Fire Protection Office Formed In West Virginia
A new coal field fire prevention department is created under the state fire marshal. E Wade Thomas of Keyser named industrial fire protection engineer to lead the program, touring coal areas to promote safety and advise on prevention near tipples, homes, stores, and other buildings. Two fires in McDowell County prompt the initiative. Bartley Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal Co. store suffered heavy loss. five miners’ homes in Davy burned after a defective flue caused the blaze, leaving families displaced. Bartley damage estimated at 125000 dollars. fire origin undetermined.
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McDowell County
E. Wade Thomas
Keyser
Thomas
Potomac Edison Co
Keyser Volunteer Fire Department
West Virginia Fire, Chiefs' Assoc
Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal Co
Bartley
Minora
Davy
Be careful Save the Redwoods League ignores huge Beaver Creek pines
The article argues Save the Redwoods League should protect Beaver Creek Valley sugar and ponderosa pines in Tuolumne County, near a state park. It warns these giants rival sequoias in size and beauty and face immediate destruction unless California acts through purchase or condemnation to create a premier state park.
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Save the Redwoods League
California
State Parka
Sierra Nevada Mountains
League
Tuolumne County
Yosemite
Beaver Creek
Sacrament
Pickering Lumber Corp
Atate
Pine Groves in Peril confronts Redwood League silence
Harold L. Ickes accuses the Save the Redwoods League of secrecy over the Beaver Creek pines. He cites letters to Aubrey Drury and questions the League’s focus on sequoias while urging action to rescue the sugar and ponderosa pines from logging. He implicates Newton H. Drury and colleagues in steering policy.
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League
Aubrey Drury
Drury
Lince
Newton H. Drury
National Park Service
Save
Redwoods League
Aubrey
Beaver Creek
Airport managers named for Martinsburg and Spencer Roane
State Aero- Nautics Director Hubert H. Stark announced the selection of two airport managers. J Carroll Foreman will operate Martinsburg Municipal Airport and Kenneth H Douglas will direct activities at Spencer Roane County Airport. Foreman succeeds E C Parkinson who died in the Aug 2 airplane crash. Douglas appointment coincides with relicensing of the Spencer Roane field after a construction closure. the field will run temporarily for 90 days.
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Stark Lyald
Farmers Prepare Land for Wheat in Fall Seeding
The Cooperative Crop Reporting Service notes farmers plowing for fall seeding as most small grains are harvested. Wet weather delayed threshing of the 1948 crop and shocks left to mature may reduce grain quality in some sections. Milk and egg production show resilience. last week’s weather ran below normal with 70 degree average temperature and .60 inch rainfall.
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Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Circuit Court Checks Logan Sheriff Votes
Logan Aug 25 Circuit Judge C C Chambers began a precinct by precinct review of the Democratic primary for Logan County sheriff. Prospects for crops remain strong with pasture and hay yielding well. Grover C Combs won the nomination by a narrow margin amid complaints of irregularities in harvesting apples and peaches.
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Logan
C. C.chambers
Logan County
Grover C. Combs
Simon A. Dingess
Preseason Hunter Arrested in Kanawha County
George Nunley pleaded guilty to killing two squirrels found by conservation officers in a stove at his Elk Two Mile home. He was fined 40 dollars and sentenced to 30 days in jail by Justice of the Peace lz G. Thayer. The two squirrels were reportedly given to a sick person.
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Kanawha County
State Conservation Commission
George Nunley
Elk Two Mile
Justice of the Peace
G. Thayer
Nunley
Kanawha
Hoy Stewart
Dyer expects no polio epidemic despite new cases
State Health Commissioner N H Dyer stated there is no expected polio epidemic after seven new cases were added to the weekly morbidity report, bringing year to date total to 60. The report shows 15 cases last week and eight the prior year. Cases occurred in Boone Gabell Greenbrier Kanawha and Monongalia counties with one death recorded this year.
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N. H. Dyer
Boone and Gabell
Greenbrier
Kanawha
Monongalia
Weldo
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Arnold R. Knapp
Wood-Boyd Taylor
Ward Ct
Tucker West Virginia Corp
Hnapp
Tucker Motor Corp
Charleston
Kanawha Coun
Speak Up
America
Ty Schools
Jack Fisher
Jack Fisher, Inc
Jocal Coolera
Tucker
Tor
Gazette Fhoto
Golden Suggestion
Ty i
Sorel
Harold L. Ickes
Sone
Omowal Foods
Eastern Panhandle
American Airlines
Baltimore
Chicago
Frank Kirchleberg
West Virginia
New York
Kirchberg
American Alines
West
Virginia Terminix Company
Dyer
Stone c Thomas
Feeples
Weather Report
Mademoiselle
Harris de
Gabardi
Ad Kholer
Black Suedes
Laird Schober
Miner
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