McVey Residence Clinching Gulf Communities Clothing Drive
Mrs. Earl McVey spearheads a Gulf Communities clothing drive at Midway residence for Beckley Chamber of Commerce. The effort serves Gulf towns with forum coordinators listed by community, inviting donations from residents and organizations across Raleigh County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia
RNS
Earl McVey
Midway
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Boy Scouts
E. R. Hartson
Raleigh County School
Gulf Women's Club
McVey
GWC
Featured Actor Horace McMahon Faces Fame Gap
New York AP profile of Horace McMahon, a veteran film and stage actor known for gangster roles. Despite 134 movies and major TV work, he remains a featured player, hoping a breakthrough part will lift his name to star status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Mulligan
New York
Horace McMahon
McMahon
Ike Chill Wills
Allen Jenkins
Max Baer
Broadway
Hollywood
Sam Levene
Francis L. Sullivan
Robert Morse
Jerome Cowan
Eddie Albert
Vivian Blaine
Johnny Desmond
Morse
Boston
Gas Chamber
Alcatraz
Sing Sing
Leavenworth
Joliet
Vermont
Norwalk
Conn
Pine Point
Benny
Chicago
Garson Kanin
Joan
Mergers drive business activity through recession and recovery
The article notes a sustained urge to merge amid recession and recovery, with government pushback on some deals. It highlights Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube halted by a federal judge, and New York Central halting talks with Pennsylvania Railroad, while other eastern roads probe combinations learning from postwar trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bethlehem Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
the Central
Sayls
Federal Trade Commissions
Etee
Midwest
Youngstown
Deadline Set For West Virginia SRC Cooperative Program
High school seniors are reminded that the Feb 2 deadline applies to entering the WVU State Road Commission cooperative engineering training program. Applications should be submitted to H. W. Speiden, head of the civil engineering department, and blanks are available from high school principals and county maintenance superintendents. Trainees are chosen for engineering aptitude, character, and personality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia University-State Road Commission
H. W. Speiden
University Department of Civil Engineering
State Road Commission
Speiden
SRC
Blondells Sister Replaced in Show by Louise Campbell
Gloria Blondell is replaced by Louise Campbell in a show with Campbell later marrying a McMahon. The Los Angeles Herald Express ran a wedding headline Beauty to Marry Beast. The McMahon family includes Missy Tom and Kate, living in a seven room ranch on Long Island Sound. He works coast for films and city for stage and TV, earning between $15,000 and $25,000 yearly with weekly checks from $300 to $1,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blondell
Gloria
Louise Campbell
McMahon
Los Angeles Herald-Express
Beauty
Beast
McMahons
Missy
Tom
Kate
Long Island Sound
Whitlock Named Parliamentarian of Raleigh County Junior Club
John Whitlock aged 17 of Raleigh Heights has been named parliamentarian of the Raleigh County Junior Republican Club. Announcement by club president Jerry Lilly notes Whitlock, a Woodrow Wilson High School student and Key Club member, begins duties Jan 26 with State Public Institutions Commissioner Harold Neely addressing the club at the Raleigh County Courthouse. Membership drive and open enrollment for Raleigh County juniors and seniors are announced with contact details for Jerry Lilly and board members Mark Slack Harold Casali Ruth Crawley Ben McKinney Sara Farmer Linda Kessel Judy Blankenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Whitlock
J. W. Whitlock
Raleigh Heights
Raleigh County
Jerry Lilly
Whitlock
Woodrow Wilson High School
Harold Neely
Lilly
Prosperity
Mark Slack
Harold Casali
Ruth Crawley
Ben McKinney
Sara Farmer
Linda Kessel
Judy Blankenship
Police Investigate Two Mishaps In City
City police reported two traffic incidents. At 5 p.m. Saturday on South Kanawha Street vehicles driven by Dallas Stanley and Richard Whiteside, both Beckley residents, collided causing about 40 dollars in damages. A second 10:30 a.m. Saturday on Neville Street involved Joseph C. Hume and Ruth Hamlet Wilcox. one car struck a parked vehicle owned by Ernest Lee A rbaugh Jr., with damages around 75 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas Stanley
Beckley
Richard Whiteside
South Kanawha Street
Neville Street
Joseph C. Hume
Woodlawn Ave
Ruth Hamlet Wilcox
Crab Orchard
Ernest Lee Allenbaugh Jr
Postmaster General suspends five cent short paid mail charge
Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield announced an indefinite extension of the suspension of the five cent penalty for short paid mail. The move comes amid congressional action aimed at eliminating the charge by law, with a final decision expected after further study and ongoing congressional deliberations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur E. Summerfield
Post Office Department
Summerfield
Eisenhower Double Doses White House Social Season
Frances Lewine reports the 1958 50 White House social season is run in quick double doses with menus kept secret. Five state dinners remain as guests mingle over formal white tie gowns, opulent service, cigars in the Green Room and coffee in the Red Room.
