Girl Scout Cookie Sale Adds Changes in Orders and Awards
Girl Scouts announce annual cookie drive to raise funds with a $5,000 goal and a $3,800 current total. Orders run January 23 to 30, with final submissions by February 5. Top seller earns free day camp, fairness ensured by troop size percentage. Cookies ship in late February with delivery week February 22. Funds feed Fayette County Camp Abbot and Raleigh County projects, led by Mrs. Sprague and Mrs. Woods Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aoa Igh County
Sprague
Beaver Coal Co
South Kanawha St
W. N. Sprague
Raleigh County
Girl Scouts
S. C. Woods Jr
Fayette County
Raleigh County Council
Fayette Council
Robert B. Herndon
Gauley Bridge
Camp Abbot
Don Sanford
March of Dimes Drives 7000 Raleigh Appeals
W A Wilbur says over 7000 March of Dimes letters are mailed to Raleigh County residents as part of a national drive. Each envelope invites personal participation in prevention and research funds to fight birth defects arthritis and polio. Funds aid children to age 18 with arthritis birth defects and polio victims.
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Raleigh County
W. A. Wilbur
National Foundation
Wilbur
Bailey Funeral Set Saturday
Final rites for Mrs. Camma Sadie Bailey age 75 of 108 Roosevelt St. will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Baptist Church with Rev. C. E. Walker presiding. Burial in Mount View Cemetery. Survived by son Earl Beckley four Foley brothers three Foley sisters and other relatives. Pallbearers listed.
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Camma Sadie Bailey
Roosevelt St
Memorial Baptist Church
C. E. Walker
Mount View
Earl Beckley
Anderson Foley
Roy Foley
Clarence Foley
Oppie Foley
Beckley
Dassie Byrd
Elizabethan
Tenn
Ambra Shively
R. R. Roddie
Jack Wood
Rupert Shivley
R. T. Belcher
Lewis Gravely
Ernest Wickline
Frank Akers
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Miner Injured in Raleigh Area Mine Accident
Henry Griffith is listed in fair condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital after a mine accident near Raleigh. He sustained a broken left arm and leg, chest injuries including a punctured lung, and other injuries.
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Ghent
RNS
Henry Griffith
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Raleigh
Teen Agers To Sell MOD Crutches Saturday
Teen agers in Beckley and Raleigh County will sell rainbow crutches on the streets and in area districts for the March of Dimes starting Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. TAP chair Tom McHugh notes activities include dances, a teenage road block, and sales at basketball games. Key Club and Junior Debs join the effort.
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Beckley
Tom McHugh
Raleigh County
Bradley Man Held For Forgery
Homer Martin Bradley was booked at the Raleigh County Jail at 2 15 a m today by State Police on a charge of forgery. He is being held for Mercer County authorities. U S Deputy Marshal Mor ris ikmboden jailed Lewis Mc Daniel 50 no address listed at 10 25 p m Thursday on a charge of possession of a moon shine still. A Mabscott man was returned to the jail at 6 p m Thursday from the State Forestry Camp at Davis. Harry Smith has served his time but has to be released by Judge Harry L Mc Creery.
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Homer Martin, Bradley
Raleigh
Mercer
U. S
Morris Ikmboden
Lewis McDaniel
Mabscott
Davis
Harry Smith
Harry L. McCreery
Fourney Heads City Republicans
Beckley lawyer Paul J Fourney is the new chairman of the Beckley Republican Executive Committee succeeding Truman L Sayre who resigned. Fourney was elected Thursday night. Sayre, chairman of the County Republican Executive Committee, cited reasons including not wanting to hold both posts. He praised the committee and pledged continued work with Raleigh County and West Virginia Republicans as they prepare for the November general election. Mrs. Mary Wright of South
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Beckley
Paul J. Fourney
Republican Executive Committee
Truman L. Sayre
Fourney
Sayre
Raleigh County
West Virginia
Mary Wright
South
Registration of Voters to Stop at Office
Voters will not be registered in the Clerk’s Office after Monday January 18 to allow registrars to complete a house to house canvass and sitting through March. If any voter is missed, registration will reopen in the Clerk’s Office until April 9 1960. Books close for the May 10 Primary Election.
School For Registrars Set In Raleigh County Courthouse
A registrar training school will be held in the Raleigh County Courthouse Courtroom at 1 p.m. on January 22 for Beckley residents, January 25 for Town District, January 27 for Richmond and Shady Spring Districts, January 28 for Slab Fork District, and January 29 for Marsh Fork and Clear Fork Districts.
