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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1959
Page
12
Surprise Valley Youth Camp now hosts 31 young gents in Raleigh County. A well stocked fishpond attracts campers who prefer fishing to strenuous activities. Testing their bait and the endurance of the fish are the featured foreground actions.
Free safety films and six comedies will be shown at 10 30 a m on August 17 at Beckley Theatre to teach children to watch for autos. City officer Lonnie Price and a State Trooper will speak beforehand. Free tickets available at J C Penney Neville Street.
The Raleigh County Health Department will hold a prenatal clinic from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the department office in the courthouse. Dr. A. D. Belton will be the clinician. Appointments are required, and the clinic is sponsored by the Beckley Business and Professional Women's Club.
Real name of Andy Razaf, famed for Ain’t Misbehavin and many Broadway songs, is Andreamentania Paul Razafinkerriefo, a Denver born lyricist and prolific composer who shaped midcentury American musical theater.
Maine driver George W. James of Brunswick was jailed in Raleigh County at 11:15 pm on a driving while drunk charge. June Alexander of Rhodell, 30, jailed at 10 pm for reckless driving. James Vernatt, address unknown, held awaiting grand larceny hearing after 1:45 pm arrest. William Hairston, 58, held for hearing on drunkenness and obstructing an officer. Leon Crouch, 23, of Bluefield, detained by federal officer for breaking and entering while in transit.
Sophia town leaders voted to require the police to file written daily activity reports for monthly council meetings. Councilman Fred Williams urged more foot patrols to reduce reliance on patrol cars citing cost and effectiveness. The meeting also debated mayoral salary actions, street department pay, and local infrastructure issues including a nuisance shed and water pressure upgrades.
Raleigh County 4 H members aiming to exhibit at the State Fair in Lewisburg on August 24 should obtain instructions and registration forms from the county 4 H office. Clarence Wooten says all blue ribbon projects in county wins may enter the fair, with more than 500 eligible. Crop and gardening entries graded before the fair may qualify. transportation can be arranged by leaders and members, and the county office may provide transport for some projects.
The Friendship Baptist Church of Sophia holds its annual homecoming at 10 a.m. Sunday with services through 4 p.m. Rev. Fred Dillon will conduct services and deliver the morning sermon. Special singing is planned and everyone is invited to attend.
Beckley man Cecil E. Johnston, 307 Ridge Avenue, appealed a driving while drunk conviction to Criminal Court after posting a $200 property bond. He said he had been drinking but did not feel drunk and denied the arrest officer’s claim. The case originated from a stop near Mea dows Street on Wednesday night.
Dennis M. Leary Jr a Beckley city consultant engineer presented 12 proposed projects to the Beckley Planning and Zoning Commission to ease traffic. He favors a prior cited by Leslie Gates for an origins and destinations survey to set project priorities and includes widening Church Street and East Prince Street, extending Paint Street under the railroad, by passes Mabscott to Raleigh, relocating the city garage for parking, completing Woodrow Wilson High School area parking, off street bus loading at Beckley Junior High Central and Lincoln, parking on west side First Avenue, connecting Valley Drive to Third Avenue, and a new bridge between Park Avenue end and Beckley Avenue.
Dr. John L. Chesnut has begun duties as a staff physician at the VA Hospital. A Mount Grove, Virginia native, he previously worked for the North Carolina and Georgia Departments of Public Health and earned an MD from the University of Tennessee in 1938. His training included an internship at John Gaston Hospital and three years in internal medicine in New Orleans, Norfolk, and Nashville. He is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians and this marks his first VA hospital assignment.
Beckley firemen were called at 8:30 a.m. today to extinguish a car fire on North Kanawha. The vehicle reportedly belonged to Duncan-Catron Motor Co. and was ablaze with estimated damage of $25.
Raleigh County Democrats will enjoy barbecued franks at a picnic from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the County 4-H Camp on the Little Beaver Lake road. The Democratic Executive Committee invites all county Democrats to attend.
In San Diego a Goodwill Industries store offers a like new chewing tobacco bargain item, donated by a man who stopped chewing. The unusual donation highlights thrift appeal and personal lifestyle change.
A woman assessed about two years ago on operating a lottery and selling tax paid whiskey faced jail on Tuesday. Warren Watkins of Beckley forfeited a $15 bond for failing to yield the right of way. Five drunken suspects forfeited bonds totaling $87.
John Arkansas Upton of Jumping Branch was released from Raleigh County Jail after posting 1000 in bonds for a Monday hearing before Magistrate J E Mays. He posted 500 for driving while drunk and 500 for operating without a license after a wreck near White Oak that sent two other Jumping Branch men to state police custody. Sidney C Sweeney and George Sluss, both from Jumping Branch, face charges of drunkenness and related offenses.
Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey seeks approval from conference committees for additional federal funds for West Virginia armories in Clarksburg Keyser Logan Gassaway and Weston and for forestry work in Monongahela National Forest to aid trail building pest control fire protection and lumber mill operations at Richwood with up to five million board feet purchased annually.
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