Campaign Goal Set for Cranberry Child Care Center
Plans for a $50000 child care center at Cranberry were unveiled with a local drive to match a conference grant. The West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church will operate the center, built on land gifted by the Beckley Chamber of Commerce, with Hulett C. Smith as general chairman and a 43 member planning group coordinating fundraising efforts.
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Cranberry
U. S
Cranberry School
West Virginia
The
Methodist Church
Beckley Hotel
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Hulett C. Smith
J. §. Larrick
E. D. Armstrong
Lawrence T Forbes
Oxey L. Patteson
Larrick
Forbes
Armstrong
M. F
Constitutional Revision League Topic For Today
Mrs. R. W. Bonds of Charleston WV will confer with Beckley League members this afternoon on the proposed revision of the state constitution. Audrey Wood and Perry Futterman join the briefing as local legislative officials. The 48 member Commission, led by former Gov. Homer Holt, studies Article 8 Judicial Branch, suits against state, a possible preamble, and Article 14 amendment procedures. The Caribbean land population is 687,250.
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R. W. Bonds
Charleston
West Virginia
League of Women Voters
Beckley League
Bonds
Audrey Wood
Perry Futterman
John Gorsica
Homer A. Holt
Judicial Branch
Stork Shower Fetes Mrs Thomas Golis
A stork shower was held at the home of Mrs Thurman Tincher Route 1 Scarbro honoring Mrs Thomas Golis. Hostesses were Mrs Leonard Stanley and Mrs Orden Cheek. Guests included Mrs George Golis of Pittsburgh Pa Mrs Raymond Hubbard of Charleston and others from Milburn Route 1 Scarbro and East Kingston with daughters Marcia and Linda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Mutter
Lewis Paris
Lenford Hicks
Robert Nasby
Alvin Wiggins
Milburn
Lawrence Woods
Larry
East Kingston
Charlie Hall
Charles Shroyer
Marcia
Linda
Lacy Payne
Sandra
Lonnie Lafferty
Brenda Jarret
Scarbro
Chambers proposes city recreation land ordinance
City Councilman George B. Chambers urged the Beckley Planning and Zoning Commission to adopt an ordinance requiring areas entering the city to set aside a parcel for a recreational area. He noted city funds already developed current parks and said new subdivisions should provide a 200 by 200 foot park for every 100 residential lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Chambers
Beckley Planning and Zoning Commission
PIA
Chamber
Chambers
Spelling Slip at Johns Hopkins Hospital Revealed
At Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore an apparent misspelling on wooden pencils circulated in conference rooms showing "John Hopkins Hos pital" and exposed a lapse in accuracy across the famed medical center.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
John Hopkins Hospital
Knife Victim in Good Condition After Stabbing Incident
Frank Durham of Sprague is listed in good condition at Beckley Hospital for a left arm stab wound. Otis Wright, East Beckley, allegedly stabbed him at a residence owned by Mrs. Sarah Jones at 107 Hunter Street around 5 45 p m Monday. Wright was jailed, posted $500 bond to Magistrate Cotton White, and faces grand jury action for malicious wounding. Police cannot determine the fight’s cause as Durham could not talk and Wright declined comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sprague
Beckley
Frank Durham
Otis Wright
East Beckley
Sarah Jones
Hunter St
Wright
Raleigh County
Cotton White
Durham
County bids set for 19 federal road projects total
State Road Commissioner Patrick C. Graney announced that the 19 federal aid projects bid on Aug. 25 total $2,107,970 in the lowest qualified bids. Highlights include a 0.885 mile Beckley Mabscott Road segment on Route 16 for grading drainage base and Portland cement pavement. Valley Drive extension was awarded to Kyowa Construction for $422,249.10. A 5.56 mile section on Shady Spring Ghent Road on U S Route 19 was awarded to Ralph H. Burns for $139,025.60. The remaining 17 projects are spread across Boone Cabell Grant Hampshire Marion Marshall Mason Mineral Morgan Pendleton Randolph Boone and Wetzel counties.
