Chamber Seeks Public Aid for Skin Poplar Gap Road Plan
Beckley chamber opens a petition drive and booths at local markets to urge support for a new road linking Beckley with Kopperston and Wharton. The route would cut driving distances, bring coal regions closer, and follow a prior promise of a reconnaissance survey by State Road Commissioner Cavendish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Com Nue
Cutis Merce
Zens
South Oakwood Ave
Kroger
Wharton
Kapperston
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Chamber of Commerce
Ray Cavendish
Kopperston-Wharton
Army and Air Force recruit 14 men from Beckley area
The U S Army and U S Air Force Recruiting Station Beckley enlisted fourteen men yesterday. Eleven West Virginians and three Ohioans entered the armed services. Two airmen were veterans sent to Sampson AFB New York. Names include Orland Nichols Gail Tinsley Cletis Walker and others from Oak Hill Quinwood and Rainelle.
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U.S. Army
U.S. Air Force
Beckley
West
Williams
Dunden
Buddy Gene Gialdella
Eccles
Angelo Gialdella
Gail Ray Tinsley
Quinwood
Lottie Katherine Bess Tinsley
Cletis Franklin Walker
Leslie
John Cales
Rainelle
Other Garrett Cales
Three MacArthur Girls Missing After Car Sighting
Three MacArthur girls Patsy Ruth Price Barbara Lee Price and Betty Jean Rice have been reported missing from their homes. The father says they were last seen in a green car near MacArthur on May 24 and the driver and destination remain unknown. State police and relatives have been notified. Patsy Ruth is described as 15 with dark brown hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 4 inches tall and 140 pounds. Barbara Lee is 14, 5 feet 1 inch, 120 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Betty Jean Rice’s description was not known. The family had little money. Barbara previously hinted at leaving for Colonial Beach Virginia. Other names appear in the report as people connected to the case.
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MacArthur
Patsy Ruth Price
Barbara Lee
Betty Jean Rice
M. C. Price
Price
Patsy Ruth
Barbary Lee
Betty Jean ‘Rice
Colonial Beach
Sistlers
Huntington
WEDDING LICENSES ISSUED AMID LOCAL READERS’ NOTES
Over the weekend Raleigh County clerks issued marriage licenses to four couples. The list includes Henry Simpson Bragg and Clara Beatrice King, Donald Ray Darlington and Rose Mary Treola, Bill Joe Hawks and Mary Alice McClung, and Frank Shelton Stover with Georgia Faye Clay. Forfeited bonds totaled 249.50 after eight people failed to appear in city police court for offenses ranging from speeding to drunken driving. WWHS reports 82 summer class registrations at Woodrow Wilson High School with 23 seniors, 34 juniors, and 25 sophomores. Three Marine recruits were dispatched to Parris Island for eight weeks of boot camp, followed by ten days’ leave before unit assignment. A Raleigh County Democratic Club meeting is set for 8 p.m. tomorrow to elect officers.
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Raleigh County
Henry Simpson Bragg
Prosperity
Malan Hord Bragg
Clara Beatrice King
Tyler Nicewander
Donald Ray Darlington
East Beckley
Mason Darlington
Rose Mary Treola
Beckley
Sam Treola
Bill Joe Hawks
Wichita,Kan
Loren J Hass
Mary Alice McClung
Eccles
Bernard W. McClung
Frank Shelton Stover
Glen Daniel
Joseph Stover
Georgia Faye Clay
Nellie
Clay Stewart
Thomas Lawrence
Rosco Duboise
East Park
Duboise
Denver Brown
William E. Radford
Naoma
Dani Basham
Sophia
Ivan Basham
Jackie Windsor
Maxwell Hill
WWHS
Woodrow Wilson High School
C. G. Peregoy
Mary Vass
Ruth ‘Summers
Woodrow Wilson and Beckley
Fayetteville
Oak Hill
Mt. Hope
Stoco
Trap Hill
Marsh Fork
Mullens
Clear Fork
Concord College
Alexander Welter, Jr
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Parris Island
5. C
William C. Bennett
Edith May Bennett
Hinton
Earl H. Boone
Anne Victoria Boone
James E.buckland
Hilda Ann Buckland
Electrical-Mechanical Institute Meet Set For Beckley
The eighth annual joint meeting of New River and winding Gulf electrical and mechanical institutes will be held June 34 with sessions at three locations on S Kana lwha Street. Speakers include Charles W Connor solid fuels administrator at the Interior Department on coal industry effects and C G Stewart of Alloy on power needs for continuous loading machines. M J Harsch WV Tech leads manpower concerns. James W Woolf of Joy Manufacturing discusses magnetax controls. Dinner at 6 p.m. at the Methodist Temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PLC
Ing
New River
Memorial ‘Institute
West Virginias
Reserva Ae
American Institute
Lindsey
Thea
Beckley
Harry
L. Lindsey
Institute — Electrical
S. Kanalwha Street
Charles W. Connor
Solid Fuels
Department of the ‘Interior
Washington
Appalachian Electric Power Building
N. ‘G. Weaver
New ‘River
Tas M. J. Harsch
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
James W. Woolf
Joy Manufacturing Company
Pranklin
Methodist Tem
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Poplar Gap Road
Seem
Cosmopolitan
H. & M. Family Shoe Store
Neville ST
Army
Air Force
Clyde Noble
North Kenova
Sterling Chandler Rusk
Julia Weldon
Dana Franklin Pierson
Tesla
Luther Bailey Crites
Lesla
Robert Herold Flannagan
Craigsville
Opal Pearl Flannagan
Robert F. Grimemett
Christian
Miller, O
Lester Earl
Black
Proctorville
George G. Meade
Raymond
Brown Weldon
Ronceverte
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
Cohen
Cosmetic Dept
Raleigh
DEMS
Anthony J. Sparacino
Ouly Democratic Club
Mercury
Standora
Wimi
Lincoln-Mercury Inc
W. VA
S. Oakwood Ave
Raleigh Register
Avro Connor
SFA
Electrical-Mechanical Institute
EA Bagnser
Atsle
M.L
Womens Crisp
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