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WINDING GUIF COMPANY WINS SAFETY AWARDHolmes to Present MedalHonoring 16 Men Who Have 21 Safe Years EachThe Winding Gulf Colliery company will be awarded a certificate of honor by the Joseph A. HolmesSafety association Wednesday for a unique record in mine safety that covers nearly a 30-year period.Sixteen employes of the Winding Gulf company have a mining record cif an average of 21 years each without a lost-time accident.One employe. Charley Rawley. has worked in the company’s mines 29 years without a lost-timeaccident.N. P. Rhinehart, chief of thestate department of mines, will bea featured speaker on the special program Wednesday night, when a representative of the U. S. bureau of mines will present theHolmes award, which has been likened in mining to a congressional medal in other fields.C. M. Meadows, state mine inspector, of Beckley, will be chairman of the special program. T. L. Conway, safety director of theWinding Gulf company, will speak.Other speakers will be A. H. Clav-tor. president of the union local at Fpperley, F,. F,. Jones, general superintendent of the company, and L. V. Summers, superintendent.The miners who sl\are in the award and the number of years each has worked without a losttime record are: Charley Rawley, 29; Robert Moore, 25; Emanuel Amato sr., 26; Rrice M Foster, 26; Clarence P. Miller, 20; J. C White, 22; Lee Stone, ll; Louie Pashon. 23; Herschel Redden, 24;Ernest Palmer, 17; A L. Justice, 19: Lewis Turner, 21; Preston Webb, 2K Will Tillman. 24; Millard Staples, 14; Henry Simmons, 19.
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Beckley Sunday Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, May 21, 1939
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