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A tA-u-nciciiu. ami Mountain State Folk Festival Opens Here Thursday: Interesting Program Plans For Audience Participation 1 21 tlClpatlOn SDeOta(orK PFlH R'ainnlla Post-Herald, and Register, Becklcy, W. Sunday Morning June. 25, by spectators and audiences at the Mountain State 5oik Festival.in Beckley Thursday through Saturday promises to make it'a lively affair. The complete program released by Steering Committee Chairman Robert Thomson indicates both singing and dancing can be enjoyed by every gay hearted visitor.

WHEN THE FESTIVAL opens Thursday night, Shape Note Singers will entertain under the direction of T. N. Thurman of Dry Hill, and Negro Spirituals will be presented by the Bsckley Spiritual Singers directed by Wiley. Each group will invite the audience to sing with them at the end of their planned programs. Exhibits of the wonderful reminders of West Virginia's early years brought from homes and attics throughout the county will be on display at 5 p.

m. Thursday; from 1 to 5 and 6 to 7:30 p. m. Friday; noon to and 6 to 7:30 p. m.

Saturday INASMUCH as Old Fashioned Bargain Days have been timed to coincide with the Festival and the opening of Honey in the Rock, the Festival Parade will be combined with the Bargain Days parade at 5 p. m. Saturday. Contests to be held at 2 p. m.

Saturday call for more participation in events which include horseshoe pitching, checkers, tall tales, a spelling bee and hog calling. Entrants may register at the country store, to be operated by members of Home Demonstration Clubs. FRIDAY EVENING will be devoted to folk dancing. Various styles and types-including dancing by the "Old Timers," will be demonstrated at the opening of the 7:30 program in the Woodrow Wilson High School, where all of the events for the Festival will be held. A Beckley Square Dance Club, (he Calico and Jeans group, will perform a quadrille, a contra and a Virginia Reel to show the evolution of folk dancing explained by Paul Fourney.

Western Style Square Dancing, a more modern style, will be shown by Calico and Jeans of Beckley directed by Robert E. McKinney and by Whirl A way Square Two Men Plead To Felony Try Clyde Fink of Crab Orchard pleaded guilty to assault and Edward Collins of Lincoln Street, Beckley, attempt to commit a felony in Raleigh County Criminal Court Saturday. Fink, who was ind'icted for maiming, was given 30 days in jail by Judge Harry L. MMc- Creery, who allowed him credit for the time he served waiting for trial. THE JUDGE imposed a 60-day sentence and a fine S25 fine on Collins who was accused with two juveniles of robbing the East Beckley liquor store.

He was remanded to jail. of Ramelle and Clifftop led by Joe McClung. APPALACHIAN Style Square Dancing a traditional type of dance by. the Mountain State Square Dancers of Midway--will be led by E. R.

Lindsay. "Short Cake" and "Champagne Time" are the numbers chosen by Calico and Jeans for precision round dancing. Paul "Bud" Bleau of Nitre-will be the official caller and will call for the audience at the close of the planned program. HIGHLIGHTING the entire festival will be the program of folk- singing, music and dancing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday by Dr.

Patrick W. Gainer, master of folklore under whose aegis the three- day affair took shape; Dorothy Callison -and Ernest Skaggs open the program with solksinging, followed by Vivian Vest playing the dulcimer. The dulcimer is an old, stringed instrument, forerunner of the harpsichord and the piano, and quite difficult to play. Mrs. Henry McKinney of Sophia and her sister, Mrs.

Paradyne Hatcher of Shady Spring, will do a sister act, singing together as they card and spin wool. FIDDLE BEATING, a delightful old time art bringing out the drone Burnside is the fiddler and Gilbert Massey the fiddle beater. Both men arc well over 80 years of age, Mrs. Nancy Webb will sing "The Suffold Miracle" or the "Lady Near New York" and "Lord Thomas." FRENCH CARPENTER will fiddle "Camp Chase," a well-known brated grandfather, Solly" Carpentar. 01' Solly wrote it for a fiddlers' contest staged by Union guards in Camp Chase, an Ohio prison during the Civil War and won first prize, whichwas freedom.

Pie will add "Old Christmas Morning" and "Fiddler's Choice." "Old Long-Meter Tune," "Uncle John's Favorite," and "Wade in the Water," are the folksongs chosen by Uncle John Hunter, while Leslie Skeens will do ''Folk- songs in the Family Tradition," and Frazier Gills will fiddle "Old Time Tunes." ROMONA BROOKS will announce folksongs when she takes her place on the platform. Before the Saturday program closes, Negro Spirituals will he sung by a choir under the direction of C. W. Wiley. Dr.

