Beckley Enjoys Citywide Christmas Holiday Spirit
Beckley shoppers flood stores as a seven year peak buys, while schools and offices close for a long break. Thousands of students sleep in, out of town collegians return, and Santa visits fuel community programs across churches and charities. Two penitentiary inmates are pardoned for Christmas, with locals debating ham versus turkey prices amid festive events and invitations for holiday gatherings.
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Beckley
Ted
Santa ” McDowell
Memorial
The
Salvation Army
Beckley Shrine Club
Raleigh County Penitentiary
Kump
Ray Nuckols
Wilmer-Phil
United
C. C. Lewis
Joe L. Smiths
T. R. Raglands
Junior Woman's Club
Farm Women's Club Names New Officers
The Fayetteville Farm Women's Club elected Mrs. J. A. as president with Mrs. Raymond Fox as vice president and Mrs. S. C. Skaggs as secretary treasurer. Committees include Mrs. H. N. Arthur, Mrs. Henry Gill for schools, health chair Mrs. Tra Daniels, recreation head Mrs. Ja Martin, publicity lead Mrs. Spenser, 4-H Girls Loan chair Mrs. and Fox, Know West Virginia, and music chair Mrs. Ed Love.
Sandspur Removed From Child's Throat in Memphis
A 17-year-old girl Wanita Pettry of Archyrd Missouri swallowed a sandspur burr lodged in her throat. A specialist under anesthesia removed it in 30 seconds at a Memphis facility after the spur threatened her life and damaged her vocal cords.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Wanita Pettry
Archyrd
Five year old Donates Prize To Needy Children
Pineville five year old Sue Carrol donated her $5 tap dance prize from the Pineville Amateur Hour to the underprivileged children's toy fund. She asked her mother to give the prize to G. M. Nolley Pineville high school principal for distribution to needy families with toys and food.
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Register
Pineville
Sue Carrol
Sue
G. M. Nolley
Pineville High School
Nolley
Radio's Ready For Television in Exciting Courtship
New York and London conduct testing as television nears readiness with engineers racing to fix kinks. NBC leads revenue with about 35 million, CBS 20 million, others 45 million in 1936. Campaign broadcasts boost mic activity while programming shifts toward amateur and community segments. By 1937 networks expect 24 comedy hours weekly.
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Associated Press
New York
London
England
United States
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
Broadcast Radio
NBC
CBS
Ashby Dickerson Takes Store Job During Holidays
Rhodelle Ashby Dickerson, home from Morgan Town where he studies at the University, has accepted a position in the Stonecoat drug store for the Christmas holidays.
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Ashby Dickerson
By Register
Rhodelle Ashby Dickerson
Morgantown
Stonecoat Drug Store
Alabama Steel Workers Sit Down Strike at Plant Gains Night Stay
About 100 day shift workers at American Casting in Birmingham stayed inside the plant overnight in a sit down strike demanding recognition of the Amalgamated association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers a 40 hour work week and reinstatement of the union president J O Jackson president of the company declined to comment
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
American Casting Company
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
J. O. Jackson
Concern
Fireman’s grief as son crushed in trailer accident
A New York retiree rushed to a steam shovel trailer after seeing a boy dragged by a tractor tread. He learned the victim was his ten year old son William Quinty Jr. The distraught father collapsed at the scene.
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Associated Press
New York
William Quinty Jr
Youngsters Get Christmas Treat at First Baptist Church
A special Christmas service for children of the primary and junior departments at First Baptist Church was held last night. Rev. J. M. Crisswell directed the music and readings. Children Alice Clark Billy June Thompson Andy Jeffries and Billy Biggart gave readings. Gifts were distributed at the close.
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Register
Mullens
First Baptist Church
J. M. Crisswell
Alice Clark
Billy June Thompson
Andy Jeffries
Billy Biggart
Holloway House Occupied By Local Family Move
Mullens Mr and Mrs L E Smith married in Charlottesville September 10 will move into Holloway house on Moran avenue January 1. Smith an employee of the Virginian Railway here for years married the former with her two daughters Marie and Mrs Daisy Weaver Mrs Smith Ellen Weaver will arrive during the Christmas holidays.
