Laundry Mark Aids Beckley Police Crime Records
Captain Tommy Roberts of Beckley police explains how a laundry mark on a stolen coat helped identify the thief. The file includes fingerprints reported crimes and stolen goods, with plans for a two way radio system linking headquarters and patrol cars to speed crime detection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Modern Furniture Company
Virginia
Keystone
F.B.I
Gosport
Lewis
Harrisonburg
Roanoke
Beckley
Jis
Bill
FBA
Washington
Roberts
Pinecrest Sanitarium to be Inspected by Legislature
The joint committee on public buildings and humane institutions delayed in inspecting Pinecrest sanitarium in Charleston after the session ended. Chairman Bailey of Wyoming county and Delegate Ansel of Hampshire county will lead the group to review TB treatment facilities.
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Charleston
Joint Committee On Public Buildings and Humane Institutions
Pinecrest
Bailey
Wyoming County
Senate
Ansel
Hampshire County
House of Delegates
Spring Vaccination Campaign For School Children
Officials announce a move from fall to spring vaccination for all children aged six months to six years. Parents, teachers, and PTAs are urged to spread awareness as 30 central clinics will host doctors and nurses at designated towns from April 3 to April 30 with Saturday health office visits for several schools.
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FE. Ashworth
Lester
McDonald
Maple Meadow
Glen White and
Star
Red Bird
Honaker
Victor
Miller
Fairview
Old Eccles
Metalion
Eccles
Dillon Creek
Turner, Capeyton
Mills Branch
Trap Hill
Shumate
Surveyor
Price Hill
Sand Branch
Oswald
Lewis Williams
Cirtsville
Lanark
Stanaford
Riley
Wright
Jerry
Crab Orchard
Hollywood
Cleveland
ML. View
Buffalo
Cook
Pineknob
Edwight
Hazy
Jarrel
Montroal-Stickney
Tween Birchton
Petatus
Dorothy
Ameagle
Colcord
Mt. Olive
Clear Creek
Spruce
Workman's Creek
Toney's Fork
White Oak
Coal City
Phillips
Affinity
Lynwin
Farley Hill
Pemberton
Sullivan
Fireco
Whitby
Bacontown
Jonben
Lillybrook
New
Princewick
Tom Meadows
Killarney
Collins
Stoco
Odd
Fegeria
Bolen
Tonmy’s Ridge
Shady Spring
Land
Bryan-Hamlet
Sophia
Hot Coal
McAlpin
Tams
Stotesbury
Mark Twain
Amigo
Brushy Gap
Rhodell-Mast Gulf
Long
Byrd Prillerman
Helen Tommy's Creek
Sams Branch
Blackb IY
Richmond District High
Fereno
Harvis
Wato
Meadows-Brage
Abrahham
Phimley Mountain
Trish
Brooklyn
Richmond Falls
Jackson
Bragg
Wogan
Freezeland
Slab Fork
Acord
Hotchkiss
Prosperity
Cranberry
Mount Labor
Sprague
Skelton
Mabscott
Sylvia
Teel
Institute
Central
Lincoln
Large Food Registrations For Institutional Users
Institutional users of food such as restaurants boarding houses and drug stores serving lunches may register for food rationing from 9 am to 5 pm Monday and Tuesday at Woodrow Wilson High School. County teachers will process applicants from the entire county. Registrants should bring pounds of canned frozen and dried foods listed separately and provide information on customers sales sugar and coffee allotments.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Lime Added To Raleigh County Farms Under A C P Program
Blur Bennington director reports limestone totaling 54 495 tons applied to Raleigh county farms since the ACP began Defind 2407 tons of Super Phosphate also used. He notes soil-improving practices over eight years include seeding legumes winter cover crops and strip cropping. In the first ACP year 198 farmers participated. now 3578 are in the program.
