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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1941
Page
28
Payrolls in the Pocahontas district near two and a quarter million dollars if all mines paid yesterday. About 28 000 miners amid weekly production over 700 000 tons. Production for week ending May 31 totaled 729 706 tons, up 105 769 tons from 1940.
John D. Battle executive secretary of the Nation & Coal association tells the house Ways and Means committee that equitable provisions are needed for coal companies with past losses to restore capital and reserve against future hazards. He notes rising mining costs and price stabilization efforts and urges a fair return on investment with expansion allowances.
Mr Battle argues that coal producers are not attributable to national defense or to monopolistic conditions and that a proposed super tax on corporate earnings is discriminatory and inequitable. He says coal is essential in peacetime and crisis and a tax would hurt mining companies.
W E E Koepler was elected vice president of the Smoke Prevention Association of America for the eighth time at Atlanta convention. E C Page visited from Philadelphia to inspect southern West Virginia mines. Mine Inspectors Institute of America held its largest gathering, with operators hosting inspectors in Bluefield and Keyser for the West Virginia Trapshooting Association tournament.
A sales pitch promotes a home remedy for acid stomach ulcers by the VON TREATMENT. It claims relief without strict diets or time off work, with a money back guarantee and a free booklet from Cleveland Von Company at 1306 and Old Arcade, Cleveland.
Wm Beury vice president of Al goma Coal and Coke failed to attend due to coal industry matters but has many state honors at the traps. Paul Conrades of Merchants Coal and Ice of St Louis and three employees visited in the oo field last week. John Atwater of New York president of American Coal and Mill Creek Coal and Coke was in the county during the past week. There are more church buildings in Pennsylvania than in any other state.
Miss Beatrice Gent daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Gent celebrated her fifteenth birthday with a party at her Hartwell West Virginia home. A long night of games and dancing followed by refreshments entertained many guests including Madelyne Tolley Merle Fox Pauline Davis Nadine Davis Louise Minton Ruby Blevins Dora Lee Webb Christine Gibson Vida Miller Pauline Buffalo Sally Harriston Vernon Hale Pinky Higgins Graden Higgins Ernest Cain Nic Carooch Kadie Carooch Jack Jones Raymond Neal and Eugene Carson.
Excerpts describe Mack Gibson and others aboard the VA 8S Arkansas under battle conditions with ship lights out after 4 PM. A birthday party honors a fifth year old. Local notices mention war questionnaires, hospital stays, furloughs, school friendships, college progress, and regional visits by residents across Kentucky towns and Washington, D. C.
Bailey Virginia June 7 report Lilian Tabor visiting this week. Margaret Norton and Ray Melcher of Roanoke spent Monday with Mrs Alex. Mary E French RN returned to Washington after a week with her mother Mrs Alex French. Mrs T L Burress notified of brother Charlie Caldwell's death in Charleston. Mrs F K Karr remains patient at Bluefield sanitarium with condition reported.
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