Leading Lines Hit a New Highs This Week
New York June 24 Leading lines of business and industry rose to yearly highs with autos steel building and utilities leading. Automobile output surged to a record, freight carloadings and crude oil production reached peaks, bank clearings and loans rose, while dividend declarations and corporate earnings showed strength amid labor tensions and inflation.
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New York
Thompson-Starrett Co
Standard Steel Spring Co
Railcar loadings forecast boost for Allegheny region shippers
A forecast for the Allegheny region expecting third quarter carloadings to rise 31.8 percent from the 1949 period. Major lines remain strong, with soft coal, paper and paper board, crude oil and electric power at high levels. A slight uptick in business failures brings totals to 178 from 164 as the economy adjusts postwar.
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Maryland
Deadline Set for Chamber Ballots in Bluefield
The Bluefield West Virginia Chamber of Commerce sets noon Monday as the deadline for receipt of preliminary ballots in its annual election. About 500 members have been voting for seven new directors with fourteen nominees for seven vacancies. Final ballots go out midweek and directors for 1950 51 will be named at a July 5 luncheon.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Chamber
Beaver Choir To Open Clinic
The Beaver high school A Cappella choir plans a summer clinic at Trinity Methodist church from August 13 to 30. Directed by Miss Elizabeth Shelton, the faculty includes Miss Anne Sykes Paul H. Royer Mrs Mary Cheyney Nelson George Sinclair and Susan Bur.
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Beaver High School
Trinity Methodist Church
Elizabeth Shelton
Miss Shelton
Anne Sykes
Yale University School of Music
Paul H. Royer
Cincinnati College of Music
Mary Cheyney Nelson
Westminster Choir College
George Sinclair
Yale School of Music
Susan Bur
Dead Man Found In Woods Dead Drunk
Police report a man found in the woods behind the old Jewish Synagogue on Scott street was dead drunk rather than dead. An empty bottle and grass stains suggested he had slept off intoxication on the scene.
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R. O. Bond
Scott Street
District School Today At Masonic Temple
A 10th district school of instruction will be held today at the Masonic Temple. Thomas A. Beckett deputy grand lecturer will lead the session starting at 1 p m. A buffet dinner will be served at 6 p m by the White Shrine ladies.
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Masonic Temple
Thomas A. Beckett
Westminster Choir College Starred in Local Pageant
Miss Anna Mae Foresman, a Cincinnati graduate, joined the nette Westminster choir college in a local event highlighting young musicians and alumni from the association.
Bluefield To Build Community Center At Bland And Union
Preliminary work for a seven unit community center on Bland and Union begins with tearing down houses. The project, financed by the Flat Top National Bank Trust Department, includes a 50 by 90 foot parking area and a two floor space with fifteen office suites. Two dentists and two doctors have leased spaces on the second floor, with other applications in progress. The steel and concrete structure will be fireproof with a dark red brick and glass front about 25 feet high.
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Bluefield
Bland and
Union Streets
Trust Department
Flat Top National Bank
Leasors
Guy Lawhead
Former McDowell Man Receives Ph D Degree
Wayne Stephen Martin, a former McDowell county school teacher, earned a Ph D in education at Oregon State College during its eighty first commencement in Corvallis. A WVU graduate, he later earned an M S from Oregon in 1948 and taught ten years in McDowell schools. His wife and he lived in Welch while he did construction work.
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Gary
W. Va
Wayne Stephen Martin
McDowell County
Oregon State College
Corvallis
Oregon
Martin
West Virginia University
Big Creek High School
Elkhorn
Welch
Martin Plant
J. T. Franklin
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