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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1950
Page
7
Engineer Phil Wilson reports Valley Drive Underpass work at Little Beaver Park may finish by August end or September. Weather delays pushed completion past the July target. a revised contract calls for finishing the project with the park site extended.
Officials report ongoing work on Humphreys park facilities with a $36,000 Meadows Timber Company contract for the Joint Administration bath house and a picnic shelter to be finished within two weeks. Completion of the Valley Drive underpass and trestle work aims for September with mid October target for overall phase completion.
City Recorder William P Laren issued permits for new homes totaling 28500 dollars. S L Allen Jr received a five room brick veneer house on Mankins Avenue with basement. S S Homes Inc to build two five room prefabricated houses on Berkley Street and Boother Avenue. Humphreys occupy new five room home at 220 Locust Drive. Deeds on file for B L Jones four room frame house on S Kanawha Street and Alma R Surbaugh four room frame house on Roose Belt Street.
A fragmented note hints at a real estate or housing promotion titled New Colonial Blend for American homes. Details are unclear but suggest a modern take on colonial style housing and a variation of a homebuying program.
R A Cunningham and wife purchase Lots 9 10 and part of Lot 8 in the Revised Subdivision of Lots 3 12 of the W T J Quesenberry property on Hull Street Beckley for about 12500 with a seven room house. The record lists numerous other land transfers in Beckley Town District including parcels in Parkview Addition Stanley Subdivision Crab Orchard Extension Mid City Addition and Shady Spring District with prices ranging from about 500 to 12500 and properties on Big Beaver Creek Maple Fork Creek and Surveyors Branch along with transfers to organizations and trustees.
Beckley trio James Kessinger Virgil Miller and Hulett Smith left Wednesday for the National Junior Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors meeting in Tulsa Oklahoma Miller is national director Smith state president and Kessinger state secretary They will return to Beckley on August 8 The event runs Thursday through Saturday with talks on state and national Jaycee policy Also a note on paint composition appears in the text.
Patchy OCR notes describe damage and property loss around 1949 in the Mount Trap Hill District near Laurel Terrace Beckley and Lilly Land Company parcels. Mentions include Walter L Humphrey and Nen Lasley, J OH Lilly Land Company, and Moses Galloway with Lot 34, all tied to a fire causing substantial losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The chromium finish on faucets valves and other plumbing fittings can be kept satiny by occasionally washing with hot water and soap then rinsing and polishing gently with a dry soft cloth.
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