Four Registrants To Be Examined For Induction
A corrected list of thirty four registrants eligible for December 19 physical exams at Beckley was released. registrants assemble 7:30 am at the First National Bank building, depart by bus to the examining board, and return to Bluefield if uninducted. A leader and assistant will escort all to the station, while induction call notices are no longer published as military information.
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Beckley
First National Bank
Bluefield
Phil Johnson
Donald Harvey Tabor
Hugh Rader Peery
Park Street
John Marshall Cabbell
Care
Bluefield State Teachers College
Kimball West Va
Buster William Brown
W. Va
James Luther Edwards
Peck Street
James Lomax Bundy
Davidson Street
Alonzo Martin Smith
Stovall Street
St. Clair Loney Penn
Ellis Street
James William Welch
S. Mercer Street
Albert Sidney Walk
Third Street
Theodore Williams Stalnaker
Rogers Street
Donald Richard Rolen
Stone April
Preston Street
John Bane Harless
Nemours
Williams Chariton
John Henry “Williams
Gen. Delivery
Joe Neale
Barger Stree
Karlae Wondeee
Rogers Stree
Howard Lee White
Nelson Street
Cyril Blake Basham
Ulysses James Saunders
Clarence Richard Gear
Highway Officers on Southern Tour
Highway officers ae badi and Eddie Steele with a secretary left Blue- Id yesterday on a tour over Route 21 to Jeatsonville. They will visit various groups as part of a promotional association and return Sunday from visits to motor ed 8. C., Columbia, 8 K., and Jack.
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Ae Badi
Eddie Steele
Great Lakes
Flor_ peaveya
Blue- Id
U 8
Jeatsonville
Piori
Bluefield Virginia News Boys Engage in Target Practice
A Bluefield reader reports a boy firing a .22 rifle at home on Montrose Street leading to a police warning that rifles used by boys in town will be met with severe action. Police Chief George Sarver notes similar reports from other town areas and mentions possible reform school consequences for firearm use.
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Montrose Street
Roy Elam
Elam
George Sarver
Sarver
Reform School
Special Meeting Called by Red Cross at Tazewell Court House
A special meeting of Red Cross workers is scheduled for Friday at 2:30 pm in Tazewell Court House. Gillespie is named chairman of the drive and volunteers from Lereo Virginia and nearby county sections are urged to attend.
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American Red Cross
Tazewell Court House
Gillespie
Lereo Va
Ted
Council To Study Gas Franchise In Peterstown
Peterstown West Virginia council will meet January 5 1942 to consider a franchise for natural or artificial gas. Union county attorney Col Ballard Welch and Peterstown native Monroe et al petition the council for the proposed franchise.
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Peterstown
W. Va
Col. H. Ballard
Welch
Bluefield Pastor Addresses Students
A Bluefield Virginia pastor spoke to students at the school inviting by the local Woman's Club. His address was timely and well received by the audience.
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Bluefield Pastor
Bluefield
Woman’s Club
School To Launch Junior R C Drive
Graham high school prepares for a Christ centered drive as students head toward dismissal. Faculty organize a junior RC initiative aiming to support community needs and student participation.
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R. C. Drive
Graham High School
Christ
Movie Star Joan Bennett Visits Union Sensation
Famed actress Joan Bennett drew crowds in Union as she window shopped on the main street. She traveled with an aide from a White Sulphur Springs hotel where she was staying, visiting the county seat of Monroe.
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Joan Bennett
Union
Hollywood Star
Monroe
Miss Bennett
White Sulphur Springs Hotel
Christmas wishes and wartime notes from Bluefield
In Bluefield Virginia readers share holiday sentiments from home front cheer to Pearl Harbor aftermath. The piece recalls school activities, a Pollyanna party, and the Ellen Graves Bible Class while noting local men serving in the war and Christmas far from home. It mentions a mild winter forecast and a local horse on the streets.
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Ellen Graves
Pretty Cactus Contest and Parsonage Plant Mystery
Mrs J T Hendrix of Tazewell Avenue displays a Christmas cactus with about fifty buds expected to bloom by Christmas. Readers are invited to submit descriptions of their Christmas cacti as in prior year. The First Methodist Parsonage window plant belongs to Mrs Shugart. The Woman's Society of Christian Service meets this afternoon at 2 30 in the church ladies parlor.
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J. D. Kitchen
Graham Christian Church
Virginia
Kitchen
Bluefield
J. T. Hendrix
Tazewell Avenue
First Methodist Parsonage
E. A. Shugart
Woman's Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church
Newly Elected Officers to be Installed
All members are requested to be present for the installation of the newly elected officers.
New Directory Work Nears End in Bluefield
E. M. Maroney of R L Polk and company reports Bluefield work on the 1941 city directory will finish by tomorrow after three months in Bluefield Princeton and Bluefield Va. The edition will contain more names than last year and be ready for delivery about February 15 1942.
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E. M. Maroney
R. L. Polk and Company
Bluefield
Maroney
Princeton
Judge Rose to Be Bar Speaker Here
Judge Herschel H. Rose of the West Virginia Supreme Court will address the Mercer County Bar Association banquet on December 19 at the Appalachian auditorium. He is regarded as one of the state’s outstanding speakers.
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Herschel H. Rose
Supreme Court of West Virginia
Mercer County Bar Association
Appalachian Auditorium
Judge Rose
Lunceford Wins Pilot's Wings in Historic Feat
Jazz star Jimmie Lunceford, Fisk University graduate and former English professor, becomes one of the first Black orchestra leaders to earn a Civil Aeronautics license. He earned hours in the air between top band duties and recordings with Vocalion Columbia and Decca. Lunceford joins Larry Clinton, Bobby Byrne, and Buddy Rogers as gold wing holders, and will perform at Hillbilly Barn for two nights, including a Dec 19 colored dance and a white dance the next evening.
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Jimmy Lunceford
Fisk University
Civil Aeronautics Commission
United States
Lunceford
Jimmie
Vocalion
Columbia
Decca
Larry Clinton
Bobby Byrne
Buddy Rogers
Directed Verdict Acquittal in Moonshine Conspiracy Trial
A federal judge in Charleston West Virginia granted a directed verdict of acquittal due to insufficient evidence for 8 D Peters of Ferrum Virginia in a conspiracy to operate an illicit moonshine ring transporting whiskey between Virginia and West Virginia. The ruling freed one defendant while overruing motions for ten others as the government rested its case.
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Charleston
W. Va
Virginia
West Virginia
Ben Moore
D. Peters
Ferrum
Sev
Shirts Stolen From Bluefield Home
Police said shirts were taken from a View Avenue residence belonging to P Watkins on Tuesday night. A bicycle reported stolen from Ramsey School Tuesday afternoon belonged to William Gates of 111 Bath Street.
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Ha View Avenue
P. Watkins
Ramsey School
William Gates
Bath Street
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