Virginia Side Rent Board Dismissal Pondered by Council
Bluefield Virginia council discusses removing rent controls after a weak activity period by the local Bluefield advisory board. The council will review the issue at the next meeting and consider disbanding the board with a public mass meeting to follow if endorsed by residents and landlords. The housing expediter's approval remains required for decontrol, else court appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Side Rent Board
Bluefield
Rent Control Advisory Board
W. Va
J. Hudson Huffard
Court of Appeals
J Hudson Huffard
J. Ray Barnett
E. M. Cecil
Jesse Gillespie
Grat Bailey
P. H. Lawless
J. Norman Blake, Jr
Welch residents' mother injured in fall at home
Mrs. Alice E. Hatfield, 84, mother of Glenn D. and McGinnis Hatfield of Welch, is hospitalized in Huntington after a fall at her home Sunday. Doctors believe she sustained a fractured hip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thacker
W. Va
Alice E. Hatfield
Glenn D. and
McGinnis Hatfield
Welch
Huntington Hospital
Wallace Says Party Will Be Continued After Election
New York June 22 Henry A Wallace declared the New Party will endure after the November vote regardless of the outcome. He spoke at Wallace volunteer workers’ HQ saying he seeks many times the 4,000,000 votes once aimed for to show broad support for peace against those he framed as promoting war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
United States
Judge warns Morgantown on gambling and crime
Circuit judge Charles G. Baker denounced local indifference to gambling as Morgantown, West Virginia, remains wide open to gambling halls. He warned that if the city and businesses tolerate gambling, gamblers will shoot and rob. then they will target law abiding citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
Charles G. Baker
Soft coal talks continue over pension and injunctions
The article details ongoing negotiations in the 1947 coal contract dispute. Union chief John Lewis presses to fund $45 million pension from the 1947 fund and to retroactively adjust gains, while operators resist. President Truman appoints a special inquiry board led by David L. Cole to assess the stalemate and potential injunctions, with Bridges predicting no summer strike if moderation holds. The Goldsborough ruling affirms the pension plan does not violate law, boosting hopes for a new agreement and continued coal supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Horn
Lewis
Truman
UMW
Federal Conciliation Service
Truman Injunction
David L. Cole
Paterson
N. J
National Health and Safety
Goldsborough
Bridge-Lewis
Kirby Banquet Honoring Carl Fetver Held At West Virginia Hotel
Kirby vacuum cleaner executive Carl Fetver of Cleveland was saluted at a banquet last night in his honor at the West Virginia hotel. Local Kirby sales staff sponsored the event to mark the company’s new area in Mercer McDowell and Summers counties. J. D. Payne, head of the state Sales district, attended as a guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Fetver
Kirby Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturing Company
Cleveland
Ohio
West Virginian Hotel
Kirby Company
Kirby
Mercer
McDowell
Summers
J. D. Payne
City and Coalfield Masonic Notice
Called communication Bluefield lodge No 85 AF and AM this evening at 7 oclock Work in Third degree Visitors welcome H D Underwood WM L M Carper secretary Mens Gabardine Suits Just received Single and double breasted models Shaman s 406 Princeton Ave
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Lodge No
A. F
A. M
H. D. Underwood
W. M
L. M. Carper
Shaman
Princeton Ave
Voice of Two Worlds Promises Sleep Power System
A Los Angeles explorer known as The Voice of Two Worlds promotes a Tibet origin mind power method said to improve health strength courage and success. He claims the sleeping state awakens a vast inner mind and energy capacity and offers a free 9000-word treatise via the Institute of Mentalphysics in Los Angeles with limited copies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Tibet
Institute of Mentalphysics
South Hobart Blvd
Dept
Calif
District Court Adjourns Here
The June term of the U S district court here adjourned at noon after completing the criminal docket with no civil trials. William T. Martin Jr and John R. Poff faced a national motor vehicle theft act indictment. a bench warrant was issued for Martin after his nonappearance. Frank Miller pled guilty to illegal whiskey possession and moonshine sale, receiving 12 months at Mill Point prison camp. Charlie Blankenship pled guilty on liquor indictments with sentence deferred for probation review.
