Parade kicks off Beckley Kids Day with city parade
Beckley West Virginia on September 19 1996 hosts a Kids Day parade led by local schools bands and scouts with the Beckley Kiwanis Club fundraiser. Route runs from Beckley High Schools district to Woodrow Wilson High School stadium. Highlight is a midget football game between Ross Irle Junior High teams at 2 p.m. first 2000 kids get peanuts.
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Raleigh 1
Beckley
Wills Beckley
Dew
West Virginia
Partic Beckley
Mills
Air Force
King
Shady
Queen
Boy Scouts
Wilson and
St. Stoco
Woodrow
Stoco
150Th Armored Calvary
Mark Twain
Kanawha
Main
Heber Sts
First Ave
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley Kiwanis Club
Ross Irle
Gilmore Services Slated Friday Funeral for Mrs Julia S Twohig Gilmore
The body of Mrs. Julia S Twohig Gilmore aged 59 wife of J W Gilmore of 107 Eastes will be taken from the Kaysar Funeral Home to the residence this afternoon Recitation of the rosary will be at 730 pm Thursday at the residence Funeral services will be at 9 am Friday at St Francis de Sales Catholic Church Requiem Mass by Father Leo Lydon Burial in Mt Calvary addition to Sunset Memorial The Gilmore couple operated Gilmore's Grocery at 903 South Kanawha since 1918 and have resided in Beckley since 1907 She was born February 8 1885 in Springdale and was a member of St Francis de Sales Catholic Church and the Catholic Daughters of America Surviving are her husband a son J W Gilmore Jr four daughters four grandchildren and several siblings with half brothers and sisters also named.
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Julia S. Twohiz Gilmore
J. W. Gilmore
Eastes
Keysar
St. Francis de Sares Catholic Church
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Catholic Daughters of America
J. W. Gilmore Jr
Kanawha City
Charleston
Cyrilla
Julia Faye
David Moncrief
South Hills
Kyle J. Broyles
Crawford St
Beckley
Francis Twohig
Springdale
Bartholomew Twohig
Betty Twohig
Theresa Simms
Rainelle
Pauline
Mary Twohig
Ten Men Join Armed Forces At Beckley Recruiting Station
Nine men enlisted in the U. S. Army Monday at Beckley Main Recruiting Station and were sent to Fort Jackson South Carolina for basic training. Names and hometowns include Charles E. Hart Whitby Aaron Wallace Jr Carlisle William T. Flint Jr South Charleston Larry H. Hodge Decota Kenneth Harris Lego Billy G. Fox Helen George Taylor Goodwill Billy W. Pruett Denebrake and Opie J. Ganoe Peterstown. U S Air Force enlistments on Friday and Monday total Charles E Perkins Ream Carl D Large Naoma Wesley W Browning Maoma to Lackland AFB Texas Sept 14 Billy C Parker Pemberton to Andrews AFB Md Arthur H Martin Fayetteville Robert L Underwood Beckley Clyde V Bower Coal City David A Holt Coal City Phillip Rodney Leach Leivasy Ronald F White Princeton and Michael T Wood Bluefield.
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U. S. Army
Beckley
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Charles E. Hart
Artie M. Hart
Whitby
Aaron Wallace Jr
Aaron Wallace
Carlisle
William T. Flint Jr
South Charleston
Larry H. Hodge
William H. Hodge
Decota
Kenneth Harris
Beckley Main
Charles E. Perkins
Ream
Carl D. Large
Naoma
Wesley W. Browning
Maoma
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Billy C. Parker
Pemberton
Andrews Air Force Base
Arthur H. Martin
Fayetteville
Robert L. Underwood
Clyde V. Bower
Coal City
David A. Holt
Phillip Rodney Leach
Leivasy
Ronald F. White
Princeton
Michael T. Wood
Countians Rally To Aid Sophia Fire Victims Family
About 22 Countians gathered at Sophia Town Hall to organize relief for Cecil Hughes and his family after their home burned for a second time. J B Sexton was named chairman, with committees formed for fundraising, housing, and household items. Local pastors and Band Mothers unite for door-to-door drives across roughly 950 homes.
Claytor Services This Afternoon
Mayor Salyers to issue permits for solicitors as area holds services for Sgt Harold Claytor. Church meeting at Sophia Methodist Fellowship Hall set for 7 30 p m. Funeral for Sgt Claytor at Hill Top Baptist Church 2 p m today with burial at Hill Top Cemetery. Sgt Claytor 25 died in Ft Campbell Jeep crash. survivors include wife Harriet and three children. Burial to be conducted by army personnel from Charleston.
