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The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 14

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The Roanoke Timesi
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Roanoke, Virginia
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Bank Io Start Copsu le Mother and Baby Care Course THE ROANOKE TIMES Sunday Jan 1957 2 ederal Trad Work on Branch To Be Given by Red Cross on Television To Be Auctioned irst National 104 Acre Plot 'J 5 Puts Cost at $60000 Declared Surplus window for future ex the THE HOME NEW Adverthment Services Manager THE SHALL YOU has CARR GUY COLLINGS NI 11 of the JOHN SUU JI THE INEST IN HEATING Monday at vi son Ki no 80000 AUCTION half mile In Pearisburg Va Name lima beans mixed vegetable salad yr7one: Kt Montgomery four with cheese cube spoonbread andille bewm Hihsville and ancy miles trom pilot t0 bridge over butter chocolate cupcake milk iSmith Creek Address City INDOOR COMORT 4 4 hours each covering all of pre natal and infant 'eye table soup with crackers tuna sandwich chopped lettuce with dressing chocolate cupcake superln Virginia and this visiting sex eral VA and A classes will begin Jan 14 at 1 pm at the Elks Club This class is open only to graduate nurses and will be taught by Miss Waples Heavy Duty Heat Tubes 2 Ycorj ree Service Completely Automatic PHONE 4 5600 The first quarterly communion service of the year will be ob served this morning at the 11! a service of the Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church Three new ruling elders Cecil lora A Harvey Jr and Coing Advanced Pressure Gun Burner (ILL Aporoved) Cost Iron Inspection Door GET RAIL POST Woodrow Osborne (above) native of Elk Creek and former resident of Galax has been named su perintendent of motive power for the Virginian Railway at Princeton Va He is the son of Mr and Mrs Bays Osborne of 2244 Maiden Lane SW Presbyterians Will Observe Communion held nt Services of the Quid said surveys show one of the fastest growing sections of Roanoke is to the north west particularly st of 21th street and that the manage ment of the bank has recog nized for some time Hie need for banking facilities in this area Ceiomi Combustion the Council agenda Is reeommenrlation of the Planning Commission to (he property on the to the Sheets parking area will be for the bank and upon The ranklin Road a 1 2001 Lynn Ave SW will break ground for a new edifice at 23rd street and Colonial avenue SW today at 11:15 am the pastor the Rev Kathryn Gorman an nounced yesterday The church is non denorninational Speakers will Include Mrs Wal ter Michael who with her late husband was Instrumental in founding the congregation It be gan as a Sunday school some 30 years ago Other speakers at the cere monies this morning Include the paster and William Lotz The deacons also will take part They are A Adair Brown Hollie Sink lem ing and Kingrey The new edifice is expected to cost between $40000 and $50000 Members of the church will do part of the actual construction I Brown will superintend con i struction ranklin Road Chapel Breaks Ground Today Winmlite Roanoke Va Please send free infor mation on the sensational LEE 80 The course Will consist of 10 daily sessions of three hours each Some openings remain for in structors in the courses and nurses interested in becoming in structors are urged to contact the Red Cross Chapter office Mrs Hubert Wright executive di rector of the chapter said She pionted out that graduate nurses are eligible for the course al though they may be registered in a state other than Virginia There is no need for current registra tion Mother and Baby Care classes for prospective and fathers as well will begin early in ebruary on dales to be an nounced later Mrs Wright said The course will include six lessons of two phases care 2436 ovy Duty Grill 15 Odd ellows To Receive Pins or Long Service CRUSADE OR REEDOM MLN'S BLAKE who is friends in Roanoke for days returned on furlough in October She first went to Japan in 1952 to do educational work After two years of language study in Kobe where she worked chief ly in Bible classes with women and children she went to Nogoya to teach tn Kinjo College which has more than 3000 students A native of Baltimore Miss Blake holds degrees from the Maryland Institute of Art and from the Training School in Richmond She plans to return to the mission field late tills year Barbours Creek post office Kt 460 Montgomery on? tenth of a mile in Christiansburg Rt 643 Bedford bridge over north fork of Otter River irst Presbyterian To Hear Miss Blake Miss Mary Elizabeth Blake missionary to Japan will speak to several groups at irst Presby terian Church today and Tues day Miss work In Japan is supported by the church She will talk to the primary department of the Sunday school at and to the men of the McClanahan Bible class at 10 The combined youth groups will hear Miss Blake after supper at 5:30 Miss Blake will address Women of the Church at 1 pm Tuesday She will also speak at 8:15 that night to evening circles organization A 104 acre tract of land just north of the VA Hospital will be auctioned Wednesday at 11 am The government sur plus will not include about 19 acres that