Raleigh County Leads in Small Business Growth in 1956
A government tabulation shows Raleigh County with 1 125 active commercial enterprises in 1956, up from 1 101 in 1953. Most firms are small, 1 to 3 employees, totaling 652. 209 have 4 to 7 workers and 170 employ 8 to 19. Small businesses, under 20 workers, account for 92 percent of local employment of 14 378 covered by Social Security, reflecting a high concentration of ownership and a rising national business birthrate despite rising startup costs.
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United States
Raleig County
South Atlantic States
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Department of Commerce
Raleighee
Scientific Marriage Foundation Helps Meet Eligible Partners
Dr. George W. Crane introduces a non profit Social Service effort in Illinois to pair single adults caring for aging parents. Certified prospects are interviewed by local counsellors and matched by faith, race, education and hobbies. The pilot plant began in Indiana and expanded nationwide to aid marriages.
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Nina B
de Pauw University
Nina
Europe
California
Florida
Illinois
Alread
Gerald Kennedy
Norman Vincent Peale
Preston Bradley
G. George Fox
Foundation
YMCA
Mareriage Foundation
Scientific Marriage Foundation
Indiana
Red Cross
Republic
Crane
Science For You column to scrapbooks in The Register
The Bob Brown science feature Science For You expands to The Register, with Sunday panels showing simple experiments using common household items. Teachers and pupils are urged to clip, paste, and scrapbook the panels, which will be published nationally via General Features Corporation and Fleet Publishing.
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Bob Brown
The
Register
U. S
Canada
Beckley
Brown
Charles Hodel
General Features Corporation
New York
Roanoke
Sherman C. Trail
Raleigh County
Fleet Publishing Company
Military Men In News At Home And Overseas
Sept 12 graduation at Great Lakes Naval Center lists Fred W. Thomas Jr. as electrician's mate. Hubert C. Leslie completes recruit training at Parris Island. Sophia, a former Shady Spring resident, named fireman apprentice on USS Boyd. Johnny Mack Crook finishes nine weeks training in San Diego and awaits assignment. Blakey R. Upchurch serves aboard USS Chilton, with crew demonstrating amphibious landings for Lebanese Army officers at Byblos, Lebanon.
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Electrician’s Mate
Great Lakes, Ill
Naval Center
Fred W. Thomas Jr
Fred W. Thomas
Glen Morgan
Faye W. Gaylor
Stamford
Parris Island, S. C. Marine Corps
Hubert C. Leslie
Fred Plumley
Sophia
Shady Spring
Boyd
San Diego
Calif
Johnny Mack Crook
Mamie Crook
Kingsley Crook
Chilton
Blakey R. Upchurch
Sea ‘Man
Willard Upchurch
Coal City
U. S
Byblos
Lebanon
Beckley News Carrier Rates and Terms
The Beckley News Maners Corporation shows home delivery options with daily and Sunday rates. Subscribers pay weekly or monthly fees and carriers are independent contractors. The paper disclaims responsibility for advance payments made to carriers or distributors.
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Ependent Contractors
Beckley News
Maners Corporation
Labor Has Friend In Democratic Party
Editor argues that labels split along party lines misrepresent labor. The piece contends labor leaders and workers are often painted as radicals or bosses, and urges a clearer view that recognizes their roles and interests regardless of party.
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Labor
Democratic Party
the Register
Ates
Squirrel Nut Hiding as Second Nature Quiz Item
A reader note explains squirrels bury nuts by habit within a limited home range. Each squirrel hides nuts at familiar places, then retrieves them when hungry, often revisiting the best spots. An Iowa reader won $10 for a quiz submission and invites more answers to Junior Editor.
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Wineter
Dick Freeman
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Beckley
Weekend in London and Paris jet set tale from Earl
Earl Wilson recalls flying Pan-American’s Boeing 707 from New York to Paris in nine hours with a stop in the Azores. He jokes about jet age speed and culture, notes TV gags, film stars, and party scenes from New York and Las Vegas society, and ends with a breezy tag about the jet set era.
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London
Paris
Slugger
New York
Pan-American
Sardi's
Atlantic
Azores
B. W.s
Europe
Bob Hope
Steve Allen
Steve
Bob
Jayne
Wright Brothers
San Francisco
Hildegarde
Plaza
Midnight Earl Inn
Martha Raye
Lili St. Cyr
el Rancho Vegas
Lili
Abbe Lane
Xavier Cugat
Rome
Doogie
Berlin Hilton
Sydney Chaplin
Noelle Adams
Russia
Bob Turley
Grossinger
Paul Grossinger
Abc-Tv
Phil Bernstein
Mt. Sinai
Mickey Mantle
Sherry Britton
Jayne Mansfield
Ky. Furniture Company
Sherman Adams
Factographs and figures from a mixed era notes
Factographs mention vast land under federal reclamation and crops valued at over 800 mile lion dollars. The passage lists diverse items from ancient ventriloquism to a range of names tied to a teachers district institute scheduled for November 27 in Beckley.
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U. S. Dickens
Teachers District Institute
Beckley
E. S. Hatfield
Lizzie Shanks
A. J. Peters
Ollie F. Hoover
C. L. Eye
Vena Brammer
Scott Rogers
Alice Gardner
L. L. Ashworth
Minnie Ogden
W. R. Jennings
C. O. Dunn
H. R. Daubenspeck
J. A. McGinnis
L. O. Hoover
Oddities and couples listed in local marriage notices
Twenty five years ago a man with reversed anatomy was noted by local examiners during a patient checkup. The record then lists marriage licenses for Coy Walton and Virginia Blevins of Odd, Everett Gulley and Effie Stanley of Eccles, James McClung and Eliza Breeden of Dittsvilles, Walter Fields and Hazel Taylor of Beckley, James Deskins and Gladys Morris of Sprague, Henry Buzzard and Grace Vealey of Packsville, and Oswald Green of Mount View and Delphia Richmond of Long Branch.
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D. B. Jarrell
Robert Winston
Coy Walton
Virginia Blevins
Odd
Everett Paul Gulley
Effie Jean Stanley
Eccles
James Russell McClung
Eliza Ollive Breeden
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Pat’’) Brown
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Charles E. Potter
Pat McNamara
Alaska
Mike Stepovich
Ernest Gruening
George W. Crane
Pauline Dodd
Vernon Wood
Arthur Wood
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