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Beckley Post-Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 12

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TWELVE For Sprague Post Office i Inspection Is Thursday Final inspection of the new! The building is being made available for other pur- Sprague Post Office near the in-led by the Phillips and will ter section of Valley Drive and leased to the Post Office Depart-'! "This is one of the most North Kanawha Street is set forment for 10 years with options smaller post offices the! Thursday, according to KenrJi! renewal. jPost Office Department has G. Phillips Realty Co. of Greens-; The interior of the new post Phillips said. boro.

N. C. slice will include 2,171 square Postmaster Clyde Bostick stated! The property will provide ample that no date has been set for mov-j 1 i parking space. Present space will i ing into the new building. Gas Refunds Are POST-HERALD, BKCKLKY.

W. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 23, State Centennial Program Closes The Public Service Commission took under study Monday Cabot- proposal lha: it be per- Sister-In-Law Assault, Child Neglect Charged Tom Sums Camp As 'Unforgettable' Two REID JEPSON Bengalis, i her Feb. l. 1963. customers.

i i ncv I The company sen-es with assaulting her sis-) Lucille Canady of SkeHo.n paid! Sylvia School area, eastward in May Bongalis, and neg-ja $5 fine and costs to Rodriguez! to Beaver, and the of jj er eni ami a charge of failure to ley area, among in 0 ff charged with contributing, jher vehicle under control. She; leigh County. Tne corporation also, goth weix 1 arrested on warrants was cited Thursday on S. Virginia soon be for' gotten by the 98 out-of-state high i school students who spent the past i three weeks at the National Youth Science Camp near Green Bank. 1 That is the firm feeling of IThomas Laqueur of Beckley, one 'of the two boys representing the Mountain State.

"Ail the boys had fine things to 'say about our state they nad a I wonderful time and they all they wouid iike to ithe Wocdrow Wison graduate said Monday. Camp broke Sunday morning, ibut the boys were hosted at The Greenbrier with a sumptuous buffet lunch at the spa's famous I Casino, toured the hotel, and con- Itinued southward to Concord College in Athens where they were feted with a farewell banquet and housed overnight. The majority left for their home A. Reid Jeoson. evangelist and st ff a ou 1 Charleston.

I dont think it is possible to Special Speaker conference speaker from serves communities in Summers. L. G. Daniel! by State Police. i Charleston will" speak atYrSO p.m".!f th va iH the camp-" Fayette.

and Wyoming counties. of Pet us Gary Mann of Oak Hill paid a at the Church of the' La4 ueur said Tne state not corporation received re-i us Marcum Jr 18 of fine and costs to in Crab Orchard. Deceived wonderful publicity! funds of $308,586. plus about iojJ was heW to Raleigh 'Gene; Burke after plead- 000 in interest, from Tennesseej ty Grand Jury action when he in nol contenrire to a charge of Gas Transmission a e( Magistrate Joe Rod- fl i passing in the face of oncoming jriguez on charges of pos- of Cabot. Cabot has taken the of stolen property and sell- wsition that it is not now receiv-Jing stolen property.

ample return from west! patrolmen Tom Durrelt a inia customers: that it ex-i Sieve Peelish charge 1 Marcum Bur on traffic. He was cited Saturday on U. S. 21 by State Police. William Aliff of Bradley paid a Jepson also will show colo newspapers, but all slides of the Prairie Bible Insti-I th0 6 toys, are going to sing its and tute, Three Hills, Alberta.

Canada. A member of the Appalachian Bible Institute board of directors, Jepson is a graduate of Prarie praises to their home folks. They simply couldn't get over Greenbrier, either." Tom sums up the whole three- week Centennial event this way: "For me, the National Youth costs to Magistrate, Bible Institute and Morris Harvey a charge of passing! College. pects the of to go upjwith taking hubcaps Vrom" a "car i within an intersection. He wasj For 16 years he was pastor ofJScience Camp was a singular ex- that various infiat ion-i owned bv Bill Hopkins of Valley July 13 on L.

S. 21i by State the Bible Center Church inlPenence 0 i Charleston. He founded the Youth i "Much has been said about Report 'Officially Is Submitted an? factors threaten ib South June 15. 1962, andjPoIice. Charleston.