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Patrick C. Graney
Beckley - Mabscott
Raleigh County
Boone, Cabell, Grant
Hampshire
Marion, Marshall, Mason, Mineral
Morgan, Pendleton
Randolph, Boone
Wetzel Counties
Marshall Classes To Be Organized
A representative of Marshall College Huntington will be at Beckley Junior High School at 7 9 a m Sept 17 to organize extension classes for the first semester of the 1959 60 academic year according to Paul H Collins administrative assistant and director of Adult Education.
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Marshall College
Huntington
Beckley Junior High School
Paul H. Collins
Woodrow Wilson High trains students in distribution field
Twenty three of forty seven distributive education students at Woodrow Wilson High School are already in part time work as required. Mrs Betty S Jarrell says a third of the U S population will be in distribution by 1960 and Woodrow is the county's only school offering the course. The Vocational School can arrange classes with a qualified teacher if demand grows. The program, largest in ten years, emphasizes individualized instruction and career objective setting.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Betty S. Jarrell
Woodrow
Jarrell
William B. Connoley
Sophia Lions To Fete Ladies Night In Sophia
The Sophia Lions Club hosts Ladies Night at 6 30 p m dinner in Friendship Hall Sophia Methodist Church Officers guests include C O Warren district governor James W Morris district secretary treasurer Lowell Lilly deputy district governor A R Tucker zone chairman Entertainers Bobbie Clay ventriloquism Jack Thomas vocal soloist All members urged to attend per president John Washburn
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Sophia
RNS
Sophia Lions Club
Friendship Hall
Sophia Methodist Church
C. O. Warren
Bluefield
James W. Morris
Lowell Lilly
Beaver
A. R. Tucker
Beckley
Bobbie Clay
Jack Thomas
John Washburn
Lightning Strikes Two Homes on Virginia Street
A Monday afternoon electrical storm hit two Virginia Street residences. Mrs Albertine Meador was away. the strike damaged shingles, a television set, and an antenna. Mrs H N Collier woke to a flash fire burning the TV interior and nearby draperies. Telephone and electricity were cut off. repairs were summoned.
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Virginia St
Albertine Meador
Stoco
H. N. Collier
Judge Knapp Sees Field Take Oath in Charleston
Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Norman Knapp witnessed John A. Field Jr. take his oath as U. S. District Judge of Southern West Virginia. Judge Harry E. Watkins administered the oath at 1:30 p.m. in the federal courtroom in Charleston. Field, former state tax commissioner, succeeds the late Judge Ben Moore who died last September.
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Raleigh County
Norman Knapp
John A. Field Jr
Charleston
West Virginia
Harry E. Watkins
Fairmont
Field
Ben Moore
Lower Raleigh County Schools Report Mixed Enrollment
Enrollment in Raleigh County schools appears lower than last year with no firm statistics from the Board of Education. Only Trap Hill High School Beckley Junior High and Crescent Elementary report increases among preliminary figures. Final totals likely will not be released until the end of the week.
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Raleigh County
the Board of Education
Trap Hill High School
Beckley Junior High
Crescent Elementary
Oil Firm Ends Lease On Local Property At Prince And North Kanawha
Pure Oil Company terminated its lease on the corner property owned by Mrs. Thomas Wickham at Prince and North Kanawha Streets August 31. The site, active for over 25 years, is now vacant as Mrs. Wickham is in California and unavailable for comment. Duncan Catron Motor Co. had operated the filling station for the past 14 months.
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Pure Oil Company
Prince and
North Kanawha Sts
Thomas Wickham
WVU Extension Schedules Fall 1959 Beckley Courses
West Virginia University announces fall 1959 extension classes for Beckley area at Beckley Junior High School with history and sociology offerings. History courses include Economic and Social Development of West Virginia, The American Civil War, The United States from McKinley to the New Deal, and American Diplomacy to 1898. Sociology courses cover Collective Behavior, Introduction to Anthropology, and Culture and Personality. Registration for history is Sept 8 at 7 p.m., for sociology at 6:30 p.m. Registration led by Elizabeth J. Goodall and Dr. James W. Wright with multiple site offerings.
