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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1948
Page
4
Classified masthead shows subscription rates and mailing details for West Virginia readers. Includes pricing like 38 cents per week and 12.00 per year, with publication and postal information for the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
Fragmentary snippet presents archaic phrasing and quoted lines without clear event or identifiable persons. The readable words reference awifter status and a proverb like weaver’s ox, but no concrete actions, dates, places, or organizations are evident.
A historical note praises upcoming Social Security increases passed by Congress and approved by the Senate, benefiting 3.3 million aged, blind, and dependent children. It highlights bipartisan support, with the House voting by voice and the Senate by 77 to 2, calling the measure a landmark government action.
The piece argues for extending school terms through the year, tracing the history from five to eleven months and noting public reports in about twenty counties where the plan has been adopted, despite possible public opposition. It highlights the goal of broader schooling, organization time, and increased learning.
Uncle Sam backed synthetic rubber with about 700 million dollars during the war, and plants like Nitro near Charleston were built. Although experts doubted long term value, demand rose, potentially absorbing nearly all natural rubber while keeping synthetics in operation. A global tension future would boost the need for a guaranteed rubber supply.
A Chicago speech features President Truman railing against the Republican Congress while praising New Deal federal officeholders. He claims Congress could crush communism with greater abundance, cites Roosevelt era payrolls, and criticizes Wallace as an example of political shifts. The piece also notes satirical asides about Corn and a 101 year old Scranton birthday stunt.
War era shifts push half a million women from domestic work into factories and skilled roles. Many stayed in industry for better pay and prestige, challenging traditional gender roles while public employment offices report high demand for female workers. Some women cling to domestic service, valuing home stability and food, while others adjust to new, harder routines and personal fulfillment in industrial life. This overview cites Christian Science Monitor observations on evolving employment patterns.
Poem tribute recalling a mother passing in gentle repose. The speaker asks to fold her hands with a white rose and notes she has joined God's angel band, expressing faith in a reunion in the Bright and Holy Land.
Drew Pearson reports a Senate dispute over gutting the 160 acre reclamation limit to aid utility and landowner interests. The push could topple Strauss and Boke from office, endanger veterans homesteads, and affect Rae Lewis coal tension while Kansas City politics heat up with Truman allies backing rivals in Missouri’s Fourth District.
At last Sunday morning service Iow and Then College Avenue Baptists faced a pledge card moment as they entered the church. They would not serve sell or support liquor and many signed after a fiery temperance sermon. About ten percent abstained. The local faith community hints a wider church movement may follow in coming weeks. Ernest Keesee steps down as Eagle-Pitcher Insulating manager to help run his father's Dodge agency. Green Grass of Wyoming shown at Granada, filmed on Dudisy Cruise’s northern Utah ranch. Carl Brunner funded a nice dinner for the Symphony orchestra. Uncle Bill Cole notes the Ohio Coast conference was the best behaved group at the West Virginian hotel since the D A R convention.
Last fall the Ohio convention attendees spent little time at the hotel due to numerous coal operator hosted parties around town. Mrs Paul Coles sister in California is named Calif ornia state mother of 1948. She has a Harvard PhD son. Barney Rapp’s big-name band is booked for Fireman’s Ball June 18 and Clover Club July 2. Oakey McCall buys Martin building on Bluefield Ave for about 1300 monthly rent. Percy Gillie, Kingston Pocahontas organizer, tends a College Avenue garden daily. Bluefield firemen spend 2300 on three big-name bands.
Mercer politicians recall a colored preacher at Bramwell rally urging wisdom in voting for the sheriff candidate. Owen Rickard named chamber of commerce secretary, praised for guitar. Conrad Brevicik prior banjo role mentioned. Bluefield luncheon attendees and Westminster kindergartners robe reference. Ed Stone’s Cris absent from church exercises. State Senator Blythe, a Charlotte contractor, named Democratic treasurer, runs coal stripping operations locally.
L L Stevenson Thomas L Thomas, a concert and radio star, recalls bidding at his first auction as a high school student. He mistakenly paid $10 for a rug thinking bids were in dollars, mistaking the thousands. The anecdote is one among assorted 1920s style society items including Danish island rumors and Emily Post moments.
A concert star recalls a first auction episode while Howard Hughes after buying RKO demanded removal of furniture and installed a padded wrestling mat in his Drake Hotel suite. Dick Curley was told to send two burly grapplers. A Westport playbill note and pennies attach a shoplifter confession. Dane Clark enjoys coffee and a dusty wager in midtown, a waitress cites his showbiz past.
Auctioneer style listing offers a bungalow with army barrack motif, roof optional, plumbing options. Garage finished for comfort. price $25,000 cash. other wartime homes advertised at $35,000 and $200 monthly rent with $1,000 side payment. Descriptive, odd phrasing ends with incomplete line about windows.
A collection of humorous and exaggerated real estate notices touts prefabricated homes, bird house rentals, and multi family ambitions. It pitches selling price ranges from 22 000 to 8 000 with odd collateral like a sedan piano jewels or a horsefeeder.
Theater and film gossip recount Linda Christian planning a June 13 European honeymoon with Tyrone Power, Pat Neal tipped for The Fountainhead role, Cary Grant denying Betsy Drake England pairing, Claudette Colbert courting Bing Crosby offspring, and Shirley Temple turning 21 with baby Linda Susan. Reports also note Howard Hughes backing Cinecolor, and John Roosevelt entering Beverly Hills store venture.
A roundup recounts events from fifty to ten years ago in Bluefield area. W W Hamilton left for Bristol to visit parents. smallpox quarantine barred entry without vaccines to Northfork. Cornerstone laid for Bluefield high school on Thomas Street. Rev S H Thompson and wife returned from Hot Springs after SBC convention.
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