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Newspaper

Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 04, 1950

Page

31

Junior Woman's Club Plans To Seat Officers At Dinner

The St. Albans Junior Woman's Club will host its annual dinner at Wren's Nest Tuesday at 6 30 p.m. New officers to be installed include president Mrs James R Pugh and vice president Mrs Morris Mechum. Several church and community groups are listed with meetings and events for the week.

Junior Woman’s Club Virginia W. Hall St. Albans Wren's Nest A. A. Rockwell James R. Pugh Morris Mechum J. R. Dahl Roy Litton Mary Comstock Lee P Keystone National Honor Society CP. Guice Future Teachers of America W. H. Wyatt Henrietta Gray N. L. Fisher Garnette Gray George McBrayer T. H. Hickerson C.H. Hawes P. m James Preston R. C. O'Dell Adrah Dent FB. P. Knight McDan Fraser Coffman Bible H. K. McGraw Coal River Road Evelyn Wallace H. H. McDowell Kanawha Terrace Suzanne Rinck Charles Feye Daily Vacation Bible School Gleara Paul Halstead Lee St Fidelis Bible Ralph Potts The Baptist New Christian Education Convention of the Texas Valley Assoce Mt. Vernon Jean Randolph Christian Education First Presbyterian News First Presbyterian Church Dennis Vaughar GC. McDermit E. C. Colcord Owen Bullington George Hoge Alice MacKeny J. D. Treanor Paul Saunders Lee Hammel Carole Lanah- Na Nelson James Catholic Woman's League of St. Peter’s Methodist Church Ordnance Park Roadside Park WCTU iMrs R. E. Sheen West Midland Trek Florence Hawes K. P. Counts Gilby Bryan Woman's Missionary Society Highlawn Baptist Church Gilbert Mellon Claude Trowbridge B. M. Wells Jefferson District Farm Woman's Club B. H. Morris John Henson Roy Bird Cook West Virginia Tri-City Road Side Park John Don Gay West Virginia University Curtis St Carmine Castle Monastery Morgantown Charleston John Gay Chanute Field Air Sulphur Okta D. Brown Herbert J. Thomas Hospital J Curtis St Humphreys Memorial Methodist S. A. F. Wagner Woman's Society of Christian Service Mabel Bader Frank Stasch G. M. Robinson R. Q. Phillips Birs Jones M. L. Hickman W. Z. Rowan Jack Pile H. , Johnson Caroline Raines Pioneer Woman's Club of Dunbar Browning Yates 23Rd St Frank B. Snyder, Jr Phares E. Reeder Capitol District Genevieve Bitbee Pioneer Woman's Club W. R. Hoblitzell Harry Hofmann Ernest Koster Loraine Corbin George P. Stater

Dunbar Builds New Woman's Club House Aimed at September

Ground will be broken Tuesday for two new Woman's Club houses at 14th and Obie Streets Dunbar. Plans by C C Jones foresee completion within 90 days. New officers from Humphrey's Memorial Church and Kanawha Presbytery events fill the week with meetings and installations across local clubs and societies.

Watch Ha Co. W. Maus, Jr Lloyd C. Auer First Presbyterian Church of Dunbar Massaneta Springs General Assembly The Presbyterian Church In United States Kanawha Rose Garden Club L. A. Jarrett Kanawha Av Paul B. Jones A. C. Downing C. E. House‘holder George Rader

Local Family News Highlights and Birth Notices

The document lists family updates including a nephew John M. Nichols of Charleston visiting from UNC Chapel Hill this weekend. Dr and Mrs John W Carpenter will travel to Clinton DC for a visit and a school reunion. Charles Lucas ITI plans to enter Morris Harvey College to study business administration. Mr and Mrs James Bader of Groescup Ay announce a son born this past week at Thomas Memorial Hospital.

John M. Nichols Charleston University of North Carolina Chapel Hill N.C John W. Carpenter Tommorrow Clinton D. C Charles Lucas ITI Morris Harvey College James Bader Groescup Thomas Memorial Hospital

Ex-Convict Held In Mail Thefts

In Cleveland a 16day manhunt ended with the arrest of an ex convict for mail theft. Edward F. Wimmer, 31, allegedly stole 500 letters including 10 checks worth 456 dollars. Master keys opened 1800 storage boxes and more than 600 carrier relay boxes. Wimmer served four years for check forgery. The case involved a Lions Club dinner meeting at the Monarch Cafe with Krisher presiding.