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U. S. District Court
William T. Martin, Jr
Bluestone
John R. Poff
McComas
Martin
Ben Moore
Frank Miller
Wyoming County
Miller
Moore
Mill Point
W. Va
Charlie Blankenship
Paynesville
Chang
Soore
Blankenship
Dewey Gains Ground as Martin Drops Candidacy
The Dewey camp grows as Katharine St George and Joseph Martin switch dynamics with Pennsylvania's delegation split. Martin withdraws to back Thomas E. Dewey while Vandenberg stays noncommittal, and Alabama may yield to Pennsylvania for the nominating speech.
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield area
Notices report the funeral of Mrs. D N Spradlin in Lynchburg after her daughter Mrs. W H Riley travels from Bluefield. Thomas C Hubbard 79 of Mercer County dies after a five year illness. survivors include two sons and a daughter. Charles Herbert Foster 65 of Princeton dies. services at Church of God Lorton s Lick road Lastmeat with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. Funeral services list pallbearers and floral arrangements. Interment in Resthaven cemetery follows.
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W. H. Riley
Stowers Street
Blefield
D. N. Spradlin
Lynchburg
Thomas Chapman Hubbard
Princeton-Bluefield
Princeton
Camp Creek
Paton
Lucy Hubbard
Nancy Elizabeth Karnes
East River
L. C. Hubbard
Long Beach
Calif
H. G. Hubbard
Washington, D.C
I. B. Winfrey
Princeton- Bluefield Road
Charles
Louis, Hubbard
A. A
Bud” Hubbard
Matoaka
Rastus Hubbard
Verna Stovall
Beckley
Orphin Honsucker
Dott
Lfe
Mercer County
Hubbard
Baptist Church
Fredeking-Seaver
Denver J. Davis
Edward Stubblefield
Resthaven Memorial Park
P. Otis Howling
C.C. Elmore
L. H. Barbery
Paul Askin
G. W. Evans
B. T. Arrington
First Baptist Church
Denver Davis
Vermillion
Medical Association
Masonic Order
Resthaven Cemetery
Charles Herbert
Hub) Foster
Route 3
Church of God
Lorton
Lick Road
Lastmeet
Pee
Woodlawn Cemeery
Arthur
A. J. Wright
Rock
UMW
Junior
Walter Meadows
Tom Warden
Arley Walls
Ted Pickett
Hack Neal
Mercer
Montcalm
Willie Lewis
Mr. Foster
Virginia
William Richard
Nancy Harless Foster
American Coal Company
McComas
Della Lambert Gusk Foster
E. M
Goldendale
Wash
R. L
Rosenberg
Ore
Florence Thompson
Eugene
Clarence
McMannville
Wiley
Shelton
Elsie Eichenburger
Altadena
Josie Mae Romine
Halfway
Myrtle
Shoda
Pulaski
Lake Bailey
Rock, W. Va
Funeral services for Sisk family held in Meadowview
Funeral services for Mrs. A J Sisk Sr and her son A J Sisk Jr of Meadowview were set for 3 PM at the Sisk home with interment in an Abingdon Virginia cemetery. Mrs. Sisk was sister to Mrs. B R Keith and C R Gootson of the city. The pair died in a Lee highway wreck south of Caffee Park involving two cars and a truck, seven others injured and three uninjured.
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A. J. Sisk
A. J. Sisk, Jr
Meadowview
Sisk
Abingdon
Oil Firm Accused Of Partition Scheme
The Nation Associates claim conclusive proof that Arabian American Oil Company is trying to disrupt the United Nations Palestine partition plan. They allege Aramco collaborates with the British foreign office the Arab League and a U S state department branch to safeguard profits. A memorandum was sent to President Truman Secretary General Trygve Lie and UN members. A snail species can live a year without food.
