Beckley Area Notes Highlight Local Business and Service Changes
Area Business Notes report Christmas bonus plans at G C Murphy Beckley store with $5 new-hire gifts and up to 380 for long service among 269000 in 219 stores and offices. Also noted are King Tut’s Drive Inn winter closures and a January reopening, Beckley telephone service awards, and staff changes at a Beckley clinical laboratory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Murphy Company
Beckley
J. S. Fisher
McKeesport
New York City
Community Chest Drive Reaches 20030 In City Campaign
The Beckley Mabscat Community Chest campaign nears its 29 573 goal with Saturday night showing 20030 32 raised. A second canvass of the city by the Junior Chamber of Commerce is pending and reports from an original drive team are incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley-Mabscat
Fued
J. E. White
Chi Ae
County Court to Meet Over Bond and Oath Status
Newly elected county officials who have not been bonded or taken the oath of office are asked to attend a 10 a.m. meeting Tuesday of the Raleigh County Court to clear up these details. The agenda covers routine matters and any special items presented to the court, County Clerk Harry Anderson said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County Court
Harry Anderson
Thay
Beckley Postmaster Urges Early Window Openings
Beckley area residents are urged to appear early at the post office windows this week. Windows open at 8 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. The Beckley Post Office started the Christmas rush last week about a day and a half behind schedule due to a shipment embargo and a rail yard strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
J. Z. Hollandsworth
Focal
Rev Lewis Legg Leaves Beckley Pastorate
The Rev. Lewis Legg, pastor of Beckley First Church of the Nazarene, announced his resignation to accept a new pastorate at the Nazarene church in Chester. His wife and daughter will move with him by December 14. Legg, long-serving in Beckley, chairs the Bluefield zone Nazarene district and sits on the Nazarene Young People's Society Council and Beckley Ministerial Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Legg
Beckley First
Narene
Johnstown Road
Hic
F of the Nazarene
Chester
Panhandle
Legg Sasters
Atende Legg
Bi Rowel
Bluefield
Hisgod
Nazarene Young People’s Society Council
Beckley
UMW Supports Striking Beckley Printers Anew
United Mine Workers of America locals in Dist 29 pledge moral and financial support to Beckley area printers striking for ITU recognition. The 1933-ongoing walkout targets Beckley Post-Herald Raleigh Register and related papers, with locals urged to curb circulation and pressure advertisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Distriet
United Mine Work America
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Green New River
Winding Gulf
Circuit Court
Raleigh County
Beckiey, Post-Herald
Raleigh Register
Pipers
UMW
Charleston
International Typographical Union
ITU
Ilegal Organization
National Labor ‘Relations Board
Beckley Students Enrolled at Ohio State This Autumn
Beckleyans Bshareh and Davie L Paice of Beckley are among OS U students enrolled this autumn quarter.
Beckleyan Receives $25 for WWI Escape Time
James Mahoney of Beckley West Virginia receives a $25 War Claims Commission check for 25 days alleged as a German prisoner of war time plus more than five months spent as an escapee in the Italian underground. The act allows $1 per day for actual German captivity but nothing for escapee time. Mahoney, 28, a former technical sergeant now works as a mine equipment salesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Mahoney
Beckley
Italy
War Claims Commission
Mahoney
Four ORC Units Meet This Week In Beckley
Four local ORC units plan meetings this week in Beckley. Major Carl C. Dunham announced that Company A of the 398th Parachute Infantry Regiment led by First Lt. Carl L. Neff meets at 7 30 p.m. today at the ORC armory on N Oakwood Avenue. Company C of the 497th Engineer Combat Battalion under Capt. D E Casto meets at TASpan on Wednesday. The 2824th Post Camp or Station Headquarters special training group led by Lt. Col. J B Cooper meets at 7 30 p.m. Wednesday at Beckley Lincoln Mercury Garage. The 433rd Ordinance Motor Vehicle Assembly Company led by Cant. T R Cooper also meets at 7 39 p.m. Wednesday. The source also notes the origin of the word haywire.
