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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1959
Page
12
Members of the Flat Top Cherokee 4-H Club joined an all day Mercer County Field Day at Glenwood Park. Attendees listed include George McBride, Anthony Archie, and Darrell Mc.
West Virginia conservation seeks up to 300 acres of sandy loam at low elevation for a state tree nursery. Surplus seedlings demand grows as Parsons and other sources face limits. McClung notes Parsons can produce six million seedlings annually. a new nursery could yield about 16 million, meeting state needs with proper funding and site.
CHARLESTON AP Hucksters selling fruit and vegetables along highways are defined as a grocery store under State Board of Health regulations, in an opinion by Assistant Attorney General Clement Bassett. Health Director N H Dyer sought guidance on dust, contamination, produce protection, and toilet facilities. The opinion notes local health officers are not the proper enforcement agency for litter laws and that complaints should go through appropriate law enforcement agencies.
A Matlscott man appealed a driving while drunk conviction during Beckley Police Court, posting a $500 property bond awaiting Raleigh County Criminal Court action. Riddick, arrested at 1:20 a.m. on City Avenue, faced testimony of erratic driving and a blocked intersection before the judge. He declined to testify, offering to plead guilty to reckless driving but not to drunk driving.
A scholarship worth 750 dollars annually is established at West Virginia University College of Commerce by the West Virginia Bankers Association, per Dean R W Coleman. Restricted to state residents, it will be awarded based on character, interest in finance, promise, scholarship, and need. The first recipient will be named by a faculty committee before the 1959–60 school year begins in September.
Twenty six members and two leaders from Flat Top Cherokee 4-H and twenty members and two leaders from Barn Owls 4-H attended Mercer County Field Day at Glenwood Park. Mercer County agent Miss Clifton Dotson reported 679 attendees, a record. Glenwood Herculeans won with 1664 points, Dunns Mountaineers took second at 1578, and Prosperity Diamonds were third with 954. Blue ribbon club song went to Nemours Go-Getters. red to Flat Top Cherokees. white to Sun Valley Seniors. Additional clubs present included Athens Athenians Cross Roads Sky Climbers Good Busy Bees Gardner Livewires Green Wood Thunder Bolts Littlesburg Braves Browning Lambert Hustlers Brush Fork Atlas Brush Fork Eagles Matoaka Working Indians Montcalm Gleamers Oakvale Hustlers Princeton Achieving Harvesters Princeton Princesses Princeton Queens Prosperity Rainbows Rock Pioneers Spanishburg Heroes Sun Valley Braves. Directors listed L. L. Okes Wilber Farley Robert Kile Joe Fridel. judges Rev. Scragg W. J. Rogers B. C. Hodges Lanham Richmond Harry Barbery Fred Walker M. C. Young Crey and David Wright. secretaries Mrs. Audrey Puckett Mrs. Cordie Nugen Mrs. Edith Hodges. Song and yell judges were Miss Joyce Ann Miller Donald Kessinger and Mrs. J. C. Hodges.
The Beckley Avenue overhead bridge on the Valley Drive extension will be built over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway tracks. Troitino Brothers, Inc., Beckley, won with a $194,649.98 bid and plans call for a precast concrete slab superstructure on a concrete substructure. Construction starts in about two weeks.
The Medical College of Virginia honors Dr Fitzhugh Lee Banks of Beckley at the golden year reunion starting June 5. Banks, a Beckley physician for 30 years, specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat medicine and previously practiced in Gordonsville and served as company doctor at Slab Fork. He and Mrs Banks, natives of Madison, Va., have three sons and six grandchildren.
A two ward recount on May 26 failed to alter results in Ward III where A. A. Ross defeated Thomas R. Wilson Jr. and Ward V where Hyden Smith won over Lloyd Shutko. Totals shifted slightly but outcomes remained: Ross 493 to Wilson 454. Smith 504 to Shutko 474. Beckley officials certified the canvass. administration set to take office July 1.
Children from the Nursery through the Junior Department will present a Sunday worship program at First Christian Church with the theme The Bible. T. R. Wilson Jr. leads the Sunday School, featuring songs pantomimes and readings with tableaux by the Primary Department. Youth choir music directed by Mrs. Oscar O Williams.
The Young People of the Beckley Church of Christ sponsor a picnic this afternoon at 4 p.m. on the playground on F Street. Residents are invited to attend and bring family neighbors.
D J Harless deputy state tax commission at 124 Reservoir Road says licenses general and miscellaneous expire July 1. Applications for new licenses can be made at his office 124A Reservoir Road or at Charleston.
Judge Norman Knapp dismissed three suits in Raleigh County Circuit Court on Wednesday. The cases included appeals by Joe and David Bragg from a justice court ruling in favor of Willard Pennington, a cross suit by William R. Marcus against Robert Winston, and a cross suit by Venus M. Wood against Roy Miller.
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