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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1959
Page
8
A brief notice notes collaboration between The Raleigh Register and Principals Associations as co sponsors for a forthcoming program or event. Details remain sparse within the readable text.
Will follow Jewish faith Paul Henry Arnstein son of Mrs. David Arnstein 610 S Oakwood Ave is to be confirmed called Bar Mitzvah today at 7 30 pm in Temple Beth El at Bellevue Lane and Second St The ceremony marks his 13th birthday and emergence into adulthood Rabbi A Kertes will officiate A reception follows in the temple auditorium
The Beckley area ministerial association will meet at the Presbyterian Church Monday at 10 AM. John Wo Me Gowan executive director of Kanawha Welfare Council of Charleston will speak. Rev. J B L P F youth pastor will lead devotions. Rev. Sydney Rowland president will chair the business session.
Funeral services for Edmond Owen Pruett 44 of Princewick will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Willams and Craven Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. W. J. Wright and Rev. Robert Dean officiating. Pruett died in a Richmond hospital after a two week illness. He was born Oct 13 1914 in Dora Ala and worked as a mine foreman and safety inspector for Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates at Stotesbury. Survivors include his parents a brother two sisters and four daughters with two grandchildren. Burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Pallbearers listed. In other news a full scale model of the Vanguard satellite is on view at Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
In Charleston, Hulett C. Smith chaired a gathering at the mansion next to the State Capitol. The State Democratic Executive Committee chairman and his wife attended alongside the entire county delegation in the Senate and House. Also present were wives of several legislators.
Final rites for Mrs. Ethel Rutledge Meadows 67 of Winding Gulf will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Williams and Craven Funeral Home Chapel Sophia officiated by Rev. A. H. Wilson Burial is in the family cemetery at Winding Gulf Pallbearers include Bobby Flesh man Tommy Meadows Elzie Meadows Tommy Cline Bell Shelor George Cole Vernon Gross and Ben Kelly She died Tuesday in a local hospital.
Beckley fire crews responded to 409 S Fayette St on Thursday to put out a soot fire in a furnace flue. No damage was reported. The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, was formerly a branch of the U S Mint.
Raleigh County Criminal Court jurors, who deliberated for about one and a half hours Thursday afternoon in the Spradley case, were to return at 9 am today. Spradley is charged with speeding and resisting arrest by Beckley Patrolmen Easley and Burdiss.
The Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association sent 1,727 reminders to prior Christmas Seal contributors who did not give this year. Of these, 1,081 were Beckley residents. A Special Contact Committee chaired by Rodney L. Webb and including Dr. Deane F. Brooke J. S. Butts H. S. Edwards S. A. Ford W. D. Nace L. S. Philpott and Lawrence Pruett issued the notices and hopes to reach the $10,000 goal with these letters.
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