Glen White Sophia Road Planned To Cut Travel Miles
State Road Commissioner Ray Cavendish told Sophia citizens that a two and a half mile Glen White to Sophia road will be built this spring pending right of way surveys. Mayor Ballard and Sophia residents said the route would connect Route 16 via Riffe Street and Shockley Branch, reducing driving miles for workers and trucks between Beckley, Glen White, Sophia, and Charleston.
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Glen White
Sophia
Ray Cavendish
High Ballard
James L. Hornbeck
Joe Carnahan
W. J. Meklrath
Perry Haga
C. C. Carman
Stotesbury
Cavendish
Riffe Street
Shockley
Blue Jay Lumber Company
Ballard
SRC
Everybury
Bockley
Surveyor
Leswi
Charleston
Gulf
Tuileage
Crab Orchardhill
Beckley
Glen White-Sophia
Elgie Ballard
Los
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Recruiters Fill Doubled Quota In Army Enlistment Drive
A Beckley A S Army and Air Force Recruiting Main Station team boosted a double Army and Air Force quota by enlisting twelve privates for three years and adding three four year Air Force recruits. Captain Wyatte Gay supervised the effort to keep a steady flow into the reception center at Lackland and San Antonio. A Raleigh County obit notes Ker mit G Buchshaw 33 of Memphis died after months of illness with survivors including wife mother and several siblings. Miss Pauline Stout Charleston state supervisor of Home Economics visits Raleigh County for a routine school checkup.
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Raleigh
Kermit G. Buchshaw
Memphis
Tenn
Raleigh County
K. G. Buchanan
EB. Hatcher
Stephenson
W. H. Buchanan
Beckley
W. Q. Buchanan
Killarney
Roscoe Buchanan
Walter Buchanan
Jason Reed
George Taylor, Jr
Winter Park
Fla
Roy Hatcher
J. Mabscott
Beckley A. S
Air Force
Prince
Meade, Md
Wyatte Gay
Calvin O. Crisco
Lonnie D. Dillon
Arvel ©. Wilson
Everett V. Adair
Bluefield
Thomas E. Neely
Istem
Edward A. Coburn
Athens
Raymond L. Grimmette
Rita
Joseph D. Robinson
Eckman
William H. Robinette
Princeton
Bobbie J. Phelps
Whitesville
Robert B. Payne
Marfork
Lester C. Ballengee
Layland
Charles N. Jenkins
Lewis E
Lackland Air Force Base
Dennis
Dewey A. Bryant
San Antonio
Tex
Pauline Stout
Charleston
Beckley Plans Labor Registration for New Industries
G A Bentley Beckley Chamber of Commerce announced labor registration on March 17 from 9 am to 2 pm at county schools. C D Munson will head a special committee with teachers staffing booths to register all adults 18 and over not currently employed in Raleigh County industry.
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Beckley
G. A. Bentley
Raleigh County
Munson
Bentley
Mercer
Boone
Summers
Monroe
Greenbrier
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Sophia Chamber of Commerce
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Aaron Morgan
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Miss Stout
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