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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1964
Page
7
Miss Della Saunders will be crowned Homecoming Queen at halftime during the Mullens-Stoco football game Friday in Mullens. Attendants Patty Worley Melva Presley Delena Wood and others will participate in the parade and festivities.
State officers from Ravencliff visited Oak Grove Church of Prophecy at Ravencliff for the annual inspection. Miss Patty Mullenax and Rev Alva Shinn urged youth involvement and announced a Bible gift at the state convention for leading Victory Leader Bands. Local leaders Ira Lafferty and Mrs Gilee Lucas attended with pastor Rev Robert Duty.
Randolph Prudy, 54, died Saturday evening from burns suffered earlier when a fire destroyed his home near Leon. A another man who shared the home escaped unharmed. Cause of the fire was not determined. The item notes affiliations with Home and Foreign Missions and Posey Tolliver, Sunday School.
The sixty member 1954 Bluefield State College graduating class will hold a ten year reunion with Homecoming events Saturday. Class chairman Bernard Robertson of Roanoke, VA, says registration and breakfast start at 8 30 in the Student Union, with Louis Aikens of Cleveland delivering a talk. President L B Allen will greet attendees and outline the school future. A class picture will be taken and Miss Bluefield State of 54 will ride in the football parade. Betty Johnson Joiner of Washington DC, former campus queen, is daughter of Susie Burl. Reservations through Effie Mayhan Brown at the college.
Jeri Dooley daughter of Harold and Mrs Dooley of Mullens was chosen as one of Concord College cheerleaders. A Mullens High School graduate and Concord sophomore she majors in elementary education and is a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma and Panhellenic Council.
Scouts of Troop 125 Scarbro held a Court of Honor at Scarbro Methodist Church. All boys earned merit badges, eight badges presented. James inte won most original replica of historic flags. First class advances went to Ted Dixon Leon Jarosz Eugene Oliver and Dale Withrow. New committee members attended and Withrow donated a National Camp Award. Oliver spoke on nature and wildlife. Other attendees included David Fitzpatrick Dave Fisher David Withrow Larry Pauley Randy McCallister Larry Olive Neal Phelps Charles Legg Mike Jarosz and David Legg.
Washington (NEA) American businessmen expect growth from a two year extension of the Food for Peace program which authorizes 3.5 billion in farm surplus sales to over 100 developing countries. The plan uses foreign currency revenue to fund AID and USIA, finance development, and expand U S business abroad through Cooley loans, with changes easing the 25 percent Cooley loan cap and urging prompt applications.
Anders Lundborg a 17 year old exchange student from Uppsala Sweden visited Oceana High School during a tour of Wyoming County Schools. He met with Joe Pendry president of the student council and was interviewed by The Tomahawk Times editor Karen Snider and news editor Filista Stafford. He will return to Oceana to share slides of Sweden and impressions of America at a school assembly.
California canners and packagers print about one million miles of labels annually, according to the Council of California Growers. The figure highlights the extensive labeling effort underlying the state’s food processing industry and distribution network.
In the past week in Pineville Wyoming County Clerk's office five couples were issued marriage licenses. Arthur James Shrewsbury 27 of Herndon Heights and Betty Lou Blankenship 27 of Herndon. Purcy Dewane Brown 29 of Cyclone and Lois Gail Paynter 21 of Cyclone. Blaine Lee Cook 22 of Chicago and Carolyn Jean Osborne 21 of Jesse. James Woodrow Brooks 23 of Jesse and Leola Bailey 29 of Atweel. William G. Bryant 70 of Jesse and Laura Bailey 60 of Jesse.
Mrs Kay Decker was guest of honor at a household shower Friday night at the home of her mother Mrs Alton Phillips in New Richmond. Hostesses were Mrs Phillips Mrs Leonard Phillips Mrs Alton Phillips Jr and Mrs Charles Thompson. Attending were a long list of local women including Mrs Blain Jackson Mrs Curtis Tilley Miss Vickie Pais Miss Patty Pais and many others.
A new dental clinic serving Mercer County adolescents opens its second day of operation on Oct. 23 and will run each Friday morning at the Mercer County Health Department in Princeton. State Health Director N H Dyer explains the program has an educational phase and a total treatment phase with Mercer County dentists volunteering their time and services.
A report warns that children who begin smoking cigarettes at a young age may jeopardize their long term health as early as adolescence. Health experts urge preventive education and parental guidance to curb initiation and reduce future tobacco-related illnesses.
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