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Fragmentary newspaper notice from Bluefield West Virginia mentions printing, publication, and advertising rates. No coherent event or person details emerge to summarize into a factual card.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1946
Page
3
Fragmentary newspaper notice from Bluefield West Virginia mentions printing, publication, and advertising rates. No coherent event or person details emerge to summarize into a factual card.
The article analyzes the ongoing coal strike’s wide impact on unemployment, production, and government actions led by John L. Lewis. It discusses court actions, potential long legal battles, and calls for clear laws to define rights of owners and workers. It also urges public cooperation to ease Christmas travel congestion in Bluefield.
A local proposal suggests staggered work hours to ease peak hour bottlenecks in Bluefield. The plan requires cooperation from citizens, businesses, and vehicle operators to reduce congestion between 4:30 and 6 p.m. It notes similar patterns in Charleston and Huntington and warns of spillover effects from trucks and construction.
A wartime clarion calls on humane victory beyond the battlefield. It highlights six million Jewish deaths, survivors remaining, and urges support for the United Jewish Appeal drive begun November 10 seeking 100 million dollars with a Mercer county local quota of 25,000. The editorial appeals to the community for wholehearted support to fund relief, rehabilitation and resettlement efforts for Jewish victims.
The Wheeling Intelligencer comments on redistributing state revenue to localities. It compares Michigan’s voter approved plan to return one sixth of sales tax proceeds to cities and school districts with West Virginia's system where sales tax funds mostly fuel schools. The piece argues state revenue growth and rising municipal costs justify higher municipal shares and prioritizes such reform for the 1947 legislature.
Poem fragment describes distant gold light through green fir and pine, a single maple, a sudden glow like the fleece in a Colchian wood. The heroes stand in wonder at the unearthly brightness amid tangled trees.
Drew Pearson draws a parallel between today’s coal shortage debate and England’s 1926 general strike. He notes how the Baldwin government held firm, mobilized troops and volunteers, and later saw sweeping labor curbs passed, with widespread civilian support and minimal violence.
The piece contrasts a preacher's claim that one can eat for seventy four cents a day while gaining a pound and a half weekly with a casual wander into a local butcher shop. The narrator jokes about feasibility and truth, noting the unlikely diet prospect and a shop counter’s secret roast offer.
A narrator recalls a thrift store mishap as a beef roast is bought from a stranger. The wrapped package proves tiny after cooking, sparking embarrassment over the bargain and signaling a joke on family dinner expectations. Preacher appears in the memory and the scene ends with a blunt laugh.
Swann could have lived for more than six weeks on that diet. He spent a pennyless spree buying whole wheat flour and soybean meal, making breakfast cakes, lunch fried potatoes, and supper pea soup with peanut butter. He saved the rest for famine relief, noting a week on 51 cents five years ago.
John Lardner reveals a spoof all-America team for 1946 quipping at his staff briefings and Captain Clancy of the dredging vessel Til- Me I. Bohnsack. He names humorous picks such as Ends Diane Delroy and Frank Costello and Guards Happy Chandler and Gawain Hendeluass, with absurdities about Miss Delroy and Costello’s exploits amid a stagey, satirical tone.
Hoover disrupted the Statue of Liberty play and was nominated for President by Wal ter Winchell. Miss Goodding starred at center and Mrs. Rose starred backs. The team will be available for parties from Christmas on.
Sheilah Graham reports Dick Parrell and June Allyson seeking a larger home for a bigger family. Jack Carson and Kay refuse all dates except together, signaling a possible reconciliation. Charles Victor’s case against Harry Cohn lingers, with friends pressing Victor to drop it.
The piece sketches gossip of film folk touring New York and Los Angeles. Joan Crawford Milton Sterling Barbara Stanwyck Jack Benny Bob Burns Van Johnson Al Jolson and Katherine Hepburn are mentioned amid talks of deals and entertainment. Director Clarence Brown comments on younger performers at Metro.
A clipped column notes veteran film workers stay steady while younger stars grow temperamental. Monte Proser aims to reopen a Copacabana styled venue on the Troce dero site, seeking to reclaim the Copacabans name. Sonny Tufts buys three acres beside his property for horses as he promotes Swell Guy. Jeanette MacDonald and Nellen Eddy may not star in Rejon in Vienna due to excess music.
In France the Socialists lost 27 seats while the Communists gained 20, cutting Socialist strength to 93 seats in the new congress. The party's 17.9 percent share reflects government dissatisfaction and alleged slander, as Combat notes Communist influence grows. Debate spreads to Britain and the U.S. amid talk of De Gaulle and anti Communist realignment.
A compact retrospective column recalls past local movements and people. Winding lists mention Dr. W W Dickie returning from an east trip, Floyd J Brown leaving his firm to focus on magisterial duties, H Gadd serving as county superintendent, and Mrs J B Martin visiting relatives in Kentucky. Also noted are Nina Dodds visiting Blacksburg, C Cunningham traveling to Huntington, and twenty year items involving Dorothy Planagan Eugene Manage and others from Miami, with references to a Raymond and Harry Linkey visit and a trip by M Dix to Crockett Virginia due to her father’s illness.
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