Fayette County Firefighters Prepare for Tough Season
Fayette County in October to December 15 faces a hard fire season as forest protectors receive all tools. Burn permits required within 390 feet of woodland with 48 hour validity and written landowner consent. Citizens urged to report fires to local foresters and conservation officers. extensive listing of protectors across Ansted, Oak Hill, Gauley Bridge, and surrounding areas.
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Hellster
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Kanawha
John A. Marra
Ansted
Leo Sawson
Oak Hill
Winston
Kingston
O. O. Walker
Gauley Bridge
J. R. Nucacis
Hawks Nest
J.C. Haley
Babcock State Park
Okey Buckler
Herbert Morton
Everett Stapleton
Alley
Jack Bibb
James E. Cesar Bernard H. Dempsey
Harlen Hendricks
J. F. McKinney
J. L. Reynolds
Donald K. Russell
Amos C. Steel
George Childers
H. S. Clench
UW. GL. Phillips
Belva
Lawrence Lowe
Cannelton
Willard Buchanan
Clifflop
Lacy V. Roan
R. E. Roop
Gayley Bridge
Lawrence Johnson
Walter A. Johnson
Mayo Lancaster
George W. Thompson
Glen Ferris
A. W. McGraw
W. E. Willis
Fred Woods
Graydon
Joe A. Davis
Willis Wellman
Hiro
A. J. Batson
Jodie
Red Devil Band Plans Beckley Parade Friday Night
Oak Hill High School's 70 member Red Devil band debuts in new white pants red caps jackets and red uniforms. The group performed last Thursday at the Sulphur-Oak Hill game and will parade at the Raleigh County Beckley game Friday night led by Martha Amick head drum majorette with seven majorettes in red uniforms and white accessories.
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Register
Oak Hill
Oak Hill High School
Red Devil
Raleigh
Martha Amick
Imajorette
Oak Hill Group Chooses Plans for Community Center
Oak Hill group selects plans based on the old YMCA for Mount Hope as part of a proposed community center. The building features a large auditorium adaptable for plays and lectures, a basketball court, several small rooms, and an outdoor pool. The final plan will be presented to civic representatives at City Hall Monday 7:30 p.m. with changes possible at the next full group meeting.
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Register
Oak Hill
YMCA
Mount Hope
Feld
City Hall
Fioner
Hotel Hill
Men Jailed for Failure to Pay Fines in Pineville Crash
Otis Harrison and Colbert Towers, workers at Mountain Fork Lumber, were committed to Wyoming County jail for failure to pay fines after a crash in Pineville. Harrison faced intoxication charges and letting Towers drive without a license. Towers paid $10 fine and costs. Harrison received two $10 fines plus costs.
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Register
Weiler , Mullens
Otis Harrison
Colbert Towers
Mountain Fork Lumber Company
Wyoming County
Pineville
Paul Goodes
W. B. Wilson
Harrison
Towers
Layland PTA Names Forren President
The Layland Parent-Teachers Association elected Forren as president at a meeting held at W. B. Blankenship's home. Supporting officers include Dr. J. P. Heagarly as vice president and Mrs. Ann Boley as secretary and treasurer, with a long list of local members and affiliates.
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Rerister Stalf Wilter Layland
Richert Forren
Layland Parent-Teachers Association
W. B. Blankenship
J. P. Heagarly
Ann Boley
Atlantic Storm Pounds Georgia Coast Amid Inland Rampage
Brunswicks reports high seas and 60 mph winds as a civil aeronautics station notes a Nor’easter like Atlantic storm pounding the Georgia coast. The storm felled fences uprooted trees and flooded streets and seaboard cities during the night.
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Brunswick
Georgia
Seaboard
Civil Aeronautics Station
Sub Deb Club Initiation Details and Local Weather Impact
Ten local girls begin informal initiation for the Sub Deb Club during the week, followed by a formal ceremony at Jean Moorefield’s home. Separately, coastal high tide breached dunes at Jack Oceana Hall and rainfall exceeded four and a half inches, flooding streets and damaging roads in the city.
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Oak Hill
T Te
Jean Moorefield
Drema Thornburg
Kathryn Burgess
Doris Watters
Lois Mundy
Carol Wood
Faith Collins
Jo Ellen Callison
Betty Flack
Jean Blake
Nancy Henderson
Jack Oceana
Pi Hall
Son
Simons Spratte Marriage Told in Pineville
Miss Joy Gail Spratte wed Staff Sergeant William H. Simons in a September ceremony at First Methodist Church Cadetsburg Kentucky. The couple, both Marshall College graduates, will reside in Japan after a brief honeymoon in Northern Ohio and Pennsylvania. Simons holds bronze and silver stars from World War II service.
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Ay Roelster
Pineville
Joy Gail Spratte
William H. Simons
F. A. Simons
Huntington
Virgil A. Spratte
Rockview
O. P. Smith
First Methodist Church
Cadetsburg
Kentucky
Simons
Japan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Install Lockers at Oak Hill Plant Start of Project
John Lawson, superintendent of J B Dacken Refrigeration and Locker Corp of Cincinnati arrives to begin installing frozen locker units at the Oak Hill plant on Central Avenue. Work will take about ten weeks and the facility will be open for operation at the end of the period.
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Register
Water
Oak Hill
John Lawson
J. B. Dacken Refrigeration and Locker Corporation
Cincinnati
Ohio
Central i Avenue
Roanoke Beauty Shop Move For Kopperston Resident
Kopperston resident Neva Jo Garrett daughter of Mrs. Virginia Price has taken a job at a beauty shop in Roanoke Virginia. Bryant Lane Cook of Oceana son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Cook visited Omar and Fudd Cook relatives in Oceana over the weekend. Fred Weir Logan Lionel Weir and Mrs Pon Cook of Oceana were in Beckley Sunday visiting Mrs Fred Weir in Pinecrest Sanitarium.