Miner to spend Christmas in county jail after fine unpaid
Rhodell N. S. Stevens, a Nalco miner, will spend Christmas in the county jail after failing to pay a $5 fine and costs imposed by Magistrate Sam Lilly for a drunk charge. He was arrested by Constable John McDowell.
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Register
Rhodell
N. S. Stevens
Nalcominer
Sam Lilly
John McDowell
Stonecoal Roads Keep Folks Home
H. E. Harris reported heavy traffic on the dirt Tommy Creek road between Rhodell and Odd despite ice and snow on Stonecoal. State highways stayed open with plows and WPA cinders, but many residents stayed home for Christmas shopping.
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Associated Press
Rhodell
Stonecoal
WPA
H. E. Harris
Tommy Creek
Odd
Ray to visit in Cabell for Xmas
Whitesville mortician Paul M. Ray is to travel to Huntington today for Christmas with family and plans to return around January 1.
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Ray
Cabell
Register
Whitesville
Paul M. Ray
Whitesville Mortician
Huntington
Saw Amputates Worker's Fingers in Shop Accident
East Gulf firm carpenter E. W. Taylor had two fingers amputated by a saw while making repairs in the shop Tuesday. He was employed as a company carpenter and the incident occurred during routine maintenance.
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Register
East Gulf
E. W. Taylor
Barber R S Lusk Taken For Emergency Appendi citis Surgery
Rhodelle S. L. Lusk a barber was taken to Beckley hospital Monday where he underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis.
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Register
Rhodelle S. L. Lusk
Beckley Hospital
This Man Was Hungry at the Hungarian Inn
A hungry stranger boasted he could outeat all tavern guests in Kaposvar. After seven plates of meat with vegetables two pounds of goose liver paste 38 inches of salami two pounds of bread and a gallon of wine the guest still claimed hunger and moved to another inn for dinner.
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Associated Press
Kaposvar
Hagary
Lajlos Lenkei
Progressive Dinner Dance At Maynor Residence
Mullens youths were hosted by eight hostesses for a progressive dinner and dance. Courses moved among homes on Highland avenue Itmann Deegans avenue and Moran avenue with Miss Carrie Maynor, Miss Annie Catherine Delp and others coordinating. The evening ended with coffee and dancing at Beatrice Toler and Roba Greene’s home.
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Moran Avenue
Beatrice Toler
Roba Greene
Austria Orders Food Price Cuts
The Austrian cabinet ordered small cuts in milk sugar and coffee prices as the first step in a new social policy. The move targets high living costs and poverty while easing worker unrest and devaluation pressures seen abroad.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Black man with mental illness slashes riders on transcontinental bus
In St George Utah yesterday a Black passenger used a pocket knife to slash two riders and threaten others before being overpowered. Sheriff Prince identified the suspect as William Rollins 54 of Chaute Kansas who said he was mentally ill. Passengers A P Toothaker 65 of Sioux City Iowa was injured in the lung and James Allen 70 of Ogden Utah cut on hands and face.
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Associated Press
St. George
Utah
A. B. Prince
William Rollins
Chaute
Kas
A. P. Toothaker
Sioux City
Iowa
James Allen
Ogden
Man With Broken Back Returns Home for Christmas
Frances-Wilford Shorter, a machine man at the Beckley mines, who has been a patient in Beckley hospital for weeks after a slate fall that broke his back, was brought home yesterday by ambulance to spend Christmas with his family.
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Associated Press
Frances—Wilford Shorter
Beckley Hospital
Shorter
Kelly Cole Set to Take Office in Local Court
Rhodelle Kelly Cole, squire elect, moves to town from Beso co and plans to assume duties soon. He will buy all office equipment from outgoing justice Sam Lilly and retain the same Pascone building office.
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Cole
Sam Lilly
Pascone Building
Odell Announces Birth Of Carl Owen Odell
Rhodell Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Odell announce the birth of a seven pound baby boy named Carl Owen born December 22 at a local hospital.
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Register
Rhodell
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