has been dis posed of previously The Anny Reserve Armory is being con structed on one part and the other was given to the Roanoke County School Board as a site for an elementary school CARR ENTERED upon his du ties as assistant engineering of ficer at the VA Hospital on Wednesday of this week He oc cupies the position formerly held by Alvin Keplcy who was re cently transferred to the post of chief engineering officer at the Dublin Ga VA Hospital Carr and his wife formerly Irene Weaver of Roanoke live 1704 Greenwood Rd SW Melrose will be made for an additional drive in pansion Ample provided completion of the shopping center the customers will share the 1700 car parking lot at the enter THE RED CROSS mother and baby care course for many years successful throughout the nation and which the former Grace Kelly attended during her recent visit to this country is designed for parents both mothers and fathers It will pro vide both theoretical and prac tical help' Princess im pressions of the course are given in a picture story tn Hie current issue of magazine The TV scries will include pro gram subjects ranging from "What the mother should know' before the baby comes" through of the building louge for use of A special feature will be an after vestibule The entrance the main open to clock ft THE AUCTION will be hold at the main entrance Hospital with Sons in charge The sale is being request of the General Administration owner land William McBee GSA tendent for southwest said the GSA reserves the right to reject any or all offers for the property The land once used for farm ing will not be sold for Indus trial or any other use that might disturb the hospital McBee said In an advertisement the parcel was described as having easily available water sewer and elec tric facilities and McBee said the land is very suitable for a pos sible residential section sewing Tuesday Jan 15 7:30 pm Advanced sewing Jan 21 7 pm Speech Monday Jan 14 7:30 I pm I Three club groups will hold meetings this month the RI Club a 7 pm Club a club at the Second Cup of Coffee Club a group for housewives at 9:30 am Jan 9 "Growth and development In first Miss Mary Waples Red Cross area nursing field representative who will con duct a course for instructors in Hie mother and baby cate classeswill appear on the Ann Howard program Jan 17 to preview 'the series adopted by the employes of WSLS Radio and TV as they moved info their apartment at the Lansdowne housing project yesterday (Times Photo) lOt Acres or Ise Maj Gen Leslie Carter of Salem has retired from the Army 1 after 39 years service A graduate of Roanoke College Gen Carter began his military career by enlisting July 1917 at Richmond He was commissioned eight months later and was pro moted to his present position maj gen In 1953 Registration for hobby classes for both men and women at the YWCA will be held Jan through 12 The schedule of class openings: bridge Thursday Jan 17 1:30 and 7:30 pm Advanced Wednesday Jan 16 7:30 pm Wednesday Jan 16 7:30 in Copper tooling Wednesday Jan 16 7:30 pm All Red Cross courses are conducted by registered nurses who have also earned a Red Cross Home Nursing Certificate in Mother and Baby Care classes A lass for instructors in the Mother and Baby Care Road construction and projects now under way In the Salem dis trict Virginia Highway Dept follow Rt Bridge and approaches over Pigg River south of Penhook i ranklin County line Rt Carroll slx RL ive miles miles east from Galax to bridge from Intersection of Rt 643 to Boones MUI Rt 606 Craig miles GUARANTEED HEAT Collings Smith and Rudd Are Promoted by Allstate I OK SALE GOVERNMENT SURPLUS PROPERTY I 1 i CARR GRADUATED with a de gree In engineering at VPI in 1942 After his graduation Carr was research and test engineer for the Worthington Pump Ma chinery Co of Harrison NJ Eight years ago he returned to Roanoke as an employe of the motive power department of the Norfolk Western Railway where he served in supervisory positions He Is a member past vice president of the Civitan Club of Roanoke and has boon active the church life of the communi ty having served as general church school superintendent and member of the official board of the Raleigh Court Methodist Church He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers TELEVISION programs will carry the highlights of the course but necessarily will be condensed from the regular two hour class to a half hour "cap sule" for television presentation The regtilar classes are open to tiie public and interested pros pective parents may register by calling the Red Cross chapter office All nurse instructors for both the TV sessions and the regular classes will be Red Cross volun teer workers Mrs Wright said COLLINGS a native of Wash ington DC joined the Roanoke office In May 1954 as a man agement trainee and was ap pointed operating division man ager in November of that year He is a graduate of the Univer sity of Maryland where he was president of the phi ix lta 'Theta fraternity During World War If he served in the Aleutian Islands as a captain in the US Army He is now a member of Hie Roa noke Chapter of the National Office Management Assn He will be moving to St Petersburg with his wife Mary and their four children