World Food Outlook Warns of 1947 Shortages and Ration Cuts
Anderson warns famine may be prevented only if wartime controls persist and grain use is curbed. Sir John Orr joins in advocating rationing, high extraction flour, and price signals to keep grain with farmers for food, not livestock or industry. U.S. may need continued cuts into next year as harvests adjust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agram
John Boyd Orr
United Na Food and Agriculture Area
Sir John
Anderson
Storm Center Mrs. Jim Stafford Receives Army Discharge
Mrs. Jim Stafford has been discharged from the army after serving one and a half years overseas. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Faw visited Norton, Virginia, and returned with their daughter Page who had spent two weeks there. Eugene Walker of McComas stayed with his grandmother Mrs. Alice Slader for a weekend. Jim Stafford returned home after visiting relatives in Trigga.
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Jim Stafford
Harrison Faw
Norton
Page
Eugene Walker
McComas
Alice Slader
Trigga
Christine Webb
Airy
N. C
E. L
Cliford Jackson
Jackson
Mount Hope
W. H. Rogers
Rogers
H. H. Callaway
Joanne
Richmond
Vas
Jackie
Robert. Mathews
R. M. Painter
J. E. Painter
Princeton
Charlottesville
Russell Painter
University Hospital
Miss Peck Weds Mayo in Pearisburg Ceremony
Miss Peck of Harrison and the late Mr. Peck married Kenneth James Mayo son of Mrs. Kenneth Mayo at Pearisburg Virginia. Rev S Walters of Blacksburg officiated. Attendants included Miss Patricia Newton and Miss Mary Brown. Best man was John Keterrer with several ushers. The couple plan to reside in Carlisle after August 30 and the bride, a former postal clerk, is active in civic groups.
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Narrows
Patricia L. Newton
Mary Gray Brown
Anita Jarvis
John Keterrer
Philadelphia
William B. Borda Reading
Frank L. Johnson
Woodbury
N. J
C. B. Nixon
Carnegia
C. W. Bonard
Trenton
Harold Hales
FE. I. Cooke
Cooke
Main Street
J. &. Reamer
W. M. Jarvis
Aramin
Bob Testerman
North Georgia College
Dahlonega
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Nancy Testerman
Concord College
Northfork
Leo Kemp
Greene
Newhall
Kemp
Puerto Rico
J. C. van
Clontz
Kirkball Hill
Van
Rut Clontz
Pacific
Bill Woodyard
Peger
Shirley Jeanne
Myrtle Lawless
Ed Lawless
Yake Shawnee
Fortunato Grego
Mauel Zifakis
Bluceld
Nellie James
H. E. Collieres
Roanoke
Ethel Vaughan
West Virginia
J. H. Murray
Adamson
Navy
Leedys
Jo Sells
Radford
James Hardy
Vivian
Daugther
Judith Ann
Hardy
Tampa
Fila
Pauline Cox
Premiere
Mary Vesta Young
Christiansburg
E. Lee Cook
Kenneth Jackson
University of West Virginia
Morgantown
Paul Jackson
Rock Gap
C. B. Downey
Edith Shaffer
Election of officers and community notices at Kimball chapter
The June 25 ceremony will install Worthy Matron Virginia Harris and a full slate including Pauline Swartz as associate matron and Lacy Lumpkins as worthy patron. Other officers named cover conductress secretary treasurer and trustees while retiring matron Virginia Brown is acknowledged. Community updates note visits, relocations, and family news across Kimball and nearby towns.
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M. T. Jones
Ada
Inet
Ruth
Geneva Brown
Estner
Ruth Davis
Martha
Virginia Rector
Electa
Ruth Clontz van
Lee Cook
Marshal
Drusilla Pettit
Glavds Meade
Sentinel
Ethel Kipsinger
Virgie Brown
Reisha Kaupman Spends Brief Vacation with Parents
Miss Reisha Kaupman of college is spending a short vacation at home with her parents Mr and Mrs Abe Kaufman after leaving Stevens clinic.
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Stevens Clinic
Reisha Kaupman
College
Mrs
Abe Kaufman
National Independence Week Observance Planned in Bluefield
The committee on governmental affairs led by L. O. Boice and Bernard Wilkinson outlines five speeches for National Independence Week from June 30 to July 4. Prominent locals will address Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Opportunity, and Self-government in the first Bluefield observance of its kind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Governmental Affairs
Cochairman L. O. Boice
Bernard Wilkinson
Chamber of Commerce
Bluefield
Keystone Rotary Hosts Picnic at Pinnacle Rock Park
Keystone West Virginia Rotary members and guests, joined by Women’s Society of Christian Service, gathered for a June picnic at Pinnacle Rock Park. About fifty attended after an earlier attendance contest won by the opposing team, with the losers hosting the event.
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Keystone
Keystone Rotary Club
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Pinnacle Rock Park
Theelub
E. W. Dye
W. D McDowall
McDowall
Family tree could reach two million in two millennia
A single human couple could, over two thousand years without wars or epidemics, produce about two million descendants. The estimate assumes steady reproduction and no untimely deaths caused by external factors.
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State Department
San Francisco
Amalia Aguilar
Mariano Almeida
Almeida
Washington
Bluefield 1Elephone CO
Giles County News
Miss Peck
Mr. Mayo
Pearisburg
First Methodist Church
Girls Scouts
Dickenson College
Carlisle Pa
Kappa Sicma
First Methodist
Harrell M. Russell
Russell
Earl G. Johnson
Sullins Col
W. T. Ross
Gustavus Warfield
Warfield
Ross
Copaww
Delsie FE. R. Martin
Veterans Hospital
Huntington
Cecil Fikins
Rs. Popes
James Adair
Farl J. Spencer
Mae Taylor's Drug Store
Princeton Ave
Mend
W. C. Storer
Nancy
Cumberland
Baltimore
New York City
K. M. Hale
Caro
Barnville
8. C
M. Rn
Newton
Pay County
N. J. Folsom
New York
Circle No. 2
R. B. Testerman
Women's Society
B. C. Lackey
Christ
Amos Wood
Flat Top National Bank
the Federal Depo
Mick Or
Mack
Marine Corps
Pote
United States
U. S. Marine Corps
Division of Recruiting
Washington, D. C
Corps
Marine Corps Institute
West Virginia Water Service CO
Linkous Motor Co
Raleigh Street
Goodykoontz Drug Store
Appalachian Electric Power CO
Platnick Brothers
Tri-City Traction CO
Marshal Tito
Belgrade
Keystone, W. Va
Keystone Rotary
W. F. W. Meeting
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Elkhorn Valley Post
Bible School
Keystone Methodist and
Baptist Church
Keystone Junior High
Church School
A. T. Stewart
The
Intermont
Lara Kash
N. B. Kash
Virginia Intermont College
Kash
Junior Academy of Science
Hodges Hall
YWA
West Visa Club
and Saddle Club
University of Kentucky At
Lexington
W. D. McDowell
Mary Scott
Ethel Wood
JoBette
Yg Ae College
Chapel Hill
Richard Jackson
Ding
Marion
R. M. Goode
Lee Wiles
Charleston
Kenova Witt
Tommie Jane
Nell White
Charles Price
Sluefield
Irma Daniels
Pulaski
Dixie Woodyard
Elio Pais
Myrtle Beach
Scott Blankenship
Columbus
Ohio
Des Toe
Sam
Welch
Caroline Atkins
Kentucky
Fries, Va
Musgrove
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