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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1948
Page
6
United Mine Workers will supervise four regional districts in District 29 as training in accident prevention, aid, mine rescue and safety campaigns is organized. The program aims to open courses by month end with two specially assigned members from the Federal Bureau of Mines assisting.
H B Thomas county farm agent outlined the 10418 crop protection program at a Raleigh county farmers and families meeting at Saxon School. Ivan Bowling of Appalachian Electric Power spoke on proper house wiring while Harvey of the power company showed a safety film Dawn of Better Living. Thomas urged careful tomato planting amid warnings of tomato blight spreading north from Florida and Georgia. Bowling warned against overloaded circuits that can cause fires. Dc E Jones said Lloyd Fitzgerald will begin a 20 hour safety course June 1 at Summerlee, with Edward M Lewis arranging nearby sessions May 31 to June 3 at several towns. Jones noted Fitzgerald’s training precedes other schools to allow state inspectors to attend. Robert Lilly and Wilson Willard, backed by the state agency, will add accident prevention classes after Fitzgerald’s course. Fitzgerald is an explosives engineer at Mount Hope and Lewis an inspector in the Pocahontas region. First aid instructors trained by Lilly and Willard are delivering rapid district-wide training, while mine safety committees receive federal instruction on flame, lamps, ventilation, and timbering.
Chicago arranger Paul Yoder will direct bands from at least 14 area high schools at a First Regional Music Festival at Woodrow Wilson High School on Sunday. Noble Cain will direct the festival glee clubs. Rehearsals start at 10 and 1 with the festival at 3 30. Yoder has composed more than 500 arrangements and has judged contests in 22 states. About 350 voices and 125 students will participate in chorus and band, drawn from Mercer, Wyoming, McDowell and Raleigh counties. The program features Legende Overture and Dedication among selections, with multiple choruses performing works by Bach, Cain, Palestrina, Woodward, Hahn, and Croft. A Dutch luncheon for instructors will be held at a Beckley hotel.
Hollywood continues on page four with Larry Parks known for The Jolson Story. Betty, born in Seattle and raised in Tacoma, met him at the Clover Club in town. They live in a White cottage in the Hollywood Hills with a 100-foot lot home to fifty trees. Betty's early talents included poetry and dance earning scholarships. she studied at Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.
Whitesville Junior High graduates will receive diplomas Friday May 2 at 8 p.m. A talk by Oliver Sherleff of Morris Harvey College will lead, followed by a benediction by Rev. Leroy Beckley. Forty four students are set to graduate from the Whitesville school. The mother of Beckley resident W. S. Thompson, Maggie D. Dudley Thompson, age 98, has died. funeral services will be held in Bluefield.
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