Beckley Post-Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 5

WEST VIRGINIA'S TEACHERS Will MEET NOV. 11,12 The West Virginia State Teacher's association, which will convene in Wheeling Nov. 11 and 12 for its 56th annual meeting, will have as the theme of the convention, "Education for Civic, Moral and Social Usefulness." E. Garrett Holland, president of the association, announced that the following educators would attend the meeting: Dr. Charles Wesley, president of Wilberforce state college; Miss Sarah Ann Brown, assistant professor of the division of home economics, West Virginia university, and Miss Cer- relle Warfield, of Beechurst high school, of Buckhannon.

One of the outstanding features of the program will be the junior town meeting of the air, with students of various races representing ieh different high schools of Wheeling. This year's meeting has aroused such large interest that a group of McDowell county teachers have chartered a special bus for Wheeling. Housing has been secured for all attending the convention. The.board of directors of the association will meet at 6:30 p. m.

on Nov. 10, prior to the regular convention. Also on hand will be several musical aggregations, including the West Virginia state college male choir, the Lincoln high school chorus, and the Lou Hastings recital featuring Miss Camelia Williams, a young soprano. Recruiter States Applications For Cadets Available Capt. James C.

Mathis, commanding officer of the Beckley recruiting station of the U. S. Army and Air Force, yesterday announced that the local station can now accept nen, who can qualify-, for enlistment as "Aviation Cadets." The qualifications are: 1. Be unmarried upon appli- BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6,1948 Elks Rehearse For Annual Minstrel FIVE LOCAL BRIEFS Principal Compares Money Spent On Luxuries, Schools BUILD1NG PERMITS Building permits were issued at i i i i i the office of the Beckiev city re-' 'M schools must have the moral and spiritual sup- jccrder to three persons" for con- port of the people of America as well as their financial istruction estimated at 57,000.

Ben support, in the opinion of C. G. Peregoy, principal of Ashworth obtained a permit for; OO (lrow Wilson High school, who spoke last night to the a three-room house on Glenn Beckley Rotary club. "There is little indication of a real willingness to pay for education," Mr. 1'eregoy said, "and as a result we havt starved our schools," pointing out that the American peo- pie spend approximately annually on lux- four-! lines, and only on education.

room frame house on Quarry Discussing the basis of public; streeet in the Mid-City school education, Mr. Peregoy valued at commented that the "Three R's" 'are paramount, followed closely ASSIGNED TO SHIP I by citizenship, health and morals, a three-room house on Glenn avenue in the Park Heights addition, valued at Sam Worley received a permit for a four- room block and frame garage street es- Mahone Photographed as they rehearsed for the Beckley Elks -Minstrel to be presented Monday and Tuesday nights next week, are, left to right front row, A. A. (Buck) Ross, Warren Williams, A. G.

Kinzer Hartley, Boucher Boyd, Emmet Pugh, C. R. Harnsbarger 'Frank Hudgins, Edwin Ratcliffe and W. H. McGinnis; second row, left to right, are G.

Yore, Guy Thornton, Ben Dorsey, Earl Christian Sam Raborn, Sidney Doherty, J. C. McGuire, E. R. Cantley and McCollam; third row, left to right, Warren Richards, Melvin George Springer, Lacy Wood, Ernest-Mitchell, George Hartrick Means, Aubrey Smith, Tommy Dickson and Kenneth Humphries.

Land Wall-Eyed Pike Amere Gas Employes Are Granted 7-Cent Pay Hike The management of the Amere -Gas Utilities company announced nri "1 i yesterday that an increase of 7c JuVCnilCS AfC single during the 52 week training period. 2. Be between 20 and 26 1-2 years old. 3. Have one-half, or more, of the credits necessary for a degree at an accredited college or must be able to pass an examination with the educational equivalent.

Capt. Mathis added that additional information can be ob- tianed at the local recruiting station at 114 Main street, Beckley, or call 5801 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. jper hour has been granted to its employes, effective Aug. 16, 1943.

