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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1965
Page
7
A request for summary judgment by members of the Disabled Miners Association, formed to secure hospitalization for its members, was denied by Judge Knapp in Raleigh County.
Freshman at West Virginia University are steered into a core curriculum covering arts, social sciences, and natural sciences with advisers guiding course paths. The plan requires English basics and math prerequisites, plus 12 credit hours in each field, with science sometimes carrying four or five credits. A guide lists all subjects across fields. In other items, Judge Norman Knapp hears a case over DMA funds and alleged mismanagement. multiple marriage licenses are filed. 650+ attend WVU’s Gas Measurement Short Course featuring Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi. lawn watering advice suggests deep, infrequent soaking. WVU’s Dean Chester A. Arents receives the NCSBEE Distinguished Service Certificate for engineering work.
Four planned mine openings will create 19 jobs, per the Beckley WV Mines Office. Applications list Thermeo Coal Co No 2 mine Fayette County seven workers J Paul Bewely Oak Hill Roberts Coal Co No 1 mine Greenbrier County three workers Joseph Roberts Blair Laurel Creek Coal Co No 1 Greenbrier County four workers Darrell Barnhouse Richwood Linda Coal Co No 3 mine Fayette County five workers James Vandall Bradley. DMA members. Defendants besides Sokola include Fiore Recco Omar Williams Alex Fralin Roy McCoy Rev Henry Smith and Williams trustees. Judge Knapp denied preliminary motions pending full circuit court hearing.
Two area students Thomas Mann Crab Orchard and Philip Halloran Beckley will complete ten week research fellows programs at West Virginia University Medical Center. Most participants are WVU students aided by NIH general research grant. All finish by Sept 12.
Alan Susman president of the Beckley Raleigh County YMCA named three committee chairs at the organizational session. E. R. Foster heads the house committee, Warren A Thornhill II the program committee, and Robert R. Brown the membership committee. Susman reported on an executive meeting with Robert Harlan, field secretary of the Ohio West Virginia YMCA area, as the group aims to finance and build a swimming pool. Future meetings will set concrete plans.
Beckley Medical Arts, Inc. has obtained a building permit for an 85000 dollar addition at 2401 S Kanawha St. The 5000 square foot project will create three office suites and expand space to recruit medical specialists. The facility, licensed as Beckley Medical Arts Clinic Hospital, began in January 1954 to consolidate services including laboratory and X ray.
Classes started Tuesday at Raleigh County Vocational School for 25 women in the 18th Licensed Practical Nurse course. Students study four months in a foundation program at the center and then transfer to Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital for eight months of clinical training. The program concludes with final requirements for certification.
Mil dred Bateman told the State Board of Public Works the Wheeling area former tuberculosis hospital could be converted into a 250 bed mental health facility at $12 per patient daily by 1970 to raise standards for licensure exams and nurses. Currently about $4 is spent daily statewide on mental patients. federal funds may be sought for acquisition, with Weston State Hospital freeing capacity by 300 to 400 patients.
Police found an empty car perched on a bridge railing with two wheels over the side and feared the driver had fallen 90 feet into the Kaw River. After a 12 hour search, James R. Pound, 26, was located safe in his apartment, ending the incident.
United Press International notes that the existence of X rays was discovered in 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, who later received the Nobel Prize, as cited by the World Almanac.
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