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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1961
Page
12
Kay Sherwood reports on careful shoe choice for children to prevent foot defects. Dr. Joseph Lelyveld cites surveys showing high rates of foot problems linked to ill fitting footwear. He advises flexible kid leather shoes, mercerized cotton socks, and proper sizing for growing feet.
The Wyoming Democratic Executive Committee met in Pineville and recommended employment for multiple district road foremen and assistants across the county. It endorsed a liquor store management slate for Pineville Oceana Mullens and supported personal income tax, planning to notify Wyoming County delegates of the decision.
Donna Allen, daughter of Emmett and Mrs. Allen, is a patient at Bluefield Sanitarium under observation. The Brooks family and relatives from Glenfork visited Lincoln Brooks and David Brooks. Linda Mathena, a Morris Harvey student, stayed with Woodrow Sigman family, then with Howard and Connie Mathena in Pineville. Connie Waddell from WVU visited her parents in Bowman Bottom. Robert G. Martin and Kimberly of Princeton spent the weekend with the Pendrys in Keyrock.
Fayetteville and nearby Pax communities report a flurry of Sunday dinner visits and family gatherings. Guests include the Flint and Mease families in Summersville and Keller Avenue, with West Virginia University students among those spending the semester break in Dixie and surrounding towns. A local grocery owner, Cortez Davis, was hospitalized in Beckley in critical condition. Nancy Kaye Compton, born January 29, arrived at Oak Hill hospital, with Joe Compton and Ida Hancock’s family connections noted amid overseas duty updates.
The column advises trying new methods at work to gain zest and save time, urges speaking one’s mind without pressuring others, and suggests extra rest tonight. It notes Nell Gwyn’s 311th birth anniversary and cites U.S. electricity use and projected utility spending through 1980.
Aries through Pisces provide brief guidance on daily traits and choices. Notes mention economy of effort, attitudes toward others, health, wardrobe, encounters, illness impacts, and financial discretion for various signs. Keep tactful, practical, and self aware as the day unfolds.
In Pineville, sixteen grand jurors are summoned to report February 20 at Wyoming County Circuit Court. Jury commissioners Orville Ross and A. E. Baldwin drew the names, along with sixty petit jurors who report March 14. Listed are the jurors from Baileysville, Bud, Pineville, Mullens, Clear Fork, Steeles, Kopperston, Itmann, and others, including several residents of Mullens and Pineville.
Morgantown West Virginia area dentists invited to a six month series of twelve postgraduate refresher courses at West Virginia School of Dentistry. Dean Kenneth V Randolph outlined lectures by eminent professors from Indiana Penn University Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Courses cover crown and bridge endodontics radiography periodontics and jaw relationship records with several two to three day sessions and weekly formats. Contact Dean Randolph at the University School of Industry for more information.
The Norfolk and Western Railway Co. will provide freight station space in Raleigh and nearby counties on a nominal lease for surplus food commodities. State officials say more trucks and warehouse storage are needed as food increases rise. A survey by two federal officials will assess the surplus food distribution system and recommend changes. John McClellan and Philip Hearn of the U S Department of Agriculture will lead the survey for President Kennedy's aid program.
Wyoming General Hospital Mullens releases January 25 to 31 admittances and discharges. Names include Audie Bottom Lee Marianna, Florence Green Alpeca, Vadie Hall Glen Rogers, Paul Martin Alpeca, Joyce Lambert Mullens, plus many others. Discharged patients include Herbert Baker, Rosalie Dwiggins, Florence Mooney, Ora Bell Grose, Edith Shrewsbury, Margaret Davis, Linda McKinney and more.
A two year old boy, Joseph Wesley Moody, was the sole victim when a rural Fayette County seven room frame house burned. Eight others, including his mother and seven nieces and nephews, escaped. The Moodys were away. the fire, near an isolated farming community 31 miles south of here, was likely started by an overheated stove. The body was taken to Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in East Rainelle with arrangements pending.
Sgt Gary Payne left Friday on a 30 day furlough with his wife Kaye at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Roy Payne formerly of Ft Riley Kaw. Other notes mention Billy Aliff a patient at Oak Hill Hospital and several visits by family and relatives from Columbus Ohio Baltimore Maryland Cleveland Ohio Kingston Fayetteville Mt Hope and Washington DC.
Dr Ross Newman of Wyoming General Hospital Mullens will address the Woman's Civic Club Thursday at 8 p.m. in Mrs Elbert Cook's home Church Street. Carroll Cowan leads the program. Newman plans to discuss congenital heart disease and has trained at Charity Hospital before serving 16 years on Beckley Hospital's surgical staff.
Miners at Brule Smokeless operation of Oglebay Norton Coal Co. Otsego formed a brief wildcat strike after 22 men were cut off by a seniority dispute. A union meeting in Otsego Union Hall set the line’s purpose, and workers returned to work once informed, with operations to resume likely on the evening shift.
Pax Wright and family visited Mount Hope hosts Mr and Mrs Leo Thompson and others over the weekend. Dewey Stover returned to Lenora after time with his father and relatives due to Daisy Pearl Stover's illness at Oak Hill Hospital. B A Wright came home Monday after a four week stay at Oak Hill Hospital.
Veterans should report annual VA income if they receive nonservice connected pensions. If they fail, payments can be stopped to ensure eligibility rules are met. VA records show 39 living Indian War veterans and about 35,000 Spanish American War veterans. GI life insurance bills to restore lapse remain unpassed. VA doctors and nurses are civilians, not active-duty service members.
A fire destroyed the Clear Creek home of Mr and Mrs Emil Bailey Tuesday afternoon. A television set and a car were the only possessions saved and the origin of the blaze was not determined. Whitesville Volunteer Fire Department fought the flames. insurance status unknown.
Mount Hope elementary party honors L. E. Szuch on 11th birthday. sheriff proceeds to sell Clay Coal mining property in Raleigh County on Feb 10, 1961. Funeral notices for Athey Joe Creed John Q Hutchinson Domonick Stanek. florists DIAS FLORAL CO.
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