Heavy rains flood Kanawha Valley basements and streets
Flash floods drenched the Kanawha Valley with about 1.5 inches of rain, inundating basements and streets across South Charleston and surrounding towns. In South Charleston major blocks and avenues flooded up to three feet, while Montrose underpass saw nearly six feet of water. Dunbar and St. Albans reported deep water and sewer backups, with bridges washed out along small creeks and residents evacuating briefly before waters subsided. No widespread emergency calls beyond pumped basements reported.
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Kanawha Valley
South Charleston
D St
Montrose
Central Av
Woodbranch Hollow
Cabin Creek
Roxalana Rd
12Th St
17Th St
16Th St
Dunbar
Dunbar Fire Department
Roxalana
St. Albans
Charleston
Ciy
Oakhurst Dr
Cavalcade of Convertibles to lead pre North South game
Twenty six new convertibles carrying football players and beauty queens will headline the Cavalcade of Convertibles in Charleston. The 3rd annual Pigskin Pageant will parade through downtown before the all star game at Laidley Field, with 10 local auto agencies providing cars. Drivers gather at the North South training camp near Dunbar at 6 15 p m.
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Charleston
Laidley Field
T Crowder Motor Co
Coox-Morton Co
Rhodes-Walker Chevrolet Co
J. Valisy Motor Sales
Tag Galyean, Inc
Charleston Motors, Inc
Rog-1
Er Dean, Inc
Wickline Motors
Lion Motors
Kurdy's Motor Co. Inc
Dunbar
Din
Charleston Recreation Center Enters Pig Skin Pageant Float
The Charleston Recreation Center announced to the admissions committee that it has entered two floats in the third annual Pig skin Pageant to be held tomorrow night at 3 p.m. A total of 15 floats will be on hand to thrill the crowd.
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Committee of Admissions
Charleston Recreation Center
Cavalcade of Convertibles to Parade Through Charleston
Leonard Robb will organize the lineup of cars and riders for the Cavalcade of Convertibles. Perg Giannakis assists as tiner. A Charleston police motorcycle escort will lead the group as it departs the camp at 6 45 p m for Charleston.
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Ner
Leonard Robb
Perg Giannakis
Charleston
Inside Today imusements Gnering Dorn Somaats Class
Obscure fragments describe a local newspaper page with scattered items. Mentions of society notes and an obituary hint at community notices and personal tributes amid miscellaneous columns and features.
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Inez
Millgallen Way
Eas Patter Oe
Radin-T ¥ S
Society A Stocks
Pt Pleasant Beauty to Vie For NS8 Title At Festivities
Pt Pleasant beauty Mrs. B-29s blast Red troops massed for Taega push 50 000 face November draft. Point Pleasant Register will be among sponsors with leading newspapers taking part in the third Pigskin Pageant a mile long spectacle of floats and bands. A reception at Charleston Daniel Boone Hotel precedes the event Friday, followed by a Victory Ball at Casa Loma. The North South Football Game is sponsored by 20 West Virginia daily newspapers including The Gazette.
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Point Pleasant Register
Charleston
Daniel Boone Hotel
Casa Loma
West Virginia
The
Gazette
Last 35000 To Be Called By July 1951
Washington report says Selective Service Director Hershey plans to draft 50,000 more in November leaving 35,000 to be inducted in the remaining fiscal year ending next June 30. Hershey sought funds to cover inductions of 195,000, including 100,000 already slated for September and October.
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Washington
INS
Congressional
Selective Service
Hershey
Appropriations Subcommittee
Bureau of the Budget
Selective Service System
Unions Urge Truman To Seize Railroads
Unions press President Truman to seize railroads amid labor dispute and wartime mobilization. White House consider aid for dependents of service members while Congress weighs deferral plans for mobilized workers and reserves. Senate moves to extend enlistment pause as talks stall and military needs persist.
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Truman
Letsher
Capitol Hill
Selective Service
White House
Washington
Brotherhood of Railroad
Navy
Air Force
Universit
W. P. Kennedy
Senate
BRT
R.O. Hughes
Presi I
Dent
ORC
Union
Ias
John R. Steelman
Armed Services
Togaurey
Conti
Hay Fever Season Opens in West Virginia
West Virginia faces the start of ragweed season as hay fever sufferers brace for pollen. State Health Director N. H. Dyer and Dr. Leon A. Dickerson note the opening day was mild due to frequent rains that hinder pollen spread. Dr. W. A. Thornhill Jr urges treating allergy to prevent possible progression to asthma.
