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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1962
Page
3
Children on Wickham Avenue presented a play honoring two beloved neighbors at the Beckley Moose Lodge anniversary. Charles Little Jr and Billy Brown joined peers as they acted and sang through scenes from the Roaring 20s to the Rocking 60s, drawing 80 local residents to the event and social hour.
Medical Q and A features avocados in salads with fat concerns addressed. Dr. Harold Hyman counters cholesterol myths, discusses happiness in a child's restless toes, red wine myths about blood health, rheumatic fever relapse advice, and a charitable sales leaf. The piece also notes Betsy and Peggy Brown’s neighborhood play dedicated to local mourners and invites neighbors to attend.
Nineteen individuals were fined for conservation law violations in Summers and Greenbrier counties. Fines of twenty dollars each covered offenses including fishing without a license, improper running lights, illegal parking, and reckless motorboat operation. Several defendants appeared before Magistrates Holt, Mullins, and Williams, with arrests by Officer Bare and others. A Beckley Moose Lodge 1606 anniversary event is planned July 25 to 29 with speakers and district meetings.
Miss Paulette Cary Mason 19 and daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Mason of 103 Roosevelt Street began work Monday as secretary at the Beckley State Police Detachment. She is a Sophia High School graduate with an associate secretarial science degree from Beckley College. Two Ethiopian Army officers Capt Assefa Yesous and Lt Assefa Wondimu visited the Beckley detachment for field studies in traffic control procedures. They have studied at Northwestern Traffic Institute nine months and will stay with Oak Hill detachment this week before leaving for Akron, Ohio, returning to Ethiopia in mid September.
Bruce W. Anderson, a 1956 Woodrow Wilson High School graduate, accepts a teaching post in Columbia Station Ohio. He will teach mathematics and mechanical drawing at Columbia High School. He is the son of Mrs Helen M Anderson of East Beckley and attended Beckley College for two years before graduating from West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Two children were treated and released from Beckley Hospital Wednesday evening. James Allen, 11, son of Mr and Mrs Coe C Allen of 114 Crescent Street, had cuts to his right leg from a bicycle wreck. Debra Kincaid, 5, daughter of Mr and Mrs Kyle Kincaid of Sprague, suffered injuries to her left arm after a swing fall.
The Rev. Danny Sears of Glen White will speak at the Bradley Church of God YPE tonight at 7 30. The pastor Rev. R. E. Leadingham invites all to attend.
Family Weekly's July 22 issue examines how courts quantify the economic value of a wife and mother, detailing legal standards, methods, and case examples used to assign financial worth to domestic contributions.
Seven men enlisted in the Air Force at Beckley Recruiting Station. They are Dew H Robbins Jr Chesapeake Jimmie Alexander Hodges Lester Ike Eisenhower Buckley Ward Floyd Wesley Sho walter Princeton Ronald Lee Selvey Montcalm Clyde Bert Ca sey Jr Skelton and James Robert Miller Spring Hill. They will be sent to Lackland AFB Texas for basic training. On July 12 1798 William Ward Burrows was appointed the 1st Commandant of the Marine Corps with the rank of major.
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