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MRS. CLARK BURDETTE Toni Yvonne Martin Weds Clark Burdette KILSYTH (RNS)--Miss Toni Yvonne Martin became the bride of Clark Burdette, Covington, Sunday afternoon at the home of Joe Wiseman, grandfather of the bride. THE BRIDE is the daughter of Mrs. Zedia Martin, and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. Bound To Grand Jury PRINCETON (RNS) Two Mercer County brothers were bound over Friday to the October grand jury on murder charges arising from the fatal beating of Roscoe Gills, 44, of Hiawatha, in a dispute over 25 cents.

Carlo U. Fuda, 28, of Springton, and James Fuda, 26, of McComas were released on $2,500 bond. POLICE said Gills found a quarter and matched the two brothers for it at the Miner's Inn at Matoaka last Sunday. This led to a fight in Gills was injured. He died early Monday morning at a Princeton hospital and Mrs.

Commie Burdette. The double-ring ceremony was performed at 5 o'clock by the Rev. Ernest Barley of Bradley. The home was decorated with baskets of white mums and greenery. GIVEN IN marriage by her uncle, Ray Burley, the bride wore a white street-length dress, a shoulder-length veil attached to a pill box hat, white accessories and carried a white Bible topped with pink carnations with white satin streamers tied in loveknots.

Miss Cora Cadle was maid of honor. David Smith, cousin of the groom, served! as best man. BOTH graduates of Mount Hope High School, the couple will live in Covington, where Burdette is employed by Hercules Powder Co. Attending the wedding were: Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. Walton and son, David; Joan, Don. Wayne and David Smith; Harold Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs.

Ray Burley and daughters. Cheryl and Beverly; Mr. and Mrs. Commie Burdette and son, Cody, C. Joseph Wiseman, David Adkins and Kim Martin.

Post-Herald and Register, Beckley, W. Sunday Morning, August 28, Varied Events Scheduled For Water Festival HINTON (RNS) The Second Annual West Virginia State Water Festival will be held in Hinton, Sept. 15-18 with daily events scheduled to be held both in Hinton proper and on the Bluestone Lake, MOST OF the preliminary details have been arranged by committee chairmen and festival officials who have been working constantly on some phase of the program since early spring. The queen has been selected; princesses and attendants named; events honoring the queen and her court scheduled and much of the work which precedes such an event is now under way. Miss Jerri Houston, a senior at Construction To Start On New Princeton Hospital May 1, 1967 PRINCETON (RNS) The date for the start of construction of the new Princeton Community Hospital has been set for May 1, 1967, hospital officials announced Friday, following a meeting of the board of directors and designers of the facility.

At the meeting the board received a report on the elements to be included in the hospital building. It is expected that approval of the report will be given the designer, Irving, Bowman and Associates, within two weeks when final planning will get under way. THE TOTAL of floor space in tfae hospital will be 73,800 square feet. There will be 78 medical-surgical beds, 12 obstetric beds, and 10 pediatric beds. There will be eight swing beds included in obstetrics and pediatrics.

This will allow the switdhing of patients determined by their number. There will be six private Mathena Child Born PINEVILLE (RNS) MX. and Mrs. James Mthena, Orlando, Fla. announce the birth of a son, Michael Scott, born Aug.

25 in the Orange Memorial Hospital, Orlando. He weighed eight pounds and six one-half ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Mathena also have a daughter, (Pamela.

The paternal grandparents are Mr. and iMrs. C. H. Mathena of the Crowley Worrell Addition and the maternal grandparents are Mr.

and Mrs. Barney Bragg of Orlando. rooms and the remainder will be two bedrooms in the two medical-surgical units. One unit will have 44 beds, the other 34. POINTING up the newness of the hospital is toe intensive care unit of six beds, four in a ward and two in adjacent cubicles.

The latter will serve for cardiac patients with monitoring devices attached to a remote four-band oscilloscope at the nursing station for constant watch. The hospital will have three Commissioner Named To Succeed H. F. Day PRINCETON (RNS) The Mercer County Court Friday named W. Broughton Johnston, Princeton, to succeed H.

F. Day, who died this week, as a commissioner of accounts. The other Princeton commissioner is William Winfrey. THERE are four commissioners in the county with two in Bluefield. They are James Martin and William Hancock.

Fred Thomason, president of the court, announced Johnston's appointment, which follows a policy of the court in having two commissioners from Princeton and two from Bluefield. FIVE GENERATIONS KILSYTH (RNS) Five generations were present at a family get-together this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Greene Coleman in Kilsyth. They included Mrs.

