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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1956
Page
9
The TriCounty Spelling Bee sets divisions for Sixth Seventh and Eighth Grades with champions and runners up. Judges may disqualify entrants for errors. a word may be re-pronounced on request. final authority rests with judges and standard unabridged dictionaries.
A three member committee including James Robinson chairmen John Gorman and Franklin Lilly was named to arrange local entries for the Grange contest and select winners to send to Conservation Camp June 4 to 9 at Camp Caesar. The group meets next week to plan further.
Sixteen area men enlisted at the local recruiting station in February and began Marine boot camp at Parris Island South Carolina. The group includes Arnold Bowles Dorsey Daniel Bobby Darnell Telmas Evans John Heaster Jr Bobby Holley Cleo Kellar Boddy Lilly Howard McClaugherty Jr Delmer Miller Jack Pack Jackie Preast Roscoe Porter Billie Sanner Richard Stoots and Ted Stover all sons of area families.
Conservation district reports 345,000 tree seedlings sold this planting season. Distribution shows 8,000 plus sold in Fayette Raleigh Mercer Summers Pine and McDowell counties and 16,088 sold in Greenbrier and Monroe counties. The remainder was not specified.
James Madison Hale 79 of Epperly to be mourned at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Ques Enberry and Webb Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Frank Snyder presiding. Hale, Raleigh County’s fifth highway fatality this year, died at 3:30 a.m. Monday at Raleigh General Hospital from injuries after a two car crash Tuesday at Glen Morgan. Hale’s wife Ella Hale 76 was killed in the collision. Ella Hill 43 of Epperly, daughter of the Hales, is in satisfactory condition at the hospital. Hale, a retired miner, worked for Winding Gulf Collieries and was a United Mine Workers Local 6105 member. He resided in Raleigh County for 35 years. Survivors include four daughters, two sons, two sisters, one brother and several grandchildren and great‑grandchildren.
Graveside rites were conducted in Lorain Ohio for the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs George Edward Kessinger formerly of Beckley The premature infant was born dead Sunday at 4 p m in a Lorain hospital She is survived by two brothers Gregory and Mark and the paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Tidon E Rorrer of Beckley The Rorrers are expected to return home Thursday
The new substation at Soak Creek will be activated Sunday causing a power shutoff from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in five areas including Sophia Soak Creek Midway Epperly and East Hill as Black Diamond Power Co adds transformers to boost efficiency for future lines. James R. Py of Black Diamond Power Co explains the upgrade and says Appalachian Electric Power Co will supply power to Black Diamond during the work.
Southern Soil Conservation District Supervisors convene in Beckley for their standard monthly meeting to discuss ongoing soil conservation efforts and district updates.
The Register reports new family additions in Raleigh County with Jimmy Cook age 13 in sixth grade at Derethy Elementary School Roy Withrew Jr age 12 in sixth grade at Colcord Elementary School Karin Thompson age 14 in ninth grade at Clear Fork High School and Larry Walker age 11 in fifth grade at Ameagle.
West Virginia Press Association selects Oglebay Park Wheeling for its annual summer outing June 7 through 9 with lodging in park cabins. Awards in the Better Newspaper Contest will be presented at the June 8 dinner at Wheeling Country Club. The fall meeting will be in Charleston October 4 and 6.
Funeral services for Nell Bolen G Lester will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at the residence by Rev Earl Hungate Burial will follow in Webb Cemetery Maple Meadow Bolen died Sunday at his residence after a heart attack He was born January 17 1889 in Odd and was a lifelong Raleigh County resident He was a member of United Mine Workers of America District 29 Surviving are his wife three sons three daughters three brothers two sisters twelve grandchildren and three great grandchildren The body will be removed from Melton Mortuary to the residence at 4 3 p m today Pallbearers are Ed Cochran Clinton League Herbert Milarm Steve Birchfield Burk Acord Billy Trail Johnny Cochran
The Moundsville express with 13 prisoners departed Beckley at 7 am. The group included eight men sentenced in the January Raleigh County Criminal Court for crimes ranging from armed robbery to grand larceny and attempted rape. Two others were moved from Princeton for transfer to Moundsville while James Webb and Joseph Stroupe faced second degree murder convictions.
Mrs Thelma B Sanders director of Raleigh County TB Office will represent at the Sixth Annual Workshop of the West Virginia TB and Health Association this weekend in Clarksburg Speakers include Thomas P Summers Kentucky TB Assn Miss Helen Ostwald National TB Assn Oscar Andre West Virginia TB and Health Assn and Frank Maxwell Harrison County Legislator
The quarterly meeting of the Raleigh County Chapter American Red Cross board of directors will be held at 4 P.M. Wednesday in the chapter office per Mrs. C. C. Lewis.
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