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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
7
In Raleigh County, 5,350 Junior Red Cross members across 167 classrooms represent full enrollment. Teachers receive praise for fostering projects from World War II veteran puzzles to candy dolls for crippled children, braille stories, and holiday gifts.
Local Colored News reports a two act play Follow the Star about the birth of Christ at Central Street Baptist Church East Beckley with a modern couple meeting the inn keeper. Other items mention sermons at First Baptist Church and Alabama pastor Rev H Booker.
United Mine Workers of America announces a special dues assessment of one dollar per month for January and February 1937 for about 550000 members. The deduction is under the ant hracite miners contract allowing two dollars annually, with the extra funds aiding industrial campaigns and labor legislation amid talk of a possible soft coal strike next April.
W Bright becomes executive secretary of the local chapter. Miss Edith Clay, stenographer at the board of education office, accepts enrollments. Miss Thompson cites two senior values from the junior work: service through projects and the training that will prepare them for civic affairs work in later life.
Earl L. Hostetler of North Carolina State College, head of animal husbandry research, states the finest pork comes from hogs that are well finished and weigh between 200 and 250 pounds.
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