War Assets Plan Shifts Custody of WV Ordnance Plant
West Virginia officials report meetings among the War Assets Administration, Army Ordnance Department, and U S Engineer Corps, leading to a plan to turn custody of the West Virginia Ordnance Works to the WAA by October 1. The fence will be relocated, boundaries reestablished, and about 2,590 acres marked for possible repossession by former owners as surveys precede land sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
E. B. McGowan
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Charleston
Richmond
War Assets Administration
Huntington
U. S. Engineer Corps
Army Ordnance Department
Frank Craig
Joliet Arsenal
WAA
Federal Land Bank of Baltimore
McGowan
Land Bank
Ordnance Department
Army Engineer Corps
Ordnance Works
School Bus Purchase Authorized at Board Meeting
The Board of Education authorized buying a school bus from Harry Walkup with superintendent and assistant to negotiate. Frank Carpenter Jr. to transport pupils from Lakin to Langston School at one dollar per trip. Resignations of teachers Miss Mandelsen Skene and Mrs Alice Somerville accepted. New attendance director Mabel Caldwell named with standard salary and travel allowance. Coal company purchases approved from Mason and Putnam county firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Board of Education
Harry Walkup
Steenbergen
Blessing
Walkup
Frank Carpenter
Lakin
Langston School
Garry Roachef Henderson
South Side
Mandelsen Skene
Alice Somerville
Mabel Caldwell
State Board of Finance
Point Pleasant Mission
Class Elects New Officers
The Friendship Sunday School Class of Heights United Brethren Church met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Long on Oak Street. Milton Lewis presided as class president. Howard Yeager and Harry Godfrey were elected as officers with Trene Gibbs as secretary. Hostesses were Hazel Long and Mr. and Mrs. Jon Lewis. Refreshments were served to numerous members and guests including L. O. Gaski, Charles Fortesong, Hale Blessing, the Rev F. H. Capehart, Ruby Lynch, Oma Smith, T. F. Yost, Clarice Knap, Carrie Ferrell, Oral Eads, Lev Long, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Friendship
Heights United Brethren Church
Marshall Long
Oak St
Milton Lewis
Howard Yeager
Dent
Harry Godfrey
Trene Gibbs
Shali Long
Jon Lewis
L. O. Gaski
Charles Fortesong
Hale Blessing
F. H. Capehart
Ruby Lynch
Oma Smih
T. F. Yost
Clarice Knapn
Carrie
TA. Ferrell
Oral Eads
Lev
Rs. Long
Mrs Pickens Is Hostess In Miscellaneous Shower
Mrs Pickens hosted a miscellaneous shower for her sister Mrs Clarence Vickers at the Pickens home 220 Park Drive Tuesday evening. Mrs Vickers recent bride received many gifts as flowers and decor filled the rooms with guests including Mesdames William Profitt Floyd Storer Wendell Smith Herman Stewart Fritz Frey Everett Lutton Dewey Sallaz Charles Fowler John Nibert Albert Sayers Jr Robert Vickers Carl Ruthford Emory Monroe Sr H Carder Eldridge Sayers Virgil Lutton Mae Sayre Inez Louise Monroe and Margaret Lutton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pickens
Clarence Vickers
Park Drive
Garage Construction Is Started by Dealer
John W. Oshel, local automobile dealer, began building a garage on Viand Street near the City Building. The property fronts 118 feet and extends 233 feet to Crooked Creek with a 60 foot rage. A drive in on both sides frames the showroom, parts room and office, a large rear workshop, wash rack and greasing pit. Darst plans to use Oshel property to build a home on Dead Man's Hill four miles east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
John W. Oshel
Castle of
Viand St
Crooked Creek
Rage
Darst
Ing Jer Fromar
Oshel
Dead Man's Hill
Pt Pleasant Socials and Travels Roundup
Miss Bet ty Purdum visits Huntington while friends and relatives in Pt Pleasant host and travel news flows through. Several locals and visitors make trips to Columbus Pittsburgh Akron and St Petersburg with hospital notes and a birth reported at Pack Theater Apartments.
City Clean-Up Is Requested by Health Department
The County Health Department appeals to owners to clean premises and sidewalks and to remove refuse via the sanitation department. Merchants should sweep and place trash in containers. residents urged to cut weeds on vacant lots and maintain sidewalks. The program promotes gar bage covering and burning and rat proofing of buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Moscow
Toe Injuries Suffered By Two Local Men
Point Pleasant reports two local men injured when their toes were harmed at work. Assessor F A Morrison suffered a great toe injury after a horse stepped on it while hitching a mowing machine at his Hick’s Chapel farm. Kiam Heslop sustained a more severe toe injury when a heavy metal piece dropped on his foot at the Point Pleasant Machine Works shop where he serves as superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
F. A. Morrison
Morrison
Hicks Chapel
Kiam Heslop
VFW Post To Elect Officers At Aug 28 Meeting
Point Pleasant veteran group VFW Post will hold elections at the meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening August 28. Officers will be chosen and terminal leave forms will be available for veterans of the postwar period.
