Beckley Forum to Gather West Virginia Forest Improvement Ideas
Beckley will host a February 22 forum to gather ideas from residents on preserving and expanding West Virginia’s dwindling forests. Charles Hoel chairs the program for the West Virginia Forest Council with Farm Bureau sponsorship. Carl Johnson warns of a bleak future without a strong forestry plan and urges growing high-quality trees, better woodlot farming, and sustained timber management across Raleigh Fayet te Summers and Aleccer counties. The meeting targets broad participation from farmers foresters businessmen sportsmen coal land and lumber firms. The tiniest hummingbird Helena's hummingbird of Cuba measures two and a quarter to two and a half inches.
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Beckley
Frank Halstead
New River Campany Forester
FE. N. Winston
Kingston
Forestry Division
State Conservation Commission
John Tillinghast
Mount Hope
D. B. Bonebrake
Pocahontas Land Company Forester
Ralph Kemper
New River-Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company Forester
Carl Johnson
West Virginia University Extension Forester
Heckley
West Virginia
Charles’ Hoel
West Virginia Forest Council
West Virginia University ‘Extension
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Johnson
Farm Bureau
Raleigh
Fayetie
Summers
Raleigh County
Drive to Solicit 20000 Will Get Underway Jan 30
Raleigh County launches a formal drive to raise 20000 for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Campaign chair Burke notes treasury depletion and prior borrowing, with last year’s receipts about 10467. Beckley Women of the Alose begin mailings, school cards prepared, and chairmen named to cover coal fields. The drive kicks off on Roosevelt’s birthday, January 30, with a band arranged from New York. Basil O’Conner urges urgency, citing seven million spent on infantile paralysis care and exhausted national funds.
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Raleigh County
National
Tarantile Paralysis Foundation
Poli Viciuns
Canpaign Chalrenau
Wwe
AL Burke
Beckley
Alose
Beckley Water Company
Board of Education
John C. Ward
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Burke
New York
Basil O'Conner
I4y
Atl
Former Beckleyan Named High Post With Virginian Rail
N. F. Cuthriell, from Beckley, named general coal freight agent in charge of coal traffic for the Virginian Railway with Norfolk headquarters. He succeeds E. D. Hanes and had previously served as coal freight agent in Beckley 1938 to 1944 and in New York until 1947.
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N. F. Cuthriell
Beckley
Coa
Virginian Railway
Norfols
Etheridge
Cuthriell
E. D. Hanes
Norfolk
The
Virginian
New York
A. S. Suter
al Beckley
Hope Still Held For Airport Plan In Raleigh County
Jack Nuckols, president of the Raleigh County Court, says a workable plan may emerge to salvage the Raleigh County Memorial Airport project after bids opened show funds are short. The Beckley Chamber of Commerce heard the plan is postponed but not abandoned, with a meeting planned to seek a solution. The Keely Company bid $704,274.59, about $172,000 over available funds of $532,000 from county bonds and a federal grant.
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Jack Nuckols
Raleigh County Court
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Beckley
Keely Company
Clarksburg
Telephone Union To Name Heads
The West Virginia Union of Telephone Workers Local No 12 will name officers at 7 30 p m today in the Memorial Building A CLO representative from the Charleston office will speak Pres ident Ann Clay presides Officers to be nominated include President vice president secretary treasurer and Recording secretary The local union comprises telephone workers from Beckley South Hope Oak Hill Fayetteville and Mullens
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West Virginia
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Raleigh Register
W. Va
Beckley Forum
Boone County Coal Company
Helena
Cuba
Beckleyan
Wright Brothers’ Airplane
Kitty Hawk, Nlc
Mihailo Tolotos
Mount Athos
Greece
Neville ST
Prince ST
By Rosmer
Waltham
Helbros
LPM
Rem
Hationaut
Bulova
Wesler Oak Hill
Business and Professional Woman’s Club
Carl Sanger
Matt Powers
Hotel Hill
John Howard Scott
John Scott
Dorothy Blake
Wil
Hazel Sweitzer
Blake
Ruth Easton
Quida Sanger
Charleston
Telephone Union
St.Joseph
Neville Maytag & Furniture Co
E. D. Terry, Sr
W.M. Kessel
Elgin
Ibenrus
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