Suitable Building Found For Firm Surveying City
A light goods manufacturing firm has found a building in Beckley that seems suitable for a factory site. A New York manufacturing firm rep, who operates a West Virginia plant near Beckley, assessed the city and area and found conditions favorable. He will send a report to headquarters, with higher company officials expected to visit Beckley in two weeks. Final plant decisions rest with company management.
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Beckley
New York
West Virginia
Chamber of Commerce
WWI Vet Rites Scheduled Today
Funeral services for Earnes dames Wauhop, 60, veteran of World War I, will be held at 2 30 p m in the Rose Funeral Home chapel with Dr Alvin J Cook and Rev Donald Lowe officiating. Burial will be Wednesday in Arlington National Cemetery. He died Monday morning after a four year illness. Survivors include his wife Mamie Reynolds Wauhop, his mother, one daughter and one son, four brothers and six sisters. Pallbearers listed.
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Earnesdames Wallhop
Beck. Jegan
Washington, D. C
Rose Funeral Home
Alvin J. Cook
Donald Lowe
Arlington National Cemetery
Wauhop
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Garden Memorial
Presbyterian Church
Washington
Clifftop
Mamie Reynolds Wauhop
J. C. Wauhop
Beckley
Barbara Ann
Charles A
Paul
L. H. Williams
al Hazelwood
B. J Wauhap
Earl McCreery
Alfred Lilly
Fiat Top
Memorial Hospital
Princeton
Robert
Lou Ann Belen Lilly
The
Primitive Baptist Church
Liza Ann Farley Lilly
Flat Top
Herman Lilly
Odd
Lowell Lilly
L. A. Webb
Hume Rose
Hallie Shrewsberry
Howard Pack
Carl Farley
Nelson Cole
Deeds Recorded in Beckley and Whitby Property Transfers
Deeds recorded show transfers by A David Abrams and Jeanette Abrams Wein as executors to Elmore Pannell Lot 11 Section 7 Raleigh Court Addition Beckley. Multiple Whitby West Whitby parcels sold in various sums to numerous buyers including Alfred Smith Hazel Smith C T Mooney Jr Anna Mooney Eva Save Berta Pitzer and others. Listings include lots in West Whitby and Whitby town sites with prices ranging from around 1900 to 3100 plus small parcels and parcels in Whitby. Other transfers include Lacy Keaton Far Roberta and Selena Dratton among many. The document notes transfers involving Buffalo Allen Roosevelt Lawshee Sherman Torian and others with varying parcel numbers and amounts.
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A. David Abrams
Jeanette Abrams Wein
Sam Abrams
Elmore J. Pannell
Raleigh Court
Beckley
Max
Adron Jarrell
Lewis. Kemper
L. C. Massey
Colcord
Clear Fork
Eva Save
Whitby
Bank B
Dora Pitzer
West Whitby
Carl R
Virginia Gay Fix
Obediah Hairston
I Frank B
Earl Ray
Margaret Webb
Roosevelt
Mary Lawshee
Lacy H. Keaton
Selena Dratton
Otar O
Hazel V. Brage
Y .Fanny Henry
Carlos C. Lilly
John L
Roosevelt O
Jacqueline Walker
John Edwin Hall
Grover G. Hall Whitby
Pearl S. Smith
Denvis E. Meadows
Troy
Betty Meadows
Jor Sson
Gur
Ada Jones
West With
Paul. Shanks
John and
Chauncey Barber
Westby
Emma Zeilie Lowe
Lion
Homers Lane and Building Company
Jean Lamb
Lois
Set Memorial Pa
Sin
New River Company
Roy el
Sprague
John F
Parkwood
Voting machine display in Beckley attracts locals
The Beckley event showcases new voting machines with League of Women Voters representatives guiding visitors at the County Courthouse Monday. Army and Air Force enlistments are announced for several local men headed to Fort Meade and Sampson Air Force Base.
