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Beckley Post-Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 7

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BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1970 SEVEN 39-Year-Old India Native With 55 Enrolled In Mine Foreman Course Shastry says his family loves i City and John L. Fairlie of 1 1 Stotesbury Among the 55 area men produced in the United States. enrolled course sponsored Dy the West Virginia England to study and has a I friendly." He said he enjoys' Charley Salmon of BecMey, University School of Mines, is S. in mining engineering i working in the mines at! Daniel K.

Ellis of Amigo, Ray- native of Banaras, India. jfrom Sheffield College in; Stotesbury very much and jmond Warren of Rhodell, Harry Yishwanatba Shastry came to England and a mine manager aspires to become a mineiSizemore of Lester, Carlos W. IA. United States fivp if the United States five months certificate. ago where he joined Eastern While studying in England, Associated Coal at Pitts-! Shastry also worked in the mining laws and practices here at Herndon mine; burgh, Pa.

where he worked mines. He said the mines there during his classes at Sophia WINDING GULF foreman. Shastry said he hopes Harvey of Glen Morgan. Ronnie to gain much knowledge of the I Wayne Bowman of Beckley, all for two months transferred to the plant as a member of mining engineering staff. and was practice longwall mining and in Stotesbury India and the United States the the mining is mostly by room and pillar method.

Thirty-nine years old, Shastry worked in the coal mines in India for 12 years, coal''university in Banaras High School. OTHER STUDENTS enrolled in the classes which are conducted from 7 to 9 p.m. daily Coal Co. employes Ronnie Allen Lilly of Tarns and Jack E. Stovall of Sophia, all at McAlpin; George R.

Bowman of Coal Shastry's father was as follows: jcity, Arthur Lee Dixon of East mathematics professor at With Eastern Associated Coal 1 Gulf, Hobert D. Utt of Prin- jCorp. T. D. Nunn of Bolt cewick, Ralph B.

Phillips, mining is not very economical! When Shastry came to Harris mine; Walter E. Cole Jr. of Coal City and James C. Vance of Rhodell, all with East Gulf mine; Harold Eugene Teaster of Sophia, Freddie R. Persinger of Crab Orchard, Sam Houck in my native country," he said, United States he brought with and Charles Sweeney, of Sophia, Shastry said the coal mines in i him his wife, Jaya, and three I Charles India were not as mechanized as here in the United States and India only produces 70 million tons of coal annually, children, Sanjay, 4 Roopa and Rekha, and Rhodell, twin Corinne, W.

McEinney Charlie R. EUis Roy Pritchard, Billo daughters, one and one-half JB. Williams, of Crab Orchard, years They live onWillard is only one-eighth of thatiWhitestick Street in Beekley. Stotesbury, Gene Cooper of Coal McNamara of of Sophia, James A. Kepler of 13 Other Orders Entered $100,000 Damage Suit Dismissed A $100,000 lawsuit based on dismissed.

Pugh claimed a 1968 automobile mishap has been dismissed and orders' havel'f-TM Pugh died from injuries she been entered in 13 other cases pending before the County Circuit Court. Raleigh a rgi and Virgil MlHer and I near Beckley. others against Ranger 1CV 11 was confirmed Corp. and Suits by Patrick A. Lovell, represented by J.

Zane Summerfield and Pat R. Hamilton of Fayette County, and coun- tersuits by Diana Lou and Lawrence P. Hall (Bonds), Sterling Miller, Mabel dismissed. Lovell initiated suits against the Halls for $100,000 to recover for damages resulting from an automobile accident on W. Va.

99 Sept. 5,1968. Other dismissals include the city of Beckley brought by R. E. in action and Lottie Settlement of the $45,000 suit Kelly Farruggia of Rhodell.

The motor company had asked a judgment of $4,000 arid Young 510,000 as the result of a March 9, 1968 accident on W. Mullens and Robert R. Atkins of Mullens, all at Otsego mine of Winding Gulf Coals; Slab Fork Coal Co. Eddie Lee Jones and Clinton O. Hart of Coal City, James Sanger Jr.

jof Beckley, Jimmie Ray I Crawford of Shady Spring, and i Thurman R. Mills of Sophia, employed at Slab Fork, Gaston and Tarns; Charles S. Wood of Coal City, Samuel G. Sizemore of Besoco, Raleigh Deeds Recorded Fred V. Barker and others to Milton E.

Warden and others, $16,800 for Lots 36 and 37 of the Polk Addition to Sophia. Boyd R. Crawford and others $3,250 for Lot 35 of The Cameron Estates. Howard Peters and others to Chris and Wilda A. Bane, $20,000 for Lot 14 of the Davft Forecast On Page 1) EXTENDED OUTLOOK Default judgments also were Ranger Fuel paid the 51,750 Virgil awarded B.