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Roanoke
Register
Kopperston
Neva Jo Garrett
Virginia Price
Roanpoke
Oceana
Bryant Lane Cook
Ralph Cook
jOceana
Omar
Mrs. Fudd Cook
Land Family
Pinecrest
Ceana
Fred Weir Logan
iLionel Weir
Pon Cook
Beckley
Fred Weir
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Mullens Lions Hear Fire Talks on Prevention Week
Ernie Richmond chief of the Mullens volunteer fire island and Bill Riggins secretary speak to the Lions Club on fire prevention week October 15 to 11. Richmond announces volunteers will inspect homes and business places Thursday and Friday to correct hazards and prevent fires.
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Register
Mullens
Ernie Richmond
Bill Riggins
Ett
Lions! Club
Richmond
City approves project rights of way and bridge work
Larew announced closing approval and thanked the city for cooperation in acquiring rights of way. They include Kidd property for widening North Oakwood Avenue, a triangular strip donated by Consolidated Bus Company, and a promise from Chesapeake and Ohio to rebuild an overhead bridge on South Oakwood Avenue.
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Larew
Kidd
Oakwood Avenue
Belonds
Neville and
Prince Street
Consolidated Bus Company
North Oakwood Avenue
Laren
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Mrs Ralph Cook and Donna Return From Weekend in Leon
Mrs Ralph Cook and her daughter Donna of Oceana are home after spending the weekend in Leon.
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Oceana
Ralph Cooks
Donna Sure
Leon
Fayette Man Chooses Radio Over TV With New Work
Roeetee staff writer describes MO HOPE- Warren Richards of Mount Hope as an early local TV participant who prefers radio. He stars with Ive Visionaires on DuMont in a 9 15 pm Thursday musical broadcast from Washington and New York, noting hot lights and new microphone hurdles. He also performs publicly in Washington while TV stems from WTTG Hotel Harrington studios.
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Roeetee
MO Hope
Warren Richiards
Mount Hope
Richards
J. W. Richards
I've Visionaires
Wish
DuMont Television
AWOLK
Washington, D.C
New York
Beckley
Visionaires
Washington
WTTG
Harrington
Washington, D. C
Tip
Adelaide Harris
Brooklyn
N. Y
Dorothy Burks
Barbara Hester
San Antonio
Tex
Warren Richards
Fon
D. C
New York City
DuMont
Lamb Homecoming Held at Kopperston
Kopperston hosted the Lamb family homecoming on Sunday at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lamb. Attendees included numerous Lamb relatives from Kopperston Glen Rogers Oceana Jesse Oreana and Jesse along with visiting relatives Rev. Carl Lily Don Cook Tionel Weir Wade Cozort Bruce Cook and Kelly Elkins among others.
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Lamb
Kopperston
Re Register
W. J. Lamb
Burke Lamb
Will Kendely
Ithel Lamb
Orville Lamb
Glen Rogers
Okey Lamb
Oceana
Darrell Lamb
William‘Lester
Oreana
Drexa Lamb J
Jesse
Woodrow Lamb
Wade Cozort
Bruce Cook
Ocelana
Kelly Elkins
Funeral for Hannah Wallis Set for Wednesday
Funeral arrangements are scheduled for 10 am Wednesday at Rhodes Methodist Church for Hannah Wallis with Rev. Cleve Young officiating. Burial will follow in Baptist Cemetery at Alderson. Wallis died Sunday at her residence.
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Register
Mullens
Rhodes Methodist Church
Hannah Wallis
Cleve Young
Crab Orchard
Baptist
Alderson
Oceana Woman Visits Parents on North Carolina Trip
Margaret Gobbie of Oceana recently visited her parents Mr and Mrs Pete Gobbie in North Carolina She is employed at Mann and traveled on a business trip with a staff writer from Regeter News This brief item notes the trip and family ties.
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Vists
Kentucky
Hogus Salt
Oceana
Vida Chambers
Tims, Ky
Herbert Caldwell
Register
A—Rarph Crouch
North Carolina
Regeter
Margaret Gobbie
Pete Gobbie
Mann
Marianna Gun Club schedules shoots and elects officers
The Marianna Gun Club set practice shoots for 4 p m Wednesday and 2 p m Sunday under Secretary O C Casteel, and elected W H Day as field captain. Newly organized group approved constitutional by laws and heard talks from state police members on safe skeet handling.
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Register
Mullens
Marianna Gun Club
O. C. Casteel
W. H. Day
TILK
W. F. Diamond
R. D. Platt
L. P. Mullins
Mallens
State Police
Geme
W. M. Ruthford
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Swiss
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S. M. McClung
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W. E. Scarbrough
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A. C. Coleman
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Monstague Stover
B. W. Sutphin
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Long Branch
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L. T. Stanley
Charles Walker
Milburn
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J.T. Fleshman
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Charles H. Hewitt
W. E. Plumb
D. C. Scarbro
James W. Settle
Gratton W. Skaggs
James Thrasher
Minden
Arch Scarbro
Charlie Scott
J. Shears
Powellton
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Samuel James
Dewey McKinney
C. 5. Mitchell
C.F. Stover
Roscoe Stover
J. W. Weeks
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Alden Catson
Roy E. Stevens
Leroy Turley
Sanger
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Gilbert Boltrick
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WLFE
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Urs
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Fayette Man
K & K Music CO
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Oak Hill, West Va
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Iwallis
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Tex Ritter
Fuzzy" Knight Et
Okllahoma
Dass
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Vincent Lopes
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Sars
Man With the Hand
Blue Room
WCFC
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