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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1956

Page

10

Beckley Salon Ad and Local Notices Mix of Classifieds

Juxtaposed ad collage from Beckley featuring a modern salon promotion, Avon district manager contact, a church fund drive appeal seeking $27,500, stamp service, livestock listings, fruit sales, and a rebuilt piano for sale. Includes various phone numbers and location cues.

Avon Cosmetics Jennings St Beckley Shankey Lilly French Street LE Modern Furniture Co Sophia W. Va Deering A. F. Meador Besoco Dial

Heart surgery could prevent damage before it starts

Dr Bernard Broffman outlined a preventive heart operation that dusts asbestos powder on the heart surface to spur new blood vessels. Used before muscle damage, it has eased pain in 90 percent of 185 patients since 1951 and let many return to work, with no deaths among the last 58 treated.

Alton L. Blakeslee Associated Press Chicago W Bernard Broffman Mount Sinai Hospital Cleveland Aséa Claude Beck Western Reserve University Brofman

Crime spree ends in sentencing in Roane County

Spencer West Virginia roane county judge sentenced Peggy Ann Hosey a 14 year old girl to remain at Industrial Home for Girls Salem until she is 21 after pleading guilty to armed robbery with a man 26. duo accused of two April 27 holdups and April 30 store robbery in Tennessee trip others victims included Hosey’s widowed mother and banker Elmer Fleming. Post received 125 years after pleading guilty to 12 felonies. Nine charges of armed robbery kidnapping and breaking and entering continued to next term.

Spencer W.va Salem Roane County L. H. Miller Peggy Ann Hosey Burton Junior Post Tennessee Miss Hosey Elmer Fleming Grace Post State Penitentiary

Insurance Law Change Needed

Charleston health policy debate centers on altering law to curb cancellations within the first year. Insurance Commissioner Gillooly seeks a one year minimum term and longer renewal notice, plus removing deterioration of health as a renewal denial factor. He argues cancelation exploits the very reason for buying sickness coverage.

Charleston Thomas J. Gillooly Gillooly

Agricultural market prices for fruits and vegetables Baltimore area

Market report lists strawberries steady to weak demand with various crate sizes and prices, apples varying by variety and origin in Maryland Virginia Eastern Shore, and potatoes from North Carolina with mixed availability. Included are price ranges for 100 and 50 lb sacks of cobblers and round red varieties, plus regional comments on quality and condition.

Galperin Music CO South Kanawha St Hotpoint Mt. Hope Westinghouse O.M Hoke Springdale W. V. Crosley Walker Beckley East Rainelle Baltimore Eastern Shore Usis NC Cobblers Reds Eastern Shore Cobblers SC Sebagoes

Livestock Receipts Before Monday Market In Baltimore

Baltimore market notes show cattle receipts near 250 head with three loads fed steers and two loads stock cattle. Fresh receipts about 50 percent steers and 30 percent cows with extra stock cattle. most receipts not shown, held for Monday sale. One load canner cows at 11.50. Calves hogs sheep none.

Baltimore USDA

Loss in Furs in Broadview Fires Skunk Pelts

Rancher Herman Knobbel burned 21 skunk pelts after learning they were valued at 2.50 dollars each in the fur market. He admitted setting the skunks alight but the animals did not retaliate.

Broadview Mont Herman Knobbel Knobbel

Divorces and land notices in Raleigh County West Virginia

In Raleigh County Court two items appear: a divorce suit by Margaret Elizabeth Gray against Billy W Gray with non resident defendant and an order to answer within a month. A trustee sale of Lot 3 in Farley Addition Coal City Slab Fork District Beckley is set for July 7 1956 at the courthouse steps for cash. Lot 3 fronts Route 29 and backs toward Center Street. Also a deed correction and subordination to convert Lot 86 Colonial Addition Beckley for Assembly of God Church with Appalachian District Council to correct defects and subordinate to a lender lien, dated June 22 1956, by W Glen West District Superintendent.

