Board approves 6600 dollar expenditure by Raleigh County schools
A Raleigh County Board of Education meeting approved spending 6600 dollars and pledged nearly 1500 more. Shady Spring delegation asked half the cost to concrete the county cannery floor for a school auditorium. The board may cover about 500 dollars after labor. The group also backed 10000 dollars in library addition funding from two budgets plus county and Beckley city contributions. They approved 5000 dollars for a playground fence at Slab Fork and discussed 338 acres of land near Stoco Junior High. Rezonings at Smoot Street and portable classroom moves to ease crowding were approved, with personnel changes and textbook committee appointments for April. They also urged Beckley Water Co to speed water line construction to Cirtsville Elementary.
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Shady Spring
Guy Rumburg
Sherman C. Trail
Beckley
Slab Fork
Virgil Sarrett
Beaver Land Company
H. Dale Covey
Stoco Junior High School
Lillybrook Coal Co
Leeber
Smoot St
Piney Oaks
Morton-Reaves
Trail
Piney Cakes
Jonben
East Park
Sam's Branch
Mabscott
Trial
Karl Okes
Blue Jay
Cirtsville
Beckley Water Co
Quentin Barrett
Louise Daniels
Pettus Elementary School
May Green
Rhodell
Joyce Shrewsberry
Sylvia
Ruth Walker
Whitby
Cheasie Bennett
Edwight
Pettus
Daisey Jarrell
Pineknob
Clear Fork High School
Carl Dominion
Carl Dillon
Building Permits Issued for Two Homes
The city recorder’s office issued two building permits with an estimated cost of 7000 dollars. C. B. Garten of Hinton paid ten dollars each Thursday for permits to construct two five room frame houses on Hartley Avenue.
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City Recorder’s Office
C. B. Garten of
Hinton
Hartley Avenue
Mrs Baldenburg Dies. Rites Planned in Rose and Quesenberry
Funeral services for Elsie Warden Baldenburg 72 of 214 S Heber St will be held at 3 30 p m Friday in the Peace Chapel Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home with Rev Alvin J Cook officiating. She died Monday night at her daughter's Washington D C home. She was born November 26 1885 in Wharton a daughter of the late McDowell and Eliza Ball Warden a retired government employee with the Internal Revenue Department Survivors include son Max Badenburg Jr Newark N J daughter Miriam Barrett Washington D C and three sisters Cora Hart Beckley Bertha Bailey Portsmouth Va and A B Shrewsbury Mabscott and six grandchildren.
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Elsie
Warden Baldenburg
Peace Chapel
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Alvin J. Cook
Baldenburg
S. Heber St
Russell F. Barrett
Washington
D. C
Wharton
McDowell
Eliza Ball Warden
Internal Revenue Department
Max Badenburg Jr
Newark
N. J
Miriam Barrett
Washington, D., C
Cora Hart
Beckley
Bertha Bailey
Portsmouth
A. B. Shrewsbury
Mabscott
Paving Cost Increases Spark City Council Meeting
Beckley West Virginia council discussed Western Avenue paving costs with Dennis Leary Jr, noting final price rose from about 50 200 to 54 001 91 due to drainage red dog and grading items not in the initial bid. A unit price bidding method was explained and a breakdown was requested for costs.
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Dennis Leary Jr
Northwestern Avenue
Beckley
Northwestern Ave
Leary
Clarence Bibb
Bibb
Council
Red Dog
Kopperston Man Injured In Mine
Paul Holland 28 of Kopperston is listed in satisfactory condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital after a mine accident at an Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates mine. He sustained a pelvic injury. Walter Moore 36 of Sophia, Pocahontas Fuel Coal Co. employee, was treated and released for a right foot injury when a jack slipped and struck his foot.
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Paul Holland
Kopperston
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Walter Moore
Sophia
Pocahontas Fuel Coal Co
Clerks Move Meeting to Point Pleasant
West Virginia Association of County and Circuit Clerks selects Mason County Clerk Orville Sturgeon and Circuit Clerk Dan Hope as officers for 1959. The convention, set for June 10 to 12, may relocate from Spencer to Point Pleasant with headquarters at the Lowe Hotel.
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West Virginia Association of County
Raleigh
C. O. Smith Jr
Mason County
Orville Sturgeon
Dan Hope
Spencer
Pt. Pleasant
Smith
Lowe Hotel
Beckley
City issues permits for home additions and garage expansion
The city recorder's office issued permits for two projects. Frank Withrow of 705 Johnstown Rd. obtained a permit to enlarge his garage with an estimated cost of 2000 dollars. Each house is estimated to cost about 3000 dollars.