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John G. Morgan
the Gazette
West Virginia
N. H. Dyer
Leon A. Dickerson
Kanawha- Charleston
W. A. Thornhill, Jr
Charleston
Kanawha County Budget Totals 7 934 168 for 1950 51
Kanawha County Board of Education sets the 1950 51 budget at 7 934 168 an increase of 105 928 41 from 1949 36. Approval rests with the State Board of School Finance and the State Tax Commissioner. 408 783 50 funds new buildings or additions. Increase stems from higher property valuation 40 000 state aid 59 153 and federal lunch money 6 000. Superintendent Virgil L Flinn says about 70 percent goes to teachers salaries and 30 percent to maintenance land and supplies. Board ends year with 267 293 29 balance applied to next budget.
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Kanawha County
Virgil L. Flinni
Inn
Body of Second Youth Found on Mt Whitney
In Lone Pine California on August 15 a 17 year old tobacco heir Christopher Smith Reynolds son of Libby Holman was found on Mount Whitney about 300 feet from the summit. The body lay at the 8000 foot level awaiting removal by a sheriff posse tomorrow. Companion Steven Wasserman also 17 was found dead Sunday.
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Lone Pine
Cal
Christopher Smith Reynolds
Libby Holman
Mt. Whitney
Steven Wasserman
Beynolds
Three Car Crash On Bridge Injures Four
A three car pile up on the Kanawha City bridge at noon yesterday injured four people and stalled traffic for two hours on a main thoroughfare. Injured include Willie Legs 816 Summers St with a shattered jaw admitted to Charleston General Hospital Christine Marcum 20 707 Dryden St admitted to St Francis Hospital for cuts and bruises Joyce Gale two years old admitted to St Francis Hospital for bruises Harry Gunter 52 1409 Bigley Ave held for observation at Charleston General Hospital for a possible shoulder injury.
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Kanawha City Bridge
Willie Legs
Summers St
Charleston General Hospital
Christine Marcum
Dryden St
St. Francis Hospital
Joyce Gale
Harry Gunter
Bigley
Birth of Elizabeth's Daughter Shocks London Crowd
British crowds celebrate the birth of Princess Elizabeth's daughter at 11 50 am marking a potential future queen. Prince Philip and Elizabeth rejoice as 30 000 in a cricket crowd pause for a 41 gun salute. The third in line to the throne, the baby follows Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles.
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London
Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Counle
England
West Indies
Prince Charles
Philip
Duke of Edinburgh
Prince
Duke of Windsor
Anti Red Act Tied To Controls Bill
Senate GOP sponsors link anti Communist legislation to the emergency war powers measure for President Truman. Mundt and Ferguson call the idea compatible with overall controls for wartime mobilization. Myers urged a complete industrial mobilization authority, saying it may be needed to deter new Communist aggression. Lucas warned a veto is possible if amendments pass. McCarran set a show down vote on subversive control, with omnibus anti Red measures guiding the debate. Taft criticized powers expansion as the GOP divides on presidential authority.
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Washington
INS
Senate Gop
Truman
Mundt
Ferguson
Mich
Senate
Myers
Congress
Lucas Panes
McQartan
Lucas
Russia
Harold F. Stassen
United Nations General Assembly
Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
CBS
Associated Press
U.S
Moscow
U. S
Burma
China
Erlistt Roberts
The
Geodetic Survey
Auckland
New Zealand
Boston College
Harvard University
Daniel Lineham
Innes College
Weston
Mass
Debates on Postal Bill Go On in U S House
Freshman Rep John R Walsh rushed to the House to press a bid to restore twice daily mail service, signaling votes to reverse Donaldson's April cut. The decision was postponed until tomorrow as party lines clashed amid political theater.
