Bunker Hill 4-H Club Names New Officers
The Bunker Hill Hustlers 4-H Club in Oak Hill named new officers led by President Jimmy Ward and Vice President David Ray Smith. Secretary Sue Ann Meadows, Treasurer Jackie Treadway, Reporter Ellen Willis, Recreation Leader Rose Lee Sreddnicki, with Mrs. Peggy Willis and Mrs. Hilda DeQuasie as leaders.
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Bunker Hill
Sue Ann Meadows
Ellen Willis
Jackie Treadway
Jimmy Ward
David Ray Smith
Rose Lee Srednicki
Peggy Willis
Hilda DeQuasie
Ohio Leads Nation in Greenhouse Tomato Production
Ohio produces roughly two thirds of the nation’s greenhouse tomatoes by wholesale value. Growers plant between 500 and 600 acres under glass, illustrating the state’s dominant role in this market.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Cashwell Gets Term In Prison
Emmett Cashwell of near Montgomery was sentenced to one to five years in the State Penitentiary by Fayette Circuit Court Judge Charles L. Garvin Jr. for voluntary manslaughter. He pleaded guilty in the Fayette County Circuit Court to the Christmas Eve stabbing of Lula Mae Ellison at her Eagle home.
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Gomery
Fayette Circuit
Charles L. Garvin Jr
Cashwell
Fayette County
Lula Mae Ellison
Eagle
Maryknoll ordains first Negro priest in Cincinnati
The Maryknoll Missioners ordained their first Negro priest, Rev. Leslie T. Rogers of Hayward, California, who is assigned to a mission in Tanganyika, East Africa.
Ruth Armstrong Weds Herbert K Gavin in Fayetteville Church
Ruth Ann Armstrong became the bride of Herbert Kneer Gavin in a Fayetteville Methodist Church ceremony. The couple, both from Fayetteville, will reside in Washington D C. The bride attended Fayetteville High School and West Virginia Tech. the groom, a Navy veteran, studied at Marshall College and works as a physical therapy technician at the Naval Dispensary in Washington.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayetteville Methodist Church
Ruth Ann Armstrong
Herbert Kneer Gavin
F. G. Janutolo
J. W. Ayers
Nell Gladwell
Gavin
New Hampshire Ave
Washington, D. C
Fayetteville High School
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
George Washington University
Washington
Marshall College
Huntington
Navy
Naval Dispensary
Gardeners Set Thursday Meet In Laur el Garden Club
The Laurel Garden Club will gather at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Orchard Avenue home of Mrs. B. E. Newsome with co hostes s Mrs. Harry Mounts. Members will bring dried arrangements and seed pods in pottery or pewter containers. Roll call asks members to share current garden tasks.
Rites Thursday For E. Kesler
Funeral services for Edgar A. Kesler will be held at 2 p m Thursday in the Clifty Presbyterian Church with Rev Wesley Pennington and Rev H R Gladney officiating. Burial follows in the church cemetery. Kesler, 71, of Lookout and a WW I veteran, died Tuesday at a Fayetteville nursing home. He was a veterinarian formerly with Wilderness Lumber Co. Survived by wife Vida M a sister and eight grandchildren. The body lies at Ansted Thomas Funeral Home and will be moved to the church an hour before services.
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Lookout
Presbyterian Church
Nicholas County
Vida M
Lota Mason
Victor
Mildred McGraw
Ansted
Denny Rider
Charleston
Darsell Jones
Greenfield
Ind
Thomas Funeral Home
Craddock Family Returns From Brooklawn Visit
Mrs. Emmett Craddock and daughters Jean and Emma Rae returned home after a month in Brooklawn New Jersey. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Bill Maynor. Friday was Howard Maynor from Detroit Michigan.
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Emmett Craddock
Jean
Emma Rae
Brooklawn
N. J
Bill Maynor
Howard Maynor
Detroit
Mich
Seminary Moves to New 126 Acre Campus
The Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary relocates from Berkeley to Strawberry Point near San Francisco, establishing a 126 acre campus.
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Mill Valley
Calif
Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
Berkeley
Strawberry Point
San Francisco
Livesay Rites Set Thursday
William Gray Livesay 63 died at his Lewisburg home from a heart attack. Funeral services are 2 p.m. Thursday at Lewisburg Methodist Church with burial in Rosewood Cemetery. He was a longtime resident, a former municipal court judge and magistrate, and active in the American Legion, Masons, Elks, and other local groups. Survivors include wife Margaret Jacqueline, two daughters Nadine Smith and Carolyn Kay, four sons Billy Joe Tony and Jimmy and Melvin who was killed in World War II, four brothers and two grandchildren. The body is at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home.
