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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1950
Page
1
In Fayette County, 45 106 residents registered to vote with party splits showing Democrats at 31 458 and Republicans at 13 483. GOP gains outpaced Democrats as other party totals moved modestly, with context from neighboring counties noting shifts in registrations across Summers and Gilmer.
Fayetteville justice court jury weighs damages in WY L Lee versus Jackson Transfer and Storage Co over a February collision on a hill outside Fayetteville. Lee’s driver San Treadway cites a parked heavy truck without lights on a snowy road as cause. Underwood awarded $400 verdict in unrelated case. Several suits settled out of court, others proceeding, including Campbell vs Underwood over August collision. Remains of medical ads and memorial notices intersperse with court items.
Peggy Sue K McGuffin four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas McGuffin Oak Hill was injured when a run away car struck her about 78 p m yesterday The car belonging to her father was parked in front of her maternal grandmother Mrs Henry Osborne in East Oak Nids The mother said her husband had just returned from work and parked the car with the emergency brake set They cannot explain how the car drifted about 50 yards and stopped with a wheel on the child s face The child is a patient in Oak Hill Hospital
Laurel Rebekah Lodge members will host a covered dish dinner after the Saturday night Old Fellows Lodge meeting. Each member should bring a covered dish. The group plans to send flowers to patient Stella Decomas at Oak Hill Hospital. The next board meeting is scheduled for August 1.
Register staff report funeral services for Virginia Marie Petra 27 of Sun will be held at her mother Mrs Victoria Petra's residence at Sun Saturday at 2 p m with Rev Freddy Steeles of Mt Hope officiating. Burial follows in Price Hill Cemetery Bradley. Body to be removed from Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill to residence at 430 p.m. today.
Mr and Mrs George Mack Davis and daughter Mary Lynn with Mr and Mrs Lee Roy Dean and son left for a week long vacation in Daytona Beach Florida. Miss Belly Jo Hale returned to Princeton after a week in the home of Mr and Mrs J W Winer of Corinne.
Page resident Tage Miner, 32, injured in a fall at the Page Mining Camp last night. He was admitted to Oak Hill Hospital at 9:15 a.m. and listed as resting comfortably. Oak Hill nurse reports another worker, Cee Kessler, 40, employed by New River Company, sustained a compound fracture, admitted at 2:15 a.m. for treatment.
Public notice announces claims against the estate of Walter Wright Sr. in Bal County West Virginia. Heirs and beneficiaries are invited to appear on a specified date to protect their interests and confirm their eligibility for benefits. The notice lists filing requirements and deadlines for interested parties to respond.
Charles Malling and Dallas Williams of Pax faced Greenbrier County courts after arrest in Rupert. Malling received multiple fines and jail terms totaling 120 days for operator license misuse petty larceny gasoline theft and vehicle tampering, plus 10 days for failure to pay fines. Williams was fined for petty larceny gasoline theft and tampering with a vehicle, totaling 80 days with add-on days for nonpayment. Mary Lou Stover, also from Pax, was fined and sentenced to 30 days for petty larceny of gasoline with an extra 10 days for nonpayment.
A Union Taxi Company driver, Robert Hayworth, lost control on wet streets and crashed into a newly repaired South Mullens fence tearing down four posts and a gate. He was fined 10 dollars and costs for careless driving. Enoch Wilcox agreed to pay damages.
Fayetteville reports five chest X-ray clinics in June, four in the county health department. Dr. T GC Sims led the effort under the Fayette County Tuberculosis Association. The Montgomery clinic noted Dr. A EB in charge. A total of 120 people attended these clinics with 113 X rays administered and 100 deemed negative for tuberculosis. Three new cases were discovered, seven previously diagnosed required for X-ray, and three more were…
The Wyoming X ray survey in Wyoming County begins Monday July 31 in Mullens with Mobile Unit No. 2 of the State Health Department moving to Mullens Friday July 28. Hours are 9 am to noon and 4 to 4 pm. Children under 15 are not X rayed unless they are contacts to known active tuberculosis. The Wyoming County Board of Education urges teachers and principals to get free X rays. Schedule runs July 31 through August 3 in Mullens and August 2 moves to Mueville for afternoon start and all day August 3.
Pineville and area residents are listed visiting relatives and friends from Fredericksburg Virginia to White Sulphur Springs. Neal Mullens and family return from Fredericksburg. Keasleys in New York City. Worrells host visitors from Hillsville and Coatesville. Maurice Thomas vacationing in Yakoma Washington. T G Morgan and families in Canada. Coxes visiting Corbin Kentucky and Marshall College attendees. Foster family visits Pineville. Myrtle Layman to stay.
Pineville appoints veteran R D Platt as police chief after he resigns from the state police amid claimed obstacles from Logan County officials. Platt, 52, has 21 years with the state force and will move his family to Pineville by August 1 to replace James Gibson who was injured in an altercation. Gibson is hospitalized and recovering.
M/Sgt. William C. Young, a seven and a half year Air Force veteran from Altoona PA, becomes Army and Air Force recruiter in Wyoming County. He will base at the American Legion building Mullens and live in Crab Orchard with his wife and two daughters. He previously served at Beckley station since June 16 and trained at Lackland AFB. During World War II he flew four missions with the Ninth Air Force and was shot down over Germany. captured and held for five months before escape.
Mullens man Waites Enlisting in the Army with his best friend Clarence J. Brown of Skin Fork Wyoming was wounded slightly while his friend Shadrick was killed in Korea. Parents learned of the death and injury by telegram from the Department of Defense. The two neighbors enlisted together and served in Japan before moving to combat in Korea.
The Public Service Commission continues its hearing on Guyan Utilities Company’s request to raise water rates in Corinne and nearby areas Wyoming County. The new hearing date is set for August 21 with staff writer Reller detailing the update.
Mr and Mrs H E Crew of Pineville and their daughter Bo Hatcher of Logan are entering a motor trip across New England sites this week. Mr and Mrs O L McGraw of Links Grove with their son-in-law and daughter visited Pineville, hosted by Mrs Lee Bailey and violet Lusk Lloyd Farley. Louise Goode, engaged at a beauty shop in Bluefield, visits her parents Virgil and Mrs Goode. Sunday guest, Pineville sister mentioned.
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