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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1959
Page
9
Kelly Pauley 3, Mullens resident, suffered severe hand injuries when his right hand touched a circle saw during maintenance at the Itmann mine. Surgeons amputated four fingers and part of his hand after a lumber slip drew him into the blade.
Mrs S P Pearis gave a review of the Middle East Pilgrimage book as an intro to foreign mission study at the Woman's Mission Society of the First Baptist Church. Mrs Herman Akens led the devotional, themed In the Beginning with Genesis 1 1 John 1 5 and 1 Corinthians 1 15 read. A poem and prayer opened the love gift program by Mrs Ralph Mays on All that I Am and Have. The group set foreign mission study for Sunday evening during regular service and home mission study as an all day session on a date to be set. President G V Duncan reminded World Day of Prayer at St Andrews Episcopal Church on Feb 13 at 7 30 p m.
Oak Hill correspondent reports Wilgon White, about 37, of Prudence, was arrested Thursday on arson and breaking and entering charges at Red Star. He was to be arraigned before Magistrate R. C. Godsey in Oak Hill, after Fayette County deputy sheriffs made the arrest.
In Fayetteville the Health Department sets Grade A milk standards for local dairies with a list of producers and plants. In Montcoal the Beckley Chamber of Commerce names Mrs. Harry Workman chair of the Distribution Committee to aid needy families with used clothing and report findings to the Beckley group.
Fayetteville Presbyterian Church hosts Youth Sunday with theme We Witness for Christ as part of Community Youth Week beginning Sunday. PYF council leads service with speakers Judy Allen Bob Moreau Juanita Clay Bland Hess III and Tang Sue Toler participating.
Grave side services for Mrs Maude Hill Hodges will be held at 1 30 p m Saturday in Greenbrier Baptist Church Cemetery by Rev J Maurice Trimmer. A lifelong Alderson resident she died Wednesday in Pikeville after a long illness. The funeral was held Thursday in Pikeville and her body sent to Lobban Funeral Home Saturday morning.
Paris Kentucky report says 15 year old Jimmy Caywood found thirteen one dollar bills washed from a downspout near a church. Police could not locate the owner and returned the money to the boy, who became $13 richer by chance.
Fayetteville reports 11 residents including a 17 year old juvenile jailed on charges of breaking and entering six establishments across Fayette Raleigh and Mercer counties. Arresting deputies O B Legg and Pete Withrow say several suspects admitted involvement. Arraignment set before Magistrate R C Godsey with times to be announced.
Funeral services for Will Coles 73 will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Beckley at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor Chapel with Rev. Thomas Pryor officiating. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park. Coles died Wednesday at his Minden residence after a long illness. he was a World War veteran.
The Senior Youth Fellowship hosts a 11 a m service at First Presbyterian Church with theme We Witness for Christ Assembly's Youth Sunday. Proceeds will aid the Synod of West Virginia youth program. David Humphrey leads. Jane Pryor introduces.
Fayette School of Dance directed by Mrs Norma Dix Gunter presented a program to the Oak Hill Rotary Club featuring Lean Baby a comedy number Steam Heat and Sugar Plum Fairy Variation among tap dances by Synthia Maddy Chrissy Reisman Sue Sneed Pamella Legg Mike Thompkins Sandy Sneed Margaret Armstrong Dee Marshall Marguerite Riseman and Chris Orban Attending were 40 members and four guests including C T Beane of De Mac Manufacturing Co Floyd Sayre Robert Sayer Jr and J R Carr of Beckley Rotary Club.
Mrs Hat tie Gertrude Biggs 81 died in Oak Hill after an extended illness Born in Indiana August 1 1877 she was a member of Oak Hill Chapter 107 Order of Eastern Star Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Oak Hill Baptist Church conducted by the Rev C B Donnelly and Rev R P Robertson Burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery Graveside rites by the Eastern Star Body remains at Thomas Funeral Home until one hour before services
KOPPERSTON RNS An extension of the closing date for acceptance of applications for substitute clerk worker has been announced by the Board of United States Civil Service Examiners. Due to insufficient applications, the deadline is now February 2, 1959. Applications postmarked by this date will be accepted if mailed on or before.