He founded the Youth "Mudi has been said about Complying UeUin" them. The hubcaps werej Robert A. Pugh, address un- for Christ.organization Charles-1 Scott carpenters visit and other the Muonal Complying with the request of Youth Science -Army- Tiie following men have enlisted in the U. S. Army at the Beckley Recruiting Main Station; James Edward Hill of 1945 Coins Beckley, assigned to Medical Care and Treatment; Donald Ray of Williamson, assigned to General Supply; Bobby Gerald Kiser of Walton, assigned to Military Police: Bob Rhodes Gay Williams of Ripley, assigned to Europe; John Henderson Basham, assigned to Air Defense Command: Stephen Edward Earley of Boomer and John Teller Price of Pinsonfork.

assigned to Airborne; Clyde Workman Jr. of Bloomingrose. Paul Monroe Whitby of Charleston, Ivan Gene Cline of Justice, and Larry Wayne Mills of Bluefield, all unassigned: and Emory Edward Hardy of Bishop, assigned to Air Defense Command. Thev all were sent to Ft. Knox, Ky.

Minter Attending Auditorium Meet Tom Minter, manager of the Raleigh County Armory-Field House, left Monday to attend the annual International Association of Auditorium Managers convention being held this year in Toronto, Canada, with the King Edward- Sheraton Hotel as headquarters. The subject of acoustics will be one of several topics to be studied at the convention whhich begins today and extends through Saturday. Among the principal speakers on acoustics will be C. P. Boner of the University of Texas and Chriss Jaffe of Stagecraft Manufacturing Corp.

i valued at $52.50. Marcum posted two $500 proper known was released from jail at 7:10 a. m. Monday after serving I -VIUl vwv i Stv bonds to Rodriguez for his re- tme on a trespassing charge. He 1 pl 'lease from custody.

Lemuel Richardson of Beckley waived to the Grand Jury before Rodriguez Monday and posted a $500 property bond for his release from custody on an assault charge, stemming from his alleged stomping of Sam Garving, address unknown, in front of the State Liquor Store on South Kanawha Street about 7 p. m. Satur- Douglas Shumate of Beckley was bound over to grand jury ac- Weather Roundup (See late forecast on Page 1) FIVE-DAY FORECAST Slightly cooler than normnl iveath- is due in West Virginia the remainder of this week, the Weather Bureau at Charleston said Monday. Temperatures will average normal to 4 degrees below the normal highs of S3 north and 87 south. Scattered thundershowers throughout the period will total one-fourth to one-half AIRPORT CONDITIONS High Monday 78 at 4:30 p.m.

Low 58 at 6:30 a.m. Humidity: High 94 per cent at 7 a.m., low 51 per cent at 5 p.m. No precipitation was recorded at the Weather Bureau during the last 24-hour period. High gusts of wind of 12 m.p.'h. from the nortih recorded at noon.

At 6:30 p. m. wind was from the south southwest at 10 m.p.h., barometric pressure 29.92 inches and falling and 73 degrees temperature. STREAM CONDITIONS Greenbrier River: Normal and clear. LAbe Bluestone: Normal ana clear with IL3 gates open: New River gauge at Hinton 1.8 feet.

appeared before Rodriguez. Larry Deene Caper, address unknown, paid a $5 fine and costs to Rodriguez Monday on a charge of passing on the solid white line. He was cited Thursday on the 4-H Road (W. Va. Secondary 9) by State Police, Orville L.

Williams, 63, of Beckley paid a $5 fine and costs to Rodriguez Monday for an expired inspection sticker. He was cited on W. Va. 3 earlier in the day by State Police. Emmett 0.

Rollison of Beckley paid a $5 fine and costs to Burke Monday on a charge of driving without an inspection sticker. He was cited Sunday on U. S. 21 by State Police. -Air Force- The following men have enlisted in the U.

S. Air Force at the Beckley Recruiting Main Station. Paul David Hill of Bud. Robert SPECIALS ON HOTPOINT REFRIGERATORS YOU CAN PURCHASE A 10 CU. FT.

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He is the Nights ne camp, but the Camp that each of the 100 high author nf tiTM in balanced and ehallensinff Drosram school campers contact his author of the book In Business, Serving the Lord." He is now di- occupied' the 100 boys for these home town newspaper to tell of rector of Christian Project Services. Several Permits Given To Mines The following companies have obtained opening permits from the West Virginia Department of Mines: Raleigh County -Corder Smokeless Coal to employ 10 men, and Bowyer Creek Coal to employ 25 men. Nicholas County -D. and F. Coal mine No.