This increase concludes recent wage negotiations with locals Nos. 372, 413, 573 and 581 of the Oil Workers International Union, CIO, under the wage reopening clause of the contract signed in September, 1947. In addition to employes of the Amere Gas Utilities company, the increase embraces the employes of the United Fuel Gas company, the Virginia Gas Transmission cor- the Atlantic Seaboard and remain corporation, the Central Kentucky LUTHER SNUFFER RITES TO BE HELD 1P.M. TODAY Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p. m.

tomorrow at the residence. 501 Neville street, for Luther Day Snuffer, 48, who died yesterday in the Raleigh County jail. He had been committed by city police on a charge of being drunk. The body was removed from the Keyser Funeral home to the residence at 6 p. m.

yesterday. Burial will follow in the Sut- phm cemetery at Crab Orchard. Born June 1. 1900, he was the son of the late J. W.

and Columbia Snuffer and lived in Raleigh county all his life. He is survived by his sister Mrs. Lova Snuffer, of Beckley, and one brother, Dow Beckley. Snuffer, also of Natural Gas company and the Virginian Gasoline and Oil company, which are a part of the Charleston and oil and gasoline groups of the Columbia Gas System. Tkee Prisoners Are Transferred Three prisoners left the county jail yesterday for the state penitentiary.

One will spend the rest of his life at the Moundsville prison. William B. Weidensall, who allegedly took part in several attempted jail-breakings, will serve a. life term for three felony offenses; Randolph Perdue, one to ten years- for grand larceny, and Ernest Worrell, will serve a five to 18 years term for the second degree murder of his brother and an additional one to five years unlawfully wounding. The prisoners, enroute to their new homes, were handcuffed and ound with restraining belts and carefully guarded by two state policemen and deputies.

UNNECESSARY NOISE Paul Prince, of Crab Orchard, forfeited bond of $15.52 on a charge of unnecessary noise. Police said the exhaust of his car i was the cause of his arrest. Held For Thieving Ten juveniles, all between 10 and 15 years of age, were arrested by the Beckley city police yesterday and turned over to the juvenile judge on shoplifting charges. The youths are from Mabscott and Crab Orchard. Sgt.

Ross Cottle, of the city police, who made the arrest, said that the youngsters are supposed to have stolen numerous small items from Murphy's on Main street and several other Beckley stores. They were caught, he said, when the police stationed a man in civilian clothes to patrol the store. They are also supposed to have taken candy bars from Virgil Miller's news stand on Main street. Their hearing is set for Dec. 4.

Sgt. Cottle added that five other boys are known to have stolen knives from Murphy's shelves yesterday. He said that they would be picked up next Monday. DAILY ACROSS Poisonous snake try; 11. Around 12.

Coronet 13. Place where metal is shaped Animal (C. America) 15. Old times (archaic) 16. Measure (Chin.) 17.

Unhappy 18. Science of moral duty 22. Prohibited 24. Large volume 28. Per.

to ares, 29. River (It) 30. Shades of a color 31-Take out (print.) 32. Furnished with a hood 34. Turkish title 37.

Earth as a goddess 35. Frozen water il.Anile- running horse 43. Musical drama 45. Similar 46. Dining car 47.

Chests for keeping valuables Fruits of DOWN coffeehouse 2. Coin (anc.Gr.) 21. Steps over a fence 22. Stripe 23. Part of "to be" 3.

Touched on 25. Compliant 4. Lap robe 26. Encoun. 5.

Devoured 6. Garret 7. Narrow inlet (geol.) S. Knocks 9. Melody 10.

Variety ot tered 27. Before 29. Spread grass to dry 31. Female deer 33. Monsters chalcedony 34.

Wine 16. Cover receptacles 19. RubbisX 35. Large 20. Goddess lizard of death 36- Arabic (Norse) letter DS13C3 HQE3Q' DO QBE flH tnaa ana aa sna BSQQ ana BBS as Aiuwer 39.

American Indian 40. Organs of hearing 42. Piece out 43. Strang-e 44. Covering of brain.

U-6 DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE--Here's how to work it: A A A is One letter simply stands for another. In this example A is used for the three L's. for the O's. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Sach 5ay the code letters are different.

