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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1958
Page
3
Esteban meets a mole who explains a plan to rescue fairies from a professor’s plot. The mole introduces his cousin, the Snake, a sea-dwelling road builder who can reach Santa Land. They embark through underground tunnels toward the sea and a strange Snake awaits at the shore.
West Virginia University schedules a two week Christmas recess starting at noon Saturday with classes resuming Monday January 4. First semester finals run January 16 to 22 followed by a five day mid year recess and second semester registration January 28-29. Key dates include University Day February 7 Easter break March 25 through April 1 and final exams May 23-29 with Alumni Day May 30 baccalaureate May 31 and Commencement June 1.
Two stores near Beckley join the Jaycee Food Lift campaign led by Bill Wilbur. Helen General Department Store and Blevens Cash Grocery MacArthur collect extra items from shoppers to aid needy families in the Stotesbury area, with deliveries set for Monday. Sam Carman of the A and P store reports employee volunteers will donate rather than exchange gifts this Christmas.
Members of the Men's Bible Class at First Baptist Church collected 128 dollars at the Salvation Army booth on Neville Street. Major Mary McVicker, commander of the Berkeley Salvation Army Citadel, reported the total to date as 1691.14. Sigma chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will run the booth next.
Children from Begin ner through Intermediate Departments will present a Christmas program titled Christmas Any Day at First Assembly of God Church 114 Valley Drive Sunday at 7 p m. Mrs T M Waldron and Mrs Clarke Gage lead with Rev Clarke Gage directing. The two act play portrays an ordinary American family and the true meaning of Christmas with evangelistic appeal. Cast includes Basil Bennett Connie Bland Johnnie Gunther Romnie Allen Jane and others with special music by Ladies Sextette and Intermediate Girls Sextette.
John S. Covington of Sprague was sentenced to 30 days in Raleigh County Jail and fined 20 dollars plus costs after appearing before Magistrate W. Burke Monday. Charged by State Police for shoplifting five cartons of cigarettes from Acme Super Market on Valley Drive, Covington was arrested at 3:45 p.m. Saturday and found drunk.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting scheduled for tonight is canceled. The next gathering will be held at the Memorial Building on January 6.
Beckley Police Court saw total forfeitures of 126 dollars as no one appeared before Judge Edward P. Stansbury. James Spencer Evans paid 106 dollars for driving while drunk, with a six month license revocation. Hill Edmonds forfeited 15 dollars for improper vehicle registration, and Charles E. Lilly paid 5 dollars in costs on a capias pro fine warrant. Edmonds’s arrest warrant arose from an unpaid old city fine.
Acting President Clyde L. Colson says West Virginia University will train about 100 high school teachers in mathematics and science next summer. The 1959 institute, directed by Dr. James B. Hickman, runs June 9 to July 17 in Morgantown with stipends and tuition covered by the National Science Foundation.
A 1970s themed column warns of a looming doctor shortage unless medical schools expand. It calls for tripling medical research funding and building 14 to 20 new schools at a cost of up to 1 billion dollars, urging public support via Christmas Seals through the Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association.
The BPX Construction project at West Virginia University is about 60 percent complete with a 400 bed teaching hospital projected to open in September 1960. Structural work is finished, interior partitions, plumbing, and electrical systems continue as crews install floors and fixtures across the 14 story, 3,400 room complex adjoining the Basic Sciences Building.
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