Police Chief Declares War on Habitual Parking Violators
Beckley police chief Anthony Scalise announced a campaign to enforce traffic laws against habitual violators especially those who ignore parking tickets. Notices will go to those who fail to return tickets and remit fines within five days. Overdue fines and warrants carry escalating penalties as part of the crackdown.
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Anthony Scalise
Scalise
Beckley
New York City
Ana
December Jobs Cut Unemployment Claims At Beckley Office
December brought a drop in jobless claims at the Beckley Employment Security office as temporary Christmas work reduced new applications to 234, 87 fewer than November. Total claimants stood at 6,787 with 25 percent women. 1,189 received partial pay, and office manager M. L. McSpadden cited December business activity and exhausted rights as factors.
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Beckley Employment Security Office
M. L. McSpadden
McSpadder
McSpadden
Marshall Funeral Scheduled Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabet(h) Palmer Marshall 91 widow of Haston Marshall will be held at the home of daughter Mrs. E S Franklin in Boissevain Va at 2 p m Friday The Rev John Cochran will officiate with burial in Pocahontas Va cemetery She died Wednesday morning born in Patrick County Va and was a Missionary Baptist Church member Survived by son in law J T Davis R L Palmer L C Stark r Falls Mills and daughter Mrs Howard Manning 23 grandchildren 42 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren The body was moved to the Franklin residence at 10 a m yesterday Pallbearers will be grandsons and flower girls granddaughters
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Elizabeth Palmer Marshall
Howard Manning
Crat Orchard
E. S. Franklin
Boissevain
John Cochran
Pocahontas
Marshall
Patrick County
Haston Marshall
Three Couples Seek Marriage Licenses in Raleigh County
Three couples filed marriage license applications in the Raleigh County Clerk’s office yesterday. Fred Basham 26 of Beckley and Anna Mae Ramey 23 of Beckley. Joseph Vernon Huddle Jr 24 of Beckley and Ruth Ann Ou 18 of Beckley. Bernard Newsome 20 of Oswald and Rose Addison 16 of Oswald.
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Raleigh County Clerk
Maxwell Olt
Beckley
Bernard Newsome
Bill Newsome
Mrs. Newsome
Oswald
Rose Addison
William Addison
Beckley Man Hurt at Work Falls Eight Feet
Harold Stowers, 39, of Beckley, rests at Oak Hill hospital after a fall from a scaffold at the GC Murphy Company building. Employed by Mankin Lumber, he suffered a broken arm when a steel piece dropped about eight feet. The report notes high car ownership among farmers.
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S Mogill
Oak Hill
Harold Stowers
Beckley
Oak Hillospital
GC. Murphy Company
Mankin Lumber Company
Tie Beckley
Postal Revenue Rise in 1919 Reflects Rate Increases
The 1919 post office showed total revenue of 182 213 47 against 176 418 22 in 1948 with higher parcel post rates and greeting card costs. Incoming parcels rose about one third while outgoing mail fell due to mine stoppages impacting local business correspondence. Monthly figures list 1919 totals per month.
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Hollandsweorth
Greenbrier Hotel History Told to Beckley Chamber
J K T Van Pelt, hospitality officer of the Greenbrier, gave Beckley Chamber members a history from the 1752 Carpenters grant to the present day. He traced transportation changes, wartime use as an Army General Hospital, and postwar restoration before noting a Rotary Club appearance at 6:15 at the Beckley Hotel.
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White Sulphur Springs
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
J. K. T. van Pelt
Memorial Building
van Pelt
Corm
Nicholas Carpenter
Beckley
Rhodell Man Stationed With Infantry in Japan
Private William Gombos of Rhodell is assigned to Company A Seventh Infantry at Camp Schimmelpfennig near Sendai Japan. He serves as a rifleman in the first platoon. He joined the Army in Beckley last January after eight weeks infantry training at Fort Knox Kentucky.
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Rhodell
Japan
William Gombos
Seventh Infantry
Camp Schimmelpfennig
Sendai
Gombo i
Beckley
Fort Knox
Local Deeds and Damage Suits Noted in Beckley Records
Deed filings in Raleigh County show Herbert H. Moye and wife purchasing Granville Avenue Lot from Johnston for about 9 000. Other transfers include Lynch to Beckley for roughly 6 000 and Stansbury to Pulliam Lot 6 in Raleigh Court Addition for about 500. Two $5 000 damage suits filed: Nick Johnson vs Oscar Vecellio for a fall on Beckley Sprague road and Martha Maxwell vs Robert Lilly from an accident near Pinecrest Sanitarium.
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Woods
Herbert H. Moye
Onie Hodge Johnston
J. M Granville Avene
Beckley
iJohnston
Darius Afitehell Lilly
Raleigh
George M. Harvey
Walter J. Hedrick, Jr
Beckley College
Teresa Stansbury
Herbert
Stansbury
Ida Pulliam
Register
Raleigh Court
Whitesville
Gertrude
Beard
Brendan
F. H. Lynch
J. Earl
Breeden
Pine Charleston General Hospital
Nick Johnson
Cranberry
Oscar Vecellio
Raleigh County Circuit Clerk’s
Evgov
Kolb Ug Ky Vee
Beckley ~ Sprague Road
Martha Maxwell
Stamaford Road
Robert G. Lilly
Har! Igrove Street
J. W. Maxwell
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Lilly
Maxwell
Fairplain Woman Mrs. J. C. Caste Dies at 81
Funeral services for Mrs. J. C. Caste 81 will be held at 11 a m tomorrow at the Fairplain Baptist Church. She died at her Fairplain home Thursday morning and is buried in Caste Cemetery at Fairplain. Surviving: Mrs. H. O. Powers of 116 Austin Avenue, two sons in Ohio, and Clythe Ravenswood.
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J. C. Caste
Fairplain
Fairplain Baptist Church
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Belmont
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