Keyettes Plan Two Activities At Shady Spring High
The Keyette Club of Shady Spring High School schedules two events for next week. A Halloween party for Beckley Child Care Center children will take place Monday with refreshments and games led by club members who will also donate clothing. Saturday night features a pie supper from 6:30 to 9:30 with pies and cakes auctioned by a professional auctioneer, plus a carnival atmosphere with games, grab bags, a fortune teller, and other activities in the school gym.
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Keyette Club
Shady Spring High School
Beckley Child Care Center
Brenda Ward
Curtain Callers Meet Set Wednesday Night
The Curtain Callers group invites new members and interested individuals to a general meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Playhouse to discuss increasing active participation in the organization and its activities.
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Playhouse
Keyette Pie Supper Auction Set For Charity Night
A pie supper hosted by Keyette members will feature a roped off area for dancing and sale of homemade candies cookies cakes and pies to individuals and for auction to raise funds.
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Keyette
Prison Term Meted Forger Evans Of Raleigh County
Billy Keith Evans of Dry Hill Raleigh County received a one to ten year state penitentiary sentence after pleading guilty to forgery. He escaped Aug 6, stole a car found in Sand Branch the next day. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney said he faces an additional five years for escaping and possible trial in Moundsville for car theft. Betty Jane Ward also pleaded guilty and received a one year suspended sentence with two years probation and a $25 fine plus costs. Evans credited for time served awaiting trial. Chicago housing officials debated handling profits from slum clearance bonds due by 2003.
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Moundsville
Billy Keith Evans
Dry Hill
Raleigh County
Evans
State ‘Penal Institution
Sand Branch
Thomas Canterbury
Betty Jane Ward
Chard
Harold Smith
Stoco High School Homecoming Majorettes Named
Patsy Smith leads the Stoco High School Band as head majorette for 1961-62 with Billie Philpott Jackie Thompson Paulette Cole and Barbara Bucklin as junior majorettes. They perform tonight at the homecoming game versus Trap Hill with Flo ra Mitchem to be crowned Miss Stoco under Mrs. Sara Bailey.
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Stoco High School
Patsy Smith
Billie Philpott
Jackie Thompson
Paulette Cole
Barbara Bucklin
Trap
Princewick
James Smith
Girls’ Athletic Association
Billie
Coal City
Frank Philpott
David Thompson
Jackie
Stoco Junior High
Stoco
Stoco High
Paul Cole
Paulette
Killarney
Marie Bucklin
Barbara
Scouts Plan Toy Drive for Crab Orchard Area
Boy Scout Troop 219 sponsored by Crab Orchard Baptist Church launches a toy drive to collect and repair donated toys for needy families in the Crab Orchard MacArthur area before Christmas. Scoutmaster Jack Lawton notes 34 members will canvass the area. arrangements will be made to pick up donations or deliver them to the church basement for repairs.
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Boy Scout
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Crab Orchard - MacArthur
Jack Lawton
Lawton
Elliott Deck
Danny Plumley
Willard P. Riffe Jr
Harless Stover
E. C. Stover
Fred R. Yates
S. C. Donnelly
Harold J. Kirk
Clyde Cornet
Lions View 'Hope' Film Highlights Far East Health Efforts
At Beckley Lions Club meeting W C Scoogins presented Project Hope a film about the Hope Hospital Ship now in the Far East. The film shows seawater turned to fresh water and milk products produced in a machine nicknamed the iron cow for distribution to Indonesians and others. The area has few doctors and high infant mortality with life expectancy around 34. The ship, reused after the Korean conflict, funds limited travel and relies on volunteer donations and personnel.
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Hope
Hope Hospital
Far East
Beckley Lions Club
W. C. Scoogins
Mount Villa
N. C
Indonesia
National Shrine Here Proposed By Slack
Congressman John M. Slack Jr. promotes a southern West Virginia park with a shrine to John Peter Salley, discoverer of America's bituminous coal. Slack says Udall showed interest and filed a complete Salley dossier, arguing coal as a prime industrial pioneer. He avoids immediate hearings or legislation at this stage.
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Slack
West Virginia
John M. Slack Jr
Interior
Stewart Udall
John Peter Salley
America
Beckley
Salley
Inlet
Diet can curb phenylketonuria in children
A Raleigh Register article explains phenylketonuria a congenital condition causing oily skin blue eyes and a mousy odor. Early dietary treatment with Lofenalae shows promising results, especially when started before two months, with treated children reaching normal to low normal intellect ranges versus untreated peers.
New VA Dental Service Chief Dr Carl W Umland Appointed
Dr Carl W Umland becomes chief of dental service at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital replacing Dr Henry Kalwai who moved to Lebanon Pennsylvania Umland comes from Lyons Neuro Psychiatric Hospital New Jersey He is a Marquette University Dental School graduate The Umland family resides at 2109 Hill Road Upper Raleigh Heights He praised Beckley and the local altitude while noting his Wisconsin roots and prior VA hospital work in Madison Downey Racine and Wyoming duties The article lists three children and four grandchildren with spouses and professions including engineering and psychiatric nursing.
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Carl W. Umland
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Henry Kalwai
Lebanon
Dr. Umland
Lyon
N. J
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Marquette University Dental School
Milwaukee
Madison
Downey, Ill
Umland
Wisconsin
Carl II
Esso Engineering
Linden
David J
Racinne
Theo
Jean Umland
University of Wyoming
Laramie
Wyo
Masonic Lodge
Hill Rd
Upper
Raleigh Heights
Beckley
Cool Ridge Man Fined For Wounding Hunter
A Coal Ridge hunter in Mercer County was fined after negligent shooting wounded Merle Smith of Coal City 13 shots in the head on Oct 14. Canon, who mistook Smith for a turkey, paid 50 dollars and costs when arraigned. Captain Raymond Eye cited nine offenses in District Four with out-of-area arrestees. Slack toured the Beckley district, with about 15 people visiting the Beckley Post Office.
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Coal Ridge
Mercer County
Department of Natural Resources
Merle Smith
Coal City
Smith
Ser Canon
Raymond Eye
District Four
Picketers in Fancy Dress Hold Remington Rand Offices
About 30 members of the International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers AFL CIO staged masquerade pickets on Chicago’s North Michigan Avenue Wednesday at Remington Rand sales offices. One striker wore a Univac costume portraying the company’s electronic brain.
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Chicago
UPI
Michigan Ave
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Afl-Cio
Remington- Rand
Univac
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