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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1953
Page
5
Police chief Church 81 says the traffic light at Route 8 Lewis Terminal prompts a public puzzle. Citizens ask which lane to take toward Raleigh Road on Route 3 and turn west onto Church Street. A signed Beckley petition urges guidance, with the reply to take the left lane for Church Street, Fayette Street, and St Heber turns.
Police Chief Evan Hall clarifies the correct lane at a multi street intersection on State Route 3 near New Raleigh Road and Grove Avenue beside Richmond Cleaners. Rosanna Bias, who wrote the letter to the paper, says she was misinformed. the chief insists the left lane is correct for turning onto Church Street.
A storeman for Pinecrest Sanitarium Richard Smith will serve as vice president of the newly organized West Virginia State Employes Council of Local Unions. The state council formed during a two day Charleston meeting of AFL representatives from local unions.
Mrs Cornelia Blaylock Jones 29 died Saturday in University of Virginia Hospital after a five month illness. Funeral 1 p.m Wednesday at Eccles Community Church with Rev B C Jennings. Burial Sunset Memorial Park Beckley. Born Wallins Kentucky June 14 1924 daughter of Charles Blaylock. Survived by husband Bruce, daughter Debra Lynn, three brothers Sam Albert Blaylock Homer, four sisters Bessie Muncy Bitha Blanton Lillie Lubber Arletta Vernon. Active pallbearers nephews Claude Olin Albert Muncy Jack Paul Blaylock Price Lubber John Charles Blanton. Body to home of mother Mrs Sally Blaylock Surveyor after 2 p.m. Tuesday. She was member of Chadwell Baptist Church Ewing Virginia.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday for John Lunsford Bostick 70 of Lexington North Carolina who died in a hospital there at 5 30 a.m. Sunday after a long illness. The Rev James Neal will conduct services in the chapel of the Calfee Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Springville Cemetery Charleston. He was the brother of two Beckley men O D Bostick and B L Bostick. Bostick was born at Salt Sulphur Springs West Virginia on Dec 16 1883 son of the late Lewis N and Sarah Margaret Porterfield Bostick. He had lived in Lexington for the past 15 years. Other survivors include a third brother G H Bostick of Whitney South Carolina two sisters Mrs Ava Long of Lebanon Ohio and Mrs Lyda Burns of Clintonville. The body will remain at Caffee Funeral Home until time for services.
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Beckley plans two additions for Teen Town one a donated television from Bnai Brith Temple Beth El and murals by Woodrow Wilson High School students taught by Miss Sally Laren to decorate the ballroom walls. The center in the former Elks Lodge and American Legion rooms on Prince Street opens to all teens. Local groups pledge support including Catholic Daughters Paula 25 Moose Lodge 100 and Rotary Civitan and Elks Lodge planning agenda.
Beckley businessman Isadore Wein of Modern Furniture Co reports optimism after visiting New York City and hearing from about 200 merchants. He says Beckley’s prospects are better than feared, noting Christmas readiness in stores there and noting high priced electronics are not purchased for his Beckley shop.
The Veterans Administration announced that veterans seeking hospital treatment for non service connected ailments must supply financial information via five questions. The questions cover property value, ready assets, unpaid mortgage, monthly expenditures, and average income. The addendum aims to prevent false statements while not denying hospitalization, and Form 10 P 10 remains legal evidence of eligibility with confidentiality protected.
Hazel Cline Dillon of Woodrow Wilson High School Beckley completed an original research thesis titled Retention of Home Economics Information Given Stenographic Pupils. She was among nine West Virginia University students finishing graduate degree requirements.
William J. Cole man of 222 Hartley Ave. becomes the first donor in Raleigh County to buy a Christmas Seal. He says his quick contribution stems from personal TB experience and the belief that funds aid 1954 TB Association activities. He recalls hospitalization and recovery aided by association guidance. Coleman works with Dr. B. B. Richmond as an office nurse.
Raleigh County shows broad sympathy after Basil and wife Tates lose their four room home on the 1921 By-Pass in a blaze. Red Cross calls flood in, donations pour in, and Rex Brown’s Calloway Heights Troop helps collect items while a local owner offers another house nearby.
A fireplace blaze at the home of Nick Rizzi at 414 Tenes ple Street caused slight damage. Firefighters extinguished the fire at 3:15 p.m. Wood in the fireplace ignited when a tin hood used to shield it caught fire. Fireman Leonard Lyons helped mop water and ashes from the floor.
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