Pineville resident Athaline Blanken returned home from a vacation in Tallahassee and St. Petersburg Fila due to the illness and death of her brother Kemper Cook in Huntington.
Comas Elliot Kingery age 67 of 310 Virginia Street died Wednesday afternoon January 21 in a Huntington hospital where he had been a patient since January 7. The body will stay at Melton Mortuary until the funeral at 2:30 p.m. Friday January 23 in Melton Mortuary Chapel with Dr. Alvin J. Cook officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Active pallbearers are James Anderson Arnold Kessinger Roy Wray Jack Hollandsworth Robert Daniel James Daniel Robert Milam Lewis Thompson. Order of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen No 909 will be honorary pallbearers. Arrangements by Melton Mortuary.
Pineville Presbyterian Pastor Norman K Morgan is among 70 ministers chosen for the Tower Room Scholarship Program at Union Theological Seminary Richmond Virginia. He and four others will study two weeks in residence starting Monday, focusing on theology developments and practical ministry impact.
Whitesville Rotary Club members met at Whitesville Junior High School at 6 30 p m to view The Price of Freedom distributed by General Motors. J D Corbin led the program while noting Whitesville’s 83 33 percent attendance and 19th place in district. Howard Clay reported the year start finances. District governor candidates were named and Rotary District No 755 plans were announced for Greenbrier Hotel in March. Three delegates to World Affairs Institute in Cincinnati will be chosen from area high schools. A Feb 5 guest night features Junius T Moore speaker on life in Russia with slides, inviting local officials and press.
Dorothy Williams and Sidney Williams announce the birth of their fourth child, a daughter named Sara Elizabeth, born Friday at the Salvation Army Hoge Vital in Charleston. The baby weighed eight pounds one ounce. Mrs. Barbara Douglas Dorothy is recuperating at home after surgery at McMillan Hoernte, Charleston.
Dean FE J Scrafford of Bluefield State College will visit Beckley Junior High School Tuesday at 6 30 p m to organize extension courses in Raleigh County. Courses will be offered under the college with regular faculty, excluding labs or special equipment. Targeting Raleigh Countians, offerings include English arithmetic for teachers college algebra trigonometry shorthand social institutions music in human relations accounting economics and human growth and development.
Fayette Raleigh and Wyoming county residents may send news to Raleigh Register via regional correspondents listed with logotype RNS. Contacts include Colcord Bashia J. Hamilton Whitesville 8823 Daniel Beaver Shady Spring Dayne Aldridge Flat Top Cool Ridge Ghent Cordie Nugen ST 7-5892 Fayetteville Bland K. Hesse Jr. Glen Daniel Kelly Barrett Glen Rogers Aubrey Nuckols Mul lens 232-W3 ann ed Mrs. C. R. Rankin Oceana Lynco Kitty Elkins Oceana 4304 Mount Hope Ruth Clark R 7-2503 Musent en Murphree 366 Oak Hill Anne Pickens HO -4651 Oceana Phillip Roach S461 Pax Thelma Stover 2741 Pineville Baileysville Sam Miniaci 5415 Pineville E W Worrell 3882 Womens news only pean tere Pansye Whittaker Resoco Rock Creek Whitesville 4862 Sophia Russell Pegram OV 34442 Whitesville Farr and Cookie Howell 5121 branch office
In San Diego Point Loma the FCC solved why radio operated garage doors opened daily. Vergne Hoke, FOCman, found doors were activated by radio signals from Navy jet planes during landings. The doors interfered with the navy airfield approach system.
Deward Rickley aged 42 of St. Ignace Michigan pleaded guilty to possessing eg gs of a wild bird and admitted raiding seagull nests to obtain eggs for his beer.
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