More Men Being Called To Plants In Mason District
In Mason District Point Pleasant the outlook for employment brightens as Marletta Manufacturing Co calls back hundreds to the shipyard. West Virginia Ordnance Works brings back about 145 workers for three more months. Additional carpenters painters and paper hangers are in demand. Lt N B Caldwell notes 110 more men to be called for decontamination work and 35 for TNT removal from igloos and shipping. Capt E B McGowan to arrive to take over duties.
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Point Pleasant
Marletta Manufacturing Company
Aelready
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Langer
N. B. Caldwell
Ordnance Works
RFC
War Department
Caldwell
E. B. McGowan
DAR Is To Meet Friday Afternoon
Mrs. Robert H. Ferguson will lead the Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter meeting at The Mansion House Friday afternoon at 3 oclock. Rev. Monroe Bush Jr will speak as delegates and alternates to the fifty third Continental Congress are elected for Atlantic City in May 2024. Bead and fabric donations for children s dresses and quilts are requested to support the Indian Agency, chaired by Mrs. Olin Roush, with hostesses named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Robert H. Ferguson
Charles Lewis
D.A.R
Mansion House
Monroe Bush, Jr
Continental Congress
Atlantic City
Malborough-Blenheim
D.A R
Indian Agency
Olin Roush
C. ©. Parsons
Cary Howard Rayburn
John J Dower
Florence Howard
Dana Bradshaw
L. C. Somerville
John Clay Hutchinson
Garnette Tillis
Malleable Iron Co. Union Claims Unsettled Labor Talks
Joe La Monte, staff representative for the Sigel workers union, says no progress in talks with West Virginia Malleable Iron Co. The company declined to meet retroactive pay demands, totaling about $30,000 for vacations not taken and other items. The union seeks settlement of these claims before negotiating a new contract.
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Point Pleasant
Joe la Monte
Sigel Workers Union
West Virginia Malleable Iron Company
LaMonte
Red Cross Drive to Start March in Mason County
Bert Patterson has resigned as Mason County Red Cross chairman and a directors meeting will select a successor. The 1946 fund campaign begins March 7 with a Mason County quota around 88 000, subject to revision. A revival starts Sunday at the Church of Christ in Christian Union on Main Street with Rev Pop Keffer leading assisted by Rev KF Mont and family from Portsmouth Ohio featuring The Happy Four Quarter.
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Point Pleasant
UG. G
Bert” Patterson
Mason County
Red Cross
EB. Matheson
Matheson
Will Be Honored at Barquet for Dr McElfresh
Will be honored as guest of a barquet given by Minturn Lodge A F and AM Friday evening February 8 at 6 15 announced today. Dr McElfresh will be presented a fifty year pin denoting his fifty years membership in the lodge.
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Point Pleasant
Edeward McElfresh
Minturn Lodge
McElfreash
Circulation Office Requests Complaints by Phone
Readers may call the circulation office to file complaints about service and other matters. Contact the local circulation manager at extension 434, office 4, for assistance and inquiries.
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Circulation Office
Hartleys Buy Jones Stock in Growing Transportation Firm
Hartleys purchased the Jones interest in a Charleston based transportation company led by late Holly Hudson. Since August 1944, terminals opened in Charleston Huntington and Columbus, operating three trucks daily between Charleston and Columbus. Jones and associates Willia Tartin Sidney Brown and C. E. Butter held key roles. a successor to Jones had not been chosen.
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Point Hartley
Jones
Point Pleas
Baden
Citizens National
Hartleys
Holly Hudson
Transportation Company
Willia Tartin
Charleston
Mate
Sidney Brown
C. E. Butter
Circleville
Huntington
Columbus
Infan tile paralysis fund dance plans announced
Lambda Chimega Sornvity met at the Moose Club to organize an infantile paralysis benefit dance to be held at the Ratydid Wednesday evening from 10 to 1. Tickets are selling rapidly and a large attendance is expected. Formal initiation for pledges planned at the Moose Club on March 4. Co. L. Head added to pledges.
