Enrollment Up At Bluefield State College In 1959
Bluefield State College reports a 26 percent total enrollment gain for fall 1959 over 1958-59 with full-time registrations rising 15 percent and part-time up 60 percent. The drive is attributed to expanded adult education programs and evening Saturday courses. Dean Scrafford notes many adults travel long distances to attend on campus or through Welch and Saeger extensions.
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Bluefield
Bluefield State College
E. W. Browne
Bluefield State
L. B. Allen
E. J. Scrafford
Bramwell
Welch
Kimball
Gary
Keystone
War
West Virginia
Welch and Saeger
Four New Mine Rescue Teams Formed in West Virginia
Charleston AP reports four new mine rescue teams added to the West Virginia program, boosting the total to 27 teams for night shift duty. Director Crawford L. Wilson of the State Mines Department called the expansion a milestone and said it makes the state’s rescue program one of the nation’s best. Each new team consists of seven members.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Crawford L. Wilson
State Mines Department
Car Hits Fence. Driver Injured in West Mullens Crash
Twenty two year old Walter Pannell of Maben faced reckless driving charges after his sedan failed to make a curve, hit a utility pole, splayed across the highway, and wrecked the fence at J. B. Brooks residence. He was fined 25 dollars and four passengers escaped injury.
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Si Cline
Pannell
J. B. Brooks
Clyde Newsome
Women’s Mission Rally Attendees Reach Charleston
Nora Small and Elsie Neff visited Charleston for the Jo die Baptist fall rally at Jo die Baptist Church. Attendees from Sunday Road Baptist Church included Joan Ellison Ora Kessler Velma Kesler Maggie Potter Amy Willis Hazel Brown Bertha Kesler Nora Small Verna Fortner Ruth Creger. Visitors hosted by Richard McVey welcomed Nora Small’s father John M McGinnis of Nova Scotia and brother Isaac MacInnis of Sudbury Ontario.
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HICO
RNS
Nora Small
Elsie Neff
Charleston
Woman's Mission Societies
Jodie Baptist Church
Sunday Road _ Baptist Church
Joan Ellison
Ora Kessler
Velma Kesler
Maggie Potter
Amy Willis
Hazel Brown
Bertha Kesler
Verna Fortner
Ruth Creger
Richard McVey
John M. McGinnis
Nova Scotia
Isaac MacInnis
Sudbury
Ontario
Canada
Miners Equipped With Full Safety Gear Across Mines
Wilson stated all stations and teams at Armco Steel Corp in Montroal Raleigh County Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates Grant Town Marion County Semet Solvay Division Longacre Fayette County and Eastern Gas and Fuel Wharton No 1 Boone County are supplied with all service gas masks flame safety lamps carbon monoxide detectors and other necessary equipment for operations.
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Armco Steel Corp
Montroal
Raleigh County
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Grant Town
Marion County
Semet- Solvay
Longacre
Fayette County
Eastern Gas and Fuel
Wharton No. 1
Boone County
Wilson
Youth Charged Jailed After Man's Death in WV
Ralph Delanor Wilson, 18, of Black Eagle, is jailed in Wyoming County after a highway crash that killed James E. Veryard, 65. Wilson faces manslaughter charges, with initial reckless driving and a suspended jail sentence. Veryard died hours after severe injuries from a collision near the Sands & Co. Hotel in Elmore.
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Mullens
RNS
Ralph Delanor Wilson
Black Eagle
Wyoming County
Wilson
Wendell W. Cook
James E. Veryard
Veryard
Sands & Co
Elmore
Mullens City
Wyoming County Land Transfers Listed by Clerk
Wyoming County Clerk records show A. E. and Nianza Baldwin conveying Lots 10 and 12 in Baldwin Addition Pineville for about 16500 dollars. Other deeds include Gentry to Crotty and Long for Lot 8 Mullens about 13000 dollars, Cunningham to Underwood for 50.82 acres about 2000 dollars, Montrosse to Underwood for Lot 55 Block H and part Lot 67 Block H about 1000 dollars, Blankenship to Shuck in Barkers Ridge about 2500 dollars, Mitchem to Echard in Baileyville District, Stone to Ruth Stone and Ruth Stone to Ritter Lumber for coal under 17.03 acres Baileyville district about 2000 dollars, and Bitter Lumber to Ruth Stone on Brier Creek about 500 dollars. United Bible Societies reports world Bible circulation in 1958 exceeded 26 300 000, about 12 million more than 1957.
