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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1961
Page
5
A 1961 compilation titled Words Of The Champions No 18 lists spelling terms and phrases including Fayette Raleigh Wyoming and a long roster of challenging words. Co sponsored by The Raleigh Register And Principals Associations.
Belmont Homemakers Club gathered at Mrs. William O. Ritchie’s Booker Street home. A sewing workshop is planned for this month with upholstery sessions set for March and April. Guests included new members Mrs. Cleo Boyden and Mrs. Mittie Hairston, with refreshments served.
Dr. Harold Thomas Hyman outlines the Little City project 60 miles from Chicago a self contained community for mentally retarded blind deaf and palsied children. It plans 30 cottages 17 residents each with staff a school hospital chapel gymnasium playground and an exit cottage for independent living. Initial population 46 with 30 mentally retarded youths aged 12 to 22 and a nonprofit aim to provide outpatient clinics for guidance and possible admission.
The Ecumenical Youth Service at The Methodist Temple drew about 150 attendees marking National Youth Week. Beckley Christian Youth Council organized the program with Shirley Shirey as chair. participants from multiple churches led worship, readings, and prayers. An offering of 20.54 supported a youth social worker in East Harlem. after the service a pot luck meal followed in the church basement. The next Beckley council meeting is at First Christian Church at 1:30 p.m. Sunday with Good Friday Sunrise services planned for March 31.
Circus magnate P. T. Barnum once owned a Danbury Connecticut newspaper. Leopards predominantly hunt at night, with most activity occurring after dusk.
An aging colon causes constipation with dry hardened waste and weak muscles. The ad promotes COLONAID as a new laxative that moisturizes waste, retones the lower colon, and gently stimulates mass movement, claiming overnight relief and safety for expectant mothers, without hindering nutrient absorption. Introductory size 43¢.
Thirty six persons filed applications for work at the Beckley office of Employment Security Monday. They included a bookkeeper clerk typist nurse aids sales clerks waitress shipping clerk stock boy salesman arc welder carpenter helper shirt folder stationary boiler fire man service station attendant maintenance foreman cement finisher painter shovel oiler construction laborers electrician mine foreman coal loader mine laborer coal cutting machinemen routeman funeral attendant assistant edger man truck drivers cement mixer operator and an automobile mechanic.
Charles Basil Smith, 28, of Fosterville Virginia, received two ten year terms at the State Penitentiary in Moundsville after pleading guilty in Raleigh County Court to an equal number of indictments for breaking and entering. He had been sent to State Hospital for psychiatric exam to determine his fitness for trial. Charges included My Brothers Drive Inn at Trials on June 16 and July 6 and Marsh Fork High School on December 5. sentences to run concurrently.
Not many boys have the opportunity to help their fathers advance in the world but 4-year-old Rickey Fridley is an exception. With Lt. Col. D. L. Faw’s authority Rickey presented his father Richard L. Fridley with a promotion warrant to chief hospital corpsman while serving with the Second Battalion Sixth Marine Regiment at Camp Lejeune. The ceremony was witnessed by Mrs. Fridley, the former Shirley Roberts. Fridley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Fridley of Beckley. Before entering service in February 1951 Fridley graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School.
University of Wisconsin scientists John Emlen and George Schaller reported that abandoned gorilla nests in the Belgian Congo were the most comfortable resting places in the forests. The nests are small cup shaped structures used by gorillas before they depart.
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