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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1968
Page
3
Beckley College student Mike Going is named a candidate for Man of the Year by Circle K members from the BC Circle. The convention runs Friday through Sunday in Parkersburg with six Circle K members traveling for the event.
Dr Iclayd P Armbrister of Concord College presents a Beckley Business Management Seminar on Wednesday at 7 PM in the Appalachian Power Co Demonstration Room. The topic is Small Business Management with sessions on management principles, success and failure causes, avoiding pitfalls, and sources of business information.
County agents outline events at the Virginia Eye Festival to be staged at the Raleighyan stations and County Armory. Activities for women and children include egg coloring, displays of egg shell art, and the full cycle from baby chicks to adult birds.
The Men’s Civic Club of Beckley reported total donations of 1661.62 for the year ending Friday. Contributions included baseball uniforms for American Legion Post 70, sick and needy aid, fire victim relief, awards to Stratton High seniors, band uniforms for Woodrow Wilson High School, and various youth programs. Also notes on egg judging, 4-H contests, and a range of community activities.
The article profiles a craftsman who runs a small shop making original items such as raising pills, paper towel holders, walking canes, jewelry boxes, cake stands, and drapery rods. He refurnished his home with custom panels and cabinets while his wife Mary assists by staining and finishing pieces. A disabled miner named Hamplad, with decades in Glen White and Stotesbury mines, has lived in Beckley five years after origins in North Carolina.
Deeds on file record transfers from Sprague Land Company Inc to Barney Winston and Mary F. Welston for 1700 dollars in Town District. Mary Dee Littlejohn to James Edward Littellah for 2000 dollars in Heckley. Charles Melvin Littlejohn and Mary Dee Littleshn to James Edward and Pawnce Littlejohn for property in Ice Lay.
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