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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1947
Page
2
Pineville selects Vaughan Stewart as director for Palisades Park project while pool construction delays push opening to July 1. Summer schedule targets club members weekdays with weekend fees. funds support maintenance and lifeguard staff.
West Virginia State Federation of Labor endorses statewide participation in the U S savings bond campaign through payroll savings. The board plans to print thrift program sets and boost local union member bond purchases toward the national 10 percent goal. Also announced are new War Assets Administration office hours effective June 9 in Charleston and Wheeling.
A large list of attendees from Huntington to Soulsville joined a Scout outing with Okey E. McCourt and Rev. L. A. Steele in attendance. The James B Stewart family gathered at Rockview for Decoration Day gravesite tributes hosted by Bert C. Green.
The body of Private First Class Alford Emanuel Perkey arrived in Mullens for a military funeral after he and four other Marines were killed on April 5 in China while guarding an ammunitions depot. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Park in Beckley. Surviving are his parents and several siblings.
Wyoming county clerk installs Rectigraph Duplex to photograph deeds and other records. The $2500 system from Rectigraph Division Haloid Company Rochester will be used weekly, likely Tuesday, with Deputy Clerk Zed Ball and assistants operating it.
Pred H Shannon Jr son of Mr and Mrs F H Shannon of Pineville earned a master’s degree in music education from Columbia University on Tuesday afternoon. He previously taught at Pineville High School before Pearl Harbor, served four years in the army, and was discharged December 7 1945. He earned a Lincoln Aeronautical Institute diploma during training and spent a year at Guam with the 29th Bomb Group Headquarters. He plans further study at Columbia this July and will teach in Wyoming schools this year.
Winchester motion states Harry F. Byrd Jr will be unopposed in the August Democratic primary for state senator from the 25th district. No opposition candidate filed by the deadline. district includes Winchester and Frederick Clarke Shenandoah counties.
Mrs Maxine Beavers of Pinetown was admitted to Grace Hospital Welch at 4 AM Wednesday with throat and kidney infection. Butch Goode and Larry Gillenwater, sons of local families, underwent unspecified operations.
E Blackburn Moore of Berryville remains unopposed for the house of delegates representing Winchester Frederick and Clarke counties. Moore, in the house since 1933, seeks reelection as an incumbent. In Frederick county Democratic candidates for county offices also face no opposition, while several candidates contest the board of supervisors across five magisterial districts. Mississippi became territory in 1798. Some Women Can't Stand Cats With Me It's Men.
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