Gainer will contribute two of his favorites "Get Up and Bar the Door," and "The Farmer's Wife and the Devil." Winding up the program, Frazier Gills and Alva Walker will fiddle for the Old Timers Dance led by E. R. Lindsay. ONE OF THE PARADE entries which created much comment last summer to be repeated Saturday will be the parade of belles --ladies in their golden years who have helped to keep our cherished traditions alive. Appearing in the parade this year and as special guests of the Festival will be Mrs.

Effie Delp, Mullens; Mrs. Mollie McClure, Grandview; Miss Hila Richardson, Beckley; Mrs. J. H. Shaughnessy, Hinton; Mrs.

Dora Harmon, Barnabas; Mrs. H. E. Melton, Beckley; Mrs. G.

W. McKinney, Ghent favorite composed by his cele- and Mrs. Bertha Ruble, Sophia. one Caning chairs will be of the skills demonstrated at the Mountain State Folk Festival Thursday, Friday and Mrs. Okey Brooks of Bradley works on a chair she has nearly completed.

Members of the Woman's Club of Beckley Festival Com- Army Signs 9 Nine men enlisted in the Army at the Beckley Recruiting Main Station Tuesday. They were: WILLIAM JACKSON FOWLER, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fowler, Thorpe, unassigned; Franklin Ross Simpson, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Simpson. Mavisdale, assigned to field communications: Leonard Elmer Sparks, son of Gaude Sparks, Narrows, assigned to airborne division; Donald Ray McCoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCoy, Sprigg.

unassigned; Edward Shufflebarger, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Shufflebarger. Mullens, assigned to the Army Security Agency; Edgar Norton Stowers.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ellen. Richwood, unassigned; Charles Melvin Owens, son of Burton Owens, Harman. assigned to Europe; Robert Nolan Collins, son of Roy Collins.

Paynesville. automotive maintenance; and James Franklin Morris, son of Mr and Mrs. Frank Morris, Peach Creek, unassisned. THEY WERE SENT to the Reception Station at Fort Knox. Ky 26 Seek Jobs Twenty-six persons filed npplicn lions for at the Beckley office" of Employment Security Thursday.

They were: Four sales clerks one housekeeper, one day worker one bookkeeping machine operator one bookkeeper, one billing clerk one school teacher, one radio re pairman. one telegraphic type writer operator, one stock clerk one orderly, three truck drivers one porter, one glazier, oni maintenance man. one stock boy one grave digger, one electrica repairman, two construclic.i labor crs and one mine foreman. Members of the Maxwell Hil Country Life Group will make fi nal plans for their annual com inuiity fair at a Tuesday nigh meeting, during which. a fai chairman will be named and the date will be decided.

The meeting is set for 7:30 p.m in the community building. James Lilly will attend th meeting for the purpose of finaliz ing plans for a community swim ming pool. STANAFORD MAN JAILED Frankie Biggs, Stanaford. booked at the Raleigh County at 1:40 n. m.

Saturday on charge of driving while drunk. was arrested by sheriffs dej Shaped Note singers rehears- ng for the Mountain State Folk Festival to be held in Beckley for the third successive year will be directed by T. N. Thurman (standing right, facing the choir). of the mcst popular reminders of the type of recreation enjoyed by early residents of West Virginia, the choir will be heard in Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium Thursday, opening night of the Festival.

Thurman, a bass, conducted the choir at the Prosperity Baptist Church more than 35 years and is a charter member and one of the founders of the singing conventions organized in 1933 at Prosperity. Member of many quartets, he once sang with a group of which Senator Robert C. Byrd was a member. "Come Unto Me," "Invisible Hands," "Heavenly Love," and "When the Saints Go Marching In" are the hymns the group has chosen to Members of the group Dorothy Wood, Mrs. J.

E. Elkins, Mrs. Richard White, Mrs. Frederick Cassity, Mrs. Austin Privett, Mrs.

Lloyd Carper, Mrs. Roland Nellie Gravely, Patricia Wood, Mrs. Lawrence Winston, Rita Brakefield, Lillian Martin, Mary Frances Staten, Joyce Gravely, Paul- eUe Naff, Mrs. Pat Jarrell, Mr. and Mrs.

W. E. "Bill" Williams, June Taylor, Mrs. Gladys Adkins, J. E.

Elkins, Glen Pauley, L. M. Neal, Roman Wood, David Craddock, Lawrence Gravely, Richard White, J. C. McGuire, Jim Pritt, Howard Wood, Mrs.

Joe Adkins, Mr. and Mrs. Rhen Greer, Eugene Rubin, Tom Canterbury, Betty French, Hubert H. Farley and Mrs. Ennis Hilbert.

Thurman said more are expected for the next rehearsal in the Dry Hill-Prosperity Com- munity Building at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday. mittee will be at Woodrow Wilson High School from 10 a. m.

until noon on Monday and Wednesday and from 1 to 5 p. m. Thursday to accept exhibits for 1 the Festival. The public is invited to view the exhibits after 5 p. m.

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