Beckley Plans Large Budget With Fireman Additions
Beckley adopts a sizable budget for 1957-58, proposing one or two additional fulltime firemen and raises for police, health, and sewer staff. Council debates codifying city ordinances and funds for recreation, with $5,955.58 remaining for ordinance codification and street improvements amid pressure to expand services and upgrade equipment.
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Miller
Harold Miller
Clarence Bibb
Fire Department
Health Department
Dot
Bibb
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Council
Bernard Martin
League of
City Adopts Paying Resolutions On Traffic Plan
Councilman Birbe cites three year plan to ease traffic near Raleigh General Hospital. Dennis M. Leary Jr. and Dr. R. G. Broaddus back a parking lot project at Second St and Woodlawn Ave to alleviate congestion. Council votes to adopt a resolution and seeks state or county approval at next regular session.
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Dennis M. Leary Jr
Gineer
Birbe
Hej
R. G. Broaddus
Butland Woodlawn Ave
Leighy County Board of Education
Raleigh
Jandhe Hospital
Leary
Oval Hospital
Sophia Sunday School Class Outing at Camp and Park
Sophia Methodist Church junior Sunday School class chaperoned by Mr and Mrs Vernon Lawson spent Tuesday touring Camp Thomas E Lightfoot. The group returned to Raleigh County for a swim and picnic at Little Beaver Park with attendees Buzz Phillips Gary Allen Michael Stone David Stone and the Lawson couple.
Plan for Community Picnic at F Street Park
Plans for a Friday community project and picnic at F Street Park between 5 and 9 pm include Stratton coach Murray Jeffries General Nahnah supervisor of the park and Grace Salmon chairing the refreshments committee. The city built the park two years ago at the end of F Street offering swings and a sticky slide. Volunteers are asked to bring an ax shovel or similar tool to clear underbrush.
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F Street
Stratton
Murray Jeffries
Nannah
Grace Salmon
Oceana
Two Men Escape Death In Route 16 Crash
Wiley Donald Graham 21 of Midway and Billy Joe Herald 20 of Sophia were injured Monday in a Route 16 collision between Sophia and Midway. Graham received a summons to appear before Magistrate C.T. Burdiss by August 4 to answer reckless driving and driving without a license. Herald also sustained injuries and was treated at Beckley Veterans Hospital.
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Beckley Veter
Ans Hospital
Sophia
Midway
Wiley Donald Graham
C.T. Bur
Billy Joe Herald
Young Minister Leads Sophia Methodists Faithful Sermon
The Sophia Methodist ChurchSunday morning service featured Rev Bill D Brown delivering The Faithful Woman sermon about Abigail the woman who saved her husband from his own evil The service included organist Mrs Frances Travis and choir director Mrs O A Phillips The church erected 1952 cost about 61000 dollars and has grown since its 1938 founding by Alf F Eggleston with charter members including Mrs John Tosh and Miss Linda Lindsey The article notes Brown born 1936 in Glen Rogers WV and married to Jane Capwell with two sons He calls the congregation loyal and says they help make his first conference appointment a success The piece portrays the church as a symbol of Methodism and community outreach with leadership from Bishop Liosd Wicke and district superintendent Claude Collins.
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Sequita Allen
Sophia
Bill D. Brown
Sophia Methodist Church
Samuel
Mr. Brown
Nabal
David
Abigail
Nable
Gai
Brown
Frances Travis
O. A. Phillips
Sophia Elementary School
Alf F. Eggleston
John Tosh
M. L. Tosh
L. M. Houck
Haney Houck
Ellis Houck
E. R . Lindsey
Linda Lindsey
Women’s Missionary Society
Eggleston
Methodist Church
R. H. Kennedy
Kennedy
J. Elbert Perkins
TRE Church
James B. Deck
D. R. Rhinehart
James L. Hornbeck Jr
George Browning
Lacy McKinney
D. A. Phillips
J. E. Pickle
D. R. Rhinghart
Vernon Lawson
Stewands
J.B. Deck
Raymond Law
J. M. Cook
John Lee Cher
Ross Hutchins
Women's Society of Christian Service
Clyde Souder
Kay Snyder
Methodist Youth Fellowship
D. Brown
Glen Rogers
West Virginia Wesleyan
Drew Theological Seminary
Madison
United States Navy
Jane Marie Capwell
Paul Lindsay
Richard Scott
Stonewall Methodist Church
First Baptist Church
New Jersey
Madison Ymca
Church of Today
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Church of the Ages
John Wesley
Ora
Liosd C. Wicke
Claude Collins
America
Beckleyan Faces Three Damages Suits in Kanawha County
In Kanawha County a Fayette Pact Park crash leads to three damage suits against Philip Asharah Beckleyan. Plaintiffs Charles Johnson and Clarence Wilburn claim serious injuries to daughter Alice Faye, alleging Beckleyan’s car struck the eastbound vehicle on U S 60 near Daniel Boone Park last June. Proceedings seek $350 000, $75 000, and $25 000 respectively in common pleas and circuit court.
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Wilburn
William Franklin Jonson
Charleston
Johnson
Clarence Edward Wilburn
Spiehetanker Hex
Alice Faye
U.S
Common Pleas Court
Daniel Boone Park
Charles
Esharahlly
Illness Fatal To John W Gillispie Rites On Saturday
John William Gillispie of Crab Orchard, 70, died at 8 a.m. after an extended illness. A Baptist, retired coal miner with 35 years in area mines, he last worked for Gulf Smokeless Coal Co four years ago. Survived by wife Willie Maude Akers Gillispie and many relatives. services set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Bethel Church MacArthur with burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens.
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John William Gillispie
Crab Orchard
The
Baptist Church
Gulf Smokeless Coal Co.r
United Mine Workers of America
Beckley Loyal Order of Moose
Gillispie
Ferrum
William
Sally Pratter Gillispie
Willie Maude-Akers Gillispie
Halley Foster
Sally Thornhill
Bassett
John Jr
Eric
Forrest
Earl
Oak Hill
Tom
Syrmina
Tenn
Paul
U.S. Army
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Bethel Church
MacArthur
Mark Wolfe
D. W. French
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Roosevelt Meadows
W. E. Cook
Joe Dunton
Homer Snuffer
E. W. Goodman
Ben Wooten
Youth Rally Set at Midway Church Sunday
A youth rally will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Church of God in Midway with music by Sandra Okes and devotions led by Mrs D Wolford of Soak Creek. Attendees include churches from Lester Beckley Fayetteville Mount Hope Winston Kincaid Carlisle and Oak Hill. Election of officers for the new year will be a highlight and an attendance banner will be awarded.
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Winston
Kincaid
Carlisle
Oak Hill
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