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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1960
Page
6
Obituaries record multiple deaths with residences in Walton Apts Lee St Eskdale McCorkle and other West Virginia towns. Names include Eileen Caxdiff Thurmond Cook Alice Ferrell Lucy Holley Lloyd Hughes Charles Jackson Lucinda McKinney Margaret Worris Willie Rose Willie Myrtle Rose and many more with ages, family ties, service times, churches and burial sites noted.
The 93rd annual West Virginia State Medical Society plans Aug 23 to 27 activities announced by Executive Secretary Charles Lively. The opening day features a speech by Charles B. Jolliffe, vice president of Radio Corp. of America, and a symposium on pyelonephritis, an inflammation of the kidney.
Department stores posted sales declines while professional groups prepare for a convention. Dr John Hash of Charleston will be installed as president at this year’s meeting. The AMA’s Dr BE Vincent Askey of Los Angeles will speak at the second session on Aug 27. Roy Bee 67 of Harlem Heights, a retired miner and UMWA local 5916 member, died after a long illness. Burial and funeral services followed in local churches and cemeteries as community figures and delegates prepare for the quadrennial GOP convention business day in Montgomery, with eight presidential electors to be chosen. Sales at department stores in the Richmond district showed a 3 percent year-to-date decline, though Memorial Day week saw a 17 percent jump from the prior week due to store closures.
Sidney A Griffith of Oceana died from crushing injuries after a 200 pound machine toppled on him at a Pineville work site. Griffith, a father of three, worked for R E Riley Drilling Co and was injured Thursday near Pineville in Wyoming County.
London reports the Earl of Dundee will act as special ambassador for Queen Elizabeth II at the Congo Republic independence celebrations starting June 20 in Leopoldville. Britain grants recognition to the new nation as ceremonies commence.
New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson, retiring after 35 years, becomes first journalist honored with an Actors Equity lifetime honorary member card. Equity President Raph Bellamy lauded his service while Atkinson thanked the stars for accepting him as a theater ally. Broadway figures including Tallulah Bankhead and Ed Begley attended the presentation.
Washington A House subcommittee heard that a revision of safety sections would improve disaster conditions in mines. Marling J. Ankeny, director of the Bureau of Mines, endorsed the measure approved by the Senate in April, saying it would raise safety standards for small mines without forcing owners out of business.
The body of 15 year old Robert Lee Adkins, of Julian, was recovered from the Kanawha River at Falls View after five hours of dragging by rescue teams. A fisherman on the bank said the youth dived from a rocky outcrop about 30 yards out and did not resurface. He was a freshman at Ganley View School. Service planned at Huddleston Memorial Baptist Church with burial at Montgomery Memorial Park.
Montgomery Alabama firm Blount Brothers Construction Co. won a 2,957,000 dollar contract from the General Services Administration to build a new federal courthouse and office building in Parkersburg West Virginia. The project includes remodeling and extending the adjacent post office and removing the year old federal courthouse. Completion is estimated at 27 months.
Mayor John Shanklin said city revenue in the current year exceeded expectations by about 9,000 from gross sales tax, suggesting possible raises for municipal employees in the next budget. He emphasized any across the board pay raises require study by the finance committee before council action.
Common Pleas Court Judge Dennis R. Knapp will open the June term Monday with more than 500 cases for trial including original jurisdiction and appeal items. A theft report notes a cash register and $25 taken from Painter's Parking Lot office on Dickinson Street. The courthouse will be closed Friday for West Virginia Day observance.
Moses Simon a Charlestion merchant born in Lebanon died June 7. his will written in Arabic and translated by Rev Raphael Huston was admitted to probate. His widow Agia died last April. Simon’s son Louis of Charleston and daughters Beatrice Matham and Victoria Ellis of Ontario share the estate.
Morgantown volunteers recovered the body of Joseph Tony Steno, 32, of Morgantown, after a rowboat capsized on Cheat Lake. He drowned when the craft sprang a leak during a pleasure trip with Joann Adams and Mason Wolfe.
Multiple legal notices solicit creditors and beneficiaries of several estates including Clarence B. Greiser Freda Jarrell Quentin Victor Lewis Minnie Toney Petry and Benjamin F Youell. The notices require filing claims by specific dates at designated Kanawha County offices and warn of exclusion from estate benefits. Also included are public sale and auction notices for vehicles and real estate with bid terms and locations.
Five Hope Natural Gas Co. employees from Greater Charleston are set to receive 20 year service awards next Friday at Clarksburg. The honorees include Charles S. Riddie Wilbur Huffman Cecil E. Warner Raymond L. Samples and Grey G. Hutson among 52 employees honored at the quarterly service luncheon.
The will of Albert D. Williams, Charleston advertising executive and ex Gazette and Charleston News Paper Agency salesman, leaves his entire estate to his widow Ruth Williams of 300 26th St. S. E. The will was admitted to probate Friday and Mrs Williams gains execution. Estate appraisers are Merrilli Carrico, George Leslie and Robert Merricks.
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