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Mike Basham
Earl
Daryl
Bink Williams
Joe E. Carnahan
Sophia
James Salyers
Daniel Polk
Arlie Mitcham
Sophia Friendship Baptist Church
Dewey Wilson
First Baptist Church
Bil Brown
First Methodist Church
R. J. Blair
Salyers
Fellowship Hall
Sophia Methodist Church
Joe Carnahan
Sherry Workman Hubbard
Richard C. Hub
Bard
Wickham Ave
J. E. Mays
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division
U.S. Treasury Department
Harold Claytor
Hill Top
Hill Top Baptist Church
G. T. Wilson
Hil Top
Sgt. Claytor
Eura Brown
187Th Airborne Infantry
Ft. Campbell
Claytor
Eura Merice
Harold Wesley
Harriett Artha
Clarksville
Tenn
Eura
John
Fletcher
William Brown
Clara
Linda
Ida Susan Brown
Wright Funeral Home
Charleston
County Scouts Invited To March in Parade
All Cub Boy and Explorer Scouts in Raleigh County are invited to march in the Kids Day parade Saturday at 1 p.m. Rex Johnson reports. Funeral services for Mrs Grace Ewing will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Stanford Cemetery. Mrs Ewing, 63, of Washington DC, and a former Piney View resident, died Monday in a Washington hospital.
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Raleigh County
Rex Johnson
Grace Ewing
Rose
Beckley
Quesenberry
Chape
South Kanawha St
E. R. Shafter
Stan
Lonnie Ray Found Guilty Over Beer License Violation
Lonnie Ray of East Park was found guilty by Judge C Berkley Lilly on beer dispensing without a city license. She was fined 25 dollars plus costs after police reported two partially filled bottles of beer in her tavern and she claimed patrons brought in opened beer.
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Lonnie Ray
East Park
Berkley
C. Berkley Lilly
Lilly
Navy Reserve Exams Scheduled for Seniors
Vice Admiral James A. Hollaway Jr announces the uth annual national competitive examinations for the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps for interested high school seniors. Applications from Chief C. E. Daniel at the Beck ley Post Office recruit sub station. NROTC funds tuition fees and books, offers $80 yearly stipend for four years, and summer training cruises as a midshipman. Qualifying seniors may enter flight training. exams and testing for 1957. Applications available at high schools colleges and Navy Recruiting Stations Washington 25 DC.
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James A. Holloway Jr
Naval Personnel
Uth
Navy
Reserve Officer Training Corps
C. E. Daniel
Beckley Post Office
Naval Academy
NROTC
Marine Corps
Chief of Naval Personnel
Washington 25
D. C
Mountaineer Weekend Festivities at West Virginia University
Mountaineer Weekend features students in calico dresses patched overalls and Snuffy Smith hats. The campus hosts a downtown parade a ROTC field rally Beat Richmond event and other activities as WVU prepares for the Richmond game. The Mountaineer Weekend queen will preside over celebrations.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
University of Richmond
Richmond
Mountaineer
Doctor Seeks Divorce From Rhonda Fleming in Santa Monica
Dr Lewis Morrill 40 sues actress Rhonda Fleming 33 for divorce alleging cruelty and reliance on a Mexican servant she secured last May. The Santa Monica filing notes no specific details.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Lewis Morrill
Screen Ace Stress
Rhonda Fleming
Richardson Rites To be In Virginia
The body of Robert Lee Mutt Richardson, 65, East Gulf, will be removed today from Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home to Damascus for funeral services likely Thursday or Friday. Burial will be in the family cemetery at Taylons Valley. Richardson, a former C H Mead Coal Co motor man at East Gulf, died Sunday night in Beckley hospital from meningitis. He was a Raleigh native. Surviving are his mother Sarah Jane Richardson of Taylors Valley, a brother Victor of Damascus, two sisters Mrs C W Bumgardner of Bristol and Mrs William Barham of Baltimore.
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Robert Lee “Mutt” Richardson
East Gulf
Robertson and Foglesong
Damascus
Taylons Valley
Richardson
C. H. Mead Coal Company
Beckley Hospital
Raleigh
N.C
Sarah Jane Richardson
Taylors Valley
Victor
C. W. Bumgardner
Bristol
William Barham
Baltimore
City Group backs Get Out Vote effort in Beckley
Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce launches Get Out the Vote Campaign with Grover St. Clair as chairman. House-to-house canvass planned to stress voting rights, not candidate support, with John Hammer and others promoting programs to civic clubs aided by Appalachian Electric Power Co. Posters and ads to urge all citizens to vote in November election.
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J. B. Sexton
Steve Sokola
Ed Blevins
Madison Lowry
Junior Haga
Daniel Polk
Arlie Mitcham
Harvey Davis
Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce
Grover St. Clair
Jaycee
St. Clair
John Hammer
Elvyn Bailey
Melvin Tolle
Joe Ressa
Bob Falkenstein
Hammer
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Jaycees
Gas Pipeline Installed Between Mabscott and Sketter
A new pipeline to boost winter gas pressure is being installed between Mabscott and Sketter at an estimated cost of 130000 dollars. The four and one half mile line will be built by twelve crewmen from Davis and Amr entrout Co Pulaski Va and should take about two months.