Coleman, her daughter, Mrs. Lottie E. Humphrey of Chesapeake; her granddaughter, MirS. Charles McGraw of Bolt; her great- granddaughter, Mrs. L.

C. Sarrett and her great-great- grandson, Randall Kevin Sarrett, of Bolt The Colemans recently celebrated their wedding anniversary. 56th Logan Trial Continued IXXiAN (BINS) The trial of a Logan County woman, Mrs. Loretta P. Butcher, 38, of Blair, was continued indefinitely Wednesday in the U.

S. District Court in Huntington. Mrs. Butcher was indicted ast April 26 in connection with her testimony during a trial of November, 1965 in which she and her husband, Arnold, 65, were convicted of wrongfully obtaining Social Security payments. The woman is presently serving a federal prison term in the Woman's Reformatory at Alderson and was returned to U.

S. District Court to answer charges of perjury. The continuance was ing a motion granted follow- to which both sides in the case agreed. Teachers' Aides Hired By Board HINTON (RNS) The Summers County Board of Education met Friday evening in a lengthy special session to hire the teachers' aides for the school year 1966-67; accept resignations and fill vacancies; hire elementary and secondary education 'officials for the ensuing year; award the bid for a new maintenance truck and discuss a host of necessary items which will be officially approved at the next regular meeting. Mrs.

Janie Mann was hired as the Summers County coordinator of Federal Projects for another year and Mrs. Betty Deaver was named as her sec- fgtarv. Their term of office begins Sept. 1 and runs until July 31, 1967. Leota Harris; and Hinton High School, Bonnie Shuck, Berma Meador, Paulett Easter, Patricia Sears, Donna Scott, Rebecca Lane, Susan Smith, Amber Allen, Virginia Adkins, Willa Foster, Benny Hogan, Jenny Sims, Teresa Pack and Florine Cobbs.

J. W. McCallister, appeared at tihe board in regard to the discussion and investigation held on the light poles at Stokes Stadium which are in an unsafe condition. He presented the board with an estimate made by two separate power companies and asked that the expenses be included in the budget for next year. Charles Saunders, assistant superintendent who investigated the matter, told the board that Mrs.

Mann presented the the poles, especially one which board with a recommended list of 76 teachers' aides for the various schools of the county which was unanimously approved with one exception. Due to a transfer of one of the teach- only one aide was allotted and two had previously been named. The choice between the two must be decided by the school teachers and principal. Others hired and their schools Include: Crossroads, Shirley Smith; Fox (Talcott), Neva Boone; Lilly Heights, Ann Cooper; Lively, Hazel Kessler; Brooks, Jewel Bragg; Elton, Nelda Duncan; Lockbridge, Frances Walker: Hilldale, Janice Frazier; Madams Creek, Audrey Young. Each school has one aide.

SCHOOLS having two or more Include Pence Springs, Dorothy Hines, and Edith Stewart; Green Sulphur, Pat Williams and Amelia Callison; Riverview, Vera Johnson, Elizabeth Martin and Pauline Coins; Pipestem, Drema Meador, Patty Farley and Joan Gatrell; Jumping Branch, Mary Bowling, Opal Grimmett, Jenny Ellison, and Louise Crook. Forest Hill, Roger Buckland, Phyllis Crawford, Glenna Cook and Viola Buckland; Schools with five or more aides include: Bellepoint, Athalee Trout, Ola Graham, Margaret Willey, Mary Ward, and Dorothy Kern; Greenbrier, Lillian Bivens, Ora Thompson, Connie Clark, Dorothy Williams and, Delia Mooney; Central, Jackie Lindsay, Kay Bryson, Betty Ward, Betty Tallman and Mary Adkins; Sandstone: Drema Gwinn, Karen Ferguson, Mary Richmond, Bernice Fox, Carol Cyrus, Ruby Gwinn, Carmella Vandall, Stickler; and Georgia Talcott, Teresa Bush, Vernice Abshire, Edith Jarrell, Sara Sowers, Virginia Crawford, Patty Talbott, Elizabeth Ball and had already been stubbed off, are indeed in bad condition. Due to the closeness of the current football season he recommended that they be fixed as a temporary measure this year and be renewed next year during the summer. He also reported that the bleachers near the dressing rooms and on the visitors side are in bad shape. They can be temporarily repaired to do this year but must be included in the repairs for next year.

