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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 1956

Page

5

Coal City PTA Backs Feb 24 Special Levy

Coal City Elementary School PTA votes to support the Raleigh County Board of Education planned school levy to be decided February 24. Proceeds from a Friday pie supper fund playground equipment and other school needs as members critique memory self help guides and discuss local civic involvement.

Coal City Raleigh County Board of Education Creagh Associated Press Star Shandy Farloff Dent James A. Farley White House

German Engineer's Story Makes Good Movie Plot

Rudilhe Mittag, a German diesel engineer who fled the Graf Spee saga, rose to chief diesel engineer of the Powell municipal power plant in Lowell Michigan. He met Virginia Hoover in Posadas Argentina, married in 1951, and now navigates U S citizenship while raising four children in Michigan.

Lowell Mich Wi Owosso Mich Graf Spee Byron Munici Pal Rudilhe Mittag Fentine U. S Powell Municipal Mittagis South Atlantic Ajax Exeter New Zealand Achilles Mount River Plate Montevideo Graf Uruguay Hitler Posadas Highway Department Virginia Hoover Buenos Aires United Lutheran Church Erika Mon Ruth Argentina Gerhardt Michigan

College Chapel Programs Reset to Rev. Virgil C Cooke

The Beaver and Blue Jay Methodist churches pastor Rev Virgil C Cooke will lead college chapel programs for the rest of the term. Programs occur every three weeks under his direction and run in addition to the normal lyceum schedule for the second semester.

Beckley College Virgil C. Cooke Beaver Blue ‘Jay Cooke

GS Drive Head Explains Budget for Girl Scout Drive

Volunteer workers at a kick off coffee hour in Raleigh County received instructions for the fund drive. J R DePaulo chairperson outlined the campaign budget and the importance of scouting plus assigned tasks to committees and volunteers.

Raleigh County Scout Council Appalachian Electric Power Co Paul Girl Scout Fund J. R. DePaulo Raleigh

Child Listed Improved in Raleigh General Hospital

Judy Keenor daughter of Mr and Mrs Dana Keenor 205 Whitestick St is listed improved in Raleigh General Hospital today after a Feb 2 seizure saved by Beckley firemen. Firefighter Otis Lyons administered oxygen and later gave a blood transfusion during her admission for acute intestinal infection.

Releigh General Hospital Beckley Judy Keenor Dana Keenor Whitestick St Otis Lyons Lyons

Municipal Lot Receipts Top Four Thousand For Week

Receipts from meters in the Municipal Parking Lot for the week ending today totaled 4641, according to the City Recorder's Office. A cross suit between Bison Fast Freight and Hoge Warren Zimmermen Co. was dismissed by Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Norman Knapp on Tuesday.

City Recorder's Cross-Sulut Raleigh County Norman Knapp Bison Fast Freight Hoge-Warren - Zimmermen Co

New Move Aloof To Hike Reserves

Secretary of Defense Wilson outlined a temporary plan to shorten active service for draftees to 18 months and bolster the ready reserve. Up to 100000 draftees would remain in the reserve for at least 24 years, with increased draft calls perhaps doubled to maintain strength through mid 1957. The effort relies on automatic buildup by 1959 under the Reserve Forces Act. The Army argues shorter drafts waste training time.

Washington Secretary of Wilson Army

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Raleigh Register W. Va A. K. Minter Minter Main Neville Kanawha Prince State Road Commission Jerry Johnson Harold Mackey Coal City Pta Brendan Byrne Kiwanis Club Key Club Woods Know Tow Wilson High School School For Kiwanis Lee Gettysburg Byrne Bantam Booke Lansing Secretary of State Sitle Santa Fe Germany Saxony Lannemanthe College Names Beckley Kiwanians GS Drive P. B. Barwood A. F White Paul Phipps R .G Broaddus R. D. Watts A. J. Ginkel E . Bowman George Haldane W. T. Boone John Boley Eugene Meadows G. Berk Lynch Ross Irle George Mays L. W. Thome Bernard C. Holliday Randall Wood‘dell R. F. Cridlin Ed‘gar RK. Parsons Rontley Webb Ralph C. Carter Oscar C. Thorpe W . Larimore B. K. Peter C. T. Harvey W. M Kessel Joseph Fazio B. F. Lowe Enrico Della Mae Willard Fielding Robert Harrah W. D. Irvin B. H Payne George Davis Jack Akers Andy So Tak Worthy Harris Lewis Meadows Keenor JFG Mes Filbert
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