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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1966
Page
7
The November elections will reshuffle Congress. In the Senate 100 seats are split 67 Democratic and 33 Republican with 35 seats up for election. Democrats favored to retain control. In the House 295 Democrats and 140 Republicans are to be elected, with GOP gains considered unlikely to be significant.
Pax PAX Mr and Mrs Tom Foster return to Weirwood after ten days in Ohio visiting relatives in Franklin Middletown and Springboro. The article lists numerous relatives and friends visiting and hosting across Weirwood Mercer County and surrounding areas. It notes Franklin visits to Richmond Kokoski Amburgy and Doty. trips to Mountain Lake Virginia. Mercer County Anglers Club and Claytor Lake excursions. and visitors from Charleston Oak Hill Oceana Montgomery and Columbus.
The Hyden home in Lively hosted the Annual Hyden Family reunion on a Sunday afternoon with a picnic style dinner on the lawn. Attendees included numerous Hyden relatives from Ohio, Maryland, and Virginia plus guests and extended family from Columbus and Bluefield, with travel from East Kingston to Lively and beyond. The gathering featured dozens of family members, shared stories, and planned future reunions as attendees arrived from far and near.
Local Mount Hope notes list visitors from Cleveland Ohio Baltimore Maryland Fort Lauderdale Florida and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Families include Dorado Yost Andrews Allan Bailey Murphey Titlow Keffer Burgess Marchetti and others visiting relatives and friends in Mount Hope area during the period.
President William Henry Harrison dies in office just one month after his inauguration, ending the shortest presidency in U.S. history and raising immediate questions about succession and medical treatment for his illness.
Michael T. Marshall of Oak Hill earned a graduate fellowship at West Virginia University to study air pollution control engineering. The HEW grant funds $250 monthly for the 1966-67 academic year, covers tuition and fees, and reflects WVU's status as a leading air pollution training center. Marshall, a 1959 Collins High graduate, holds a WVU economics bachelor's and industrial engineering BS, with community and campus involvement noted.
United Press International reports mainly sunny Labor Day nationwide while New England saw soaking rains. Strong north winds swept across the Great Lakes and Midwest, likely moving south by Tuesday. South Weymouth Massachusetts logged over 20 inches of rain overnight and similar showers extended through New England and upstate New York. California recorded the day’s high and low with Blythe at 89 and Arcata at 47.
In 1965 about forty million Americans contributed to nonprofit organizations, totaling roughly 11 billion dollars in gifts. The figure reflects broad public support across various charitable sectors and shows substantial private giving patterns of the era.
Muriel Lawrence of the Newspaper Enterprise Association questions whether the war on poverty is really a fight for better reading instruction. She contrasts phonics as essential with an education establishment resistant to the method, citing civil rights alignment and endorsement from Ena Farmer.
NEA special report on how a recreation explosion reshapes church life. It discusses leisure shifting Sabbath practices, the tension with traditional work values, and the need for relaxed worship to meet affluent society's free time while preserving core faith.
The Herndon family reunion met Sunday in Clifftop Elementary School dining room. L. E. Herndon was elected president, with Mrs. Charles Herndon and Mrs. H. C. Hodge as officers. The group planned annual gatherings before Labor Day. Notices included a family member in critical illness and a recent death in Staunton, Virginia. Numerous members from Beckley Huntington Ironton Charleston and other places attended or were noted as visiting.
The article notes that about 40 million people visited national parks in the United States during 1964, highlighting the growing popularity and use of park systems nationwide.
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