Gas Rationing Then and Now A Rough Look
A New York based assessment recounts World War II gas rationing in the United States. It notes voluntary restrictions, widespread cheating, and the rise of a black market as East Coast demand clashed with Midwest supply, ending with broad acceptance of wartime fuel rules.
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Fdklor
Tom Tiede
Tom Tide
New York
NEA
United Effort
Atlanta
East
East Coast
South
American Automobile Assn
America
Telegraph Printing Co Honors Employes with long service pins
Fifty four employees of the Daily Telegraph Printing Co including WHIS AM FM Radio and WHIS TV were honored with service pins at a Bluefield luncheon. Pins marked 3 to 50 years. Hugh Shott received a 50 year pin as publisher. Others honored included Ned Shott 25 years and Ray Brooks and D C Young 20 years.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Company
Whis-Am
FM Radio
Whis-Tv
Frankie's la Salute Club
Bluewell
Hugh Shott
Ralph Hawkins
Ruby Brewer
Traffic Department
Whis Radio
Carl Dye
Daily Telegraph
Ned Shott
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Ray Brooks
D. C. Young
Young
WHIS
Brooks
Whis-Tyv
Telegraph
Princeton
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
James Terry
Keith Blevins
Preston Kirk
Shirley Smith
Betty Mulkey
Roosevelt Oliver
Fiduciary Notice to Creditors and Beneficiaries
Legal notice listing estates of B Hampton Bailey James Harold Martin Mary Frances Smith Thomas T Wiley Louise Winfrey Yost. Creditors and beneficiaries must file claims with verified amounts at the Bluefield West Virginia office before April 15, 1947 or be barred. Commissioner William T Hancee announces accounts examination and claims protection.
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B. Hampton Bailey
First National Bank of
Saeragne
Bluefield
West
Beret
Banelieiaree
William T. Hancee
Winter storm spreads snow and rain across eastern states
The Associated Press reports a developing winter storm bringing snow and rain to much of the eastern quarter of the nation and moving toward the northwest. Light snow fell from Tennessee and the Ohio Valley over the Appalachians while the mid and southeast Atlantic states saw light rain and Florida had thundershowers. Eastern states faced heavy snow warnings from West Virginia to Vermont, with scattered snow in Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota, southern Missouri, and northern Kansas. Winds off Lake Michigan produced heavy snow in extreme northeast Illinois and southeast Wisconsin, with depths of 20 to 30 inches near the lake shore.
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Associated Press
Nation
Tennessee
Ohio Valley
Appalachians
Atlantic
Florida
Illinois
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Missouri
Kansas
Lake Michigan
Ilinois
Skylab gyro trouble could cut mission short
Houston AP flight controllers warn a failing Skylab gyro may end the 64 day mission of Carr Pogue and Gibson. CMG One already failed and CMG Two shows distress risking reliance on thrusters, potentially cutting scientific work including Kohoutek observations.
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Space Station
Kohoutek
Lewis
Skylab
Orders Increase For New Ships In Energy Push
Cleveland AP The American Ship Building Co president said the firm has about 31 million dollars in new orders since December all tied to the energy crisis. The orders include 210 coal carrying hopper barges and two towboats to move coal on rivers and the Great Lakes, to be built by the Nashville Bridge Division and the Ashland City plant opening early summer.
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Cleveland, Ohio
American Ship Building Co
Jacob O. Kamm
Great Lakes
American Ship Building
Nashville, Tenn
Ashland City, Tenn
Abortion Deaths Drop In Britain
AP reports Britain's abortion death rate has halved since legalization five years ago. Back street abortionists prosecuted fell from 75 in 1968 to 34 last year. The Abortion Law Reform Assn notes legal access hurts illegal operators as under 16 abortions remain steady with 3,141 legal cases last year, about 2 percent of total.
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Britain
London
Abortion Law Reform Assn
On The House Paint Can Make a Basement a Room
Practical basement makeover guidance from Mr Fix covers sealing, moisture control, and inexpensive remodeling ideas. It suggests installing storm and screen windows, adding registers to ducts, and painting with alkali resistant latex or Portland cement paints to improve warmth and dryness while using floor paints durable for cement.
Hechler Criticizes Gasoline Rationing Plan
Rep Ken Hechler D West Virginia denounces the administration fuel policy as unfair and unworkable. He urges immediate rationing with fair prices and distribution, condemns proposed 15 day veto of rationing by Congress, and calls for Congress to mandate a fair rationing system rather than abdicate oversight.
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Washington
Ken Hechler
D-W.va
Congress
Federal Energy Administration
Cabell Man Held In Armed Robbery
Floyd Snow 51 of Huntington faces armed robbery charges in a case involving a Salvadore Dali painting and $1,500 taken from a Cross Lanes home. He was arrested Friday and set for a hearing before Magistrate Herb Pauley. Snow posted $75,000 bond and may see further arrests as state police continue the investigation. Roy Munday and his wife were bound and gagged during the Sept. 28 break in at Cross Lanes, Munday being a former Yellow Cab and Delux Taxi owner.
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Charleston
W. Va
Cabell County
Cross Lanes
Here
Floyd Snow
Huntington
Herb Pauley
Snow
Kanawha
Roy Munday
Munday
Yellow Cab
Delux
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New Jersey
Connecticut
Chester Bowles
Office of Price Administration
Bowles
OPA
Library of Congress
Rochester
N.Y
Indore
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
I'S Service
Joe
Telegraph Printing Co
Charles Mays
Faye W. Templeton
Roger Akers
Sue Richmond
Robert Moore
Harry All
Jack Honaker
Bluefield Daily
Michael Slater
Allison Marra
Barry Harper
C. W. Gentry
Tom Colley
James Johns
Ray Hayton
Charles R. Davis
Christopher Cundiff
Letterflex
William Lacy
James Neel
Kenneth Clay
William Lester
Allen Harmon
Marsha Brady
Janet Owens
Norma Morris
Bari Jean Ash
Lora Gay Carver
Deborah Dillman Ball
Marla Sharp
Src
Northeast
Pacific Northwest
Rockies
Minnesota
Maryland
West Virginia
Virginia
Delware
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Ea UL
Mr. Fix
Hechler
New Energy Administration
Cabell
Florsheim
Welch
W.va
Sam
Bluefield H& MI
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