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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1953
Page
6
Anthony J. Sparacino, new prosecuting attorney, faces over four dozen cases to be presented to the Grand Jury when it meets Monday January 12. Indictments may yield a heavy January criminal docket with murder and incest charges among new true bills and several grand larceny auto larceny bad check and breaking and entering cases. Old cases carried over include two murder counts.
Appalachian Electric Power Company Beckley District honors 30 employees for 1952 service at a dinner at El Chico. Waldo S. LaFon congratulates them noting 245 total years of service, an average eight years each, and the district's year without a lost-time accident. The total annual aggregate is about 350 000.
The F Company of the Second Battalion National Guard plans an indoor small bore rifle match January 17 and 18 at the Armory. Lt Col Daniel D. Holliday will lead the event with Capt William Watts as company commander. The match uses 22 caliber rifles under National Rifle Association rules. winner advances to the state meet, then the national match. Warrant Officer Joseph C. Dance announced details.
Three Sand Lick men charged with breaking and entering were to be arraigned today in Magistrate Meadows court. Ronald Jarrall Jr Dallas Richmond and Ronald Richmond identified as suspects for stealing over 600 dollars in merchandise from Luther Jones store in Sand Lick. Jail records cite Howard Jarrell Becke Police chief as filing officer.
Beckley native Glenn Shelton Orren Jr 34 now living in Chicago is jailed in Chillicothe after admitting 34 year spree of cracking Western Union safes since 1959 and stealing about 150000 in cash and traveler’s checks. He named Lynchburg Bristol Norton Va Hagerstown Md and Pineville Ky among towns targeted and said he avoided other goods. The FBI seeks him for escape from a road camp near Raleigh North Carolina. Orren was arraigned on breaking and entering and burglary charges and has until Saturday to enter a plea.
In Raleigh County 1953 March of Dimes campaign funds aid for 1952 victims and future cases. Curtis Meadows the Cranberry three year old benefits from polio care, braces, and hospital visits while family notes progress and hopes for recovery. Curtis is a patient at Milton Memorial Hospital as the Meadows family anticipates his return home.
Raleigh County reported one fair case of tuberculosis for the week ending January 3, per West Virginia Department of Health Disease Control. Forty other new cases were discovered in eight of the state’s 55 counties, with McDowell County listing the most at eleven new cases and Fayette County second with eight.
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