State OF West Virginia Circuit Court Raleigh County Margaret Elizabeth Gray Billy Wax Gray van Hunter Ashworth & Wilson Attys Pitt Court House Beckley Farley Coal City Slab Fork Center Street Lee D. Hedson Rosalind B. Hedson James K. Edmundson District Board of Trustees Appalachian District Council Assemblies of God Springfield Missouri Assembly of God Church of Beckley Raleigh County Bank Assembly of God Church of Frank P. Saunders Trustees W. Glen West The Missour

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J. W. Stokes Ronald Meadows WC. Anderson Memoriam Freddie V. Hanshew Sisters and Brothers Keyser Funeral Home Ambulance Service Douglas T. Bryant Mgr South Oakwood Ave Amos E. Quesenberry Sececeor Chonoeoror James C. Griffith Webb & Quesenberry Funeral Home Atlvance Drive Catern and R. C. Egnor Crab Orchard Oak Hill Logan Webb’s Florists & Greenhouses FTD Nash Campbell Henry Jones Sanders and Edgers Fabulon Foster Hardware Co Main St Clarence Christian Beckley Ice and Feed CO Prince St Neva Patton Alderson Penguin Piu Jean Radford Virginia Griffith Jean McComb Bertha Hedgepath South Oakwood Del-Mar Beauty Shop Marguerite’s Main St. Ph R Kut & Karl Main Street Murphy's Mabel West B. E. Silverman Gene H. Church Lovitz Television Service Morris Calloway Heights Jennings Radio & TV MacArthur RCA Victor Zenith John W. Eye Neville ST GEO. Sparks Ashworth Firestone Princest Tench Halstead Furniture CO Wright Beckley Furniture Copeland Mount Hope Rd Foster Hardwar CO Frank GMC Sprague Cam Thompson es _timates Bob Daniels Mutual of Omaha Combs St Venetian Blind Cleaners James Deering Smoot Avenue Lewis Transfer & Storage Dial 4400 Glen Daniel Peerless Packing Cgmany Little Beaver Golf Range Lake Road Walter's Insurance Agency McCorkle Avenue South Charleston FORD Grady Whitlock Slick’s Reservoir Avon Jennings Sr New York Stone Montgomery Ward Standard Coffee Company Eugene Bays Gibson Hotel McNess Wyoming County Dial Beckley Chrysler Motor Company Beckley Hotel Hodges Garage Canada Cuba Dept. of Emp. Security Fourth Avenue Huntington Electrolux Corporation Temple Street W Va Roy A. Jones R. L J. H. Stinson East Beckley Henry Plumley Shady Spring W.B. Jones WS. Gregg Baby Crosier Poultry Farm Lee Thompson Stamford City Lanark Berry Street Bud Lovell Hope Bob Mann Maple Fork Fred Mann Dairy Hereford H.P. Bear Frank Crickmer Stamaford Sprague Showground ROPER Bush & Gerts Invisible Roach Henry Conway Hardware Sophia Plumbing CO Grandview Beaver Curley’s Fayetteville Maytag Norge Admiral Best Furniture CO South Fayette Street Oliver Farm Studebaker Willys Mullens H. L. Sarver Wolf Creek New Bowl J. L. Mills ABC Time & Gift Shop Gall Us Rainelle Chamberlin CO. OF America Alcoa Dearing Brothers Prosperity Ilson Fred Wood Bair Bros Crews One Prince Street Mr. Hall Bailey Avenue King Kole Cafe Johnstown Road Hall Furniture CO C. A. Walker Shady Spring Gravely Tractors Gravely Tractor Sales Princeton Crosley Electric Belle Furniture CO Oak Hill, W. Va Beckley Maytag Maytag Gas Range March of Science Acme Loan Company North Fayette St Acme Beckley Tire & Rubber CO South Fayette St Seiies ACE Third Ave East Main St Lennox W. VA. Heating CO Lone Star Lilly Hardware Beaver Hoover Uarantee J. J. Lamb & Son Beckley, W. Va Pass Dial Raleigh Glass & Mirror CO City Ave Beckley Ice Cream Johns-Manville Mankin Lumber CO North Kanawha St
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