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Lewisburg
RNS
William Gray Livesay
W. Cecil Sheppard
Greenbrier
Elks Lodge
Margaret Jacqueline
Nadine M. Smith
Carolyn Kay
Billy Joe
Point Pleasant
Tony
Jimmy
O. P
E. R
Carl
West Palm Beach
Fla
Charles
San Diego
Calif
Melvin
Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home
Mrs Mary Ellison Funeral Today in Sarton Church
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Pence Ellison, 79, will be held at Mount Herman Baptist Church Sarton at 2 p m conducted by Rev A K Whiteside and Rev J O Hamrick. She died Sunday at a daughter’s Fairlea home where she resided with her family for 32 years. She leaves a son Marshall Pence a daughter Mrs Harry Fullen seven stepchildren a sister Mrs Pearl Sibold brothers Russell Arthur Otis 15 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
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Marshall Pence
Union
Ellison
Pearl Sibold
Links Grove
Russell
Arthur
Sarton
Otis
Lillydale
Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home
Lewisburg
Mercury offers comfort and fresh styling in new 1960 models
The copy touts seating for six with full head, hip, and foot room, noting Mercury’s fresh styling not a warmed-over 1959 design. It promises deluxe interiors on budget models, extra quality reducing repair bills, and invites readers to the first showing of Mercury cars.
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Mercury
America
Trials Under Way In Mercer Court Today
Mercer County Criminal Court opens with petit jurors reporting. Darrell Crotty faces two counts of grand larceny and housebreaking for stealing a $450 car and a $1530 power saw. Other cases include Billy Joe Reed for grand larceny of a $250 power saw and multiple housebreaking and maiming indictments with trials set through November. Additional cases docketed today.
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Princeton
RNS
Mercer County
Donald Richard Burnopp
Hershel Ray Cox
William Earnest Blankenship
Frank William Draper Sr
Bobby Kanade
Virginian
Leroy Hamlett
Weyanoke Coal Co
Zane Oliver Landreth
Milford Crigger
Charles Hampton
Earskine Ray Mullins
Paul Elijah Lee
Bobby Parker
Stanley Pennington
Clarence Pearl Jr
Neal Sheets
Beechcraft Bonanza Crashes After Takeoff From Mercer Airport
A Beechcraft Bonanza owned by Mercer Flying Service crashed in Glenwood Park field shortly after leaving Mercer County Airport. Pilot Forest Mercer and two passengers were aboard. all three escaped uninjured. Mercer said engine failure caused the craft to cartwheel into the field and stop at a fence. The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Princeton
AIIS
Mercer Flying Service
Glenwood Park
Mercer County
Forest Mercer
Mercer
Mills Services Slated Thursday
Funeral services for James Mills will be conducted at Pin Oak Baptist Church at 11 a.m. Thursday by Rev. Leslie Duncan. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Beeson. Mills, 70, of Beeson, died Monday night at a Princeton hospital due to a heart condition. He was born January 1, 1899, in Camp Creek and lived in Mercer County his whole life. He was preceded in death by his wife Nellie Rutledge Mills in 1956. Survivors include a daughter Toy Lee Mills of Beeson. The body will remain at Bailey Funeral Home in Princeton until 10 a.m. Thursday, when it will be moved to the church.
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Toy Lee Mills
Beeson
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Pineville Personal Visits Weaving Through Bluefield and Princeton
Pineville residents account for social visits across towns. Estil Morgan and family traveled to Bluefield. Blankenships returned from Charleston. Bashams visited Richmond and Waynesburg relatives. Rosa Pine remains with son Terry Lee ill in Welch. Hixenbaugh family in Pineville. Wilson family from Pineville visited Bluefield. I E Basham from Princeton spent time in Pineville.
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Pineville
RNS
Estil Morgan
Bluefield
Co. A. Blankenship
Charleston
G. K. Basham
Abel Basham
Leroy
L. M. Jones
Richmond
O. C. Basham
Barney
Waynesburg
Rosa Pearl
Terry Lee
Stevens Clinic Hospital
Welch
Ruth Kennedy
Hundred
Robert Hixenbaugh
Cindy
Kathy Pineville
Mrs. I. E. Basham
Princeton
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