. Body moved from Evans Funeral Home in Oceana to residence at 5 p.m. today.
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Glen Fork
RNS
Arvil Lee Francis
Glen Fork Independent
Troy
Coy
Roy
Ernest
Eugene
Wyoming
Ruth McGuire
Pineville
Betty Ann Hash
Ernestine Hardes
Tonawanda
N. Y
Evans Funeral Home
Oceana
Union Carbide Sells Property at Boomer
Fayette County Clerk records 15 land transfers at Boomer by Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. including buyers James H Andrews and Muriel O Andrews paying about 5000 dollars and Mack Hobert and Tennis Cope Dawson about 4000 dollars among many parcels in Sewell Mountain, Mountain Cove, Beards Fork and other districts with prices ranging from 500 to 10000 dollars.
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Fayetteville
BNS
Fayette County
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp
James H
Muriel O. Andrews
Mack Hobert
Cope Dawson
Lexie Oren
Eileen Willis Hallidate
William C
Goldie T. Legg
Charles Franklin
Lorena Cosby Cavendish
William Andrew Browning
Edwin Johnson Wood
Glenville F.andre L. Walker
Augustus Jr
Wanda Lee Haid
Jack Daniel
Mary Rose Bryant
Evelyn Gaines Reed
Walter Anthony
Elsie Blanche Mee-Graw
Andrew Jackson
Nannie Cooper
Josie Marie Wiseman
Elmo Datis
Bessie Bolton
Frances Lee Callison
Delmore
Lula Belle Burdetta
Sewell Mountain District
Ray J
Bernice T. Rising
John
Cecil M. Young
Armstrong Creek
Ray
Dorothy Clark
Laura Carr
Mountain Cove
L. D
Lena A. Shawver
Harrison W. Rose
Sewell Mountain
Anna Snead
C. E
Thelma Roop
Dothan
Coalfield Land Co
Henry R. Brown
Beards Fork
Leonard and
Louda Cotton
Elkridge
E. R
Wilda Bragg
Sherman
Pearl Johnson
Ansted
Charles E. Mahan
Page
MacDunn
Highlawn Memorial Park
James E
Charles E. Howard
New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co
Eldred Otis
Marie Wilson
Raymond
Lottie M. Young
Roy A
June M. Smith
Nora Lee Painter Weds Wetzel E Backus of Oak Hill
Nora Lee Painter marries Wetzel E Backus at Church of God in Oak Hill with Rev. Clifton Inman officiating. The couple, after a reception at the bride’s home, plan to live in Highland Park New Jersey. Painter is a Collins High School graduate and Backus works for Delco General Motors in New Jersey.
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Nora Lee Painter
Wetzel E. Backus
Oak Hill
RNS
Harold L. Painter
Summerlee Ave
Highland Park
N. J
Church of God
Clifton Inman
Mayzella Macus
Linda Painter
New Jersey
Collins High School
Backus
Collins High
Delco General Motors Corporation
Child's Funeral Set for Today
Connie Lee Smith infant daughter of Estel and Dorothy Smith Thurmond graveside service was held at 1 p m at Bible Cemetery Route 1 Fayetteville under Tyree Funeral Home direction. The child died at birth at Oak Hill Hospital Monday. Survived by parents three brothers Dalford E Jerry Wayne and Harold Jean all at home.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Connie Lee Smith
Estel
Dorothy Smith
Thurmond
Bible Cemetery
Route 1
Fayetteville
Tyree Funeral Home
Oak Hill Hospital
Dalford E
Jerry Wayne
Harold Jean
Pheasants Arrive at Home After Thanksgiving Breakfast
Oceana resident T C Whelan avoided a Thanksgiving pheasant hunt when birds flushed by local hunters crashed through a window pane of his Oak Grove Addition home. Whelan, a dispatcher for Eastern Gas and Fuel, noted the incident and credited providence. His guest from Huntington and others witnessed the birds’ dramatic landing.
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Oceana
RNS
T. C. Whelan
Whelan
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
NAACP Drops Mercer Suit After School Integration Decision
In Bluefield the NAACP and Mercer County School Board agree to drop the suit as desegregation begins next September. Superintendent W R Cooke says conferences with attorney Joseph Sanders Sr T G Nutter and Federal Judge Ben Moore led to a plan to desegregate about 2000 Negro students. separate suits remain in Raleigh and Greenbrier counties with Greenbrier to start in January and finish by September.
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NAACP
Mercer
Joseph Sanders Sr
Bluefield
T. G. Nutter
Charleston
Ben Moore
Raleigh County
Moore
Greenbrier County
Skeens Seeks $32 000 on The $64,000 Question
Stanley E. Skeens a 26 year old West Virginia coal miner from Danville won $16,000 on the Bible topic and will again compete next week for $32,000 on The $64,000 Question. He is an ordained Free Will Baptist minister and works as an electrician at Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates Wharton No 2 mine in Boone County. Skeens served three years with the Seabees in World War II.
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New York
West Virginia
Stanley E. Skeens
Danville
W. Va
Skeens
Free Will Baptist Church
Boone County
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Wharton No. 2
Seabees
Firemen Extinguish Blaze at Beckwith
Fayetteville firefighters battled a Laurel Creek Road blaze at Beckwith Sunday, preventing major damage to a family home. The Fay etteville Volunteer Fire Department extinguished the fire before the house sustained heavy damage.
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Beckwith
Fayetteville
BNS
Laurel Creek
Marriage of Ella Mae Hager and Skeens in 1949
The record notes a marriage between Miss Ella Mae Hager and Skeens in 1949. They have a son, Stanley Alan, aged five. Skeens' father was a Baptist minister.
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Ella Mae Hager
Stanley Alan
Skeens
Mrs. Ford to Address Mullens Civic Club
Mrs. B. L. Ford of Holden, community service chairman for the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs, will speak to the Mullens Woman's Civic Club at 7:30 p.m. in the American Legion Home. The public is invited, with city officials and leaders from Community Forum and other groups already extended invitations.
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Mullens
ANS
B. L. Ford
Holden
Community Service
West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs
Mullens Woman’s Civic Club
Jack Dick
Ford
Community Forum
American Legion
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Mary Lucas
Caron Crotty
Carole Zickafoose
Aubrey Wood
Lorraine Tamplin
Patrick Lester
J. L. Payne JR
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Union Carbide
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Oretha Bacon
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Dorcas S. Keaton
Franklin Heights
Jessie
B. L. Bragg
William A. Cox
Mary Evelyn Thomas
Lochgelly
Lorey C
Eunice J. Hall
J. A. Blackburn
Blackburn Patteson Realty Co
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Arlette Brown
David M
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MacDonald
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Eva Toombs
Marshall Beverly
Harley Legg
Cane Branch
New River Co
William F
Georgia L. Drennen
Summerlee
Raleigh Co. Bank
S. A. Burdette
Quinnimont District
Gauley Mountain Coal Co
Eugene C
Carmelita Nichols
B. H
Minnie Matheny
L. E
Marie Johnson
Ted Sauls, Kopperston
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Mercer County
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Entuch
Tay Nton
Echo Spring Distilling CO
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Tomchins
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