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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1952
Page
6
Judge Beckley attorney Douglas Bowers will address West Virginia University's Alumni Day banquet in Morgantown. The event, run by Mountain Honorary Organization, closes with the eighty fifth commencement exercises on June 2.
Volunteers at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital will be honored on National Hospital Day. The event, coordinated by the VAVS advisory committee, involves 36 organizations and includes a reception led by local club leaders. Plans also call for a Dutch treat VAVS dinner on September 4 and several May and June alumni events with speakers from Fairmont and Lewisburg.
Fifteen Beckley Army and Air Force Recruiting main and sub stations staff take a three to five day refresher course at Camp Pickett Virginia to qualify as overseas replacement personnel. The CO Capt Wyatte J Gay notes it does not guarantee overseas transfer. participants include Paul Burdette Elmore Meinger Denny Damon Byrd Cline Gullet Leslie Phipps fist Farris Shultz Meador Cameron and others from Beckley Bluefield Princeton Oak Hill Welch Logan and Raleigh.
Thomas A. Deveny Jr executive director of the West Virginia Tuberculosis and Health Association will be the keynote speaker at the Raleigh County group annual membership meeting Friday at 5 pm in Room 10 of the Memorial Building. Deveny a Fairmont native has led the association since 1998 and has previous work as an advertising executive and a probation officer for Kanawha County Intermediate Court. Rex Barnes medical social worker at Pinecrest Sanitarium is also slated to address the gathering.
Raleigh County opens a multmillion dollar airport with dedication on July 4. Beckley Chamber of Commerce Air Force Association and American Legion Post 32 sponsor the ceremony. Airport Engineer Robert L. Davis expects the 5200-foot runway to be finished in time for Piedmont Airlines to begin service July 1 or earlier. Temporary admin building under way to house Piedmont offices weather station and facilities. Immediate completions include airfield pumping system and ten private hangars.
A deputy director of the Office of Price Stabilization outlined duties for a new county volunteer committee. Luther F. Poting, OPS deputy district director, addressed the group at City Hall and announced Beckley visits. Committee members include John W. Smith as chairman and nine others.
Beckley attorney Clay S. Crouse will speak at the Beckley Junior High School Parent Teachers Association meeting at 7 30 p m today President James K Edmundson says officers will be elected A music program by accordionist C D Hall will be presented
May 14 is set for preschool children planning to enter Lincoln Elementary School in September to visit a school and learn routines. The Lincoln PTA, after a Monday night meeting, elected Grady Morgan as president for 1952-53 with Woodrow Bailes as first vice president, Mrs. Arthur Smith as second vice president and program chairman, and Mrs. Clarence Pierce as secretary and treasurer.
Speeding charges filed after arrests of Cecil R. Tucker 31 Racine Clinton Washington 37 Raleigh Wick T. Harbor 23 Cranberry Jacob Carey 34 Lan ark Estelly Farrow 33 Shady Spring all named in Monday police action.
The City Recorder's office issued building permits for three four room frame houses. Foley Construction Co. will build two homes on Mankin Ave and Orchard Ave, each estimated at 3500. R. H. Todd Jr. of Graham St. plans a home costing about 3000. Local construction activity signals new housing.
Henry Griffith of Flat Tap appealed a drunken driving charge before Magistrate T N Thurman on Tuesday. He posted a $500 bond and was released after arrest Monday.
Two Beckley residents will attend the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Church in San Francisco from April 23 to May 7. George Bright will be a layman delegate and Rev. R S McClung will serve as ministerial delegate. fourteen delegates from West Virginia will participate, representing nine million United Methodist members.
Police fines and costs topped city receipts in March totaling 3,121.55. The report lists parking meters 2,427.13 license and gross sales tax 910.70 and other items. Expenditures reached 16,543.03 with totals income 7,761.40 and a month end balance of 33,835.88 after a start balance of 42,617.49. Charles S. Lewis is recuperating in Beck Hospital from a ruptured appendix.
About 575 students from Beckley and Glen White Junior Highs toured Woodrow Wilson High School on Tuesday. They observed classes in operation then split into groups with girls visiting the home economics lab and boys touring the vocational shop areas in preparation for enrollment next year.
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