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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1946
Page
2
Mayor T A Myles has called a special Fayetteville Town Council meeting for July 15 to discuss a long term sewer building and maintenance program. The committee studying the project will report its findings at the session.
Fayette County Bar Association schedules a dinner at Hotel Hill Oak Hill with Judge Frank C. Haymond as principal speaker and guest over the weekend. Attendees include Nicholas County guests and numerous bar officers and local reporters and legal staff from Fayette and Montgomery counties.
Oak Hill remains without taxi service as drivers from Tom Crosby's Scarbro, Sam's Taxi, and Blake's White Top Taxi walk out. Union talks in Fayetteville prompt 40 percent fare share demand. Fayetteville firms report some service, Beckley drivers hold until National Labor Relations Board guidance.
Register staff report Willie Kay Davis daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Davis of Mount Hope Route One was honored on her fourth birthday at a party at her parents home Guests attending included Lois Davis Bill Davis Adair Davis Susie Davis Elizabeth Barley Mary Ellen Henry Melba Lilly Eddie Davis Bucky Davis Jane Craftman Patsy Craftman Janice Bowyer David Toney Jane Davis Dorothy Davis Doris DavIs Ella Davis Donald Davis Dennis Davis Norman Jean Darby Robby Lee Darby Alice Lilly Emma Lee Jewell Irene Jewell Larry Davis Patsy Pittman Benny Pittman Janet Jewell Nina June Jewell Evelyn Barley Maxine Barley and Johnny Barley.
Fayettville Miss Mar tlan Patterson of Wellsburg is in a training period under 4-H Club Leader Miss Clifton Dotson. She will become a 4-H Club Agent in a West Virginia county after completion. Also announced is the transfer of Col W. R. Callaghan from Fayetteville to Williamson by state police superintendent Burchett.
The County Clerk's office processed three marriage license applications today with two licenses granted. Applicants included James Clinton Massey and Louise Farley, and Dorothy William Slack with Mer cerine Gray. licenses issued to Carl Eller Mooney with Dorothy Alice Minnick and James Perry Persinger with Vada June Duncan among others. Nine couples had licenses applied for yesterday and nine more received permits.
Funeral services are set for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O B Quesenberry of Cranberry who died at birth in a local hospital at 4 am. The service will be held tomorrow at 2 pm at Jumping Branch Baptist Church. Surviving relatives include five brothers Glenn Quesenberry of Portland Oregon Ray Quesenberry of Ravena Ohio Walter Quesenberry in Indiana with the Army and Elbert Quesenberry of
State police report the death of Wilber Francis Kincaid, 53, of Gauley Bridge, after he was struck by a New York Central train while sitting on the tracks between Gamoca and Belva. He died eight hours later at a local hospital. Train crew included fireman W. F. Snolgrass, conductor M. A. Edwards, and engineer J. A. Gilhart.
Cpl. George W. McCormick 19, paratrooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. S. McCormick of Beckley, expects to remain with his unit in Muroran Japan. He joined the Army at Camp Atterbury Ind on March 29 1945, trained at Fort McClellan and Fort Benning, qualified as a paratrooper in September 1948, landed Yokohama February 12 1946, and is now with the 152d Airborne Anti-aircraft Battalion part of the 11th Airborne Division in Akita Japan. He worked as a clerk in a hardware store before induction. Surviving family includes Cranberry relatives Anna June and Athlene Quesenberry and several grandparents.
Danese veteran Patrick C. Wright left Charleston for Fort Hayes Ohio to be inducted into the U S Army for three years He is the son of Mrs Hazel A Wright and a Nuttall High School graduate class of 46 He was accompanied by his mother and sister in law Mrs C B Wright Jr of Layland
Seven people were arrested on petty charges during a quiet Fourth of July in Wyoming County. Two men faced drunkenness charges while four others were fined five dollars and costs for gambling at Maben. Walter Lilly of Maben was fined fifteen dollars and costs before Magistrate R. M. Stovall at Mullens, with Alvin Sizemore Clarence Morgan Homer McKinney and James Spencer among those fined for gambling.
