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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1941
Page
7
A humorous tale from Oklahoma City about an agent’s friend who fishes in Norman Lake and mails a fish head to the agent. The search leads to a filing cabinet where a clerk’s “B” section for bass is the hiding place, revealing the misfiled catch.
The Colonial theater in Bluefield announces a Barter Theater summer series of eight plays starting June 27 at 8:30 PM headlined by Conrad Nagel in The Petrified Forest. Nagel will share the stage with his daughter Ruth Nagel making her professional debut.
Charleston experts report 11.9 percent rise in public utility valuations will raise the utilities tax bill by about 1.216 million dollars for 1941. Auditor Sims notes 1940 valuations were 590.758 million with taxes around 10.007 million. For 1941, valuation stands at 661.344 million. exact tax totals await August rate setting. Railroads and oil and gas firms expected to pay most of the rise.
The caller identified as Mrs. H. Klein, president, scheduled a meeting for June 30 at Jackson's Mill.
The piece describes 100000 Chinese laborers in Chengtu near the Tibetan border building a 1000 acre airfield in 100 days. The project, likened to the Great Wall, is ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to accommodate five ton per square foot bombers, with the aim of proving China can resist Japan.
Jack Goodman aged 27 who had escaped and was sentenced last July to one to ten years surrendered without resistance in Huntington West Virginia. The report notes ongoing injuries across the United States with a weekly statistic.
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