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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1951
Page
5
A Des Moines AP report describes Charley Balloun using dynamite to loosen an old barn for salvage. He placed the fuse, closed the door, and retreated, finding the blast loosened the structure without shattering boards, leaving him satisfied with the result.
Infant twins of Mir and Mrs Doff Brown of Glen Daniel died in a local hospital. Funeral arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home with services at Glen Daniel cemetery on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Lawrence M. Smith of Calla way Heights died in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, with services at First Baptist Church Beckley. Burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Pallbearers listed. Funeral home notices include floral tributes and related services. Various ads follow for painting, wallpaper, and local services.
Belinda helps Tommy Lump visit Santa to fix a Christmas deprived by his miserly father, Mr Lump. She discovers the father is a cold money hoarder who ignores his son's needs. Belinda and Tommy flee the house and head toward the department store Santa, as Mr Lump erupts in anger and blocks their plan.
Mrs. Gertrude Bacon of Fayetteville Ohio, nearing 50, works as a bookkeeper for the Cincinnati Enquirer while she also climbs as a steeplejack for her husband Charles, a 33 year veteran. She has tackled smoke stacks church and school steeples and a 100 foot water tower. Her past jobs include funeral director's helper nurse and school teacher. She has survived polio and tuberculosis and would like to scale a flagpole though she fears the sway of wind.
New York marks the start of the Christmas season with Rockefeller Center tree setup. The 82 foot tall Fears tree was erected in Rockefeller Plaza on Monday ahead of the Dec 10 lighting.
Hollywood icon Jackie Coogan is cast as the heavy in a Western. Makeup hides his youth, astonishing his own brother on set. Coogan treats the role as a single film experience, not a comeback, despite questions about career shifts.
Morgantown reports gifts of historical value to the West Virginia Collection at the State University Library. Librarian Charles E Butler notes 18 bound volumes from St Marys Oracle editor Robert L Pemberton provided by Margerie Pemberton. R E Stewart Hampshire County Court clerk donates suit papers. A festive scene includes 7500 electric lights and 4000 plastic stars on a 75-year-old Norway spruce weighing 10 tons, placed by a six-man crew with a 60-foot crane.
The collection includes Congressional Globes and reports from Government bureaus and officers. Gen. C. Pierce of Charleston and Kingwood donated the 137 bound volumes to the county, enhancing official records and state reports.
The 77 year old President of Israel Dr. Chaim Weizmann is reported seriously ill at Rehovot. A heart condition has complicated a lung inflammation and doctors say his condition is tense.
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