Rabies Alert Shocks Raleigh County PTA Meeting
A county veterinarian warned Raleigh County residents rabies spread for 14 months and urged compulsory dog vaccination. Dr. Robert Frilen cited 15 to 20 definite rabies cases since January and 11 more in pets, calling public cooperation essential to halt the outbreak.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Raleigh
Robert H. Frilen
Institute
Parent
Frisen
State Health Department
Frilen
Coca-Cola
Classroom Teachers Officers To Be Delegates To State Meet
The Raleigh County Classroom Teachers Association elected new officers by acclamation. Ethel Rothlisberger is president, George Covey vice president, Ann Flemming secretary, and Eugene Stover treasurer. They will serve as county delegates to the State Spring Council meeting in Fairmont April 3 and 4. Ruth Laren is the outgoing president. A $25 donation to the Donald Dushane Fund was approved. The Annual Spring Banquet is set for April 27 at First Christian Church. The group endorsed a salary increase proposal for teachers, with a nine or ten month payment plan and a minimum basic salary of 3200 for beginning teachers.
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Raleigh
Frilen
W. C. Dick
Raleigh County Humane Society
Isadore Wein
Ethel Atwood
New York
Community Concerts Association
Beckley
Raleigh County Classroom Teachers Association
Fairmont
Raleigh County
Ethel Rothlisberger
Mark Twain
George Covey
Clear Fork High School
Ann Flemming
Eccles
Eugene Stover
Ruth Laren
Donald Dushane
National Defense
First Christian Church
State Legislative Committee
Eva Keyser
Type O Blood For Veteran Needed At Local School
The Raleigh County Teachers Association searches for Type O blood for John Hartson a MacArthur native patient at Beckley Veterans Hospital being treated for stomach ulcers. He is a retiring vice president of the association and the need was announced at a Monday meeting.
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Crab Orchard
Raleigh County Classroom Teachers Association
John Hartson
MacArthur
Beckley Veterans Hospital
Association
Mabscott Lions Push For Mabscott Underpass Widening
Mabscott Lions Club reports progress in widening the Mabscott underpass with two traffic lanes and sidewalks on both sides. The club plans to meet Beckley Chamber officials and continues outreach to county Lions Clubs while initiating six new members on March 1.
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Mabscott Lions Club
Mabscott
County Lions Clubs
Beckley Area
Gordon Richmond
W. F. Williams
Dennis L. Via
John A. Barone
Beckley Lions Club
Purity Baking Co Plans Addition to Local Plant
The Beckley Purity Baking Co plant will gain an office addition. Construction is set to begin within the next few days to ease growing pains at the facility.
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Beckley
Purity Baking Co
Memberships Offered For Community Concert Series
Nine hundred memberships in the Beckley Community Concert Association are on sale this week in the 17th annual drive. The slogan Music for the people guides the campaign as Mrs. Ethel Atwood of the Community Concert Association of New York reviews growth and origin with 35 officers and workers in Beckley. She will assist the drive directed by Mrs. Fred Richmond from Beckley Hotel headquarters.
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Beckley Community Concert Association
Music For
Ethel Atwood
Community Concert Association of
New York
United States
Canada
Mexico
Cuba
Beckley Hotel
Fred Richmond
Association
Beckleyan Honored in 1953 Freedom Award Contest
Beckleyan was among 817 Americans cited for outstanding work for freedom in the Freedoms Foundation entering the service guide contest. Capt William B Hawley, a Korean War veteran, won an honor medal for his essay What America Means to Me, and he told his mother Lucy Hawley at Woodlawn Ave that he was invited to Valley Forge, Pa., for the ceremonies. He is training ROTC students at a base in Cookeville, Tenn.
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Beckleyan
Freedoms Foundation
William B. Hawley
America
Lucy Hawley
Roads and Rural Assignments Sought in D C
Beckley area chamber of commerce departments seek member input on highway and rural development assignments. Manager O L Johnston reports 43 responses, with the majority supporting highways or rural development committees.
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Beckley Area
Bus Driver Fired After Admitting False Robbery
Ernest M. Shrewsberry of Pemberton was released from Raleigh County school system after admitting he staged a robbery and hid his wallet in a coal shed. He had reported he was robbed at gunpoint Feb. 1, then admitted the hoax days later. Board action merged with other personnel changes. several school staff appointments and transfers were approved. A separate notice announced a Save Other Souls Today Not Tomorrow meeting at 905 W Neville St.
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Raleigh
Raleigh County Board of Education
Ernest M. Shrewsberry
Pemberton
Shrewsberry
Wilbur H. Cole
Melba C. Carr
Pettus
Carrie Pettry
Helen
Shady Spring
John Pack
Beaver Elementary
Mildred Hall Noel
Edwight
Grada St. Clair Clay
Meredith
Trent, Beaver
Billy Ross Lilly
Jimmy Tracy Daniels
Marsh Fork High School
Elmer Lawson
Youth For Christ Center
W. Neville St
Carl Johnson
Booming Toll Roads Drive Up West Virginia Traffic
New York Times writer Paul Heffernan reports a postwar toll road boom as West Virginia Turnpike and other expressways attract far more traffic than engineers expected. Higher costs from mountain terrain, slides, and wider lane needs raise financing and tolls, while earnings projections rise for 1967 to 1970.
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West Virginia
New York Times
Paul Heffernan
Times
New York
Washington
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana Turnpike Authority
Turnpike Commission
Nance
Connecticut
New York Line
Rhode Island
New Jersey Turnpike
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Raleigh Register
W. Va
C. A. Smith
PTA
Smith
Mr. Cav
A. Lucas
Conservation Commission of
Mr. Lucas
Lucas
D. C
Pike
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Delaware River
Keith
E Vualle Truk
Nicky
Someoe Y Distillers
Caren
Kenucky
Jr C
Kentucky
Schenley Dist., Inc
Frankfort
Mercury
Lincoln-Mercury, Inc
S. Oakwood Avenue
Beckley, W. VA
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