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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1965
Page
2
Town of Sophia approves a 1965 66 budget totaling 12 517 with an increase of 425 over the prior year. Estimated receipts 7300 and a 5217 levy on real and personal property fund the budgeting plan. Main income sources include liquor taxes 2500 rents 2400 and other revenues 400. Major expenses include police salaries 4400 street lighting 2500 and street department costs 1400.
Beckley Junior High School science project Oil In the Rocks by Patricia Keaton a ninth grader earned honorable mention at the Regional Science Fair in Sophia and is now on display on the Raleigh County Library main floor. Librarian C H Graham notes the exhibit has boosted loans of scientific books as area students use the library to aid their projects.
The Junior Department of the Women's Club of Beckley will begin a series of meetings at 7 30 p m on Thursday at the Clubhouse on Park Ave to educate citizens about county government. Sheriff Okey Mills will be guest speaker and discuss the sheriff department's duties and problems. County Clerk C O Smitty Smith and Circuit Clerk Harold Hanks will speak at future meetings. dates and times will be announced.
Harper Heights Parent Teacher Association plans a meeting at the school at 7 p.m. Thursday. President Rosie Johnson urges all members to attend.
The Methodist Church in West Virginia plans to add about 2,755 members as 41 Negro churches join the West Virginia Conference at Buckhannon June 9 to 13. St Johns Parish will join Beckley District at Shaw Chapel with Rev. Theodore Sembly as pastor. Rev. A E Wills serves as Beckley district superintendent. The Bluefield and Lewisburg areas see the heaviest church concentrations, previously under the All-Negro Washington Conference.
West Virginia troopers and regional police will receive 200 Brownie Reflex-20 cameras to aid highway accident investigations. Bids open April 12 with an estimated $3,100 for cameras and $812 for flashbulbs and film. Each cruiser will be equipped as plans progress and troopers expect further photography training upon delivery.
Gov Hulett C Smith will deliver the main commencement address at Marshall University on May 30 for the graduation exercises. Rev Elmer C Dierks acting director of Marshall's Campus Christian Center will speak at the baccalaureate services at 10 am. All events occur on campus or at the Keith Alb ee Theater if weather prevents outdoor ceremonies.
The Beckley Raleigh County YMCA will be closed April 16, Good Friday, per executive secretary Harry Culp. The scheduled record hop for that night has been cancelled.
Funeral services are set for Melvin Gaines Ramsey at 2 p.m. Thursday in Fayetteville with burial at Restlawn Memory Gardens Ansted. Ramsey, 79, died after a weeklong illness in a Montgomery hospital. He taught 42 years in Fayette County and was a farmer and Methodist. Survivors: Claude Ramsey Denver Colorado. Sibyl Martin Ramsey. Gatha Roberts Honolulu Hawaii. eight grandchildren. seven great grandchildren. Body at Dodd Payne Funeral Home after 4 p.m. today. Also noted are arrangements for Mrs Gertie Jarrell Kuhn 84 Packsville who died in Charleston hospital. Survivors include three daughters, a son, two sisters, 16 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Body at Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville. Floyd Lee Buddy Porter 19 of Portsmouth Ohio died in Richmond Virginia after months of illness. Survived by parents Thomas and Lota Porter and several siblings and grandparents. Funeral Thursday in Portsmouth. Deaths and funerals.
Joe Thompson 83 of Naoma died at noon Tuesday at home from cancer. Born March 7, 1882 at Dry Creek, he lived in Oregon from 1990 before returning to Naoma in 1941. He served as custodian at Marsh Fork High 1943 1950 and worked various local jobs. He was a Fraternal Order of Eagles member and survived by a sister and four brothers. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. at his residence with burial in Miller Cemetery.
Notices announce services for James G Wriston 83 Ingram Branch with burial at Rhinehart Cemetery and for Callie Ridenour 90 Princeton at First Baptist Church with burial in Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Willie Thompson 69 Mount View to be laid to rest at Blue Ridge Memorial Park. Basil Hubbard 62 Spanishburg deceased, services pending. survivors include spouses children and siblings. locations include Mossy Scarbro Princeton Sophia Butte Hampton and Oak Hill area.
The Sophia High School Band Concert will be held in the school auditorium Friday at 7 30 p m under Mrs Duke Williams. Senior Band Junior Band Choir and Eighth Note Singers perform with majorettes Donita Neff Anna Milano Judy Clark Brenda Richards Jackie Riggs Lotus McKinney in a twirling demonstration. Selections include Crusaders Hymn The Good Daughters Overture Joshua The Syncopated Clock Skip To My Flute Star Spangled Banner Lost In The Night Give Me Your Tired Your Poor. Choir and Eighth Note Singers also perform.
Jim Fox, president and general manager of Jim Fox Lincoln Mercury, received the national Silver Shoes award from William H. Huber, Cincinnati district sales manager, for outstanding customer relations and high standards in Lincoln Mercury sales and service. Presenters from Cincinnati included R. J. Smith, L. C. Larkin, and Paul N. Quellette. The award honors programs ensuring customer satisfaction with two silver shoes symbolizing the slogan Put Yourself in Your Customer's Shoes.
Shenango High School and Ellwood City High School will attempt to open their baseball seasons today after a scheduling mix up caused their Monday game to be postponed. Ellwood City traveled to Shenango as Shenango headed toward Ellwood City.
Ezra B. Lee of Summerlee died Tuesday at 12 30 p m in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. He was a retired employee of the community and leaves a family behind.
A joint meeting of the Raleigh County Court and the Park Board will be held at 7 30 p.m. Thursday in the courthouse. They will discuss the fate of the county's recreational areas and the possibility of leasing Little Beaver and Fitzpatrick Parks.
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