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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
11
A group of 15 paralyzed coal miners, the first from West Virginia to seek California treatment this year, will board a special Pullman car at Charleston at 11:35 tomorrow night.
Fourteen county men from District 29 and one from District 17 are being sent to California hospitals for neuromuscular treatment under the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund. The group includes Fanning Boyd, Mike Danko Jr, Clyde Edwards, and others, many paraplegic from spinal injuries, with Floyd White cited for arthritis. The trip follows a program to provide medical care, disability benefits, and support for widows and dependents, funded by coal industry royalties, with stops in Cincinnati Chicago Omaha and Oakland before arrival.
An unlucky penny behind a fuse in the Goodie Shop cellar started a blaze at 209 Prince Street. Defective wiring and ordinance violation sparked smoke but caused no serious damage. Fire Chief Bernard Martin said the investigation will pursue who placed the coin and noted a $25 minimum fine for the violation. A second fire in five days occurred at a Keystone service station on Prince Street, with about $3,000 in damage.
Funeral services for Jewel Lee Cook 20 who died at her Arnett home will be held Saturday at 2 p m at Van Chapel Church Arnett with Rev Glenn West of Dorothy officiating Burial will be in Milam Cemetery Arnett She was born August 20 1929 in Dorothy to Milt and Mary Milam Cook Survivors include five sisters Mrs Carl Surrett Mrs Gus Goggs Mrs Hershel McCormick Mrs Ernest Edmonds and Mrs Orville Dillon Jr and three brothers Chester Gary Alfred all of Arnett and Mr and Mrs Thomas Milam grandparents of Dorothy and Arnett
O C O'Dell 39 of Crab Orchard Raleigh County’s first 1949 highway fatality will be buried at Sunset Memorial Park after services at Bethel Church Mac Arthur. He died when the car skidded into a bridge at Pettus. Harold C Harvey and Robert C Lewis were injured at Charleston General Hospital. Both were employed by C H Mead Coal Company en route to Charleston to testify at a gas explosion hearing. O'Dell survived by Esther, a son Lewis Wilson, seven sisters Nellie Evelyn Alice Lea Freda Grace Easter and two brothers Clarence and George O'Dell.
The Offices of the medical health and hospital service of the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund have moved to the Lilly Building on McCreery Street. Dr Deane F Brooke and assistant Samuel Zibit oversee operations. District 29 Welfare and Retirement Fund remains at Raleigh County Bank Building with JamesLeeber in charge.
Clarence Wooten of Raleigh County 4-H Club directs attendees at Jackson's Mill for a week long state 4-H agents conference. West Virginia University specialists including Eloise Cofer Ruth Knoch I B Boggs Florence Howard Waldo Bell Frank Bishop T D Gray and I T Hash Poultryman Claude Kemper and Irene Spitz will join to plan the year’s programs.
West Virginia Employment Service Beckley manager Underwood has been shifted to Point Pleasant in the same role. M. L. McSpadden of Mount Hope fills the Beckley vacancy. Underwood came to Beckley about two years ago from Montgomery. transfer effective January 1.
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