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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1944
Page
2
Mrs. Chilton of Charleston one of West Virginia's electors arrived from New York to cast her electoral vote for Roosevelt and Truman at 10 a.m. in Gov Neely's office.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, New York, led Roosevelt’s four opponents in popular vote percentage with 45.9 percent on Nov. 7. Roosevelt totaled 25,610,936 votes while non-Roosevelt candidates pooled near 23,018,177, with a 47,860,828 total and Roosevelt’s smallest plurality to date.
The Boy Scouts of East Charleston held a Friday rally at Owens-Almnots gymnasium closing a city rally series. Seven troops competed, five qualified for the winter Jamboree with honor ribbons awarded to troops 3 First Presbyterian Church John Hover scout master troop 9 Virginia St Temple Maurice Mendel scout master troop 11 J N Harmon assistant in charge troop 16 Kanawha City William Schuster scoutmaster troop 182 South Park M G Goodholm scoutmaster.
The National Committee on Teacher Examinations of the American Council on Education approved Wesleyan College at Buckhannon as a national teacher examination center with Dean A. A. Schoolcraft as local examiner. Examinations open to college seniors, education grads, and in service teachers and administrators. Held March 16 and 17, 1945, in subjects such as reasoning, English, general culture, and contemporary affairs.
In Trafalgar Square a mass demonstration condemned Britain's armed intervention in Greece. Spokesmen from the Labour Commonwealth and Communist parties denounced Churchill and demanded the recall of troops in Greece as red flags and the Union Jack flew above the platform.
New York December 17 N T Quinn announced he submitted his resignation as director general of the War Production Drive Division of the War Production Board to J A Krug WPB chairman. The announcement said Quinn has been elected president of the Monitor Equipment Corp of New York and his formation would become effective Jan 1.
London reports Lord Templewood the British ambassador to Spain has resigned, the foreign office announced.
Miss Mary Florence Watts and Charles Wayne DeWitt Jr wed in a St Mark's Episcopal church ceremony. The piece notes numerous Christmas gatherings at St Andrew and First Presbyterian churches, a parish party schedule, and local military family announcements in St Albans.
The Kanawha Ter and Park St area announces the birth of a son named Charles Edward on December 11 at Charleston General Hospital.
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