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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1950
Page
5
A Tree For Otsego Fa provided gifts for about 700 children under 15, aiding approximately 300 miners and their families at Otsego. Packages were wrapped, loaded, and hauled in two trucks. Santa stood amid festivities as community volunteers organized the distribution.
Helene Curtis showcases the Cold Wave collection featuring Lee Dillon and J Meredit Frances N With or Withe among models and designers presenting at the new wave fashion event.
Hi-V and Tri-Hi-V clubs of Pineville High School began a house to house canvass for the Community Christmas Basket Program at 1 p.m. Trucks from three Pineville firms carry donations of food and clothing. Honor Society members will visit business places hosting baskets to explain the project to aid needy Pineville families through gifts of food and clothing.
Mullens Business and Professional Women's Club hosted a Friday night Christmas dinner in Friend ship Hall First Methodist Church with 27 members. Gifts for Pinecrest Sanitarium Beckley and the Mountain State Hospital adopted student were gathered along with toys clothing and food for a needy family. Mrs Mildred Martin reported on the Mid Century White House Conference for Children and Youth in Washington. Mrs Carl Moran introduced Mrs Conrad Cook who sang three songs.
Mr and Mrs Paul Mc Coy of Lego received a Department of Defense telegram reporting their son Corporal Paul Mc Coy Jr seriously wounded in Korea on November 26 He trained at Fort Jackson South Carolina and served at Fort Lewis Washington He sailed for Korea August 3 after a 45 day furlough following two years in Korea and attended Stoco High School before enlisting
Paul Cannaday youngest son of Mr and Mrs Marion J Cannaday of Nelsonville Ohio was critically hurt in an automobile accident Monday in Ohio on his 20th birthday He is paralyzed from the neck down and a spine injury or broken back is possible He is hospitalized at Nelsonville A specialist has given less than a fifty fifty chance of recovery Two companions in the vehicle were uninjured
Fayetteville church Workers Conference met at Mrs. Marshall Smith home Tuesday night. Mrs. I D Lucas Sr led devotionals and H F Frazier directed the program. Plans were made to prepare Christmas baskets for needy families in the community.
Jesse James A. Graham aged 26 of Jesse was discharged from Stevens Clinic Hospital Welch after treatment for head injuries.
Funeral services seek 2 p.m. Wednesday at the residence for Ada Pearl Albert 64 of Stanaford who died Sunday night after an extended illness Burial will follow in Hurt Cemetery at Warden She was born February 22 1886 in Raleigh County and was a longtime resident a member of Warden Church of Christ Survivors include husband Robert L Albert three sons and several relatives The body will be taken to the residence from Coffee Funeral Home this afternoon Active pallbearers are listed.
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