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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1957
Page
3
The Spring Festival will be held Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Beckley Reef Scout Council Building. Girl Scout groups Brownies Intermediates Seniors and others will participate. The event includes folk dancing singing exhibits and a celebration of Juliette Gordon Low founder of Girl Scouting.
Funeral services for W M Jarrell will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Coal City Community Church with ministers Bias and Dean officiating. Burial follows in the family cemetery at Coal City. Jarrell, 79, died Thursday at a local hospital after months of illness. He was born July 4, 1877 in Floyd County Virginia. He is survived by his wife Virginia T Jarrell two sons Clarence and Carl of Coal City six daughters and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. The body will move to the home of his son Clarence Saturday afternoon. Pallbearers will be grandsons Fred Underwood Charles Jarrell James Jarrell James Mullens Walter Thompson and Cecil Mullens.
Receipts from meters in the Municipal Parking Lot for the week ending Thursday totaled 368.09 dollars. City Recorder Emery J. Smith reports this income is below the usual weekly average, which is over 400 dollars.
A ten day mining course starts March 25 with daily sessions at 6 30 p m at Beckley Court House led by a mining foreman. For more details contact the West Virginia State College Mining Extension Service Institute in the sheriff s office for further information.
Marjorie Prince of Shady Spring High School, 17, competes in Fairmont in the State American Legion Oratorical Contest. She advanced after winning District 12 center finals and sectional eliminations. Prize winner today receives 200 dollars and a chance to advance to the national contest.
Selma Alabama Sgt John B Kerridge will show color slides and narrate life behind the Iron Curtain in Moscow at Woodrow Wilson High School Monday at 1 50 am The program titled A Marines Eye View of Moscow will be brought to Beckley as a public service by the local Marine Corps Recruiting Station Kerridge's talk grew from duties with reservists and clubs and will be expanded to West Virginia Maryland Kentucky Virginia and the District of Columbia over the next two and a half months The lecture includes images of Red Square the Kremlin the University of Moscow collective farms and other scenes from Russia
The West Virginia State Department of Health Disease Control Report lists three venereal disease cases in Raleigh County for the week ending March 9. Wyoming County had no cases to list and two gonorrhea cases were noted in the statewide tally.
Forest fires and health notes accompany a Raleigh County Legion banquet honoring the 38th birthday of the American Legion. Dr. Benjamin Clark of Charleston will speak at the Legion home on Fayette Street as part of a membership drive and anniversary celebration.
An I Beckley Social Security Office representative will assist residents in filing old age and survivors insurance disability insurance and to answer questions about the Social Security program. The schedule includes Oak Hill City Hall Tuesdays 9 am to 4 pm Hinton DPA office March 14 and 28 at 11 am Ansted Town Hall March 27 at 10 am and Whitesville City Hall March 28 at 10 am.
Roy Smith deputy director of West Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs Beckley Field Office announces that disabled Korean veterans may qualify for special GI insurance. Applicants must be released from service on or after April 21, 1931 and apply within one year after the VA finds the disability service connected. Under current law able-bodied Korean veterans may apply for Korean GI insurance.
Funeral services for Fred Dawson of Thayer are planned for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Lizemore Methodist Church with burial in Morton Cemetery Lizemore. Dawsen, 50, died in a Royal mine accident Wednesday. Melton Mortuary will convey remains to Lizemore for dawn services.
Ed Miller of Davis Tucker County notes Cabin Mountain ski slope drew more business by March 1 this year than in the entire previous year. Most guests were from out of state, many members of the Washington Ski Club which owns the slope and operates on a non profit basis as the nation’s largest and one of its oldest clubs. A separate notice says J W Ward Jr trustee received a permit on Earl Street for a frame house costing about 4000 dollars with a 10 dollar permit fee at the City Recorder’s office.
Funeral services for Mrs. W. W. Broughman are scheduled for 2 pm Sunday at The Methodist Temple with Rev. J. B. Yoaker officiating. Burial will follow in Wildwood Cemetery. She died Thursday at her Beaver Avenue home after a long illness.
Evergreen trees were placed at Wildwood Cemetery on Wednesday by the cemetery, the Beckley Beautiful Committee, and the State Conservation Commission with help from county jail inmates. About 150 trees were donated by the Conservation Commission with more to be planted before month’s end around the cemetery boundary. Guy Amato led the beautification effort with Robert Kletzly representing the Conservation Commission and Frank Lemon supervising planting. The trustees and city committee seek to make the site a notable burial place for the city forefathers and explore a nearby parcel as a possible small park while forming an association to fund perpetual care.
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