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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1945
Page
4
Virginia farmers report delayed crop growth due to three days of record cold in early June. Frost caused limited damage but slowed corn peanuts and truck crops while temperatures dipped to 50 in Richmond and 48 in Roanoke.
Service Club Eleven reported representation from eleven entities yesterday as 30 service men, six with wives, were served. Chairmen included Elmo Agee, Mrs. Jim Shott, and Mrs. Wharton O Keeffe with a team of volunteers led by several named workers.
Winchester saw rising temperatures brighten outlooks for Fredericksburg and surrounding areas as light frosts eased vegetation damage. Lows reached 43 in the morning with 49 in Lynchburg, Danville at 54, and Norfolk airport at about 50. Garden and track were hindered by dry conditions rather 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. Miss Ethel sane Fryer head of the state counseling service said representatives from 12 employment offices will attend. After instruction they will gain practical experience in one of the state's nine offices where the program operates. Offices represented include Beckley Clarksburg Elkins Grafton Huntington Keyser Morgantown Moundsville New Martinsville Oak Hill Pt Pleas ant and Williamson. The service primarily serves veterans and workers released from war jobs with a special service for other applicants. The counseling service operates in Charleston Wheeling Parkersburg Bluefield Welch Logan Montgomery Fairmont Weston.
Augustus McWilliams 97 a government teamster during the Civil War died at his daughter Mrs John W Morris home in Wheeling W Va He was born February 7 1848 in Staunton Va He came to Wheeling 60 years ago from Grafton He is survived by two daughters three sons seven grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren His wife Wyonna Miller McWilliams died in 1936.
Captain E S Waugh with Mrs Waugh and their son E Van 8 Waugh Jr visited Bluefield Monday and Tuesday en route to Fort Jackson DC where he will be stationed They traveled from Indiantown Gap PA and called on Mrs Harry M Waugh at the West Virginian Hotel during their stay
A kitchen note highlights cayenne as a flavor booster for all soufflé dishes. It suggests even sweet soufflés gain a hint of heat and depth from the spice.
Charleston June 74. Deer meat out of season brought fines for three Grant county men. The conservation commission said each man was fined $100 and $4.10 costs after arrest by district game protector John Shankholtz and other agents.
Parkersburg West Virginia report notes a sudden cold wave and heavy rains stopping the corn growth period. The U.S. Weather Bureau reviews conditions for the week ended June 6 and says some bottomland corn fields became too wet to plant again while tops remained unharmed by the unseasonal cold.
Week temperatures ranged from a high near 04 at Hin ter to a low around 35 at Flat Top. Average reading about 65.5 degrees, 1.6 below normal. Total rainfall about an inch, 0.13 inch above normal.
The June grand jury indicted a suspect on kidnapping charges connected to relations with two teenage girls. Law enforcement officers testified during the proceedings in Huntington West Virginia.
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 died last January Batten received credit for four and a half months in jail awaiting trial The state contended Cox suffered a broken rib which caused his death Batten testified denying kicking the patient
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