this month Smith a native of Philadel phia joined Phila delphia office as an underwriter In October 1950 He was trans ferred to Roanoke in October 1951 and in July 1953 he was promoted to accounting division manager He is a graduate of Si Joseph's College In Philadel phia During World War If heserved with the US Navy In the Pacific Theater lie is treasurer of the Knights of Columbus a member of the National Office Management Assn and state di rector of Hie Roanoke Junior Chamber of Commerce Rudd a native of Winchester joined Hie Roanoke office May 1955 as a management trainee and was appointed accounting di vision supervisor in December 1955 He graduated with honors from StraycrCoHege Washing ton DC He has been awarded his CPA certificate and is a mem ber of Phi Theta Pi an Interna tional honorary commerce tra teinitv Rt one half Steele elected Dec will mile between Boonesboro and serve for the first time Coleman alls i Dr Robefson pastor will Rts 681 610 loyd ive speak on Kingdom of God miles from east of Pizarro toils Within 41I I Construction Under Way On Highways in This Area This Week's School Menus Rt ranklin Rt two tenths of three miles between Scruegs and a mile in the town of loyd Redwood Kt Patrick County six Rt Giles County one imiles from Patricks Springs east ITe said at the present time several thousand customers of the irst National Exchange Bank live in this area and that he Is convinced that one of the answers to obtaining and hold ing the banking business of in dividuals and small businesses is a system of strategically located branch offices tf'o your iocal postauwJec Published as a public service in co operatmn wj4i The Advertising Council and thu Newspaper Advertising Executives A mor i attorn Thue executive promotions were announced yesterday by Robert Coller resident man ager of the Allstate Insurance Roanoke regional office Neil Collings has been named service manager of All state's regional office in St Petersburg la John Smith former accounting manager has been appointed operating division manager of the Roanoke branch and Vernon Rudd has been appointed accounting division manager to replace Smith SAETY facilities will include a modern vault of reinforced concrete constructed with steel door and time lock and ample safe deposit boxes A private booth will be provided lor safe deposit customers In the rear there will bo a the bank staff of the building hour's banking vestibule a part of the can be shut off from building anil will be customers around the will contain a writing desk fully equipped with all forms neces sary for normal banking trans actions An envelope drop and a night depository vault will also he installed to enable the customers to conduct much of their normal banking business even though the bank might be closed business girls' group at Jan 7 the After ive young employed 7:30 pm Jan 7 and GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Region 3 Reol Property Disposol Division 7th Streets Woshington 25 Telephone: REpublie 7 7500 Extension 2504 is the time to replace that old 11O1T aulty Heating Unit Guy Carr Named to VA Engineer Post or 4 6975 Hobby Class Registration Being Conducted by YWCA with the proven LEE 80 Automatic J1 Guy Carr a native of Roa noke has been appointed as sistant engineering officer at the VA Hospital Dr "Bounds hospital manage announced yesterday HUNGARIAN AMILY IN Horace itzpatrick (right) tries to explain the contents of the refrigerator to Mr and Mrs Hasch the Hungarian refugee couple No more smoke stained walls and ceilings No more repair bill headaches when you install the TROUBLE REE LEE 80 Automatic Maj Gen Leslie Carter Of Salem Retiring from Army Winsulite Dist Inc 1013 Campbell Roanoke ATER SERVING as acting commander of the US Second Army at ort Meade Md Car ter was named deputy chief of staff for administration of the ar East and United Nations commands in 1953 Among the' 19 medals Gen Carter has received are the Izegion of Merit for his work In rounding up a dangerous enemy group In Panama following Pearl Harbor the Bronze Star with one Oak Iieaf Cluster the Izegion of Honor (rance) and the rench Croix de Guerre with Palm GEN CARTER ha two broth ers and one sister living in the area They are the Rev IL Carter of Salem and Car ter and Mrs Whitescarver of Roanoke Retirement plans: Gen Carter has bought a home at Midlothian in Chesterfield county ana named Is "Bivouac" WSLS Employes urnish Apartment or Hungarians erenc and Maria Hasch two of the 25 Hungarian refugees who came to Roanoke last week ueip installed in their new home yesterday The by em ployes of WSLS radio and tele vision stations were the fourth and final family among the group to settle down Both erenc 31 and Maria 42 "choked up" when they en tered the apartment gotten for them at the Lansdowne housing development They found It fully and bounti fully equipped In addition to the normal furnishings all gifts from their sponsors they saw a television set and radio linens and shelves full of food and pro visions The tears flowed when Marla spotted a vase of fresh cut roses in the bedroom of the apartment erenc a brickmaker later pointed out with a twinkle in his eye that "no duke in Hungary has a more palatial