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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1959
Page
2
Ohio county law enforcement representatives will meet monthly to coordinate a continuing crackdown on crime. Morgantown leaders announced the first meeting for August 20.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway reports July net income of 2.324 million dollars in Huntington, down from 2.805 million in July 1958. July earnings equal 28 cents a share for common stock versus 34 cents the prior July.
Representatives from the county with the outstanding 4-H health program will be chosen as 1959 King and Queen of Health at a forthcoming event.
A $668,882 increase in the Mc Dowell County school operating budget for the new fiscal year is funded mainly by a special levy approved by county voters April 28, directing salary raises for both teaching and non teaching staff.
About 27 local development groups in West Virginia may receive SBA financial aid to establish new firms in their areas. John McDavid of Charleston, a member of the SBA board of field advisers, announced this week.
Johnny Cummings files two damage suits totaling 650000 in Charleston and Raleigh County Court. He seeks 350000 from Roberts and Schaeffer Co and 300000 from Thompson Starrett Co for injuries after a Aug 6 1958 fall from a steel frame at Eccles while painting a cleaning plant. He alleges lack of safety devices, pelvis injuries, and fractures. He was treated and released June 12.
A fellowship meeting at St. Paul A.M.E. Church in McAlpin is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday with guest speaker Rev. M. M. Mitchell of Beckley and Slab Fork. Choirs will perform and dinner is served at 2 p.m. The public is invited per pastor Rev. Abner Wright.
Miss Madge Richardson of 214 Hargrove Street is reported in good condition at Beckley Hospital where she was admitted on July 31.
Beckley Jaycees Thursday dinner at Beckley Hotel featured national director James Cain Bluefield state president Jack E Stillman Charleston and state VP Rex Dotson Princeton. Nineteen past presidents were honored including John Bridge Edwin Ratcliffe Charles S Lewis Jr Jack Nuckols E C Hitchcock and Warren Williams Williams praised for sanitation park cleanup and spirit. Lewis recalled 1941 carols via street loudspeakers used after Pearl Harbor. Feazell praised giving more than he received from the Jaycees.
A three man committee was named to work with the County Court on Stevens Branch lake. Members are J. S. Chapman, Lawrence Pruett and W. M. Houchins with Chapman as chair. Ex officio chair Walter Duncan to preside when Chapman is absent. The panel meets Saturday at 10:00 a.m. The group discusses using Raleigh County unemployed for lake construction funded by a $565,000 levy. The board approved a $4,800 June July budget for parks and set Sept 7 as Little Beaver and Fitzpatrick Lakes closing dates. Approval for a $250 quonset hut at Sophia park was delayed pending lease acceptance by the County Court.
Disabled American Veterans Chapter 18 plans a 7 30 p m meeting at 211 First Ave at the Robert Sarge Elemore residence. Members will discuss the 1959 60 financial program and related plans.
Hal Lilly son of Mr and Mrs J G Lilly 116 Granville Ave attends University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM for summer school as a freshman in the school of pre medicine.
The Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce urges all who plan to enter the beauty and talent contests at the Miners Day Celebration on August 22 to fill out application blanks and mail entries to Post Office Box 505, Beckley.
Beckley West Virginia’s Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce invites entries for the Miners Day Beauty Contest. Applicants must submit measurements bust waist hips and a recent photo with the entry blank to Box 505 by August 18. Entries not returned.
Address type of performance telephone and group entries accepted. Special musical accompaniment must be supplied by the individual performers where required. All entries must be received by August 18.
Military men gain ranks and train at bases in Tennessee Texas and Florida with details on Lance Cpl Charles R Davis Sgt 1C Roy D Hawley Sgt Elmer C Moran recruit Effie E Plumley Cadet George H Gwinn and Airman Clarence Wayne Weeks. Open house at Fleet Air Support Squadron 24 Detachment Naples featured Jack E Reed and family. Weeks is from Oak Hill and Weeks trained as a teletypist after Lackland and Sheppard.
The Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association reports July results show one active TB case, one suspected, four minimal inactive, two moderately inactive, two questionable active, seven primary inactive, one silicosis, eight with other conditions. Ex-patients total 13 and 22 contacts were X rayed. In Madison Wisconsin police officer Wayne Young admitted in court to placing a penny in a parking meter while a meter restorer wrote a ticket, leading to an ordinance finding no multiple coins_insert.
Mrs. Virgintia M. Parsons district supervisor of public health nursing for the state department of health spent Wednesday in the Raleigh County Health Department offices. The routine visit accompanied by Mrs. Sybil McPher son consulting nurse with the United Mine Workers highlights supervisory oversight of a 13 percent county area.
Seven year old Deborah Marie Wolfe was listed in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital with a chest injury after being struck by a car driven by Mrs Danita Joan Biggs of East Main Street. The incident occurred near the Moonglo Motel on Beaver at about 810 p.m. Thursday as she darted from between parked cars toward her mother. Mrs Biggs, who had nearly stopped, was not charged.
Sara Jones, 75, of Hunter Street, waived preliminary hearing on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minors. She posted a $50 property bond and awaits Grand Jury action after arrest at 1 p m Thursday by City Police.
The 1960 Soil Bank program will be explained by two state officials at 9 am Monday in the County Course room. About 50 SAC officials from 13 Southern West Virginia counties are expected. Speakers Norman Dewlander and Don Williams will outline how the program affects West Virginia.
Mrs. N. W. King is in good condition at Beckley Hospital after a Tuesday crash near the Church of the Brethren in Crab Orchard. The truck she rode in turned over after hitting an embankment. her husband, who drove the vehicle, was uninjured.
Fayette County Fiscal Court received a 157.50 bill for jail repairs after two federal prisoners damaged the facility. Purchasing Agent Virgil Kennedy said the bill was submitted to an insurance company which declined coverage, noting it required three or more rioters to trigger riot insurance.
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