Johnson, 64, was held for grand jury action on a maiming charge after police tied him to the shooting of his wife, Lacy Johnson, 24, who had her left arm amputated at Beckley Hospital. The couple’s dispute centered on jealousy, she told investigators. Johnson was remanded to Raleigh County Jail without bond after a morning hearing.
Funeral services for 13 year old Bobby Lee Rhinehart of Otsego were held at the Otsego school with Rev Roy Hall officiating. Burial followed in Bud cemetery. He is survived by his parents three sisters and three brothers including Harold in the marine corps in Japan. The article notes pawnshops in China 3000 years ago.
Pvt W F Broyles Jr of Itmann, a marine hospitalized near Boston for Okinawa wounds, spent a joyous Fourth as parents and brother Harold visited. He was wounded Easter Sunday last year by Japanese fire, leaving him paralyzed in both legs.
A general meeting of four circles of the Women’s Society for Christian Service at First Methodist Church is planned for July 23. Earlier in the week Circle One met at William Rezzonica’s home on Moral Avenue with co-hostess Mrs. Lee Hodson. Circle Two gathered at G. D. Conner’s on Moran Avenue with co-hostess Mrs. Harry Layton. Circle Three was hosted by E. B. Perdue and Circle Four by C. D. Fisher on Lusk Avenue.
Wyoming County commissioners will sit daily through July 23 except Sundays to examine and review the county property books real and personal and to correct where necessary and to review assessed values of real and personal property.
Mrs James R Toler of White Sulphur Springs and her brother Wesley Brown visited Pineville over the weekend. They are staying with Mrs and Mrs Azel Brown, the couple’s parents, as Mr Toler joined them midweek. Toler works as a butcher for the A and P Store at White Sulphur Springs. Dephane Brown is Mrs Toler’s former name.
Reports say grading on 9.9 miles of State Route 16 between Welch and Pineville will begin next week after Vecellio and Co. won the bid. Completion is set for 325 working days, about a year in calendar time, with the project expected to ramp up in ten days. Also noted are three marriage licenses issued by the County Clerk for couples from nearby towns.
Six property transfers were recorded in the Wyoming County Clerk's office. Names include Robert Bailey and wife, Hohn Lambert and wife, George D. Gentry and wife, George W. Miller and Agnes Miller, C I White and wife, William R Brown, F N Stewart and others. Lots and tracts cited in Vineville, Mill Creek, Toney Junction, Bartley, Oceana, and Lillydale districts.
Mrs Ruth Richmond has been named chief clerk of the Wyoming County Selective Service Board following the resignation of Mrs Agnes Gore. Gore, who has worked with the board for years, is moving to a clerical post in the trainmasters office of the Virginian Railway. Mrs William A Delp, formerly with C H Mead Coal at East Gulf, becomes assistant to Mrs Richmond.
Eight former service men filed discharge papers with the Wyoming County Selective Service board as reported by local officials. Names include Floyd Jones Baileysville James H Agee Mullens Frederick H Lanton Mullens Lacy D McKinney Stephenson John D Brown Davidson N C Willard H Brown Ravencliff Emory C White Lundale Norman C Nottingham. HN Beckley Hospital Eva C Hatcher 73 Madeline admitted for cancerous stomach condition after three days of unable to eat.
Reagister Staff Writer reports in Pineville that 18 year old Robert Bishop waived preliminary hearing on felonious assault charges connected to a shooting near the Lawson residence in Marianna. Bishop remained jailed on $2000 bond after gunfire about 10:30 a m last Sunday. The Lawsons, Mr and Mrs William, were treated at Stevens Clinic for abdominal and thigh wounds. Police said shots fired followed a quarrel as Bishop returned home with a 12 gauge shotgun. A tomato plant involved in earlier reports was noted as decorative and not poisonous.
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