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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1959
Page
6
Six Boone County coal companies recalled 177 former employees in recent days as a county wide study counts currently employed and unemployed workers. Red Parrot Co hired 2. Boone County Coal Corp 5. Eastern Gas and Fuel 90. Spruce River Coal 33. Westmoreland Coal 34. Y and O Co 5 for haulage. Other firms expect more recalls once the steel strike issue is resolved.
A bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Josephine Newby in Montgomery honors Loretta Maxon Falls View bride elect of Ray Harris. Attendees include many local ladies with refreshments and a flower decorated home.
Mrs Lela S Wier from Jackson Mississippi details a diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatism and Bursitis after widespread muscular pain. She offers free information and invites contact at 2805 Arbor Hills Drive 715 P M Box 2695.
Oak Hill city employees and their wives were honored at a Friday dinner attended by about 45 people including the city council. Rev. C. Donnelly spoke on government from local to national levels urging honesty, truthfulness, and sobriety in all government. Local business men donated favors.
Oak Hill chapter No. 33 of the Women of the Moose announces a Christmas party at 2 p.m. Sunday featuring Santa Claus. A Christmas dance follows at 10 p.m. on December 26, with tickets from members. Donations to Fayette County Tuberculosis Association noted. no meetings in December.
A county auction lists used items including a water heater washer iron sewing machine lamps refrigerator freezers radio percolator clock water pump drill saw vacuum cleaner and other household tools for sale to the public.
Funeral services for Benjamin Franklin Hess are set for 1 p.m. Wednesday at Liberty Baptist Church in Ramsey with Rev. Ernest Barley officiating. Burial will follow at Harrah Cemetery. Hess, 68, died Sunday in a Weston hospital after a long illness. He was a farmer and Liberty Baptist member. Survivors include two brothers N. R. Hess of Hill Top and Henry S. Hess of Roanoke, Va. two half brothers M. C. Hess of Mount Home and Joe Neal of Crawley, and two half sisters Lena Raider and Cammie Taylor, both of Charleston. The body remains at Thomas Funeral Home in Ansted.
Fayetteville Tireless Workers 4H Club met at Mrs. Fletcher Arritt's home for a Christmas dinner and program Spirit of Christmas by Jimmy Jones. Project circulars were handed out and gifts exchanged during a social hour with many members and guests in attendance.
Funeral services for Stella Cooper Gregorowicz who died in a house fire in Cleveland will be held at Clifftop Community Church at 2 p m Thursday. Burial follows at Charlie White Cemetery in Clifftop. She was 41 and survived by husband Raymond and siblings Delphia Crane, Joe, Clayton, Ernest, and Filmore. Her body arrives at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home and then to her brother Joe Cooper’s home.
A rockslide between Brownsville and Belva on State Route 16 38 halted traffic for several hours Sunday. One lane was opened and traffic allowed in a single direction while crews from the Fayette County State Road Commission cleared the slide. The blockage was cleared within a few hours.
The Fayetteville Lions Club meets at 6 p m Wednesday in the Memorial Building Fayetteville to discuss the annual Christmas party for about 1000 local school children on December 23 at 7 p m The committee plans to fill candy bags December 20 at 1 p m and members meet at the courthouse with co chairmen Jack Robertson and F J Morris to organize details Lions trees imported from Canada will be sold to raise funds for the party sight conservation and support for the Fayetteville High School football squad travel to a West Virginia University game in Morgantown
West Virginia House of Delegates majority leader T E Myles joined leaders from 44 states at the inaugural National Conference of Legislative Leaders held in Albany and New York City. He said education funding and highway priorities dominated discussions, noting states rely on real estate taxes but seek new revenue sources. He attended receptions at Governor Rockefeller’s Albany mansion and Canton Mansion hosted by Mayor Wagner.
Miss Peggy Arlene Birley became the bride of Andrew Donald Charcandy in a double ring ceremony at Madison Baptist Church. The couple, both graduates of Scott High School, plan to live apart while careers with Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone and Ford Motor Co. continue.
The Rev. Father Eugene Klug, pastor of St. Peter and Paul's, Scarbro, appointed new officers of the Society of the Blessed Sacrament. Officers are Mrs. John P. Duda president, Mrs. Charles H. Warden vice president, Mrs. John Chesunas secretary, and Mrs. Erma Menarchik treasurer. Two new members joined, Mrs. Loretta Lively and Mrs. Erma Salgado.
West Virginia state winner Karen Hempton Morris Seth returns from Chicago where she was presented as the 4-H home economics winner. She is congratulated by John A. Barr of Montgomery Ward and Co., sponsor of the program.
Oonik the Eskimo boy Santa Claus and Keotuk trek to the Ice King to halt endless winter. The crew builds a sled with Tweedleknees, fairies light a workshop, and an igloo rises as they endure storms. An unwelcome visitor follows.
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