Selecteess bound for Huntington after local draft call
A group of selectees from Mercer County Local Board No. 1 reported yesterday at 1 PM to undergo final physical examinations for induction. After a 14 day furlough, most teenagers will be sent to Fort Thomas Ky for active duty, with many previously finishing high school this year.
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Huntington
Mercer County
Richard Frazier Stowers
Luther Yakley Millsap
Leon Garland Yates
Lewis Drayton Mitchell
Millard Winton Robbins, Jr
Possey Adrian Altizer
Charles Moricle
Harry Flin Macon
Philly Nee
John Sherwood Harnsberger
William
Arthur Brage
Charles Walter Vermillion
Warren Lee Frye
Donald Hoge Davidson
Victor Ernest Montgomery
Shelby David Roach
Keister
Burton Looney
James Edward Farley
James Richard Rash
Arthur Sidney Lester, Jr
William Earl Bradley
Amos Reginald Lambert
Basil Leonard Ballard
Major Arthur Nash
William Cleveland Snyder, Jr
Troy Thomas May
Harold Gordon Peery
Fletcher Gray Shatley
Robert Eugene Crowder
Carl Othar Bradley
William Robert Akers
Simin
Cecil Magruder
H. M. Heldreth
William Oscar Chandler
William Thomas Gilley
Cecil Clayton McCoy
James Richard Cole
Granville Cassel Houchins, II
Orval
Douglas Hill
Billy Mitchell Rudder
Arnold Flwood
Aliff
McKinley Roger Poe
Charlies Walker Anders
Willie James Ford
Leonard Lonzo Kilgore, Jr
George Edward Foresman
James Dillard Thomas
Russell Edmond Sumpter
Lawrence Bowens
Donald Stewart Adkins
Ralph Ramey
Hunter Coleman Harris
Lyman Preston Bowes
William L. Ridinger
Harvey Shaman
William Lowe
Charlies
Randolph Reed
Herbert Leon Ratcliffle
Walter Snider
Robert Pranklin Cox
Mishawaka
Ind
Franz Klauber
L. B
Portsmouth
Kenneth James Davidson
Welch, Va
Jimmy Emory Hunter Morris
Masonic Visit and Flag Week Meet in Bluefield Virginia
The grand high priest of Masons in Virginia will visit Bluefield and Pearlsburg chapters tonight with C E Webber of Salem arriving from Norton for a banquet at 6 30. Wade H Frazier presides with addresses by Gillespie Magrill and Livingston Dillon. Friday flags and songs highlight Flag Week at the Bluefield Business Men's Club with Rev Cummins speaking on The Flag and Ming Ruby June Stowers performing patriotic songs.
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Masons
Virginia
Ada
Tazewe Bluefield
Pearlsburg
C. E. Webber
Salem
Norton
Bluefield
CBS
W. Va
Webbber
Wade H. Frazier
John Wharton Gillespie
Carl Magrill
J. Livingston Dillon
Business Men's Club
Addiiton
H. 8. Cummins
Memorial Baptist Church
Ming Ruby June Stowers
O T Weighs Feeding Birds Across Seasons
The note questions whether O T feeds large birds in summer and if eating changes with seasons. It advises a balanced diet for birds, bread crumbs in summer, scratch in winter, and to provide a bathing area while observing their behavior.
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O. T
Great Earthquake Duty Prompts War Age Compassion Debate
Clouded by war talk the Bluefield Virginia Woman's Christian Temperance Union discusses whether nations at war should aid civilians in disasters such as a hypothetical earthquake in Japan. Meeting covers flower mission service, army chaplains letters, prison walls article, and books sent to soldier boys.
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Japan
Bluefield
Virginia
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Reynolds
Tazewell Avenue
E. L. Hoisopple
Mark
W. K. Graves
BE. L. Holsapple
John Hayne Holmes
New York City
W. J. Crockett
H. J. Stowers
J. E. Wagner
Bluefield Court Clears Docket as Peery Reports on Case
In Bluefield Virginia Judge Albert Peery held county court at city hall on Tuesday with a light docket. He confirmed a report about sending the woman who killed her husband and the girl on Kent for action or further consideration.
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Bluefield
Albert Peery
Peery
Kent
Local notices and community updates from Bluefield area
A compilation of letters and happenings including garden notes, church school plans in Graham, sun heat musings, and O T. comments. Reports on Bluefield playgrounds, radio broadcasts by C I Cheyney, and local newspaper remarks. Neighborhood church events, funerals, and service members' news are included.
All Rail Coal Shipments Into New England Drop
Washington reports all rail coal shipments into New England for the week ended June 5 fell about 17 percent from the prior week due to early month work stoppages. About 300 000 tons were moved, with two thirds being bituminous coal. Despite contract difficulties shipments stay ahead of 1942 with roughly 8 000 000 tons of anthracite and bituminous carried by June 5, about 500 000 tons more than a year earlier.
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Washington
New England
Harold D. Ickes
4 Prisoners Still At Liberty After Breaking From Jail
Four prisoners who joined a mass jail break in Randolph County, West Virginia, remained at large after three were recaptured near Elkins. Jailer Dallas Pritt, who was wounded, identified the three recaptured as Lacy Leonard Small, Howard Edward Helsel, and Cecil Lucas, while the fugitives at large included Porter Melvin Walker, Oltie Williams Ennedy, Robert Charles McGee, and Thomas Yokum.
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Elkins
W. Va
Randolph County
Liberty
Dallas Pritt
Lacy Leonard Small
Howard Edward Helsel
Cecil Lucas
Lumberport
Pritt
Porter Melvin Walker
Hancock County
Oltie Williams Ennedy
Grafton
Robert Charles McGee
Thomas Yokum
Huttonsville
Beating Victim Forced to Walk on Glass by Teasing Juniors
Huntington police questioned two junior high students after 10-year-old Jay Bur ton Colliflower said they beat him and forced him to walk barefoot on broken glass to illustrate Allied treatment of Japanese. A doctor reported the boy suffered a nervous breakdown and severe cuts after over an hour of abuse. A witness said the assailants tied him to a chair and turned on gas in a school room.
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Huntington
W. Va
Jay Burton Colliflower
Colliflower
Jay
Commissioner Interprets New Sales Tax on Food Items
State tax commissioner P. Alderson outlines changes effective July 1 consumer sales tax will apply to foods including bread butter eggs milk and meats with a 50 cent absolute exemption and a 5 cent basic exemption for other property. The exemption does not apply to hotels restaurants or similar food dispensers or to candies tobacco beer soft drinks or beverages of like nature. Barbados is noted as the easternmost Windward Island in the West Indies.
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P. Alderson
Iaw
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Pete) Ballard
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