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The Raleigh Register from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 14

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Beckley, West Virginia
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14
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4 Ik-gistei', Berkley, W. Thursday July 17, 1947 Cost of Parts in Rehabilitating Fire Truck Estimated at SI.000 Bcckley's decommissioned fire truck a 1925 LaFrance truck, can be rehabilitated, but- at a cost. $1,600 or more for parts alone in the opinion of Hugh Harding, Welch fire chief. City Council has been studying whether to purchase a ''build up" model, with new equipment placed on a new Ford chassis truck at a Abraham Woman Expires Al Home Mrs. Nancy Catherine Bennett, 30, was found lying on the floor of her Abraham home morning after suffering a fatal! heart attack.

A sister-in-law, Marie, Bennett, who had been slaying: with the ill woman, was reported i to have been preparing when Sam Adkins found his: daughter's body. i Mrs. Benneit is survived by her' husband, Howard Benneit. an em- ploye of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company; her parents. and the following brothers and sis- 1 ters: Mrs.

Virginia Plumley. Miss, Blanche Adkins, Clyde, Donald! and John Adkins. all of Jesse Adkins, of Prosperity, and' Kessler, Franklin, and Eugene Adkins, all of Slab Fork. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. cost of $5,000 or $6,000, or to rebuild the truck declared obsolete by the West Virginia Inspection Bureau.

Bernard Martin iaid Harding feels the rebuilt 1925 Imck would make a good piece of temporary equipment for pumping needs about $1,000 worth of other parts and possibly more. The estimates do not include labor, costs, Martin said. Charles K. Baker, salesman from Roanokc, has offered to build up a truck with a 500-gallon capacity pump in 30 days at an esli- service inside Becklcy. mated cost of $3,650 if the city will Rebuilding of the 600-gallon I furnish the new Ford truck chassis, pump, Harding told the The city is also considering pur- would require about eight months'chase of a large a 750- and cost approximately $650.

gallon pump which would require A preliminary examination of i from nine months to a year the truck yesterday indicates it'build. Delegates Named For Moose Meets By nnlitcr Stall Writer OAK HILL Members of the Oak Hill Loyal Order of Moose Lodge have named Oalher Jones and Koy Sexton delegates to the annual national convention in Co- lurnhus, Ohio, July 17-20. Named to represent the lodge at the Clarksburg convention September 25 to the 28 are William Tiotrowski, Cather Jones, and Earl Prather. AMMAR BROS. DEPARTMENT STORES Btckley Mullens Oak Hill FRIDAY SATURDAY SPECIAL! Ladies' 51 Cause NYLON HOSE Asbestos was used against fire as long ago as the fifth century B.

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49c Star Picnic Hams 49c Ib. Oleo- Margarine 39c Household Electric Fans $13.95 up Adjustable Window Screens $1,35 Presto Pressure 4 qt. Cookers $12.95 BLUE RIBBON MALT 1 LB. ZESTA CRACKERS 23c ZIGLER APPLE BUTTER 33c BISQUICK 49c BLEACH SOLUTION MAGIC 13c CERTO 25c ARMOURS CORN BEEF HASH 29c ARMOURS TREET GULF SPRAY All Brands Cigarettes per carton Large Selection Gas Heaters up No. 7 Pressure Canners 41ft 7G American Cheese LUCKY STRIKE presents THE MAN WHO KNOWS- JHE TOBACCO AUCTIONEER! "I'VE SOID well over 350 million pounds of tobacco at the auctions down South, and year after year, I've seen the makers of Lucky Strike buy quality light, fragrant tobacco that makes a grand smoke." J.

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Z3c Lemons ARMOURS TOMATO JUICE POST A I 1 9 CANADA DRY WATER -20c Asparagus Spears N. 2 39c STOKLEY'S Golden Bantam Corn 18c REALEMON JUICE 28c SAUER KRAUT 18c VAN CAMP No. 15c HOMINY VAN CAMP SPAGHETTI Nixed Vegetables 14c Ready- Fresh Ripe Tomatoes North Carolina Sweet Potatoes 3 ibs. 39c Florida Oranges 8 ib, 59c CARNATION Milk Tall Size 2 for 25c Granulated Sugar 5u, 48c Maxwell House Coffee Tin 48c 3 Ib. Can Spry-Crisco $1.19.

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