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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1957
Page
5
A Beckley meeting will discuss forming an Optimist Club in the Appalachian Co. building auditorium Tuesday at 7 p.m. About 400 Beckley-area men are invited to attend, with Charleston Optimist Club members hosting to explain the club’s meanings and purposes.
Two miners were injured in separate incidents on Tuesday and treated at Beckley Memorial Hospital. Sandigo Neal 38 of Lansing an Ames Mining Co. employee was admitted at 2 30 p m for a left ankle injury from falling slate. Harless Burke 46 of Raleigh a Jackson Coal Co. worker was treated for eye injuries and discharged after being burned by a cable incident at 9 20 p m.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Free Will Baptist Church conducted by Rev. F. C. Calhoun for Patsy Gate Williams two month old daughter of Mrs Mildred Williams of Cirtsville who died at 5 30 a.m Wednesday Burial will follow in Davis Cemetery Maple Fork Surviving is mother and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Harlow Williams of Cirtsville The body will be moved from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home to the Williams residence at 5 p.m today
The Fruits and Vegetable Commission of the Beckley Area Rural Development Council plans a Sunday to Tuesday fact finding tour of Eastern Panhandle canneries. The group seeks to assess operations and the feasibility of establishing three commercial canneries, with RDC manager C T Shackelford noting mixed results among local canneries and that a cannery would complement market operations, especially for tomatoes. Delegation includes O C Murchison, Richard Glass, John J Flanagan, and others, plus a local driver charged with drunken driving.
Five Raleigh County Classroom Teachers Association members will travel to Bluefield for the 21st West Virginia CTA Spring Council at the Inniganian Hotel. They include Mona Wood Dewey Bone Jr Julia Casey M Hurt and Ishail College members from Beckley. The opening session begins at 8 p.m. with a reception hosted by Mercer County CTA.
Six men and a woman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at the Raleigh County Courthouse March. Enlistees include Joe Shelton Glen Jean Carlos D Woolard East Rainelle Troy Burgess Green Sulphur Springs Bertram Allen Glen White Tommy R Fortner Beckley and Sandra June Razzle Prosperity. All except Shelton were assigned to Parris Island South Carolina. Shelton chose Camp Lejeune North Carolina after boot camp.
Beckley Kiwanis and Key Club present a vocational guidance program at Woodrow Wilson High School at 7 30 p m April 12 to help Raleigh County students choose careers. Professionals in accounting armed forces business medicine law journalism and other fields lead panels in a service project by Kiwanis Vocational Guidance Committee.
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