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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1959
Page
2
Glen Rogers Personal items note Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wilson and their sons returning to Hamilton Ohio after visiting Frank Wilsons, while Eddie Plann, a patient in a Virginia hospital, is reported improved and visited by Mrs. Plann on Wednesday.
Wyoming County authorities probe weekend theft of dynamite caps from Island Creek Coal Co. at Coal Mountain. Deputy Ballard Riffe says about 2,700 caps were taken.
The Armco Mines Management Club plans its regular monthly meeting in Montcoal this Saturday. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. A Bituminous Coal Research representative from Huntington will speak on latest mining methods. Attendees will earn club points with the National Management Association.
The Spokane Falls rising about 70 feet is located in the central business district of Spokane Washington, a notable feature guiding riverfront activity and urban landscape.
Funeral services for James Gene Moul, 20, of Nettie are set for 3 p.m. Wednesday at Beckley Chapel Church near Nettie, with burial in Fields Cemetery. Moul died from a skull fracture while setting up a post at Lundy Amick Coal Co mine in Quinwood after a state fall incident. Survivors include his wife Joy Bell Moul, his parents Luther and Leviasy Moul, nine brothers and four sisters, plus a half sister and a sister in Orlando. The body rests at White and Coleman Funeral Home in Richwood.
Funeral services for Albert Leonard Workman will be held at 2 20 p m Wednesday in the Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev Virgil Bryant and Rev Hamp ton Atkinson officiating Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery Workman Route 1 Fayetteville He died at 1255 am Monday in a Beckley hospital He was a retired miner and member of Kaymoor Local UMWA Born December 18 1887 Survivors include his wife Maimie a brother six sisters two sons Lee of New Haven and Albert of Middletown Ohio two daughters Mrs Batura Adkins Germantown Ohio and Mrs Gladies West Vineland New Jersey and five grandchildren The body will be taken to the residence at 4 pm today from Collins Funeral Home Glen Jean
County authorities search for Johnny Walker in connection with a midnight stabbing at Curve Drive In Hanover that left Earl Shepherd hospitalized with back injuries near liver and lungs. Deputy Bal lard Riffe says the motive may be an old grudge. Walker was briefly arrested twice at the drive in by local officers before escaping. Nearby USDA seed potato work reported as trial in state crop research.
Claypool resident Jess Willard Redden died Sunday at home from a heart attack. Aged 42, he was a coal miner and lifelong Claypool resident born March 22, 1916. Survived by wife Berdie and 8 children, five sisters, five brothers, and his father H B Redden. Body at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in East Rainelle pending arrangements.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lessie L. O'Neal, 69, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Oak Hill Baptist Church with Rev. Randolph Johnson and Rev. C. S. Donnelly officiating. Burial follows at High Lawn Memorial Park. She died Monday at 9 a.m. after a heart attack in an Oak Hill hospital. Survivors include her husband H. H. of Oak Mill, two daughters Mae Elizabeth Morton of Oak Hill and Faye Evelyn Anglin of Cleveland, Ohio, a brother Claude of Atlanta, a sister Garnet Harvey of Beckley, and a grandson. She was active in several local groups. Pallbearers are Jim Wood, Paul Bavely, Fred Jasper, Ernest Goode, Tom Perkins, and Tilden Lively.
Milk production per cow in 1958 reached a new high of about 6 000 pounds in the United States. In Ohio the average production for the 1955 57 period was 6 760 pounds per cow.
Ninety clubs, parents, and guests attend Kopperston Cub Scout Pack No. 119's 49th year celebration at the Blue and Gold potluck banquet in the Kopperston Grade School cafeteria. Cubmaster C R Rankin and Scoutmaster Jack Davis presided as awards were presented and plans announced for Camp Thomas E Lightfoot May 14–16 and day camp at Camp Collins May 9.
The Frances Willard Memorial Tea will be held in the First Christian Church from 7 to 8 p m Thursday. WCTU members met at Mrs G N Perkins West Mullens home and assigned committees for refreshments program registration receiving and gifts. They also discussed cheer books and Perkins spoke on liquor amendments with the next meeting set for March 19 at Mrs Phil Smith’s home. A USDA cornstarch derivative promising industrial uses from drilling muds to cosmetics was announced.
The staff of the Tattler Sherman High School will sponsor a talent show Thursday at 7 30 p m in the school Auditorium to raise funds for the paper. Contestants are from Sherman Whitesville Junior High Prenter Comfort and Seth grade schools directed by Mrs Ralph Hedrick.
El Paso Texas, with a population around 182000, is reported to have more than half of residents speaking Spanish. The statement highlights language use in the border city and its cultural makeup.
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