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West Virginia University
Morgantown
Beckley
Sherman C. Trail
Raleigh County
Beckley Junior High
West Virginia
United States
BJHS
Elizabeth J. Goodall
University
James W. Wright
Wright
Charleston
Lewisburg
Marlinton
Cranberry To Raleigh By-Pass Recommended
Beckley planning officials discuss a proposed by pass from Cranberry to Raleigh to ease traffic. J W Maxwell urges State Road Commission support for a southeastern route linking Route 19 21 north of the Seven Up plant to the old Giles Fayette Kanawha Turnpike and Maxwell Hill Road then to North Oakwood Avenue. The plan calls for rehabilitating Ewart Avenue and widening Quarry Street to connect with a new by pass and Mabscott limits, with further linkage toward Whitestick Creek to Raleigh.
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Beckley
State Road Commission
McCreery- Richmond
Cranberry
Giles-Fayette- Kanawha
Acme Construction Co
Acme
Maxwell Hill
Maxwell Hill Road
New River Company- Sprague
Whitestick Creek
Raleigh
Stainless Pazo Piles Suppositories and Ointment Ad
An ad promotes Stainless Pazo for swollen pile tissues claiming immediate pain relief, reduced swelling, and promoted healing without surgery. It asserts doctors tests show quick relief and positions the product as three in one treatment available as suppositories or ointment at druggists with money back.
PSC Resumes Gas Hearing On Cabot Rate Request
The Public Service Commission resumes a hearing on Godfrey L. Cabot Inc request for higher gas rates to lift annual revenue by 650,000. Cabot serves 19,856 customers across Calhoun, Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh, Summers, Wirt, and Wyoming Counties. The hearing resumes July 14 after a May recess to finish an audit, proposing a six step monthly rate scale starting at 1.75 for 1,000 cubic feet and 0.39 per 1,000 for over 6 million. Minimum monthly charge would be 1.75. The Wirt County Joint Consumers Committee opposes the increase.
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Charleston
Public Service Commission
Godfrey L. Cabot Inc
Cabot
Calhoun
Fayette
Kanawha
Raleigh
Summers
Wirt
Wyoming
PSC
Wirt County
Man Clobbered At Courthouse Fighting on Steps
William Ellison of Princeton was admitted to Raleigh General Hospital around 10 30 am with facial lacerations after a fight on the Raleigh County Courthouse steps. Ellison was struck by an unidentified man who fled. police seek the assailant. Ellison was intoxicated and will face a charge of being drunk upon his release. An eyewitness described the attacker as tall with dark hair, wearing green clothing.
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William Ellison
Princeton
Raleigh General Hospital
Raleigh County
Ellison
Prince Street
Conference on quality instruction set for Sept 11 at Woodrow Wilson HS
High school teachers will gather at Woodrow Wilson High School from 9 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. on September 11 for a conference themed Creating a Desire for Learning Through Quality Instruction with Dr Allin W Leavell of the University of Virginia as principal speaker. He will discuss Reading in the Content Area and his career includes work on McGuffey readers and educational testing. John St Clair will address grouping in high school, with nine consultant-led subjects across social studies English science math business education home economics physical education and vocational arts. Students will be dismissed for the day.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Allin W. Leavell
MecGuffey
University of Virginia
Leavell
Peabody Journal of Education
Time
Allin
McGuffey
Wuchow
South China
North China Baptist College
Dwanghsien
Shantung
North China
McGuffey Clinic
John St. Clair
Ischools
St. Clair
Edythe. Clay
Virginia Sizemore
Mercer County
Evelyn Murray
Kermit Cook
West Virginia University
Margaret Irwin
Scott- Foresman Co
Lorena Anderson
Kanawha County
Ike Mitchell
Greenbrier
Llewellyn Cole
Donald Cox
Marshall College
Eric S. Clutter
West Virginia Insitute of Technology
Harry L. Phillips
State Department of Education
Alberta Anderson
West Virginia Tech
Richard Pugh
Southwestern Publishing Co
Joyce Bartell
Kroger Food Foundation
John Lane
West Virginia Youth Fitness Council
Roy O. Duncan
College of Physical Education
WVU
Fred Eberle
Clifford Brown
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Constitutional Revision League
Beckley Newspapers
Beckley Post Herald
Beckley, W. Va
Marshall
Wilson High School
Judge Knapp
Oil Company
Eve Breck
Board of
U. S. Civil Service
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Food and Drug Administration
Washing
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington
D. C
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Today
Federal Housing Administration
W. Herbert Welch
Welch
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