Busiest Phone Streams Troop Arrival Inquiries Coast to Coast
San Francisco port officials expand a 24 hour relay service to answer calls about troop ships and arrivals. Relays to Pearl Harbor Manila and Tokyo locations handle anxious questions from families across the country.
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Influenza Hits West Virginia Schools Hard
Influenza cases disrupt schooling across West Virginia with widespread student and inmate illness. Taylor county reports about one third of students absent and around 600 cases. Philippi Belington and Marshall county schools suspend classes as 353 pupils stay home. Pairmont attendance declines as two physicians are hospitalized and another patient stays home.
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R. D. Stout
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Belington
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Pairmont
Henry D. Gausey
Cc. L. Kinney
Ene O. Wright
209 Forest Fires In State In November
West Virginia saw 209 forest fires in November affecting 9 435 acres of timberland, the conservation commission reported today Assistant state official Mullens said fire season is not yet over in 1944 period bounds.
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Local Firms Plan Moves as Old Building Is Razed
Huffman’s shoe shop will relocate from Federal Street into quarters now used by the Shrewsbury cab company on Scott Street. The cab office moves to a new building near the Gulf service station at Federal and Scott. The structure between Simon’s Confectionery and Pinnacle Restaurant is to be torn down for a two story brick building owned by Kenneth Jennings, now in Japan, under Plat Top National Bank trust control. The Pinnacle restaurant will occupy the new building once completed. the Hagar company space has been cleared. Construction follows the shoe shop move and demolition of the remainder.
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Coal theft alleged as lump haul-off blamed on suspect
Centralia police were alerted after a lump of coal disappeared from a home without waking its resident. Hall suspected the coal was shoveled into a truck and removed, marking the alleged theft as a coal day incident.
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Legion Post 122 Members Attend Hal G. Graham Funeral
All members of J. B. Burton Jr American Legion Post 122 are asked to meet at New Graham pharmacy at 1 45 today to attend Hal G. Graham funeral services as a group.
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J. B. Burton, Jr
Knittin's Not Over Suva Fiji War Aid Efforts
The Fiji Knitting and Sewing Circle continues after the war sending 380 arments to the Mayor of London for distribution to war victims. A second case is now half ready, showing ongoing relief work by local women.
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