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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1998
Page
10
Tuesday night mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunder storms. Lows in the upper 50s. Wednesday a chance of showers and thunderstorms during the day. Otherwise partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Thursday partly cloudy with highs in the upper 70s. Friday partly storms with highs in the upper 70s. Stream conditions numbers listed for Bluestone Lake Summersville Lake and R D Bailey Lake.
John Aaron Walker 87 of Kopperston died Saturday June 6 1998 at a Beckley hospital after a brief illness. Born September 17 1910 in Prudence he was a retired Eastern Associated Coal miner and member of UMWA Local 7604 Kopperston Presbyterian Community Church and Cranberry Community Church. Survived by a daughter Charlotte Richardson two sons Harold and Keith two stepdaughters Louise Jackson and Georgia Payne a brother James Walker seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Services 11 am Tuesday at Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery Oak Hill. Friends may call 6 to 9 pm today.
Scrap-the-tax-code effort shapes a two county project with a medium security prison to create about 1 000 jobs including 350 federal and 650 support roles. The Indian Ridge Industrial Park will cover 300 of 500 acres with three phases beginning this fall and a three year build for the park and four years for the prison. First tenant Montana Graphics eyed. Coalfields Expressway interchange to start next year near Welch Pineville Road.
Mary Haynes praises a first grade ventriloquist act featuring George the puppet. Farley began after winning a talent show, tours schools on drug awareness, and aims to become an elementary teacher while continuing her act with George. She teases a future lecture at the International Moose Conference in Toronto.
Helping Hands volunteers, led by Jones and his wife, collect clothing and cans to fund food pantry deliveries. They source most food from Union Mission in Charleston and distributed over five tons to Fayette, Greenbrier, Raleigh and Monroe counties.
Marshall University will trim operating costs by 642000 in the 1998 99 fiscal year through organizational changes. President J Wade Gilley says several positions have been or will be eliminated but no current employees will lose their jobs. Affected staff will retire or be reassigned as the university meets legislative efficiency requirements.
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