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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1959
Page
2
San Francisco reports a comic take on bank robberies with tales from B of A and Crocker Anglo branches. Events include a teller advised to hand it over, a note leading to a warning, and several amateur efforts. Names include Mark San Francisco and Monroe Bloom among others.
Two area men participate in Operation Inland Sea a Great Lakes cruise with 28 United States Navy ships. Myles W Grubb machinist mate second class son of Mr and Mrs Lester A Grubb Pitney View aboard USS Southerland. Douglas F Hand shipfitter second class husband of Shelby J Tackett Helen aboard USS Ranger. Bobby C Robertson seaman son of Mrs Stella Robertson Sprague aboard USS Macon. Herbert Swanigan Jr electrical mates third class son of Mr and Mrs Herbert J Swani gan serving aboard USS San Marcos.
Pfc Norman R. Davis, 24, son of Elmer and Mrs. Davis of Stamford, serves with the Third Infantry Division at Hohenfels Training Area. A truck driver in Company C, Fourth Infantry, he joined the Army in November 1957, trained at Fort Benning, and arrived in Europe in May 1958 after graduating Woodrow Wilson High School in 1952 and working for Black Diamond Distributing Co.
Bernie C Jinks Jr sonarman second class serves aboard the Atlantic Fleet radar picket submarine USS Requin with Submarine Squadron Six based in Norfolk Virginia He reported aboard May 3 before Navy enlistment in April 1955 he attended Woodrow Wilson High School and worked for Jinkins Brothers Coal Co Two area men begin basic combat training at Fort Jackson South Carolina Pvt Virgil Herron and Pvt James Bryson are assigned to Company C 19th Battalion Fifth Training Regiment Tak ing part in Operation Granit Creek while serving in the Western Pacific were two area men.
Closed circuit television solves a long standing problem for sidewalk superintendents on the Libbey-Owens-Ford 15 story office tower in Toledo. By wiring a camera to beam work on the 10th floor a live view is shown at eye level on the sidewalk. Steelworkers balance on beams silhouetted against the skyline as supers laud the new freedom from strain.
Wes Rose, in Hominy Oklahoma, paid a 50 cent fine after his car was ticketed thirty minutes after meters were installed. The brief incident shows early enforcement of new parking meters in the town.
Specialist 4 Conny C. Cook participated with the 44th Artillery in a firing exercise at Todendorf Firing Range in Germany. Son of Joseph H. Cook of Beckley he entered the Army in 1956 and arrived in Europe in November 1957. The 20-year-old attended Mount Tabor Christian High School.
Two area men join Operation Inland Sea a summer cruise of 28 Navy warships to Great Lakes cities. Dennis B. Harrah radarman second class son of Morris H. Harrah Beckley and husband of Doris Newbury Fall River Mass serves aboard USS Henley. Jacob H. Jenkins radarman third class son of Bernie C. Jenkins MacArthur serves aboard USS Forrest Sherman.
The Interior Department reports 1957 coal research progress in an illustrated publication. It covers origin and properties studies, combustion, carbonization, gasification, hydrogeneration, mining, preparation, safety, and foreign activities. The report, Information Circular 7905, is available from the Bureau of Mines Publications Distribution in Pittsburgh.
County superintendents and first grade teachers will verify births for school entry. The State Department of Health will handle birth certificate verification, with forms plus free verification for school admission replacing the previous 50 cent certified copy fee.
Beckley Elks Lodge 1452 sends nine members plus spouses to the Llst Annual State Convention in Wheeling August 20 21 delegates include George Springer John Saunders Ross Irle William R Fugitt W E Hedrick Roy Hawley Lawrence E Pruett and A R Braun. Youth activities scholarships and the crippled children's camp will be discussed. Fugitt chairs the scholarship committee Springer leads youth activities Pruett heads the camp committee. Convention headquarters is the McClure Hotel.
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin secured an Abraham Lincoln manuscript after a $300 gift from the Waukesha Daily Freeman. The letter was written by Vice President Hannibal Hamlin on April 23, 1861, while he advised activating Chickamauga munitions works in New York for defense planning.
In New Britain Connecticut 11 year old David Gay fished a pond and caught a well fed goldfish suggesting a bowl could replace a creel next time he goes fishing. The incident reflects a humorous twist on a young angler's debut.
James C. Hutchens presiding minister of the Beckley Congregation reports the group has been invited to attend a four day convention August 13 to 16 at the Coliseum in Charlotte North Carolina. About 8 009 delegates from North and South Carolina Virginia and West Virginia are expected to attend. The convention is one of 28 held in the United States and Canada this summer. The purpose is to provide Bible instruction and to apply principles to daily life with morning afternoon and evening sessions. The principal address Sunday August 16 will be by H E Miller of the Watchtower Bible Tract Society. The subject is When God Speaks to All Nations.
Members of the Clear Fork High School Band were to receive assignments at 9 a m today at the school. Classes will continue through August, said Mrs Helen Haywood the director.
Huntington officials will study a storm sewer project based on a 1947 citywide survey by Chester Engineers of Pittsburgh. Other notes include a new ski slope at Cooper's Rock, a November chamber dinner with Ervin Canham as guest speaker, a bowhunting brochure, school-building bids in Cabell County, pay-raise demands in Wheeling, and Roane County Courthouse lawn widening to ease traffic flow.
The Kanawha County Board of Education awarded contracts to correct fire hazards at two district schools and rejected the low bid. The action reflects the district's safety priorities and procurement process, with details pending on bidders and contractor selection.
A revival is under way at the Pemberton Baptist Church and will be continued through this week. Services begin at 7:30 p.m. daily and are conducted by the Rev. Cleveland Young and the Rev. W. F. Tolliver, pastor.
Chad Bertelson, 112 Kings St, Beckley, was named president of the State Chapter of the National Rehabilitation Association at the end of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division's annual state conference in Ripley. George P. Davis, 210 Wood St, was named secretary treasurer. Both are tied to the Beckley branch of the Saint Albans Clinic at Radford, Virginia. The conference set a goal to restore at least 2,831 handicapped West Virginians to work in the current fiscal year. West Virginia rehabilitated 2,665 during the year ending June 30, exceeding the goal by 165.
John Choka was released at 1 p.m. Sunday from Raleigh County Jail after posting a $500 property bond for a Mabscott Police Court hearing on a driving while drunk charge. He faced an additional count of driving without an operator’s license and had been jailed at 10:25 p.m. Saturday. Beckley Police jailed Felton Farley, 52, at 9:40 p.m. Sunday on probation and drunk violations.
The executive board meeting will be held at Second Baptist Church at 10 a.m. Tuesday. All members are urged to attend. The Rev N C Lewis will moderate. Corresponding secretary is Mrs D Are Nett.
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