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...JAMES BECKLEY Chicago...
...house lifted some floorboards, discovered that termites had chomped into the wooden beams and joists, and now the building is tilting and the stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration and to ponder the imbalance of nature that produced overfed termites and underfed coal miners in his domain...
...breakdown on Bobby's loans: Beckley National Bank, Beckley, W. Va., $10,000; Suburban Trust Co., Hyattsville, Md., $10,100; First National Bank of South Carolina, Denmark, S.C., $13,238; McLachlen Banking Corp., Washington, $16,000; State Bank & Trust Co., Columbia, S.C., $25,000; National Bank of Washington, $28,000; Fidelity Investment Co., Washington, $40,600; the Small Business Administration, $54,400; District of Columbia National Bank, Washington, $135,000; American Security & Trust Co., Washington, $223,000; American National Bank, Silver Spring, Md., $262,000; First National Bank in Dallas, $471,000; Fidelity National Bank & Trust Co., Oklahoma City...
Ruth Paine landed Oswald his last job. From a neighbor she heard of an opening at the Texas Book Depository on Elm Street in Dallas. She called the warehouse and recommended Lee. That day, Oct. 14, Lee took an $8-a-week room in a boardinghouse on North Beckley Avenue. He gave his name as O. H. Lee. Next day he was hired at the warehouse. On Oct. 20 his second daughter, Rachel, was born...
...Oswald slipped out a rear entrance of the building, walked six blocks, returned to Elm and boarded a bus. The bus bogged down in traffic. Oswald got off, walked a few blocks, got into a cab, ordered the driver to drop him on the 500 block of North Beckley-five blocks beyond his room. He paid the 950 fare, gave the driver a nickel tip, hurried to his room, ran out again with a windbreaker...