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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1961
Page
14
Principal M. K. Austin will speak on The Role of the Elementary School at the Piney Oaks PTA meeting set for Thursday at 7 30 p m. Lola Walker PTA president says plans will be discussed for National Negro History Week observance.
Noel B. Roberts sues E. S. Walkup of Lanark in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk's office for $750. The claim alleges damages to Roberts' automobile from a collision near Quinnimont.
Rehearsal directed by Joseph Golz features three scenes from Showcase in the Memorial Building at 8 15 tonight. The fantasy depicts space ideas with color kaleidoscope, Spirit of the Pioneers, and future themes. Barbara Cook and Larry Christian sing with the university choir. Beth Hobach stars in a Shakespear scene. No admission charged. state tour continues.
Paderewski explains Dalcroze Eurhythmics as a holistic curriculum that uses rhythmic movement solfege improvisation choral singing anatomy and plastic movement to harmonize and intensify the union of spirit and body through applied music education.
Sixteen enlistees at Beckley Recruiting Station are headed to Lackland Air Force Base Texas for basic training. Named are Harry Edward Thompson Robert Bowry Gordon Redford Ellis Robert Allen Belcher Garry Lee Ayers BILL LEE MOUNTS Norman Frederick Stapleton David Stephenson Hamrick Ronald Lee Bane Roy Michael Creasy Paul Hamilton Bonner William Harvey Ballengee William Lee Barton Howard Roland Cashwell Jr. Frank Steve Szakacs III.
West Virginia turkey raisers found a ready market for their birds for the 1960 holidays. In Beckley area, a grower who usually has enough turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas sold out his flock for Thanksgiving with none left for the Yule tide. The Federal State Crop Report shows a planned 7 percent increase in turkeys for 1961 to a total of 943 000 light and heavy breeds, up from 881 000 in 1960. Actual 1961 production may vary from Jan 1 intentions depending on feed prices, hatching egg costs, and poults prices as well as sales of 1960 surplus.
In a school music program Taylor will conduct all percussion for a lone number including snares timpani bass drum cymbals triangle tambourine and bells while Rand Taylor plays the Chinese Temple Blocks for Bambuco. Separate health reports praise eradication of Bangs disease in New Hampshire livestock and a tuberculosis decline in North Carolina, but warn of rising infectious syphilis due to public cooperation gaps.
W J Bradley Raleigh and Wyoming counties postal inspector told Beckley Lions Club members obscene and illicit mail should be reported to inspectors. He warned mail is often first class and cannot be opened by inspectors. Children are common recipients of obscene mail and may become targets for illegal mailings. The meeting at El Chico Restaurant also noted a Ladies Night on Feb 14. Frank E Meadows, 26, Bailey Avenue, was ordered to Beckley Police Court for speeding and improper vehicle registration after a 9:30 p.m. Tuesday arrest.
The Maids and Matrons Social Study Club public relations committee bought nine pairs of shoes and two pairs of boots for area school children in January, said chairwoman Mrs. L. E. Armstead.
News from home and overseas lists Pvt William B Milum completing eight weeks of armor training at Fort Knox. Also named are five area men who did six weeks on Vieques Puerto Rico with Camp Lejeune Second Marine Regiment, plus Watt R Evans at Norfolk VA, James H Smith at Parris Island, Claude J Ashley and Charles L Dickens on a Caribbean mission, and three area men finishing unit training at Fort Riley for Korea deployment.
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