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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
4
The Charleston Gazette reports that twenty five percent of the world’s silver production is allocated to airplane engine manufacture, underscoring metals demand during wartime.
Real natural whole grain oat meal leads cereals in protein and in food energy. It also leads natural cereals in energy vitamin B. Start your day with vitality. Quick Mother's Oats cooks fast as coffee.
Word came last night that Frank F. Everest, husband of Edith Van Horn of Lee Street, has been promoted to brigadier general in the army air corps. A West Point graduate, he holds the Silver Star for gallantry on Guadalcanal in February. His wife and children, Patricia and Frank F. Jr., went to Washington, D. C., to join him awaiting reassignment.
Under W. V. Leaper as war efforts committee chairman, the Junior Chamber of Commerce will solicit the entire business section from Elk River east to Broad Street and from the Kanawha River to Capitol Hill for the 5th war loan drive. The group, which just redecorated the Victory Hut on Capitol Street, plans to sell bonds from the Hut each evening during the month-long campaign opening Monday.
Five ARMCO employees and a company physician were honored for heroism in the Nellis mine explosion rescue of November 6. A. E. Oakekeey, L. D. Baldwin, Austin Woodhuff, Clyde Holstein, and Dr. J. Paul Aliff received the distinguished service medal at ceremonies in the Nellis theater accompanied by a dinner at the company clubhouse. Calvin Verity presented the medals, noting the award’s rarity and prior recipients for lifesaving acts. State Mines Chief Jesse Redyard and U. S. Bureau of Mines representative A. A. Miller spoke at the event.
James M. Long of the Associated Press, seasoned on the New York foreign staff and in London, moves toward a new assignment. He has long chased diverse stories with calm precision and now readies to cover an invasion tale, with prior stops in Philadelphia, New York, and London shaping his approach.
Anes Harry Kennedy represents the Kanawha Coal Operators Association and company officials from Middletown Butler Pa Ashland Ky Zanesville O and other points.
British prisoners of war are being taught tailoring in London with officials of tailor associations promising guaranteed jobs after the war for those showing aptitude. The program aims to provide practical skills and improve postwar employment prospects for servicemen held as POWs.
Fred B. Hall a 71 year old pocket billiard expert entertained Elks members last night with sleight of hand card tricks and an exhibition of cue wizardry. He will give another show at the Brunswick billiard parlor on Summers Street tonight at 8 15.
Jefferson district fifth war loan committee will hold a general meeting Monday between 8:30 and 8:30 p m. in St Albans Alban meter. G H Ellis, chairman, asks all merchants and their sales staff attend for final instructions on the war loan drive.
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