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Point Pleasant
Lambda Chimega
Moose Club
Ratydid
Monse Club
Co. L. Head
Glenn Sayre
Jean Rice
George Otis Fisher
Sidney Brown
Hansel Poling
Paul Parsons
Petite
George C. Harper
T Quillin
James J
Leon S. Thompson
Richard H. ‘Melrose
William F. Machir
J. Rice
Virginia Lewis
C. L. Mead
Grover Childress
Sayre
Veteran Merchant Blames OPA for Mess
Hart a Ripley Road counter merchant claims the OPA is responsible for widespread industrial disputes and a 1 percent increase he cites. He says the country cannot improve until people regain freedom.
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OPA
Point Pleasant
Hart
Ripley Road
Tie
Ralph Woyan Dies After Long Illness
Ralph Woyan, a native of Mason County who lived in Huntington while working for the postal service, died at his South Side home after a long illness. Rites will be held at Beale Chapel Church Apple Grove Friday at 2 p.m. Rev. G. Billups to officiate. burial in chapel cemetery. Surviving are his widow Sylvia and three sons Rex Don and Robert. Two sons Rex and Don served in the armed forces. Robert is a Turner Wich Schon Whitt student. In a separate note, Opal Whitt seeks custody in a 1935 marriage separation case against Turner Whitt. They have three children aged eight 13 and 1d years. Prepared Directory: Mason County new telephone directories expected by March 1.
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Point Pleasant
T. L. Morrison
Huntington
Pauline Ridenaur
Army Nurse Corps
Korea
Isabelle Wilson
University of Akron
Alys
Charleston Road
Daisy Clendenin
Bon Ton
Gill Ball
Baltimore
Shipware
Ralph
Sylvia Wovant
Don
Robert Wovan
Rex
Robert
Isaae
Turner Wich Schon
Mason County
Mason Sheriff Traces Wanted Man Alias Sowards
Mason County Sheriff reports two penal institution records for John Amos alias Opie Sowards wanted for forging a note for 8500 at Citizens National Bank using Mrs Maggie Watson's signature. Photos from Kentucky Reformatory and Michigan City Penitentiary show a younger man matching Sowards. prior sentences include two year terms in 1935 and ten year term in 1940 for forgery. A warrant seeks the woman believed to have forged Mrs Watson's name.
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Point Pleasant
Ernest Hesson
John Amos
Opie Sowards
Citizens National Bank
Maggie Watson
Seventh St
Kentucky Reformatory
la Grange
Sowards
Reformatory
Montgomery County
Michigan City
Ind
Jem Smith
Amos
Alian Sowards
Johnson Denies He Will Be Candidate
Johnson flatly rejects reports he plans to seek the Republican nomination for Congress opposing Hubert Ellis. He was surprised his name appeared in the rumor and said no decision had been made on any candidacy.
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Johnson
G.F. Johnson
Congress
Hubert Ellis
Crow Returns Home After Major Surgery in Carbondale
Mrs. Freda Crow was moved home Monday from Osteopathic Hospital in Marion by Stouts Ambulance after a major surgery two weeks earlier. Columbus residents visited as Mr Betty Barber and the Brown families spent the weekend with local residents.
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Carbondale
Freda Crow
Stout
Osteopathic Hospital
Marietta
Betty Barber
Columbus
George Barber
James Brown
Elston Mace
Herman Brown
Nolan Mace
Nels M
Nville
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Mason
TNT
DAR
Malleable Iron Co
Kathleen Ann Busse
Kathleen
Glenn Grubb
Monroy Ave
Patty
Elmer Grueser
Keith
Kay
Ralph Woyan
Carbondale Briefs
Lalas
Belarus
Ron
Miverex Todas
Ware
Athens Pharmacy
Ia Es
Cussins
Fearn
Jarzo
Rox
General Electric Lamps
N. Court St
Athens, Ohio
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