F. Goodrich Co. for L. Plummer of Day a 3 niels, and Ellis Coleman of Midway, with Amigo Coal Co. at Wyco: CLINTON M.

Moore of Glen in court. Margie Miller were joined Lyonelle L. Lilly by Jr. of MacArthur; Family Howard Miller, Virginia Miller (Finance Corp. for $903.49 plus Miller and J.

Byrd Miller Jr. as plaintiffs. The action arose from damage to the Miller property. A $30,000 claim for assault by Willis Vandall against David L. Lilly of Prosperity and Lilly's Leadingham for a total of dismissed.

Date of the incident $15,000 because of damage tojon which the suits were based their property by pollution in Little "Whiiestick Creek. City Council recently approved a $600 settlement Other defendants in. the suit are the North Beekley Public Service District and The New River Co. interest against Thurman L. Horton and Lola Frances Horton of Beckley, and Household Finance $456.09, against Jesse P.

Griffith, of Bradley. Commissioners in condemnation proceedings by the 0 Railway Co. to obtain pro- countersuit for $6,000 were perry at Ameagle are ordered to report May 29. The railway company seeks a settlement for was July 31, 1969, near Harper, property acquired for a spur Action by Charles H. Cephas jtrack involving ownership by Billy Joe Workman, Cledith A suit by Paul E.

Pugh as administrator of the estate of the late Mary Elizabeth Pugh claiming $10,000 "from Leonard Saddler of Glen White also was Ex-Raleigh Man Succumbs At 54 Elmer Hale, 54, of Waukegan, EL, formerly of Raleigh. County, died in a Waukegan hospital Friday following a long illness. Born Nov. 28, 1915 in Fayette he was an employe of Johnson Motor Co. in Zion.

and was an employe of the Slab Fork Coal Co. for 20 years. He was a member 038 the United Mine Workers of America. He is survived by his 1 wife, Mrs. Gladys Radford Hale of Waukegan; a stepson, Frank Mosier of Clarksburg; a stepdaughter, Mrs.

Macie Farley of Clearfield, a brother; eight sisters, and 10 "grandchildren. Funeral services will be at concerning the will of the late L. EL Sutherland, brought against Laura Nowlin Watkins of Beckley and other heirs, also was dismissed as settled. Settlement was reached in a $600 dispute over wages brought by Vera FeazeE against Averil Long as "the owner of the Triple Twist at Daniels and the action dismissed from the court docket. Action by Plantation Motors, against William D.

Carter Jr. and J. E. Withrow, doing business as Beckley Delivery Service, was dismissed. The court awarded Tilman Webb $1,667 in a suit against James E.

Lester based on an accident at Allen Junction Nov. 23. 1967, for which Webb had asked a judgment of $1,468. Cook Motor Co. was awarded a default judgment of $3,203 and Franklin D.

R. Young a judgment of $4,500 in a suit against Workman and Flossie T. Workman, trustees and lending agencies. Commissioners are Thomas Gray, Roy J. Lucas, Roy D.

Milliron, Gene Riffe and H. E. Melton. Morgan, Donald L. Toney of Mabscott, and Chalmer Abrams of Stickney with Consolidated Coal Corp." at Rowland mine; Larry W.

Murphy of Sophia, Consolidated Coal at. Itmann; Charles E. Mount Hope, Wooldrige of Ferrell Frank Rider of Lochgelly, Robert R. Marsh of Crab Orchard, with New River Edgar F. Nunn of Fairdale and Roy H.

Bradley Jr. of Coal City; with Sterling Smokeless at Whitby; Jimmie Lee Crew of Beckley, Mining Student Assisted Instructor for the mine foreman classes under way at Sophia High School is (left) Benny Ferguson, who assists a student, Vishwanath Shastry of Banaras, India, in assembling a mining lamp. Shastry, who is employed with Eastern Associated Coal came to the United States five months ago. to Jack L. Massie and Addition to Old Eccles Road, Beckley.

George and Wanda Mays to Howard and Eugene Peters, $20 I for properly in 'Trap Hill District Chris and Wilda Bane to Howard and Eugene Peters, $5,500 for property in Calloway Heights. Beulah L. and Lawson Reed to Charles E. and Patricia ior the tXfritxl c--ri fr-i- 1Q1 though Friday will be warm withj for a chance of showers west of the; Shady Grove Farms, bhaay Blue Ridge Mountains on Friday, Cnrinff "District The highs will be in the 80's. and i "5 the will be in the upper 50'sj Gene 1.

and 60-s. Blankenship to James H. Kaser $33,000 for three tracts of The Envirornenta! Science Service'land totaling 1-654 aCTCS IB Administration ESSA at Soring District. Raleigh County Airport reported the TM an rf Winifred L. highest temperature recorded riOa M.

