Pauley Calmly Takes West Virginia House Speakership
Session opens with Harry R. Pauley as Speaker amid knotty 54th session challenges. The McDowell County veteran, in his seventh term, promises a streamlined organization and a steady hand as he faces corporate, labor, and courthouse pressures in Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Lee Harmon
Charleston
West Virginia
Harry R. Pauley
McDowell County
Pauley
Bill Flannery
Jaeger
West Virginia Governor Pushes Recovery Agency Plan
Gov. Underwood urged lawmakers to create an economic recovery agency and adopt a state plan to combat unemployment. He favored road and armory construction, modest unemployment benefit increases, and careful tax action within existing revenues. He emphasized cooperation and urged tax reviews through March 1 to ensure a full nine month school term, while detailing budget requests for natural resources, industry promotion, safety, mental health staffing, rehabilitation, and armory construction funded by both federal aid and revenue bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Underwood
West Virginia
House
Senate
Department of Natural Resources
Industrial and Publicity Commission
Department of Public Safety
State Labor Department
Possibility To Be Explored Pinecrest Sanitarium Site For Health Center
Pinecrest Sanitarium land is eyed as a potential site for Raleigh County Health Center after a county court and health council meeting. They may secure Pinecrest property or consider private tracts, with legislation possible to deed the land from the state. Plans call for a 2- to 5-acre model center funded by a $100,000 county levy matched by $100,000 in Hill-Burton funds, to be built to serve the next decade and allow future expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Raleigh County Health Center
Raleigh County Court
Advisory Board of
The
County Health Council
Pinecrest
Hill-Burton
Anthony J. Sparacino
West Virginia
H. G. Farmer
Paul Vennari
Jack A. Nuckols
Charleston
John C. Ward
Nuckols
Chames W. Merritt
Beckley
Pomputius
Phill McDaniel
State Health Board
U. S. Health Service
McDaniel
Huntington
Ford
Preston Lightener
Johnstown Road
Cokie Minter
Kanawha Street
Harry Cook
Harper Road
Cabell
J. W. Crook
Stamford Road
Alice Wilson
Locust Street
Sprague
Roy A. Cunningham
McCutcheon and Drake
Second Street
Prince Land Co
Valley Drive
Underwood to address Beckley workshop on area development
Governor Cecil H. Underwood will headline the Blueprint for Better Living Area Development Workshop in Beckley on January 30. Co-sponsors include Beckley Area Rural Development Council and Appalachian Power Co, with multiple local chambers and business groups participating to discuss planning, resources, and attracting new industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil H. Underwood
Beckley
Beckley Area
Planning Commission
Beckley Market
Beckley Hotel
March of Dimes Events Re-set and Postponements
Publicity chairman Bill Wilbur of the Raleigh County 1959 March of Dimes announced rescheduling and postponements. The Teen-age Road Block will occur Saturday with Beckley teens at six city entrances collecting contributions. The WOAY-TV telethon is moved to January 25 due to network commitments. The Blue Crutch street sale by Woodrow Wilson High School’s Tri-Hi-Y Club will run January 24 with further details to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Wilbur
Raleigh County
Beckley
Woay-Tv
Wilbur
Woodrow Wilson High School
Ex-Beckley Newsman Dies In Huntington
Ezra B. Tabor 76 of Hamlin died Tuesday night at Cabell Huntington Hospital after eight weeks as a patient. A veteran teacher and country editor, he led the Lincoln Monitor in Hamlin from 1902 to 1910 and worked on papers in Hamilton Ohio Winfield Barboursville Logan Mullens Beckley and Charleston. Surviving are his widow five sons and four daughters. Funeral services will be held Friday in Hamlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra B. Tabor
Hamlin
Cabell Huntington Hospital
Huntington
Tabor
Lincoln Monitor
Hamilton
Ohio
Winfield
Barboursville
Logan
Logan Banner
Mullens
Beckley
Charleston
Burdett Named West Virginia Secretary of State
