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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1959
Page
7
A spring to summer speech clinic in Jeck Ley features A C Dodd guiding pupils at the board while Lois Foley and Bill Criss receive training in a real classroom setting. Sepkowski says a tape recorder will be purchased for the clinic this year. The clinic can still accept a few more pupils for the remaining weeks.
The Shanghai Bowl cup of the Seventh Infantry Division will be displayed at the Army Reserve center in Rainelle. Pfc. Ralph Eugene Pomeroy posthumously earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for Korea. West Virginia National Guard units begin two weeks of summer training, including the 101st and 102nd Special Forces Detachment from Beckley. Other notes include a Huntington Soap Box Derby on July 12, a statewide Amateur Radio Operators Ham fest at Jacksons Mill next weekend, Miss Elizabeth Pribble named as a Black Walnut Festival princess, building permits in New Martinsville totaling over one million dollars in the first half of the year, a West Virginia Methodist Conference school at Wes leyan July 13-17, and the Wood County 4-H camp at Butchers Bend hosting about 200 campers.
All members of Mason ic Lodge No 156 Coal City are urged to attend a special meeting led by Worshipful Master Raymond Smith. The session, set for Tuesday at 7 p m, will be held in the Masonic Temple to perform work in the Second Degree.
Major Tobias W. Maynard Jr., Beckley, will be one of three new associate professors of air science and tactics at West Virginia University. Maynard earned a B S in business administration from Florida Southern College. A native of Williamson Maynard has overseas assignments in Europe, North Africa, Asia, and Japan.
May 1959 Savings Bond sales in West Virginia lagged last year by 14.17 percent, totaling 3,686,407 across counties. Raleigh County reported 49,521 in Series E and 7,000 in Series H, with Fayette Greenbrier Mercer Summers and Wyoming posting varying Series E and H amounts. The United States Savings Bonds Division in Charleston released the county figures and the overall decline between periods.
A May bulletin shows 2,613 Raleigh County children and 711 caretakers received West Virginia Department of Public Assistance aid. The 812 cases total $80,796, with an average per case of 99.50 and per child or caretaker of 24.31. Other assistance included 608 old age cases, 49 aid to the blind, 419 disabled, 145 general, and 21 other. General assistance averaged 3,165 monthly, totaling 4,589. other cash aid totaled 3,506.63. Old age cases averaged 34.99 with 21,273 total. the blind averaged 39.59 with 1,940. disabled averaged 38.77 with 16,634 across 429 cases. Board of Public Works refunds in Raleigh County totaled 22,355 across categories.
Shirley Jean Bryant, 19, daughter of Mr and Mrs O H Bryant of 405 N Kanawha Street, won the Miss Southern West Virginia contest at Little Beaver Park Sunday in Beckley helping shape the city’s pageant scene.
Article portrays several young women in a 1950s pageant and glamor world discussion. It includes Sandra Jordan and Ruth Ann Feazell as runners up with trophy prizes, judges and presenters, plus Carol Lynley’s modeling outlook and acting ambitions.
John Doe may soon seek a dental checkup and find himself reclining on a chaise lounge as dentists operate seated beside him. Dr. Sanford S. Golden reports in The Journal of the American Dental Association that standing may raise circulatory disease risk and that sitting with patient chair tilted back 50 degrees minimizes fatigue for both.
In Ohio Mrs Victor Hartzell Sr welcomed her 15th child Suzanne Lynne at City Hospital while her daughter-in-law Mrs Victor Hartzell Jr. gave birth to her first child Mary Catherine on the same day in the same hospital setting.
Charleston reports relief from summer heat as twelve West Virginia parks provide swimming facilities with cold mountain water and nearby picnic areas. Fishing options include bluegill bass brook trout rainbow trout brown trout and catfish. A few cabins and lodge rooms remain available through the Division of State Parks Charleston.
Henry J. Miller of Beckley, 22, was released from Raleigh County Jail at 10 a.m. Sunday after posting a $500 property bond for a City Police Court hearing on resisting arrest and drunkenness charges. He had been jailed by Beckley Police at 2:10 a.m. Sunday.
Louise the pigeon becomes a school fixture at Ardmore Oklahoma with students giving it a roosting corner during class hours. In Louisville Louisville plans to name two bowling alleys after Leonard Lyles and Rudell Stitch, notable sports figures.
A Byrd Prillerman High School science teacher from Amigo is among 60 high school teachers from 16 states in Allegheny College NSF Summer Science Institute. Leonard Wright, 408 F. Sr., enrolled in the eight week program directed by Dr. Robert Bugbee.
Military men from Beckley and surrounding areas are featured in home and overseas postings. Edgar J. Smith, Lackland AFB recruit, heads to a supply specialists course at Amarillo AFB Texas, son of Mrs. Mildred M. Smith. Ronald F. Bowling, Beckley, competes in Camp Lejeune rifle and pistol matches. George Carlton Hurt, Sophia, promoted to specialist fifth grade at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. C. Thomas P. Christian, Oak Hill, arrives at Randolph AFB as a supply records specialist. Willie Shoemaker, born near El Paso in 1931, is noted in passing.
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