High School Students Nominate Eisenhower in Mock Convention
Woodrow Wilson High School hosted a Democratic mock convention drafting Ike on the ticket though he refused. Senator Pepper won running mate votes while Truman led GOP rivals. the event featured speeches, a band, and student actors role playing national figures.
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Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Beckley
Ike
Woodrow Wilson High School
Claude Pepper
Florida
Social Science
Truman
Harry Byrd
Virginia
Pepper
Robert Young
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Woodrow Wilson
J. Howard McGrath
Rhode Island
Democrat National Committee
McGrath
Howard Silverman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fireproof building planned at Beckley address
A proposal outlines a fireproof building project at 116 North Heber Street Beckley. The plan calls for demolition and removal of the existing structure, excavation and concrete work for multiple floors, brick and tile work, and erection of steel. Bids are invited, with plans and specifications available at the stated address and S. H. Bridge offices.
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North Heber Street
Beckley
S. H. Bridge
Engl
Illness Fatal to Elderly Woman in Prosperity
Funeral services for Mrs. Regina Filipovski, 72, of Prosperity, who died yesterday at her residence from dropsy, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the family cemetery in Prosperity with Father John Halpin officiating. Burial will follow. She was born in Poland on October 7, 1875, and came to the United States from Poland in December 1906. She is survived by one son Albert of Prosperity and four grandchildren in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Re‘gina Filipovski
Prosperity
John’ Halpin
Poland
United States
Albert
Cleveland, Co
State Senator to Address Women State Senator to Address Women
Eugene L. Scott Republican will address the Raleigh County Republican Women's club Monday night at 7 30 in the Coca Cola building recreation room South Oakwood Avenue. Kermit Locke GOP candidate for prosecuting attorney will speak briefly. The club, recently reorganized, has over 30 affiliated members and 1000 invitations mailed for the meeting. Dues of 1 are paid to treasurer Dorles Ogden. President C E Davis notes the state president of Republican Women's clubs Mrs Wyatt Payne of Huntington will visit in June.
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Eugene L. Scott
Raleigh Co
Amy
Republican
Coca- Cola
South Oakwood Avenue
Darrell Lowe
Kermit Locke
GOP
Repubican
Dorleas Ogden
C. E. Davis
Republican Women's Clubs
Wyatt Payne
Huntington
VFW Sponsors Modeleers Club and Events
Beckley VFW agreed to sponsor Beckley Modeleers this year and will send two members to the National Model Airplane meet in Olathe Kansas in August. Modeleers will hold a closed meet Sunday at Woodrow Wilson Playground at 1 PM with U control flying.
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Beckley
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Beckley Modeleers
Olathe
Kansas
Gene Keatley
Woodrow Wilson
Guy Graves
VEFW
Main Street
Dave Abram
Girl Scouts Honor Founder With Annual Juliette Law Tea
Girl Scouts in Alt Raleigh County plan their second annual Juliette Low World Friendship tea tomorrow at 2 PM in the Morton Reeves auditorium. The event honors founder Juliette Low with folk songs dances and drills under a International Friendship theme and includes fund contributions and container prizes for the best effort.
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Raleigh County
Juliette Law
iMorton Reeves Auditorium
International Friendship
Juliette Low
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Robert F. Wagner
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Ray Martin
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J. R. Beaty
Ethel . Keyser
Dem
James Wheatley
Betty Clark
Virginia Gregory
Ralph Lawson
Wanda Philpott
Robert Bell
Ginger Canterbury
Frank Cain
Walter Agee
Katherine Kempt
Jack Surbaugh
John Earl Lilly
Paul Wassum
David Floyd
Dick Daniels
Don Conolly
Sally Laren
Joan Rose
Pardner
Appalachian Electric Power Co
VFW
Modeleers Club
Shrine Clinic
Beckley Shrine Club
Montgomery
Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital
Philadelphia
Delores Salgado
Serafin Salgado
Resoco
Stevie Quesenberry
Robert Quesenberry
Clyde Street
R. Smiley
Ieff
Girl Scouts
Ttea
Strs
J. A. Hunt
J. E. McKenzie
Queen Madison
Corey Mitchell
E. Merritt
Edward Louis Shelton
Lee Shelton
Cranberry
Charleston
S. C
Sunshine Fashions
Cool Savings
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Lewis Furniture Company
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Post Office
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