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New York
The
Nation Associates
United Nations
Palestine
Associates
National
Aramco
Arab League
U. S. State Department
Truman
Trygve Lie
U. N
Funeral rites for Dr J R Vermillion held at Princeton
Funeral services for Dr J R Vermillion who died Sunday at his Princeton home were conducted at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Vermillion
Princeton
VPI Secretary Resigns After Long Service
James B. Fogleman the treasurer and secretary of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute board of visitors submitted his resignation effective June 30 President Walter S Newman accepted with regret Fogleman cited limited physical resources after more than four decades in VPI finances He arrived in 1908 after earlier work in Roanoke and Burlington NC and served as executive clerk at the agricultural experiment station before becoming treasurer and board secretary
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blacksburg
James B. Fogleman
VPI
Board of Visitors
Walter S. Newman
Fogleman
Cambria
Virginia Bridge and Iron Co
Roanoke
Burlington
N. C
Agricultural Experiment Station
Camp Pickett Reopens for Inductees Training Planned
Blackstone Virginia June 22 Col H A Lubbmann commanding officer left for Fort Meade Maryland after announcing Camp Pickett would be reopened immediately to train inductees. Fort Meade sources said the camp was inspected for possible reactivation under the new draft program but provided no further comment. A Washington Army Department spokesman said no information was available and comment on camp openings would come after the draft bill is signed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackstone
Col
H. A. Lubbmann
Second Army
Fort Meade
Camp Pickett
Lubbmann
Washington
Department of the Army
Wytheville Livestock Market Report Summary
Wytheville market records brisk cattle and hog values with hogs Good and Choice at 26.50 top for Light 18 head and 25.75 heavy 13 head. Sheep and lamb totals include Lambs 830 at 29.00 top and Ewes 33 at 8.00, with various classes and weights across cattle and weaners as 150 head at 27.00 for Wealers and lighter lots at 24.75 to 20.25.
Owens-Illinois plant to idle furnaces cutting 400 jobs
Huntington West Virginia June 22 two of five glass making furnaces at the Owens-Illinois plant will close Saturday idling about 400 employees plant manager A C Budd said the action stems from a general drop in the glass container industry. Cats cannot see in absolute darkness though their dusk vision is unusually acute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Owens-Illinois Glass Company
A. C. Budd
Bnai B'rith Silver Jubilee Celebrated By Area Members
The Bluefield Princeton Bnai B'rith lodge marks its silver jubilee with a day of events expected to draw about 200 members. Notables from Beckley McDowell lodges and state representatives attend including Walter Adler of Clarksburg. A golf tournament at Mercer Country club begins at 1 pm with prizes. a ladies luncheon at 1:30, Mah Jong and cards at The Town Club. a jubilee banquet at West Virginian hotel at 6 pm with Ted Cook of Philadelphia as guest speaker. followed by a vaudeville show and a dance from 10 pm to 2 am with music by Roy Parks and Concord Commandery.
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Bluefield
D. B. Sennett
Pulaski
Joe Kwass
Charleston
Jessel Salzburg J
Jerome Katz
Mercer Country Club
Max Turk
Mah Jong
Nathan Effron
Ted Cook
Philadelphia
Grand Lodge of
B'nai B'rith
West Virginian
Roy Parks
Concord Commandery
Concord College
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Dewey
Herbert Hoover
Joseph W. Martin
Katharine St. George
Pennsylvania
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Dewey Headquarters
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Thomas E. DeWey
G. Mason Owlet
Owlett
Vandenberg
Vanderberg
New Jersey
Alabama
Gop
Convention City
Union League Club
Harold Stassen
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Robert A. Taft
Earl Warren
Edward Martin
Thomas C,. Hubbard
Charles H. Foster
J. E. Riffe
John Edward Riffe
Caretta
Wattie Riffee
Pilgrim's Knob
Alberts Ball
R. Vermillion
Wytheville Livestock
Bnai B'rith
Divefield, W. Ve
Bluefield and
PTE Raat
Electric Motor Service
Ireson Elec
Bluefield Ave
Electrolux
Uae
ACE Vacuum Stores
St. St
N. W
Washington, D. C
Mme Ae Ok Nha
Ns Ee Ne
A Ee Ak
Pentagon Building
New Jefferson Monument
Mellon Art Gallery
Raleigh
Official
White House
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
C. C. Schiffeler
Mercer Funeral Home
Bluefield & Montcalm
W.va
Mercer Funeral Home Inc
P.D. Bratton
Mgr
Clyde Cravens
Asst
Bland Street
Paper Supply Co
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