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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1949
Page
6
Beckley state police urged drivers to take care during the Labor Day weekend September 2 to 5 warning it will be a fast dangerous period with heavy traffic, more accidents, and the need for defensive driving. They advised vehicle checks, no drinking and driving, daylight driving, and vigilance for pedestrians, children, and intersections while officers patrol for safety.
Monday marks start of applications for World War II veterans to obtain Service Life Insurance of dividends. West Virginia official Rossmith adds three secretaries to handle forms and speed processing, with eligibility limited to those who served in WWII and held insurance at least 99 days. Veterans advised to bring discharge papers, insurance and claim numbers if available. records will be kept to trace checks. Additional staff will operate 8:30 am to 5 pm weekdays in Memorial Building and other offices through early September.
Judge George J. Hallard ruled the Raleigh County Bank may recover 3827.50 from Sterling and Mary Catherine Lee, finding a deed dated January 18 was made to hinder and defraud the bank. Special commissioner O. L. Tredrick is to sell sufficient real estate to recover the amount. Judge Ballard also presided over eighteen divorce cases, granting orders dissolving marriages for listed couples and others through the circuit clerk.
The Japanese introduced a simplified typewriter with 1182 characters, easing effort for typists. The old model carried 3126 characters, so makers reduced the set to fewer, simpler symbols by removing many of the complex Chinese characters.
In Raleigh County free chest X rays found abnormalities in 171 of 5,572 people screened by the TB and Health Association. Miss Frances Cole reports 95 have come to the Memorial Building for large retakes to confirm conditions. Sixty six others with suspicions will not receive further tests from the State Health Department. Many positives turn out to be clothing reflections on film. Large X rays are needed for accurate diagnosis. notify Miss Cole if you had X rays elsewhere so she can update files. Funeral services are set for Okey H. Bose, 44, Beckley Poultry owner, at Zion Baptist Church Parkersburg, with burial in church cemetery. He died of a heart ailment at Newton D. Baker Hospital. Bose was a former Navy Seabee, and survived by wife Myrtle Hawley Bose, a stepdaughter, and several relatives.
Sergeant John W. Carson, son of Mr and Mrs John W Carson of Beaver, heads home from duty with the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron on Guam. He served as aerial radio operator and maintained radio gear on RB 29 Superfortress aircraft, also taking part in weather reconnaissance missions. Carson is married to Vena Plumley of San Angelo, Texas. The note adds that Dubuque Iowa was named for Julien Dubuque.
The Beckley Navy Recruiting Station relocates to Room 19 in the Post Office Building. Formerly at the Courthouse, it will share quarters with the recruiting station, announced Chief Petty Officer W. E. Bartlett.
Members of the Military Manpower Committee will inspect Fort Knox Kentucky in September with a planned committee flight to the Army post. The visit will include the Armored School living quarters recreation units and training methods. A similar trip to Wright Patterson Field in Dayton Ohio is planned. Captain James C. Mathis and Ralph Marcum will organize the Military Manpower Committee in Logan today. Other committees are to be formed in Oak Hill and Bluefield and educational films will be available to civic and fraternal groups.
The city announces the fireman's civil service exam will be held August 29 with applications due by Saturday. Two positions exist in the fire department and pay $185 per month. Police exam follows August 30 with a $222 starting salary for patrolmen.
County Health Department reports the sixth polio case in the city. Don Stennette and Roger Hatcher are named in the article with details about a building permit issued for a residence at 1209 South Heber Street. The piece notes the patient’s transfer to Morris Memorial Hospital and cites additional polio figures in the region.
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