bathroom than this" ifteen members of Roanoke Lodge No 90 TOO will receive pins for 50 years or more mem bership at a meeting at the Odd Temple tomorrow night at 7:30 The pins will be presented by Benton Dillard grand master of the TOO in Virginia Members receiving the ptnsi will he A Johnson 62 years Payne 61 years: II Sanders 60 years: A Nelson 59 veins: Phillip Rice 56 years: Phelps 55 years: i Jones 54 years: George Davis Carmack ErL Turman and 8 Raiks 53 years: Wat Ison and Butterworth 52 years: Carter and Overstreet 50 years New lodge officers also wilt be installed at the meeting by Roy arris district deputy grand! master BTU 9 Uses Less Expensive No 2 Oil No Basement Necessary IT PAYS OR ITSEL THRU UEL SAVINGS uA ADI NG Sse Our Advertisement On Page A 5 Charles Via Jr Inc SUN PROTECTION or SOUTHWtST VA Bn 202 Salem Ve Diol 118 6881 4 (Oonli'iued from Page avenue and provisions CASH OR TERMS Sale Wednesday Jan 9 1957 11 AM EST At Main Entrance to Veterans Hospital LOCATION PROPERTY: Opposite Veterans Administration Hospital Roanole Solem State Route 742 or Phone for Brochine and Particulars GSA 2 1 1 Campbell Ave Reid Cutshall Bldn Roanoke Tel 3 1581 Sheets Sons Auctioneers 32 Kirk Tel 5 8885 Menus for Roanoke school cafe terias for the week: (High school pupils 111 have a choice of either of the plate lunches listed for each day Ele mentary pupils will be served the first plate lunch listed each day) Barbecued beef on bun rice mixed vegetable salad1 spice cake milk cream of tomato i soup with crackers barbecued beef on bun mixed vegetable salad spice cake milk TUESDAY Roast pork and gravy buttered potatoes toma toes plain muffin with butter fruit cup milk chicken rice soup with crackers sliced pork sand wich tomatoes fruit cup milk WEDNESDAY Cream of to mato 'soup with crackers frank furter on roll plain cabbage slaw apple pie and cheese milk frank furter on roll plain cabbage slaw brown beans apple pie and I'Hor ca mill' THURSDAY Macaroni and over Crooked Creek I' I 1)ft tA rv lr 1 5 1 DnO peanut butter sandwich purpleimile at Big Chestnut Cieek intersection of Rt 61 to Rarhnure Hrnat rvrvct Affine plums milk: beei nce soup andimiics south of Rock Mount crackers peanut butter sandwich: Rt e6 Henrv county bridge carrot celery sticks purple plums 'and approaches over Smith River Uli at jondee KIDATi Salmon croquettes' iT Carm i A rv nne i i jh 1 lHU St John VtH 32 Deep inside satellite Europe where the heel of Communism grinds hardest truth from Radio ree Europe keeps adive the spirit of freedom just as truth always has in times of trouble Behind the Iron Curtain the need for and the Com fear of has never been greater Help Radio ree Europe keep the truth pouring through Red censorship barriers with Truth Dollars to: ROANOKE VIRGINIA Land to be sold at Six Wcek Project to Present Highlights Of Complete Program Booked in ebruary A capsule mother and baby care course the first of Its kind to be given in the Roanoke area will begin on Jan 21 under the auspices of the Roanoke County Chapter of the American Red Cross on the Ann Howard program from 1 to 1:30 over WDBJ TV The slx wnek capsule course to be conducted weekly on Mondays will Rive highlights of the complete course scheduled by the Red Cross lor early ebruary State i I Salem and May Settle eud At Monday Meet The controversy over pro posed changes In the spring issue of the telephone directory may be settled at a meeting of Salem Town Council Monday night A representative of the Ches apeake and Telephone Co is expected to offer a com promise proposal to the town stemming from a meeting of town officials and f'JtP repre sentatives last month Details of the compromise have not jet been revealed plans to Integrate Salem and Roanoke numbers into one alphabetical listing Tim numbers ore now separate Salem wants to maintain status On also a Sa lem rezone nort Invest corner of Alain and Academy streets from special residence to business use A letter from the League of Virginia Municipalities will be presented to Council calling for a public hearing on proposed legislation to make town charters uniform And Council will receive copies of two resolutions passed by Roanoke City Council in regard to sewer charges on some property west of Salem Roanoke Man Injured In Wythe Accident Thtiev Hurrau WYTHEVILLE Jan 5 A tractor trailer truck overturned two miles west of here fids morn ing Injuring its driver and caus ing property damage estimated at moro than $9000 Wyndoiu Thomas Groves 48 pf Roanoke received a broken knee He was transferred to a Roanoke hospital after receiving treatment at a hospital here Trooper Elliott said Groves lost control of the ve hicle when he attempted to ad just a wmdsldeld wilier about 5:20 am The truck overturned in a ditch near the Reed Creek bridge on Rt 11 Elliott said the trailer was almost total loss Damage to the freight cargo had not been estimated and for any size home DUCT SYSTEM HEATING with the famous LEE 80 Automatic safety features and in dividual room controls NO MONEY DOWN Install Sotv irst Payment In March' Call now for a REE Heating Survey No Obligation i CVRIEK L' 4 4 1 it d' 4' a 1 4 fr 1 'i 1 WsSsssl! wUuH? 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