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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1962
Page
9
A long list compares what junior and senior high boys and girls value in a future mate. Top traits include pleasing personality, good looks, and shared religious beliefs, with notable differences across junior and senior levels and genders.
Balloting by Raleigh County Bar Association members named Oppie L. Hedrick as temporary judge during Judge Norman Knapp’s army duty. The February term opens Monday with orders docketed, then pre-trial conferences before jurors report March 5. Listings show daily cases March 5 to March 26 across multiple plaintiffs and defendants.
Fifteen persons filed applications for work at the Beckley Office of Employment Security on Tuesday. The list includes one maid, one kitchen helper, two sales clerks, one painter, one carpenter, one electrician, two stock boys, three truck drivers, one mine foreman and two construction laborers. Out of the area openings are available for a beauty operator and a ceramic engineer.
Miss Suzann Morton of Slab Fork appears on Queens College dean's list for the first semester 1961 62. Morton is a senior and the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Morton.
J S Larrick will chair a Beckley Raleigh County delegation of about 25 to attend the 1962 Aircade for Citizenship Action in Charleston on March 2. The event, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, aims to explore Congress, business issues, effective advocacy, and citizen activism amid the election year. The Aircade expands to 15 key cities this year due to Congress’s critical session.
Seven men enlisted at the Main Recruiting Station in Beckley on February 12 and 13. Names include Melvin G. Anglin of Beckley in combat engineering, Ronald R. Bolton of Coal City in airborne and communications operations center, Hubert P. McKinney of Rhodes in airborne, Kenneth R. Waters of Wyco in airborne, William H. Pridemore of Charleston in motor transport, Patrick J. Blankenship of Kimball in automotive maintenance, and James A. McCallister of Sod in airborne. They were sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for processing.
Beckley Business Development Corp board members plan a special called meeting at 3 p.m. today in the Bank of Raleigh Civic Room, per President A David Abrams.
Lucien H. Davis of 209 Woodlawn Ave is recognized as the oldest living past exalted ruler at the Elks Lodge observance. Beckley Elks Lodge adds 29 new members to the rolls during the past exalted ruler’s night ceremony, with officers and drill team honored. The event includes initiations and replacements for several lodge posts, while a note mentions about half the patients in U.S. veterans hospitals are treated for nonservice-connected disabilities.
Dr Michael J Moore a former Beckleyan now living in Roanoke Va plans to return to Beckley this month to set up an internal medicine practice He has been with Dr William Poe at the Roanoke Medical Clinic He is a son of Mrs F J Moore and the late Dr Moore of Beckley and is married to Mary Lou Miller They will bring their three children to join him once a residence is established Moore is a Woodrow Wilson High School WVU and MCV alum He interned at Ohio Valley General Hospital served as an Air Force captain completed residency at Baptist Hospital Winston Salem He finished an American College of Physicians fellowship last year He is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine a medical director for Jefferson Hospital in Roanoke and belongs to the ASIM AMA Southern Medical Association and the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
The State Board of Public Works approved refinancing $11 million in Korean Veterans' Bonus Bonds to drop interest from 3.9% to 3.3% and 3.4%. The move saves about $702,395 in interest over the bonds’ life and reinvests the proceeds in U.S. bonds yielding over 4% for an additional $190,000 profit.
Italy holds the lead at the Bermuda Bowl bridge championship, posting 226 international match points to North America's 209 after six rounds. Italy has won the Bermuda Bowl for the past four years.
On February 17, 1801 after 35 ballots the House resolved the Jefferson Burr tie and chose Thomas Jefferson as the third U.S. president. Future notes discuss steel research in high strength plate and diffusion of metals into sheet steel and combining plastics with steel.
The page offers sun sign guidance for ARIES through SCORPIO with brief tips. Aries advised to break rut. Taurus on mediation. Gemini to stay busy. Cancer urged to make the first move. Leo told to finish work and rest. Virgo to consider all outcomes. Libra urged to be patient. Scorpio counsels caution and solitude. Field Enterprises, Inc. 1962.
A column features medical Q and A about chest pain from ribs after childbirth and chronic mouth symptoms possibly linked to allergies. It also includes a weight loss leaflet offer, a bid notice for Pine Crest Sanitarium canned goods, and a Raleigh County estate probate notice demanding creditors file claims by August 30, 1962 with Roy A. Cunningham as Commissioner of Accounts.
Raleigh County voters must register or update by April 7 as pool books close at noon. County Clerk C. O. Smith notes transfers and corrections through that deadline and urges eligible new voters aged 21 this year to register for the November 6 general election.
Governor W W Barron signed a group of bills including a 6 percent state horse racing tax extension with a graduated rate to aid harness operators. Other enactments place coal pipeline operations under the Public Service Commission, extend vocational training to older high school dropouts, tighten mine safety rules, raise some State Mines Department salaries, raise clerks salaries, seek reapportionment of the House of Delegates, require reporting of building improvements, and create a new non resident hunting license for commercial shooting preserves.
Twelve applicants filed for jobs at the employment office on Thursday. Positions listed include one telephone operator two clerk typists one sales clerk one collection clerk one short order cook one routeman one carpenter one construction equipment mechanic one painter and two construction laborers. Mentions need for clerks and stenographers.
To the creditors and beneficiaries of the estate of Robert Fletcher Blevins deceased the estate is to be exhibited with vouchers legally verified at the office in Beckley West Virginia on or before August 30 1962 at ten o'clock AM Otherwise they may be excluded from all benefits of said estate All beneficiaries must be present to protect their interests Raleigh County West Virginia 3-2-Fri-3-RR
Classified display item lists a funeral notice with apasinacenate term and related details for readers seeking service information and scheduling.
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