Volunteers Prepare Christmas Seals in Beckley
Women from Beckley organizations staff Raleigh County Tuberculosis Association envelopes this week. Mrs. Fred Hays chairs volunteers with Mrs. C. C. Lewis as executive secretary. Morning sessions include Beckley Woman's Club members and church groups. afternoons add additional volunteers from churches and the American Legion Auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Raleigh County Tuberculosis Association
Fred Hays
H. T. Gibson
Wayne Prince
L. W. Thorne
R. E. Newman
R. P. Wittaker
Robert L. Daniels
Grace Hewitt
Don Boyd
D. C. Lynn
Carlyle Boien
BR. S. Hollandsworth
J. W. Smith
J. A. Clemens
Herbet, Kiser
George A. Miller
Robert McLean
Aubrey Meadows
Regular Baptist Church
Johnstown Road
Melvin Rice
Raleigh County To Association
First Baptist Church
The
Presbyterian Church
Methodist Temple
First Christian Church
American Legion Auxiliary
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Scout Roundtable Set Thursday Night
A Scout roundtable for all Cub Scout Boy Scout and Explorer leaders will be held Thursday at 7 30 p m in The Methodist Temple. Dale Mosslander Seneca District Boy Scout executive announced December Cub Scout program with Al Epperly in charge. Charley Jackson Seneca District commissioner handles the Boy Scout December theme. Mosslander conducts Explorer section and assists in forming their program as Robert Amick district chairman leads the district meeting after the unit sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Temple
Dale Mosslander
Seneca
al Epperly
Charley Jackson
Mosslander
Robert Amick
Beckleyan Hurt In Auto Accident
Silas Lilly age 20 of 213 Hartley Ave is in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital with facial cuts from a two vehicle crash. He was a passenger in a 1955 pickup driven by Gilbert Hale 17 of Coal City. Hale was charged with passing on the right when no usable lane existed after the 1952 sedan of Mrs Macy Mills Farle 47 of Oak Hill was passed on the right south of Glen Jean at about 1:15 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Lilly
Hartley Ave
Raleigh General Hospital
Lilly
Gilbert R. Hale
Coal City
Macy Mills Farle
Oak Hill
Hale
Glen Jeen
Osborne Murder: West Virginia man Questioned in Slaying
State police in Michigan questioned 38 year old Walter Edward Buchanan of Crab Orchard WV regarding the death of Hubert Osbourne 54 also of Crab Orchard. Osbourne was found shot in a woods near Ames Saturday. Two women in the car were released. Buchanan says he got separated from Osbourne near the shooting site. He denied knowledge of a $2100 cash reportedly carried by the victim. Police have not located the weapon or the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apsilanti
Mich
UPD
West Virginia
Walter Edward Buchanan
Crab Orchard
W. Va
Hubert Osiborne
Osborne
Michigan
Buchanan
Detroit
Pre Election GOP Rallies In Raleigh County Under Way
GOP supporters hold a Monday rally at Mount View Junior High with about 60 attendees led by M. G. Guthrie of Charleston. Additional district rallies are planned in Slab Fork and Richmond with local candidates slated to speak at 7 p.m. each evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Marsh Fork
Mount View Junior High School
M. G. “Mal” Guthrie
Charleston
GOP
C. C
Edna Wills Mankin
Co. i. Crews
Republican Executive Committee
Main Ist
Embee’s
Slab Fork
Stoco High School
Richmond
Richmond High School
Halloween Party Set at St Francis School
The annual Halloween party for St Francis de Sales School children will be held Wednesday from 12 30 p m to 2 p m under the Parent Teacher Organization. Students are urged to dress as their patron saint and each grade will receive a prize for best costume. The PTO met in the school cafeteria to review classroom lighting and plan a fitness program led by Mrs Dix Manning. The eighth grade won the September attendance prize while notes praised Mrs Joe Rodriguez and Mrs Quin Barbara for basketball help.
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St. Francis de Sales
PTO
Sylvester Staud
Russell Garten
Dix E. Manning
Joe Rodriguez
Quin Barbara
Beckley Masters Club invites members to Armory meeting
Persons interested in a toast are invited to attend a Beckley Masters Club organizing meeting at the Raleigh County Armory Field House at 6 30 p m Friday.
