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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1958
Page
5
Three young boys eye the dessert course while adults dine on fried chicken at the Fayetteville Volunteer Fire Department annual picnic at the Legion Flame grounds. Over 100 people attended as Fireman Ermel Wilson organized the dinner for firemen, families, and friends.
In Mullens First Presbyterian Church Rev. Jesse M. Bratton Jr urges moral accountability amid a police raid on the American Legion Club. He cites Acts 5 and warns against fear, omission, and bystander sin, calling the congregation to spiritual renewal.
Mr and Mrs Bobby Jack Cook reside with his parents in Mullens after a July 7 wedding at First Methodist Church Bristol Tennessee The bride Peggy Ann Brooks wore white organdy and carnations The couple honeymooned in the Great Smoky Mountains and plan to live with the groom s parents while he works as a Virginian Railway clerk and she as a Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co service representative
Mrs Donald Bias and two children depart New York by plane for St Andre France to join Corporal Bias in the Military Police. They expect a two and a half year stay in France as his unit serves there.
Admiral Byrd's ship Bear, used in early Antarctic exploration, is being refurbished in Nova Scotia for pioneering duties including whale hunting. The project aims to restore readiness for polar missions and potential exploration tasks.
The preacher closed the sermon with a plea for forgiveness of sins of omission and a needed reversal from spineless failure to live the love Christ sacrificed for, urging reflection and renewal.
Local notes recount residents returning from Myrtle Beach Crescent Beach and Ocean Drive Beach trips. Army Pvt Eugene Paitsell transfers to Fort Benning. Families visit Florida New York City and Europe while high school director Laura Hinchman tours Europe and attends the Brussels World’s Fair.
Freeman Pettry fractured back when a tree fall drove a stake into his back near Colcord. He received tetanus shots at Raleigh- Boone Medical Center in Whitesville amid caregiver arrangements for five days. Other local incidents include Mrs. Clyde Dillon's two medical transfers and births, visits, and vacations involving Colcord residents and relatives across West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana.
Mrs T G Morgan of Pineville motored to Huntington and joined others visiting relatives in Pineville and Mount Hope. A lengthy list notes trips to Welch, Washington D C, Port Chester, the Bronx, and Bridgeport, plus a Mount Hope wedding in Bridgeport with Janet as bridesmaid.
In Little Rock Arkansas Sharon McWilliams aged 10 and her siblings Diana 11 and Alan 8 were rushed to hospitals for appendectomies within three months. The Roy O McWilliams family had no prior appendicitis history to explain the surgeries. Broomball, a Canadian sport, uses a football propelled with broomsticks rather than hockey sticks.
Fayette County Clerk records list 26 real estate transfers with buyers and sellers including Kenneth Hurley to Sam Christian and Louis Hillard to Essie Caldwell. Prices range from 200 to 20,000 dollars with Oak Hill and Montg omery area lots and grave plots at High Lawn Memorial Park.
State Road Commission of West Virginia in Charleston invites sealed bids for the Jenny Gap Maben Road project on state roads D S 661 3 Raleigh and Wyoming Counties 3104 miles for grading drainage base asphalt and wearing courses. Bids due by 10 am July 29 with $22000 guaranty. Commission may reject any or all proposals.
Curtis R. Spangler of the United States Air Force is home on leave visiting his mother Mrs. Ernest E. Spangler in Whitesville before a deployment to Japan after two years in Germany. Edna Ervin of Edwight returns from a 30 day vacation visiting relatives in Baltimore and Wilmington. The Whitesville community field gains momentum with a new scoreboard donated by Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Charleston. About 200 Coal River youths use the field daily.
Linda Lou Walk married Arnold Dressel in a July 3 ceremony at the Columbus Church of God in Columbus Ohio. The couple, both of Columbus origin, departed for a wedding trip to West Virginia and arrived in Colcord for the Fourth of July weekend. The bride is a former Clear Fork High School student and longtime area resident.
Representatives from Huntington and Wheeling urged the Legislature to end Public Service Commission control over municipally owned utilities. They argued PSC oversight raises unnecessary costs and applies private utility policies to city assets, calling the practice impractical and unfair.
Fayetteville Alabama selects new leaders for LaFayette Post No. 149 American Legion including Kenneth Wood as commander and J. Riley Propps as second vice commander. Other officers serving include Walter Caldwell adjutant Roy Cruikshanks service officer Jim Mulligan Americanism officer and John Goode historian with executive committee members Lee Sims and Frank Clinebell. Installation set for August 18.
Mullens report says Virgil Lilly and family returning from a picnic had a station wagon upset on State Route 1016 near Cabin Creek around 6 pm Sunday. No injuries. Fred Cook followed and helped move Lillys to Mullens for bus ride home to Coal City. The family had just arrived from Jacksonville, Florida where he is stationed.
Lawton Oklahoma Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star installed officers at the Masonic Hall. New officers include Worthy Matron Mildred Norton, Worthy Patron Kermit Boggs, Associate Matron Margaret Carroll, Associate Patron Roy Ledford, with several other officers named. Installing officers included Parker, Shawver, Boggs, Forren, Boley and Barnette.
West Virginia Turnpike revenues fell 3.4 percent in the first half of 1958 versus 1937. Car mileage dropped 1,412,391 miles as tolls declined from 45,536,409 to 44,124,018. By June 30 the commission held 1,373,156.86 to pay current interest, about 760,000 short of funds needed for the Oct 1 coupon.
The National Park Service completed a $310000 visitors center at Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal Utah. Assistant Interior Secretary Roger Ernst projects 350000 visitors annually by 1955.
Canton firemen report a new version of the risky gas tank test after a man tried to light a car to gauge if the tank was empty. The incident adds to a pattern of hazardous stunts drawing fire department attention.
George Jefferson Reid, 50, was killed in a mine accident at Affinity at 10:30 a.m. on Monday July 1. The body will be removed to the Waltime grave and arrangements are pending with Williams & Craven Funeral Home. A gas leak and resulting fire confined to the kitchen were investigated.
Governor Cecil H Underwood proclaims elections across all counties of West Virginia to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of James B. Riley. The 1958 general election will determine Donley's successor and proper qualification. Helen Holt signs.
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