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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1966
Page
3
The FAA announced a delay in acquiring navigational aid equipment for Raleigh County Memorial Airport until 1968 due to a manpower shortage. The project, valued at $128,000, includes TACAN and VHF Omni Range units plus a larger standby power plant, with bids not set to begin before early June if the schedule holds.
A YMCA dance at 7 p.m. today ends YMCA Week with free admission for all. Joe Vinson says the event, hosted by Bob Horton, will feature golden oldies and guest requests for five cents. Membership rates rise to 10 dollars for students, 20 dollars for under 25, 25 dollars for over 25, and 40 dollars for a family.
Real estate transfers recorded in the county clerk's office include Dora Lilly to R A Foley for 300 dollars in the Lilly Land Co Addition Beckley. Everett and Ertle Price to O Dell Meadows for 300 dollars on Tommy's Creek Slab Fork District. Worley and others to Atalee Worley for three parcels in Trap Hill District with no value listed. Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Inc to Harrison Mills for interment property in Garden of the Tower for 180 dollars. J Woodrow and Edna M Smith to Garden of Tower interment property for 360 dollars. Joe A Stanley and Anna G Stanley to Albert and Kathryn Boone Ware along Combs Street Beckley for 10 000 dollars. Eileen L Smith to Cora Kiser in Stamford Town District for 500 dollars. Odessa Lewis and Virgil Ruth Matherly to William Ward for two parcels at Daniels Shady Spring District for 2 400 dollars. Bibb interment property at Garden of Everlasting Life for 165 dollars. Charles and Scottie Shouse to Billy and Patricia Shouse in Valley Home Addition no value listed. J S Akers to Olie and Ollie White at Sophia for 7 500 dollars. William R Kingrey and Patricia Ann Kingrey to Bobby and Shelby Reece along Pike Street Beckley for 10 000 dollars.
The Raleigh County Community Action Association will meet at the courthouse at 2 p.m. Saturday to vote on the resignation of George Parker as director. Chester Workman, president, said a nominating committee will be appointed to screen applicants for a new director.
Mrs. Audrey Bell warned the thief who took her ancient Egyptian scarab bracelet that it carries a curse of everlasting bad luck. The religious superstition frames the theft as a peril to the thief in Beaconsfield England.
Col Robert Thomson Jr was elected chairman of the Raleigh County Red Cross board for his sixth term at the annual dinner meeting The officers named included Dr Walter Griswold first vice chairman E J Fourney second vice chairman Robert Amick secretary Mrs George Parker assistant secretary and Lawrence Tully treasurer New board members from Beckley were Mrs Sheri J Winter John W Kern H W Scott Glenn P Daniel W W Covey and Rev Robert Rasmussen The highlight was the capping of six Junior Red Cross volunteers at Pine Lodge Nursing Home with additional honorees and plans announced for a retirement reception for Mrs T C Moorefield executive director at First Christian Church later in October
Beckley Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce schedules a combined general membership and public meeting at 7 30 p m on October 20 to outline the 1967 work program. Robert Hamilton notes the venue is not yet chosen with civic and professional groups and interested citizens expected, plus idea groups to develop local projects. A slide presentation titled Apathy or Action will be shown and Community Preps will host. Co chairs are P J Brady and Blaine Wright.
West Virginia will host a touring film crew this weekend to scout talent and potential shooting sites. The feature will film in October across Kentucky and West Virginia, with stops in Beckley, Clay, Charleston, and Huntington. Director Billy Edd Wheeler, a West Virginia native and songwriter, leads the project. He resides in Swannanoa North Carolina and records with KAPP in Nashville.
A Meadow Bridge student receives community aid as donations push the fund toward a $20,000 kidney transplant for Lester Simms. Members from Herndon High School, Concord College, and area towns organize bake sales and drives, with Simms hospitalized in New Orleans awaiting surgery.
Beckley moves to conclude its 1966 zone cleanup drive with a final push on Sept 26 in Ward 1 and similar pick up dates for other wards. Mayor John Wesley Smith urged residents to help and said the city will provide trucks to collect junk and refuse with schoolchildren invited to participate.
The Shady Grove Baptist Church marks its annual homecoming and 56th anniversary this Sunday. Sunday School starts at 9 a.m. led by Wampel Phipps, followed by an 11 a.m. worship with Rev. N C Lewis. Lunch at 1:30 p.m. and guest preacher Rev. Elmer Day of Raleigh at 2:30 p.m. Mrs. Juanita Payne will give a church history.
Haram Abiff Lodge No 25 of Masons will assemble Saturday at 6 p m in the Masonic hall at 840 South Fayette Street for important business and initiation officials announced.
Beckley water project to raise Glade Creek Dam 22 inches is slated for completion by November 15. Tower Concrete Construction Co. of Glen White won a 79019 dollar contract to remove old boards and add steps for a concrete top, increasing capacity to about 600 million gallons while riprap and road work along W Va 3 are added. The dam serves over 60,000 people and bids delays pushed the start from 1965.
Garnie Stibham of Ashland Oil was introduced as a new member at the Beckley Civitan Club meeting. Reports from Rhododendron Girls State and Mountainaire Boys State were heard, with Nancy Halsey calling Girls State trip highly rewarding and Francis Edwards Jr. noting boys’ civic participation aligned with the motto Builders of Good Citizenship. President Earl Halsey announced a directors meeting at noon Thursday at the Beckley Elks Lodge.
A brief item notes a person nicknamed Cookie, a graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School, married to Harry, and parent of five children including two daughters and three sons.
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