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Beckley
James Nordsick
League of Women Voters
James Gray
Army
Air Force
Fort George G. Meade
John Jack Bralley
Christian
Susan Bralley
William Harold Garstin
Slagle
Arthur Gartin
William Bryant Robertson
Matoaka
G. C. "Robertson
Hurley Woodson
Carbondale
Robert Tinsley
Norman Car(ro) Collier
Kilsyth
Herbert Lemon Collier
Robert Lewis Jones
Union
Percy Jones
James Edward Claytor
McAlpin
Gertrude M. Claytor
Sampsson Air Force Base
N.yy
Eight Attend Teachers Contab Work Conference at Camp Caesar
Four Beckley teachers, two from Wyoming and two from Fayette counties, joined 150 attendees at the West Virginia Education Association Eighth Annual Work Conference near Webster County. Dr John Montgomery urged a nine month school term plus an extra work period for teachers to develop programs. Committees led by Dr B D Baldwin and others proposed better communications and public school improvements, to be discussed at the 1951 gathering. James A Sneed announced Howard A Watson as hospital attendant at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Wyoming
Fayette Counties
West Virginia Education Association
Camp Caesar
Webster County
Julia Smith
Hazel Davenport
Ethel Keyser
Eva Keyser
Mae Belcher
Pineville
Pauline McGraw
Mullens
Theresa Thornton
Page
M. J. Horsch
Montgomery
John Montgomery
Greenbrier County
B. D. Baldwin
West Virginia University
Slab Fork Volunteers Buy $15,000 Fire Truck
Slab Fork Coal Company backs the volunteer fire department by purchasing a new $15,000 fire truck with a four inch suction pump and a portable booster pump. Fire chief Herbert Birchfield leads a 30 member training corps to station volunteers for firefighting at the mine and community.
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Slab Fork Voeile
Aetvering
Halons Olunteer Fire Department
Herbert Birchfield
Slab Fork Coal Company
Coal Company
Birchfield
Orville Baguess
Bryant Fined After Wreck Involving Farley
Bryant of Princeton was fined 50 dollars and costs on a charge of driving while intoxicated after a wreck Friday with James Ray Farley of Pemberton. Farley avoided collision by hitting a guard rail. both men treated for minor injuries. Estimated vehicle damage stood at 1,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Warren Bryant
Princeton
J. P. Meadows
Bryant
Daniels
James Ray Farley
Pemberton
C. M. England
Farley
Beckley Hospital
England
Meadows
Russell Bailey
Royal
Dainty
Boths
Lfies
Robert E. Godbey
Mabscott
D. C. Thumm
Dun
Eldridge Pemberton
Veteran Fire Department
East Beckley
A. B. Franklin
Two Will Attend WVU Gas Course At Appalachian institute
F C Bivens and T L Van Stavern will represent Beckley works of Amere Gas Utilities Co at the twelfth annual Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course to be held at West Virginia University August 25 to 27. O C Thorpe, local manager, said today. The course is sponsored by WVU Mining and Industrial Extension, Public Service Commission of West Virginia, equipment manufacturers, and Appalachian area gas users. John A Clark of Hope Natural Gas Co and Christy Payne Jr of Peoples Natural Gas Co will address the group. About 525 representatives are expected, with 29 equipment manufacturers exhibiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Bivens
T. L. van Stavern
Beckley Works
Amere Gas Utilities Co
West Virginia University
O. C. Thorpe
University
Mining and Industrial Extension Department
Public Service Commission of
West Virginia
Appalachian
John A. Clark
The
Hope Natural Gas Co
Clarksburg
Christy Payne Jr
Peoples Natural Gas Co
Pittsburgh
Irvin Stewart
Lonter
Women Fined and Jailed for Loitering and Drinking
Two Beckley women, Kathleen Satterfield and Eugenia Grose, received ten day jail terms and fines of $10 after hearings before City Police Judge Anthony Sparacia. Bond forfeitures noted for failing to appear include Boyd Smith of Itmann and others. Other minor infractions listed include drunk driving penalties, hit and run, speeding, and related fines.
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SIO
Kathleen Satterfield
Beckley
Eugenia Grose
Anthony Sparaciia
Boyd Smith
Itmann
Layton Wipperman
Maxwell Hu
Fred Fink
Beck
Charles Jordan, Jr
Crow
Milam Family Reunion Set for August 10
The Milam family reunion will be held Sunday August 10 at the Holt residence on Maple Meadow. The event will feature the birthday celebration of Je H Milam with a program of singing and games to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam
Holt
Maple Meadow
H. Milam
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Neville St
Contab
James A. Sneed
Beckley Veteras Administration Hospital
Howard A. Watson
Aospital Atendant
Slab Fork
ELCO
WVU
OL Gecader
MOGEN
Wine Corporation OF America
Chicago 32
Ill
Save NZ
Cosnon
Aron
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