1, to employ 10 men. Fayette County -Kim Coal mine No. 3, to employ four men. Greenbrier County-Burdiss Coal mine No. 2, to employ seven men and Christy Coal mine No.

7, to employ four men. Wyoming County: Amigo Smokeless Coal SSggins of Parkersburg mine, to employ three James Benton Smith of men. They all were sent to Lackland! UB. San Antonio. Tex.

fl emn Kill past three weeks. 'The time between lecturers spent in the well-stocked library, on the athletic field, in the raft shops, fishing, or simply oafing and walking through the forest not to mention the bull sessions. "Our lecture schedule was particularly well-planned. Approximately 10 of the lectures dealt with radio astronomy and related electronics or cryogenics. All these lecturers were association with the National Kadio Astronomy Observatory.

"The remaining 15 were given by professors from various West Virginia colleges and universities and by representatives of National Aeronautics Space Administration and the Air Force Systems Command. "We were exposed to so many new disciplines and areas of thought that it will take months; get back into the routine of: iveryday living. Some of the lee-; turers provoked hour-long question sessions. "One talk on economies Car Fire City firemen were called to Bosic and Sylvia Streets at 8:50 a. m.

Monday when a car owned by Willie Terry caught fire. Firemen Earned a defective fuel pump for the blaze. Damages were listed as $75. Jury Call Petit jurors are ordered to report for duty at 9:30 a.m. Thursday for the Beckley term of TJ.

S. Federal Court for the Southern District. Taken By Death Funeral services for Thomas Matthew Jr. of 2217 Oakman Detroit, will be conducted at 11 ajn. Tuesday at the St.

Matthews Church there. Burial will be in a Detroit cemetery. He is a brother of Phillip Matthews of Beckley Recruiting Main Station. His only other survivor is his mother, Mrs. Maggie Matthews of Detroit.

The Webster funeral -home of Detroit is in charge of arrangements. senting a liberal economic view leld by the minority of the campers) precipitated into a formal debate as well as several informal discussion groups. "Speaking of the lectures, in Washington, D. C. I had the embarrassing experience of being quoted by a press service as stating that the lecture program was generally over the heads of the News Briefs -All Around Raleigh- SPEAKER Dr.

Mildred Bateman, state director of Mental Health, will be one of the principal speakers at the Region 6 meeting of the West Virginia Education Assn. to be held in Beckley Oct. 24-25. Her topic will be "Mental Health and the Retarded Child." BUSINESS BRISK The Blue Circle Stables, a new boarding and training stable at Bradley built and operated by the Collis Amons family, is enjoying brisk business. Its 12-horse capacity is now filled.

JOINS STORE Louis Motley a former em- ploye at Pinecrest Sanitarium, has joined the appliance department of Montgomery Ward and department manager Charlie Lattin has announced. Motley, a 1954 Stratton High School graduate, and his wife have four children. AGENT The Time and Gift Shop at 615 Neville St. is now agent in the area for the Hoover Co. of North Canton, Ohio, according to E.

N. Swarthout, owner of the shop established 15 years ago. SELECTED Linda Cochran, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L.

Cochran of Sophia, has been chosen as BYF'er of the month of the Sophia Friendship Baptist Church. BECOMES PARTNER Larry O'Toole, associated with Raleigh" Cleaners and Laundry since 1935, is now a partner in the Mercer Wholesale distributors of Stron, Schlitz anc Burger beers and will operate an office located in Mabscott next to the Montgomery Ward warehouse. pinch pennies Pretty penny-pinchers like this girl are among our regular savers. She brings her money to Beckley National where It grows, and we think she sets a good example for everyone. Our automatic savings plan helps you harness your will power and save.

Come in soon--you're always welcome. BECKLEY NATIONAL BANK snapped a picture and asked my name and state. "I was surprised to learn of the incident, and want to say that the statement attributed to me is untrue. "The routine canip day went something like this: "Breakfast at 8:30 first lecture at 9:30, followed by a dis- (pre- boys. contact whfin his experiences at the West Virginia Centennial special event is Tom Laqueur, Woodrow Wilson High School 1963 graduate.

