CAA Seeks Site for TVOR Station in Raleigh County
Representatives of the Civil Aeronautics Administration work in Raleigh County to locate a site near Raleigh Memorial Airport for a Terminal Very High Frequency Omni-Range station. The project, sponsored by the Department of Commerce, involves ground and air teams and could operate weather broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Raleigh County
Raleigh Memorial Airport
Table Rock
A. Wankowicz
Wankowicz
The
Department of Commerce
Thomas Paredes
TVOR
David Chester
Milton Gunther
Frank Olsen
Idlewild Airport
New York
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
Robert Gould
Local Youths Injured in Dover Ohio Auto Crash
Two local youths were injured in an auto crash on Route 21 half a mile south of Dover Ohio. William J. Leadingham 20 the driver is listed in critical condition with face cuts broken jaw fractured ribs chest and internal injuries. Robert V. Sisk 19 a passenger is described as fair with a possible fractured left thigh. The car left the road struck a tree and the families could not be located by The Register. Leadingham was reportedly staying with his uncle J W Wiseman at 205 Baker St. Sisk is the son of Mr and Mrs Robert D Sisk and formerly lived at 231 Clyde St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Dover
William J. Leadingham
Robert V. Sisk
The
Register
Leadingham
J. W. Wiseman
Baker St
Sisk
Robert D. Sisk
Sisks
Clyde St
All Phases of Insurance Represented in Beckley Meeting
An overflow crowd of 105 representatives from Raleigh Fayette Summers Monroe Mercer McDowell and Wyoming counties attended the first annual gathering of the Southeastern West Virginia Insurance Club in Beckley. John D C Roane of Baltimore outlined insurance as risk transfer and noted last year’s fire and casualty premiums near 7 billion with losses about 4 to 5 billion. Roane called insurance essential and the best means to ease disaster impact. Seven new directors were elected. William F Watts Beckley became president Jack Feller Mullens vice president and Edward T Gilmer Beckley secretary treasurer. The club, a social body for insurance workers, was founded in Bluefield.
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Beckley
Southeastern West Virginia Insurance Club
Raleigh
Fayette
Summers
Monroe
Mercer
McDowell
Wyoming
Roane
Club
William F. Watts
Jack Feller
Mullens
Edward T. Gilmer
John D. C. Roane
John Roane Inc
Baltimore
Beckley Hotel
Nathan Mitchem Dies in Whitby Hospital
Nathan Mitchem of Whitby died in a local hospital on Tuesday morning. The body will lie at C. D. Trent Funeral Home pending completion of arrangements.
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Nathan Mitchem
Whitby
C. D. Trent Funeral Home
Boblett Services Slated Thursday
Funeral services for Henry Wy man Boblett 63 Piney View will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Stamford Baptist Church with Rev. R. H. Dean and Rev. Jack Thomas officiating Burial will be in Caf fee Cemetery at Mount Tabor He died at his residence 1 30 p.m. Tuesday after a heart attack He was born Oct 24 1892 in Buchannan Va and lived in Raleigh County 41 years A retired miner with New River Co at Skelton He belonged to Stamford Baptist Church United Mine Workers Local 4353 and was a World War I veteran Surviving are wife Lola Frances Hutchens Boblett six sons four daughters a brother and four sisters and 17 grandchildren The body will be taken to the home from Caffee Funeral Home at 4 p m today and to the church at 1 p m Thursday Pallbearers named.
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Henry Wyman Boblett
Piney View
Stamford Baptist Church
R. H. Dean
Jack Thomas
Mount Tabor
Boblett
Buchannan
Henry T. Willie
Kenneth G
James R
Robert A
Merle
Ruby Huffman
Buford Jennings
MacArthur
Kathleen Scarafina
Tams
Vera Snyder
Bluefield
Boyd
Skelton
Elsie Cadd
Lottie Giles
Willis Webb
Carlisse
Lanie Hostetter
Delaware
Caffee Funeral Home
Marion Goodman
Walter Rogar
Raymond Hunter
Pete Cobb
Roscoe Bailey
Eck Freeman
ABI Drive Opens Fund Drive for Bible Institute
A Beckley group launches a sixty thousand dollar fundraising campaign to purchase a 95 acre farm and begin a building program for Appalachian Bible Institute now based in Whitesville. Pamphlets explaining the Bible Institute story are prepared for distribution, with receipt books ordered to track pledges and donations as plans were studied Tuesday night by the organizing committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appalachian Bible Institute
Beckley
Charles Hodel
J. K. Edmundson
C. R. Bowers
J. A. Blackburn
Agnes Bowling
C. Harold Hanks
Baxter Minor
Beckley Area
The
Bible Institute
Whitesville
Three Defendants Forfeit Bonds At Beckley Police Court
Three persons failed to appear for trial at Beckley Police Court Monday night. Roy J. Vance of Crab Orchard and Joe L. Moss of Lester forfeited $20 each on speeding charges. A third person forfeited $5 on a drunkenness charge.
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Beckley Police Court
Roy J. Vance
Crab_ Orchard
Joe L. Moss
Lester
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CAA
Ohio
A. Harry West
Edgar B. Rose
Pineville
C. S. Horner Jr
Welch
Rosser Long
Fayetteville
Robert Kendell
Southeastern
West Virginia Insurance Club
Watts
Storm Doors
Call Raleigh Glass & Mirror Co
City Ave
Arbuckle's Confectioners
ABI
Bermuda
Cfatmere
General
Beckley Day Television & Appliance Co
N. Kanawha St
Halstead
General Electric Appliance CO
Bast Rainelle
B. T. Collins Electric
Lewisburg
Lewisburg Furniture Company
Union Furniture Co
Howard Avenue
Altoona
Charleston
Huntington
Pittsburgh
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