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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1931
Page
18
ENNETH A McCRIMMON of South Haven Michigan is named first ranking honor man among 296 graduates in this year’s United States Military Academy class at West Point.
The Local Auto Touring Bureau promotes AAA routed travel across the United States and Canada. The Bluefield Automobile club offers touring information maps hotel reservations foreign and steamship travel air arrangements and license services to ease trips and ensure up to date road conditions.
When planning a summer trip consult the touring bureau for routes and road conditions. Visit in person for best service, hours are slower now enabling detailed planning. Bring your A A A membership card for identification and possible service charges if absent.
The article extols recreation as essential for both body and spirit. It argues that intense engagement in a favored game or sport re-creates the individual, noting that great players love their play and devote full energy and enthusiasm.
The American Automobile Association aims to enlist motorists nationwide to cut highway casualties among animals, poultry, and birds. While opinions differ on whether animals think, motorists clearly understand the impact, prompting the campaign.
Fred Hubbard a 19 year old Briquette plant worker was severely injured Tuesday morning when caught in a crusher. He suffered a broken leg and the loss of a thumb. Hospital examination at Grace Hospital Welch noted his condition as slightly improved.
R B Jackson and Mrs Ted Jowell, Epworth League members, departed Tuesday for Abingdon as delegates to the young people's assembly at Martha Washington college. Grace and Helen Lanson, graduate nurses from Kessler Hatfield hospital Huntington, spent the week with their parents. Several visitors from Blacksburg Va and Drift Ky joined relatives here and at Twin Branch while S Snelder of Baltimore and other locals visited S A Hawkins.
A fine brick house overlooking the Potomac, once owned by Col. Corbin Washington and last occupied by Col. Arthur Wooda, is leased by Senator Dwight Morrow of New Jersey and Mrs. Morrow who plan to move in after Congress opens. The residence dates to the early 1800s and has hosted many notable figures.
The state road commission reports extensive highway improvements across Upshur McDowell Hardy and Greenbrier counties. Major concrete fills on routes 20 8 2 47 plus bridge work on Howards creek North Caldwell and Bull Creek. U S 19 paving progress from Bluefield toward Glen Jean and detours near Beckley to Charleston. Weekly detour maps available via A A A with wide detour coverage across eastern states.
The state road commission lists routes to receive oil and tar work around Bluefield. Start times vary midweek with routes including 2 Blair to Ethel, 3 Arnett to Harper, 8 Whitesville to Arnett, 5 Ripley west, 7 Reedsville to Kingwood, 8 Wayne to Kermit, 8 Justice to Saeger, 16 Smithville to Calhoun line, 19 Swiss to Summersville, 23 Moorefield toward Wardensville, 25 Charleston to Nitro, 25 Plymouth to Rumer, 25 Leon to Ambrosia, 38 Sandyville to Ravenswood, 45 Maysville to Scherr, and 94 Craigsville to Richwood. Completion timing noted for some routes.
On July 4 the Altoona speedway hosts a 200 mile Independence Day classic featuring the National AAA championship. Gates open at 7 a.m. final time trials at 9 a.m. The first race starts at 1 30 p.m. and championship events begin at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
The Bluefield Automobile Club board of directors will meet Monday June 15 at 4 30 p m on the mezzanine floor of the West Virginian hotel. In addition to routine business, several important matters will be discussed and each director is urged to attend.
Montgomery report celebrates Mary Elizabeth Guranus 72 enrolling in an opportunity school run by the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs. She initially doubted she could learn to read and write but began walking two miles to classes and became the convention honor guest, saying she wished she had learned much earlier.
A novel aeronautics project in Paris mounts a helicopter on rail trucks to test how upward thrust from horizontal propellers affects the forward motion of the vehicle. Researchers aim to quantify lift effects on continental truck movement.
Mountain lake resort in Virginia, at 4500 feet elevation, offers hotel with 125 rooms and cottages. Discovered in 1751 by Benjamin Gist party, the lake measures about three quarters by one quarter mile, among rhododendron, laurel, and azalea blooms in June and July. Access routes from Pem broke, Bluefield, Newport area. terrain inclines and steep last five miles on Hoge's Store road. Over 45,000 doctors registered in Great Britain.
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