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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1961
Page
5
Women’s organizations are invited to submit notices of regular or special meetings. Send notices or club calendars to Beckley Newspapers Woman's Department or call CL 3-3321. Notices received by 10 a.m. appear the same day. Sunday calendar items must reach the office by 1 a.m. Saturday.
Eliza Hunter Home Department class at 5 p.m. in Belmont Homemakers Club at 6:30 p.m. Charmette Sub Deb at 7 p.m. Beta Rho Beta Sigma Phi at 7:30 p.m. Royal Neighbors initiation at 7:30 p.m. Navy Mothers Club at 7:30 Xi Alpha Gamma Beta Sigma Phi at Bowl Wick 8 p.m. Exemplar Ritual 8:30 Sophia Lions Club special meeting 6:30 p.m.
Regular meetings and activities listed for Degree of Honor Lodge Beta Sigma Phi Gamma Gamma Chapter Woman's Club Women of the Church Poinssettia Savings Club Girl Scout New Hope Baptist Church Rainbow for Girls and St Stephen's Episcopal Church. Gatherings span 1 5 7:30 p.m. across North Oakwood Ave Dry Hill Beaver Howe Street and church venues.
Congregation of New Hope Baptist Church holds a 7 p.m. business meeting with all auxiliaries reporting. Hollywood Homeroom Mothers meet at Hollywood Elementary School MacArthur at 1 30 p.m. Queen Esther Court No 53 Heroines of Jericho meets at G St 5 30 p.m. Friendship Class at Crab Orchard Baptist Church meeting canceled. Pastors Aid Society of St Johns Baptist Church Raleigh meets at Mrs Ellen Mahan Raleigh at 2 p.m. Novellettes Club hosts Miss Mary Lacy 102 Meadows St 7 Azalea Garden Club meets at Mrs Paul B Barewood Quesenberry Street 130 p.m. Black Diamond No 9 of the West Virginia Hairdressers and Cosmetics Assn meets Appalachian Assembly Room 7 30 p.m.
Miss Jane N Heaberlin of Clarksburg elected vice president of the WVU student body for 1961 62. The junior home economics major is active in Alpha Xi Delta Homecoming committee Monticola editor Phi Upsilon Omicron Mountainlair Board Li Toon Awa and Leadership Conference representative at Jacksons Mill.
Thirty children escaped injury when their school bus collided with a car in Raleigh North Carolina. They evacuated to another bus, which skidded and rolled into a ditch. Two children suffered minor cuts and bruises.
The nation's humane societies and pounds face a flood of homeless cats and dogs. Taxpayers and private philanthropy spend over 50 million dollars annually on rescue and control work but cannot provide humane death to many animals.
The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a turquoise two piece dress with a cor sage of white rose buds. Mrs. Nancy Deweese, sister in law of the bride, served as matron of honor. Best man was Bill Deweese, brother of the bride. The bridegroom is stationed at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va., where they will reside.
Washington shoppers find a broad selection of budget priced foods this weekend with beef pork lamb and poultry in good supply. Dairy eggs and fruit including apples and citrus offer solid value. Vegetables feature potatoes sweet potatoes cabbage cucumbers celery lettuce onions tomatoes squash and more with prepared fish options such as shrimp scallops and canned tuna. Beef round roast leads the top features while lamb legs and ducks appear occasionally.
Danny Pinson eight year old son of Dan and Sophia Pinson is home with mumps. Holiday visitors include relatives from Newport News Calloway Heights and Beckley with relatives from West Virginia University and other towns. Mrs Frank Propps of Maple Fork enters Beckley Memorial Hospital for eye surgery. Linda Vandall from Maple Fork is improving at home after rheumatic fever.
George Warren Hodel general manager of the Beckley Newspapers Corp attended a West Virginia Printing Industry board meeting in Charleston on Monday.
William Fortner stationed with the U S Navy in Philadelphia spends the weekend with his grandmother Mrs H A Walker at 107 John St. A birth announcement from Mr and Mrs William Ray Lester Daniels reports their first child, a son named Denny Ray, born at Raleigh General Hospital weighing seven pounds thirteen ounces. The mother is the former Miss Patr Let s, shad, halibut, clams, smelts and oysters.
A patient identified as Carl Jewell from Maple Fork is being treated at Beckley Memorial Hospital. The report provides no further details on condition or treatment.
Mrs. Gelia C Lilly of Beaver was honored Saturday with a birthday dinner at the home of her son in law and daughter Mr. and Mrs Warren Bowers of Beaver. She received a white carnation corsage. Other local families, the Daniels and Livelys, visited relatives over the holidays in Pleasant Hills, Charleston and Crab Orchard. Mamie Wright returned to Maxwell Hill after a three month Florida Virginia vacation, visiting relatives in Orlando and Norfolk on the way home.
Weekend visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs John W Eyee included their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs George M Broderick and infant Neva Louise from Cincinnati Ohio and Mrs M L Workman of 333 Frederick Street Bluefield.
Abraham Lincoln and wife with three sons are buried in the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield Illinois. Their fourth son Robert Lincoln died in 1926 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
The Ladies Club of Josephine and Stoco Junior High faculty played a basketball game at the school to raise funds for the Raleigh County March of Dimes. Front row included Mrs. Paul Mc Coy Mrs. Otis Vines Mrs. Harry Wallace Mrs. Nila Sheets and Mrs. Tracy Shrewsbury. Standing: Mrs. W. W. Plymale Mrs. Ernest Mullins Mrs. Paul Mecholch manager Mrs. Helen Tilson and Mrs. John Neda.
In 1840 a Scottish clerk pronounced a quantity of twill as Tweel on an invoice to a London merchant. The merchant read it as tweed, and the spelling Tweed stuck. The error became the enduring form.
Offspring of the common opos are tiny at birth and cling to their mothers in a protective pouch. They stay there as they grow until ready to venture into the outside world.
Charles Green achieved the first ascent at King George IV's coronation in 1821 using a balloon filled with coal gas. Britannica notes this historic flight as the earliest documented balloon ascent in England.
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