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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1962
Page
15
In the morning, a Raleigh County event will showcase bands including Mark Twain, Sophia, and Stoco Junior High alongside other groups.
The Raleigh Register bid farewell to departing editor C. J. McQuade as his staff hosted a dinner in his honor. McQuade had been sworn in as United States Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia by Judge John A. Field Jr., ending nearly 30 years with Beckley Newspapers Corp. The event, attended by Judge Field, Judge Watkins, publisher Charles Hodel, and staff wives, featured gifts for the couple and for two newly married staffers, Pauline Davis Haga and Don Meadows.
Lanark resident Carrie Sweatte, 18, was charged with running a stop sign by Beckley Police after a two car collision at 7 42 p m at the F and South Kanawha Streets intersection. Pauline Alley, 20, of 311 Porter Street, was the other driver. No injuries reported. damage estimate unavailable.
Hollywood Elementary Ghoo PTA hosts a spring carnival at the school starting at 6 30 PM tonight. The public is invited to attend.
Beckley Memorial Hospital senior medical technologist Katherine Polyson will open the 14th annual West Virginia State Society of Medical Technologists convention on May 4 at Hotel Morgan Morgan town. The two day event features a first scientific session and the annual business meeting May 5 with a roster of Beckley Memorial staff attendees and prizewinning papers presented by Harold Klein and Franklin Bosia.
The piece notes the capture and killing of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci while fleeing toward Switzerland. It mentions space travel hazards and provides a garbled zodiac page with unclear dates and lines.
Beckley College guidance director Jack Van Dyke will attend the West Virginia Guidance Association Conference in Cedar Mye Ripley. The program, themed Research and Evaluation in Guidance Services, includes Rex Smith state superintendent and Dr E G Williamson from the University of Minnesota. Topics cover future research projects admission and placement practices dropout studies and an administrator’s view of an effective guidance program.
The Beckley Conference of Free Will Baptists will open its 88th session at Mount Tabor with a ministerial session at 7 30 p m on May 4 and a general session at 9 30 a m on May 5 marking the new fiscal year for local churches. Elections will be held for officers across both sessions including executive and organizing boards, clerks, treasurers, and steering committees.
Beckley Business Bureau merchants will discuss the annual Bargain Days event for June at a May 3 meeting. President Philip Payne will conduct the session at 9 30 a m in the G C Murphy conference room.
A gospel sing will be held Saturday at 7 p m at the Sophia Free Will Baptist Church sponsored by the church Youth League. Local singers are invited to attend and participate. Proceeds will be used to pay for oak book shelves recently placed in the main auditorium.
The Raleigh County Court adopts a plan to seek voter approval for a three year additional levy to fund recreation programs Memorial Building repairs health services airport improvements and more. Ballot totals propose varying tax rates by class I seven cents class II fourteen cents class III and IV twenty eight cents. Election set for May 8 1962 with notices to appear in two papers and posted at voting places.
West Virginia mines and auction notices appear as two mines planned for Greenbrier and Fayette counties. Mountain Coal Co will open Mine No 4 in Greenbrier employing 12, L and L Coal Co will open Mine No 1 in Fayette employing four. An auction listing for a 1953 Ford Customline Tudor sold for cash at 11 45 A M May 3 1962 at O Dell Motor Co Oak Hill. Separate bids sought for 60 day meat requirements for Pinecrest Sanitarium with specifications on request.
Ott A Rhodes 49 of Shady Spring dies. services April 7 at Caffee Chapel with burial in Hot Coal Cemetery. pallbearers named. Minnie Marilyn Cartwright Elliott 76 of 106 Hill Street dies. services April 28 at Melton Mortuary Chapel. burial Sunset Memorial Park. Marie Foley Swanson 39, Detroit born, funeral at Melton Chapel. burial Lester Cemetery. Martin Joseph McHale 18 of Raleigh dies. mass and funeral details include St Francis de Sales and Memorial Park. Harry Simms 76 of Beckley dies. funeral 1:30 pm Saturday at Ebeneezer Baptist Church. burial Greenwood Memorial Park. Lipson Leon Kincaid 53 of 206 Myers Ave. services April 28 at Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel. burial Bradley Rose & Quesenberry. Millard Leaven Blevins 54 of Sophia dies. services April 28 at Sophia Friendship Baptist Church. burial Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. pallbearers named. Local florists advertise services. painting and photography notices follow.
In Memoriam III remembers Perry O Dell Jr who was taken away on April 27 1960. It notes the long time since his passing and the family sorrow. Dwayne and Danny miss him and his church mourns too. The message says God had great plans in Heaven for him.
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