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Washington
Donaldson
John R. Walsh
Indiana
House
India diplomacy nudges Korea stalemate toward Stalin
A source close to the Soviet delegation says Jacob Malik referred India's peace plan to Premier Stalin. U N and British officials warn against commitments, aiming to avoid giving Communist propaganda leverage. The India initiative seeks a halt to propaganda and a draft peace formula by the Little Six, with Security Council meetings set for Thursday as delegates await home instructions.
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India
Bengle Ray
Security Council
Little Six
U. N
Korea
Nehru
Stalin
Malik
Satlin
Ex Colleagues Honor Good Old Andy May in Prison Term
The House praised former Rep. Andrew J. May of Kentucky now serving a six to 24 month term for accepting bribes related to war contracts. May chaired the House Military Committee in WWI and his parole request was recently denied. Democratic Leader McCormack saluted him as a great American.
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Andy May
Washington
House
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
May
House Military Committee
McCormack
Mass
Pigskin Pageant to Start at 8 P.M. Thursday
The third annual Pigskin Pageant will begin at 8 p m Thursday from the corner of Ohio and Fayette and move east along Fayette Lee to Brooks. Bands disperse on Lee Street between Morris and Bradford while convertibles and floats proceed in the same general direction with north south dispersal on Morris.
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Ohio
Fayette
Fayette-Lee
Brooks
Lee Street
Morris
Bradford
Mor
Wage Hike Hopes Dashed by Charleston Council
Charleston finance committee said most funds in the 1950-51 budget were spoken for, dashing police and firemen hopes for further pay raises. A $15 monthly hike was approved three weeks earlier amid a one year 5 percent sales tax increase, with $20,000 added by property value gains but at least $16,000 already in anticipated figures.
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City Council
George Coyle
Charleston
Please turn cents to Page 11 Col 5
An instruction seeks to convert the symbol for cents to a page and column reference in a newspaper layout. The fragment implies adjusting a currency marker to indicate location rather than modifying monetary value. It reads as a layout editing note rather than a stand‑alone news item.
Foe Takes Up Position Near Key U.S. City
US and Allied forces report a large-scale Soviet era like air and ground operation near Taegu as North Korean troops mass along the Naktong river line. Nine hundred B 29 bombers saturate the Waewwan sector while Reds push bridgeheads near Naktong front lines. North Korean units threaten Taegu with significant troop concentrations as MacArthur’s command notes Red crossings contained around Waegwan and Hyonjong. A Navy shore party strikes a railway tunnel near Chong, while plans for a wider offensive persist amid shifting schedules and allied countermeasures.
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Naktong Line
Tokyo
Eighth Army
Korea
Naktang
Nakiang
Tarau
Taegu
Associated Press
Leif Erickson
Garters
Tanzu
U. S. Freet ‘Cavalry Division
Naktane
Wengwen
Waegwan
United Nations
MacArthur
Jpon Whitehead
Naktong
Hyonjpung
Tseee
Whitehead
First Cavalry
Kim I} Sung
North Korea
Jfrontier
Washington Defense
Navy
Chong
Vladivostok
Changnyong
U. S. 24Th Infantry Divison
Farm Wife Sees Virgin at Noon Vision Draws 100000 Crowd
NECEDAH Wis Aug 15 Mrs Mary Anna Van Hoof said she saw and received a message from the Blessed Virgin Mary at high noon today The back country farmer rose from her dooryard shrine and told a reverent throng estimated at nearly 100000 that the Mother of Christ wants them to pray Pray The vision was her seventh meeting with the Virgin and many in the crowd believed the apparitions were real despite observers seeing nothing unusual Short after Mrs Van Hoof
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Necedah
Wis
Mary Anna Ven Hoof
Virgin Mary
Mother of Christ
Russians Reported Fighting in Korea
Senator Bridges NH claims Russians are fighting with North Koreans in Korea and that every Korean regiment has ten Russian advisers. He alleges Chinese Communists and some Russians are in North Korean forces while urging listeners to pray as the pope and world face danger, noting the pope's safety depends on prayer.
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Concord
N. HH
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Korearm
Bridges
Jin
America
Pope Pius
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Recreation Center
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Taega
Ruth Louise Rornine
Judy
Romine
C. E. Romine
Point Pleasant High School
Thespians Dramatic Organization
Carlos
McCarran
D-Ney
Senate Judiciary Committee
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Taft
U.S. Warn
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