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Raleigh
A.C.P
Blur Bennington
A.C. P
Raleigh County
Bennington
Seminary Term Opens Monday at First Baptist Church
The three months spring term of the West Virginia Baptist seminary begins Monday night at the First Baptist church. All courses continue and the New Testament course will start. Men and women including teachers and church officers are invited, especially those connected to ministry training. The Rev. Earl Grose is president.
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West Virginia Baptist Seminary
First Baptist Church
Earl Grose
Eeey
Marionette Show at Beckley Junior High Wednesday
Puppets headlining a three performance marionette show at Beckley junior high school auditorium on Wednesday morning and afternoon March 10, sponsored by central elementary school. The play The Boy Knight of Reims has run in New York for a year and will reveal how the strings manipulate the performers at the end of each act.
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Beckley Junior High School
Central Elementary School
Boy Knight of
Reims
New York
France
John Orbais
Joan of Arc
West Virginia beer bill trimmed with local option and Sunday limits
The senate judiciary reported amendments removing local option and Sunday closings from the beer bill. The revised measure would allow Sunday sales 2 pm to midnight, reduce minimum dispensary distance to 100 feet from churches and schools, and tighten revocation petition thresholds. It keeps state tax department as the licenser and adds a pre payment medical service association bill with medical profession administration.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia Senate
House
Senate Judiciary
Ehrens Courts
Senate
Circuit Court
State Tax Department
Miller Rites Set for Mark C Miller in Prosperity
Funeral services for Mark C Dad Miller 77 will be held at the Church of Christ in Prosperity at 2 PM Monday with Rev Wirt Franklin in charge. The body will arrive at 1 PM for viewing after arrival from Caffee Funeral Parlors. He died Friday night at his son Tracy Miller’s home after a months long illness. He was a Raleigh County resident and a carpenter. Survivors include six daughters and two sons.
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Mark C
Dad" Miller
Church of Christ, al Prosperity
Wirt Franklin
Oakwood Street
Tracy Miller
Raleigh County
Free Will Baptist Church
Crab Orchard
Roselle Bailey
Russell
Kentucky
Ash Bailey
Pax
Myrtle Berry
Beckley
Lonnie Williams
Cranteeny
Lawrence Grady
Morganton
N. C
Stella Jackson
Prosperity
Dilbert—Miller
Barrett
Tony Garges to Be Ordained at Beckley First Baptist
An ordination service for Tony Garges will be Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Beckley’s First Baptist Church. Ministers include Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald and Rev. Walter Harrah among others. Garges spent a year at Southern Baptist Seminary and plans to become a pastor of a local Baptist church. many churches and deacons will take part. Public invited.
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Tony Garges
Beckley
First Baptist Church
T. J. Fitzgerald
First Church
Walter Harrah
Cldye Meador
Earl L. Grose
Gatges
Southern Baptist Seminary
Louisville
Tax help offered at Beecley post office
Five Internal Revenue representatives will assist taxpayers filing income tax returns at the Beecley post office building daily except Sunday until March 15. Service runs 8 am to 5 pm and 7 to 9 pm, with staffing planned to rise to ten as demand remains high.
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U.S. Internal Revenue Department
Beecley
Elimination of Blue Jay Line May Hurt County Coal Output
The Blue Jay Lumber railroad line from Raleigh county to Flat Top faces removal after a request to the Interstate Commerce Commission. If torn up, about 100 million tons of coal could lose a local outlet, with ties and rails valued at tens of thousands of dollars potentially resaleable. Key figures include D. Mullane of Greensburg and C. K. Gordwin, former Blue Jay leaders, and CHESCO and Ohio management.