3" a ing the 24-hour period ending at i Sayre tO Hanger ruCi 8 p.rn. Sunday was 57 degrees a acres JB Marsh ForM degrees at 7 a.m. The highest District, relative humidity was 100 per cent- at 5 a.m. and the was 51: per cent at 4 p.m. There .18 i i of an inch of precipitation.

imurrj -A-inds irom the north northwest at 23 mph with gusts up to 31 mph at 5:26 p.m. and'- the wind at p.m. was from the! north northwest at 6 mph. The! barometric pressure was 30.12 and! rising and the temperature at 8: p.m. was 4S degrees.

Visibility Corder Sitavich, varied from 20 miles to 1.5 miles. 0Air IS. i Trta 1 Today, the sun will rise at of Isorth Palm BeaCJQ, a.m. and win set at p.m. idled in a Weat Palm Beach STREAM CONDITIONS Greenbrier River: Normal and clear.

Lake Bluestone: Normal and clear with 2.8 gates open jEvelp StaMs Funeral Today Effective Aug. 15 MFHP Director Resigns Dr. Sherl J. Winter, project director for the Mountaineer fective immediately. Persons qualified for the hospital Friday following a long illness.

Bom May in Raleigh she was the daughter New "plver" gauge at Hintoa: 2.3 jof the late S. M. and Effia feet i Hancock Corder. She was a member of Roman Catholic in North Palm Beach and was a veteran of World War II, serving as a captain in the Air Force Nursing Corps. i She is survived by her hus- jband, Frank Sitavich of North IPalm Beach; a son, Peter, at jhome; four brothers, Clinton opened under the auspices of i Corder, of Houston, Texas, Family Healtii Plan, has 1 position may request applica- resigned from the position, 0 Efice of Dr fective Aug.

15. Dr. Winter who submitted a previous resignation to the Welfare Fund. While here he served with Crew Coal William organization in April of 1969, C. Hensley of Besoco with and Coal Tommy Ellis of Sophia, Semet-Solvay mine at Tralee; Michael Lee Sisk of Mullens with Kerren Coals; Vincent Edward Nicolau of Harper with Calvert Coal John F.

Hindson of Mt. Hope, unemployed; Rudolf J. Cimala with Beckley Coal Corp. but remained with MFHP, gave no reason for Ms resignation. Winter or McVey.

In other board action last night, the board unanimously approved the request of Raleigh County Community A i district presidents to use the According to MFHP Ad- facilities of district health cen- 1 1 mimstrator Jack McVey, the board accepted i resignation with regret and has authorized the MFHP Personnel Committee to receive applications for the position of Project director-medical director ef- 10 a.m. Williams Wednesday in Funeral Home Ona E. Stover Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Ona Elsie Stover, 86, of Coal City, died in a local atjhospital at 12:30 a.m. Sunday MacArthur with Rev.

Glen H. Sage officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday. after 6 p.m.

Headstart Program Registration Slated Registration for the 1970 fall session of the Raleigh County Community Action Association's Headstart Program will be held at the following Headstart centers: dear Monday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Terry Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; East Park Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.in.; East Beckley Wednesday from 12:45 p.m. to 3 p.m.; Lester Thursday from 0 a.m.

to 1 p.m.; Rhodell Thursday from 10 to 2 p.m.; Harper Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and Pineknob Friday from a.m. to 1 p.m. Parents and their children should report to the Headstart center in their district center at the designated time. after a long iUness.

She was born at Jonben, Sept. 14. 1883, a daughter of the late John and Sarah Gadd Cooper. She was a member of the Coal City Missionary Baptist Church and had been a lifetime resident of Raleigh County. Survivors include sisters, Dora Green and Mrs.

Hallie Canaday, both of and Mrs. Mae Cadle of Grassy Meadows: one" brother, Azel Cooper of Ghent; three stepdaughters, Mrs 1 Dorcas Thompson, Mrs. Lula Gunnoe and Mrs. Lockie Christian, all of Beckley; one stepson, Wilbert Stover of Prosperity; six grandchildren; 11 great- grandchildren, and four great- great-grandchildren. The body is at Calfee Funeral Home where friends may call after 4 p.m.

today. 24th Annual Beckley Art Show Ends Mrs. Michael (Joy) Gunter (left) and Mrs. a (Frances) Brown dismantle the entries in the 24th annual Beckley Art Group Exhibit as it came to a close Sunday. The 148 works entered in the Funeral services will be held at the Coal City Community Church at 2 p.m.

Tuesday with the Rev. Dewey Waddell and Rev. Clarence Kirby in charge. Burial will follow in the Thompson Cemetery at Coal City. The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to Registration Is June 6-13 For Summer Art Classes the service.

