March Trial Docket Set for Circuit Court
The State Road Commission condemination suits will be tried in Raleigh County Circuit Court on March 13 with defendants Steve Woods, Mr and Mrs Roy K Pharr, and Dixie McManamay. Other civil cases are scheduled March 3 through March 17 including numerous named plaintiffs and defendants across multiple firms and services.
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State Road Commission
Raleigh County
Steve Woods
Roy K. Pharr
Dixie McManamay
Elpire Garrett
Dr. Pepper Bot Wing Company
Grace Walthall
B. Spangler
J. E. West
Woodrow Meadows
J. J. Tamb
AL FY. Noels
A. Whitener
Noel
WE. Lunstrum
Frank H. Ballard
Arrnold Shiltz
George W. Milam
John Dikw, Jr
Ouay Meador
Beckley National Bank
MLOF
Nuet
Edward L. McCormick
M. F. Spangler
Gus Fotes
Jessica B. Bartlett
Hattie] Tyree
Mangus Hodge
Golden
Leonard Meadows
J. A. Willis
John S. DeLauros
Raleigh Transit Company
Clay Moten
Jack Jones
Jack A. Cremens
Albert D. Wiley
Garnett Morrison
Merritt Clay McDaniel
Juan
Clyde C. Cox
W. L.taylor
E. C. Murphy
Chris Jarrell
Harper Land Company
State
Thomas E. Dillon
Posey H. Clay
Dorothy Ann Howard
Otho Robertson
Etarold Holstein
Cablish Baking Company
Granville Punkey
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Quality Lumber and Supply Company
Viola Darboise
H. T. Tucker
Thomas A. Williams
Earl Williams
Roy Lucas
W. B. Kinder
Standard Coffee Company
O. Williams
Leonard Blair
Billy Ray Bryant
Eastern Gas and Fuel
Billy Gene Withrow
Jimmy Carl McAnally
Eastern
Less Cursing No Parking By School
City Council designated Schovl Street next to Beckley Junior High for no parking after a request from Hel Scott and two others due to recreation building congestion and garage access issues. The measure was agreed on two hours before assistant superintendent James B. Deck arrived, resolving street parking tensions.
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City Council
Siam
James B. Deck
Schovl Street
Beckley Junior High School
School Street
Hel Scott
Anti Invasion Castle Crumbles in England
In Folkestone England a large washout under Sandgate Castle an anti invasion bastion built by King Henry VIII in 1539 has opened a breach. New cracks appear in the walls and public notices warn away visitors as workmen shore up the historic fortress.
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Associated Press
Folkestone
England
Sandgate Castle
Henry VIII
Whitesville dealer trades autos for cattle idea
Whitesville Motor Sales manager Loren D. Shafer proposes trading cars for beef cattle hogs and sheep due to slow used car sales amid regulations. He will accept livestock as down payment or full payment and may resell or keep stock locally. Horses mules and ponies are not accepted.
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Rearbler
Whitesville
Loren D. Shafer
Whitesville Motor Sates
Bec
Storks Vanish From Switzerland Prompt Rearing Plan
Swiss自然ists report a drastic drop in stork numbers from 150 occupied nests in 1900 to six pairs in 1948. Under Max Bloesch, captive breeding aims to release young to migrate back to Swiss breeding areas. The program, costing about 3500 dollars yearly, seeks to halt near extinction while addressing the National Guard armory sale near a local resident.
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Associated Press
Bern
Switzerland
Max Bloesch
Citizens Push City Council on Beckley Street Work
Citizens led by John Streetman urge opening Ninth Street East Beckley with a grader to remove brambles and energy growth. Mayor Hedrick says an effort will be made. Council weighs parking on Church Street and other traffic changes while addressing pavement hazards and fire department equipment needs.
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John Steetman
Ninth Street
East Beckley
G. C. Hedrick
W. H. Nelson
Church Street
Nelson
Fayette Street
Kanawha Street
A. Sloan
O. Freeman
Clarence Bibb
A. Scalise
Hedrick
Scalise
First Avenue
Sculise
Neville Street
Third Avenue
Clarence Brub
Beckley Water Company
Hote Company 4
Johnstown Road
Kanawha
Bernard Martin
City Council Accepts New Quad Fire Truck After Tests
The West Virginia Inspection Bureau reported the new Quad fire truck passed a three hour test. Fire Chief Bernard Martin noted it exceeded Bureau requirements. Earlier trials locally had failures until factory engineers made adjustments.
