New Objectives for Beckley Child Care Center Move
Local efforts advance the Beckley Child Care Center at Cranberry with objectives to appoint a treasurer and board of trustees, hire personnel, and expand parking for 12 to 15 more cars. A committee led by Pugh, Smith, and Armstrong will name the treasurer before the administration building opens and review pledge progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Cranberry
Wipperman Construction Co
FE. S. Pugh
Hulett C. Smith
FE. D. Armstrong
Methodist Temple
Virgil Cook
Beckley Church To Host 62 Baptist Convention
The 1962 Raleigh Baptist Sunday School Convention will be held at Memorial Baptist Church the first Tuesday after school closes next spring. Officers elected include Rev. H. A. McClung president and Mrs. C. F. Ratliff chairing children's work. Dr. Asa Harris spoke on Christian Education materials. About 80 attended the evening program featuring a musical sermon by Rev. Jim Franklin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Okey Lilly
Shady Spring
D. C. Sisk
Mabscott
Clyde Bowling
Beaver
Asa Harris
Parkersburg
Raleigh Baptist Association
Calloway Heights Baptist Church
William Farmer
Retary
Jim Franklin
Memorial Baptist Church
Christ
Franklin
Job seekers tally at Beckley office counts thirty one
Thirty one persons filed applications for work at the Beckley Office of Employment Security on Monday. The list includes two sales clerks three waitresses four maids one book binder one service station manager one solicitor two janitors one lone watchman one carpenter one stockman one cement finisher one service station attendant one bulldozer operator three truck drivers one machine presser one flat-work feeder one dump truck driver one stock checker one construction laborer one coal washer and two coal loaders. About seventy people attended a church gathering Tuesday night in the assembly room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Office of Employment Security
Holmes Safety Group Hears About Fatalities
Loraine Wotring of the U S Bureau of Mines spoke to the Beckley Holmes Safety Association in Mount Hope about recent fatalities in District C area mines. Charts shown illustrated accident locations and causes. The council met Monday to avoid miners vacation June 24 July 11. Next meeting set for July 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Council
Holmes Safety Association
Loraine Wotring
United States Bureau of Mines
Mount Hope
District C
Beckleyan Elected To American Institute
James O. Lively of Beckley has been elected a member of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers He will join the Society of Mining Engineers a conae organization of the Institute The Society is the professional group for engineers and metallurgists in the minerals industries
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James O. Lively. Beckley
Lively Manufacturing and Equipment Co
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Society of Mining Engineers
Conae
Institute
United States
Soldiers listed as they enter and advance in the Army
Fort Bragg and other bases host a roll of young West Virginia men and women in the armed forces. Pfc Norman R Meadows of Beckley, a truck driver with the 618th Engineer Company, entered the Army in 1959 after Woodrow Wilson High School class of 1958. Joan Boggess of Beckley, 18, a Woodrow Wilson graduate, completed basic training at Fort McClellan. M Sgt Hollis H Kidwell, 45, from Mount Hope, arrives in Germany to serve with the Sixth Infantry in Berlin after recent duty at Fort Dix. Donald E Bowyer of Mullens, 24, promoted to specialist four at Fort Bliss with First Guided Missile Battalion, is married to Margaret of El Paso. Pvt Archie S Vance of Mount Hope serves at Fort Knox, after Mount Hope High School. Pvt Lewis E Jones, 19, of Fayetteville, completes military police training at Fort Gordon.
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Fort Bragg
N. C
618Th Engineer
Pfc
Norman R. Meadows
Women's Army Corps Center
Fort McClellan
Ala
Joan Boggess
Ausby L. Boggess
Azzara Ave
Beckley
Woodrow Wilson High School
Germany
Sixth Infantry
Hollis H. Kidwell
William L. Kidwell
Mount Hope
Fort Dix
N. J
Berlin
Army
Fort Bliss
Tex
Donald E. Bowyer
Hubert Bowyer
Helen
Fort Benning
Mullens High School
American Armature and Engineering Co
Mullens
Margaret
el Paso
Larceny Charge Jails Meadows
Wesley Meadows twenty two of Crab Orchard was jailed in Raleigh County Jail after a grand larceny arrest. Deputies Thompson and Hutchinson said Meadows took a car owned by Raymond Bolen of Statesbury without permission from Day and Night Garage on Prince Street. Bolen denies giving permission. The car had no license plate. Russell Catlett of Bradley was jailed for contempt of court for failing to appear. Fred Harrah released on bond after assault and drunkenness charges. Bever ly Fay Sloat and Gladys Fisher from Dayton were moved to Alderson Federal Prison by a U.S. Marshal.
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Wesley Meadows
Crab Orchard
Raleigh
Meadows
Wes Thompson
Boyd Hutchinson
West Wickam
Raymond Bolen
Stotesbury
Thompson
Bolen
Prince St
Russell Catlett
Bradley
Raleigh County
James Sparacino
Mabscott
Harrah
Donavon Brown
East Beckley
Gladys Helen Fisher
Beverly Fay Sloat
Dayton
Ohio
Federal Women's Prison
Alderson
U.S
City agency approves carport and home build plans on Woodlawn Ave
The Planning and Zoning Commission granted permission for Willard Hoskins to erect a carport at 407 Sylvia Street after publication and public support. Five residents backed Hoskins, three letters were read, and the site will place the carport about 14 inches from the sidewalk. The PZC also required publication for N Joe Rahal’s wedge shaped lot house at 703 Woodlawn Ave, adjacent to N J Pugh’s home, with no objections from Pugh. The next meeting was set for July 5 due to the Fourth of July holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Hoskins
Sylvia St
Planning and Zoning Commission
Hoskins
PZC
J. W. Maxwell
N. Joe Rahal
City Recorder
W. L. Humphrey
Woodlawn Ave
Humphrey
N. J. Pugh
Pugh
Unity Theme For Convention In Second Baptist Church
The Winding Gulf District Baptist Association hosts a Sunday School and Women s Convention at Second Baptist Church starting 9 a m with Unity based on Psalm 133 as the theme. Rev J W Gowen leads the host church as district events proceed with the Friday session noted. Separately Specialist 4 Lawrence E Jackson arrived in Korea with the First Cavalry Division, wife Betty and parents Willie Collins reside in Stotesbury, a 1959 Mark Twain High School graduate who enlisted in May 1959 and trained at Fort Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Unity
Winding Gulf District Baptist Association
Second Baptist Church
J. W. Gowen
Korea
First Cavalry
Lawrence E. Jackson
Betty
Willie Collins
Stotesbury
Jackson
Army
Fort Jackson
S. C
Mark Twain High School
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Dame Summer
The
State Road Commission
Grandview State
Cook
Dr. Helm
West Virginia
Board of Hospitals and Homes
Methodist Church
J. B. F. Yoak
Yoak
Richard L. Carpenter
Carpenter
A. E. Wills
Wills
Appalachian Power Co
Power Company
J. M. Helm
Danny Norman
Mrs
Charles Norman
Lester
Grandview State Park
Bobby O‘dell
Glen Morgan
Ralph O'Dell
Barr
Sophia
Chessie
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Beckley Church
Ion
Holmes Safety Group
Beckleyan
American Institute
FORD
Cally
Ford Division
Tord Mylor Company
Grady Whitlock
By Peggy Kessinger
Fort .Knox
Pvt
Archie S. Vance
McKinley Vance
Mount Hope High School
Provost Marshal General's School
Fort Gordon
Lewis E. Jones
Lewis F. Jones
Fayetteville
A. S. Vance
L. E. Jones
Carport
Fayetteville High School
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