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Army Organized Reserve Corps
Carl C. Dunham
ORC
Beckley
398Th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Carl L. Neff
N. Oakwood Avenue
497Th Engineer Combat Battalion
D. E. Casto
Taspan
2824Th
J.B. Cooper
S. Oakwood Avenue
433Rd Ordinance Motor Vehicle Assembly Company
Cant. T. R. Cooper
Eight Enlist Here In Armed Forces
Eight area men enlisted at the U S Army and Air Force Main Recruiting Station Friday announced Capt Wyatte J Gay commanding officer. Six entered four years in the Air Force and were sent to Lackland AF Base San Antonio Texas. They are William Harry Sarver 23 Pierpont Donald Oliver Pinnell 23 Alvon Alonzo Levern Jr 26 Mullens David Fitzne Bower 25 Pierpont Virgil Martin Money 21 Mt Airy NC and Alva Lee Privett 31 Mullens. The other two enlisted for three years in the Army and were sent to Ft Knox KY for basic training. They are Donald Lee Gummer 17 Skelton and Billy Pat Wheeler 19 Oak Hill.
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Ue. S. Army
Air Force
Wyatte J. Gay
Lackland AF Base
San Antonio
Tex
William Harry Sarver
Pierpoint
Donald Oliver Pinnell
Alvon
Alonzo Levern, Jr
Mullens
David Fitzne, Bower
Virgil Martin Money
Beckley Man Charged With Driving While Drunk After Collision
Ralph Matthews, 37, of 400 Russell Street, Beckley, was charged with driving while intoxicated after his westbound car struck James Holbert, 19, of Bellepoint, at Johnstown Road and the 1921 by-pass. The impact caused about 100 in damage as Holbert started from a parked position in front of the King Cole Restaurant. Matthews was jailed and ordered to appear before Judge Anthony Sparavino at 7 p.m. today for dependence Day court.
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Beckley
Ralph Matthews
Russell Street
Johnstown Road
James A. Holbert
Bellepoint
Holbert
King Cole
Matthews
Raleigh
Anthony F. Sparavino
SGT HELEN VENABLE ON SEVEN DAY FURLOUGH
WAF Sgt. Helen Venable of Beckley U. and Army and Air Force recruiting station is at home in Emporia Pennsylvania on a seven day furlough. She left Saturday on the trip and will also visit Morgantown and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Venable
Beckley U. & Army and Air Force
Emporia
Venable
Morgantown
Philadelphia
Relief at Last For Your Cough
Advertises Creomulsion as a potent cough remedy for bronchitis and chest colds. Claims to loosen phlegm and soothe inflamed bronchial membranes using beechwood creosote and other medicines. States it contains no narcotics and guarantees satisfaction or refunds.
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Carl R. Gray, Jr
Beckley Veterans Administrat
Crab Orchard Road
J. O. Tutwiler
Crab Orchard
William Hart
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
West Virginia
A. F. White
Lucille Smisko
Bair Building
Elva Roschon Coleman
Miss. Smisko
J. G. Smisko
Kanawha Street
Western Reserve Institute of Pathology
Cleveland
National Regy Board
Beckley Hospital
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Nus 4
Andrew Coleman
Orlando
Fla
Raleigh County Merchant Association
John W. Smith
James Deering
Presi Iudent
Aubrey Ward
Paul Cole
Duval Holliday
John Tindilia
Roy Eve
J. R. Cadle
T. E. Bazzarre
Tony Karantonis
O'Dell Cook
L. W. Peterson
Mankin Avenue
Birmingham
Ala
Goodman Manufacturing Company
George Rupp
Colorado
Will Larrive
Peterson
After Here
Acme Loan Company
Lincoln Service Corporation
Washington, C
Dec
Lantic Seaboard
W. PL Beresford
Hisee EL Cashiers
Lance Buitri
Sy In Berman
Sweetheart Ensense
N'Vitle ST
Reetey
Hatel Hill Ride
Oak Hil
Rev. Legg
Beckley Pastorate
Beckleyan
Rogers
Uefmans Area
Rogers Bros
Pest
Isc
Neville St. — Beckley Hotel
Hill Ride
Oak Hill
Armed Services
The
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of
Hroger
Krogar CO
AMAS
Kroger
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