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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1956
Page
5
Val on a ship grows uneasy as a rift between Dirk and Bruce deepens. Bruce confronts Val about trust and past kindness, revealing tension over the shipboard dynamic and her links to Hanson.
Rep Kee D West Virginia urged Congress to approve a flood control project to protect East Rainelle from Meadow Creek overflows. The plan estimates 832000 dollars, with 115000 local funding, including channel improvements upstream from Sewell and Boggs Creek and potential relocation of a highway bridge on U.S. 6. Local interests would cover their share.
West Virginia University announced the un-establishment of two departments in its School of Music. Clifford W. Brown will head the music education department and Dr Archie O Haugland will direct the theory and composition department after completing his PhD at Eastman.
Hollywood shells out for two Asian leading actresses Machiko Kyo and Li Li hua as Cecil B DeMille signs Li Li hua to a contract and Kyo completes work on Teahouse of the August Moon Both express a desire to live in America and speak English with interpreters.
Helen Sioussat, CBS director of talks, recalls how rumors swirled at the 1952 Democratic and Republican conventions. She says she knew presidents and families, spiked the MacArthur Chicago rumor after Hoover confirmed it, and kept close contact with CBS as rumors circulated about Barkley, Stevenson, and others.
The County Court of Raleigh County West Virginia will accept sealed bids for Improvements to Streets eleiginta Street Homewood Red Town District Raleigh County WV until 6 a.m. EST July 28 1936. Bidders must post a 100 percent performance bond. Plans and specs available at Raleigh County Clerk and Dennis M Leary Jr Consulting Engineer 119 1-2 South Heber Beckley WV with $20 deposit refundable to actual bidders. The county may reject bids and bids may not be withdrawn for 30 days.
Deaths include Eugene Henry of Ero Avene Berkley age 67 and Delphia May SCS Lee 52 in Beckley. Services set at Webb and Quesenberry Funeral Home with burial in Evergreen Cemetery Roanoke Virginia and Peterson Cemetery Weston. George August Hartrick 60 of Beckley died in Pearisburg Virginias hospital with funeral at the Webb and Quesenberry Chapel.
Classified notices list services and ads for Venice n blinds laundry transfer and storage firms in Heckley and W Va. with contact numbers 8704 2463 4401 834 and short buyer wants for beef hides, plus a doorcan reference. The jumble suggests a small business classifieds page with miscellaneous trades.
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