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Masters Club
Beckley
Raleigh County Armory
Tieche Heads Raleigh ACS Unit Chartering Cancer Programs
Albert M. Tieche was elected president of the Raleigh County Unit of the American Cancer Society with El mo Hurst as vice president. Marie Cascio and Shirley Wardensky were named secretary and treasurer as officers were chosen at meetings in Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert M. Tieche
Raleigh County
The
American Society
Elmo Hurst
Beckley Newspapers
Marie Cascio
Shirley Wardensky
Tieche
ACS
Jack Clemens
Charleston
George Cales
David Creager
Walter Griswold
John Haddad
W. B. “Pete” Lilly
School Custodians Set Meeting Date
The Raleigh County School Custodians Association will hold future meetings on the fourth Saturday instead of the last Saturday of every month. The change was approved at a Beckley Junior High School gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County School Custodians Association
Beckley Junior High School
Bible Conference Held by Appalachian Bible Institute Leader
The Rev Lester Pipkin president of Appalachian Bible Institute conducts a Bible conference at Woodland Union Church in Fincastle Virginia this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Pipkin
Appalachian Bible Institute
Woodland Union Church
Fincastle
6-3-3 School Plan Readied For Board Meet
Raleigh County plans a 6-3-3 school system with grammar junior and senior high levels to ease crowded elementary schools. Superintendent John W. Saunders and consultant William L. Stormer say final plan may require consolidation and new buildings funded likely by a bond issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Board of Education
John W. Saunders
William L. Stormer
Charleston
State Department of Education
Saunders
Stormer
Beckley
Central Elementary Students Attend Beckley Junior High Show
Corks fly into the audience as Central Elementary School pupils attend Beckley Junior High School’s fourth performance. Brown and Miss Barbara Black plan shows at Cranberry, Stratton, Mullens, Grade School, Ben Dunman, Beckley College, and Ansted High and Junior High with varied start times from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Rob Brown Science Show includes alcohol poured into dry ice and a spinning gyroscope, captivating the students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Elementary School
Beckley Junior High School
Brown
Barbara Black
Cranberry Today
Stratton High
Mullens High
Ben Dunman
Beckley College
Ansted
Woman Recalls Sunday Crash That Hurt Husband
Mrs. Edna Lilly, 59, of 34 Myers Ave, described the Sunday accident in which her husband Roscoe Lilly, 67, sustained a fractured hip and severe facial injuries. She said he swerved to the right to avoid a car entering from a side road traveling in the same direction, not a car coming toward them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Lilly
Myers Ave
Roscoe Lilly
Singing Convention Planned At Fairdale
A singing convention will be held at the Freewill Baptist Church in Fairdale on Saturday at 7 30 p m under church sponsorship Proceeds from the offering go to the Bradley Mission at Bradley Rev Roy Tryce Maple Fork pastor invites all singers to attend and participate
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairdale
RNS
Freewill Baptist Church
Bradley
Roy Tryce
Maple Fork
First winner named in Raleigh County Centennial booth alarm contest
Charles Mock, 18, of Beckley Junior High School, won the first prize for dropping the final contribution into the Neville Street booth kettle at 3 45 p.m. Monday. The contest, run by the Raleigh County Centennial Committee, plans a weekly grand slam prize and ongoing posters to draw attention to booth solicitations. Carmen Feazell chairs the project and notes no fixed pattern for which booth triggers the alarm each day. Booths are located at Main Street Fayette Street corner and Neville Street Woodlawn Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County Centennial Committee
Beckley
Charles Mock
N. i Heber St
Neville Street
Carmen Feazell
Tomor
Feazell
Main Street
Fayette
Ne‘ville Street
Woodlawn Avenue
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Woman’s Club of
Herbert Kiser
Worthy Companion
Arrow
Arrow Liqueurs Corp
Scout Roundtable
Beckleyan
Dodge
Duncan-Catron Motor Co., Inc
Prince Street
Beckley, W. Va
Detze
Phillips Motor Company, Inc
Sophia
Lynch-Pryor Motors, Inc
Howard Aven
Mullens
Greenbrier Motor Company, Inc
U.S
Fairlea
Lewisburg, W. Va
Empire
Nbc-Tv
Dodge Division
Chrysler Motors Corporation
St. Francis
Bob Brown
Neville ST
Mal Guthrie
Congress
Court House
Republican County Committee
Centennial
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