A Cryptogram STIK QYL- CLIFFORD E. LILLY, WIFE SELL HOUSE TO COALSON Clifford E. Lilly and wife have sold tot 22, in the Truck Farms at Orchard, for approximately $5,500 to Floyd Coalson and wife, according to a deed recorded yesterday in the county clerk's office. Other transfers of property were: Avery C. Hodges and wife to Lacy E.

Meadows, lot 1, section 23. Beckley, approximately S2.500 consideration. Willa Mae Williams to Charles E. Foster and wife. lots 12 and 13, Mid- City addition.

Beckley, approximately consideration. J. H. Lilly Land company to Lila Brogan Walker and husband. Vessie V.

Walker, lots 60 and 129, Shady Grove Farms. Shady Spring district, S925 consideration. J. W. Maxwell and to Eliza Mahone, lot H3.

Mid-City addition. Beckley, approximately S500 consideration. Homeseekser Land and Building company to Grace Hewitt, lots NE 12. ME 12. Buena Vista.

Sunset Memorial park. $70 consideration. Freeley C. Tilley and wife have purchased for approximately S10.5QO lot 15. comprising five acres of land, in Trap Hill district from H.

A. Stansbury and wife, according to a deed recorded yesterday in the clerk's office. Other transfers of property were: William S. Dix, fireman apprentice, USN, son of Lester Dix especially in teaching young people how to get ready for married DAVIS FUNERAL (ARRANGEMENTS ARE COMPLETE of Victor, has been assigned the aircraft carrier USS "Teachers are getting scarcer, which recently returned from a the time," he said," especially! Caribbean sea after an intensi- teachers in industrial arts a a fied refresher training period of (other specialized fields, and our sox weeks. The Leyte is now at i i and equipment are to-1 Funeral rites will be conducted Quonset Point, R.

for a brief i a inadequate for the at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Glen stay before heading for the North children we have. The question i Rogers Community Church for Ira Atlantic for fleet exercises. Dix'is, can we afford to pay for Davis, 61, of Glen Rogers, entered naval service in kind of education we need?" 1948. NEW DEPUTY SHERIFF Mason Farley, of Besoco, will who died at 3 p.m.

Wednesday in In reviewing briefly the history Johns Hopkins hospital, at Balof public school education in the timore, following an exten- United States, Mr. Peregoy said Ided illness. that we have a more literate pop-! Burial will follow in the Sunset begin his duties as Raleigh county julation now than at any time in Memorial Park. deputy sheriff earlier than ex- (history. "In 1900.

only 15 per cent The body will be removed from pected. Assured of such a job oiu- children went to the eighth the Calfee funeral home to tht Jan. 1 when Sheriff-elect Okey grade, while now more than 90 residence at Glen Rogers at 9 a.m. )er cent reach that grade, and a i a Mills begins his term, Mr. Farley learned yesterday that Sheriff C.

i C. Lewis had appointed him to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Okey Meadows. Mr. Mea- dows, of Princewick, died in the Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, Oct. 25.

an earlier age," he said. Dr. M. Ralsten, who return- el recently from a vacation trip to Maxico City, told of a Rotary meeting with the Mexico City county Garnet Meadows and husband. Harold to M.

E. Dixon. lot in Slab Fork district, approximately S3.COO consideration. M. E.

Dixon, and wife to Oran Bolen and others, trustees of the Church of God. Josephine, tract land in Slab Fork district, approximately 53,000 consideration. Helen Comer to N. Meadows and wife, lots 143 and 144. Pinecrest addition.

Beckley. approximately L. L. Fleshman, superintendent of the Slab Fork coal company, and his son, L. Fleshman, landed this wall-eyed pike in Sandstone Falls in New river in 15 minutes with an oversize chub.

FIVE AREA MEN ENLIST IN ARMY AND AIR FORCE Captain James C. Mathis, commander of the Beckley U. S. Army and Air Force recruiting station, yesterday announced the enlistment of five Beckley area men: James E. Whitt, IT, of Mabscott and Albert J.

Hare, 17, of Fireco, both enlisted for three years in the regular army unassigned and -were sent to Ft. Knox, for further processing and assignment. Ralph Woosley, 21, of 117 Quarry street Beckley, enlisted for three years in the air force Unassigned and was sent to Langley Air Base, Va. Bobby C. Thompson, 18, of Crab Orchard, and Lowell Cooke, of Mullens signed for three years in the air force unassigned and! were sent to Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Tex.

