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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1958
Page
3
Kathy Gwinn and Michael Ramsey, both 11, sixth graders at Central Elementary School, proudly hold up the new patrol flags for their school safety program.
About 55 persons attended a Monday night meeting in the Raleigh County Courthouse Criminal Courtroom to form the Beckley Horse Club. Mrs. L A Landers was elected president with Adolph Bair as first vice president and Frank Pierce as second vice president. A 15 member board elected from the group included Mrs. Landers and Mrs H H Perdue among others. The group was locked inside the building briefly before Fire Chief Otis Lyons arranged release of the trapped members.
A short powerful novel set in postwar Poland follows Agnieska and others as they seek desire, escape, or shelter in a ruined society. With no money or future, the roomer and his companions face futility, drunken solace, and unfulfilled longing in a country that lost both war and peace.
In Pottsville Pennsylvania a young Francis Davis attempted to mail a letter for his mother. When he could not find a slot in the big box on the pole he tried pulling the lever. Nine fire trucks arrived with sirens screaming to assist.
A review of the revised Available Light and Your Camera by George B. Wright explains the professional hand developing method, gear, and step by step darkroom technique. It highlights Ralph Baum’s Modernage lab and practical tips for beginners. The piece covers timing, safelights, desensitizers, and how mastering inspection leads to better prints.
A Calistoga area couple, seeking peace, added a small chapel at one end of their rural home in Descanso. The chapel remains unlocked for passersby to rest, meditate or pray, inviting the public to use the space.
The state guards a network of fifty thousand acres of parks featuring numerous vivid displays of pioneer American residences. The collection highlights historic dwellings and their early settler context within the protected landscapes.
Top national Silver Beavers were awarded to Roy I Smith Beckley Paul Mooney Kopperston and Dr William Greenspon Bluefield at the Appalachian Council annual Appreciation Banquet in the Elks Club over 280 leaders and guests attended. Robert Misfeldt oversaw the ceremony as 16th past recipient. Dempsey Jr Princeton installed as new council president with remarks on Scouting dividends and a tribute to unit leaders. The Man Mile trophy went to McDowell County for 28 representatives and over 3000 man miles.
The Rev. S. C. Lowery of North Carolina will lead revival services starting at 7 p.m. on October 20 at Coal City Church of God. Special singing will be featured and the pastor Rev. W. G. Byers invites the public to attend.
James Buchanan Eads, born in Lawrenceburg Indiana, was the engineer who opened the Mississippi River to navigation. In 1874, he devised a method to deepen the channel so upstream sediment would be carried to sea, allowing boats to pass.
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