Stratton Senior wins in shorthand contest at Bluefield
Stratton High School senior Margaret Tyree won first in Class A shorthand at the 12th Negro High School Commercial Contest held Saturday in Bluefield. She wrote 80 wpm with 95 percent accuracy, the highest score. twin sister Marjorie placed fourth in Typewriting Class A. Eight Stratton students attended as 16 Negro high schools competed statewide. Instructor Mrs. Frances Morton Flippen accompanied the group.
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Stratton High School
Margaret Tyree
Bluefield
Margaret
Marjorie
Stratton
Frances Morton Flippen
Automatic RR Signals Project Still Active Near Beckley
The automatic railroad signal project at Sprague and Skelton crossings near Beckley remains active. Mayor Elmer Davis reported to the city council, reading a letter from M I Dunn of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway proposing 90 percent federal funding with the railway covering 10 percent. The council also accepted three Traffic Control Commission recommendations to adjust parking rules and sightlines, granted a 15 day sidewalk repair extension, and discussed sidewalk liens and alley paving estimates behind the Christian Church.
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Sprague and
Skelton
Beckley
Elmer Davis
M. I. Dunn
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
George W. McAlpin
State Road Commission
Dunn
H. P. Meadows
South Oakwood Ave
South Oakwood
Evan H. Hall
Traffic Control Commission
Prince St
Prince and
Heber Sts
Heber St
Prince
North Kannaha St
North Kanawha St
North Kanawha
East Prince St
North Kanawha and
Council
Edward Stansbury
Davis
Stansbury
R. L. Trump
Lacy Trump
South
Kanawha Street
Main
Prince Streets
Christian Church
Five Beckleyans Plan to Attend State Jo Meet
Five Beckleyans will take active roles at the West Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce convention opening Friday. Ted Kessinger leaves Thursday to attend the State Awards committee meeting at the West Virginian Hotel. Attending Friday are Carl Rexrode Hulett C Smith Rodney Webb and Sam Carman with their wives joining a ladies branch tour to local sites.
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The
Beckley Jaycees
Ladies
Pocanontas Exhibition
Keesling Rhododendron Gardens
Pinnacle Rock State Park
Tunnel Under Prince St Railroad Third Completed
City council learns about progress on the Prince Street tunnel, one third finished, despite gumbo mud hampering work. D E Warden reports two feet eleven inches daily progress and outlines other department tasks and recent completed projects including paving Neville Street and sewer work.
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Prince St. Railroad
Council
West Prince St
D. E. Warden
City Council
Sisson St
Warden
Slope Hill
Second Ave
Neville Street
Third Avenues
Second
Chip Street
Fulton Street
Sisson Street
Chamber of Commerce
Washington Ave
John Winters
Winters
Bond for Lilly in purse snatching case posted
Released on bond of two thousand dollars for appearance before Magistrate T N Thurman Saturday on assault and battery and purse snatching charges. A. D. Lilly, who returned Friday from Boone County, is accused of forcibly taking a purse containing nine hundred fifty dollars from Mrs Grather Hornsby of Crab Orchard. His brother I C Lilly of Beaver is surety.
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A. D. Lilly
T. N. Thurman
Lilly
Boone County
Grather Hornsby
Crab Orchard
I. C. Lilly
Beaver
Residence permit for O F Haynes on Jennings Street
O F Haynes has received a permit to build a six room frame house with a three quarter basement on Jennings Street. The project was approved May 4 by the Planning and Zoning Commission and is estimated to cost $6000. Haynes paid a $10 fee.
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O. F. Haynes
Jennings St
Planning and Zoning Commission
Haynes
Six Enlistments Reported in Day Six
The Beckley Armed Forces Station announced six enlistments on day six. Four joined the Army and were assigned to Ft. Knox Kentucky: Robert Keith Bowen 18 Alvis Leroy Paul 17 Clyde Earl Waybright 24 and Delmer Carlisle Huffman 20. The two Air Force enlistees were sent to Sampson Air Force Base Geneva New York: Kenneth Ray Underwood 17 and Ivan Earl McCollam 25.
