Raleigh County Faces Budget Crisis as 1950-51 Year Ends
A Raleigh County financial report shows March spending of $36,462 with many items already in the red while overall nine month expenditures top $300,406 against a $375,000 annual budget. Only $24,846 monthly spending remains possible to avoid deficits before June 30, with departments like Little Beaver Park and stationery taking overages and deputies facing limits. The full report lists nine month totals and remaining balances for Sheriff, deputy sheriffs, jailers, court offices, and other agencies.
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Raleigh County
Tive
Raleigh County Court
Little Beaver Park
Sheriff's ‘Office
Okey
Mills
County Ledger
Raleigh County Financial
Health Department
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Conservators of the Peace
Area campus clubs list members and social events
George Williams Jr reports area students named to YWCA officers and committee posts at Moore Hall. The article lists Beckley, Princeton, Mullens, and other towns’ students serving as secretaries, editors, commission leaders, and ROTC co chair members, with details of involvement in fraternities and sororities and campus productions.
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Young Women's Christian Association
Moore Hall
YWCA
Sally Laren
Beckley
Ann Bird
Princeton
Sally Fredeking
Betty Holroyd
Mullens
Commission
Nancy Bowers
Jean Gray
Jon
Mullesa
Barbara Lee Hamrick
Montgomery
University Players
Erie
Reynold's
New York Drama Critics
VA Hospital Staff Grows to Eight With Two New Physicians
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital adds Dr Charles W Byrd as temporary chief of surgical service and Dr Claude M Dunlap as permanent senior psychiatrist bringing total staff to eight of a planned fifteen. Swanson notes 77 veterans are being treated.
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Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
George F. Swanson
Swanson
T. G. Scott
Charles W. Byrd
Calude. M. Dunlap
Byrd
University of Georgia
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond
Richmond Academy Omerican Medical Assoc
Dunlap
Beckley
Jackson
State Neuro Psychiatric Service
West Virginia University
Medicines
Virginia Medical Society
The
Station
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Unlap
American Medical Association
Louisiana State Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
Sprague PTA Elects New Officers Tonight
Sprague Parent-Teacher Association to elect new officers at 7:30 p.m. meeting led by PTA President Mrs. Cordel Way. The session includes Po juck dinner and marks the final meeting of the current term. Bill Monvell of Sprague was jailed in Raleigh County on a charge of operating a vehicle after license revocation.
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Sprague Pta
Sprague Parent-Teacher Association
Cordel Way
PTA
Bill Monvell
Sprague
Raleigh County
New Breakfast Show Debuts On WCFC Radio
The five day a week morning program stars Danny O'Neil and Jim Ameche. It launches Monday on Liberty Broadcasting System heard locally on WCFC AM at 730 kilocycles. The 9 30 A M 30 minute show comes from O'Neil's Oak Park home with Gus the butler joining in.
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America
Danny O'Neil
Jim Ameche
Liberty Broadcasting
Wcfc AM
Liberty
Official 1950 Census Results Show Raleigh County Over Estimate
The 1950 census lists Raleigh County population at 6,273 up 241 from the preliminary tally. Beckley rises to 19,397 residents, making it West Virginia’s 10th largest city. Nine counties add 33,222 people since 1940, with state totals and urban-rural splits outlined.
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Raleigh
Beckley
West Virginia
United States Bureau of Census
Raleigh Fayette
Wyoming
Boone
Mercer
Nicholas
Greenbrier
Monroe
Summers
Montrose Town
Randolph County
Huntington
Charleston
Wheeling
Parkersburg
South Parkersburg
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Morgantown
Weirton
Bluefield
South Charleston
Martinsburg
Moundsville
Raleigh County
Kanawha
Wirt
Tucker
Gilmer
Fayette
Wyomi
Gideons Present Testaments At Beckley VA Hospital Service
The Beckley Gideons delivered 200 hospital testaments and 100 servicemen's testaments at the Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital during the 6 p.m. worship service led by hospital manager Dr. George W. Swanson. The event featured special music from a First Baptist Church quartet with local camp members including Clark McDaniel, Roy Dickerson, A. C. Cline, and others assisting.
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Beckley
Gideons
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
George W. Swanson
D. ©., Totten
Beckley Camp
First Baptist Church
Clark McDaniel
Roy Dickerson
A. C. Cline
Gideons distribute testaments in Greenbrier County
Local Gideons distributed 393 testaments last week in Smoot and Alderson churches in Greenbrier County.
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Tary
Ira Whitlock
Bitlersecretary
A. L. Rohrer
Gideons
Smoot and Aldersonschosts
Greenbrier County
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George Williams, Jr
Miami Triad
Beta Theta Pi
Phi Delta Theta
Sigme Chi
Ray McKinley
Area Betas
Jim White
Mary Ann Freeman
Dick Daniel
Disk
Davis
Bill Bigmund
Penny Goldsmith
Robert Daniel
Jennie Mae Brewster
Zennie Wickline
Alta Goodman
Tom Browning
Bobt
Mollie Clifford
Ron Averts
Sand Jack Holroyd
Prince- On
Sigma Chis
John Scott
Mary Gray
Carolyn Rodgers
Mt. Hope
Ida Jane Meadows
Robert Lynch
Jack Mann
John Myles
Fayetteville
Sigma Nu
Bob Sayre
Kathryn Kemp
Floyd Sayre
Truman Sayre
Tom ‘Elkin
Peggy Daniels
John G. Hutchinson
Dottie Morrow
Cris Brady
Sam Brady
Summersville
Richard Jarvis
Pineville
Jean Cunningsham
Lewisburg
Bob Nelson
Alpha Phi
Helen Martin
Beverly Fallmer
Ed Lillyall
WCFC
Grock
Jersey
Milady
Ass't
Vsis Nylons
Fist
Ensit
A W.T. Grant Co
Nellie
Beckley VA Hospital
Tion
Ninece
Denver
Hadacol
Drumright
Main St
Nashville
Tenn
Joe Bukowski
Sanborn St
Adacol
Ardena Longa
Meadowbrook Ri
Uis
Thomas Fanning
Francisco
Dla
Norine
Walter Shielde
Hornbyville
Frank W. Wade
Houston
Texas
Anne Franks
West Seven St
Newport
Tory
Anna M. Dehlender
Gary
Margaret Gordon
Forrest St
Clover. S. Car
Marcus Dee Starkey
Farrow St
Kansas City
Kansas
J. E. Roberts
Lincoln
Linle Rock
Ark
Pout Cou
Miss Ometha White
Bash Dve
Alexandria
Las
Lute Nelroni
E. 63Rd Street
Huntington Park
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Teo Lafe
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