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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Feb 22, 1956

Page

6

Precinct changes listed for Beckley Raleigh County WV

The February 7 1956 Raleigh County Court order redraws 16 precincts in Beckley City and surrounding districts. It details new voting precincts at Court House Johnstown Road East Beckley 12 Harper Rose 15 Temple Street and others with boundaries across Mabscott Crab Orchard Shady Spring and Trap Hill areas and designates voting places.

City OF Beckley No Court House Fayette Street Main Street Heber Street Neville Street Oakwood Avenue Une Said Corporation Inc Valley Drive Piney Avenue Prince Street Fayette Streets Court House No Johnstown Road Kanawha Street Gald Balr Grady Allen's Store East Beckley Precinct F. Street Manawha Street Smith Street New Raleigh Road East Park Precinct Sheridan Avenue Seventh Street John Prince M. J. Meadows Sam Kent Vielonce Orin Vines Whitestick Precinct Little Whitestick Creek Piney River Paint Creek Corporation Line City of Beckley Whitestick Street Henry Mal O East Main South Kanawha Street Webb's Florists Shop Appalachian Electric Power Company Sixth Street Sheridan Sixth Seventh Seventh Streets Scott Avenue Kessinger Street Stansbury Street Temple Street Wb Eas Main Street East Main Street City Hall No. 12 Harper Rose West Neville Street Corporation Harper Road Pat Wheeler Sylvia Precinct Koch Avenue MacArthur Street Said Street Bostick Allen Avenue Silva School Worley Road Sylvia Street Corporation Ure Voling Place Hartley Barber Shop Vance Drive Les Bereet Brace Wit Power Line Drive Johnstonn Road Electrolux Cleaner Corp Sunrrise Precinct Pike Street Inn Corporation One City of McLean Laurel Branch Mt. Tabor Wickham Mabscott Said Road Mabscott and Beckley Wilks Street Quarry Street National Cash Regis Bullding Crab Orchard Stovers Fork Creek Stovers Fork Old Eccles Road Cleveland Phippe Crab Orchard-Lester Rosite No Beckley Warren Furniture Company John Fitzpatrick, Jr Said Fitzpatrick Sng Bee John Fitzpatrick, Sr Crab Orchard Creek Turkey Branch Old Brammer School Old Soak Creek Warren Pursinie Company New School House Hollywood Precinct Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Big White Suck Site John Fitz. Patrick John Fitz.patrick Kollywood School Callaway Freeiact Sprague Depot Lune Quinnimont Road Geo. Mellon Ben Guy Quinnimont Old Mellon George Warden Maxwell Hill New River Company Chas. Hodel New River Company Propery Sprague Ball Park Grounds Whitestick Creek Gmac Garage Town Trap Hill Harper Heights Town and Trap Hil Virginian Railroad Harper Cittsville Cittsvile Prosperity Precinct Dry Hil Maxwell Hill Precinct West Virginia Turnpike Crescent Road Peake and Ohio Railroad Cleveland Cinct Eald Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Cleveland School Cabell Crossing Cleveland School Precinct Godby Branch Andrew Davis Godby H. J. Clay Eccles Trap Hil Mt. Tabor Grade School Mabacott Hill Mabecott Coconut Grove Maxwell Dry Hill Hollingsworth Old Noel Thurman Old Dry Hill Tom Harper Callaway Maxwell Hill School Phillips McVey and Sullivan Shady Spring Pemberton Aaid Pemberton Coal City Maid Road Sullivan School Green Valley Webb Canady Home Place Glen View Crab Orchard-Lester Road Canady Cemetery Soak Creek Midway Precinct Slab Fork Crab Orchard Road Baptist Church Stowers Fork Stowers Fork Creek Cleveland Phipps Glen White Road Trap Hill District Millera Camp Branch Exeles Ter Kyle Davis Corporal Bane Shady Springs District Sandy Spring Big Beaver Creek Blue Jay Skagee Old Farm Coolridge Fiat Top Charles Griffith James Meadows Griffith Farm Traightne Callaway Ling Whitby Ghent Cooper Branch Waddlex Chapel S. W. Trail Old Farm Peed Kemp Crow Road the Pines Walter Campbell Crow Mont Phillips Old Farm Theodore Meador Riggs Old Place Glade Creek Raleigh Richmond District Summers County Creed Meador Mt. Tiew George Cole State Road RE. A. Jarrell Stickegy Marsh Fork Creek Mill Branch Hary Creek Upper Big Branch Raleigh-Boone County Cherry Pond Mountain Shady Branch Pine Krob Drew's Creek Peach Tree Creek Shumate Creek Flalé Precinct Flats Precinct Squealer Knob Flats Sundaial Sun- Gia Pine Knob Pine Knob Precinct Clays Branch Marsh Fork Horse Creek Slip Ridge Pettus School III Philips West Virginia Tite Ube Metalton Trep Hill Eid

Father Son Banquet To Highlight Crusade In Beckley

Beckley cadets eligible for CAP scholarships as five new four year awards are added after 39 years of aviation., Dr Nims will speak at a Crusade banquet to be held at the First Baptist Church Beckley March 10. The CAP program includes the Genugte, Spaatz and Byrd scholarships naming Cadets from local squadron will be considered for the awards based on leadership and proficiency in CAP work.