He is shown here discussing company for the rest of the summer, compiling statistics. This fall he will enter Swarthmore College, Swathmore, Pa. where he will major in chemistry with a minor in biology. With a Ph. D.

degree as his goal, he hopes for a career as a college professor of biochemistry. The 99 other high school students apparently feel the camp cussion and sometimes another I should become an annual feature. The release was used locally in a prominent spot in the newspapers. "I not only made no such statement, but at no time "had I been interviewed or even asked a single question by any of the services represented there. My only lecture at 11:30.

After lunch there were seminars in which campers presented research they had done. "These talks, too, were followed yy prolonged questioning. "We then had free time until dinner. Another lecture usually followed, but this period was sometimes occupied by a talent show, an indoor tract meet and several hootenanneys. "We visited the observatory times, touring the facilities three days, and talking with one of the scientists during the fourth visit.

I had a session on cosmology with Dr. Sebastian von Soerner which I consider the highlight of the academic part of camp. "Many of Hue other fellows also considered this the best morning of ithe camp. "I particularly enjoyed meeting some of the boys from the other states. They knew of disciplines and had interests I knew nothing about.

"I learned as much in informal conversations as I did at many of the lectures. "The camp was an overwhelming success for all 100 of us and I met some people I hope I'll be friends with the rest of my life. "I think the state would be missing a wonderful thing not to They would make a few changes, however, according to some of the boys. Some examples: --Better coordination of material by lecturers to eliminate what Richard LaForge of Darien, called "some overlapping" of information. A series of talks by the same ecturers so campers can follow up on material in which they might be interested.

A seminar-type program to Mother Of Beaver Resident Claimed Rosa Bedwell Collins, 83, of Elk Creek, died at 11 a.m. Monday in a Galas, Hospital after suffering a stroke about a week ago. She was a member of the Lebanon Methodist Church of Elk Creek. Survivors include two sons, J. M.

Collins of Beaver and Harley Collins of Galax; one daughter, Mrs. C. R. James of Richmond, two sisters, Miss Mae Bedwell of Independence, and Mrs. L.

D. McKinnon of Marion, and one brother, A. Bedwell of Independence. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Lebanon Methodist Church at Elk Creek, with the Rev.

Johnny Farmer officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The Sturdavent Funeral Home of Independence will be in charge. repeat the camp every year," Laqueur concluded. The 17-year-old son of Dr.

and Mrs. Werner A. Laqueur of Booth and a National Merit Scholarship winner, Tom will work with a New Brunswick, N. J. drug Flora Helen Lilly and Dayton Lilly to Catherine Mary Amato, for property in the city of Beckley, for $3.500.

Bernard W. McCIun-g and Helen B. McCIung to Robert L. Cormack and Rosalie Cormack, for property in Trap ES11 District, for Margaret McLean to Meredith 0. Trent and Etheline F.

Trent, for property in the city of Beckley, for SS'OOO. John Mike Kosco and Josephine Kosco to Nick Fernandez Sabugo and Helen Fernandez Sabugo. for property in Town District for $5,000. Alvin C. Bennett and Janet K.

Bennett to Frederick Bennett, for property in Town District, for $1,300. McMillan Land and Finance Co. to George Lewis Jones and Margaret L. Jones, for property in Town District for $5.000. Rites Are Private The infant son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert B. Sayre of 116 Granville was dead at birth at 7:30 a.m. Monday in a local hospital. The mother is the former Margaret James.

Other survivors include the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Sayre of Beckley. Private funeral services wiH be conducted at Sunset Memorial Park -at 2:30 p.m. today with the Rev.

Charles L. Draper officiat- in? The body will remain at the Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home until the funeral hour. Nets Him A If ear with Post-Herald reporter Ann Springer the highlights of the three weeks he spent at Green Bank with high-ranking students from the other 49 states. enable the lecturers to meet with the campers in smaller discussion groups. Attempts by state officials in advance to learn what special interests those chosen to attend from the various states might have.

A follow-up questionnaire to keep track of what fields fcose at the first camp eventually enter in their educational and other undertakings. These ideas came Monday at a news conference in Charleston held by the remaining gifted students before they left for home. Some bad left before the conference. There was praise for the persons who helped make the camp possible and general agreement on the beauty of the surroundings. The camp, with two youths from each state, was located in Pocahontas County, a sparsely populated mountain section.

