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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Sep 11, 1962

Page

7

Mullens Civic Club Hears Reports From Delegates

The Mullens Women’s Civic Club opened its fall session at the Moose Lodge dining room with president Mrs. Martin Backus welcoming members to a year of vigor and effort. Delegates Rebecca Pritchett, Gloria Jean Pritchard, Linda Crotty, Vickie Ensminger, and Ralph Butler spoke on state and local projects while reports covered clothing purchases for Camp Galahad and a $100 prize in a street-lighting contest to fund a new light near Ben Dunman Junior High School.

Vickie Ensminger Homemakers Ralph Butler Buckhannon Herbert Morgan Howard Wikes Charles Coffey Ellen Pryor Elbert Humphrey Harry Foster Roger Pritchett Community Service Camp Galahad Ray Toler Backus Highland Avenue Ben Dunman Junior High School Thomas Staton Neil Pleasants Ways and Means Mullens Dave Lucas Pineville Mullens Club Effie Delp

Kopperston Grade School Enrolls 381 Pupils

Kopperston Grade School reports 381 students after the second week, under 22nd year principal Vaughn Stewart. The 14 teachers include first grade Faye Grosse Dorothy Caton, second grade Mable Weekley, and seventh grade led by W. R. Browning. Departments run in grades six through eight.

Kopperston RNS Vaughn Stewart Stewart Faye Grosse Dorothy Caton Mable Weekley Thelma Thompson Hazel Morrison Marilyn McCoy

17 Cases Are Docketed Today

Wyoming County Circuit Court docket lists 17 cases for today including rape theft and arson charges against George Prillaman Jr Virginia Skeens Kenneth Roberts Ott Trent and others plus related charges for Pocahontas Quality Coal Co and stream pollution. No Sept 12 trials. 15 cases on Sept 13 docket include Rodney Reed Wirt Walker Jr Calvin Adkins Basil Sizemore and others.

Pineville RNS Wyoming County Circuit Court George Prillaman Jr Virginia Mae Skeens Kenneth Paul Roberts Ott W. Trent John Dunn Calvin Adkins Jimmy Walls C. C. Reed Jr Robert Cooper C. A. Hurley Jimmy George Orville Ray Wimmer Robert E. Dancy Russell Williams Pete Stanley Teddy Shumate Pocahontas Quality Coal Co William Snead Effie Edith Estes Roby Laxton Patrick H. Estes Billy Workman Lawrence Lambert Rodney Reed Wirt Walker Jr Nick Wuehevich Jr Basil W. Sizemore William I. Gillespie Noah R

Mt View School Improves With Groundwork and Programs

ROCK CREEK RNS The Mt View Elementary School playground work has progressed to topsoil and grass with a new fence planned. Principal Lawson Barrett announced three quick fire drills evacuating 450 students and 17 staff. A better reading program runs grades four to eight, phonics starts in Primary Block, and a county speech therapist will screen pupils September 17 18. The first PTA meet is September 18 at 7 pm.

Rock Creek RNS Mt. View Lawson Barrett del Mar Barrett Alta Lee Osborne

West Virginian Accepts Government Post in Albuquerque

Clyde V. Mc Falls of Pax and Big Stone Gap connects to the Lytle Manufacturing Co design and art department in Albuquerque. Former Charleston photographer, he served four years in the Army as a radio operator. He is married to Miss Smiah Mullins of Charleston and visits Pax annually to see his sister. Oldest lighthouse on Marblehead Peninsula dates to 1821 and is the third oldest on the Great Lakes.

Pax Rns Albuquerque N. M Clyde V. McFalls J. L. McFalls Big Stone Gap Hazel Mowell McFalls Lytle Manufacturing Co Charleston Smiah Mullins

Mount Hope residents relocate and visit family notes

Mount Hope area notices list Florence Mann moving from Huntington to Anaheim to live with sister Nora Still for health reasons. Several families from Cleveland, Akron, Detroit, and Flint visit relatives in Stadium Terrace and Bradley. Ohio and Michigan households are mentioned, along with hospital observation for Fred Webb and local social visits. The item ends with a note about a whale calf.

Mount Hope Florence Mann Florence Rogers Huntington Anaheim Calif Nora Still Still Nora Rogers Mann John H. Richards Cleveland Ohio Julia Steplowski Stadium Terrace W. D. Kessler Jesse Andrews Micky Plumley Darrell Epperly Akron Blanche Lamarr Washington, D. C Fred Stella Johnny Stella Detroit Mich Angela Yates Angelina Earl Ludwig Luigi Cinotti Kilsyth George Barbera Bradley

Glen Fork Society Changes Meeting Place

The Glen Fork Independent Baptist Church Women’s Missionary Society met discussing the program Heaven and voted to make the church its meeting place. Members planned guest invitations, rug making progress, and quilting discussions while noting October hostesses and a closing prayer. Cataracts are cited as a major cause of blindness in America.

Glen Fork RNS Women's Missionary Society Glen Fork Independent Shrewsbury Independent Baptist Church Everette Blevins Lester Blevins Lawrence Sanders Ova Brown Dwaine Shumate Glen Sanders Croba Sanders Peggy Sanders and Son Elwood Powers Ray Sanders Kevin Shrewsbury Harold Acord E. Blevins L. Blevins Pizzino Brown

New Mullens group installs officers at hotel banquet

At the Wyoming Hotel in Mullens, the Sub-Debs installed new officers led by Janice Elliott who received the gavel from outgoing president Libby Welch. Also named were Gloria Pritchard parliamentarian Marylane Warden historian Judy Bearden treasurer Janet Levert vice president and Mrs. Martin Backus president of the Mullens Woman's Civic Club. Rog er Pritchett arranged the floral centerpiece.

Wyoming Mullens Libby Welch Janice Elliott Torian Judy Bearden Janet Levert Martin Backus The Mullens Woman's Civic Club

Illness prompts family visits in Marsh Fork area

Azel Farley of Rock Creek returns to work at Midway Chevrolet Whitesville after several illness days. Daughters and families from Cleveland Ohio and Marshall University students visit. Mrs Earl White recovering from surgery at Charleston hospital with daughter Lula Pauley substituting. Ezra Cantley near Beckley Hospital in critical condition. his sons live in Cleveland and were called home.

Azel Farley Rock Creek Midway Chevrolet Whitesville Mike Rich Eugene Pettry Cleveland Ohio Farley Jimmie Marshall University Teddy Earl White Stickney Charleston Lula Pauley Ezra Cantley Beckley Hospital Robert Ernest Goliath John Elmer Beckley B. B. Chambers Ted Chambers

Primatene provides rapid asthma and hay fever relief

A new tiny tablet named Primatene relieves asthma spasms and hay fever quickly, lasts for hours, and is available without prescription in most states. It opens bronchial tubes loosens mucus reduces nasal congestion and nervous tension, without injections or nebulizers. Priced at 98 cents at drugstores.

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Mullens Civic Club Ralph But Woman’s Civic Club of Leo Smith Andrew Tolley Robert Staton Charles Stump Josephine Williams N. D. Trent Gerald Snyder Catherine Stewart O. EE. Easterling Kenneth Sluss R. P. Sharp Charles Saunders Marblehead Peninsula Great Lakes James Crow Will Mitchell America Old Crow the Old Crow Distillery CO Frankfort Kentucky Glen Fork Society Gloria Pritchard Marylane Warden Marsh Fork AEP Apple Grove W. Va Appalachian Power Company American Electric Power System Indiana & Michigan Electric CO Kentucky Power Company Kingsport Utilities, Inc Ohio Power Company Wheeling Electric Company
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