South Charleston Council Ignores Wait‑and‑Study Plan
In South Charleston Mayor Joseph Londeree and the Democratic majority moved to ignore a wait‑and‑study plea from Councilman Arch Schoonover for delaying city annexation plans. Councilman A B Lee countered saying the city must keep moving, while Gordon Murray noted 13 playgrounds open July 1 and recreation spending around 30000 yearly. The mayor said funds for a special annexation election would be included in the next budget with a fall or spring vote planned.
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South Charleston
Joseph Londeree
Arch G. Schoonover
Schoonover
A. V. Fitzwater
Fitzwater
Londeree
Lee
Gordon Murray
Murray
Londerce
Coal production rises in Southern West Virginia fields
A weekly Ka nawha Coal Operators Assn report shows Coal River, Kanawha, Logan and Williamson fields boosting output in early May 1959. Coal River leads with 7.3 percent over 1958, Logan 13.4 percent ahead, Williamson 15.2 percent ahead, while Kanawha narrows losses to 10.4 percent behind. Ney River lags 26.9 percent below 1958. Totals for 1959 and 1958 up to May week end are given.
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West Virginia
Kanawha
Logan
Williamson
Ney River
Kanawha Coal Operators Assn
Property Transfers Detailed Across Multiple Districts
A compilation shows numerous property transfers involving multiple buyers and sellers across districts such as Malden, Poca, and Kanawne City. Transactions include lots, parts of lots, and parcels with several couples and individuals named, plus associated addn references and estate details.
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Betty Ann Branson
Jamer
Parsons
Lot
Nacth Charleston
Ole Johnson
James R. Parsons
North Charleston
Lewis Hark Ant
James Bernard Dotson
Cannell
Malden
Paul Gregory
Pansie O. Edwards
Massey
W. Freuch
Vailey Grove
Elk Two
Alezie Jones
G. C. Jones
H. Jones
Big Sandy
Homer W. Maynard
Bernard C. Waterstone
Bart
Kanawne City
R. Levi
Realty Improvement Co
Levi
Malden St
Ole Manda
Ray Pritt
Cres
Derick Creek
Pace
Stanley G. Legg
D. HL
Hiserman
Sunset Memorial Park
Shirley Shambtin
Jackie Shembiin
Goldie Shambtin
Jones
Parcel
Poca Dist
Beer and store license deadline approaches
State officials warn licenses must be renewed by July 1 with applications by June 15. Beer permits face high error rates with 25 percent returned for corrections. Health department numbers may require renewal for 1959 60. Store licenses incur a 10 percent monthly penalty for delinquencies.
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R. D. Platt
Platt
Health Department
West Virginia Air National Guard Ends Largest Postwar Field Exercise
Over 400 West Virginia guardsmen complete summer field training at Kanawha Airport marking the first time at their home base. They joined Operation Dark Cloud Pine Cone Tt near Fort Bragg with 20,000 personnel from 27 states. Lt Col Ralph R Cowgill calls the drill the unit's best training yet, and the Kanawha site saved four travel days to Massachusetts.
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West Virginia Air National Guard
Kanawha Airport
Fort Bragg
N.C
Ralph R. Cowgill
Sydra
Air Guard
Kanawha
Massachusetts
U S Once Had 20 Cent Coin
A reader asks questions on universities and landmarks with concise answers. Topics include New York University charter year 1832 and law dates to 1635, Niagara Falls tightrope walk by Blondin in 1859, and the March 4 1875 20 cent coin act. Also covers Hapsburgs rule 1273 1918 and Dreiser novel base on Chester Gillette case.
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Charleston Gazette, Information Bureau
F St
N. W
Washington, D. C
New York University
New York City
V.M. A
School of Law
Blondin
Niagara Falls
U. S
H.L. A
Theodore Dreiser
W.S
A. Dreiser
Chester Gillette
Grace Brown
Big Moose Lake
Adirondacks
Josef von Sternberg
Phillips Holmes
Sylvia Sidney
Frances Dee
George Stevens
Montgomery
Clift
Elizabeth Taylor
Shelley Winters
Droodles and a Horn Cozy for All Rhinoceros
A Roger Price Droodle column notes a title change to A Horn Cozy For All Rhinoceros and riffs on possible future topics. The narrator contemplates discussing a jet atom smasher from a 1939 Chevrolet transmission or a Turkish Bath steam-room misadventure, while joking about National Recreation Month and the pace of writing space.
Allied Forces Invasion Of France On D Day Anniversary
The lath anniversary marks the 1944 June 6 Normandy landings beginning at 6 30 a m with paratroopers overnight. Allied strength totaled 2 8 million men 4 000 ships and 15 000 planes facing 65 German divisions under Eisenhower.
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France
Europe
Germany
Normandy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Charleston
Coal River
New River
John A. Field Jr
Field
Korea
Sloue Fee
Peete Us
Ther
Siew
the Gazette Quiz
U.S
Atlantic City
D.K. A
Rudolph
Charles I
Austria
Hungary
Atttempts
Mickey Finn
Rex Morgan
Worgans
Bey
Morgan
Ors
Curly Ellen
Buz Sawyer
Gettysburg
MR. Abernathy
Moon Mullins
Vidsewey
Emma E
Lord Plushbottom
MR Aealer I
Abner
Aham
Guy
Signorat
Frida
Clancy
Droodles
By Roger Price
J. E. Stoeckel
C. R. Stoeckel
Central Ave
Charlestor
The
Associated Press
Charleston Printing Company
EL Rancho
Albans
MT. Vernon
Mount
Penna. Ave
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