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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1956
Page
3
Death reported at 10 15 pm in a local hospital. body remains at Wrights Funeral Home as details of the passing are incomplete and funeral arrangements unlisted.
Dr William Potter chief surgeon of Harlan Kentucky visits Beckley Memorial Hospital today. He tours the building and assists in operations. Three suits filed in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk s office name W M Chambers Truck Line and Bartow as defendants seeking 2999 damages for injuries from fumes of a liquid transported by the trucking firm. A 3000 suit by Union Day and Night Taxi Co against Leonard Lee Atkins is also on file. National Naval Medical Center library in Bethesda houses over 37000 medical books journals and pamphlets.
Funeral services are incomplete for Mrs. Chaney Taylor who died Monday morning at a focal hospital. The body is at C. D. Trent Funeral Home awaiting final arrangements.
U S Treasury agents used 13 sticks of dynamite to destroy two moonshine stills in Sand Lick. Tracy Harper, 59, was jailed in Raleigh County after admitting ownership of one still and authorities found mash, sugar, and moonshine remnants. demolition cited as modern method. prior practice involved chopping and patching.
Funeral services for John Redden will be conducted at 1 30 p m Wednesday in the Webb and Quesenberry Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Kidwell Cemetery at Table Rock. Redden, 34, of Beckley, died in a local hospital Monday afternoon. He is survived by two brothers, two sisters, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
A state wide walnut harvest program allows farmers and landowners to harvest black walnuts for shipment to Missouri until December 22. Markets listed include Beckley Gassaway Inwood Lamberton Parkersburg and Weston. Walnut uses span food kernels abrasives plaster cement drilling plant mix and retreading winter tires.
A brief insurance notice from American Farmers Mutual urges readers to insure promptly against fire auto mobile accidents sickness and theft. It cites agent Omar Stover at 1510 Harper Rd Beckley and provides a contact phone number CL 3 4392.
The Stab Fork Ever Ready 4H Club will carol at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, followed by refreshments at Stab Fork Elementary School. Club leader Miss Jewell Harisoy proposed a Slab Fork entrance sign as a community project, with Clarence Wooten of Raleigh County 4-H suggesting a donation to The Toby Boggs Memorial Fund.
The annual Christmas party, hosted at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital, runs Friday from 2:30 to 24:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Dr. Felix Neri will narrate the Christmas Story for hospital employees and their families. Prizes will be awarded and refreshments served.
Brady Floyd Bland, 50, of Meadow Bridge, was admitted to Beckley Memorial Hospital at 11:25 a.m. Monday after a slate fall. An employee of Pesier Coal Company East Rainelle was treated for a fractured pelvis and ribs. His condition today is listed as most satisfactory.
Jessie Hill of 311 Bair Street reported to Beckley Police on Sunday night that a 1953 light blue Plymouth Sedan was stolen. The vehicle bore license plate 393126 and police are investigating the theft.
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