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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1951
Page
4
The Exposition featured continuous entertainment at the Little Theater as Cub Pack 6 from Beckley performed a Philippine carnival skit, captured by a Registers Photo.
More than 1,000 Scouts and youth attended the Fifth Annual Boy Scout Exposition by the Appalachian Council at Berkley Recreation Building. Awards totaled 77 ribbons. 57 blue, 6 red, 4 white, given for booths and exhibits by troops and explorer posts from Raleigh Summers and Wyoming counties.
Albert M Tieche will head the Jaycees succeeding Benjamin L McManus. Officers elected at the meeting take posts July 1, with Re G Pugh first vice president and William Reese second vice president. Other officers include John Cruize secretary William Parrett and Ean Carter along with Le Ay Gates George Michael Hulett Smith R P Daniel Steve Pachuta and Bot Yate M. Jerome Van Meter spoke at Woodrow Wilson High School about the Flying Eagles state basketball championship.
Two men enlisted for the Air Force yesterday at the local Recruiting Main Station. Paul R. Price, 30, of Lewisburg, with prior service of four years and four months, signed for four years and was sent to Langley Air Base Virginia. Roy Spencer, 27, of Fireca, also signed for four years and was sent to Lackland Air Base Texas.
Sgt. Oscar Bowers returns to full duty with the Beckley Police Department after healing a hip injury from a July 1949 patrol car accident on S Fayette Street. He served since 1942 with a 18 month Navy period and recently resumed work after medical reexamination. He had worked as a chauffeur at Beckley Veterans Hospital from October to last week.
Roy J. Smith and two secretaries plan to attend the statewide Veterans Affairs conference in Jackson May 11 12 and 13. The meeting will focus on West Virginia's $90 000 000 bonus law provisions and how to aid veterans with applications. More than 200 attendees are expected from across the state with sessions on disability benefits hospitalization and insurance.
Two Calloway Heights youths aged 16 and another juvenile face 11 counts of breaking and entering. Police say they confessed to numerous entries dating back 18 months including New River Company stores at Skelton and Sprague Barneys Service Station Woods Poolroom at Sprague and other sites in Calloway Heights. They will appear before Juvenile Judge Harry L. McCreery Saturday for arraignment.
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