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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1958
Page
3
The small dealer, backed by a national manufacturer, relies on the community newspaper to maintain a sales network in a local trade area. Centralized national ads reduce local buy and hurt both manufacturer and dealer. regional ads don’t seal local sales. The partnership boosts local awareness and sales.
Virgil Sarrett and Dewey Bone of Raleigh County schools join county superintendents and state college representatives at a WVU workshop to craft guidelines for a statewide school improvement program. A Jackson's Mill session is planned July 14-16 to finalize guidelines. Dr Eston Feaster heads the committee guiding the project.
Hubert Clyde Leslie, a three year football letterman from Sophia High School, enlists for four years in the Marine Corps at Beckley station. He exchanges his football for a rifle with Staff Sergeant Willie Moore at South Charleston recruiting station. Leslie, son of Mrs. Bonez B. Plumley, also played for West Virginia University and Highlands University New Mexico. He is undergoing recruit training at Parris Island South Carolina.
Melvin Gill, 30, was fined $2 and costs by Magistrate J E Holt after a Conservation Commission officer charged him with stealing a tire and wheel from a state vehicle parked at E R Grimmett Motor Co Inc in Hinton. Ronald G Cozart, 37, of Oceana was fined $5 and costs for a state park violation involving parking in a no parking area. Enrolled for summer at Bowling Green College of Commerce is Randall Shrewsbury, son of A L Shrewsbury of Crab Orchard, pursuing higher accounting studies.
The Mont Chateau lodge on Cheat Lake near Morgantown offers year round recreation including ping pong shuffleboard and boating on the lake. Rooms with private baths go for six to twelve dollars nightly with dining served 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The article notes a July 4 swimming opening and mentions distant connections to The Raleigh Register newsroom.
A talk on roof bolting is scheduled for 7 30 p m Friday in the Raleigh County Courthouse Circuit Courtroom. Speakers include Crawford L Wilson head of West Virginia Mines Dept and W R Park district supervisor U S Bureau of Mines Mount Hope.
A Glen Daniel man was released from the Raleigh County Jail on Tuesday after paying a $5 fine and costs to Magistrate Cotton White. Henry Stewart Smith was arrested by State Police and jailed at 11 pm on a charge of petit larceny. Charles Withrow of Glen Daniel was released after a sentence for possession moonshine whisky and drunkenness. Chester Bearfield of Leevale is held awaiting arraignment on a bastardy charge. Beckley man Harold Joe Via Jr. was ordered to appear in Beckley Police Court Thursday after arrest for improper vehicle registration. Elmer Roberts of Mabscott was booked on a capias pro fine.
Retail meat prices follow a crazy quilt pattern this weekend with wide regional differences. Sirloin prices vary by area while fryer prices drop in several regions and leg of lamb trends upward. Produce departments cite strong lettuce, radish, beet and cucumber buys as fruit and veg displays expand.
Columbus Ohio Governor William O Neill calls a special session of the Legislature for June 23 to extend state jobless benefits, increase poor relief funding, fund billboard controls on Interstate highways, and ease sewer and water line extensions outside cities. The article notes the U S farm size growing from about 174 acres in 1949 to slightly over 215 acres today.
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