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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1949
Page
7
C W Lovell Appalachian Electric Power Co district manager announced a driver improvement course for 150 employees across six counties. The program follows a program for department heads and aims to reduce drunken driving and highway congestion to protect workers and the public.
Andrew Galt Meikle Jr and 10 to 12 participants undergo a 15 day leave program focused on driving safety and efficiency. Classes include written exams physical tests and an obstacle course on Mankin Avenue Bowling Audition with police cooperation and standards from NYU Penn State White Motor American Automobile Association and others.
Marsh Fork High School honored the girls basketball team that won the inter class tournament at a senior party. Attendees included players, cheerleaders, and teachers such as Gerald Miller and Claude Worley with dancing and refreshments in the high school library.
Funeral services for Wash Markovitch, 67, of 342 Ellison Avenue, who died after an accident on South Oakwood Avenue, will be held at 2 30 p m tomorrow at 342 Ellison Avenue with Rev L A Garten officiating. He was struck by an automobile driven by Manuel Berilla of 319 Central Avenue and died at Beckley Hospital. Survivors include three cousins Alex Kormack, Mrs Jack Markowitch of New York, and Mrs John Marks of New Haven Conn.
Sergeant Rovent J. McCall of Allen Junction, a member of the 21st Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company, has been transferred from Kyoto and Zama in Honshu to the United States for reassignment. He joined the Army in November 1945 and trained at Aberdeen Proving Ground before serving in Japan. His father R. K. McCall lives in Allen Junction.
Rites for Albert Cleveland Welch 61 of Fairdale set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at his home with Rev Doff Harvey officiating. A WWI veteran and electrician for Raleigh Wyoming Coal at Edwight, he lived in Raleigh County 25 years. Survived by wife Bertha Hereford Welch two sisters Mrs Ed Porterfield and Mrs Sall Mace and brother Charles Welch. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park.
A. Gordetto and Nora Janu ble of Beckley and T. F. Curry Jr of Mount Hope are incorporators of C and G Enterprises Inc. The firm, authorized to operate in Fayette Raleigh and Wyoming Counties, plans coal mining deep and strip, sand production and sale, and general construction and contracting.
Coal City native completed Atlantic Fleet exercises while serving in the Commander-in-Chief’s headquarters. He joined the Navy in January 1932 after attending Steeo High School and working for Youngstown Sheet and Tube in East Chicago. His wife Mildred Szymaniak Meikle resides at 3920 Evergreen Street, East Chicago. He took part in seven major invasions and earned the Presidential Citation, Purple Heart with cluster, and six battle stars.
Brenton native Marolkl Perdue son of Mr and Mrs Walter B Perdue has been assigned to the 504th Regimental Combat Team at Camp Carson Colorado. He entered service December 1 1948 and trained at Fort Knox Kentucky with the Third Ordnance Division. He will take part in mountain warfare and ski training at Camp Carson aiding relief efforts in snow bound western plains.
A 50 year old East Gulf Negro pled guilty to second degree murder in the pocket knife slaying of 60 year old Will Paschal in Raleigh County Criminal Court. The man testified he served 13 months of a prior sentence for a similar offense in 1935. He will be sentenced April 8 by Judge W A Riffe.
Mrs. Hagar Trump Clemens, 77, of Posey, died at her home at 12 08 a m Born in Bell on April 11 1871 she was a Raleigh county resident and a member of the Breckenridge Baptist Church She is survived by her husband In R Clemens four sons Jesse Noah Everett of Posey and Willie of Glen Rogers The body remains at Calfee Funeral Home awaiting final arrangements
Fayette County clerk records show Marino Giannini 25 and Edita Nutter 20 of Smithers and Jesse Kincaid 23 with Louis Daniels 18 of Crickmer receiving licenses.
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