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Jaycees' 12th Annual Christmas Lighting Contest I would like to enter my home in the 12th Annual Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas Lighting Contest. Name Phone Address 7 Outdoor Interior (Check Appropriate Square) Mail this coupon. to Christmas Lighting. Contest, co The Beckley Post-Herald, Beckley, W. Va.

This entry form is required only from homes outside the city of Beckley, and from persons who desire to enter interior home decorations in the contest. AND New Division Added Lighting Contest Gets Under Way Plans are now being completed for the 12th annual Christmas Lighting Contest sponsored by the Beckley Junior Chamber of Cornmerce and the Beckley Post ald. Floyd Sayre chairman of the contest, said residents within an eight mile radius of Beckley are eligible to enter the contest. Sayre said appropriate will be given to first place winners of the five divisions, and certificates will be awarded to second and third place winners. The first divisions of the contest are general house decorations, windows, outdoor scenes, indoor decorations, and window displays.

The business window division was recently added to the contest so that Beckley merchants will Rites Saturday For Mrs. Berger Funeral services for Mrs. Sylvia Berger, 66, of Amigo will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church Amigo by the Rev. Edwards.

as. Mrs. Berger died Monday in a local hospital after an extended illness. Survivors include her husband, Arlie Berger; three sons, Clarence of Knoxville, Frank of Giato, and Johnny of Amigo; six daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Hewitt Princeton, Mrs.

Pauline Anderson of Wyco, Mrs. Marie Bly of East Gulf, Mrs. Edna Black of Amigo, Mrs. Bell Simon of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Beatrice Berger of Charleston; one brother, Jessie Mustgrove of Gretna, three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Tunning of Union Hall, Mrs.

Mattie Martin of New York City, and Mrs. Mary Ward of Rocky 1 Mount, N. and 13 grandchildren. The body will be taken from Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor to the church one hour prior to the funeral hour. Burial will be in as Greenwood Memorial Park.

DOCTORS MEET HERE TO PLAN STATE MEET The executive board of the West Virginia Medical Society conducted its quarterly meeting Sunday in Beckley at the home of Dr. A. D. Belton. The board discussed plans for the 52nd annual state meeting of the society to be held at Lakin State Hospital.

Some of the outstanding clinicians in the country will speak at the state meeting. All members are urged to contact the secretary, Dr. B. F. Clark of Charleston, to make arrangements to attend the meeting.

Attending the board meeting here were Dr. Belton and Dr. N. L. Collins of Beckley, Dr.

E. B. Thompson of Williamson, Dr. P. R.

Higginbotham of Bluefield, and Dr. J. H. Nelson. Dr.

A. L. Harris, and Dr. Clark, all of Charleston, VETS CAN'T BE PAID TWICE ON DISABILITY Veterans receiving disability severance pay from the Armed Forces will have to repay it to the government if he is awarded Veterans Administration compensation for the same disability. That's the warning issued by Everett F.

Gibbs, contact representative of the VA Hospital in Beckley. In such cases. Gibbs said, the law requires that VA monthly compensation payments revert to the government until amount recovered is equal to the amount of disability severance pay the veteran received. The government begins recovery of disability severance pay only after VA compensation has been awarded, said Gibbs. He, stated recovery cannot be avoided by allowing a time lapse between receipt of the severance pay and the date of application for VA compensation.

Disability severance pay, authorized in 1949, may be paid in a lump sum upon discharge of an active duty member of the Armed Forces whose line of duty disability renders him unfit for duty, but which is less than 30 per cent in degree and therefore does not entitle the veteran to disability retired pay from the service. It is. paid, Gibbs explained, at the rate two months pay for each year of active service, up to a maximum of 12 years. SOOT FIRE EXTINGUISHED The Beckley Fire Department was called out at about 8:35 p.m. Tuesday to extinguish a soot fire 713 South Kanawha St.

The building, housing the S. Karawha St. Apartments. is owned by Mrs. E.