Cleveland Edward F. Wimmer Lions Club Monarch Cafe Don Krisher Wimmer Ohio Penitentiary

Jet F-6A Swept-Wing Flight Test Successful

Edwards Air Force Base announced the F-6A swept-wing fighter completed its first flight test lasting one hour. The aircraft, described as an 800 mile per hour class fighter, was flown to Edwards after taxi tests at Republic Aviation Plant Farmingdale New York for further service testing.

Edwards Air Force Base Mmuroc Cal Pune Air Force Republic Aviation Farmingdale N. Y

Cottrell Attends AICE Regional Meeting in Massachusetts

Bernard J. Cottrell of St. Albans a Carbide and Carbon engineer joined 500 attendees at the four day regional AICE conference in Syarmpscott Massachusetts from May 24 to May 31. He took part in technical discussions on latest chemical engineering advances and plant tours highlighted the exchange of industrial know how driving American growth. Vary hot cheese biscuits with ham offer a simple serving suggestion to use with packaged mix.

Bernard Cottrell AICE Bernard J. Cottrell Holly St. St. Albans Carbide Acbon American Institute of Chemical Engineers Syarmpscott Mass Cottrell Massachusetts

Doctors Report Finger-Surgery For Heart Ills

A London medical team reports a finger used in mitral stenosis repair offering new hope for rheumatic heart disease. Seven successful operations at Guy's Hospital are described in the British Medical Journal, with praised technique and strong recoveries, including a 23 year old patient who improved from short walks to stairs and housework.

London British Medical Journal British Medical Assoc Charles Beker RB. C.brock Maurice Cambell Guy's Hospital Brock Britain The Medical Journal Philadelphia

Ex-Convict Healthy Year After Perilous Leukemia Experiment

For a year Louis Boy, a 51 year old ex convict pardoned by Gov Dewey, remains in good health after taking part in a blood exchange with eight year old Marcia Slater of Ossining in a bid to treat leukemia. The procedure involved four days of alternating bleedings and transfusions with the girl dying later. Doctors say he did not contract leukemia and he will not need further checkups.

New York Louis Marcia Slater Ossining Marcia Sing Sing Boy Thomas E. Dewey Dewey Lana

Jeweler Guay Says He Was Tool in Canada Plane Plot

Quebec jeweler J Albert Guay awaiting execution for his wife’s murder in a 1942 plane bombing that killed 22. He now says he was a pawn in a larger plot and asks for a stay to reveal the full story of the time bomb aboard a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane last September.

Quebec Que INS J. Albert Guay Guay

Raging Forest Fires Sweep Oregon and Washington

Forest fires have scorched over 4,000 acres across Oregon and southwest Washington. The Klamath Indian Reservation lost about 1,000 acres as families were forced from their homes and timberlands burned. Fire crews contained several blazes as winds weakened.

Portland Ore Oregon Washington Klamath Little Fall Creek Hugene

Nun Electrocution Declared Accident in Chicago Inquest

A coroner's jury ruled the electrocution of Mother Superior Sister Lucille Pellizzer at St Philip Benizi Church convent an accident. She died during a violent thunderstorm that drenched Chicago with heavy rain and flooded a basement where she checked a refrigerator. Sister Raphael testified Pellizzer was found immersed in water minutes after entering the flooded area.

Chicago Lucille Pellizzer St. Philip’ Benizi Church Raphael Mother Pellizzer

Curious Tot Delays Boston Maine Train At Portland Scene

A 22 month old boy named Robert Craig stood barefoot in the Pine Tree Limited tracks causing the Boston and Maine line to halt near Wootfords. Engineer Daniel Coney and a second train stopped safely as police arrived. The boy’s parents revealed a brief sequence involving a faulty refrigerator handle and electric shock to the mother. Funeral plans were announced for a Tuesday service at St Benedict's Cemetery Blues.

Boston Portland Boston & Maine Railroad Bangor Wootfords Daniel Coney Robert Craig Caney Charles Craig Figerator Mother Pellitter St. Benedict's Cemetery Blues

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