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Pineville
RNL
A. E
Nianza Baldwin
Baldwin
Wyoming County
Kathryn
C. C. Gentry
Pauline L. Crotty
Carrie E. Long
H. E. Lilly
Mullens
A. C
Bessie Cunningham
W. C
Marie Underwood
Center District
Tony
Juanita Montrosse
Willard
Luther and
Louise Blankenship
James
Ida Shuck
Barkers Ridge
Gilbert and
Daisy Mitchem
Eugene
Judith Echard
Baileysville
Gilbert Mitchem
Raymond Lusk
Robert Morgan
Ruth Stone
George and
Ritter Lumber Company
Coal River Personal Notices and Local Events
Out of town mourners attended the Friday funeral of J D Peters in Colcord including Maude Goins Betty Higginbotham Dallas Peters and family from Huntsville Ohio and others from New London Wise and Charleston Visiting relatives Marvella Peters is enrolled at Concord Elementary School The Henson Harless Lumber Co sawmill movement to Decota on Cabin Creek to saw timber this fall Church of God women sold 26 dozen hot dogs to raise funds while church men dig a well for drinking water at the Colcord church
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Colcord
RNS
J. D. Peters
Maude Goins
Betty Higginbotham
New London
Conn
Dallas ‘Peters
Huntsville
Ala
Hubert Jarrell
Lowell
Ohio
Leighton Posey
Wise
David Cook
Great Lakes
Ill
Albert
Marvella
Concord Elementary School
Jarrell
Howard Miller
Decota
Cabin Creek
Henson Harless Lumber Co
Coal River
Church of God
J Turner Receives Mine Foreman Papers
J Turner earns full mine foreman rating at Tralee Mine after 19 years with Semet Solvay Allied Chemical. Seventeen employees passed examinations after a Mullens High School summer course run by West Virginia University School of Mines. Support from Percy Gillie Oval Easterling and G R Spindler noted.
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Mullens High School
West Virginia University School of Mines
Percy Gillie
Semet Solvay Mines
Tralee
Oval Easterling
G. R. Spindler
WUV School of Mines
Spindler
To Whom It May Concern Notice of Grill Sale
A notice states that the Columbia Grill has been sold and that, effective September 1 1959, the seller Frento Tony Gagalone will not be responsible for any debts or obligations incurred by the Columbia Grill.
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Columbia Grill
James McClung Taken By Death
James I. McClung age 80 died in a Caldwell nursing home Minden at 9 p m Sunday after an extended illness He formerly lived at Hill Top He was born at Mount Lockout Surviving are a sister Mrs Vina Legg North Bend Wash four half brothers Horateious Oak Hill Kelly and Shelor Nahlen and Duffy Arkansas three half sisters Mrs Goldie Sullivan Ansted Mrs Parmie Grose Gauley Bridge and Mrs Lessie Hayslett Minden The body is at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill Arrangements incomplete.
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Oak Hill
James I. McClung
Caldwell
Minden
Hill Top
Mount Lockout
Vina Legg
North Bend
Wash
Horateious
Kelly
Shelor
Nahlen
Duffy
Arkansas
Goldie Sullivan
Ansted
Parmie Grose
Gauley Bridge
Lessie Hayslett
Tyree
Laundry bundle surprises with a Chihuahua in wash
In Tuscaloosa Alabama an employee of a laundry discovered a Chihuahua hidden inside a bundle of dirty clothes. The small dog resisted being washed and caused a brief disruption before being rescued. No injuries reported.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
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Don D. Cook
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