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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1965
Page
3
The Older County 4-H Camp at the Raleigh County 4-H Camp runs this week with show business and photography classes. Tom Dennis teaches show business while Herbert Beckley leads photography with a contest and darkroom work. About 100 Raleigh County 4-H members attend. next week hosts for younger students and a July session for sixth and seventh graders are planned.
Examinations in three new categories will be held by the U S Civil Service Commission this week. One test targets youths seeking first jobs as technical assistants to engineers and scientists with GS pay of 3680 a year after six months experience or high school graduation. A second grade GS-3 requires additional experience or education and pays 4005 a year. Apprenticeship and training representative posts with the Department of Labor also announced. West Virginia Virginia Kentucky and Ohio locations apply. Full details from Civil Service Executive Secretary in Huntington and Kincaid Beckley office.
Raleigh County Planning Commission urged commercial zoning along U S 1921 and West Virginia 3 from Beckley to Shady Spring. The proposed map amendment would extend a 300 foot highway right of way for business use. The panel also backed a law to allow rural trailer parks under county control. a hearing will be advertised.
Swimming classes begin at Little Beaver Lake at 10 a m Monday. Sponsored by the American Red Cross, the free instruction by Mrs John Tate is open to the public for adults and school age children. A lake facility fee will apply. Attendees should be ready to enter the water on day one.
Sherman Trail will take the reins of the Raleigh County School system Thursday after being sworn in as county school superintendent at a Tuesday Raleigh County Board of Education meeting. He succeeds John W. Saunders, who moves to Beckley College as vice president. The board also approved consolidating Glade Creek Elementary into Ghent School later this year.
Marshall University reports a summer term enrollment of 2,470 students, up about ten percent from 1964. Teachers College leads with 999 students, 1,829 full-time and 643 part-time. Registrar Luther Bledsoe noted workshops may push totals beyond 2,500 and cites teachers earning grad credits and early high school graduates as factors.
The Curtain Callers will conduct an 8 p.m. workshop at The Playhouse on Thursday led by president Mrs. Frankie Wheeler. The program titled Basic Principles in Play Direction for Community Theatre will feature directors Bob Brown and Muriel Hodel. Board members are urged to attend and those unable to attend should contact Mrs. Wheeler at home.
Beckley Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce will run an eight week series starting September on Political Action and Freedom versus Communism. Blaine Wright of United Fuel leads the project with courses for couples, housewives, and the public. Topics include the differences between capitalist and communist economies, consumer control, profit motive, government role, and practical politics with a first unit on The Individual in Politics.
With Independence Day falling on Sunday the official celebration shifts to Monday. All government offices close, liquor stores stay shut, most businesses close, Beckley stores stay open to 9 pm, no mail delivery, post office lobby open 6 am to midnight for deposits and box rentals, law enforcement unaffected, no Monday Raleigh Register edition but The Register and Post-Herald publish Tuesday, evening paper subscribers get the morning edition.
A July 5 program on mental health will feature speakers Mrs. W. W. Jackie Withrow Sophia and Dr. Mildred Mitch ell Bateman director of the MH Department in Charleston. They will discuss at 10 p.m. on WOAY TV in Oak Hill with Robert K. Holiday moderator and member of the three state legislature.
Twenty three young Kentucky women left by plane for a Charleston West Virginia training center and eight more headed to Cleveland Ohio for a two year program to learn roles as typists nurses aides sales clerks and waitresses. Seventeen southeastern Kentucky recruits were sworn in Monday night becoming the nation’s first rural members of the corps alongside fourteen Louisville area women. They were sworn in at a screening center run by Women In Community Service.
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