Post Office Driving Award Recipients Honored
A group of 12 Postal Service workers received driving awards for a combined 82 years of accident free driving. Left to right front row Av erill Long Jack Harvey June Clay Robert Sadler W. G. Elk ins. back row Theodore Simp kins Omer Basham J. Koruzyk E.E. Garten. Absent: D. J. Misco J. L. Bowling C. F. Sin ozich. NEED CHATTING PLACE CWMGWRACH Wales UPI Dr Dick Van Steenis closed his village surgery office as residents used it as a public meeting place to chat with neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Averill Long
Jack Harvey
June Clay
Robert Sadler
W. G. Elkins
Theodore Simpkins
Omer Basham
J. Koruzyk
E.E. Garten
D. J. Misco
J. L. Bowling
C. F. Sinozich
Cwmgwrach
Wales
UPI
Dick van Steenis
Johnson Signs Postage Law Doubling Parcel Post Limits
President Johnson signed a law that doubles weight limits and adds a foot to size limits for parcel post between distant first class cities, with rates rising about two cents per package. The changes phase in over five years, ending July 1971 for 84 inch and 40 pound limits, while smaller city limits remain unchanged.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Parents seek help for slow learners in education column
The Dear Mrs Light column discusses challenges faced by anxious parents of slow learners and urges early teacher involvement, highlighting the connection between home life and school achievement. A $100 donation from United Mine Workers and $205.54 raised by Glen Rogers High School students bring the Simms Kidney Transplant Fund total to 7194.58 as Noah Simms plans a kidney transplant at Tulane with the donation to be used for the surgery.
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Susan Light
E. H
Doman-Delacate
Ans
United Mine Workers of America
Layland
Glen Rogers High School
Lester Simms
Meadow Bridge
Simms
Concord College
Appalachian Regional Hospital
Tulane University Hospital
New Orleans
Noah Simms
Calvary Baptist Church
Homework for Geneva Parents Expands Evening Classes
Two Geneva schools have started evening courses for parents in mathematics Latin and science to better assist their children with homework. The column invites readers to follow for more on Jearners and responds to a mother's question about the Doman Delacato program.
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Homework School
Geneva
UPI
Revival Begins At Jonben Tonight At Church Of God
The Church of God at Jonben hosts a revival starting tonight with Rev. F. W. Goff guest evangelist, State Overseer of West Virginia Churches of God. Services are at 7 p.m. each night with special singing and music announced by Pastor Beulah Pack.
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Church of God
Singing Sam Raborn to sing at local Adventist church
Singing Sam Raborn a former Beckley resident now in Washington DC visits the area to present a sacred concert at 7 30 tonight in the Seventh Day Adventist Church 201 Jennings St Beckley Pastor Allen Norman newly arrived from London England to Beckley supervised the open public service.
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Sam Raborn
Beckley
Washington, D. C
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Jennings St
Allen Norman
London
England
Adventist Church
Housing Starts Decline in August to 50-Year Low
Washington reports a sustained downturn in housing activity as August housing starts fall to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,057,000 units, below July and August 1965 levels. New housing permits drop to 808,000, the lowest since counting began in 1959, with residential building outlays down for the fifth straight month and eight-month spending down 2 percent from 1965.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
Department Gan
Woman In Ambulance Inaccurate Driver Names Clarified
The Register corrected a Tuesday report stating Mrs. Juanita Mason, 43, of 205 Bellevue Lane, was a passenger in a 1966 GMC truck driven by Cecil Williams of Beckley in an accident with a 1966 ambulance driven by Roy Harless of Beaver. Mrs. Mason was not in the truck but was in the ambulance.
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The
Register
Juanita Mason
Bellevue Lane
Cecil Williams
Beckley
Roy Harless
Beaver
English seaman steals yacht to reach freighter in Galveston Bay
Herbert Low, 19, of England, fearing a late watch on a Norwegian freighter, took a $30,000, 65-foot yacht in Galveston Bay. Police recovered the vessel tied to the freighter and Low completed his watch in Galveston jail.
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Galveston, Tex
UPI
Galveston Bay
Herbert Low
Lown
Galveston
Post Office Opens in Rhodell with New Remodel
At the Rhodell facility the U S Post Office moved into a remodeled building with retiled floors fresh paint and updated rest rooms and an oil furnace. Clerks Mrs U S Widich and Mrs Lacy Meadows work the new space while Postmaster Lacy W Meadows reports all post office boxes were rented during opening week with Fred Baker shown renting a box.
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U. S
Rhodell
U. S. Widich
Lacy Meadows
Lacy W. Meadows
Fred Baker
Meadows
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