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Raleigh County
City of Beckley
Town
Trap Hill
Richmond
Shady Spring
Slab Fork
Marsh Fork
Clear Fork
Belton Leaves Hedrick Named AS Adjutant
M. H. Hedrick Beckley will succeed L. O. Belton Jr. as adjutant of Beckley American Legion Post No. 32. Belton departs for Cocoa Beach, Florida to join New York Life Insurance Co. Hedrick, former commander of American Legion Post No. 11 Charleston, earned 1942-43 national honors for largest membership increase, with over 1,000 members. WWI veteran from France, he survived 63 shell fragments from 1918 Argonne shell explosion, the most wounds of any WV WWI veteran per Veterans Administration.
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M. H. Hedrick
Beckley
L. O. Belton Jr
Beckley American Legion
Belton
Biggs - Johnston - Withrow Printing Co
Cocoa Beach
Fla
New York Life Insurance Co
Hedrick
American Legion
Charleston
France
Argonne Forest
West Virginia
Veterans Administration
Settle Funeral Services Sunday at Shady Grove Baptist
Final rites for Mrs. Girdie Anna Settle 42 of Stotesbury be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Shady Grove Baptist Church Glen White with Rev H Dubois and Elder Phillip Jones presiding. Burial in Greenwood Memorial Park. She died Wednesday at 10 30 a m in a local hospital. Survivors include husband Stephen Settle parents Phillip and Betty Berry Raleigh one foster son Donnie Berry Air Force in Texas one foster daughter Nadine Berry White Sulphur Springs six sisters Barbara Barrett Rhodell Gladys Wooding Johnetta Hill Zelma Berry Julia Berry and others four brothers James Lawrence J Harper Jesse. Body to be taken from Trent Funeral Home to church one hour before services.
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Girdie Anna Settle
Stotesbury
Shady Grove Baptist Church
Glen White
H. Dubois
Phillip Jones
Greenwood Memorial Park
Jesse
Raleigh
Trent Funeral Home
Council Begins First Projects in Sophia Town
The Communi ty Council of Sophia began studying town ordinances at a Wednesday night City Hall meeting. Members include Mrs. Macie Proffitt and Leighton Farley, with Dan Pinson as fire chief and Madison Lowry named council chairman. The group will join forces with Sophia Council for Clean Up Week.
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Community Council of
Sophia
City Hall
James B. Deck
Town Recorder
Macie Proffitt
First Baptist Church
Midway
Leighton Farley
W. W. Withrow
Gulf Woman’s Club
Lean McPherson
GWC
Council
Sophia Council
Leslie Haga
Ted Crouch
Daniel E. Polk
Sophia Homemakers
Raleigh County Farm Woman's Council
Fred Y. Williams
Dan Pinson
Steve Sokola
Albert Veneri
Madison Lowry
Lowry
Sophia Elementary
How to lift corned beef hash in one piece
A home tip explains opening the can at both ends with a wall-type can opener and sliding out the hash in a solid block for neat slicing.
Red Cross aids nine child fire victims in Raleigh County
The Raleigh County Red Cross seeks clothing and items for the Orville Perdue family of East Gulf who lost everything in a blaze. Volunteer contact is Mrs Judith S Moorefield at the Bair Building Beckley with specific clothing sizes for nine children, father and mother, plus cooking utensils and furniture.
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Raleigh County
The
American Red Cross
Orville Perdue
East Gulf
Judith S. Moorefield
the Red Cross
Bair
Beckley
Red Cross
Fayette Street resigns ward five committee seat
Fayette Street resigns from the fifth ward committee due to extended illness. Pauline Boyden of Bostic Avenue is named to succeed her.
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Fayette Street
Fifth Ward
Pauline Boyden
Bostic Avenue
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Keith Lipscomb
National Foundation For the
Beckley Area
James Green
Eddie Zopp
Donald Wise
Leno Roso
Anthony DeMaiori
George D. George
Clarence Clay
Jaycee-Ettes
Bailey
Miner
Key Club
Bradley
City Republicans
I As
Adjutant
Young People
Lamos Golden Apple Wine Laird&co
North Garden
Dart
America
United States
Dodge
Seneca
Phoenix
Fairlane
Galaxie
Savoy
Belvedere
Bel Air
Impala
Dodge Division
Chrysler Corporation
Duncan-Catron Motor Co., Inc
Prince St. Beckley, West Virginia
Phillips Motor Company, Inc
Main Street
Sophia, West Virginia
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