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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1948
Page
5
Workers at Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates mines are urged to take personal responsibility for safety. Posters urge caution against carelessness and peer pressure, stressing daily decisions affect personal safety and the need to follow rules and check work habits.
Ocean a community brief featuring moves and visits. Mr and Mrs James Corbin and sons recently relocated from Honolulu. Local residents Sonny Beane and Mrs Ralph Marks receive care or treatment at Welch clinics. Numerous families travel for medical, family, or work events, with residents visiting relatives in North Carolina and Virginia.
Beckley area servicemen are stationed abroad. Brown of Eighth Street serves on destroyer USS Zellars in the Mediterranean after leaving Norfolk June 1. Roscoe A. Smith with Company B 38th Signal Battalion is in Kyoto Japan after training at Fort Bragg. Howard A. Meadows, son of Mrs. Mary Meadows, is en route home from Osaka and recently awarded the Bronze Star Medal for gallantry in action.
Eight new divorce suits are on file in the Fayetteville circuit court. Plaintiffs include Hattie Jones versus Willie Jones and Kathleen Thompson versus William J. Thompson among others. Admir Straughn Abbott of Fayetteville is listed among 25 new West Virginia attorneys qualified to practice.
Mrs Edna Richmond Raleigh County public health nurse will preside at a health conference on October 15 with health officers nurses sanitarians and industrial nurses from 25 counties represented Dr N H Dyer state health commissioner will speak at the Bluefield conference and a similar meeting at Fairmont October 22 on legislative and organizational plans for the State Department of Health
Fairdale resident Lena Pyatt reports her 16 year old son McKinley Lee Treadway disappeared after leaving home Sunday night. He is about five feet seven inches tall, 140 pounds with brown eyes and hair, last seen at Cody's Tavern wearing black boots dark green pants a tan shirt and a tan cowboy hat.
The Raleigh County Chapter home service department aided 154 persons during the past month. Financial assistance assisted 112 applicants, five military inquiries were handled. The office sent 31 telegrams and received 35 requests for claims. Eight letters were issued.
Pfc. Charles M. Penn of Cranberry completed the tractor-dozer course at the Eighth Army Engineer School in Maizuru Honshu Japan and now serves with the 82nd Field Artillery on Okinawa. He entered the Army in January 1948.
Feed retailers list prices with 24 percent dairy at 3.88 dollars and middlings at 3.50 dollars. Beckley and Oak Hill areas referenced in the price notes.
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