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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
8
Homemaker Miss Mary Lee Taylor demonstrates Peanut Waldorf Salad on December 22 as part of the Pet Milky Way program. The broadcast promotes the Pet cookbook For A Family of 2 or 4 or 6 and the baby book Better Babies. The station airs Refreshment Time with Sir Sam Mondays at noon and today features several song selections.
A busy Bluefield radio day lists a 6:30 start with Lilly Lend Company airar and a long lineup of programs through 9:30, 11:45 luncheon, 1:45 Sunsets, and 4:45 Dorothy Hendricks. Featured acts include Rock Cliff Musical Moments, Rhythmical Revue, Afternoon Serenade, and a Christmas Carol presented by local banks and Princeton Bank Trust.
A scanned network radio timetable lists NBC WEAF CBS WABC and NBC WJZ programs with times and show titles such as Dick Tracy Jack Skillet to Be Announced Amos n Andy and Bing Crosby plus news periods and variety hours across coast and east west feeds.
In a fragmentary note a brief item hints at two titled entries or works to pursue. The readable words suggest a choice or comparison between two options. Names, dates, or places are not clearly legible in the available text.
Wade Hanford, member of a bandit group near Burlington North Carolina on December 7, is recovering at Welch Emergency where he is held for questioning. Fred Bailey of Koppers Coal Company identified him after recalling a newspaper account and related details. A deputy guard remains posted as Hanford recovers from gas exposure.
Twenty seven thousand McDowell county school children will go home today for a Christmas vacation that lasts until January 2. The board of education offices will close only Saturday and Monday of this week.
At Eastman School 8:30 concert opens followed by Whispering Voices Choir at 9:00 and America's Town Meeting at 9:30. The People I Have Known closes the lineup at 10:30.
Twenty eight divorces were approved Wednesday by Circuit Judge Thomas H. 8S Card after the divorce commission recommendation. Uncontested cases were heard. more hearings and contested cases were scheduled for today. Names include Goldie Me versus Jesse McKinley and Elizabeth Byrum Ratliff versus Loren Ratliff among others.
The county jail adds space for the fingerprint department and criminal identification bureau active since February 1937. More than 3,400 people were fingerprinted in two years, with records now exceeding 5,000 nationally. A new room for questioning suspects replaces the dining area, and provisions for juvenile housing or medical cases are planned alongside a special Christmas dinner for prisoners.
In the Keystone mine of Koppers Coal Co a freak accident fatally injures Durant Adams 23 a pumper from Kentucky He died after being struck by a handcar motor as workers attempted to derail the car to free it Robert Knox a fire boss was injured and Tom Gies also a fire boss escaped harm Prentice was uninjured Adams burial arrangements were reported local officials said the incident occurred early Monday morning
Last rites scheduled for Jennie Ann Hagyar age 14 at her Anawalt home at 2 30 today. She died Tuesday night in a local hospital from complications. Burial set at Leckie cemetery. She was born February.
A fragmentary obituary item mentions a student at Anaweait junior high school in Perthamboy New Jersey. It lists surviving family including parents and three brothers Frank Steve and Charles Haggar and a sister Mrs James Koczan.
Serious injuries sent several county residents to nearby hospitals including Tom White a 24 year old Caretta miner after a fall of state. He suffered two broken legs and is at Stevens Clinic with improving condition. Joe Cook an 18 year old from Baileysville is at Stevens Clinic with painful injuries after being thrown from a truck bed on Johnnycake mountain. His condition is somewhat improved. State police are investigating the accident. The truck was operated by Columbus Miller of Wyoming county.
Welch residents compete in the annual Christmas lighting contest with prizes from the Garden department of the McDowell Women's club and Appalachian Power. Judges are Mrs. Ann H. Wetherby Mrs. Duane Kuhn and Mrs. Lank Smith. Contestants should keep lights burning until midnight for the judges to visit each site. Cash awards include best business house, and first and second prizes for apartment buildings by Appalachian Power.
Contest evaluates entries on artistic effect, adherence to the Christmas spirit, and how well decorations use surrounding scenery. Prizes may go to the most creative and well integrated display.
Last rites were held for seven month old Helen Charles at Bartley cemetery this afternoon after a brief illness. She is described as the infant daughter of Ames Iles of Bartley. Also noted is the announced C I O holiday for all unions next Monday under contract terms.
The Martha Watson Lodge of the Rebekahs holds its regular meeting at 7 30 PM in the lodge hall above the theatre in Welch. A briefess session is also planned as part of the program.
Mr and Mrs Robert Grose announce the birth of a daughter Tuesday morning at Stevens Clinic. Both mother and child are reported doing well. The mother is the former Miss Fairfax Tabor.
Mr and Mrs C B Propst of Welch travel to Hickory North Carolina for a funeral. Miss Katherine Butler a Madison College student in Harrisonburg Virginia and Harry Butler a Berea College student in Kentucky visit Welch with their parents Mr and Mrs Harry L Butler during the holidays.
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