Bob Brown Circus Back In Area at County Schools
Bob Brown and assistant Miss Pauline Dodd of Asheville bring the Bob Brown Science Circus ES 2 to Beck Junior High and Central Elementary on Oct. 18 with shows also planned in Pineville Mullens and other county schools. The program features vibrations experiments, helium voice stunts for pupils, heartbeat listening with microphones, radio stunts, light beam music, and a hydrogen oxygen explosion finale. Special licenses from the Atomic Energy Commission allow display of uranium fuel metal and cobalt needle. Other show dates include Pineville High at 10 am and Pineville Grade at 12:45 pm Oct 15, Mullens High at 10 am Oct 16, and Mullens Elementary at 1 pm Oct 16.
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Bob Brown
Beck Junior High School
Central
Brown
Pauline Dodd
Asheville
N. C
County
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Pineville High School
Pineville
Mullens High School
Mul
Man Pleads Guilty In Beckley Court Duty to Decide Delayed
Frank C. Gore of Beckley pleaded guilty to reckless driving after a hearing where Patrolman Tom Durrett testified Gore pulled in front of him near Beckley Hotel Garage. Judge Edward P. Stansbury withheld judgment until Thursday night, while Gore denied drinking and claimed Durrett assaulted him. Several other defendants faced fines or bond forfeitures for traffic offenses in the same session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Gore
Beckley
Tom Durrett
Edward P. Stansbury
Durrett
Teen Town
Gore
Beckley Hotel
South Fayette Street
Raleigh
Darrett
Ritchie and Johnson
Court House
Delores Parker
East Beckley
Morton-Reaves School
Butts
William Andrews
Andrews
Malden Teel
Maxwell Hill
Teel
Memorial Building
Frank Waller
Franklin Leon Jordan
William L. Maddy
Maddy
Charles D. Warden
Whitby
Harold Martin
Robert D. Robinson
Thomas R. Taylor
Stewart St
Jay Underwood
Ake
Charleston Rites Set For W Starr
Funeral services for William C Starr 69 of Charleston will be held at 12 30 p m Wednesday at Cun ningdeen Funeral Home Charleston Rev David A Row to officiate Starr a maintenance supervisor for St ates Hospital Charleston since 1935 and a member of Hinton Moose Lodge and Omar Lodge Knights of Pythias is survived by wife Pearl one son Raymond Beckley a brother Roscoe Cambridge Va three sisters and one grandson Graveside rites will follow at 2 30 p m at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Beckley burial there.
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William C Starr
Greenbrier St
Charleston
Cunningdeen Funeral Home
David A. Rowand
Starr
Beckley
Staats Hospital
Hinton
Hinton Moose Lodge No. 1521, and Omar Lodge No. 221. Knights of Pythias
Pearl
Raymond
Roscoe
Cambridge
John Roop
Alma Hawkins
Covington
Ona Broyles
Saint Vine
N. M
Wednesday Rites For Amos Stover
Funeral services for Amos Stover 87 near Maynor will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Cirtsville Methodist Church with Rev. Gale Stewart, Longbranch, officiating. Burial will follow at Vass Cemetery, Cirtsville. Stover died Monday at 3:45 p.m. at his son Okie’s home on Beckley Route One, where he had resided. Born January 22, 1871 in Clear Creek, he was a retired teacher and farmer and a member of Cittsville Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife Anna Maynor Stover, three sons Okie Bradley and Carl, a daughter Mrs Duff Spangler, and other relatives.
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Amos Stover
Maynor
Cirtsville Methodist Church
Gale Stewart
Longbranch
Vass
Cirtsville
Stover
Okie
Beckley
Clear Creek
Valley View Riding Club Horse Show Set Sunday
The Valley View Riding Club of Scott Depot will hold its annual fall horse show at 1 30 p m Sunday with 15 classes for horses and ponies In case of rain the show moves to the following Sunday.
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Valley View Riding Club
Scott Depot
Indictments Filed For Raleigh County October Term Court
Eighty six indictments were returned by the Raleigh County Grand Jury. The docket for the October term of Criminal Court will be set Wednesday with trials to begin Monday for cases including a murder charge against Eugene Venable. Venable, 21, of Beckley, is accused of the Aug. 16 knife slaying of Vernon Dickerson, 36, of McAlpin, and has a prior voluntary manslaughter conviction from 1955. Other indictments include voluntary manslaughter for Jerry Columbus Lawson, Mabscott, and numerous counts of breaking and entering grand larceny maiming drunk driving and related offenses against numerous defendants and Beech Glen Coal Corporation. Nine cases from the day were not indicted.
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Raleigh County
Anthony J. Sparacino
Eugene Venable
Venable
Beckley
Vernon Dickerson
McAlpin
State Penitentiary
Jerry Columbus Lawson
Mabscott
James Lawson
Grand
Robert Barnett
Robert W
Ronald Lee Hickman
Ralph Smith
C. A Thompson
Beech Glen Coal Corporation
Robert Jaines
James R. Bair
Sidney William Webb
Robert Gillespie
Howard Lee Jarrell
Larry D. Lilly
Roy Donnell
Paul Brown
Estel Roy Gill
Ida Ruth Mitchell
Lloyd F. Hopkins
James Spencer Thomason
Kenneth Ray Armstrong
Elva McNeal Biggs
Joseph Lynn Jackson
Jack Douglas Long
John Ellis Washington
Garland Jackson
John L. Thompson Jr
Randal Ayers
William H. Waddell
John Hayes
Nine No True Bills Returned By Raleigh County Jury
No true bills were returned in nine of the 86 cases heard by the Raleigh County Grand Jury Monday. The cases returned as no true bills involve Bud Burgess for maiming Billy Lee Easter for involuntary manslaughter James Foster for maiming James Leslie Terell for murder Granville Bragg for no operator's license and improper muffler and Earnest F Clark for reckless driving.
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Raleigh County Grand Jury
Bud Burgess
Billy Lee Easter
James Foster
James Leslie Terell
Granville Bragg
Earnest F Clark
Maynor Family Details and Funeral Transfer
Maynor and two grandchildren and one great grandchild are noted. The body will be moved from Tyree Funeral Home Mount Hope to the home of his son Okie Stover at 4 p.m. today. Nephews will act as pallbearers.
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Maynor
Tyree
Mount Hope
Okie Stover
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bob Brown Circus
Lens
Stansbury
Morton-Reaves
W. Starr
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Orion
Super Savings
the Hub
Heres Rambler
Tration
Melvin Pickard Jr
Lucille Foster
Nathan Reynolds
Willie Whitehead
Maynard L. Hughes
Jerrold Earl Haddix
Charles Edward Wynes
John Minor
Wade Lynville Curtis
Walter Himmerguth
Edward Hill
Ralph Lewis Rowley Jr
Robert Henry Smith
Jesse Fay Cook
Harry Jackson
Roger Hilton
James Jack
Willie Orson Taylor
Bill Woods
William Cantley
Ralph Adkins
Willard Shrewsbury
Joe Voicehovich
Beatrice Paden
Janet Jarrell
Charles B. Cadwallender
Norman Stover
Ernest Walker
McCreery St
Rambler
Ramey Motors, Inc
South Oakwood Avenue
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