Democratic Joe F. Burdett was chosen as West Virginia Secretary of State in the November election defeating Helen Holt. The Attorney General ruled Holt would stay in office until the Legislature convenes, prompting a changeover timing dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Joe F. Burdett
West Virginia
Helen Holt
Underwood
Attorney General's Office
Holt
West Virginia legislature opens 54th session amid funding push
Charleston AP reports the 54th West Virginia Legislature opens with demands for more money for schools roads and mental hospitals amid tax revenue shortages. Democrats hold control in both chambers with 23 senators and 85 representatives. Ralph Bean is chosen Senate President and Harry Pauley House Speaker. Minority leaders are John Carrigan and George Seibert Jr. Fifty new members join the 100-member House with five new senators. Women lawmakers total five in the Senate and House. Budget bills and many others are ready for quick introduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
Senate
House
Ralph J. Bean
Del
Harry R. Pauley
McDowell
Sen
John E. Carrigan
Marshall
George H. Seibert Jr
Ohio
Coal Miners Win $1 Daily Pay Increase In New Contract
A new anthracite labor contract raises wages by one dollar per day and increases pension fund royalties from .50 to .70 per ton. It also lifts annual vacation pay from 140 to 160 dollars. The deal covers about 22,000 hard coal miners in eastern Pennsylvania and takes effect February 1 for one year. John L. Lewis and Harry W. Bradbury commented on the agreement at the signing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United Mine Workers Union
Pennsylvania
Harry W. Bradbury
Glen Alden Corp
Area Poultrymen Attend RDC Meeting
About fourteen poultrymen attended a Rural Development Council Poultry Commission meeting Tuesday night. E. O. Snider chaired as egg prices and marketing were discussed. Producers reported no difficulty selling eggs and ideas were exchanged to promote and assist the local poultry industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry Commission
The
Rural Development Council
E. O. Snider
Weather Forecast Begets Rain and Snow Near Beckley
Roudy with occasional rain tonight. Lows 35 to 40 northeast, in the 40s west and south. Thursday sees occasional rain changing to snow flurries and turning colder by afternoon or night. Beckley area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Top Committee Leaders Retained
Charleston AP Senate president Ralph J. Bean D Hardy announced top committee chairs will stay the same in the 54th Legislature. Clarence E. Martin Jr D Berkeley was reappointed Judiciary chair and majority floor leader. Glenn Jackson D Logan was reappointed Finance chair for his fourth term. Other Democrat chairmen include Forefeited Delinquent and Unappropriated Lands Sen of Fayette. Insurance Sen Nuckols Raleigh. Medicine and Sanitation Sen Wylie Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Senate
Ralph J. Bean D-Hardy
Clarence E. Martin Jr
Berkeley
Judiciary Committee
Glenn Jackson
Logan
Bean
Fayette
Raleigh
Sen
Wylie
Wyoming
Bill seeks to free amphitheatre funds at Grandview Park
An early bill for the 14th Legislature aims to release $50,000 previously appropriated for a Grandview State Park amphitheatre. Conservation Commissioner Dr. Warden M. Lane says wording changes last session require the move. The bill, with Kermit McKeever handling, seeks $60,000 from state surplus for Grandview and requests $15,000 for Cranberry Heights Farmers Market, to come from regular funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandview State Park
Warden M. Lane
Kermit McKeever
Parks
Grandview
Cranberry Heights
Also Mentioned on This Page
Capitol
Ganizations
Sylvester Mullins
Arthur Blankenship
Pineville
Gov
Cecil Underwood
W. F. Pomputius
Helen
Merritt
March of Dimes
Joe Burdett
Beckley City
A. A
Buck) Ross
A. K. Minter
Ross
Harold W. Miller
West Virginia University
Ward
J. Horner Davis II
Kanawha
William A. Moreland
Monongalia
Arch W. Riley
Paul R. Moore
Jackson
Carl E. Gainer
Nicholls
C. H McKown
Elizabeth Drewry
Nell W. Walker
West Weather
Virginia
Eace
Kane
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!