Payroll Tax Small Industries Plan For Beckley
Editor Roy S. Coe urges Beckley to act as brothers keeper addressing unemployment through small local industries funded by a community drive. He proposes a 1 percent payroll contribution for one to two years, matched by employers, with funds used to buy land and build facilities for incoming firms. Community effort by Chambers of Commerce and Ministerial Association aims to create permanent local jobs and boost churches and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
West Virginia
Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Ministerial Association
Career Guidance Clinic Held at Byrd Prillerman
Byrd Prillerman High School hosted a career and guidance clinic co sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha and West Virginia State College. An opening assembly featured Miss Mary Ruth Collier and principal Robert L. Harris as they introduced local and college consultants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrd Prillerman High School
Gamma Delta Lambda
Alpha Phi Alpha Ternity, Inc
West Virginia State College of Institute
Mary Ruth Collier
Byrd Prillerman
Robert L. Harris
Norman Collins
Leo Gilbert
Katie Levels
Martin K. Austin
Piney Oaks School
J. S. Butts
Dupont Evans
Gustine Elliott
Raleigh Co
Tanner Livisay
Dc. E. Prewitt
W. Va
Huntington Patriot Rally to Feature Knowland on July Fourth
Senator William F. Knowland of California accepted an invitation to speak at Huntington's July 4 patriotic rally. A nonpartisan local committee is organizing what is expected to be a top Independence Day celebration in the state. The event is announced by Walter S. Hallanan, a Republican national committee man.
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William F. Knowland
Calif
Huntington
Walter S. Hallanan
Hallanan
Morris Memorial Plans Rehabilitation Center for Polio Patients
Milton West Virginia Morris Memorial Hospital, largely a polio care center, may be redeveloped into a rehabilitation facility within a few years. Dr Kwan Ho Lee says decisions pending but a shift is being discussed while polio cases decline. Dr Arthur S Jones cites current heavy acute and convalescent loads, predicting years before lightening.
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Milton
W. Va
Morris Memorial Hospital
Kwan Ho Lee
Morris Memorial, Saye
Lee
Arthur S. Jones
Huntington Orthopedic Hospital
Retired Schoolteacher Victim of Rape Slaying
In Newport Illinois police hunted clues after the rape slaying of 86 year old Susan B Franklin a retired schoolteacher from a historic Newport family. Her body was found in her colonial home her hands tied behind her with cords and her face beaten. Death was mis asphyxiation with no suspect and little to go on according to Police Captain John P Connolly.
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Newport
R. IL
Susan B. Franklin
Historic Point
Fashionable
Arthur E. O'Dea
John P. Connolly
Look, Ma, No Hands Clock Starts Despite Missing Parts
Shepherdstown officials push to restart a town clock atop a Shepherd College building that has not chimed for weeks. A repairer struggled to find clock hands but was instructed to begin firing the hours anyway to provide local benefit.
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Shepherdstown
W. Va
Shepherd College
Grandmother earns medal for 3000 aircraft watch
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo The Continental Air Defense Command awarded a medal to a grandmother who logged more than 3000 aircraft sightings in 8000 hours of skywatching. Mrs Earl Aiken of Williams Mont refused hospital after breaking an ankle last fall saying I cannot leave these planes.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Continental Air Defense Command
Earl Aiken
Williams
Mont
Hollywood Sneak Previews Stir Frenzied Night in Tinseltown
Hollywood insiders report two secret sneak screenings drawing massive crowds. Warners arranged Mr. Roberts at Paramount downtown with cars bumper to bumper. A Martin and Lewis film was also quietly staged at the Academy Theater in Inglewood after a staffer heard the location on a radio broadcast.
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Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
Warners
Sherman Oaks
Pershing Park
Roberts
Paramount
Academy Theater
Inglewood
Los Angeles
Denver University opens hotel training building
Denver University’s School of Hotel and Restaurant Management opened a 60 room, 250000 dollar building to train students. It will also provide accommodations for visiting school officials and educational conventions.
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Denver
Denver University
School of
Father of Nation To Get New Hat
Washington statue at Gettysburg planned by the Daughters of the American Revolution will feature a hat on George Washington. DAR President General Miss Gertrude Carraway announced the design change amid talks at the 64th annual gathering. The project includes a memorial bell tower with a 56 bell carillon electrified and a four panel base relief recounting Valley Forge. Carraway notes Washington will wear a hat carved from Rockwood Alabama stone by C Paul Jennewin.
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Washington
George Washington
Gettysburg
Daughters of the American Revolution
Gertrude Carraway
DAR
Miss Carraway
Drama Groups Name Casts for 3 Plays
Shady Spring High School drama groups announce casts for three one act comedies to be staged before term end. The Shady Thespian Troupe presents The Devil and Miss Apple and Sparkin. Broad Way Bounders head producer Mrs Michel Trimboli leads Anniversary Blues with director Phyllis Harvey and stage manager Clara Lear.
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Shady Spring
Shady Thespian
the Devil
Miss Appleby
Sparkin
Broadway Bounders Dramatics Club
Anniversary Blues
Jeston Crosby
The
Thespians
Michel Trimboli
Marjory Prince
Pauline
Billy Carter
Peter
Frances Grabowski
Timothy Hurley Rites Wednesday
Last rites for Timothy Felix Hurley 67 of 309 Beaver Ave death Monday in a local hospital. Retired coal miner last with New River Pocahontas Coal Co Layland retired 1949. Survived by wife Frances, two sons Timothy Jr and Patrick, three daughters, one sister, four brothers, two grandchildren. Requiem High Mass at St Francis DeSales 10 a.m. Wednesday Rev Paul Helsley. Body at Quesenberry Webb Funeral Home with Rosary tonight. Burial at Sunset Memorial Park Mt Calvary addition. Pallbearers named.
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Timothy Felix Hurley
Beaver Ave
Hurley
New River Pocahontas Coal Co
Layland
United Mine Workers
Loyal Order of Moose
Beckley
Holy Name Society of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Ireland
Frances McReynolds Hurley
Timothy Jr
Patrick
H. W. Hampton
Huntington
Cecelia Hurley
Charleston
Lorene Hurley
Marshall College
B. L. Twohig
John
Rupert
Will
Chillicothe
Ohio
Jerry
Springdale
Jim
Princeton
St. Francis DeSales
Paul Helsley
Quesenberry and Webb
Mt. Calvary
Sunset Memorial Park
Paul Lynch
C. J. McQuade
John Pachuta
Mike Vargo
Walter Rappold
Kevin Lynch
Charleston Chorus To Sing at Pinecrest
The Male Chorus of Carbide and a Carbon Chemical plant in South Charleston will give a concert at Pinecrest Sanitarium in the Pinecrest auditorium starting at 6 p.m. Thursday. M W White presides over the 35 member chorus.
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Carbide
Carbon Chemical
South Charleston
Pinecrest Sanitarium
M. W. White
Pinecrest Auditorium
One Act Comedies on Visit Uproar Cast List
A visiting boy disrupts a household in a trio of one act comedies. The Devil and Miss Apple features Betty Carol Lilly with Jerry Moses as the Devil. Supporting cast includes Marilyn Woods Jack Wills Jim Glenn Bucklin Janet Spangler and others.
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Bob Cole
Orry Sparks
Louise Kauff
Susan Hanna
Nuala Fourney
Lessie Hanna
Phyllis Harvey
Granny Painsberry
Knox
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University Arboretum
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West Virginia Wesleyan College
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Greater Fairmont Development Association
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Robert Summerville
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Morris Memorial
T. Shirts
Hollywood News
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