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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1949
Page
6
A noisy radio style page lists many program titles and club news including Home Or oer Dreemdeiten HF and Alarm Clock Club items. Names like Henry, Julie, Vine, Garber, Pooler, and Scattergood Baines appear among scattered program notes and community mentions.
National council representatives elected include Roeland Lather Bluefield J A Prance Welch C G Tay Bluefield and Dewey J Bailey Princeton. Camp Roland plans for $70 000 development include a recreation building a four acre lake and three Adirondack lean-to buildings. Reverend Cecil V Cook Jr Bluefield Baptist pastor spoke on leadership and future boys development.
Washington June 14 AP A senate committee criticized the army for calling TVA Chairman Gordon R Clapp unemployable saying an injustice was done The army banned the term as a bad word and will replace it with unavailable General Gray and assistant secretary Vorhees testified no loyalty or integrity issue exists Major Read W Harrison said he used the term because it was the usual practice The panel urged revised procedures to prevent recurrence More than 100 locomotive bells linked by the Southern Railway System have become church bells along the road
Drillers push a gas test well at Redoak Ridge in Mercer County. United Fuel Gas Co at Charleston reports depth surpassing 3 650 feet with a four man crew drilling toward production in three to four weeks. If gas is found, the operation may advance rapidly through limestone and hard shelf to reach Abbs Valley sand.
Washington report says the coal strike has forced Southern Railway to lay off 850 workers with potential further furloughs. E Norris, president, cites hardest impact in Appalachian division areas of Virginia Tennessee and surrounding coal regions.
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