Hopkins Waives Hearing On Felonious Assault Bill Hopkins, who was arrested by the Rhodell police Wednesday, Thursday waived preliminary hearing before Magistrate G. O. It's against the law in Raleigh 1 Mills on a charge of felonious as- county to let a cow run around jsault. He was released from the loose, as J. W.

(Bill) and Ethel Raleigh county court house sfter posting bond of $500. Hopkins is alleged tc have been in a fight in East Gulf during which he used a knife. Also before Magistrate Mills yesterday, Charles Lair posted bond on a drunken driving charge. He xva? arrested Wednesday night by the state police. 000 consideration.

Fanny May Brown and husband. William to Clydia Meadows, two tracts of land in Trap Hill district, approximately fltion. S2.500 consider- Lynch and wife to Cal Peltry and wife, lot 2S. Pine Woods addition. Blue Jay, approximately S500 consideration.

Neighbors Protest Vagrancy Of Bovine Tate discovered for the second time in Magistrate G. O. Mills' court Thursday. Neighbors complained that the couple allowed their animal to run around loose near their home, which is on the Glen Morgan-Sullivan road. On Oct.

6 a warrant against them not the cow -was sworn out. Magistrate Mills fined them S5 and costs for that. Thursday a second warrant with the same complaint was made. This time the fine was HURT IN WRECK r.mmett Heartlcy. of Lego, was brought to the Raleigh General hospital early yesterday morning Griffin Infant Dies; I L.

Yesterday's Cryptoqnote: WE ARE UKS THE MUSICIAN ON" TKS LAKE. WKOSF, JtELODY IS SWEETER THAN KS KNOWS--EMEKSON. Distributed by Ksf Twtoro toe. double the first SIO and costs, he sustained a head injury The Tates. unsatisfied with the; in a car accident between Lego verdict, have entered an appeal, and Mead.

Ke was a passenger in an auto driven by the Rev. T. W. i Hampton, of Lego, ivhich crashed i head-on into a car driven by Funeral Tomorrow Fuller, of Coal City. The infant daughter of "Mr, and! Mrs.

Payton Griffith, of Bolt, died at the residence yesterday at 4 p. Surviving, in addition to the parents, are six sisters. Mar-'; aret. Marie. Helen.

Dorothy. sie. and Phyllis, all at home: the paternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.

Elia? Griffith, arid the maternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. jrred Cols, all of Bolt. The body will be removed from the Williams Funeral home to the residence at 4 p.

rn. today. Funeral services will be at the res- jdence at 2 p. m- Sur.day and burial -wii! follow in the Allen cemetery at Bolt. The Porcelain Tower of Nan- king was built in that ancient capital of South China in the early part of the I5ih century.

It xsras an octsgor.ok-ei.sht-story tower. 26! feet high. The itior.ists destroyed it in 1853. i Whipple Seaman Cruises Mediterranean With Navy Charles C. Rogusky, seaman in the U.

S. Navy and son of. Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Rogusky, of Whippie, recently in the Mediterranean sea aboard the heavy cruiser, USS Columbus. England's mightiy fortress at Gibraltar and the little British settlement around it were the first of many show places on the European continent which have been visited during the cruise of the Columbus in European and English waters. Parties and dances were given by the British Gibraltar garrison for the men of the Columbus and tours through the heart of the innermost fortifications were arranged. Although launched before the end of the war.

the Columbus saw no action. During the post-war months she assisted the army of occupation in Japan as a part of the seventh fleet of the Pacific naval forces. ENLIST IN NAVY Three Raleigh county youths have been accepted for three year enlistments in the Navy, Chief Petty Officer T. R. Sherman, of the Naval recruiting station here, has announced.

They are Morris Green, of Layland, Irvin Cleveland Allen and George Edward Walker, both of Raleigh. CAR STOLEN A car robbery was reported to the Beckley city police late Wednesday night by Fred Bailey, 101 Reservoir road. He told the police that the window of his auto had been broken and a brown leather jacket stolen. The city police are investigating the robbery. Joe IS JAILED Price, Terry Negro, was lodged in the Raleigh county jail yesterday afternoon on a charge of petty larceny.