H. Hedrick. A fire donartmont spokesman vas no damage to the tote. High U.S. Coal Exports Expected To Hold Firm Between now and 1965, the permanent overseas market for U.

S. coal should level. off to the 35-to-40- million net ton range, or more than double the pre-1955 volume. This is the major finding of a special survey conducted by Coal Age, a McGraw-Hill publication, on the coal import situation in five major European countries which currently account for some 73 per cent of totai U. S.

overseas coal trade. In 1958. exports will hit an estimated 38 million tons (down from last year's record peak of 58 milion tons): in 1959, a drop to 34 million tons is likely: by 1960, as current high stockpiles become depleted, a movement back up to 40 million tons is possible, the magazine says. Here a country by country rundown on the export situation: WEST GERMANY With pithead stocks exceeding 11 million tons, West Germany is with her most serious coal crisis ever. As a result, the Bonn Government on Sept.

2 announced embargo on coal imports which prevents the conclusion of new contracts. For the time being, existing agreements will not be alfected. This means about. 13.2 million tons of U. S.

coal be imported this year and possibly about nineto-12 million tons in 1959. German coal importers have committed themselves to buy 44 million tons of U. S. coal during the next three years, starting Aug. 31, 1958.

NETHERLANDS Total bituminous coal imports should reach six million tons in 1958 and 6.6 million tons in 1959. In the same years, respectively, S.1 purchases almost entirely nonmetallurgical grades are put at 3.9 million tons and 3.9 million to 4.4 million tons. Because of a permanent structural deficit in coal needs, the i Netherlands will continue to import coal, mostly from countries outthe European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), since most types of coal imported (gas coal, coke, and anthracite) are difficult to obtain in Western Europe. The source of imports depends mainly on transport costs. As ocean transport is now cheap, there is every chance that imports, largely covered for the future by long-term contracts, will continue.

Over the long-range future, a substantial pickup in total imports is anticipated. BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG Belgium's imports of coal rose from 5.6 million tons in 1957 to an estimated of 6.9 the million increase tons was this due Ito higher deliveries from ECSC BECKLEY POST-HERALD Local And Area News, Sports, Classified. Comics, Markets Beckley, W. Friday November 28, 1958 have an opportunity to compete for awards. The business division awards will be presented by the Beckley Chamber of Commerce.

Sayre said all Beckley business concerns are eligible to enter the contest without submitting an entry blank. Funeral Saturday For H. Tucker, 100 Funeral services. for Henry Thomas (Dock) Tucker, 100, of Ra-: leigh will be conducted at 1 p. m.

Saturday at the Central Baptist Church by the Rev. S. A. Abram. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Wednesday afterPartied noon at the Home for the Aged in Denmar.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. L. L. Slaughter of White Sulphur Springs. Members of the King Hiram A Abiff No.

25 will serve as pallbearers. They are requested to meet at the lodge hall at 11 m. Saturday. The body will remain at the C. D.

Trent Funenal Home until the funeral hour. Do-it-yourself enthusiasts are spending about $60 million nually on tools for the home, reports a survey made by the Twentieth Century Fund. countries, while U. S. tonnage fell from 2.3 to 1.9 million tons.

Extent of the future U.S. market will not. become clear until the present crisis compounded of price manipulations, excessive buying from the U. S. and Germany, and depressed conditions in local industry is resolved.

Sources in nearby Luxembourg say Belgium's plan is to try and cut immediate purchase of U. S. coal to one million tons annually. Luxembourg imports annually around 275,000 tons of coal and will never be a serious market for U. S.

imports because of local financial tie-ups and high overland transportation cost. The country took 40.700 tons of U. S. coal in 1956 and only 14,300 tons in 1957. FRANCE Although call for imports of 1.1 million tons in 1959 all metallurgical bituminous--purchases will probably not exceed 880,000 tons.

