Senior Girls Tour Hospital Facilities in Raleigh County
Ten senior girls from Raleigh County high schools toured departments at Raleigh General Hospital and Beckley Medical Arts Clinic Diagnostic Hospital. They received on the job counseling in X ray tech, medical technology, medical records, and stenography, plus tours of operating rooms and pediatrics. The trip, organized by the Raleigh General and Medical Arts staff, involved four nurse recruitment committee members and notes a May 12 Charleston nursing school field trip.
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Raleigh County
Raleigh General Hospital
Beckley Medical Arts
Carl Drewry
Raleigh General
James H. Miller
Medical Arts
Letha Harvey
June Parrish
Shirley Rogers
Margaret James
Margaret Clapperton
Jane Zeigier
Nell Green
Beckley Medical Arts Clinic
Millie Svehlah
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Marie Garett
Radioactive Isotope Laboratory
Raleigh County Medical Society Auxiliary
B. K. Peters
John Whitlock
Paul R. Copeland
Julian Lewin
Charleston
Be ckley CAP Squadrons Merge Into One Unit
Be ckl ey Civil Air Patrol combines Senior and Cadet squadrons after orders from National CAP HQ. Sixty members affected. Next meeting set for 7 30 p m Thursday with Ruben Cook teaching a new navigational course. Raleigh County Court grants use of a quonset hut at Raleigh County Memorial Airport as meeting place formerly used by Air National Guard. Visitors from Group CAP Headquarters in Charleston attend.
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Beckley
Civil Air Patrol
National Cap
Damages Estimated After South Fayette Street Crash
Beckley Police say two cars collided about 3 45 p m Sunday on South Fayette Street causing about 50 in damage. Drivers identified as Edna Mae Wilson of 510 Hunter Street and Fred Ramsey of 303 Third Avenue.
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Beckley
Johnson Rites Set Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Faye Virginia Johnson aged 54 of 104 Johns town Road will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Regular Baptist Church with Rev. Everett R. Shafer officiating. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park. She died Monday at her home after a two year illness from a heart condition. The body rests at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home until one hour before the service.
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Faye Virginia Johnson
Johnstown Road
Regular Baptist
Everett R. Shafer
Sunset Memorial Park
Johnson
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Stoco Junior High Nominates Mollohan Underwood Marland
Stoco Junior High pupils held a mock primary election with 100 Democrats and 30 Republicans. Mollohan led the Democratic vote for U S Senate and Underwood topped the Republican tally in the school contest.
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Stoco Junior High
Mollohan, Underwood, Marland
Stoco
Robert H. Mollohan
Cecil Underwood
Gerlanda Amato
Underwood
Mollohan
Molllohan
J. Howard Myers
Ferguson
John T. Copenhaver
William C. Marland
Atty
John Fox
U. S. Senate
Tom Sweeney
Phil Hill
Robert C. Byrd
W. W. Barron
William Ansel Jr
W. W. Trent
Roy A. Cunningham
John Boley
Hary L. McCreery
W. H. McGinnis
Okey Mills
Emory Smith
Steve L. Carpenter
Straley Walker
Andy Lilly
A. J. Sparacino
Harry Anderson
R. H. Dean
W. W. Vines
van Hunter
Marie Harvell
C. Harold Hanks
Ira Whitlock
Tired-But Happy Patrolmen Return from Washington Tour
About 80 Beckley area School Safety Patrol members ended a two day Washington visit with a parade seen by 125000 spectators. Lonnie Price led the group that included police and state troopers, with a Washington Post photo of the group.
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Washington
Beckley
School Safety Patrol
Washington, D. C
Lonnie Price
West Virginia
Charleston
Price
Washington Monument
Smithsonian Institution
Lincoln Memorial
Iwo Jimena Monument
Harley M. Kilgore
Monticello
Natural Bridge
Greyhound Bus Co
Fletcher W. Mann
Mary Scott
Central Elementary School
Joseph Bowers
Mabscott
C. C. Watson
Lincoln
Larry George
Institute
Lucille Hayden
Sprague
Slab Fork
Josephine Hatfield Sophia
Janice Callaway
Robert Corey
Southern
West Virginia Automobile Club
Beckley Woman Arrested Again On Moonshine Charges
Ida Bell Patrick Sigmond Sr. of Beckley faces new moonshine possession charges after a Monday raid by Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division and city police. Seven and a quarter gallons were seized. She earlier shared similar charges with her husband Will Patrick last Wednesday after a police chase from Beckley to Glen Daniel. His bond was set at 1000 dollars to appear before a Bluefield grand jury. the Patricks had been released previously on federal charges. The body mentioned will rest at Wright Funeral Parlor until services.
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Beckley
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division
Ida Bell Patrick
Sigmond Sr
Patrick
Will Patrick
Glen Daniel
Patricks
U. S
W. A. Riffe
Federal Grand Jury
Bluefield
Wright Funeral Parlor
Charleston Speaker To Address Institute
F L Cross of Cross Pump and Equipment Co Charleston will speak on New Developments in Pumping Equipment at Beckley meeting of the New River and Winding Gulf Electrical Mechanical and Mining Institute. The meeting is at the Appalachian Building at 7 30 p m The institute banquet will be June 9 at Beckley Hotel Ballroom Tickets available from executive committee or secretary
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F. L. Cross
The
Cross Pump and Equipment Co
Charleston
Beckley
New River and
Winding Gulf Electrical, Mechanical and Mining Institute
Appalachian Building
Beckley Hotel
State Road Authorizes Repairs to Area Roads
State Road Commission approves improvements on two highways. In Raleigh Section 17 will be patched and resurfaced for 2.6 miles between Crab Orchard and Lester at $23,640 with completion set for May 10. In Fayette County U.S. 21 will be widened and graded from Fayetteville city limit to Mount Hope By-Pass at a cost of $16,830.
