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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1949
Page
1
Concord College secures $341000 in state funds to add to prior $300000 for a four story science building to house biology chemistry and physics on the northeast of the admin building. bids due July 1 with occupancy planned for fall 1950 and plans modeled after the J Franklin March Library.
Miss Betty White of Princeton selects Jane 4 as her engagement date for marriage to Walter Lambert Jr. The ceremony will be at First Christian Church Princeton, following an afternoon social in Appalachian Building rooms. Jane White is daughter of Nathan White and late Mrs White. Lambert is son of Mrs Walter J Lambert and the late Mr Lambert.
The Agnew Construction Company of Ronceverte has won the bid for the substructure and approaches of a new Potomac River bridge at Keyser. Road Commissioner Ray Cavendish announced the award, with the bid totaling 431,458,63 dollars.
Sallie Fredeking of Feinceton won the West Virginia Elks statewide contest with the essay Why Democracy Works. Ann Patton of Morgantown placed second among more than 3,000 submitted essays, with 110 advancing to state judging per Elks president E B Melskelt.
Princeton court actions include a $275 verdict for Donald Lewis against Paul Miller in a property damage case tied to Umbering and sawmill operations. Other matters were continued or dismissed, including a $350 settlement in Belly Lewise Camerion versus Frazier Cordle and a $166.67 award in Johnson versus Crowder for an automobile crash.
Pauline Me Down of Anawalt chosen best prep by Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority at annual Cons? by Cane format in Athens. Event featured elaborate Candy Cane decor, music by Harry Knight and his Merry Mag orchestra, with pledges, committee heads, and chaperones listed among attendees from Athens, Williamson, Princeton, Hinton, Trailerville, Bluefield, and other towns.
Mercer County action urges farmers to join the wool pool as 1,320 fleeces are already counted. Cards must be sent by April 5. Producers receive 75 percent of wool value at pooling around June 1 with an anticipated 40 cents per pound advance, the remainder paid within two months after shipment. Commodity Credit Corporation will handle West Virginia wools as arranged with the Livestock Marketing Association at Clarksburg on March 17. Bob Pitts of the West Virginia Livestock Association will visit Mercer on March 30 and 31.
The seventh new unit in the Appalachian Council since January 1 is the Bellepoint troop sponsored by the Hinton Kiwanis Club. Harold E. Neely leads as scoutmaster with C. S. Weaver Jr. and H. R. Callahan as assistants. J. W. Halbert serves as institutional representative and J. C. Dion Jr. chairs the troop committee. Charter members include Harold Shirley Jr, Daniel C. Euban, Charles S. Briers Jr, and others. An Otis Elevator Company estimate notes 9,300 people in Milneis and Michigan could be carried in eight hours by 115,000 passenger elevators in the United States.
Maude Caudill administrator of Rupert Caudill's estate sues Virginian Foods Company of Bluefield in circuit court for $10,000 damages after a truck backing over Caudill on Thorn Street killed him. Also a $1,200 claim by Troy and Minnie Ball against Bank of Matooka and several new chancery suits are listed.
Four Mercer County 4-H meetings are listed for today and tomorrow. Sessions include Springton at 2 PM, Rich Crook at 4 PM, Shawnee at 7 30 PM, and Sandlick with R E Warber at 7 30 PM. The Browning Lambert Club will meet Tuesday at 1 PM.
Princeton Ernest Rose basle purchased about 269 acres of land in Mercer County from C B Martin and Hartley Sanders special commissioners. The deeds on file detail parcels totaling 269 acres plus a long list of additional transfers in Princeton Bluefield and nearby towns, involving numerous buyers and parcels.
John A. Wike of G. C. Murphy Company Princeton has been promoted to the constructive division at Circléville Ohio. He will be transferred April 4 and will remain in Princeton for now, possibly locating his office here later.
Princeton police say a description of a Hudson sedan led to the arrest of Edgar Craft 21 and Cecil Ray Hutchinson 24 for breaking and entering the Princeton Dry Cleaners Friday night and stealing a safe worth about 75 dollars. Hutchinson’s accomplice was arrested after a false confession. both face magistrate hearings.
C R Hare of the Virginian Railroad Shops Princeton will retire on April 15 after many years in the engineering department. He and his wife will move to Lynchburg to reside, and they are the parents of Mrs Earl J Halk and Abs Woodrow Bondurant of Princeton.
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