France's bituminous delicit in 1958 some 8.3 million tons is expected to drop to 4.4 million tons in 1960 and then bounce back to 6.6 million tons by 1965. In the past three years, annual industrial expansion has been about ten per cent. Now it is levelling off and will probably five result, to six demand per cent for by coal 1956. As other a sources of industrial energy will taper off slightly. ITALY During the first eight months of 1958, Italy imported five million tons of U.

S. bituminous coal. By year's end, the magazine estimates. U. S.

deliveries will reach million tons or 63 per cent of total imports. Estimates for 1959 see the above percentage fairly constant. setting Italy's total market roughtly at 12.7 million tons, including 8.3 million tons of U. S. bituminous.

As long as the price of bituminous is right, and ocean freight rates are down, U. S. coal producers can count on Italy as a steady and generous client. RUSSIA LOOMS AS COMPETITOR However, not all is rosy, the magazine says. High stockpiles will reduce demand in most ECSC countries until mid-1959.

And pricecutting by Poland whose export volume is second only to that of the U. S. will reenain a problem. Also Russia now looms' 'as a formidable new competitor. Russia's coal exports exceeded imports last year for the first time.

Current exports are about onefourth those of the U. with two. thirds going to the Communist bloc. But 1957 exports jumped an impressive 54.6 per over the previous year. Of this, 7.4 million County Farmers Sign Conservation Pledges New Conservation Reserve tracts now being signed by farmers in Raleigh County will.

in general. become effective on April 15, 1959. according to Kelly Farmer. chairman of the Raleigh County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. All of the contracts require that the land included be devoted to grass, trees, or a water or wildlife conservation practice.

the conservation, practice land to is be perform- used ed before April 15. the contract becomes effective at the time the practice is completed. This means that 1958 crops on land put in the conservation serve this Call can be harvested before the contract goes into effect. In addition, the land put in the Bertha S. Jones Succumbs At 73 Mrs.

Bertha Stelia Jones. 73, of 211 Russell St. at 10:45 p.m. Wednesday in a local hospital. She had been seriously ill for the past week.

Mrs. Jones, born April 2. 1885. in Raleigh County. was the duughter of the late Samuel and Timanda Amn Radford Smith.

She a lifelong resident of Raleigh County and was a momber of the Memorial Baptist Churoh. Her husband, Charles E. Jones, died on 1956. Survivors include three sons. Alvarez of Clifftop.

Maynard of Darien, and Charles W. Beckley: four daughters, Mrs. Ivory Meadows of Lansing. Mrs. Manna Alley of Mabscott, Mrs.

Arbuta Pratt Jacksonville, N. and Miss Wilma Jones of Charleston: 19 grandchildren; and 1:1 greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Memorial Baptist Church. by the Rev.

Walker and the Rev. Otis Clyburn. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. The body will be taken from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home to the residence at 5 p.m. day and to the church one hour prior to the funeral hour.

Pallbearers will be Kenneth and Talmage Alley, Fred Bennett, Roy Fairchild, Guy F. Dooley Jr. and IT. R. Chambers.

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He also agrees to refrain from harvesting Christmas trees and ornamentals from conservation reserve land on which forest trees have been planted. City Man Is Fined On Road Violation Charles Lilly of 612 S. Kanawha St. was released from the Raleigh County Jail at 9:40 a. m.

Thursday after paying a $25 fine and costs to Magistrate J. E. Mays on a reckless driving charge. He was jailed at 5:10 p. m.

Wodnesday by State Police. David Lee Rice. 25, of Huntington executed a a $15 bond for his appearance in Beckley Police Court Monday to answer to a hazardous driving charge. He was arrested at 1:40 a. m.

Thursday by Beckley Police. A 16-year-old Beckley juvenile! was ordered to appear in Police Court Mondale after his arrest by Beckley at. 5:20 p. 111. Wednesday on a charge of hit and run.

