Wm Cole Promoted in Esso Sales Role at Beckley
William L. Cole of Beckley was promoted to sales representative at the Bluefield Esso unit effective December 1 after three years as assistant to the supervisor. He began with Esso in their Marine Department aboard an Esso tanker and later moved to Beckley. Cole plans to relocate with his family to Bluefield and has seven years with the company. He is active in the Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce. Meanwhile William Klein of Beckley was named to the Minute-Men Club with Lincoln National Life Insurance. Three Beckley Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. employees received one-star emblems for five years of service.
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Bluefield
William L. Cole
Beckley
Roy E. McDaniel
Esso
West Virginia
Cole
Marine Department
Sluefield
Oil Company
Minute-Men Club
William Klein
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Veterans Return To Life in Army Veterans Return To Life in Army
Five veterans reenlist in the Army and Air Force at Prince St main examination station. John Henry Rhodes and John Phillip Barney, both with prior service, enlist for six and three years respectively. Ernest Gale Jackson, Santa Dale Jackson, and Ray Gravely join four year Air Force tours. Re-enlisting Friday are Emmitt Herndon, McDowell Wellington James, and Basil McNiel Smith for six or three year terms. James and Herndon had prior service. Thomas Berry Blankenship enlists in the Army for three years and begins basic at Fort Jackson.
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Prince St
Ft. Knox
John Henry Rhodes
Willard C Rhodes
Crown Hill
John Phillip Barney
Harry Gilmer Barney
Ripley
Rhodes
Barney
Air Force
Ernest Gale Jackson
Santa FE. Jackson
Charleston
Santa Dale Jackson
Santa E. Jackson
Ray Gravely
Beatrice Gravely
Upland
Emmitt Herndon
Forest Herndon
Army
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Thomas Berry Blankenship
Elmer J. Blankenship
Algoma
Honor 45 Men Celebrate 1000 Years in Coal Mining in Beckley
Forty five men with Eastern Gas and Fuel Association coal mines in Southern West Virginia will be honored at a Beckley dinner starting at 7 p.m. They have served from 20 to 40 years, totaling 1,075 years, and will receive service award emblems. DB. C. Stewart will preside and L. C. Campbell will present emblems.
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Beckley
Southern West Virginia Mines of Eastern Gas and Fuel Association
Eastern
DB. C. Stewart
EGFA
L. C. Campbell
Tough Beckley building code and fulltime city engineer proposed
The Beckley Planning and Zoning Commission proposes adopting the 1949 National Board of Fire Underwriters code as the citys basic building law. If adopted without variation, Beckley would gain one of the nations strongest building codes. The commission also recommends a fulltime city engineer paid by several departments, with appointment by the mayor and confirmation by the City Council.
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Beckley
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Planning and Zoning Commission
PZC
Mission Movie at Church Promotes South Seas Work
A motion picture on missions in the South Sea Islands will be shown tonight at 7 30 p m at the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Jennings Street. Elder Stephen Paully of Parkersburg will be the principal speaker.
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South Sea Islands
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Jennings St
Stephen Paully
Parkersburg
Plaintiff Wins $1700 Wage Backpay Verdict
William Gill of Stamford wins a circuit court jury verdict of 1700 against J. Bruce Anderson of East Beckley for back wages as a miner on a strip operation covering March through June of the current year.
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William Gill
J. Bruce Anderson
Gill
Stamford
Anderson
East Beckley
Lorenzo Torlone Honored With Meritorious Award Day
Sunday marked Lorenzo Torlone Day as members of the Leonardo Da Vinci Lodge of the Sons of Italy hosted the first banquet ever served by the lodge. Torlone and his wife were guests of honor with Rep Robert C Byrd as principal speaker and brief tributes from Elks Moose JCI, Forty and Eight Civitan American Legion.
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Lorenzo Torlone
Leonardo da Vinci Lodge
The
Sons of Italy
Torlone
Robert C Byrd
Elks, Moose, Junior Chamber of Commerce
the Forty and Eight
Civitans
American Legion
Soup On in Raleigh County Schools Hot Lunch Program
Raleigh County's 49 schools serve about 3,800 hot lunches daily with the Soup's On program. Sanitarium Elgin Hall inspected November findings as excellent though Table Rock lacks water and Glen White is remodeling. some schools lack adequate equipment. Recommendations focus on fly screening, cleanliness, safe water, sewage, storage, and proper dishwashing with high temp or chlorine methods. Cooks must hold a food handler permit with required health tests.
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Glen White Negro Elementary School
Sanitarian Elgin Hall
Leona Hopson
Raleigh County
Ing
Hall
Health Department
Real estate deeds recorded in Raleigh County court
Deeds recorded show Eunice Suptic transferring three Calloway Heights lots to McMillan Land and Finance Co with no money involved. Arizona Tabor and others transfer to Mr and Mrs Car. Edward Pettry sells two Massey Addition lots to Colcord for about $1000.
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Raleigh County
Eunice Suptic
McMillan [Land and Finance Co
Calloway Heights Addition
Arizona Tabor
Car
Edward Pettry
L. C. Massey
Colcord
Clear Fork
Shrewsbury named chairman of West Virginia Real Estate Commission
Beckleyan J Everett Shrewsbury is named chairman of the three member West Virginia Real Estate Commission by Governor William C Marland to succeed the late John F Ferrell of Wheeling. Ferrell’s seat goes to Robert M Fleshman of Huntington.
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Beckleyan
J. Everett Shrewsbury
West Virginia
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Wm. Cole
Klein
Emong
Beckleyans
Nathan C. Shelton Jr
Harold H. Welch
Lula Soter
Pulse Inc
New York
O. L. Johnston
Beckley Area
William L Cole
Eccles
C. B. Canterbury
J. D. Collier
Helen
M. H. Griffith
J A. McVey
J. R. Atkins
L. P. Robertson
Keystone
L. E. Johnson
R. W. Keesee
B. A. Mullins
C. B. Bower
I. W. Britten
W. L. Laxton
Louis Valvery
Herbert Lacey
H. P. Carrington
Kopperston
William Laird
S. H. Gallagher
C. L. Lay
J. H. Justice
Maitland
Oscar Mayhew
Powellton Division
C. P. Madison
C. B Steele
Stotesbury
W. R. Herald
E. W. Williams, Jr
John Edwards
Dorsey High Tower
Wharton
Planning and Zoning Commis
Sion
Margaret Steere
Utica
Carl Ward
Clauzeeta Allen
Booker Watts
Freda Watts
Mary Lee Jones
Raleigh
Table Rock
Glen White
Lincoln
Shrewsbury
Real Estate Commission
Kentucky
the Hill and Hill Company
Louisville
America
Lincoln-Mercury Inc
S. Oakwood Avenue
Beckley, W .Va
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