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Blue Jay
Raleigh County
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce On
DF. Mullane
Greensbur
Pemmsylvania
Blue Jay Lumber Company
Mulino
Blue Day Camber
Sook
Raleigh
Lawaer
Mevers
TH. Wilson
Blue Jay Lunder Company
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Tan
Blue Jay Lumber Companys
C. K. Gordwin
Raleigh and
Tig Beaver
Fee
Walter Dodd Beirs
Flat Ton
Beirs
Wilson
C. and
Heer
Beaver
Flat Tan
Beckley Ranks Seventh In State In Postal Receipts
Beckley shows seventh largest postal business in West Virginia based on January receipts totaling 10 381 dollars. The state index lists Charleston Wheeling Shintingtown Darkersburg Clarksburg Fairmont Bluefield Morgantown and Beckley as top cities.
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Beckley
East Beckley
West Virginia
Farley Services Are Set Today
Funeral service for Private First Class Glenn F. 2 will be held at 11 a m at Calvary Baptist church in Odd with the Rev C W Meader of Coal City officiating Burial in Sunset Memorial Park Beckley follows He died Wednesday in a New York Veterans hospital from a blood infection He served two years in the army including time in Iceland Survived by his mother and two sisters Mrs Roy Miller and Mrs Edward Wallace of Odd Flower girls will be Mrs Edward Wallace's Sunday school class Pallbearers include Kimer Crayton Harry Wallace Harold Holley Leonard Lee and Lloyd Logan
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Glenn F
Calvary Baptist Church
Qdd
C. W. Meader
Coal City
Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley
Veterans Hospital
New York
Tha Army
Iceland
Roy Miller
Mars
Edward Wallace
Odd
Kimer, Crayton
Harry Wallace
Harold Holley
Leonard Lee
Lloyd Logan
Miners To Get No More Gas For Nonessential Driving
Roll Magee, chairman of the local division, writes to coal operators that miners will receive one more gasoline allotment for work transport only. He notes Liberal Nowanves have been made to let every miner reach his job, but nonessential driving remains common.
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Roll Magee
Magee
WWHS To Give Officer Tests
Men aiming for officer roles in the navy may take tests at Woodrow Wilson High School on Friday. Those who pass will receive training in uniform, pay, and discipline. Eligible applicants include current high school and prep students under 19, seniors graduating by July, and non graduates not entering college. Additional requirements include physical and vision standards. Trainees must remain unmarried until commissioned.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Brown Held On Assault Charge
George B. Brown of Railroad Avenue was held for the next grand jury on a felonious assault charge against Genge Thomas at Sprague last Saturday night. He was arraigned before Magistrate P. Meadows Friday night and waived a preliminary hearing.
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George B. Brown
Nero
Railroad Avenue
Genge Thomas
Sprague
P. Meadows
Johnson Rites This Afternoon for A D Johnson
Funeral services are set for 2 PM at the new Cuffee Funeral Home chapel 800 South Oakwood Beckley for A D Johnson 64 of 100 Fourth Street who died Friday in a local hospital. Interment will follow at Mount Tabor Cemetery with Revs A T Wilson and Ritchie Ware officiating.
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New
Cuffee Funeral Home
South Oakwood Avenue
A.D. Johnson
Fourth Street
Beckley
Ritchie Ware
Mount Tabor Cemetery
Flag salute case debated by American Legion and Civil Liberties Union
The American Legion defends compulsory flag salutes as a means to foster national unity and security while the Civil Liberties Union argues the regulation infringes religious liberty and conflicts with federal law. briefs precede oral arguments on West Virginia board of education rules and the 1940 Minersville decision. Justices Weathered past positions, with several expressing opposition to the ruling.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oday
American Legion
American Clyr
Libertes Union
Supreme Court
The
Civil Liberties Union
Alleghance
West Virginia
Minersville
Slone
Blick
Douglas
Murchy
Sustices Jackson
Rutledge
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Police Court
Thomas Preston Lewis
Beskley
Welcbs
Wuthorities
Earl Martin
O. N. Hutchison
Oscar Bowers
County Board of Education
ACP
U.S. Representatives
U. S
South Pacific
U. S. Navy
John Conrad Riffe
Tabor Baptist Church
Sturper Road
Farley
Navy
Brown
Johnson
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