Mason's Total Snow Exceeds Twenty Inches in Mason County
Snow totals rise to 20.3 inches in Mason County with 5.4 inches added on Tuesday. Freezing temperatures persist since January 22 as Point Pleasant uses limited city equipment to keep streets passable. Ice blocks the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, slowing traffic with vessels tied at shorelines.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Charles Sperow
West Virginia Experimental Sta
D. R. Morgan
Ohio
Kanawha
Firefighter Overcome In Four Hour Pleasnt Blaze
A Point Pleasant fireman was treated for smoke inhalation at Pleasant Valley Hospital after a four hour blaze at 2198 North Main Street. Fireman Chester Monroe survived with non serious injuries. Fire units arrived at 1 45 p m to the Bond residence. Cause undetermined and most contents removed. structure owned by Charles Cottrill.
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Point Pleasant
Pleasant Valley Hospital
Chester Monroe
Wally Bond
Main St
Charles Cottrill
Stockholders Cancel Meeting Over Motel Financing
Bad weather forced the West Virginia Industries Development Corp to cancel a meeting of principal stockholders. The board planned to discuss improving the Pleasant Point Resort motel's finances, with the corporation behind on a 967 500 federal loan and seeking new long term financing.
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Point Pleasant
West Virginia Industries Development Corp
Pleasant Point Resort
Here
AEP Plans 2.4 Million Kilowatt Increase in Appalachia
AEP plans to add 2.4 million kilowatts in the Appalachian region, spending about 300 million dollars to raise total capacity to 12.5 million kilowatts by 1971. The expansion includes three 800,000 kilowatt coal fired units, with boilers delivering about 5.3 million pounds of steam per hour and major equipment contracts totaling 85 million dollars.
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Point Pleasant
American Electrical Power System
Appalachian
Donald C. Cook
American Electric Power
CofC Dinner Reservation Set With Yeager Speaker
Point Pleasant Chamber of Commerce announces its annual membership banquet on February 3 at 6 30 p m at the Pleasant Point Resort. Col Charles Yeager the first supersonic pilot will be guest speaker. Tickets are 4 each. Music by Freddie Gaul organ and Dr Dan Glassman with Jan Leighty Wandering Troubadors. State and local officials will attend. Women want value when buying shoes says local merchant.
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Point Pleasant
Mason Schools Stay Closed Until Monday
Milton Burdette, superintendent of Mason County Schools, announces all county schools stay closed until Monday due to weather. The Ohio River Bus Co. also cancels scheduled runs into the Point Pleasant area because of the snow.
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Point Pleasant
Milton Burdette
Mason County
Ohio River Bus Co
Postponement of Trinity Methodist Sunday Mission School
Mrs John Blankenship chair man of the commission on missions announces the Sunday night school of missions at Trinity Methodist Church has been postponed until further notice. Marriage licenses issued for Harold Ray Meadows and Shirley Ann Haggy in Mason and David Johnthon Graham with Connie Jo Cheesebrew in Gallipolis and Point Pleasant. A shopper reports no collar buttons found during a downtown shopping trip and jokes about checking furniture departments and under bureaus.
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Point Pleasant
John Blankenship
Commission On Missions
Trinity Methodist Church
Harold Ray Meadows
Mason
Shirley Ann Haggy
Pomeroy
David Johnthon Graham
Gallipolis
Connie Jo Cheesebrew
Pleasant Valley Hospital Births and Admits
Pleasant Valley Hospital notes list a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Higley of Bidwell. Admitted: Mrs. Robert McDaniel of Point Pleasant, Robert Layne Bidwell, Mrs. David F. Forshee of Gallipolis Ferry, Mrs. Martha Sours of Point Pleasant, Dwayne Clatworthy of Point Pleasant, Lana Pearson of Gallipolis Ferry, Mrs. Fred Willet of Point Pleasant.
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Kenneth Higley
Bidwell
Robert McDaniel
Point Pleasant
Robert Layne Bidwell
David F. Forshee
Gallipolis Ferry
Martha Sours
Dwayne Clatworthy
Lana Pearson
Fred Willet
Stepp Promoted to Central Office Duties in Clarksburg
Stepp, C and P Telephone foreman, is transferred to the Clarksburg central office. He will take on service supervisor duties for the Clarksburg district. Police raided a Montreal lottery center seizing six million sweepstakes tickets valued at seventeen million dollars.
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Point Pleasant
Jim Stepp
C and P
Clarksburg
Robert G. Butcher
Stepp
Montreal
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Lance Call
James H. Call
Park
Lance
Ordnance Grade School
Morris Bragg
Holzer Hospital
CABLE
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G. E
T.M
G.E. Co
Hoffman's
Hoffman
Public Square
U.S
Marble Mountain
da Nang
Dodigar
Betty Rose
Women’s Flats & Boots
Pepperell
Natural Bridge
Jacqueline
Connies
AEP
Cook
Wolfe
Chestnut St
Aytinal, Jr
Sebring
Jewelry
W. Washington Street
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