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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1945
Page
1
Virginia farmers welcomed spring as a week of cold weather retarded corn soybeans peanuts and other crops. Only in frost affected areas was real damage seen while general growth remained delayed and state records for June were set in Richmond Roanoke.
Service Club Eleven reported representation from eleven groups yesterday as 30 service men, six accompanied by their wives, were served. Donations for the day came from Mrs. Wharton O Keefe Mrs. E W Horton and Mrs. Elmo Agee with chairmen Mrs. Jim Shott and Mrs. Wharton O Keeffe overseeing the event. Workers listed include Miss Cleon Heller Mrs. Bobb Tyson Mrs. Jim Kahle Mrs. Lynn Seyler Mrs. D C Duncan Mrs. Elmo Agee Mrs. Percy Gillie Mrs. and Easley and Mrs. Kenneth Buord.
Winchester noted rising temperatures yesterday brightening garden outlooks while Fredericksburg reported no garden damage. Pulaski gardens lagged with frost injury. Pulaski recorded today’s low of 43.2 at 6:30 am. Lynchburg fell to 49, Danville 54, and Norfolk 57 with prior day readings near 50s. dry weather hurt garden and truck crops more than cold.
A regional school of instruction for job counselors in U S employment service offices will be conducted in Charleston West Virginia June 11 15 announced by the state war manpower commission Miss Ethel Mary Fryer head of the state counseling service said participants from 12 employment offices plus the state staff will attend Offices to be represented include Beckley Clarksburg Elkins Grafton Huntington Keyser Morgantown Moundsville New Martinsville Oak Hill Pt Pleasant Williamson The counseling service is mainly for veterans and workers released from war jobs A special service is offered to other job applicants in offices at Charleston Wheeling Parkersburg Bluefield Welch Logan Montgomery Fairmont Weston
Augustus McWilliams aged 97, a government teamster during the Civil War, died at his daughter’s home in Wheeling. Born February 7 1848 in Staunton Virginia, he had been in poor health after an automobile accident four years earlier. He moved to Wheeling sixty years ago from Grafton and is survived by two daughters three sons seven grandchildren and twenty three great grandchildren. His wife Wyonna Miller McWilliams died in 1936.
Capt E S Waugh and family visited Bluefield on Monday and Tuesday en route to Fort Jackson, D C, where he will be stationed. They arrived from Indiantown Gap, Pa, and stayed at the West Virginian hotel visiting Mrs Harry M Waugh before continuing their trip.
A pinch of cayenne enhances flavor across souffle recipes, even in sweet versions, sparking bolder taste notes that some chefs claim brighten textures and balance sweetness.
Three Grant county men were fined 100 dollars and 4.10 dollars costs each for possessing deer meat out of season. District game protector John Shankhotz and other conservation agents made the arrests.
Parkersburg West Virginia reports a cold wave with heavy rains halted the early good growing period for corn. The Weather Bureau notes some bottomland fields became too wet and must be disked again, while other crops were reported unharmed by the unseasonal cold.
The report covers crops including corn, oats, wheat, rye and pastures rated from good to very good. Temperatures ranged from 94 at Hint on to 35 at Flat Top with a weekly average of 65.5 degrees, 1.5 below normal. Rainfall averaged 0.25 inches, 0.13 inch above normal.
The June grand jury in Huntington West Virginia returned an indictment for kidnapping against Mr. and Mrs. Pongrac Nemeth after an investigation of their relations with two teenage girls. Law enforcement officers testified during the probe.
Spencer West Virginia June 7 Circuit Judge Lewis H Miller imposed a one to five year penitentiary term on Roy Batten 37 former Spencer state hospital attendant convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of an asylum inmate James Virgil Cox 47 Cox allegedly suffered a fatal broken rib that pierced his heart Batten credited with four and a half months in jail awaiting trial Batten testified that he did not kick the patient
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