Gallant Shady Spring Girl Battles Polio to Return Home
Ella Nora Plumley, 13, of Shady Spring fights polio since Sept 1955. Hospitalized at Marmet, she gains strength through therapy while her parents and siblings stay nearby. Her family carries polio insurance, and funds via the Raleigh County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis support care costs. Donations to March of Dimes aid prevention efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mel Verost
Shady Spring
Ella Nora Plumley
Otis Plumley
Ella Nora
Raleigh General Hospital
Marmet Hospital
National Foundation For
Plumley
Nora
Kila Nora
Ihee
Marmet
Raleigh County
MOD
McCreery St
Elia Nora Pimmley
Otis Pimmley
Carl Cash
Valley Drive budget outlines major road work in three counties
The State Road Commission proposes a 1.824 million dollar Valley Drive program with three county projects. Raleigh Fayette and Wyoming counties would see grading, draining, and by pass work on State Route 6 and 79, including widening and concrete paving. A total program cost tops 12.507 million for bridges and extensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Road Commission
Sion
Valley Drive
Raleigh
Fayette
Wyoming
Oakwood Ave
Acea
Beckin
Fley
Mabscott
Burl A. Sawyers
Sey- Raleigh
Fayette County
Montgomery Street
Kanawha River
Montgomery
Beckley Hospital
Wyoming County
Kopperston
Boone County
Hodel Receives Treasury Medal For Bond Program Work
George Warren Hodel, Beckley News Papers Corp. general manager and Raleigh County U S Savings Bond Program chair, received a Treasury Department award for outstanding patriotic service. The 100 percent Club medal honors 1955 county sales of 1 355 554 dollars, with total yearly Series E and H bonds reaching 1 693 183 dollars. The medal, designed by a master engraver, shows the Minute Man and Treasury seal on the obverse and patriotic inscription on the reverse, with Hodel’s name and year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Warren Hodel
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Raleigh
U. S. Savings
Treasury Department
Thomas H. Vanderford
Vanderford
Philadelphia
Minute Man
Treasury
U.S. Treasury
U. S
Hodel
Beckley Chamber Plans February City Brochure
Beckley chamber offices prepare an inexpensive folder style brochure to be submitted for board approval at the February meeting. The pamphlet will carry Beckley’s name with a blank inner panel for up-to-date statistics and an outside page showing the city and chamber logo. An aerial view of the business district will be included with a map of the Eastern Seaboard placing Beckley in distance to major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Chamber of Commerce
Atco
Seaboard
Baltimore Livestock Prices Roundup From USDA Feedlot Rates
Livestock market notes at Baltimore show cattle primarily 1242 to 1251 for steers, with daughter steers 18.25 to 19.25 and occasional canner heifers down to 10.00. Canner and cutter stock mostly 10.00 to 12.00, commercial sausage dull 15.00, calves M1 to prime dealers 31.00 to 35.50, good to choice 24.00 to 30.00 for select, add commercial 17.00 or under. Hogs at 40 with no sales. Sheep quotations largely unchanged with choice and prime near 95.1b, slaughter lambs up to 21.58, ewes 7.40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
USDA
Teel School PTA backs three year levy extension
Teel E'enen tary School PTA members vote to support a proposed three year extension of the levy. Principal Posy Pettrey will contact parents to urge support ahead of the February 24 ballot. Fire chief Otis Lyons discusses polio and NFIP work, with a film titled Remember Me. The group also sets monthly $10 rewards for the room with most attendees and approves land retention near Teel School. A $5 gift is authorized for a homeroom with 100 percent current membership to fund a paper for a new graphing machine. Valentine party planned. December hot lunch funds total 140.37.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teel E’enentary School Parent-Teacher Association
Marguerite Ried
PTA
Posy Pettrey
Raleigh County Board of Education
Board of Education
L. G. Warden
Teel School
Reid
Memorial Airport Averts Tragedies As Beacons Help Planes
Raleigh County Memorial Airport beacons and field lights credited with averting four crashes including a Tuesday incident when John Calvert and secretary Rod King landed a single engine Navion after bearing failure. Calvert, uninjured, planned appearances in Charlotte and New York City. Airport manager Hanks said lights aided other minor and major landings, with multiple past near misses noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitty Thompson
Raleigh County Memorial
John Calvert
Rod King
Cincinnati
Ohio
Beckley
Harold Hanks
Calvert
Raleigh County
Piedmont Airlines
Charlotte
Ann Cornell
John Carradine
Raleigh
Igas
American Airlines
Texas
Crawford, Porter Take Over Third Beckley Theatre
Beckley's three theatres the Beckley Palace and Lyric fall into the ownership of Bernard L. Crawford and G C Porter, who also lease the Lyric after closing for 30 to 45 days for remodeling and a new marquee and seats. The former managers and lessees depart and the Lyric’s owners plan upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
