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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1955
Page
8
A Quonset hut at Memorial Airport contains part of the Beckley 8167th Replacement Training Squadron equipment. The move from Charleston was completed Monday as a recruiting drive aims to reach 100 personnel. S/Sgt. A. B. Neal at the airport oversees applications.
The 1954 West Virginia Blue Book erroneously lists Democrat Dennis Leary Jr. as a Republican along with two other Democrats William H. File Jr. and John W. Smith. The column notes Beckley shows a city manager vacancy but no council decision on manager form of government. The piece emphasizes readers may accept the Blue Book as correct despite the mistakes.
Beckley National Bank re elected its 1954 officers to new terms and kept the same president Joe L. Smith and board members for 1955. Directors re elected included Harry E Anderson S M Bledsoe Karl D Bowers A G Bowles R G Broaddus Joseph A Hunt French Lucas H E McMillan F J Moore M W Powers Joe L Smith Jr W A Stanley and Leo Vecellio. About 40 stockholders attended the 41st annual meeting and heard reports from officers.
The Beckley Municipal Parking Lot will gain an outdoor public telephone booth like the Raleigh County Courthouse unit. City officials requested the booth at Tuesday's council meeting and approved installation at no cost to the city.
Beckley area residents are warned to look up as a Gold Medal Flour 75th anniversary balloon tour launches from the West Virginia Building in Huntington at 11 a.m. Thursday. The eight by twelve foot plastic balloon will contain one of three cash certificates worth 75, 1880, or 1995 dollars, donated to a charity chosen by the finder. The envelope prize ages and the charity must be validated by the local paper. The wind may carry the balloon toward Beckley Charleston, so walkers should keep heads up.
Pearl Last rites for the Rev. William Aston Gose, 72, Slab Fork, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday from the Methodist Temple by Dr. Wayne F. Ransom and the Rev. N. W. Looney. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. A retired Methodist minister, Gose served in ministerial work for 50 years. He died at 6:15 a.m. Tuesday at his residence. The body will lie at the Caffee Funeral Home until one hour prior to the service. Pallbearers are Clyde Woods, A. J. Walker, O. J. Collison, Burton Gaultier, Joe McElyea, J. W. Foster, Frank Morton, Ben Burvin and Herbert Birchfield.
Basile Meadows offers to donate 25 feet of right of way for rounding the Jeffer son St. and Johnstown Road corner. Councilman Bibb relays the offer while Dennis Leary Jr. and D. E. Warden are tasked to meet Meadows and finalize details.
Beckley City Council adopted a resolution to pursue court action to acquire two private lanes adjoining the Beckley Municipal Parking Lot for public use. City officials argue city deeds grant the rights, while property owners including E P Hall oppose without compensation, risking suits as talks stall.
Funeral services for S. M. Miller, 90, a Beckley coal industry pioneer, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Beckley with Bishop W. C. Campbell presiding. Graveside rites follow at Memorial Park by Beckley Elks Lodge 1452. Miller died at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Elks National Hospital, Bedford, Virginia. He helped open several Raleigh County mines. Pallbearers include J. P. Nowlin, J. T. Hollandsworth, R. E. Hicks, J. D. Ballew, W. O. Sydnor, J. S. Higgins, Dr. F. L. Banks, and K. P. Ketchum.
Last rites for Billie Sue Rosenbaum infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Rosenbaum Cranberry will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the family residence with Rev Virgil Cook officiating. Burial will follow in Prosperity Cemetery. The child died at 2 45 p.m. Tuesday after a weeklong illness from pneumonia. Born January 26 1954 she is survived by her parents one half sister Barbara Kay Ritter paternal grandparents Grover and Mrs Rosenbaum of Prosperity and maternal grandparents Edmond Ively and Mrs Ively of Cranberry. The body was removed at 1 30 p.m. today from Quesenberry and Webb Funeral Home to the residence.
The Women's Improvement League meets at 2 30 p m Thursday in the home of Mrs A D Clark 110 Atkins St with Mrs Clark and Mrs Ethel Hairston as co hostesses The Nurses Unit of Rupert Jefferson Court 92 meets at 1 p m Thursday in the home of Mrs Annie Brown 351 Massey St Mrs Flossie Lee is supervisor Installation services for officers of First Baptist Church Mount Hope postponed from Sunday.
The Raleigh County Circuit Court certified back to Criminal Court a petition for 228.26 alleging unjust seizure by State Police Sgt. W E Webb when John Trimble was arrested for a traffic violation and charged with numbers. Prosecutor Sparacino seeks to keep funds as evidence. The case was demurred and sent to Circuit Court. Also, marriages were licensed for Mooty Diehl and Cormack Reed, and Canterbury was ordered to recover 605.71 from Young after default.
Beckley city council approved deleting an alley from the no parking ordinance. The alley runs from McCreery Street to the rear of the First Methodist Church behind the Amere Gas Co. building parallel to South Heber Street. Property owner J. C. Heaberlin and Amere Gas district manager S. W. Woodyard requested deletion due to misunderstanding of the ordinance. The lease requires the alley to be kept open 24 hours a day and maintained by the owners. The council approved the amendment with a provision that future maintenance issues fall to the owners, not the city.
George R. Williamson aged 70 of Montgomery died at the Beckley Hotel around 1 30 p m Tuesday from a heart condition attributed to a heart attack suffered after he and his wife registered at the hotel He was in the silo construction business and his body was taken to the B C Hooper Funeral Home for funeral arrangements pending later details
USDA livestock notes from Baltimore show cattle lack a trading basis with calves at 22 to 34 dollars for choice and prime dealers. Hogs range from 11 to 25 dollars with varied weights, including barrows and gilts 19 to 25 dollars at light weights and down to 11 dollars for over 600 pounds, plus sow prices by weight.
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