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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1947
Page
9
The case centers on Overell and his wife, Los Angeles finance operators, accused of beating them with an iron stanchion aboard a Balboa yacht. The vessel exploded, leading to arrests of the defendants as the investigation proceeded.
Woodrow Wilson High School coach Jerome Van Meter is at West Virginia University for a summer session while pursuing a master's degree.
The New River Hereford Breeders Association will hold its first sale October 23 at the Daniels farm in Raleigh County. The event was announced during a Summers County meeting with Dr. S. A. Ford and the New River chapter of Friends of the Land. Agriculture Commissioner J. B. McLaughlin and State Veterinarian Dr. T. C. Green urged accredited herds for Bangs disease and tuberculosis, noting West Virginia’s high count of accredited counties and low vaccination rates. Bulls should not be moved unless in non-accredited herds, and buyers should rely on herd rating over individual animals.
On May 17 the jury heard Dr. Harold H. Kuhn describe Herman's injuries including fractures to the right collarbone and thigh. He said the thigh bone was healed with a three quarter inch overlap causing right leg shortening and pelvic tilt.
Adkins testified the three men hailed his Beckley cab to Beaver then Shady Spring where Lucas pulled a gun and the others dragged him from the front seat. The taxi broke down at Man, Logan County, and he freed himself, calling state police. The judge overruled a mistrial request by defense counsel.
A circuit court jury awarded Oliver Lemon Peck of Sophia $13,500 Thursday in his retrial of a $50,000 damage suit against Seid Bez, also of Sophia, for a hip injury claimed after an assault on May 8, 1944 outside Bez’s store. The prior $23,000 verdict was set aside by the state Supreme Court on a legal technicality.
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