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The Hinton News
Hinton, West Virginia
December 20, 1979     The Hinton News
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Color Print Film Kodak Ektralite 10 Camera Outfit with Built-ln Electronic Flash 44 REG. $35.84 25%OFF Manufacturers List Price Timex ® Watches iN STOCK Big discount, perfectly timed for gift shopping. Many styles to choose from. Buy now. savel STYLES WILL VARY BY STORE. Great aim-and-shoot camera with built-in flash that recycles in only 10 seconds. Film and batteries included. Lil Genius m 4-Function :Electronic Learning Aid 8 99 l REGULAR $11.88 Kids enter math problem, give the answer. Red and rgrn LEDltghtS kldloate If answer is right or wrqng, Math activity book Inolud; ed. BatterY extra. Ages 5 and up S i f/; 15 cents Tues. from the First f0ur customers lie on the floor while one of the o gunmen who robbers cleaned out three cash drawers. vmployees and -k COUNTRY ROADS PLAZA--Bellepoint Rd., HINTON #r RALEIGH MALL--Rt. 21 North, BECKLEY #659-817 was West October 17, 1949, 1952 he was second class, Hinton. In Oct- was promoted to he entered the Pro- completed on odist Church, Veterans of For- eign Wars, Post 4500, and the National Rifle Association. His hobbies are archery, fishing and hunting. Mr, Fawcett resides in Ald- erson, West Virginia. He has three sons, David, Jeffrey and Orville, and one daughter, Mrs. Cla.dia Dawson, and three gr- andchildren. ACTION CANDLELIGHT SERVICE action The Bellepoint Baptist ' night Will see TV Church will be conducting their Mot- 3rd candlelight service Sunday game at 6:30. night, December 23 at 7 p.m. Will see Moose Auto. AT HINTON :NTER FROM 20th + 20th: Christmas din- at 12:00 with t Choir as Senior Citiz- a cover- at the i:00 p.m. 21st: Hin- exer. 24th-. FOR 25th-. FOR 26th - 27th- Bingo begins SANDSTONE D FROM F, CEMBER TllURSDAY, 20th. Dec- Christmas rIlber 24th & FOR r 2tith- Everyone is welcome. CLOSED The County Court House will be closed December 24th. OFFICES CLOSED All city officers and Sanit- ary Board office will be closed December 22, 23, 24, and 25 of December. There will. be no trash pickup on these days. CANCELLED The Kiwanis Club will not meet this week. Their next meeting will be held on Wed, nesday, January 2, 1979. CHRISTMAS SERVICE A Christmas Service will be held at Central Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. Friday December 21. Rev. Bill Young of the First Methodist Church will preach and the community choir will wived special music. The Ser- vice is sponsored by the Sum- mers County Ministerial Coun- cil. Everyone welcome.. "TURKEY RUN" The Hinton Jaycee- ettes are sponsoring a 'Turkey Run' - a supermarket shopping spree at Foodland, Saturday morning, December 22. 1st prize- 3 minutes grocery shopping. 2nd prize- 20 lb. turkey 3rd prize- 5 lb. ham. A $1.00 donation is being 27th- eramic paint- Subscribe For Christmas vu == but rut ttlll[JllllL i;UIU said it had been "hot-wired". Weikle said the ear could not have been "hot-wired" by any- one wearing gloves. Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion agents entered the case . Tuesday afternoon and the in- vestigation is continuing with no arrests reported at presstime. Area 'E)bituaries STODDARD INFANT Jennie Marie Stoddard, nine- month-old daughter of Albert and Jean Stoddard of Barber- ton, Ohio, formerly of Summ- ers County, died Friday in a Barberton" hospital after a short illness. CROTSHIN Mr. Robert Lee Crotshin, 96, sled Tuesday in the home of a son, James Crotshin of Rich- mond, Vs., after a long ill- Bess. The body is at the Broyles Funeral Chapel in Peterstown. i Hinton, the Kappa Delta Pi Honorary Educational Sorority and recieved her master's de- gree from the West Virginia College of Graduate Schools. Other survivors include her husband, Fred Mock. Services will be Thursday at She was bern in Barberton, March 14, 1979. Other survivors include one brother, Russell, at home; mat- ernal grandparents, Virgil and Holly Snider of Barberton; pat- ernal grandparents, Albert H. Stoddard of Hinton and Helen Stoddard of Barberton, and great- grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wyant and Mrs. Rose Conrad, all of Barberton. Services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the