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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1951
Page
6
After five years as a color television star, Patty Painter from Beckley seeks an audience. She has worked with CBS color since demonstrations began and appears in previews at home and on the job.
Wayne County official J Floyd Harrison will ask Governor Patteson to seek extradition of three Paintsville Kentucky men held in Louisa for an armed robbery of a Fort Gay service station on July 7. The suspects are Paul Baldwin 23 Gilbert Ray Baldwin 21 and Russell Bradley 34.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Saturday at the residence for Isaac Thompson 71 of Glen View who died Thursday from complications at the Andrew W. Rowan Home Sweet Springs Burial will follow in Canaday Cemetery Glen View He was born in 1880 Franklin County Va and survived by a brother Lee Thompson of Barboursville The body will remain at Rose Funeral Home until 1 pm Saturday then moved to the home of his nephew Homer Thompson in Glen View for the funeral hour Magistrate J P Meadows fined William Hendricks of Stotesbury 10 and costs on an assault and battery charge the warrant was sworn out by his wife Beatrice.
Carl Smith 27 of Kopperston received head neck and back injuries after being struck by slate at the mine operated by Fastern Gas and Fuel Associates. He was treated at Stevens Clinic Hospital Welch.
Aubrey O. Smith, chief clerk of Local Draft Board No. 18, is promoted to Senior Clerk in West Virginia State Selective Service. Effective Monday, he will inspect draft boards statewide while keeping Beckley headquarters and residence. He has served as local board clerk since March 23, 1942.
Mrs. Tom Jarrett of Packsville suffered head injuries when she fell from a car driven by her daughter Mildred near Linn's Park. She intervened to save a younger child who was slipping from the vehicle, then fell herself. She was treated locally and later moved to a Charleston hospital.
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