The
Palace
Lyric
Bernard L. Crawford
G. C. Porter
Lyric Theatre
Marquis
D. C. Meadows Jr
W. A. Stanley
T. S. Williams
E. C. Minter
Myrtle Hedrick
E. H. Hedrick
W. A
Gene” Burke
Burke
House of Delegates
Raleigh
Charleston
Meadows
Rites Incomplete For Henry Woodson
Funeral arrangements are in process for Henry Woodson formerly of Edmond who died Saturday in Brooklyn New York. The body is at Wright's Funeral Home. Also mentions Aberdeen postal mishap where a piece of mail returned for postage from the National Federation of Post Office Clerks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Woodson
Edmond
Brooklyn
WN. OY
Wright
Aberdeen, Wash
The Office Assists Pinecrest Patient Funds Secured
The Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Department Office organized funds to enable a Pinecrest Sanitarium patient to go home for an operation. Mrs. C. C. Sanders, executive secretary, said none of the funds were drawn from local TBH organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Tuberculosis and Health Department
Pinecrest Sanitarium
C. C. Sanders
Area Scouters Observe Boy Scout Week Anniversary
Fayette Raleigh and Wyoming Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts join Explorers and leaders in marking the 46th anniversary. The four year program Onward for God and My Country will launch during Boy Scout Week Feb 6 12. Dr Arthur A Schuck says the program aims to deliver a better youth program through trained manpower and to teach Be Prepared as citizens of character. Plans for a nonpartisan 1956 National Get Out the Vote campaign are set during Boy Scout Week in cooperation with the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette
Raleigh
Wyoming
Arthur A. Schuck
Scout Organization
The
Freedoms Foundation of
Valley Forge
Holliday Named Executive Officer of 150th Cavalry
Lt. Col. Daniel D. Holliday of the West Virginia National Guard is named executive officer of the 150th Armored Cavalry Regiment with command of tank troops during Col. Charles E. Wright’s three month absence at Fort Knox. Maj. Clarence E. Galaspie will succeed Holliday as Second Battalion Commander. A Feb. 22 recruiting drive proclaimed as National Guard Master Day aims to enlist 73,000 nationwide and 250 additional guardsmen in West Virginia, where total strength stands near 3,700 across 36 units in three cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A Beckleyan
150Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Daniel D. Holliday
West Virginia National Guard
Holliday
Charles R. Fox
Charleston
National Guard
West Virginia
Charles E. Wright
Ft. .Knox
Halliday
150Th Infantry
Beckley
Gassaway
Richwood
Ronceverte
Clarence E. Galaspie
7Th Tank Battalion
Europe
Col. Holliday
National Guards
Marland
Congress
Baltimore Apples and Potatoes Market Prices By Region
Market wire reports steady to mixed pricing across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic for apples and potatoes. Apple varieties including Delicious, Gala, Stayman, and Rome show small up ticks by size and grade with regional differences in New Jersey Virginia and New York markets. Potatoes remain barely steady with unwashed Size A Katahdins quoted in sacks and per 10 pounds in New York Long Island and Connecticut markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Bu Bkts & Eastern
Yorks
Staymans
Jonathans
Wife Withdraws Charge, Husband Goes Free
Ewens Bragg, Hast Beckley, was released from the Raleigh County Jail Tuesday night after his wife withdrew assault charges. Bragg's wife, Lily, who had obtained the warrant Sunday from Magistrate Ted Kessinger, appeared before Kessinger and paid the costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewens Bragg
Hast Beckley
Raleigh
Bragg
Lily
Ted Kessinger
Kessinger
Beckley police pick up stray Pekingese dog
Patrolman Tom Collins of Beckley Police Department said a Pekingese dog was picked up around 9 p.m. Tuesday at the lower end of Granville Ave. The dog wore a chain but no ID tag. Collins plans to keep the dog at home in hopes the owner will reclaim it. Anyone with information is asked to contact the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Collies
Beckley Pele
Collins
Granville Ave
Colec
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Gallant Shady Spring Girl
Polio
SRC
Schon Fell
West
M. A. Groff
Groff
First Assembly of God
Huntington
Clare A. Risley
National Sunday School Association
Risley
Chicago
George Hodel
Post W. H. McGinnis
Hull S
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Teel School Pta
Memorial Airport
Star
New York City
New England States
Florida
Ythe County
Roanoke
W. H. Harrison
Ian. Harding
Gestiel McKinley
Harding D
Rosecvel
Carl Jarrell
Dry Creek
Pinecrest
Holliday Heads
Uutil
U.S. Gov't
Western Lease & Land Co
Witthire Gecleverd
Geckley Indust Aving & Loan CO
Lore
Moyteent
Bices
Youngstown
Iaral Natonally
CLARK
Neville Street
Beceley
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