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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1948
Page
12
Coast Guard halted its search for bodies of sailors and Marines lost when a navy liberty launch swamped near Norfolk on May 31. Thirty bodies recovered, 28 missing per Navy report, with one listed man found AWOL in Joplin Missouri.
Jackson's Mill West Virginia June 11 The Boys State legislature endorses a recommendation by Governor Hermansdorfer calling for adoption of university Military training UMT a two year program split between military and vocational activities and top UMIT men to academies replacing the current system The message was prepared for joint resolution by Peter David Weston and George Swisher Ikshure Hermansdorfer urged adoption as the week long citizen ship training camp ends tomorrow
The National Coal association announced core production for the week ended June 5 reached 12,000,000 net tons. Year to date output totaled 276,980,000 tons, with a January 1 start date and a corresponding week of 1947 at 13,334,000 tons.
Twenty four Lions club members received perfect meeting attendance at a gathering where Mrs. Howard Meadows performed with her own accompaniment. Dr. Otis King served as program chairman while Henry Fortune led in President Ray Barnett’s absence as he attended the state Lions convention in Huntington.
A tobacco workers’ letter reports Soviet cigarette production at 74.3 billion in 1947 up 46 cents from 1946, with 1948 projected at 90 billion cigarettes about 21 percent above 1947. It notes annual triplet births occur about one in 8,800.
Bluefield police investigate a $300 robbery at the New Sportsman on Princeton Avenue. Patrolman Brown found an open trap door and the safe left open with currency and silver missing from a money box. No arrests yet.
West Virginia plans to use the national guard air units to augment the conservation commission in spotting forest fires. The 176th fighter squadron with about 40 planes will assist by identifying fires on maps and relaying data to the commission via the Kanawha airport control station once pilots are trained.
David Marcus former New York City commissioner of correction and Jewish Army commander was killed in action in Palestine. Ben Gurion sent word the veteran served as a U S Army colonel in World War II and led a Jerusalem front operation before his death. He headed correction from 1933 to 1940 under Mayor La Guardia.
In Beckley West Virginia on June 11 eighty eight of one hundred women trainees at a new garment factory were idle due to a wage dispute. Ted S Decker of Decker Clothes Inc said only twelve of about one hundred workers reported for duty while the rest picketed. The training quarters sit at Bailey's cabins near Beckley while a nearby factory is being built by local capital. Sydney C Box regional director of United Construction Workers said the union planned no organizing push until after the factory opens.
In Rocky Mount Virginia two Roanoke County youths were killed when the motorcycle they rode crashed into a trailer truck turning into a tourist court north of the town. Don Lanning Lawrence 19 and Melvin A. Henry 18 were cousins from nearby Brush Mountain and Old Grove Church. State trooper S E Mullins reported the bike hit the side of the trailer as it turned off U S Route 220 into the tourist court.
Washington reports a split within the National Labor Relations Board as General counsel Denham argues the Taft Hartley Act should cover all businesses affecting interstate commerce while Chairman Herzog says the board is not ready to extend coverage to small firms and has many cases already.
Governor Tuck directs Attorney General J Lindsay Almond Jr to take over criminal prosecutions of 178 men charged under the state's anti lynch law after inadequate local enforcement. The move targets union miners tied to an April assault on Gilliam, proprietor of Gilliam and Hodgins strip mine, amid claims of local officials failing to protect workers and property. Trials tentatively set for July term opening July 12 in Buchanan County.
The First Christian Church choir will sing the anthem Lord I Hear of Showers of Blessings by Avery with Miss Boots Tidwell as soloist The Bluefield College quartet will perform Faith of Our Fathers by Walton as part of the service.
A beaver repeatedly attempted a dam on Silver Bow Creek in Meaderville but local men Jack Ritter and Louis Bugni removed it with a garden rake and dumped it in a sack. The animal was later released in nearby hills after resisting being kept as a pet. Dr. Carl F. Raver, 68, former head of West Virginia’s vital statistics department, died after a yearlong illness.
A 12 year old boy, David Devel Cain of Circleville Ohio, is improving after a fall from a 60 foot cliff near Coopers while picking strawberries. He sustained severe scalp lacerations and received treatment at Bluefield sanitarium yesterday.
The second monthly county Christian youth rally is set for 7 30 PM at Pine Grove Church of Christ on Lor ton Lick road. Evangelist Raldo Cook of Midway Christian Church will deliver the message. Churches to be presented include Midway Montcalm Duhring Bluefield W Va Princeton and Falls Mills.
The Bluefield post office introduced an automatic stamp vending machine. Postmaster R L Bailey announced the device offers stamps at face value and is located in the lobby of the local post office building.
Market prices listed for hogs cattle and sheep at Bristol Livestock Sale. Details include hog weights and price ranges from light to heavy, sows, steers, heifers, stackers and feeders, cows, canners and cutters, bulls, weaners, heifers, lambs, slaughter hogs, and ranges for good common and medium classifications with numerous lot counts.
West Virginia coal production in April fell to 8,954,887 tons due to a prolonged spring shutdown. This compares with 11,533,550 tons in April 1947. For the first four months of the year output was 48,819,332 tons, below the 57,116,629 tons for the same period in 1947. April totals included 7,574,319 tons from commercial operations, 1,348,662 tons from strip mines, and 31,906 tons from smaller domestic mines.
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