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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Feb 02, 1956

Page

4

Local TEPS Session to Be Presided by Charleston Teacher

State chairman of the Teacher Edshop will preside at a TEPS workshop in Charleston at the Daniel Boone Hotel Saturday. The event opens at 10 am and runs to 3:30 pm with statewide committee members meeting concurrently to complete reports for the Teachers Association spring Council meeting.

Lcation Daniel Boone Charleston Hazel Davenport Beckley Classroom Teachers Association

Woodson Rites Slated Saturday

Henry M Woodson will receive last rites in Brooklyn New York and funeral services follow at Pleasant Valley Church Mind Virginia Locke Huntington with burial in Byron Cemetery. Survivors include wife Louise of Charleston son Henry M Woodson Jr four sisters and three brothers. Body remains at Wright Funeral Home until the funeral hour.

Henry Marshall Daven- Woodson Edmond Will Port Margube Lorite Keller Buckhannon Anna Pleasant Valley Church of Mind Virginia Locke Huntington Inaden Mary Masters Wheeling Jumond Anita McDougal Glenville Lucille Armstrong Charleston Louise Woodson Henry M. Woodson Jr West Virginia State College Hazel Mosley Keystone Ortris Harrison Brooklyn N. Y Ruby Watson New Haven

Harvey Bowman Dies After Hospital Stay At 63

Harvey Bowman 63 of Crab Orchard died late Wednesday night in a local hospital where he had been a patient since January 4. His body is at the Caffee Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.

Harvey Bowman Crab Orchard Caffee

Taxpayer’s Lead in Government Explained to League by Boley

John Boley, Raleigh County deputy, told the League of Women Voters on the cost of government and the tax system. He detailed property assessment classes and urged citizens to pay taxes. He cited 1923 and 1955 federal shares, county property values, and the tax use split with schools receiving about 71 percent of levies.

Boley John Boley Raleigh Lassesser League of Women Voters

Thompson Rites Slated Saturday for William Thompson

Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Fireco Methodist Church for William Thompson 78 of Cranberry. Rev. Robert H. Doan to officiate with burial in Coal City Cemetery. Thompson died 11:45 a.m. Wednesday after a heart attack at home. He was born February 15 1877 in Ash County North Carolina. He was a retired coal miner and former tipple foreman for Lackey Fire Creek Coal Co. Survived by wife Oley Barker Thompson two daughters Minnie Minor and Oley Bell two sons Bin Aim and others including two brothers a sister and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. The body will be taken from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home to Mrs Minor’s Fireco residence Friday evening. Pallbearers named.

Fireco Methodist Church William Thompson Cranberry Robert H. Doan Coal City Thompson Ash County N. C Felix Thompson Lackey Fire Creek Coal Co Oley Barker Thompson bin- Aim Minnie Minor Oley Bell Fireco Monroe Avondale Cicerco Virginia Elzana Richardson Galva Kyler Greer Mountain City Tenn Ken Greer Abington Rose and Quesenberry Minor

Prosperity Bradley Sign Protest Meeting Tonight

Prosperity and Bradley communities clash over the Bradley highway sign moved into Prosperity territory for the third time. A protest meeting is set for 7 30 p m at Prosperity Elementary School with Robert Ashworth and J C Long among those expected to attend to demand removal of the sign from Prosperity limits near the Royal Spaghetti House.

Prosperity Bradley Prosperity Group Acre Bradley Town Limits Prosperity Boundary Prosperity Road Robert Ashworth Beckley J. C. Long Princeton State Road Commission J. A. Blackburn Blackburn Bradley Residence Bradley Lions Club Royal Spaghetti House

Piney Oaks PTA to Meet Tonight at 7 PM

Piney Oaks Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association will meet at 7 p.m. today at the school. Chauncey Woods, president, released the information and urged members to attend.

Piney Oaks Pta Piney Oaks Chauncey Woods

19 Enlist in Army and Air Force this week and last

Army and Air Force enlistments totaled 19 with two re enlisting in the Air Force. Names appear for Duty reporting at Ft Jackson and Lackland APB Texas including James E Spencer Justice to Army and Bobby D Baughman Lonnie H DeMoss Jerry E Taylor Charley McKinley Wilson Samuel L Taylor Delbert Maggard Jr Eu l iece Woody John Brewer Carl E Adkins Leland Jr Butler and others re enlisting in fighter groups and wings at Carapolis Langley AFB. Eight into the Air Force and four into the Army Thursday with duty locations Fort Jackson Lackland and Langley noted.

Army Air Force James E. Spencer Justice Ft. Jackson S. C Lackland Apb Texas Bobby D. Baughman Ina Baughman Morris Lonnie H. DeMoss Lula DeMoss Jerry E. Taylor Emmett Tay Dunmore Charley McKinley Wilson Gertrude , Wilson East Beckley Samuel L.taylor Andy W. Taylor Delbert Maggard Jr Delbert Maggard Raysal Eulice Woody Carapolis Leland Jr. Butler Charleston Langley Afb D. C Johnnie Phillips Brooklyn N. Y Richard L. Cunningham Sebert Cunningham Holcomb James A. Osborne Ray A. Osborne Nettie William Workman Naugatuck William C. Mullins Ray S. Mullins Northfork George A. Thompson Odie Thompson Cranberry Harry D. Davis Carl Davis Maine Carl.f. Jordan James E. Jordan

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