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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1939
Page
8
The state road commission released an annual 409 page report outlining five future goals. Commissioner Burr H. Simpson urged adequate maintenance a planned construction program and designs for present and future needs. The report notes gas tax revenues stay within the commission and federal grants are used for road purposes.
Kanawha County Accountants' association will elect officers at 6:30 p m today. A E Bowers is seen as likely successor to M C Paterno who is current president. Carl Scholz, ex-president of the National Association of Mining Engineers, will address the group. A private dinner precedes the meeting.
The piece describes a secretive movement within farm bureau circles allied to state agricultural departments and the AAA. It notes a shift from Roosevelt support in 1936 to Republican backing as leaders aim to preserve the program while handing operations to Republicans.
The city council voted to accept paving on Ninth, Twenty first and Twenty eighth streets at 50 cents per foot with 30 day payment for property owners. Additional street lights were approved for Thirty first and Forty first streets and a new oak flooring for the Twenty first street bridge. A curb box check with United Fuel Gas is planned for Twenty first street homes and other areas.
Rep. William Irving Sirovich of New York dies at 57 from a heart attack. A physician and playwright, he lived at 539 East Sixth Street and served in Congress since 1926 representing the fourteenth district on the citys east side. He was long chairman of the House committee on patents.
Hyde Park, N Y December 17 A 50 year old woman Mrs Charles H Faust told doctors she was unhurt after an automobile accident that injured her husband and another man She was persuaded to submit to an examination and died on the table from a broken neck discovered minutes later by a doctor
John Porter 24 died from injuries after an explosion at Kenilworth West Virginia. The Globe Brick foreman was cutting a drum top with an acetylene torch when the blast occurred. Porter was son of J B Porter a Hancock County brick manufacturer.
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