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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1956
Page
11
WEIRTON The city council voted to adopt daylight saving time from 2 a.m. April 29 to 2 a.m. Oct. 2. Another council meeting discussed the measure and followed a recommendation to align with other Northern Panhandle towns.
A compact hotel and coffee shop notice for the Hotel Wyoming in Mullens West Virginia. Manager Carl F. Clifford promotes a modern fireproof establishment offering “Your Home Away From Home.” Includes address 302 First Street and contact number 49. Also lists The Castle Rock Bank Pineville West Virginia with FDIC insured accounts up to 10 000.00 and phone 2871.
American industry counters with expansion plans amid Soviet military and industrial gains. Francis Walton notes wartime factory victories and peacetime output growth, with steel production rising from 77 million tons in 1942 to 128 million tons capacity by 1955. Plant building and equipment spending also surge, signaling a strong postwar economic push.
Albuquerque high school science teacher Dr Martin Fleck describes how peacetime atomic research touches tires soil moisture storage life of potatoes livestock feed and livestock salt cakes. He notes pilot programs with Harvard Duke and Oak Ridge to educate teachers and expand business opportunities and jobs in the coming months with eight week course starting June 16 for 20 teachers.
Charleston police report a gas explosion at Summers Street rooming house left Steve Czernas a 72 year old retired coal miner dead in hospital with third degree burns. The two and a half story structure was cracked and $10,500 in damage. Thelma Rigor, operator, was bruised and eleven others present were shaken but uninjured. Investigators suspect a leak to a small hot plate caused the blast.
Atlantic City N J plastic film containers for martinis eggs and other products debut at the American Management Association 25th annual packaging exposition. Shell less eggs come in unbreakable transparent poly etherene containers that can be boiled and eaten.
In Phoenix Walter E. Elam stopped to aid a man with fuel line trouble. While both worked under the hood Elam's 1953 car rolled downhill and plunged into a canyon. Damage was estimated at 800 dollars. Also notices from Raleigh County WV court include a divorce suit and guardianship for Jacquline Bragg with a non resident defendant and order to appear.
Notices announce the deaths of Fairy Belle Lilly age 73 of Ellison George Lomas 52 Beckley andJane Ann Hilton 69 Beckley. Services set at Ellison Baptist Church Rose & Quesenberry and Maple Grove Maple in Fairmont Sunset Memorial Park. pallbearers named. several relatives listed. obituary ends with grateful thanks from the Lilly family.
For every pound of milk, roughly 400 pounds of blood must pass through the cow udder. This illustrates the high metabolic demand of dairy production and the efficiency of milk synthesis in bovines.
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