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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1962
Page
6
The Appalachian Bible Institute Choir Bradley will give a concert at Calloway Heights Community Church at 9:45 a.m. Sunday featuring ghee and instrumental music with men's quartets two ladies' trios and several solos. Public invited to attend.
Investment Opportunity invites West Virginia residents to buy common stock in F.D.R. a new company financing and manufacturing in the aluminum trucking and institutional furniture sector. F.D.R. funds its affiliates producers of aluminum dump trucks trailers tankers and flat beds and holds equity in Ravens Metal Products noted for growth and expansion. A limited number of shares are available at 3.00 per share with brochure and prospectus by mail from the Financial Development and Research Corp Parkersburg WV.
The Beckley Hardware will craft new stage curtains for The Playhouse upcoming production The Happiest Millionaire set for April 25 to 28. One hundred yards of rose-color velvet arrived to form the curtains as preparations continue at the Playhouse with activity in the auditorium and basement sets.
A pithy maxim notes that thrift should begin immediately after payday, urging people to live as frugally in the first days as they did in the tail end of the previous cycle. The saying links steady budgeting to lasting financial stability.
Mayor Miller disclosed revenue bonds on the Prince Street lot may be paid 15 years early, potentially by 1968 instead of 1983. The city has already retired $109,000 of bonds from the nearly half‑million facility opened in 1954, with 320 spaces over 3.2 acres. He calls enlarging the lot almost inevitable to meet shopper demand and downtown merchant convenience.
The Tri-State Area Chapter of the National MS Society and St. Mary's Hospital sponsor a free MS clinic for patients starting Monday at 9 a.m. in the Out-Patient Clinic, 2900 First Ave. Physicians and a physical therapist will attend, with an orderly available. Those attending should notify MS by mail to Box 1712 or by phone JA 39640. The clinic is free to all MS patients.
Two area residents were treated at Beckley Hospital for injuries from separate mishaps. Linda McKinney seven, of Slab Fork, injured her left arm in a fall at school. Dewey Shumate Bob, was treated for a cut to his right leg while using a power saw for McGraw Brothers Co Bolt.
Spelling honors at Sts. Peter and Paul School Scarbro are led by Susanne Duda 54 Division champion, with brothers John P. Duda and Mike also winning divisions. Elizabeth Rose Bolton and Mary Agnes Bellay notable runners up. multiple siblings cited among champions and runners up across Daniels Elementary Maxwell Hill and Mount Hope Junior High. Certificates and Paper-Mate pens will be awarded to winners and top finishers with co sponsor Tri-County Spelling Bee participation.
Beckley College reports a freshman and sophomore body totaling 749 students with 12 states represented. Most are from West Virginia but attendees also come from Ohio Kentucky Virginia Pennsylvania Tennessee New Jersey New York New Hampshire Connecticut Florida and Indiana plus one foreign country Korea. Raleigh County leads enrollment with 364 students followed by Fayette 82 Kanawha 40 McDowell 22 Summers 21 and Greenbrier 20.
Region Six West Virginia Congress of Parents-Teachers Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Beckley Junior High School auditorium. Area includes Raleigh Summers and Mercer counties. Regional director Mrs. Joe Testino Matoaka will lead, with Mrs. Hivens Snodgrass of Racine speaking briefly. Raleigh County Council PTA to introduce new officers W. M. Snyder president Tony Gonzalez vice president Mrs Karl Oaks secretary and Mrs Edith Martin treasurer at the May 21 meeting.
Workers for the Raleigh County Society for Crippled Children and Adults Inc. plan a Sunday door-to-door fund drive. Jean Donley and H V Waybright lead campaigns in Bowling Addition and Mabscott with Lions Club support. Cochairs include Mrs Paul Hayner and Miss Dorene Eachus. Funds gathered go to the Presbyterian Church library.
The regular monthly community sing will be held in the Methodist Church in Whitby at 7 30 p m Saturday. Rev Armor Sayre, pastor, says O O Kidd will direct the singing using the Stamp Baxter Song Book The Gospel Way.
Four recruiters from Beckley’s U S Air Force Recruiting Station join Detachment 202 at a Daniel Boone Hotel training session in Charleston. Attendees are Sgt Claude Kent Sgt Hugh Weeks Sgt Charles Mac Neil and Sgt Bill Renkovish.
Astrological note for Saturday April 14 predicts favorable radiations for both employers and workers. It suggests meeting opportunities for hiring or changing jobs and advises easing domestic life. Also mentions the 19th century beginning of trouser cuffs and the rise of ready made cuffs in this era.
A Field Enterprises 1962 item notes a pro motion concern plans to sell ad space on shopping bags given free to supermarkets. The horoscope section portion follows with playful zodiac guidance spanning Aries through Aquarius. The piece reflects a promotional concept tied to consumer groceries.
Beckley lawyers are expected to attend a medico legal seminar in Charleston from April 27 to 29. The event is sponsored by the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and features U S District Judge John H Field Jr and noted author Albert Avers from Syracuse. Other speakers include Prof Tom Lambert and Prof W O Morris. Local participants from Beckley include W A Thornhill and his firm, along with Raleigh County Circuit Judge Norman Knapp and several Beckley lawyers.
Several area students will vie for FHA offices at the state convention in Jackson's Mill the week of July 24 Nominees for national and state projects are Jeri Dooley Mullens and Susan Lance Bramble for those posts Jerry Simon Stratton and Regina Gilligan Frankford for reporter They were nominated at the regional FHA meeting held April 7 at Concord College Shady Spring students represented include Susan Hughes Mary Evelyn Meadows Diane Stump Arlena Plumley Brenda Adkins Judith Quesenberry Tommie Rae Lilly and Erma Atkins with Mr and Mrs A W Bonds attending Susan Hughes is the granddaughter of Ghent resident Mrs Oole Meadows
Cancer Crusade volunteers will set up a road block Saturday in the Skelton area near Becks ley Manufacturing Co. plant. The event begins at 9 a.m. under Mrs. Lacy Akers and co chair Rev. Omar Williams. Proceeds support research and education for the annual crusade.
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