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Beckley Armed Forces
Army
Ft. Knox
Robert Keith Bowen
Francis Bowen
St. Albans
Alvis Leroy Paul
James F. Paul
Scott Depot
Clyde Earl Waybright
Bessie Frances Waybright
Clendenin
Delmer Carlile Huffman
Bud Conrad Huffman
Lashmeet
Air Force
Sampson Air Force Base
Geneva
N. Y
Kenneth Ray Underwood
Clinton Underwood
Fayetteville
Ivan Earl McCollam
Elma F. Rexrode
Camden-on-Gauley
Name Change Battle Sparks Vance Drive Debate at Council
City Council Tuesday aired a dispute over Sylvia Street naming with two delegations claiming 95 percent support for their streets. South Vance Drive would stay as is to avoid mail and address confusion, while Sylvia Street proponents urged a change. Mayor and attorney confirmed council can rename or close streets.
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City Council
Sylvia St
South Vance Drive
Council
Willard Hoskins
Robert Bell
John Tolliver
G. L. Bleving
Bell
Elmer Davis
James B. Kessinger
Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce
Kessinger
Vance Drive
Johnstown Road
Sylvia
Davis
W. H. File Jr
Jaycees
Beckley
F St
S. H. Bridge
F. St
City Park
Planning and Zoning Commission
Ewart Heights
Pat H. Wheeler
Emery J. Smith
John Vinson Acosta Treated For Wood-Chopping Foot Injury
John Vinson Acosta of Rhodell was treated Thursday at Beckley Hospital for a foot injury sustained while chopping wood.
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John Vinson Acosta
Rhodell
Beckley Hospital
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Delores Mae Brown
Russell Saunders
Oretha Richmond
John W. Brown
G. Saunders
Skelton News
Morning Star Baptist Church
S. L. McClure
Mead
Will Walker
Raleigh General Hospital
Emma Boyden
Hager Street
Skelton Chorus
Elmer
Eugene Witten
Green Street
Percy Fountain
Fountain
V. G. Stockton
Bessie Moore
Edythe Hylton
Evelena McCray
Helen Blanks
Leverine Whitlow
Dorothy Brown
Carrie Lee Hudson
Mildred Reid
Dorothy Hale
Norma Banks
Annie Adams
Bertha Adams
Channie Adams
Winding Gulf
William Braxton
Veterans Hospital
Robert Barrett
Holden
Hannah Newson
Lester
Robert Clayborn
J. H. Dunlap
Mabscott
J. T. Waters Jr
Bair Street
William Waters
Minden
Atkinston
N. C
John Thomas Waters
Clarence Clay
Williams
Garten
Clarence Clays
Harlem Heights
Johnson Wade
Charleston
Frank Crews
Whipple
Ed Crawl
Harvey
Pearlie Smith
Pauline Crews
Covington
M. Dalton
Raleigh
Nellie Shanklin
Abra Butler
Lawrence Dalton
Columbus
Ohio
Geraldine Hayes
East Beckley
Herman Lee Gwynn
Fort Bragg
Greentown
S. A. Abram
General Missionary Society
First Baptist Church
Mellie Wilborne
Elaine Wilborne
Matilda Jane Dunbar
Iris Neighbors
Janice C. Muse
Melba Wilborne
Alice Monroe
Mahlon McDonald
Rodney
Dayton
Joseph Tolliver
Elizabeth Jones
Yorksville
Ira S. Thompson
Laura Agee
Slab Fork News
Lonnie Patterson
Joseph Redd
James Smith
Fred Mays
Leon Henry
Samuel Henry
Irene Willis
Gary
Cecil Dow
Beckleyans
Legislative
State Legislative Committee
West Virginia
Turnpike Commission
Okey Patteson
Cecil Underwood
Martin C. Bowles
Frank J. Maxwell Jr
W. E. Flannery
Ralph J. Bean
Senate
Herbert Traubert
A. L. Reed
del. R. L. McCulty
Wales
W.T. Grant CO
Neville ST
Arbuckle
Flat Top Mountain
State
Turnpike
Flat Top
Sylvia Street
Carstairs
Carstairs Bros. Distilling Co., Inc
N.Y.C
Teh Ph
Las
Vance
America
Bond
Kentucky
Bourbon
the Old Crow
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