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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
6
Kiwanians plan to elect officers and convene a ladies dinner meeting with night arrangements set for January. The group will confirm roles and host details for the social event.
Funeral services for Miss Sally Pralick, who died Sunday, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Warren T. Carr will officiate, assisted by Dr. Edward Stubblefield. Burial will follow in Resthaven Memorial Park with pallbearers J W Munsey, J D Belcher, H D Tabor, Cc L Gore, H F P Hunter and W L Broyles. Survivors include Naomi Bailey, Doris Christian, Dolores Smith, Betty Jean Johnson, Betty Ann Pine, Margaret Ann Bailey, Mary Louise French, Magella Thompson, Jackie Jones, Midge, Celia Little, Joyce Tiller and Sylvia Martin.
The Bertha Parks circle will hold its Christmas party at the home of Mrs J H Hedrick on Straley avenue. The gathering replaces today’s meeting as part of the circle’s social events.
The Lois circle of the First Christian Church was scheduled to meet today but will gather next Monday instead as announced yesterday by Mrs Lula Gen Nad.
The Princeton era club will hold its annual Christmas party with the revelation of capsule sisters at 6 45 o clock.
The Woman's auxiliary of the fan church will meet at 2 30 p m with Circle 1 hosted by Mrs A R ft Se and 4 George Co M Walls in the Caldwell apartment on Highland avenue Circle 2 meeting has been postponed Circle 3 led by Mrs R E B Lee at the home of Mrs W H Goans on Wickam avenue Circle 4 led by Mrs H B Wells at the home of Mrs Harry Karnes on Highland avenue
The Baptist church circles 1 3 and 4 have postponed their scheduled meet. Local church officials said the gathering will be rescheduled for a later date and will announce details when available.
At the Mercer theatre Van Johnson leads Three Men in White with Lionel Barrymore Marilyn Maxwell and Ava Gardner in supporting roles. Dr Gillespie appears as Barrymore faces two medical cases. At the Royal theatre Spitfire presents Leslie Howard as R. J. Mitchell with Erik Freund David Niven and Rosamund John in key roles.
Louis P. Valentino former instrumental music instructor and band director at Princeton high school is accepted into the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia chapter at Teachers College, Columbia University, on December 2. The initiates and guests were feted at a banquet at Columbia's Men's Faculty Club. Valentino now supervises instrumental music in Englewood public schools, New Jersey.
Funeral for Mrs. G W Osborne postponed due to bad weather and rescheduled for 2 oclock this afternoon at Pearisburg home of her son Howard Osborne on Mercer street obituary notes her death Sunday at his home in Pearisburg Mercer Street site in the town of Osborne family ties remain.
T J Blair Jr announces the appointment of Nick Leshkow as superintendent of the local water plant effective December, succeeding the late E L Myer who led the plant for more than 30 years.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa B. Watson, who died Tuesday morning, will be held at the Dinguid Funeral Chapel in Lynchburg Virginia at 2 30 p.m. The Rev Harry Wells of Court Street Methodist Church will conduct the service. Interment follows at Spring Hill Cemetery in Lynchburg. The body will be taken to Bluefield this morning and sent to Lynchburg via the N and W.
Miss Lois Repass of Radford spent last weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs B Y Repass on Brand Avenue. J L Caldwell has improved at home on Reynolds Avenue after weeks of illness. O Mangus of Bluefield visited his son Carl Mangus on Fifth Street. Mr and Mrs Charles H Archer left for two weeks in Kansas City Kansas to visit daughter Mrs R L Lee and her three grandchildren. State Senator W Broughton Johnston went to Charleston for a two day veterans rehabilitation committee meeting. J Evans W D Shuff and H E DeJarnette attended a bus hearing in Charleston before the public service commission.
In a West Virginia blizzard, four travelers remained aboard the lost B and O train after being snowbound at Elkhurst for nearly 24 hours. Superintendent R C Morrison said all four of the Charleston origin passengers were aboard the new Today's train, expected to reach Grafton by 5 30 p m.
A five man crew rescued from a stalled passenger train near Rouzer, ten miles south of Elkhurst, after it drifted in heavy snow. Conductor Charles W. Cogar reports the Charleston to Grafton freight and local service halted by telegraph outages and snowbanks along the Elk River valley and B and O branch lines.
Chungking reports General Fang Hsien Chueh accuses Japanese troops of massacring thousands of Chinese prisoners after Hanoi's fall. He describes imprisonment in Hangyang Catholic church and a dramatic escape aided by guerrillas and escaped guards. Fang says he was flown to Chungking after reaching safety.
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