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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1955
Page
12
Beckley Army Recruiting Main Station reported January 1955 as the best month in the past year with 204.1 percent of its enlistment quota. Capt. Carl J. Ford announced 198 voluntary enlistments, including 146 with no prior service, 49 with prior service, and three Women’s Army Corps enlistees.
Twenty nine Raleigh County youths enlisted Saturday before the Korean GI Bill deadline ending benefits. Army entries include William Daniel Smith Jr of Cleveland and Jackson Earl LaMasters of Spencer. several Air Force enlistees were assigned to Lackland and Sampson bases, with hometowns listed as Princeton, Beckley, Charleston, and Richwood among others.
Capt Carl J Ford at Beckley Induction Center says new recruits and inductees are ineligible for war benefits under the Korean GI Bill which ends at midnight Monday. Those in uniform before the deadline cannot add post discharge education credits. Congress has approved a bill to remedy this, with the Senate likely to follow. Veterans Administration notes eligible peacetime benefits may include medical care disability compensation and life insurance indemnity.
Marie Martin of Charleston is listed with family ties to Paul Love age 18 son of Princey Love of Clay and Bobbie Max White age 19 son of Mrs Helen White of Wharton Boone, reflecting a genealogical note in the notice.
Funeral services for Vernon Edward Bailey, 36, of Lanark, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Stanaford Church of Christ with Dr A H Wilson officiating. Burial follows at Stanaford Cemetery. Bailey died at his home about 3 a.m. Monday from a heart attack. The body was taken from Quesenberry and Webb Funeral Home to the residence of his brother Roscoe Bailey in Lanark at 4 p.m. today. Pallbearers are Walter Rogar Peter Petroskey Steve Kozar Walter Petrosky John Scott William Scott Stanley Shrodo and William Bennett Jr.
Antonio Puglise 84 died Sunday in a local hospital after illness since April. A Rosary is set for 8 p.m. today at his Mabscott home, with a funeral mass at 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis de Sales Church. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park. Survivors: wife Mary, daughter Tina Rascano, step children Nunzio Cacio and Nancy Abbott, three grandchildren. Pallbearers named.
John Harvey McCallister of Shelby North Carolina waived a hearing before U S Commissioner W A Thornhill Hills Ill Saturday on a charge of transporting a stolen car across state lines. He was placed in Raleigh County Jail by U S Deputy Marshal Wyatt Thompson who brought him from Bluefield. Thornhill said the man probably will be taken to South Carolina for prosecution.
Funeral services for Ferman Hoston 54 Mabscott will be held at 2 p m Thursday from the C D Trent Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev C H Edwards of Greenwood Memorial Cemetery presiding Hoston died Saturday at his brother Luther Perkins Mabscott and is survived by another brother Mack Heston of North Carolina and a sister Mrs Catherine Denney of North Wilkesboro North Carolina
The Boy Scouts of America celebrate 45 years with events across the Appalachian Council beginning Feb 8. Raleigh County units trace roots to Troop 2 Raleigh formed in 1916 under R B Holmes, with early Eagles and WWI bond drives.
Kermit League 47 of Morgantown formerly of Lester will have last rites at 2 30 p m Wednesday at Wesley Methodist Church Morgantown. He died from a heart attack at 8 a m Sunday. The body stays at Dearing Funeral Home until the service. Morgantown Masonic Lodge will conduct rites. He will be interred in a mausoleum in Morgantown then moved to Riffe Cemetery in Sophia.
J D Thompson 80, Bostonia California and former Raleigh County resident, died Sunday evening at his home. Survived by three sisters Addie Mann Beaver Ettie Lilly Shady Spring Mattie Clark Quinwood and two brothers W T Thompson Mount View T H Thompson Beaver. Funeral services and burial set for Bostonia Wednesday.
Harry Baker died at his home about 8 a m today. The body has been moved to C D Trent Funeral Home where funeral arrangements are incomplete.
A compact ad style notice promotes FASTEETH alkaline powder to hold false teeth firmly and comfortably. It claims no gummy taste, prevents slipping when eating or speaking, and reduces denture odor. Endorses purchasing at local drug counters.
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