Nims Beckley Squadon Byrd Civil Air Patrol Texas Man & the First Baptist Church Beckley CAP Cal Research Brookhaven Curtis R. Nims Evangational Atomic Laboratories Aeronautic Civil Air Patrol Bapt Long Island Cal Ziff Davis Pany Willian Merchworld Visiblc Walter R. Agee William Woods Plankinton Christ Massachusetts Institute Uni Bacher Air Force U. S. Air Force Mander

Army Reserve Film To Be Shown Locally

WOAY-TV will air a government film A Tale of 2 000 Cities at 9 pm Thursday in cooperation with the Army Reserve. Narrated by Edward R. Murrow the program covers wartime destruction and U S unpreparedness before Pearl Harbor and the drive to rebuild the military. The feature emphasizes the cost of early weakness and the public response as the nation mobilized.

Woay-Tv Army Reserve Edward R. Murrow Japan Pearl Harbor United States America

Holt Funeral Rites Set for Mrs Cor Delia Holt

Funeral services for Mrs. Cor delia May Holt 38 of MacArthur are planned for Thursday at 2 p.m. in Hollywood Baptist Church MacArthur with Revs L B James and James Neal officiating. Burial follows at Caffee Cemetery Mt Tabor. She died Tuesday in a local hospital after an illness. She was born May 6 1889 Crab Orchard and was a Raleigh County resident. Her husband Robert Pierce Holt died eight years earlier. Survived by three sons eight daughters, a brother, six sisters, and 13 grandchildren.

Cordelia May Holt MacArthur Hollywood Baptist Church L. B. James James Neal Caffee Funeral Home Mt. Tabor Holt Crab Orchard John Harmon Emily Lester Rowe Raleigh County Robert Pierce Holt Mission Circle of the Church Robert T. Holt Mitchell Afb New York Neil Holt Indianapolis Ind Tpr Harald H. Holt Co. D

Chamber to Finish Drive This Week

Chamber drive chairman George Mose said the effort should close this week with $1,235 collected since Monday afternoon. Most funds came from 35 membership fees, with some larger company gifts. T. R. Wilson Jr. endorsed the drive and predicted strong results as teams still tally final receipts.

Chamber of Commerce Drive George Mose Chamber Moss T. R. Wilson Jr

Army unveils creepy peepy camera transmitter for battlefield use

The Army adds a three pound television camera and transmitter to its combat arsenal. A single operator can deploy the unit at night and withdraw to safety while a receiver behind the lines records the signal for real time viewing. The system could also find civilian use in breaking news coverage and political events.

Faouvgiun UA Army

Twins Challenge Name Book for Sixth Pair in Family

JUTLNSON CITY Tenn Mrs F J Arquette 38 has given birth to her sixth set of twins tying the record in the family Her husband a school janitor says he has about run out of names He muses about naming them One Two Three etc

Jutlnson City Tenn F. J. Arquette Arquette

NAM Speaker Slated For Forum

NAM conference in Beckley plans a May forum with keynote Dr. Neal Bowman. Bowman, NAM staff speaker, has long tied to public speaking and has authored three books. The piece notes mining production figures for Winding Gulf and Pocahontas districts and a city permit for a five room house in Beck.

West Virginia Winding Gulf District Temple Univesity Pocahontas District Corder Shirley Gwinn Beck Pocahontas

County Chapter to Send Rep to Confab

A Raleigh chapter representative of a national foundation will attend a West Virginia state conference at West Virginia University in Morgantown March 19 to 21. Registration starts 10 a.m. Monday with sessions at 1 30 p.m. later that day. The meeting aims to unite key personnel from agencies and organizations involved in rehabilitation for the handicapped.

Raleightions Nationals West Virginia Concern Foundation West Virginia University Morgantown Sterling Evans National Foundation Raleigh County W. D. Nace

Burns Funeral Slated Thursday

Funeral services for Brooks Burns, 38, Beckley, will be held at 4 p.m. today with burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. The home and city offices issued a garage permit for a frame garage with a $10 fee, construction by Home Modernization Co. Burke's Funeral Home to convey the body.

Basin Brooks Burns Beckley Fice Home Modernization Co. Birial Blue Estimated Ridge Memorial Gardens Fee

Date Change for Sorority Sponsored Charm School

A date change for the charm school sponsored by Alpha Zeta Zeta of Zeta Phi Beta is announced. The event moves to February 29 and a social hour will be held March 2 at 7 p.m. at Mrs. Bessie Jacksons home.

Alpha Zeta Zeta Zeta Phil’ Beta Sorority Finer Womanhood Week Bessie Jackson Poinsetta Club Thelma Dowell Sour St Hazel Doon Mary J. Boyd Mattie Bush Eliza Hunter J. W. Pickens Massie Street Improvement League Mary Morton

Canoe from South Seas Found on Galveston Beach

A hand carved red maho gany canoe from South Sea islands washed ashore on a Galveston beach. Believed to have drifted across the Gulf from the West Indies, blown by late summer trade winds.

Golveston

Youngest stockholder tied to B&O history

Tore, son of Army Car Tyenrold, and Mrs. Thomas Shaffer of Bloomfield Connecticut, are identified as the youngest stockholders in the history of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as announced by B&O.

Baltimore Tommy Stater Tyenrold Army Car Thomas Shaffer Bloomfield, Conn Baltimone and Ohio Railroad B&o Tore

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