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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
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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.
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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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
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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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
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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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Tommy Stater
Tyenrold
Army Car
Thomas Shaffer
Bloomfield, Conn
Baltimone and Ohio Railroad
B&o
Tore
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Clear Fork
H. G. Farmer
A. 3. Lilly
E. van Dorsey
Mt Tabor
McLean Addition
Otho Hall
John W. Ball
Otho
John W. Mall
Ewart Heights
Ewart Avenue
Sprague Precinct
Little White Stick Creek
Mabacott
BEC Company
Rock House Fork
Allen Branch
Rock ‘House Fork
Surveyors Fork
Fox Pen Road
Fox Pen Branch
Surveyor
Old Founty Road
Old Ridge Road
Town- Trap Hill
Glen White
Old Eccles
L. E
Jesus
Herod Antipas
Herod the Great
Sepphoris
Nazareth
Holl
Amy
Confab
Burns
Charm
Irene Negan
Samual P. Clayter
Ss. A. Abram
Henry Nelson
St. John Holy Church
West Noreland Street
J. Strickland
Linth Fork
Lillie
W. M. Neal
Perimas
G. B. Toler
Shiloh Baptist Church
Mose Gilbert
R. B. Alexander
Sprague
Mise Watkins
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The
Shady Grove