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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1952
Page
12
Election doors open 6 30 a m to 7 30 p m Tuesday as The Register publishes 108 precincts and locations for new voters to find polling sites. The list includes courthouses schools churches and other public buildings across Raleigh County with many marked by elementary and high schools and community centers.
Raleigh County public library relies on United Fund for about 1,000 of its roughly 6,000 annual budget. Librarian Mary Louise Graham notes 80 to 100 new books monthly, about 900 to 1,000 yearly, with 10,000 volumes now on shelves. A new borrower registration since last November has 2,100 patrons. 31,337 volumes were borrowed last year and magazines exceed 30 titles.
The Shady Spring High School Alumni Association held an organizational meeting Wednesday with Mason Anderson elected president. Other officers include Lowell Lilly, Virginia Lee Noel, and Joan King as secretary treasurer. Sixty six alumni attended as the group forms to aid the school. twenty directors were chosen representing the classes present. Planning Commission and City Council meetings were rescheduled for November.
The Parent-Teacher Association sponsors a 7:30 p.m. carnival at Stoco Junior High School in Lego with 30 girls competing for queen. Proceeds fund an inter-communication system and school books. events include games music shows and refreshments.
Volunteers assist in the 1952 Christmas seal sale of the Raleigh County TB and Health Association. Mrs A J Ginkel announced that the American Legion Auxiliary and the Young Women's Auxiliary of the First Baptist Church would work as volunteers, with the church auxiliary in the morning and Legion Auxiliary in the afternoon. Additional helpers are needed to fill 13 000 envelopes. Mrs R B Armentrout and Mrs John R Hays worked, joined by Women of the Moose members. Tuesday volunteers included Mrs Ben Frankovich, Mrs Jack Nelson, Mrs John R Hays, and Prosperity Farm Women's Club members Mrs Earl Yates and Mrs Noel Thurman.
The Valley Springs Baptist Church in Odd announces its annual homecoming on Sunday November 9. Pastor Rev QO E Canterbury says the event will feature quartet singing a speaker and a basket dinner.
The Central Elementary School carnival sponsored by the PTA runs from 6 to 10 30 p m Monday at the Beckley Recreation Building. Robert Pugh chairs arrangements for the carnival, per President Ross Irle.
Butts, director of the Negro division of the Republican campaign in West Virginia, predicts many Negro voters who have registered and voted Democratic will switch to the GOP on Tuesday. He says those who want to vote for Gov. Stevenson cannot without casting a vote for Sen. Sparkman, whom he accuses of a long, unbroken record against civil rights and Black interests.
Enrollments at Kent State University list two area men among the 1,376 freshmen. Eddie Akers from Fayetteville and Louis Wyde from Midway are named among the new students in this university update.
The Loving Charity Missionary Society will meet Tuesday at Mrs. Mattie Giles's home in Tams with Mrs. Naomi Jackson presiding on the lesson topic Our True Life. The Glorious Church of God In Christ of Scarbro honored with a dinner October 26 hosted by Mrs. Virginia Downes at her sister and brother Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brooks in Scarbro. The Quinnimont Consolidated School PTA meets at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Sam Ella Harris president. Rev. George Walker and his singers will present a program November 21. Ada Featherston of East Park celebrated her 83rd birthday with sermon by Rev. H. E. Davis and music by the Senior Choir and Pilgrim Travelers. solos by Mrs. Pearl Matthews and Mrs. Mary Berger.
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