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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1960
Page
3
The Rev J B Dryfield, long at Kenova First Methodist, will move to Buckhannon West Virginia Conference after Sunday assignments. He has served since June 1957 and holds roles in local ministerial and health groups. a list of district assignments follows, naming Beckley to Wheeling and Charleston to Huntington districts with many pastors reassigned.
Twenty nine men enlisted in the Army at Beckley Recruiting Main Station last week. The list includes Jerry Dale Perdue of Beards Fork Larry Maynard Nichols of Page David Larry Spears of Man David Trask Ramsey of Mount Hope Thomas Walker Sargent of Grundy Virginia Roland Arthur Newton of Rayford Charles Edward Bobbitt of Yolyn Clyde Calloway of Logan Charles Brian Ellis of Omar Gary Bernard Basham of Beckley James Douglas Bailey of Rhodell Elmer John Harvath of Crab Orchard Robert Pearl Cover of Naugatuck Charles Ray Heater of Ravenswood Lancy Rundolph Graham of Crab Orchard Wesley Allen Reed of Crab Orchard Charles Lowell Ellison of Abraham Raymond Earl Hackney of McAndrews Kentucky Samuel Lewis Moore of Sharples Bobby Keith Smith of McCar Kentucky Ernest Paul Foster of Seth John Charles Dineen of White Sulphur Springs Harold Ester Scott of Daniels Ester Wallace McDowell Jr of White Sulphur Springs Therman Mathews Dingus of Northfork George Blankenship of Panther Robert Linville Scalf of Lando Mines.
The First Baptist Church in Prosperity will host a vacation Bible school June 6 to 17 with the theme The Child and the Church. Classes run 5 30 to 8 p m Monday through Friday, and a program honors attending fathers on Sunday, June 19. The staff includes D B Stover Jr Virgil Stover and others across kindergarten to junior high. Music by Mrs Woody Kinzer with Mrs Donald A Lowe or Miss Meridel Lowe.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, holds its annual meeting at 2 p m in Boston with thousands expected to attend including visitors from the area. Parts of the world are anticipated to attend this major gathering.
The Civil Defense Youth Group of the American Legion Auxiliary Post 70 held its second annual hayride and picnic at Fitzpatrick Park. Adult chaperones Mrs. Leon Gore and Mrs. Robert Redd supervised the Wednesday outing, with transport by John Price and John Covington. Attendees include Mary Ann Freeman, Charlene and Stephanie Anderson, Faye Johnson, Melvin Hill, James and Marion Deering, Leola Finney, Patricia Harvey, Marion Heath, Cecil Allen, Robert Givens, Ernest Neal, Eugene Dillard, and many others.
City police report two cars collided at the intersection of G Street and Cannady Street on Wednesday. Drivers Frederick Wilson, 32, of 713 South Kanawha Street, and Deloris L. Martin, of 400 Gregory Street, were involved. Damages were estimated at 250 dollars. No injuries and no charges filed.
Emanuel Howard Drennen son of Mr and Mrs Emanuel E Drennen Clendenin and Charles Gilbert Wagner will be stationed at Fort Jackson South Carolina for basic training.
Paul N. Bridge of South Boston is named to the select hospital administrative group of the American College of Hospital Administrators. He will attend the convocation in San Francisco on August 28 at the War Memorial Opera House. Bridge is a Mount St. Mary’s and Medical College of Virginia alum and former Roanoke Memorial and Norfolk General Hospital administrator.
Russell Snyder filed a $50 000 damages suit in Raleigh County seeking redress for injuries after a coal mine road accident near Wyco on March 4. Snyder, a truck passenger, sues driver Jesse Jerrell for negligent driving, claiming he cannot return to coal mining. Represented by Clay S. Crouse, the case follows new civil procedure rules effective July 1. A May seminar on the rules was held in Beckley for area lawyers.
Seven men were enlisted in the Navy at the Beckley Recruiting Station last week. The new sailors include Don Jean Morgan of Kilsyth, Earlen Berl Weis of Mount Hope, Sandy James Dove of Cleveland Ohio, Jimmy Russell Farley of Crab Orchard, Dana Clevé Kincaid of Kincaid, William Edward Burl of Thayer, and Charles Drummond Wikel of Pax.
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