Beckley Post-Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 6

SIX BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1973 Anti-Moore Petition Circulated A petition being circulated In the Toney Fork area now has about 150 signatures pledging not to support Governor Arch Moore Jr. in any future elections. Ac- cording to Ellis Bailey, one of the petition's chief supporters, the petition is being signed mostly by area Republicans. (Post-Herald Photo by Jamie Samsell) Weather (Late Forecast on Page 1) EXTENDED OUTLOOK The extended outlook for the period Friday through Sunday calls for occasional showers or thundershowers each day.

Lows will be in the 60s highs in the 80s. with daily AIRPORT CONDITIONS The National Weather Service station at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport reported that the highest temperature for the 24-hour period ending at 8 p.m. Tuesday was 76 degrees at 4:30 p.m. and the lowest was 64 degrees at 6:30 a.m. One year ago on that date, the high was 87 degrees and the low was 67 degrees.

The record high for that date was 87 degrees in 1972 and the low was 59 degrees in 1963. A trace of precipitation was recorded. Visibility ranged from five to seven miles. Maximum winds were from the southeast at 20 miles per hour at 11 a.m. At 8 p.m.

Tuesday, the wind was from the southeast at 12 miles per hour, the barometric pressure was 30.28 and steady and the temperature was 68 degrees. Today, the sun will rise at 6:22 a.m. and will set at 8:40 p.m. STREAM CONDITIONS Greenbrier River: Three- fourths foot above normal and clear. Lake Bluestone: Normal and clear, with two gates open.

New River gauge at Hinton: 2.1 feet. Toney Fork Resid ents Vow Never To Vote For Moore "We're not goin' to help Mr. Moore run for nothing even dogcatcher. Things are so bad on Raleigh County's Toney Fork that the traditionally Republican community is thinking about going to the other side. According to life-long Toney Fork resident Ellis Bailey, .69, the road situation and the fact that there have been two strip mine aggravated floods in the last three weeks has spurred a petition which is a general protest to Governor Arch Moore Jr.

and the Republican party. "We the citizens of Toney Fork make a vow to this administration and Moore to never vote for another Republican to be governor of this state," Bailey explained. "And we'll never vote for him for no other reason." Bailey said the petition has 150 signatures. "We'll have 300 by next week," he added. Residents are said to be attempting to start a similar petition "on the other side ol the mountain" in the Willis Branch area of Fayette County "We had a farm program sei up where low income families could get 500 pounds of fertilizer they just had to pay the cost of hauling it and it helped them live," Bailey said.

"That's the first program the governor cut off, but those rich people are still getting paid for not growing wheat." Another Toney Fork resident says that because of the road situation flash flooding causes frequent washouts, he says he is afraid that he won't be able to get to a hospital if he needs medical care. "I've been here 50 years and I've never seen nothing like this," said Earnest Graley, as MRS. VIRGINIA RUSHBROOK Mrs. Rushbrook Is Named Hospital Nursing Director The appointment of Mrs. Virginia Rushbrook as director of nurses at Beckley Hospital, has been announced.

Mrs. Rushbrook, a registered nurse, has been serving as acting director at the local hospital since August. She assumes her new duties immediately, according to i a administrator Albert M. Tieche. As director of nurses, the Sophia resident will supervise a nursing staff of 135 people.

Mrs. Rushbrook is a graduate of the Raleigh School of Nursing. She is the wife of Gather Rushbrook, an official with the West Virginia Department of Mines in Oak Hill. The couple has three sons -Robert, of Dayton, of Dale City, and Edward, of Norfolk, Va. Mrs.

Rushbrook has been a staff nurse, supervisor and assistant director of nursing at the hospital, where she has been working for the past ten years. A graduate of Mark Twain High School at Stotesbury, where she was salutatorian, she also passed her State Board Examination in 1941 with cum laude honors. Bloodmobile Location Changed The American Red Cross, Raleigh County Chapter, bloodmobile was scheduled to be located at the Perry Memorial Baptist Church at Shady Spring from 1 to 5 p.m. today, but Spring High School. The change in location was necessitated by rain which, flooded the church basement 1 Monday night.

