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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1947
Page
3
Dorothy Dix argues that melodramatic female grief drives marriage woes. She urges brides to adopt constant cheerfulness, brightness, and humor to sustain love, avoid being Sad Sues or crepe hangers, and to treat cheerfulness as a daily habit and marital tonic.
The Ridge Riders announce their annual parade in Charleston to be held Sunday. Riders from in and around Charleston should meet at 2 Mile Bridge at 5:00 PM. For details contact Harold Harbin at 30-362.
U S Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia will deliver the commencement address to the Stuart Hall graduating class at Staunton Virginia. His daughter Anne Revercomb is among the graduates. Exercises are set for next Monday morning according to the senator security office.
A jumble of names and residences lists marriage applications including George Addinson and Dave Lern Marshall, with ages and hometowns, followed by a long section of birth and family notices. Entries cite dates in June for families across St Albans, Nitro, Dunbar, and nearby towns, naming parents and infants.
Crochet lovers get Pattern 681 for chair sets using No 30 cotton. Laura Wheeler offers new improved charts and photos to simplify needlework. Send twenty cents to The Charleston Gazette Needlecraft Dept for pattern 681 with name address and zone.
Parkersburg June 6 Officials will discuss municipal budget problems at a meeting sponsored by the State League of Municipalities. City Manager Roy F. Ash of Clarksburg, league president, urged finance officers to bring tentative 1947 48 budgets for study. The primary audience is finance officers with mayors and city managers likely to attend. One topic will be the impact of a two percent municipal liquor tax within city boundaries.
The city recreation department announced new bids due by 4:30 p m Thursday June 12 for foundations and completion of four Quon buildings at municipal recreation centers. Contracts exist with West Virginia Steel for temporary structures at several parks. Plans cover foundations floors insulation and electrical plumbing and heating with details at city manager office or Montgomery and Patteson architects.
CIO Local 327 leader says 21 of 6 workers returned to Texas operations despite a Texas injunction that limits picketing. Union insists company-wide negotiations and notes Pure Oil employees in Cabin Creek Dawes refinery and field have been on strike since March 29.
Weston June 6 Elmer D Straw longtime city official dies at his home two days after being reelected as city street alley commissioner following a year of ill health. The death ends a career in local governance and public service.
Lois Leeds answers readers on beauty diet and grooming topics including stockings, dandruff and wigs. A separate report describes a road-escape and hospital admission, then a suspect identified by a soldier’s hat is held in Fayetteville jail.
Deputy G T Davis reports the attempted rape of a young woman motorist halted by Delbert Lilly at his Sumnersee home. Lilly was arrested on charges of attempted rape and felonious assault. the woman, traveling from Faystieville, was grabbed on the running board and dragged toward an embankment before fleeing a passing car.
Max E. Burnside, 21, was stabbed in the chest during a late night grudge fight on Dunbar Road. He remains in just fair condition at Mountain State Memorial hospital as Howard M. Smith, 39, faces felonious assault charges and awaits a June 13 hearing after being released on $2,500 bond. Both men live outside Charleston.
In Chicago police court today two mechanics Paul Agnichek and John H. Kruste 54 and 62 were discharged on charges of destroying park district property after they felled a tree to free a 17 year old girl trapped by limbs. The dismissal followed requests by Capt. George Otlewis and city prosecutor Pasquale Sorrentino. The pair said firemen advised felling the tree after splitting the trunk with a car jack to release the girl.
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