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VFW Post
Point Pleasant
Cornstalk Fost
Power firm officials visit Pt. Pleasant for officer class
A party from Appalachian Electric Power Co led by district manager TY Preston and power engineer C B Talley visited Mason County plant superintendent J A Ferrel with sales chief C N Woodrum and home economists Mrs Mary Pugh and Mrs Anne Pettigrew. Pettigrew will work from the local office. the group included Preston Jr and his Belgian wife with their two month old child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pt. Pleasant Point Pleasant
Seatar TY
Preston
Sedion Preston, Jr
Eldor
Golden Rule Class Elects Officers at Pleasant Heights Church
The Golden Rule Sunday School class of Pleasant Heights United Brethren Church met for a potluck and business session. Wanda Waugh presided as president with officers elected including Bonnie Morrison, Hubert Forbus, Doris Waugh, Elizabeth Lynch, and Betty Koblentz. Present were Rev and Mrs Cain, Wanda Waugh, Bonnie Gaskins, Carolyn Bow, and others. A social hour followed. Law forbids eating sunflower seeds on streets or in businesses in Endicott Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaskins
Hubert For- Roush
Betty Lew
Point Ple
Bonnie Gaskins
Carolyn Bow Raleigh
Guy E. Cain
Wanda Waugh
Verdon Stutler
Betty Koblentz
Rachel Haynes
Cain
Carolyn Gaskins
Doris Waugh
AL Point Pieas
Charles Fowler
Jack Ambrose
James Ferrell
Hubert Forbus
H. Capehart
Carroll Cox
Poca
Enneth Roush
Duncan
Ves Morrison
Paul Bennett
Axtell Dudding
Byron
Carol Pickens
Pauletta Bennett
Brenda Pickens
Tommy Duncan
Barbara Duncan
Kenneth Ray Rous
Suiffier's Department Store to Open Friday
Robert Young, manager, said Suiffier's Department Store in the Lowe Hotel Building will open Friday at 9 a m. The room was leased last February and redecorated with shelving and counters now filled with merchandise. The delay in opening was due to assembling adequate stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Robert Young
Suiffier's Department
Lowe Hotel
Young
Man Arrested on Three Charges in New Haven
Emmett Elias of New Haven was arrested Monday night by Sheriff Ernest Hesson and Sgt. Paul F. Thomas on three charges. A non support warrant was issued on the complaint of his wife Mildred Elias. R V Gibbs charged Elias with intoxication and Imogene Walker filed a complaint charging assault and battery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett Elias
New Haven
Ernest Hesson
Paul F. Thomas
Mildred Elias
R. V. Gibbs
Elias
Imogene Walker
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Betty Purdum
Jaye McLaughlin
Knoxville
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Harry Machir
Madison Ave
William Wilson
J. N. Wison
Gallipolis Ferry
F. W. Ingraham
Patty
Columbus
C. G. Billups
R. F. Musgrave
John Charles
Raymond Gerald
F. G. Musgrave
Beaufort
N. C
Atlantic Beach
Herbert Childs
Ola Miller
Bess Gygax
E. H. Denham
Belle
George T. Stribling
Washington, DC
Washington Brick Co
H. D. Wartenburg
Parkersburg
Chester Plants
C. R. Maxwell
Lewis Karschnik
Chicago
John Aice
Upper Main St
Melvin Johnson
William Whitt
Leroy Miller
Franklin Wamsley
Sinling Dunlavy
William. Harris
Akron
Andrew O'Leary
Charles
Pat
Cincinnnati
John Dixon
Madison
Ind
Loyal Wright
Kana- Ft
MM C. F. Smith
Green Morrison
Sunram St. Petersburg
Fla
Smith
St. Petersburg
Vernon Millar
Pack Theater
Miljers
Moakie Roush
Blanche Armstrong
FL Il Roush
Ohlinger
Arch Martin
M Cc
Uspan
Helen Louise Long
Old Town Farm
Elaine Yost
Main St
Mae Whiting
Ripley
J. Steinmetz
S. C. Wilhelm
Ed Jones
E. Bartow Jones
Holzer Hospital
Harnld Sayre
Mains Street
Pittsburgh
L. R. Sterne
Ruth
Coal Fork
Ethel Steim
Mt.Vernon Ave
Glouster
Mutual
Motorola
Mutuals Men
Department For Values
Glouster, Ohio
Endicott, Wash
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