New Home Building In 1950 Led City Construction Near Two Million
Bluefield records show 1950 building permits totalled 1 999 296 with 134 new residences valued at 1 120 955 and 52 permits for business and utility projects at 683 115. Alterations and repairs reached 393 permits. November 1950 featured a 415 000 state project for Bluefield State College.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
W. VA
City Board of Directors
Forty-Nine
Bluefield State College
Woodlawn Manor
Mullens County Draft Board Final Induction List
Twenty five registrants of Mullens County Selective Service No. 21 in Wyoming County are ordered to report January 10 1951 at 9 a.m. for final induction at Mullens board offices. Two delinquents Clarence Calvin Mills and James Henry Steel named to report. Names include Heaton Covel Acord Glen Fork Bailey Mullens Blankenship Cardwell Parlear Cook Glen Rogers Dews Covel Farley Pineville Finney Mullens George Ravencliff Graham Herndon Harless Han voer Harless Tams Baileyville Hill Lusk Cyclone Pettit Oceana Smith Lee Wheeler Mullens and others listed.
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Wyoming County Selective Service
Mullens
W. Va
Clarence Calvin Mills
Herndon
James Henry Steel
Glen Robers
James Howard Heaton
Covel
Robert Harold Acord
Glen Fork
Walter Nash Bailey, Jr
Marcen Coston Blankenship
Rober Glenn Cardwell
Par
Bluefield Supply Co Schedules Joint Meeting With Manufacturers
Bluefield Supply Co and four subsidiaries plan a January 8 9 meeting at White Sulphur Springs Greenbriar hotel with 146 sales staff and about 75 manufacturers. The event doubles as annual sales meetings for Bluefield Supply Rish Equipment Dixie Appliance Clark Stores and Counts Automotive Supply.
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Bluefield Supply Company
Greenbriar
White Sulphur Springs
Bluefield
White Sulphur
Bluefield Supply
Rish Equipment
Dixie Appliance
Clark
Lon M. Rish
Rish
Fortune Tellers Demand Stricter Licensing In Milan
In Milan a spokesman for over a hundred licensed fortune tellers urged authorities to bar unlicensed amateurs from the trade. He argued to restore dignity while noting many amateurs at every door. Despite this, fortune telling profits rise with Italy’s postwar recovery.
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Milan
Italy
State Industry Hits New Highs
West Virginia reports 1950 set records across manufacturing output and electric power. November production hit a postwar monthly high of 125.8 million dollars while total 1950 output is likely above 1948's peacetime record. Employment rose to a November peak of 534,336 with wages about 129.2 million. Coal output, gas production, banking activity, and retail sales also rose despite adverse weather and a mine shutdown earlier in the year.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia Apple Crop Surges Past Last Year
Charleston reports the state harvested 4,260,000 bushels of apples this year, up 11.5 percent from 3,720,000 bushels last year and 12 percent above the 1942-48 average. The pig crop rose eight percent to 310,000 head.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Nations Transportation Systems Gear for 1951 Rearmament Traffic
New York report shows U S railroads, trucking and air lines expanding for defense mobilization in 1951. Railroads signed peace pacts, ordered freight cars, boosted locomotives, and aimed for 1 850 000 car fleet as shipments and passenger miles shift with higher costs and wage disputes.
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New York
AAR
Funeral for 13 year old Franklin Rose held today
The funeral service for Franklin D. Rose 13 of Max Meadows was conducted at St. Pauls Pentecostal Church at 2 p m with Rev Marco Phillip in charge. Interment followed at Sanders cemetery. He was struck by a car near his Route 11 home Thursday and survived by his parents five brothers and three grandparents. His body lay at Barnett funeral home.
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Arvin
Van
Dorothy Rose
Foster Falls
Samuel A. Fisher
Max Meadows
Barnett Funeral Home
Route No. 11
New Platinum Analysis Developed by UT Scientists
University of Texas researchers in Austin have devised a spectrophotometric method to analyze four principal platinum metals in alloys. The technique measures light absorption to determine metal content, potentially saving U.S. industry many testing hours.
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Austin, Texas
University of Texas
U.S
Death claims Lee C Gunther longtime coal leader
Lee C Gunther 78 president of the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators association of Knoxville Tennessee died Friday night. He had not been well for months and was a prominent figure in the coal industry across Tennessee and Kentucky. Earlier he worked as a contractor on the Panama Canal. Funeral at Manns chapel in Knoxville at 4 pm today.
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Lee C. Gunter
Southern Appalachian Coal Operators Association
Knoxville
Tenn
Appalachian
Tennessee
Kentucky
Coal Trade Association
Panama Canal
Manns Chapel
New York Philharmonic toperform at 1951 Edinburgh Festival
The New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra will appear in Europe for the first time in 20 years at the Edinburgh Festival 1951. Bruno Walter and Dimitri Mitropoulos will each conduct seven performances in the tour.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Europe
Bruno Walter
Dimitri Mitropoulos
West Virginia Store Sales Grow In November Gains
Richmond December 30 department store sales in West Virginia rose three percent in November from a year earlier, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reported. The January to November period showed an 11 percent year over year gain, with West Virginia leading the Fifth District in 11 month sales growth.
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Richmond
West Virginia
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Federal Reserve District
Merchants and Buyers Week Exhibit Opens in Bluefield
The 62nd semi annual Merchants and Buyers Week Association exhibit debuts at the West Virginian Hotel in Bluefield West Virginia from January 8 to 10 1951. Merchants and buyers are urged to attend as exhibitors offer broad merchandise lines for Spring and Summer demand. Attendees are asked to arrange room reservations with the West Virginian Hotel.
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Merchants & Buyers Week Association, Inc
Merchants & Buyers Week Association
West Virginian Hotel
Bluefield
West Virginia
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