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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1956
Page
7
In a somber scene in the Praetorium Pilate confronts Jesus asking if He is a king. Jesus speaks of bearing witness to truth while Pilate, skeptical, asks What is truth delivering a decisive closing note on justice and power.
Pravda launches a seven thousand word critique of Stalin noting a growing cult of personality after Lenin. It cites glorifications of Stalin as leader, calls this shift harmful, and marks the piece as an opening salvo in a campaign against his historic stature. It mentions past USSR achievements and hints at new Soviet leadership moves.
Funeral services for Samuel A. Worley Sr. 73 of Beckley will be held at 2 p m Thursday at The Methodist Temple with Rev J B F Yoak. Burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Worley died Tuesday night after a heart attack. He was a longtime carpenter, born September 21 1884, and survived by his wife Belva and two daughters Jessie and Edith and a son Samuel Jr. Active pallbearers are named.
In Pineville West Virginia J Paul England a Wyoming County delegate and high school teacher testified he never sold his vote in a $100 000 lawsuit against the Charleston Gazette the plaintiffs argue the Gazette libeled him with editorials claiming vote selling England called the Gazette report an unprovoked lie Gov Marland state senator Jack Nuckels and others testified for the plaintiff while Gazette editor Frank Knight and House Speaker W E Flannery defended the paper's reporting.
Funeral services for William Barksdale of Tams are incomplete after his death at Beckley Hospital at 1 2 a m Tuesday following a short illness. He lived in Tams 47 years, formerly from Chat ham Virginia. He was a member of New Salem Baptist Church and the Knights of Pythias Lodge Charleston. The body remains at Wright Funeral Home pending arrangements.
A fire destroyed the Ammar Brothers Department Store awning on Neville Street around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Fire crews believe a cigarette tossed by a passing pedestrian caused the blaze.
Town district officials announce dates for the spelling bee to be held at 7 32 p m on Thursday with seventh grade participants and arrangements for seating and refreshments.
Two Raleigh County juries were impaneled but heard no cases. William Clay Cousins pleaded guilty to reckless driving and fined 50 dollars plus costs after previously charged with driving while drunk. Robert Anderson alias Billie Anderson case continued for reimbursement dispute over a floor furnace. Other cases, including involuntary manslaughter and hit and run, were continued to the next term.
The Internal Revenue Service seized assets and records from Communist party offices in several cities including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Moysey, newly named director in New York, led the wave with back tax claims totaling about 339000 for the party and 46000 for the Daily Worker as part of President Truman’s administration actions.
President Eisenhower and Indian Prime Minister Nehru consider a future summit, with Ottawa as a potential venue. The pair met informally in White Sulphur Springs while awaiting separate flights to Washington and Mexico City, signaling a broad, friendly approach to upcoming discussions.
Doctors reported three people became ill after drinking ginger ale aboard a private rail car used by President Eisenhower en route to a West Virginia resort. One patient showed definite uremic poisoning, others improved, while investigators probed potential poisoning and traced bottles tossed from a moving train.
Former city engineer Dennis M. Leary Jr. presented a plan to control mosquitoes along Hig Whitestick Creek and Beckley junction with a $2,675 estimate. The plan includes grading, a sluice gate at a Raleigh Coca Cola dam, dam height rise, debris removal, and water flushing to eradicate larva.
A 17 year old Beckley youth arrested on a rape warrant was released after the complainant withdrew the charge. He had been due for arraignment before Magistrate J P Meadows in Raleigh County.
State police are investigating vandalism at RMI Elementary School Raleigh report filed by principal A. A. Lilly. Heavy wire screens were torn from the windows but nothing reported missing.
Two Raleigh County deputies will leave at 2 p.m. to pick up inmate Lewis Jack Massey from the State Penitentiary at Moundsville and bring him back to testify in the Grady Massey case on receiving stolen goods. Massey, from Wyoming County, was sentenced Dec. 28 for breaking and entering. the deputies are Flynn Canady and Fred Thorne, reportedly brothers.
A reader argues Raleigh County roads are the worst in West Virginia citing three failing routes from Dry Hill to Pax and Maple Fork. He calls for hardtopping North Sand Branch to connect Pax with Beckley, reducing travel time and improving safety.
The Mexican president and delegation traveled by motorcade through Beckley and White Sulphur Springs on the way to Charleston. The party then boarded a plane named Columbine for flight to Mexico City, with earlier plans to use a light plane at Charleston.
A massive dust storm swept a six state area from Cheyenne to Waco with winds up to 75 mph. Flights delayed as headwinds forced reroutes, dust clouds reached 20 000 feet, and highways closed. Colorado towns reported low visibility while Kit Carson sheltered 300 motorists. crops and grazing land suffered in a region still recovering from the Dust Bowl era.
Showers and scattered thunder storms are expected tonight with a low around 36 to 42 degrees. Thursday brings cloudy skies with a chance of showers, mainly in the extreme east early morning, while the west turns cooler.
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