Pallbearers will be Johnny Long, Woodrow Hilton, Ronald Carpenter, Alvie Dodd, B. H. Decker, Roy Bowers. Wesley Cooper, and Jack Smith. Registration for summer art classes to meet at New River Park building will be held from 10 a.m.

until noon, June 6 through June 13 at the New River Park building. The classes, open to students in grades three through 12. will be held from 3:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

to 2:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays and during these same hours on Tuesdays and Thursday. The art classes will constitute an eight-week course with classes beginning June 15 and meeting two days each week for two hours. Classes will be divided into groups with 20 students in each class. The groups will be divided into those from the third grade through the fifth grade, the sixth grade through the eighth grade, and the ninth grade through the 12th grade.

All media of art (charcoal, pastels, temperas, etc.) win be offered, and some crafts also will be taught There will be a fee of $3 which will be used to purchase materials. Further information can be obtained by calling the Haleigh County Armory at 252-7361. competition were representative of 40 area artists. (Post-Berald Photo) ters for meetings, Head Start Programs and other activities as they see fit. The board stipulated that RCCAA district organizations must be responsible for main- -ainence and clean-up for such projects.

Isadore R. Wein, president ol the MFECP board said also that the organization's budget for the fiscal year 1970-1971 was being prepared and would be submitted to the Office- of Economic Opportunity Office in Washington as soon as it meets the approval of the board anc RCCAA president, Simeon Warren. Dr. Winter, who has been medical director of the Raleigh County Community A i Health Program since its in- the United Mine Workers William E- and Frank both years as chief of the out-patient service at Beckley Memorial and one year as staff president. He was a member of the hospital's executive committee under the UMW ownership and that of BARH until his resignation.

Winter lives with his wife and one daughter, Nina at 522 Woodlawn Ave. The Winters also.have a married son and a a i grandchildren. Dr. Winter is a member of the American Medical Association, Raleigh County and West Virginia Societies of the of Beckley, and Charles F. of five Tallahassee, and four Medical American Academy of Pediatrics and the West Virginia Pediatric Society.

He is a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church- sisters, Mrs. Eula Donley and Mrs. Reba Came, both of Beckley, Mrs. Lucy Scites, of St.

Albans, and Mrs. Elva Souk, of Arlington, Va. Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. M'onday in the Wflliami Funeral Home at MacArthur. Requiem mass will be sung at a.m.

Tuesday in the St. Francis de Sales in Beckley with the Rev. Thomas Kerrigan as celebrant Intombment wnl be in Sunset Memorial Park mausoleum. Friends may call at tha Williams Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Monday.

Pallbearers will be Richard R. Corder, Dale Donley, John Canic, Ben Williams, Danny Benfield, and Freddie Williams. ception in 1968, joined MFHP staff when the organizations merged December of 1969. A long-time resident the two 131 ma University. His appointment of Beckley, Winter is a graduate of Indiana University Medical School.

He served Ms pediatric residency at Babies and Children's Hospital Western Reserve i i in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to joining MFHP Winter worked as consultant for Wyoming General Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and as senior pediatrician in the Southern West Virginia Clinic quartered at the Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital. He served nine years as chief of pediatrics at BARS, coming Native Of Beckley Given WVU Post A Beckley native. Dr. William R.

McCutcheon has been named assistant professor of public health dentistry at West Virgi- was announced by Dr. James G. Harlow, president of WVU. Dr. McCutcheon, a former acting director of the Division of Dental Health in the State! years agoJ N.Y.C.

Woman Reports Great Results From i Uiis Pile Treatment Actually Helps StoM: Swollen Tissues Of Hemorrhoids Cause! By Infiammation. And Icfeetioiu New Tori; K.T* Mrs. "Wenzel of iST.YC. is qoick to recognize aa medication. She reports used Preparation.

"with great results. Only wish I had it Department of Health, was graduated from the WVTJ School of Dentistry. He received a master's degree in public health and a doctorate in public health administration from University As administrative science! consultant to the Detroit-Wayne County, Health Department last year, Dr. McCutcheon developed a data-processing and computer analysis system for to Beddey before the former health data and program Becfcley Memorial Hospital I evaluation. Doctors' tests Preparation actually helps shruik swollen, tissues of rhoids caused by inflammation and infection.

It also gives prompt, temporaryrelief In many cases from pain and burning itch in these tissues. Then swelling iJ gently reduced. There's no other formula hemorrhoids like doctor-tested Preparation H. It also lubricates the irritated area to help howel movements less parnfnu Ointment or Suppositories.) Requiem High Mass for Oscar Galeno Vecellio, 79, of 130 Jefferson will be sung at 10 a.m. today at St.

Francis de Sales Catholic Church with the Rev. Thomas Kerrigan as celebrant. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens at Prosperity. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital at 9:30 p.m. Friday following an apparent heart attack.

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