He is supposed to have stolen a window from a house belonging to the Maryland Fire Creek coal company, at Terry. RECKLESS DRIVING Sam Whitehead, Beckley Negro, was fined $25 and costs in police court last night on a charge of reckless driving. Oppie M. Jones, of Beckley, was tried on a charge of drunken driving, but no final verdict was given by Police Judge G. Berk Lynch.

Jones was arrested by city police on Nov. 1, and was released from jail after posting bond of $60. COMPLETES TRAINING Constable Howard Keatley, 104 Westwood drive, has completed the required hours of dual instruction in his private plane at the Beckley-Mt. Hope airport. SEEKS PILOT LICENSE Walter S.

Canterbury, 112 Pershing street, has enrolled at the Beckley-Mt. Hope airport flying school for a commercial pilot's license. FOOD HANDLERS CLASS TO BE STARTED MONDAY Beginning next Monday anc continuing through Wednesday, a food handlers class will be conducted for persons with temporary permits and for those with no permits. The sessions, to be held in the assembly room of the Raleigh Coca Cola Bottling works plant will begin at 10 a. m.

and 2 p. m. and each will be an hour and a half in length, J. E. Williams county sanitarian, said.

The class has been arranged for food handlers who did not attend the March sessions to qualify for a permit. Mr. Williams has notified managers of ail food establishments of the meeting. Born at Maple Meadow, Raleigh county, on January 21, 1887, ht was the son of Albert Davis, of Maple Meadow, and late Mrs. Laune E.

Cook Davis. He had been a resident of Glen Rogers for the past 25 years, and was a timber contractor associated with the Raleigh-Wyoming Mining company. Davis had been a patient for five weeks in the Baltimore hospital, where he underwent surgery for pancreatitis. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Grace E.

Davis, of Glen Rogers; two daughters, Mrs. Maxine Davis Cottrill and Miss Mary Frances Davis, both of Glen Rogers; three sisters, Mrs. Brada Trump, of Dunbar, Mrs. Parthena Biggs, of Beckley, and Mrs. Pearl Riffe, of Lester; his father Albert Davis, of Maple Meadow and granddaughter.

Active pallbearers will be L. T. Putnam, J. W. Marland, Frances Harrington, Waldo Tackett, G.

L. Campbell, Harper Shumate, R. D. Bailey and Walter Brooks. 25 SELECTIVE SERVICE PRE-INDUCTION EXAMS SCHEDULED FOR NOV.

9 The announcement of the names of 25 men who will report at 8 a. m. November 9 for pre-induction examinations under the selective service act, was made yesterday by Aubrey O. Smith, chief clerk of Raleigh County Draft Board No. 18.

They are John Mike Kosco, Oswald; John J. Eckenrode, Beckley; Eugene Leon Whited, Beckley; Ordie Arthur Shrewsbury, MacArthur; Hershey Car Pettry, Dry Creek; Clifford Taggart, Stanaford, Emillo Malina Rivero, Eunice; John Michael, Leevale: Norman Cole, Winding Gulf; Ralph Joseph Shuck, Beaver; Harry L. Sturgill, Slab Fork; Wayne Mc- Gulifen Heath, Beckley; Willard Harold Darby, Dry Creek; Floyd I McKinney; Lester, Lloyd Thomas, I fined $5 and costs on a charge of Walter Gilmore Fined For Assaulting Wife Walter Gilmore, of Beckley, wai Edwight, Howard Smith, Helen; William E. Lundstrum, Beckley; Milton Gilbert Aliff, Marfork; John Bennett, Pluto; Dewey Joseph Cox, East Beckley; Jennings L. Sweeney, Mt.

Hope; Lawrence E. Meadows, Helen; Gerald Trent Daniels. Edwight; and J. L. Hargis, Coal City; Twenty-five inductees were examined yesterday and 10 are being examined today.

assaulting his wife, Lodema, by Magistrate J. P. Meadows. In addition, he posted a $500 peace bond for a 12-month period on a warrant sworn out by his wife. Mrs.

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