Beckley Offers Outdoor Drama Campaign to Raise 175000
Campaign opens tonight at 7 30 in Raleigh County Courthouse to fund a West Virginia Historical Drama Association project. The plan aims to raise 175000 in non profit stock to establish an outdoor summer drama drawing tourists to southern West Virginia and boost the local economy.
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Beckley
Raleigh County
West Virginia Historical Drama Association
Beckley Woman's Club
West Virginia
William Shanklin
Berea
Boone
N. C
Wilderness Road
Horn
Rabbi Announces Local Services Observing Jewish New Year
Rabbi Abraham I Shmed ling will lead Rosh Hashono observances at Beth El Temple Beckley starting 8 p m Friday Sept 16 marking year 5716. Services continue 10 a m Saturday and 11 a m Sunday with Sho far blast. Yom Kippur falls Sept 26.
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Beckley
Beth el Temple
Abraham I. Shmedling
Oak Hill Men Named to Legion Posts at West Virginia Meet
Legionnaires from Beckley and Oak Hill won offices at a five day West Virginia American Legion convention in Clarksburg. G Steele Callison of Oak Hill was named second vice commander and M H Altare of Beckley was elected sergeant at arms. Chester Phillips of Elkins became state commander succeeding L O Bickel. The Piedmont unit won a $300 prize as best entry in the parade. Other officers elected include Carl G Yarling, Wellsburg first vice commander and W D Broughton Sr Fairmont fourth vice commander.
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West Virginia
Phillips
Gloss
Kelt-Mansfield
Piedmont
Miami
Carl G. Yarling
Wellsburg
H. Paige Bell
Parkersburg
W. D. Broughton Sr
Fairmont
F. Paul Chambers
Logan
Mushroom folklore sparks cancer research at MSU meeting
Dr E H Lucas and Joseph Stevens of Michigan State University reported at the American Institute of Biological Sciences meeting that extracts from several mushroom species can slow tumor growth in mice. Many extracts are not yet human test ready, but may offer clues for cancer control.
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East Lansing
Mich
E. H. Lucas
Joseph Stevens
Michigan State University
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Dr. Lucas
Br. Lucas
Sloan-Kettering Institute of New York
Lucas
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Austria
Pennsylvania
Florida Seen as Site For Launching Satellite
Washington reports rocket expert Willy Ley predicts the United States will launch its first unmanned space satellite from Banana River missile base near Daytona Beach Florida. He said on CBS that a Florida launch would drop booster rockets into the Atlantic, while White Sands New Mexico would send the second booster into the vicinity of New Orleans.
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Washington
Willy Ley
United States
Banana River
Daytona Beach
Fla
Ley
CBS
Florida
Atlantic
White Sands
N. M
New Orleans
Nixon Target Of Red Press
Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, called Vice President Nixon one of the American reactionaries and accused him of trying to reverse Geneva summit progress. It cited his August 29 Veterans of Foreign Wars Boston speech as intolerant and hostile to the USSR, China, and the people's democracies.
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Moscow
Pravda
Nixon
Geneva
Boston
U.S.S.R
U. S
Forgery Ring Operating in Angola Prison
Louisiana penitentiary officials investigate a forgery ring at Angola that erased records and forged new ones to shorten sentences. Five years of inmate files are being checked after a warden spotted suspicious record erasures. Three ring leaders and four associates are in solitary confinement awaiting action. seven men with gift reprieves are sought by warrants.
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Angola
Louisiana
Maurice Sigler
Federal
Ring
Song Writer Ben Raleigh Visits Local Musician
Ben Raleigh a New York City songwriter known for Faith Can Move Mountains and Youre So Understanding arrived Thursday night in Beckley for a visit with local orchestra leader Warren Richards. He described Beckley as friendly and the state as beautiful, and noted he has written songs since 1942 and originated Laughing On the Outside You Walked By and Cute Piece of Property. His forthcoming film song One at a Time will be in Chicago Syndicate. During his stay he visited Grand View State Park Lovers Leap and the West Virginia Turnpike.
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Beckley
Ben Raleigh
New York City
Warren Richards
Raleigh
Grandview State Park
Lover’s Leap
West Virginia Turnpike
Alexander Rites Set Wednesday
Funeral services for John Lester Alexander aged 49 of 103 Laurel Terrace are set for 2 p m Wednesday at Memorial Baptist Church with Rev Charles Emerson Walker officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. The body remains at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home until an hour before services, pallbearers named Woodyard Lovell Cottle Dickerson Dale and McCarty. Alexander died about 2 30 a m Monday at his home from a heart ailment.
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John Lester Alexander
Laurel Terrace
Memorial Baptist Church
Charles Emerson Walker
Sunset Memorial Park
Rose and Quesenberry
Bus Woodyard
Woodsy Lovell
Ross Cottle
Frank Dickerson
W. C. Dale
Grady McCarty
Alexander
Polio Suspect in Raleigh County Child Faces Diagnosis
Nancy Kay Smith, 11 month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith of Daniels, is Raleigh County's 19th polio suspect of the year. She is at Morris Memorial Hospital in Milton after transfer from Raleigh General Hospital. A hospital spokesman called her condition fair. Dr. James Banks referred the case, traveling by Rose and Quesenberry ambulance with an iron lung used during transport from Raleigh General to Morris Memorial. The 110 mile trip took about one hour and ten minutes with a police escort through Charleston. Her condition before admittance was described as serious.
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Nancy Kay Smith
Charles Smith
Daniels
Raleigh County
Morris Memorial Hospital
Miltom
Raleigh General Hospital
James Banks
Beckley
Charleston
Morris Memorial
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Woman's Club
Kermit Locke
Julian Williams
Drama Organization
Oak Hill
Clarksburg
New York
Berlin
Bair Brothers, Inc
Beckley, W. Va
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