The youths agreed that highlights of the camp were a visit by Astronaut Scott Carpenter, a trip to Washington to hear NASA officials and a tour of the NRAO Escaping from a proved to be unwise for a Beckley man Monday morning. City -Police said John Berry, 33, was being transported to court for a hearing on a drunkenness charge when he fled from Sgt. Bill Teubert. About an hour later, Patrolman Fred Burdiss apprehended Berry in an alley off Prince Street. On the second trip to Rodriguez, Berry faced two charges and pleaded not guilty to both.

Rodriguez found htm guilty on a charge of breaking guard and sentenced him to one year in the Raleigh County Jail. On the intoxication count. Berry was handed a 60-day fail sentence. Funeral services for James Claybourn Curtis, 87, of Beckley, will be conducted at 2 p. m.

today in the Webb and Neal Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Kenneth Overdorf officiating. Burial will follow in the Mount Tabor cemetery, Curtis, a former real estate broker in the area, died at 2:10 a. m. Monday in a local hospital after a short illness.

He was a member of the First Christian Church of Oak Grove and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge of Mabscott. Born Sept. 2 1875, at Prosperity, he was a son of the late Claybourn and Elizabeth Warden Curtis. Curtis lived his enitre life in the area. He lived for a number of years with Clyde Clay of Beckley, and made his home for the past year with a niece, Mrs.

Mary Rapp of Skelton. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Laura Snuffer of Mount Tabor; three grandchildren; and 10 great- grandchildren. Graveside rites will be conducted by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Mabscott. Pallbearers will be Clyde Clay, Jack Clay, Ross Curtis, John Curtis.

Ewell Curtis, and Woodrow Naff. Church Welcomes Tourists Among the first road signs erected by a church specifically welcoming tourists is this one which appears on the U.S. 19-21 By-Pass. In fact the church has placed two the other is on the opposite side of highway. The signs were erected by the Jones Memorial Baptist Church, located on Allen Avenue.

The pastor of the church is the Rev. Hoy Coe. (Post-Herald Photo) Bid Opening Set July 30 For Area Highway Work The State Road Commission estimated Monday that 13 projects on which it will open bids July 30 will cost $1.2 million. Students Cited Area students making straight A's on a least 12 semester hours work for the second semester at West Virginia University include: Charlotte Ann Klaus of Beckley, Medicine; Melvin D. Aldridge of Daniels, Engineering: Harold B.

Cook of Sophia, Commerce; Ruth Stone Dahlke of Athens, Graduate: Nancy McDowell Shaver, Graduate: Mary Ann Summers, Agriculture. Forestry and Home Economics: and Roy G. Stout, Arts and Sciences, all of Surnmersville: Bonnie Kathryn Ellis of Madison, Education; and Larry J. Lilly of Ravencliff, Engineering. Th? proposed work will include 11 projects to be financed entirely from state funds, and two of a federal-aid nature.

It will involve 38.45 miles of road and bridges in 12 counties. Projects for Raleigh County include the resurfacing of 3.9 miles of the Bolt road on Secondary 15. In Fayette County the resurfacing of 2.67 miles of the Mount Hope-Glen Jean road on U. S. 21, an experimental resurfacing project is to be let for contract with another resurfacing project is to be let for contract with another in Nicholas County, on 6 miles of the Marting-Nicholas County one road on Secondary 2.

An experimental resurfacing project in Nicholas County includes 0.86 mile of the Dkie-Fay- ette County line road on Secondary 16-1. Fifty-five students, 27 of them West Virginians, the largest class yet, have been accepted by the School of Denistry to begin study at the West Virginia University Medical Center this fall. The class of 1967 is the eighth group of dental students accepted by the school. Seventy-one "students have graduated with the doctor of dental surgery degree and now are in private practice, or state service. Seventy-seven will return to the University this fall as seniors, juniors, and sphomores in the four- year professional curriculum.

Three area students will be amoiig those entering the School of Denistry this fall. They are Norman Watts Shumate of Beckley. Charles Harvey Mann of Athens, and George Raymond Thomas Jr. of Mullens. WWHS Will Enroll New Students Today The registering of students who have not previously enrolled for the I96W4 school term will be held at Woodrow Wilson High school from 9 a.m.

to 11 a.m. today, This registration is for those students who have moved into the community since the 1962-63 school term and are transferring from other schools and for those who are returning to high school after having withdrawn. This registration does not apply to those who were registered last spring for a program at Woodrow Wilson for the current year and were then enrolled at Glen White Junior High School, Beckley Junior High School or at Woodrow Wilson..

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