The time will remain the! he described a flood that washed out the road Tuesday night; "It rained so hard it was like somebody dumped a number three wooden tub full of water on you then it was running all through here." Bailey said extensive road work is needed and added that stripping operations on the hills surrounding Toney Fork have increased the danger of sudden flooding. 661 View Drama Attendance at Tuesday night's performance of "Hatfields and McCoys" was 661, making the total attendance for the run of the play so far 13,651 persons. the Nicholas County Youth Foundation, led by Rush Butcher, was in the audience. States represented Tuesday were: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The lamprey eel, hatched in the mud of shallow streams, remains in the larva stage for up to seven years before migrating to the Great Lakes.

National Farm Safety Week Is In Progress Monday marked the opening I gain public awareness of one's of the 30th annual National Farm Safety Week. It will continue through July 31. National Farm Safety Week was initiated in 1944 to attack accident losses impairing wartime agricultural production. planned by the Shady Spring Chapter, Future Farmers of America, including placing of posters and issuing bulletins. The purpose of Farm Safety Week has always been two-fold according to Kim Guy, president of the FFA chapter at Shady Spring.

He noted it is to call attention to accident problems that drain human and economic in agricultural communitites and to suggest preventive measures which could reduce these losses. "Though a special week may particular mission, the results are satisfactory only if it fuels public action," the FFA leader said. The FFA chapter also pointed out that Farm Safety Week might heighten interest in safety for a while, but it won't change the accident figures much unless that safety interest is sustained over the year. Guy said, "Because falls are a leading cause of accidental death and injury to farm and ranch families, emphasis will be i a given to means for their prevention." Farm Safety Week is cosponsored by the National Safety Council and the U.S. Department oif Agriculture and also endorsed by leading farm organizations.

Problems Of Brown Lung Subject At Meeting Of Mountains Council The problems of a respiratory affecting textile similar to the coal miners "black lung," and strategies for combating it will be discussed at the Council of the Southern Mountains' 61st Annual Conference, July 27 -29. Over 500 people are expected to attend the conference at Emory and Henry College, near Abingdon, The Saturday night session will involve textile "brown Save Our Cumberland Moun- disease tains, of east Tennessee, Citizens for Social a Economic Justice, fro southwest Virginia, and the United Mine Workers America will lead the session. A second panel, callec "Providing Our Own Services" on Saturday afternoon, wil discuss efforts by loca organizations to provide neede workers, coal steelworkers and i other industrial workers in the mountains. BROWN LUNG, black lung, and other job hazards will be discussed and strategies made for eliminating their causes and gaining compensation for injured or afflicted workers. Members of the Black Lung Association from four states will talk about their current dispute with the Social Security Administration over black lung compensation as well as their plans for black lung clinics in central Appalachia.

The Safety" several during Workers' Health and workshop meetings is one of scheduled the conference which will link together people, community groups, and unions from West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and other mountain states. Hospital workers from around the Appalachian region will meet Friday night during the conference to discuss working conditions in both public and private hospitals. Sunday af- be concerning the unpopular policies and practices of the U.S. Forest Service in the region. The main sessions of the conference will be held Saturday and Sunday morning.

Saturday morning a panel discussion, entitled "We Take will focus on efforts by community groups to gain broader economic and political participation. Speakers from services in munities. their own Speakers com wil represent the Model Valley In dustrial Development Corpora tion, from east Tennessee, th West Virginia Welfare Right Organization, and, from eas Kentucky, the Mud Creek Health Project. The third main event of the weekend will be the counci membership meeting, which will include the election of new officers for the regional organization. James Somervill of Racine, W.

is the cur rent president of the council. Meetings, open to all con ference participants, will alsc ternoon a special meeting wil be held for commissions: several Poor council People: a an Self-Help, Resource and In formatioi Center, Youth, Black Resources, Research Economic Development, Welfare. The Council of the Southern Mountains is the only region wide grassroots organization poor and working people in Appalachia. It links people in loca communities and i across the mountains in strategic ways in order to help make the work of loca groups stronger. It was formec in 1913 and is now made up predominately of poor anc working people.

Emory and Henry College, a four-year Methodist college, is located near Abingdon, of Interstate 81. Food, lodging and child care will be provided at the college. A large display area is being prepared with mountain groups bringing ex be relocated at Shady'same. SPECIAL STORE HOURS ON WEDNESDAY JULY 25th AT MURPHY'S PLAZA STORE OPEN 9 A.M. TO 4 P.M.

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