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City Recorder's Office
Frank Withrow
Johnstown Rd
City approves park lot and road widening at ballpark
Beckley council approved widening the approach to Lewin Field 1921 By-Pass and a larger parking area near the ball park. Mayor Minter said field work would be done by path officials at no city cost and discussed weed enforcement and parking-law enforcement year round with officials Tyree and Christian.
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Beckley
Lewin Field
A. K. Minter
Path
No Coset
M. E
Minter
Christian
Tyree
School Street
Beckley Junior High School
Bibb
Byrd Urges Federal Aid for West Virginia Distress Areas
Representative Robert C. Byrd calls on President Eisenhower to sign legislation creating federal aid for distressed areas. He cites Charleston Huntington Beckley and other WV communities facing chronic unemployment and says 17 counties including Barbour Braxton Calhoun Clay Doddridge Fayette and Lincoln would be eligible.
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Eisenhower
Robert C. Byrd
Byrd
House
Congress
West Virginia
Charleston
Huntingston
Beckley
Fairmont
Logan
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Bonceverte
White Sulphur Springs
Welch
Barbour
Braxton
Calhoun
Clay
Doddridge
Fayette
Lincoln
Mason
Mercer
Monroe
Nicholas Putnam
Raleigh
Roane
Summers
Wayne and Wirt
Coal City Man Executes Bond In Raleigh County Case
Curtis Brown, released from Raleigh County Jail after posting a $1000 bond, awaits Grand Jury action on a breaking and entering charge. Police accuse him of entering the Princewick Drive Inn on April 20 and taking $160. Alfred Rosenbaum posted $40 bond and was released after Beckley Police Court appearance for driving without license. Hardy Augustus Harrison from Bay Village Ohio pleaded guilty to speeding and was fined $10 and costs after Turnpike State Police arrest.
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Coal City
Raleigh
Curtis Brown
Burke
Brown
Princewick Drive
Princewick
Alfred Rosenbaum
Beckley
Rosenbaum
Hardy Augustus Harrison
Bay Village
Ohio
West Virginia
Turnpike Division
Funeral Arrangements Pending for Mrs. Maggie Bush
Mrs. Maggie Bush of 1603 S. Fayette Street died Tuesday in a local hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with the body at C. D. Trent Funeral Home pending completion.
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Maggie Bush
S. Fayette St
C. D. Trent
Judgment Given In Four Civil Suits At Raleigh Court
Judge Norman Knapp granted judgments in four civil cases including Motors Insurance Corp for 1052.59 and costs from Earl Manning and Lucas General Tire Inc for 105.78 plus costs from Robert Vines Beulah Gillespie won a 1000 verdict against George Coleman Three cases were dismissed on plaintiff motions and six final divorces were signed plus a pistol carry approval for Fred Cole Hartford Accident case awarded 6074.12 plus interest and costs and Luc as General Tire Inc ordered to collect 1138.44 plus interest and costs from Gabo Gombos
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Raleigh County
Norman Knapp
Motors Insurance Corp
Earl Manning
William S. Moore Inc
D. Irwin
Pet Dairy Products
Lyndall B. Bennett
Lucas General Tire Inc
Robert Vines
Beckley Insurance Agency
J. W. Vass
Garnet Polk Vass
George Coleman
Fred Cole
Cole
Knapp
Louise Carter
Russell Carter
Macie Marie Goad
Frank Goad
Deenantha Patsy Jane Basham
Oran Finley Basham
Twilla F. Short
Exra W. Short
Twilla Stover
Frances Lee Marks
Raigh Marks
Frances Lee Solonka
Hele Warden Size
Roger Size
Helen Warden
Hartford Accident and Indemn Hy Co
T. N. Taurman
Food market owner calls home drinks tax unfair
Arthur Q. Howell of Bluefield, West Virginia, argues that a seven cent tax on soft drink powders burdens children and harms sales. He urges repeal and invites readers to write to the West Virginia Grocery Trade Taxpayers Association in Huntington.
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Arthur Q. Howell
Wythe Ave
Bluefield
W. Va
West Virginia Grocery Trade Taxpayers Association
P. O
Humeington
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A. P. Leeber
Dewey Meadows
Meadows
Kentucky
Wellers
Bourbon
Rine
Ware Dutillery, Fitzgerald Rd
Loulaville, Ky
Batab
Labor Day
Ashland Oil & Refining Company
Ashland Oil
Wsaz-Tv
Adlai Products
Mrs. Baldenburg
Bettina Construction Co
Otis Lyons
Lyons
Fire Department
Noel Christian
Lerks
Ballpark
Xpeer
New York
Philadelphia
C&o
Prince
Baltimore
Pullman
Clifford
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
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