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Mabscott
Sketter
Davis and Amrentrout Co
Pulaski
Exchange Teacher Talks Today to Beckley Club
Maids and Ma trons Social Study Club hosts Mrs Howard Monroe and Mrs Raymond Green as cohostesses at Mrs Green's Truman Avenue home this evening. Guest speaker is Mrs Mary C Young of Charleston, former exchange teacher to Wales. Club president is Mrs Irving Wright. Announcements note Eliza Hanter Home Department Class hostess at 5 30 p m. today with leader Mrs Florence Hall and secretary Mrs Pally Wilber. NAACP branches to meet jointly at Wyco at 7 p m Thursday. Anniversary observance for Rev G C Gilbert of Shiloh Baptist Harper Park runs Wednesday through Sunday with services nightly at 6 30 p m. Dinner at 1 p m Friday. welcome address by Mrs Dorothy King at 2 30 p m. Deacon Willie Craig to read growth paper. Rev C M Ellis to deliver sermon. Music by East Gulf Choir and choirs from Glen Jean Kincaid Scarbro. master of ceremonies Rev W L Brown. Harvey sues Hutchings for 1000 dollars in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk's office Beckley. Details unavailable.
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Howard Monroe
Raymond Green
Florence Hall
Pally Wilber
NAACP
Raleigh County
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Wyoming
Wyco
T He
G. C. Gilbert
Gin
W. M. ‘Freeman
East Gulf
Shiloh Baptist Sunday School
Eccles
Harper Heights
Price Hill
Dorothy King
Willie ‘Craig
C. M. Ellis
Glen Jean
Kincaid
Ij Scarbro
W. L. Brown
Ceremomonigs
City Doctors to Attend State Heart Assn. Meet
Two Beckley doctors will attend the West Virginia Heart Association annual meeting in Bluefield, part of the Department of Pharmacology. Dr. Fred Richmond and Dr. Albert Kistin of Beckley Memorial Hospital will join sessions at the West Virginia Hotel. The program opens at 2 pm with Dr. William E. Bray Jr. presiding.
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State Heart Assn
Beckley
Department of Pharmacoide
West Logy
West Virginia
William E. Bray Jr
Robert B. Nye
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
A. W. Humphries
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland
Daniel T. Watts
Laurence Meharg
American Heart Association
West Virginia Heart Association
Presiding
Miriam G. Eads
Purdue University
LaFayette
Ind
Hannah Pretzer
Wayne State University
Detroit
Mich
City Police Probing Three Week Accidents
City Police investigated three traffic accidents this week involving eleven people. A two-vehicle crash on South Oakwood Ave and Prince St at 2 53 pm caused about 125 dollars in damage, with Aaron T Hall and Tom L Brown the drivers and no injuries. Five people sustained minor injuries in a Monday crash near Third Avenue and the C and O bridge, with Theodore Hatfield Jr among the injured. A second Monday incident at South Fayette Street caused minor cuts to Atio lene Akers and Roger Akers. A further collision on South Fayette Street at the five way intersection between Lee Coleman Akers and Glenn R Webb produced about 600 dollars in damage.
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South Oakwood Ave
Prince St
Acme Construction Company
Aaron T. Hall
Hinton
Tom L. Brown
Summers St
Raleigh General Hospital
Theodore H. Hatfield Jr
Lawton
Elbert Kincaid
Maplewood Lane
Jack Richardson
Roosevelt Ce
Hatfield
C and O
Third Avenue
South Fayette Street
Atiolene Akers
Roger Akers
Cool Ridge
Lee Coleman Akers
Glenn R. Webb
Daniels
South Fayette St
Marines Advise Parents To Favor Enlistment Applicants
Local Marine recruiting officers emphasize education for youths considering enlistment. Sgt. Thomas A. Morphew stresses a high school diploma as a key edge in technical advances, urging return to school and noting educational opportunities within the Marine Corps. He invites qualified youths to contact a Reserve unit to begin service while pursuing further schooling.
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Marine
Thomas A. Morphew
Morphew
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Reserve
Advanced Training Class Scheduled for GS Leaders
Raleigh Register reports on a six month seasoned Girl Scout leaders advanced training program led by Mrs A J Ginkel. The event runs day sessions September 25 26 from 10 am to 2 pm at the First Christian Church with lunch and beverages provided. Night sessions follow 7 to 9 30 pm on September 25 26 and 27 at the same site.
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A. J. Ginkel
Raleigh County
Girl Scout Council
First Christian Church
Ticket Reports Due on Friday For Kids' Day
Ticket sales from Kiwanis Club's Kids' Day must be reported to J. B. Williams by 5 p.m. Friday to determine the top sellers who will be named King and Queen for Saturday's parade. The winning boy and girl will each receive a 5 bond, with runners up earning 10, 7.5, and 5 dollars. Reports should be turned in at Williams's office, National Loan Co., North Heber St.
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Kiwanis Club
J. B. Willams
Williams
The
National Loan Co
North Heber St
Cool Ridge Man Fined for Drunk Driving
Cool Ridge resident Dewey Este Conner was fined $50 and costs by Magistrate T. Thuman for driving while drunk. His license will be automatically revoked for six months. Conner was arrested by State Police and booked at Raleigh County Jail at 3 30 p.m. Sunday.
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Dewey Este Conner
Cool Ridge
T. Thuman
Conner
Raleigh
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Raleigh Register
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