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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1949
Page
6
杂Beaver shoppers chase coffee and gobbling turkeys while reporters chase pictures and insurance questions. Beckley Fire Dept responds to a Blue Jay road blaze about a pot of lumps. Armistice Day passes with siren soundings and small-town quirks as visitors flood a Beckley home.
State Police Sgt Ezra Zirkle cites the nearly 10 000 annual pedestrian fatalities and warns that in New Year rush hours many will die in traffic. He notes November peaks, rural hazards, and habits like failing to stay alert at intersections.
Airman X School Post 32 will host nine area posts for a rehabilitation conference at 2:50 Sunday in Room 10 of the Memorial Building. Beckley selected among 14 cities to hold such meetings with reps from Clinton, Princeton, Bluefield, Mullens, Sophia, Athens, Pineville, Mount Hope and Oak Hill attending. Afterward, Post 32 will host guests at the Legion club. Conference topics include claims pensions compensation hospitalization and rehabilitation for disabled veterans and orphans. Tommy E. Jones will preside, with C. C. Crawford assisting.
Final rites were to be held at 3:30 p.m. today at Lobban Funeral Home Alderson for Courtney Pauline Parker 60 of 218 South Heber Street who died in a Hinton hospital Sunday after a four month illness. Rev James Salango and Rev Willam Garda officiated with burial in Alderson Cemetery. She was born at Pickaway daughter of the late Fletcher and Mollie Brown Parker. Surviving sister Mrs Helen Fay Frye of Alderson. She worked at E A M Payne store 19 years J Morrison Beckley store later Montgomery Ward Beckley for three years as a sales lady and was a member of Beckley Presbyterian Church. Pallbearers were to be F L Lobban Minor Bare Harry Rowe Fred Upton Paul Ford and Carl Bivens.
State Road Commission plans repairs on a two mile Cherry Creek road stretch. George Gadd county road supervisor revealed work will start after an appropriation is received. The road will be widened and graded and red dog laid to allow a school bus to Griffith school.
Guy Graves of 105 Harper Street learns of his father J. T. Graves death in a Christiansburg hospital at age 61. Survived by one son and two daughters. Funeral services tomorrow with burial in a Roanoke cemetery.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Black-Draught as a pleasant tasting laxative for children and adults, praising its quick relief of occasional constipation. It claims four generations of quality by the manufacturer and urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
A purported remedy named Gratifying 3 claims to relieve headache and neuralgia. The text describes a liquid catalyst with dissolved ingredients and a prescription tire formula. It mentions a four-component mixture and a quick relief product named Scott Lawrd Cagadine with vague directions.
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