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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1958
Page
8
The Piney Oaks Parent-Teachers Association will hold its first regular meeting of the school year at 7 p.m. Thursday in the school. Mrs. Annie Scott, president, urges all parents to attend.
The Lester Town Council failed to hold its regular meeting Tuesday night as a quorum was absent, per Mayor E. G. Miller.
Dr John B Floyd Yoak Jr a Beckley Methodist minister has built an extensive Raleigh County Civil War era library. He began 20 years ago by purchasing three estates libraries and now owns 300 plus volumes including works on Stonewall Jackson Abraham Lincoln and Jesse James. He travels to acquire rare editions and has deep ties to local colleges and churches.
Harold Casali recounts Goran Dalfelt's three month stay in Denmark with visits to Rosenborg Castle Elsinore Kronborg and Copenhagen landmarks. The tour included Frederiksborg and Fredensborg castles the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain plant the George Jensen Silver Plant and meetings with Danish officials. Casali praises the warm reception and notes the farewell as the visit ends in Copenhagen.
Eighteen men enlisted in the United States Navy Tuesday at the Beckley Navy Recruiting Station and were sent to San Diego California and Great Lakes Michigan for nine weeks of basic training. The list includes Henry Reynolds James Miller Dale Thompson Joseph Orban Harold Eller Clarence Worley James Lefew James Meadows John Cochran Kenneth Ward Larry Shumate Leroy Wickline and Mark Walton from local towns.
Sixth District Congressman Robert Byrd reports the Coal River project awaiting President Eisenhower's signature on a 5300 appropriation from Congress for a prevention project. Byrd says a preliminary study can be completed in about one year and a public hearing is expected after mid October before the full study begins.
L. P. Wallace served 16 years as post master and chief clerk at the MacAlpin Coal Co. store. He began in 1924 as a clerk, then worked at Glen Morrison and Penman for 12 and five years respectively before returning to McAlpin in 1942. He and wife Leora have two sons, Lacie and Jimmy, living in Florida. Wallace is a member of Beckley Ledge 95, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
Frank Cooper 22 of Mount Hope posted 50 on his appearance to answer a hit and run charge after surrendering to city police over a wreck involving Joe Lewis Gilbert of Harper Heights. James E Stewart 17 of Beckley posted 71 for reckless driving and invalid registration after arrest Tuesday night by city police.
Sherman Ratliff of Packville was discharged from Beckley Memorial Hospital Tuesday after treatment for a bruised shoulder from a timber fall at Bolt Mining Company. He was admitted at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Ray Evans of Morningside Heights Williamson West Virginia denounces a new home drinks tax as unfair to children who buy powdered mixes for summer drinks. He notes two penny taxes yielding seven cents instead of five and urges repeal via the West Virginia Grocery Trades Taxpayers Association in Huntington.
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