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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1955
Page
12
City Council approved a 1955 56 budget of 332 643 10 with a capitation tax and a 2 driver license fee. They accepted Beckley property assessments and debated fire department staffing while tabling further discussions.
The Raleigh County Board of Education approved a 1955 56 nine month budget of 3 989 377 12 balancing with a 46 226 09 increase over last term. Superintendent Bryson cited improved receipts and state aid about 2 677 562 with 60 000 more cash this year due to previous withholding. The budget lists teachers salaries at 2 803 677 47 with no overall payroll rise, coach raises debated and defeated, and allocations for plant operation, maintenance, transportation, and veterans training.
The Beckley Detachment joins eight statewide units with blue and gold traffic patrol cars. State Police Supt. R W Boyles announced 92 new Ford and Plymouth patrol cars, eight arriving this week, with blue and gold color, red top light, and State Police lettering. Remaining fleet maintains drab colors for investigations. The cars aim to slow traffic for safety rather than catch speeders.
Sophia City Council approved a 1955 56 budget totaling 9939 50 and adopted nineteen ordinances on traffic rules weapons disturbing the peace child cruelty and duties of city officials to comply with state law. Ordinances will be posted publicly. Police Chief Clifford Roberts and Raymond Law will install three inch red bicycle reflectors free of charge for local youths at Law's Auto Store with guidance on traffic rules.
Charlie Sigman of Coal City waived to the grand jury on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses after appearing before Magistrate J P Meadows today. He was remanded to Raleigh County Jail for failing to post a $500 bond.
The Register reports Michael Bodnar and Glen Rogers were fined by Magistrate T N Thurman for driving on the wrong side of the road. Bodnar’s fine was ten dollars plus costs, not one hundred as initially reported.
In Taipei Formosa Tseng Yun ting changed his name to Hsieh Yung sheng meaning bad luck then es luck but debt and poor pay drove him to flee to south Formosa. A hotel clerk noticed his spending and police arrested him for stealing 125000 Taiwan pesos from the bank where he worked.
Classified ad from Houston suburb seeks summer work for a teacher with a family addicted to food. Applicant offers teaching experience and flexibility to support household needs during break.
A reminder from county school nurse Mrs. Viola St. Clair announces a polio vaccine makeup clinic this Saturday at the Health Department from 9 am to noon. It is for first and second graders who missed their second shot in July. No other vaccines will be administered and the regular preschool clinic is canceled for Saturday.
The local Chamber of Commerce received a copy of Survey of Industrial Development prepared for West Virginia by Arthur D. Little Inc. dated July 29, 1955. It aims to evaluate the state's industrial and economic structure and identify opportunities for expansion and diversification.
A 16 year old Beckley girl labeled a constant runaway was committed to the West Virginia Industrial School for Girls in Salem by Raleigh County Juvenile Court Judge Harry L. McCreery. He said he had no choice as she caused parents great anguish after running away to Jacksonville Florida then Chicago and finally Baltimore before being brought back to Raleigh County. She was held in jail until today’s hearing.
Funeral services for James Lester Greer 57 of Fireco are set for 2 p m Thursday at Fireco Methodist Church with Rev C D Walker and Rev Herbert Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Coal City Cemetery after removal from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home. Greer, a Lillybrook Coal Co miner and United Mine Workers Local 6003 member, died Tuesday at his home after months of illness, survived by his wife, six sons, six daughters, three sisters, two brothers, a half-brother and 17 grandchildren.
At a Raleigh County Board of Education meeting superintendent D W Bryson proposed adding a dean of boys and a dean of girls at Woodrow Wilson High School with a 25 monthly salary supplement and allocating 20000 from permanent improvement funds for a bus garage at the maintenance building to be ready before snow. Board members took no action on either proposal.
William Brown of Charleston and a state NAACP adviser warned that Raleigh County and six other counties may face legal action this fall if their boards of education fail to demonstrate definite progress toward integrating white and Negro students. Brown said suits would be filed in U.S. District Court by parents, with NAACP handling the legal work.
Rhodell city records office selling operator cards until Aug 31 after council meeting Tuesday night. A $2 tax was approved to raise about $300 yearly for city expenditures. The council also adopted a 1955 56 budget of 3500 for city operations. Alex Hugbert is the new police chief in office since Aug 1.
A state charter was issued Tuesday to Beckley based Woodlawn TV Cooperative Inc a non stock community television enterprise. Incorporators include the late A K Canterbury J E Otto and M D Hensley Jr all of Beckley.
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