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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1960
Page
12
The Current Events Club at Shady Spring High School outlines its activities with 21 members. Officers include President John Campbell, Secretary-Treasurer Brenda Johnson, and Vice President John Novak. Sponsor is Kenneth Gross.
About 50 participants of the Mothers March attended two films on infantile paralysis at the Greenbrier Dairy Plant. Co-Chairs Mrs Francis Parker and Mrs R J Howard and Raleigh County Chapter leader William Wilburn spoke on needs and finances. The films covered forms symptoms treatment and prevention, noting treatment costs are high. The March of Dimes funds patient care research education and emergency aid. Wilburn said the Raleigh County Chapter is about 36000 in the red and projected no fixed goal but will need that much or more. He cited Marmet Hospital costs 416 per month to treat a polio patient. The event urged volunteers to boost contributions, with refreshments served after.
Bill Luzader, psychiatric social worker at Bluefield Mental Health Center, will speak at 7 30 p m Wednesday for the Raleigh County Association for Mental Health meeting at First Methodist Church. The talk covers Treatment for Mental Patients in State Hospitals. Luzader is a University of Pittsburgh social work graduate who worked at Huntington State Hospital before Bluefield. The association says it will not be a dinner meeting.
A district census office has been opened at the US Naval Ordnance Plant Building 306 South Charleston. Claude R. Underwood will supervise the district, directing 24 crew leaders and 405 census takers in Boone Kanawha Logan and Raleigh counties.
Henry P Creswell Jr of Baton Rouge Louisiana was treated at the Veterans Administration Hospital Saturday night for a lacerated left hand and released. The accident happened when he tried to free a car from a ditch and a spinning tire threw a rock striking his hand.
Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen Terence P Finnegan says worship attendance in Air Force chapels exceeded twelve million in fiscal 1959. Chaplains performed 6127 marriages 18862 baptisms and conducted 2400 funerals.
The Shady Spring 4-H Club No. 3 announces new committees. Conservation Chair John Brogran leads with Robert Moorefield Nathan Cochran and Wilford Wills as members. Program committee chaired by Linda Walker includes Patricia Maxey Robert McBride and Clarence Griffith. Finance committee chaired by Phyllis Sherwood includes Merle Meadows Michael Mills and Jimmy Oaks. Safety committee chaired by Phyllis Richmond includes Jessy Mace Mary Davis and Alvin Meadows.
The Beckley Presbyterian Church men will install new officers at the 6:15 p.m. meeting on Thursday. James E. Sanger is the newly elected president, Truman L. Sayre the vice president, James Lucas the secretary, Steve Sotak the treasurer, and A. J. Walker the Session's representative on the Men's Council.
A Whitby motorist was found guilty of failure to yield the right of way in Beckley Police Court. Clarence T. Mooney was fined $15 and costs after pleading not guilty to the charge stemming from a Wednesday collision on South Fayette Street. A truck driver, Richard Lee Lilly of White Oak, testified Mooney pulled into the street as he approached. Lilly said Mooney’s car appeared stationary and that he horned to warn him. Mooney claimed he looked both ways and had already crossed to his side of the road when the crash occurred. Another defendant, Harold Ray Boggess of Beckley, pleaded guilty to improper registration and paid $10 and costs. Four people forfeited $69 on drunkenness charges.
The largest individual landholder in the area, James Swan, once controlled over two million acres or about a quarter of the state, but he died in debtor's prison.
At Rhodell School principal Samuel M Meadows designates a Toy Day each year permitting students to bring and display their personal toys. Children named include Allan Wood Dwight Perdue Rickey Alley Garey Plumley Alvis Foley Gary Young Sherry Perkins and Debra McKinney.
Four workers from Beckley area plants were treated as outpatients on Thursday. Nancy K. Biggs, 19, Piney View, sustained a wood fragment in her leg at Beckley Manufacturing Co. Pauline Meadows of Mabscott, also with Beckley Manufacturing Co., suffered a left eye injury at work. Eligh Craig of Lester sustained a right shoulder injury in a slate fall at Raleigh Wyoming Coal Co. Carl Mounts of Lillybrook sustained a shoulder and neck injury in a slate fall at CC and T Coal Co.
Public Health Service reports A2 influenza confirmed by virus isolation in Columbus with outbreaks noted in Linden Tennessee and San Antonio Texas. Brownsville Texas shows high school absenteeism. local departments urged to maintain surveillance and mail specimens for virus identification. Raleigh reports infectious hepatitis and streptococcal infections. Wyoming and Fayette counties report multiple hepatitis, streptococcal infections, and syphilis cases.
Four Beckley residents face lottery charges in Beckley Police Court next Thursday. LUCILLE PANKEY of Simpkins Street plus Jessie Bester Grace and Alex Pemberton Jr and Welton James of Mills Street were arrested at 1 50 p m and jailed at Raleigh County Jail. they were released at 2 30 p m Thursday. A state alcohol board agent arrested a woman in Oklahoma for selling whisky from a soft drink machine. William Henry Martin of Beckley was moved to Fayette County Jail on a non support warrant. The Shady Spring High School Science Club lists James Bragg as president Eddie Miles as vice president Donald Bennett as secretary and Robert Bailey as treasurer with sponsor William Burleson.
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