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Raleigh
Fayette County
State Road Commission
Crab Orchard
Lester
Fayette
U. S. 21
Fayetteville
Mount Hope By-Pass
Citizens urged to vote in primary and general elections
Raleigh County Boy Scouts remind all citizens to vote in the upcoming primary and general elections. The effort is part of a nationwide program conducted with the Freedom Foundation.
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Raleigh County
Boy Scouts
The
Freedom Foundation
Dear Mother Contest Passes 100 Entries in Beckley
Beckley Business Bureau reports over 100 entries in the Dearest Mother contest. Entries must be postmarked by midnight Wednesday and sent to the Dearest Mother Contest c/o Beckley postmaster. A judging committee will review letters, with winner to be announced Saturday at 11 30 a.m. on Raleigh County Courthouse steps. Top prize is a weekend at Waldorf Astoria New York City plus a companion. About 40 BBB members assist in organizing the Beckley shopping area event.
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Hayner
Raleigh County
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
New York City
BBB
Beckley
Four Countians Hurt In Auto Accident Near Ghent
Four of five Raleigh County residents in a wreck on Odd Road near Ghent were listed in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital. The fifth was reported in fair condition. Passengers included James Woods and wife Edris Woods of Besoco, Mary Lilly 16 of Rhodell, Joyce Coalson 16 of Mead, and James Almer Woods with head lacerations. The car struck a tree. Deputy Sheriff Zina French investigated.
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Raleigh
Ghent
Raleigh General Hospital
James Woods
Edris Woods
Besoco
Mary Lilly
Rhodell
Joyce Coalson
Mead
Woods
James Almer Woods
Lilly
Henry Lilly
Coalson
Charlie Coalson
Zina French
WWIS Senior Alternate for WVU Scholarship
Patty Jean Hughes of Woodrow Wilson High School named as one of five alternates for West Virginia University Board of Governors Scholarships. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J D Hughes of Johnstown Road. Five graduates were named for the four year awards established in spring 1955.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
West Virginia University Board of Governors
Patty Jean Hughes
J. D. Hughes
Johnstown Road
Rites Wednesday For N Beckleyan
Services for Mrs. Parthenia Carrington 55 of North Beckley will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church with Rev. C. M. Ellis and Rev. W. J. Carter officiating. Burial follows at Greenwood Cemetery. Survived by husband Rev. James Carrington sister Mrs. Betty GregoryEvington Va daughter Mrs. Elizada Pankey North Beckley grandson pallbearers Hudson Reid Ulyses Stockton Beauregard Hughes Bud Mallory Ben Adkins Albert Davis
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Parthenia Carrington
North Beckley
C. M. Ellis
W. J. Carter
First Baptist Church
Greenwood Cemetery
James Carrington
Betty Gregory
Evington
Elizada Pankey
Hudson Reid
Ulyses C. Stockton
Beauregard Hughes
Bud Mallory
Ben Adkins
Albert Davis
East Park Man Dies in Local Hospital
Jessie Terry of East Park died in a local hospital Monday night. The body will remain at Trent Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
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Jessie Terry
East Park
Trent Funeral Home
Science Shrinks Piles New Way Without Surgery
New York special reports science has found a healing substance that shrinks hemorrhoids and relieves pain without surgery. Case after case shows actual reduction while easing pain. The discovery, Bio-Dyne, is offered as Preparation H in suppository or ointment form with a money back guarantee and patent information.
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New York, N. Y
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American Hospital Association
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
W. A
Gene” Burke
WJLS
Ruth Weinstein
C. A. van Sluyter
Paul J. Fourney
Raleigh County Civil Defense Organization
Wesley Gilbert
Dike R. Pisegna
William F. Kazlnsky
Isabel Griffith
Donna Carper
Sue Yaney
Shady Spring High School
Gay Garretson
Shirley Underwood
Janet Dodd
Stoco High School
Nancy Riggs
Jane Dick
Sophia High School
Sue Sizemore
John Billups
House of Delegates
James McNeish
Roy Lee Harmon
J. E. Blackburn
H. L. Knapp Jr
James Persinger
Steve Millhouse
John A. Fields
R. Virgil Rohrbough
Grover Hedrick
Ray Toler
Eugene L. Scott
Harold Smith
J. T. Jarrell Jr
James Windle Jr
Milton H. Dove
Ted Kessinger
Harold Hedrick
Ezra Ashworth
C. O. Smith Jr
Ben Tissue
Fred Roschi
Miss Amato
Ashin, Solurg
All-In
Cohen Drug Store
W. VA
COHEN
Neville
G. M. Powers
Main Street
Beckley Business Bureau
Paul Hayner
WWIS
WVU
N. Beckleyan
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