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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1972
Page
10
Beckley Jaycees voted against accepting women into the National Jaycees or the local chapter as members. The group approved sending a letter with the national questionnaire and noted plans for awards, a Distinguished Reid dinner, and upcoming elections.
Contributions from about 50 Sunbeam Bakery employees raised the Edmond Buddy Hannah fund to 863.05 with a 227 dollar check presentation by Mildred Smith and John Bero to Mrs Marie Maynard at Raleigh County Bank. Hannah, a part time bakery employee, was paralyzed January 27 by acute transverse myelitis and has since received treatment at Charleston General Hospital.
Thirteen couples applied for marriage licenses at the Raleigh County Courthouse. The list includes Louis Cochran and Emma Irene Trump, Teddy Cantley and Mazie Collins, Phillip Cooney and Eloise Pannell, Charles Foster and Susan Deveres, Jeffrey Gray and Elizabeth Richmond, Ronnie Jenkins and Della Brown, Carlos Lilly and Theresa Ames, Charles Littlejohn and Myrtle Boggess, Merlin Mills and Rosie Shrewsbury, Curtis Price and Joann Edgell, Everette Robinson Jr. and Carol Dunbar, James St Clair and Lorieda Caudill, and Billy Salley and Glenna Barker.
Raleigh County Library reports total checkouts of 5,505 in March up from 5,396 last year. Breakdowns show adult non fiction, juvenile non fiction, and fiction categories with shifts across Bookmobile No. 1 and No. 2. Bookmobiles tally 7,157 and 10,371 respectively, driven by increases in juvenile and adult fiction.
Charleston dispatch reports Democratic candidate Lee Kenna says the true issue is damage from strip mining not the industry itself. Kenna criticizes Secretary of State John D. Rockefeller IV for focusing on strip mining and urges improved and enforced state laws to protect ecology.
Houchins promoted to commercial officer at the Trust Company Bank in Atlanta. He is a Beckley native, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Houchins of Orlando Florida, and a graduate of Florida Presbyterian College.
The Summersville Sutton and Bluestone lakes will be raised to summer pool levels as the Army Corps of Engineers prepares for the fishing and recreation season. Summersville rises to 1 652 feet MSL with flood protection in the Gauley basin maintained. Sutton gains 75 feet and Bluestone four feet. rainfall pace will determine timing. Over 1.5 million people used the lakes in 1971.
Dr. Charles H. Thorne Jr. a Spring field, Virginia native, becomes the dentist at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital. A 1956 Georgetown Dental School graduate, he served in the Army Dental Corps 1956 to 1960 and led local dental groups. He and his wife Shirley and three sons will stay in Virginia until their new Hart Street home is finished.
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