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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1946
Page
6
Raleigh County 4-H units with the health department and education boards will run an extensive 1947 health and nutrition program affecting about 2000 members. The plan emphasizes vitamin A and C rich foods, daily vitamin intake, and school absenteeism reduction.
Coal City report about Luther Underwood building a three room frame house already rented to World War I Navy veteran Robert Holcomb and his wife. The Holcombs, with two small children, will move in once completed.
The United Steel Workers union filed federal suits against Carnegie-Illinois Steel and National Tube seeking portal-to-portal pay totaling 120 million dollars for about 120 000 workers. The count claims time spent on company property commuting and preparing for work qualifies for overtime under wage hour rulings.
Anthony Tony Sokola a 75 year old Eccles resident died at his home after a two year illness. Funeral services will be at 9 a m tomorrow at St Francis de Sales Catholic Church with burial in Sunset Memorial Park. He was born in Hungary and leaves wife Agnes two sons Steve and James T two daughters Emily Watts and Mrs Hubert McGinnis eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild. The body lies at Caffee Funeral Home until 3 p m today then moves to his Eccles residence.
Fourteen Beckley region men are at Fort Hayes Columbus Ohio to be inducted into the Army some for a second time. The list includes Robert W Bennett Abraham a veteran of over four years with the Army who enlisted for three years as a corporal in the Medical Corps Brady J Plumley Ralph Richmond Vincent Pishner William F Bowles Ritchie Thompson Carl J Gravely David J Hall Charles E Merrit William J Minor Robert E Callison Carl D McMillion Riece Cozart Albert W Cole and others with three year terms or 18 months unassigned.
Charleston reports that Walter Hallanan says Thomas Sweeney must decide if he will contest the sealing of U S Senator Kilgore’s win. Sweeney, Wheeling GOP nominee, trailed Kilgore by about 3000 votes amid reports of alleged fraud and irregularities. Hallanan says no formal contest plan yet. investigations into irregularities in Southern West Virginia counties are ongoing.
Mr and Mrs Gayle Kelley and children return to their Hookersville Nicholas County home after visiting family in the Beckley area due to the serious illness of Mr Kelleys grandmother Mrs John Kelley of Princewick who is reported improved.
Two Huntington area residents died from burns in hospitals last night. Myron D. Weiss of Huntington, an International Nickel Company employee, fell into a vat of boiling water at the plant yesterday. Alfreda Trosper, five, daughter of Mr and Mrs Vinson Trosper of Genoa Wayne County, died after her clothing caught fire at home on December 4.
More than 150 members of the Newspaper Guild picketed outside the Philadelphia Record delivery room injuring one person and delaying newspaper trucks for over 45 minutes. The strike, ongoing since November 7, targets wage increases with Camden Courier-Post also affected.
Many patients suffer backaches and leg pains from kidneys not functioning well. Doan's Pills, a stimulant diuretic, have helped millions for over nine years by helping flush out waste from blood and reduce nighttime urination and swelling.
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