Police said a car driven by the youth struck a parked car on Nov. 21 owned by Mrs. Alice Flick. The car was parked on Wickham Avenue at the time of the accident. Sandy Wade, 20.

of 726 F. St. was arrested 9:15 p. m. Wednesday by Beckley Police and charged with reckless driving.

He was ordered to appear Thursday in Police Court. Herbert O. Meador. 29, of Beaver executed a $5 bond Wednesday. for his in Police Court Monday.

arrested appearance, 8:30 p. m. Wednesday by Beckley! Police and charged with blocking traffic. Mental Patient Transferred A Tams Mountain resident was taken from the Raleigh County Jail Tuesday to Huntington by sheriff's deputies following a hearing before the Mental Hygiene Board. The man was jailed as 8 mental patient and created a twoday disturbance while being held in the jail.

MRS. CLAUDIA RABORN Funeral Is Today For Mrs. Raborn Funeral services for Mrs. Claudia Raborn, 67, of 306 Mankin Ave. will be conducted at 2:30 p.m.

today, in the Melton Mortuary Chapel by Dr. Alvin J. Cook, the Rev. T. M.

Waldron, Rev. Charles E. Walker, Roy Lee Harmon, and the Rev. Shirley Donnelly. Mrs.

Raborn died at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in a local hospital after! an extended ilness. Burial will be in the Hopewell Cemetery at Waynesburg. Pa. The body will remain Melton Mortuary until 7 a.m.

Saturday, when it will be taken to Pennsylvania for burial. Drinking Involved In Many Mishaps Col. Hazen H. superintendent of the West Virginia State Police. West Virginia's m0- torists alcohol has played a reminds, major part in West Virginia's and the nation's tragic highway death toll.

He pointed out that 30 per of all fatal accidents during 1957 involved drinking drivers and that 23 per cent of all adult pedestrians killed during 1957 had been drinking. The month of December is especially critical as a special study of last year's Christmas holiday revealed that 55 per cent of all fatal accidents involved drinking drivers. About 10 billion dollars worth of free road maps are given to people in the United States and Canada every year. went to Communist countries and 12.3 million to the West. 1 1 THREE OHIO JUVENILES WRECK STOLEN CAR Three Cleveland, Ohio, juveniles.

two boys and a girl, were lice with counts of grand charged Thursday, by State Polarceny after a stolen car in which were riding wrecked on Route at the Pluto Road. they, ustate Police, said Cleveland the youths' and abandoned it somewhere in Ohio. They then hitchhiked to ton where took another car. They abandoned the second car in Deepwater and took a third one, which they wrecked some time before noon Thursday. Sheriff Okey A.

Mills, who was rabbit hunting near the 'scene of the wreck, arrested the youths and called State Police, The youths were jailed at 12:05 p.m. Thursday. At 4:30 p.m. they, were taken from the jail by Montgomery Detachment of State Police. Damage to the wrecked vehicle was estimated at $150.

Ira Hannah, 61, Dies In Hospital Ira Franklin Hannah. 61, of Wickham died at 2:30 a.m. Thursday in a local hospital after an extended illness. Hannah. born Oct.

29. 1897. at Quinnimont, was a son of the late Charles and Elizabeth Hannah. He was married to Macie Pack, who survives, on Nov. 19, 1917.

He had lifelong resident of Raleigh County. He worked for the New River Co. al Sprague for 29 years prior to his retirement due to illness. He was a member of the United Mine Workers ol' America and the Mount Tabor Baptist Church. Survivors, in addition to his wid.

ow, include two sons. Arthur- of Beckley. and Marlie Franklin, at home; five daughters. Mrs. David Nary of Wickham, Mrs.

Virginia Ball and Mrs. Rosalee Orre, both of Lexington Park. Mrs. Daniel of Beckley, and Miss Emma Lou Hannah, at home; two brothers. Earl of Dehue, and Harrison of Hico; and 12 grandchildren.

The body is at Melton Mortuary. Funeral arrangements are incompletc..