The cost was estimated as approximately $5,300 besides labor. Jack Harford, president of the board, appointed a member of the Jaycees, Rotary, Elks, Moose, and Kiwanis Clubs to serve with the existing committee to make an attempt to raise by subscription a part of the money with the board to appropriate the balance needed if possible. A delegation of teachers from the County Teachers Association appeared 'before the board asking that their pay ibe distributed over a 12-month period instead of the present 10 months. Bill Garten, spokesman for the group, told the board that most teachers had obligations on a 12-imonth basis and pay on a 10-month basis and that payments continued when no check was received. The board agreed to consider the acton at its next BOOSTERS SLATE MEET LOGAN (RNS) The Ohap- manville High School Football Boosters will meet at 7 p.m.

Monday at the school to discuss several important business matters, it was announced by Coach Fletcher (Shag) Barker. Coach Biarker emphasized the importance of all parents being in attendance since much of the business to be discussed will pertain to their sons who are members of the team. meeting with the pay period to be optional with the individual teacher. Garten told the group that 72 teachers voted at their meeting Thursday for the 12 months pay schedule; 42, for the 10 months schedule and 5 said that it made no difference. Hume K.

Nowlan was called into the meeting to comment on the extra work placed upon his department if the change were He discussed with them the legality of paying teachers beyond the fiscal year. Since the board's year ends in June, according to Nowlan, teachers under continuing contract would receive pay for July and August of 1967 before they actually 3 ibegin work in September or late August. Resigning teachers would have to repay money received in this manner for which they had not rendered services. A further study will be made and the superintendent will consult Fayette County Which has a 12-months optional pay schedule for teachers. This was placed on the agenda of the next regular meeting for further The board accepted the resignation of Charles Pollock at Chestnut Mountain.

Due to a low enrollment at Meadow Creek, the board agreed to transfer Mrs. Irene Grimmett from Meadow Creek to Chestnut Mountain to fill tihe vacancy. The board awarded a leave of absence to Mrs. Ethel Via at Talcott for one semester and placed Miss Nancy Cueto in the vacancy. Mrs.

Bertha McCoy, who was a remedial teacher under ESEA at Central, was placed in a regular teaching vacancy and the remedial position left vacant for the time being. Michael Russell of Glen Morgan was placed in a vacancy at Lilly Heights. A delegation of interested parents from the Fox (Greenbrier) school on Elk Knob Mountain appeared at the board asking that their one room school be closed and their children brought by bus to Greenbrier School. The delegation was headed by Bob Coleman of the area whose children had been attending Greenbrier School for the past four years but due to the other parents of the area desiring to send their children to town, were told that all cbid- dren must remain in the country school. COLEMAN told the board that the school was totally inadequate for proper education of the children.

He said that over a year ago the well which furnished the water was condemned by the (Department of Health as contaminated and that all last year children had to carry their own drinking water from home. Water for other purposes was carried from a spring near the school. Coleman also presented the board with written statements from the parents of the area who were not present asking tfaat the school be closed, and all 14 children be transferred to Greenbrier. Since the request was not a part of the special meeting the iboaxd could not take official action but did take a poll which indicated that the action would be favorable at the next meet- tag. In the meantime the delegation was granted permission for children to pass the school and attend classes at Greenbrier beginning Monday.

Only a slight overload will result in the two buses serving the area and according to William Perdue, transportation director, an additional short run (bus can be added a little later on if necessary. Most of these who would have to stand would riding less than half a mile. The teacher, Mrs. Wanda Taylor, was unofficially placed at Sandstone in the Remedial Reading class. THE BOARD awarded the low bid of $3,475 plus trade in, to O.

R. GrimJmett for the new maintenance truck. All bids opened at the last meeting exceeded the amount in the buget but a transfer of funds will be effected to take care of the difference. The board voted to pay Glenn Bennett for one week full pay in connection with the assistant duties of the athletic program which began Aug. 1, and agreed that in the future his pay should be for a total of ten months and one week due to the change in schedule.

ROBERT Via will be paid by the board for working one week at the State Fair and the board will be reimbursed. Permission was granted for the food stamp distributors to use the schools as long as it did not interrupt with the school work. Several items placed on the agenda were held over to the next regular meeting which was set for Sept. 17 due to the football games on Friday nights. HOSPITALIZED MOUNT HOPE (RNS) Mrs.