E.M. Mead- ows Funeral Home chapel in Hinton with the Rev. Bill Daw- son officiating. Burial followed in the Pence Springs Cemetery. Welfare Holiday Hours The Area 27 offices of the West Virginia Department of ' Welfare in Princeton and Hin- ton will close for the holidays at approximately 12:30 p.m. Ch- ristmas eve ( Dec. 24) and remain closed through Christ- mas day (Dec. 25). The office will close again at approximately 12:30 p.m. on New Year's eve ( Dec. 31) and remain closed through New Year's day ( Jan. 1, 1980). Both the afternoons of Dec. 24 asked and proceeds will go to and Dec. 31, as well as Ch- the family of Virgil Phillips. ristmas and New Year's days, Watch for the Jaycee- ette in are legal state holidays, accor- front of ttJe store on Saturday ding to Mrs. Margaret A. Ruc- morning, ker, Area 27 Administrator. HOLLIDAY Miss Debra Ann Holliday, 18, died Monday in a Charlottes- ville, Va., hospital after a long illness. Born in Rupert, Feb. 27, 1961, she was a daughter of Sed-, rick S. and Cleo Lilly Holli- day of Smoot. Miss Holliday was a Senior homebound student at Green- brier West High School in Ch- armco. Other surivors include one sister, Teresa Lynn, and two brothers, James and Gene, all at home; step grandmothers, Mrs. Betty McClung of Smoot and Mrs. Audrey Lilly of Ta- lcott, and a great- grandmo- ther, Mrs. Byrd Sheppard of Blacksburg, .Va. Services will be Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home chapel in Rainelle with the Rev. Roy Gwinn officiating. Burial will be in the Wallace Memorial Cem- etery in Clintonville. MOCK Mrs. Joyce Ellen Mock, 28, principal at Bellepoint Elem- entary School in Hinton, died Tuesday at 9:I0 a.m. in a Hinton hospital after a two-year ill: hesS. Born in Charleston, Feb. 8, 1951, she was a daughter of Nathaniel J. and Myrtle Wal- ker Carte of Elkview. Mrs. Mock was a member of the Blue Creek Advent Chris- tian Church and was graduated from Concord College. She also was a member of the Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority in 10 a.m. in the E.M. Meadows Funeral Home in Hinton with the Rev. Hubert Groves off- iciating. Additional services will be Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Blue Creek Advent Christ- ian Church at Elkview with the Rev. Eugene Huffman officiat- ing. Burial will be Elk Hills Memorial Park near Elkview. Friends may call Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Hinton funeral home and Thur- sday from I to 2:30 p.m. at the Elkview church. Pallbearers will be Chilton Lilly, Steve Tassos, Gary Mc- Graw, Randy Taylor, Jack Sc- ott, Pat Jordon, John O' Neal, Bob Richmond, Kit Durnan, Lin Coins, Leroy Farley and Dave LaBelle. Lawmen from the tri-county area swarmed over Sargcant who pursued them across the narrow. Muddy Creek Mountain early Tuesday seeking winding Muddy Creek Mountain Road near two men who robbed the First National Bank of Alderson. AIderson and opened fire on a State Police PITZER Mr. ROy R.Pttzer, 78, of Crab Orchard was pronounced dead on arrival Tuesday at 1:50 p.m. at a local hospital after a long illness. Born at Pipestem, Oct. 31 ........ 1901, he was a son of the late Frank and Lona Hedrick Pitz- er. Mr. Pitzer was a disabled coal miner• His wife, Mary Saunders Pit- zer, preceded him in death. Survivors include a brother, Frank Pitzer of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and six sisters, Mrs. Judy Garten of Oak Hill, Mrs ...... Mac Simpson of Corinne, Mrs. Kate Matheny of Princeton, Mrs. Stelia McGraw of Brooks, Mrs. Jeanette Cook of Crab Orchard and Miss Pearl Pit- zer of Princeton. The body is at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home. A bullet hole in the windshield of Sgt. T.K. showed the good judgement that helped him earn Williams' cruiser can be seen in the above photo, a sargeant's stripes: ,,Real close,- he answered, When Capt. Cassell asked Williams how closely "until they started shooting at me." he was pursuing the robbery suspects, Williams State Police Sargeant T.K. Williams and Lewis- sometime early Tuesday morning from the burg Police Sargeant Richard Weikle look over Ronceverte area. the abandoned get-away car that was stolen Photos by Bob Front i r ¸¸ /i if