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West Virginia Inspection Bureau
Bernard Martin
Inspection Bureau
Montcoal Girl Honored On Fifteenth Birthday
Miss Physilis Charles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Jim Charles of Montcoal, was honored on her 15th birthday with a party at home Saturday hosted by her parents. Guests included Joar Dickens Polly Ann Peters Sybil Halstead Dorothy Beard Frances Mooney Sylvia Kelman Charlotte Stewart Shirley Woodrum Dorothy Eversal Jean Thompson Betty Thompson and many others.
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Firegitter
Montcoal
Physilis
Angeline Sanchez
Billy Sauls
Ned
J. B. Sauls
Dennie Henderson
Noah Blaylock
J. B. Marshall
Jimmie Young
Dayton Peters Jr
Lee Lynch
Stevie Maxey
Enar Scarbro
Walter Wiley
Frank Douglas
Eugene Griffith
Kenneth Persinger
Donald Romine
Harry Barker
Ray Charles
Alice
Irene
Phytis Chartes
Mayor Hedrick Invites Reporters to Dinner Function
Mayor G. Hedrick, in a tense mix of amiability and accusation, invited reporters to a function with a Reconstruction Finance Corporation representative and offered to pay the check. He had charged newspapers with errant stories while clashing with the Council over alleged police negligence during a tense last week.
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G. €. Hedrick
Council
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Paris Eyes Four Television Transmitters by Year End
Paris France expands TV rollout with four transmitters planned by year end. No receivers widespread yet, 10000 sets registered in Paris, more unregistered in Lyon and Lille. Early TV studios on Left Bank began under Nazi era tax regime. debate over advertising funding delays expansion. Eiffel Tower hosts current transmitter. a second Paris transmitter planned by year end.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Lyon
Lille
Radio 1
Fusion Television
European Airways
Communist Party of France
Eiffel Tower
Scout Week Rally Friday Highlights Local Observance
The 39th anniversary of scouting in Piney River District will be marked by a Friday rally at Beckley Recreation Building at 7 30 pm. About four hundred scouts will attend with a court of honor chaired by E E Bibb and E L Davis, awards for growth and new units, a cub minstrel by St Stephens Cub Pack No 10, and a 49th Anniversary Crusade presentation. Families are invited. The First Baptist Church hosts a dinner for troop No 6 on February 15 at 6 pm with Albert Allen as Scoutmaster. Wyco Troop 120, Wyco Union Church, holds a pancake supper February 1 for the troop. Troop 87, sponsored by Truax Traer, with Kenneth French as Scoutmaster, held an evening program at Packsville last Sunday.
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Ste
Piney River District
Beckley
E. E. ‘Bibb
E. L. Davis
J. B. Deck
Tscoul
St. Stephens Episcopal Church
J. D. Hollenbeck
P. Mooney
West Virginia move for four year medical school
Dr Norman J Baker of Charleston told New River Dental Society that West Virginia needs a four year school of medicine and dentistry now being studied by state legislative committees He noted about 25 dentists retire or die each year while only 13 new enter practice because students train out of state. Then shift to winter highway hazard tale about Scythe Woodrow Wilson High School and Seven Sisters snow slides near Loveland Pass with avalanches along U S Highway 6 and Forest Service lines.
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West Virginia
Norman J. Baker
Charleston
New River Dental Society
Associated Press
Baker
Dillon
Colo
Woodrow Wilson High School
Sisters of Loveland Pass
Seven Sisters
Wilfred Davis
U. S. Forrest Service
Mountain Pass Slide Crashes Kill Travel Saleman
A mountain pass slide severely damaged a car near Stanley Peak killing a traveling salesman. Davis recalls the incident describing the vehicle crushed with roof pressed to floor as the slides struck the highway.
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Davis
Stanley Peak
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Hell
John W. Eye
Neville St
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Ofte
Valentine
W. T. Grant CO
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Procter“ Amble
NEW River Company
Naptha
Oxydol
Duz
Ivory
Camay
KIRKS
Castile
BOC
Wee
Ployer
Truax Traer
Kenneth French
Packsville
Saks Jewelers
Neville St. — Beckley
Jewelers
Nemlie
Sisters Menace
Idemap
Rip van Winkle
Catskill Mountains
Joseph Jefferson
C. T. Webber
Rip
Wiedemann
Wiedemanns Fine Beer
Qaived
Wiedemannn Brewing Co, Inc
Mewfrort
Beckley Distributing Co
Pershing St
Dial
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