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Lke
Mamie
White House
Washington
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Fisenhower
Gettysburg
Red Room
Refugees From Red Nations Help To Build Israel
Refugees from communist countries join the Technion in Haifa as students and faculty. Henry Trachtenberg Shea Taman and Dina Reichman, once dissenters, now teach or study civil, electrical engineering, and related fields. The new Mt Carmel campus hosts gleaming buildings funded by international gifts including six million dollars from the United States, with government support around forty percent of the institute’s costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Institute of Technology
Technion
Henry Trachtenberg
Warsaw
Poland
Trachtenberg
Soviet Union
Young Trachtenberg
Viet Nam
Tel Aviv
Shea Taman
Dina Reichman
Vrotslav
Roman Malinowski
Tecthion
The
Mt. Carmel
Mediterranean
Haifa
United States
New York Alumni to Hear Art Lewis
Mountaineer football coach Art Lewis will speak to West Virginia University alumni in New York at the New York Alumni Chapter's University Day dinner on February 12. Russell K. Bolton Jr. says the event, timed with WVU's basketball game against New York University in Manhattan, starts with a 5:30 p.m. reception at the Paramount Hotel, site of last year's chapter dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountaineer
Art Lewis
West Virginia University
New York
Russell K. Bolton Jr
West Virginia
New York University
Manhattan
Paramount Hotel
Funeral Announcements From Beaver Slab Fork Stamford
Elijah Peyton Carter of Beaver dies at 5 pm Saturday January 17 in Huntington Hospital. Funeral at 2 pm Tuesday January 20 at Caffee Funeral Home Chapel with Rev James R Kennedy officiating. Burial Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers listed. Also Cletis Pigg 41 of Abney killed in Slab Fork mine January 17. Funeral January 19 at Coal City Community Church. Burial Blue Aid Memorial Gardens. Albert Robert Sager of Stamford dies January 17. Funeral January 19 at Webb and Neal Funeral Home Chapel. Burial Hurt Cemetery. Active pallbearers named. Classified Display.
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Carter Carter
Elijah Peyton
Jim
Age SA
Beaver
Huntington
Caffee Funeral Home
South
Oakwood Avenue
James R Kennedy
Hinton
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
James E Bbierly
Dewey Campbell
Jack Mann
Earl Rogers
Charles Harrah
Ernest Rogers
Brotherhood of Railway
Hintonoose Lodge
Calfee Funeral Home
Pigg Pigg
Cletis
Abney
Slab Fork
Clifford McGrady
Junior Meadows
Mason Fink
Curtis Blevins
Burt Farley
Parris Lusk
Ladies Aid
Coal City
Williams & Craven Funeral Home
Albert Albert
Robert Sager
Stamford
Webb and Neal Funeral Home
Vance Drive
Fred Cline
Hurt
Aew
Alpha Harrah
Fred Freeman
John Kelley
Alick Freeman
Harry Biggs
Walter Gill
Webb & Neal Funeral Home
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Gulf
H. C Whitley
Lacy Cole
Carroll Calvert
Princewick
Ben Carvin
L. J. Neal
D. P. Hall
E. R. Hughes
McAlpin
George Williams
Charles Gregory
Tams
Lenore McPherson
Curtis Stewart
Harold Crickmer
Lillybrook
Oscar Chambers
Glen Adams
Epperly
William Morris
W. F. Pomputius
Helen
George White
Walton Cook
Herbert Sutter
Fred Lavis
Soak Creek
John Cher
Lionel Travis
Vernon Lawson
Marie Bucklin
Killarney
Hartsog
Jack Gensler
Carlisle
Scotty
Harrisburg
Business Mirror
AP Business News
Zsa
Gabor
Hal Hayes
Frances Lewine
Red Nations
By Thomas P. Whitney
Taman
Reichman Malinowski
LOGAN
Logan Street
Webb
W. Va
Keyser - Bryant Funeral Home
Douglas T. Bryant
South Oakwood Ave
Amos E
Quesenberry
Robert L. Amick
Roe Newspapers
Dramex
Everett J. Shrewsbury
Harold Williams
H. B. Blick
Sanders
Gray Lumber Co
Sander
Todd's Grocery and Hardware
Beaverial
Earl R. Huddle Farl
Main St
Dial
Jae Campbell Music Co
Y Va
Best Furniture Co
South Fayette St
Bluestone Tire Service
Third Avenue and
Summers Street
Personal
Raleigh Insurance Agency
Lilly Building
Main Street
Jim Green
AVON
Marfork
Packsville
Coalwood
Securall
Pasadena
Calif
King Tut
Bostick Avenue
Broadway Huntington Station
N. Y
Cort
Lewisburg
Alderson
Meadow Bridge
Ansted
Summersville
Hempstead
Buckley Photo Service
Church Street
B. . Silverman
Kidd’s
N. Oakwood Ave
Rogers Plumbing & _& Heating
Temple St
Arnett Lilly Harper Road
Wright
Lovitz Television Service
Ashworth & Sparks, Inc
Prince St Beckley
John W. Eye
West
Neville St
Aaron Venetian Blind Cleaners
W. V. Dial CL
Fuzi
President Hotel
P. O. Box
Charleston
R. L
J. H. Stinson
East Beckley
Bibb Snyder
Bessie Jenkins
R. Bare
Roy A. Jones
Price Brothers
Chihuahua
Eugene Jarrell
Mary Chappo
Skelton
Bishop Street
Emerson
Duncan Phyfe
Wards
Montgomery Ward
Beckley Newspapers Corp
K. M. Walker
Crystal Pools
Piedmont Road
Williamson
Frank’s Plumbing & Heating
Kanawha St
Nicholas Wall Cleaning Service
Frank
Lewis Transfer & Storage
Piney Ave
Harvey Cabinet CO
Eisenhower Drive
Cash & Delivery
Beckley Insulation Co
Bank of Raleigh
Bettina Construction Co
Grady
Raleigh Register
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