A. M. Patteson is a patient in the Oak Hill Hospital for observation and treatment. WILLIAMS HOSPITALIZED HINTON Damon Williams, Hinton, is a patient in the Beck- iey Hospital. Williams fell and hurt a leg which had been injured in a previous accident.

operating rooms and one delivering room and it will also have two radiographic fluro- scopic rooms. AMONG other elements included in the building will be a laundry kitchen, cafeteria and dining area. There will be quiet or meditation rooms on each medical-surgical floors. In the public lobby will be a gift shop, and a snack bar is being considered. The building is high-rise and will be constructed so that it can be expanded both vertically and horizontally.

There be a 200-car parking lot. The design element plan was drawn up by Bowman and Louis Block and Associates, a hospital consulting firm which made the survey to determine the needs of a new hospital in Princeton. THE COST of the new facility is estimated at $2.7 million. It is scheduled to be completed within three years after construction is started. It will be erected on the old Princeton Airport property.

When completed the Princeton Memorial Hospital will be closed. The community has pledged $600,000 for construction and the remaining funds are coming from the federal government. The economic development administration has already allocated $1.6 million which will become available when the construction is signed. Marshall University, and a former resident of Bluefield, will reign over the three days of festivity as "Queen Mermaid II" and princesses have been selected from the various counties of the state. Her maids of honor were chosen from the four high schools of Summers County.

The queen and her court will be escorted by local high school and college students. She is scheduled to arrive in Hinton about noon Sept. 15 and along with her court, will be honored with a luncheon to be held in the Williston Room of the Steak House at 1 p.m., where she will meet the Water Festival officials and board of directors. Following the luncheon she will officially open the exhibits for the festival, which will be located in tiie Memorial Building. On Thursday a banquet, honoring the queen and her attendants, will be held at 6:30 p.m., hi the Moose Hall on Second Avenue.

Sen. Jennings Randolph will be the guest speaker for the evening. They will also take part in the Fireman's Parade through downtown Hinton at 8:30 p.m. The queen and her court will be housed in the summer cabins at Bluestone State Park during their stay in Hintoa. Gov.

Hulett Smith will crown "Queen Mermaid II" during coronation ceremonies to be held Friday afternoon in Hinton High School auditoriumy Other dignitaries who plan to take part in the ceremonies include the Secretary of State, Robert D. Bailey Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Sen. Jennings Randolph, James Kee of the House of Representatives and Ray Saw.

yers of the House of Delegates. Mayor Harold B. Eagle will welcome the queen and her court and present her with a key to the city and the Rev. W. R.

McCoy, pastor of the Central Baptist Church of Hinton, will serve as Bishop. The Queen's Ball will be held Saturday at the National Guard Armory near Hinton beginning at 10 p.m. with Billy Butterfield and his Orchestra furnishing the music. ADVANCE tickets are now on sale at Creeds Pharmacy and the Big 4 Drug Store in Hraton or may be obtained from Miss Alva Jean Walker, Box 460, Hinton, W. Va.

Tickets will be $4 single and 87.50 per couple. Table reservations should be made with Miss Walker well in advance. The queen and her court will be honored guests at a dinner to be held at the Willow Wood Country Club on Friday evening and at a cook-out to be held in Bluestone State Park, at the park lodge Saturday evening. The queen and her attendants will be featured on special floats for the Grand Parade to ibe held thorough downtown Binton Saturday at 11 a. and the princesses from the various counties will 'be featured in motor boats.

Ed Livingston, of Hollywood, a screen star formerly of the Barger Springs area of Summers County, will be the parade The all Women Moose Drill Team from Clarksburg are also expected to take part in the parade. Outboard Hydroplane Races to be held at 1 p. m. both Saturday and Sunday is expected to be an outstanding event of the (festival and a Country and Western Show scheduled for 7:30 p. Friday at Stokes Stadium is one of the many added attractions this year.

A carnival will be a part of the festivities again this year but a new feature, an aerial act, ihas been added and will be featured, free of cfkarge, twice each day. The carnival will be at Avis Field and will featurfr 20 rides and shows. OTHER activities for the three-day celebration will a horseshoe tournament' Friday morning at the Bluestone Dam, New River Sidf; (the Baffles); an archery con- test Saturday at 9 a. ana- casting contests at 10 a. m.

Open (house will be held day through Sunday at the Blue stone Dam scheduled for 1 p.m. A gigantic display of fireworks will be featured Saturday at 8:30 p. m. from the top of the Bluestone Dam and on Sunday! at 11 a. the Hinton Rotary- Club will sponsor the Annual Fish Fry near the of Routes 3 and 20 just the Bluestone Dam.

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