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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1966
Page
8
Gulf Oil Corp files suit in circuit court to collect 406.94 from C. W West for gas products delivered before November 1965. Truman L. Sayre represents Gulf Oil.
A Summers County man Fred McDaniel was awarded a verdict by a U S District Court jury in a $10,000 plus personal injury suit filed by Donald G Snidow over a Nov 28 1964 car accident on West Virginia 12 between Hinton and Peters Town. The case proceeds with other docket items listed for 9 30 a m Tuesday. The article also notes a separate moonshine case pending against John Smith Glen Jean Horace Booker Taylor Beckley and James Preston Allen with legal representation details.
A Beckley man, E. E. Bibb Jr., was elected vice chairman of the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Amendment at a Charleston meeting on Wednesday. He was named alongside Ford Morrow of Ravenswood and Joseph Marsh, president of Concord College. The item ends with an unrelated remark about fashion.
Beckley’s city clean-up parade is reset to Monday at 3 p.m. Mayor John Wesley Smith said heavy showers caused Thursday’s cancelation. The event, organized by Beckley College fraternity, aims to support the city’s clean-up campaign.
About 125 people attended the Fall Festival at the Methodist Child Care Center on Wednesday. Outgoing auxiliary president Mrs. R E Newman helped install 1966-67 president Miss Faye Farley of St. Marys Methodist Church, with others including Mrs. John Cheatham, Mrs. C F Ratliff, and Mrs. H D Gibbs assisting and Dr. Clyde Ash performing installations. The Rev. Virgil Cook reported on center activities.
Damaged No Parking signs on W Va 16 at Sprague will be replaced today. Authorities say the signs intended read No Parking Any Time but the No was painted out. Trooper investigates who defaced them. SRC cites asphalt runoff and a culvert under the sidewalk limiting exit options from nearby businesses. Valley Drive built for four lanes now uses two.
Hundreds of Colorado Springs students cheered as firemen fought a three story Colorado College campus blaze. Authorities were upset when they learned the crowd cheered the fire rather than the firefighters, in a moment that drew mockery from officials.
State Democratic Chairman James M. Sprouse announces a series of workshops for all five Congressional Districts next week. In the Third District Beckley area, the session is at the Daniel Boone Hotel Charleston 8 p.m. Friday with candidates and leaders discussing headquarters, speaker's bureau, literature, women's activities and constitutional amendments. Each district's meetings run Monday through Friday at different local venues and times. all interested Democrats are invited.
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