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Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1945

Page

20

City Playground Leaders Selected for Charleston Parks

City recreation director Mrs. C Paul Heavener named playground leaders for Charleston programs and urged parents to limit children to 10 players during supervised hours. The list includes leaders at Federal center Lee tion field and many schools, with hours 4 to 8 pm Monday and 1 to 9 pm Tue through Fri.

Charleston Paul Heavener Heavener Park and Recreation Commission Federal Recreation Center Leetion Field Walter D. Hundley Tina Rose Saran Huxkey Littlepage Terrace Mary Woooten Tithelwah Margaret Myers Betty Jo Shaffer Dunbar Stella C. Minor Cabell Fred C. Page Robins

Camp Freedom Opens Third Season For Youths

Camp Freedom in Charleston announces its third season for boys ages eight to sixteen and a separate girls’ session. The Catholic church sponsors the non profit program with directors, fees, and activities including athletics and a Negro program supervised by George Rayford. Lucian B. Compton of Eliada Home will speak at Union Mission tabernacle with nightly services next week.

Freedom Chile Charles Fi Mickey) McDade Dred Sesson Macrow Gratton High School Hiead Elsive Fort Lee West Virginia Rear Institute Laidwa Sroup Jey Field Kathryn Anne P.O Neeman Edward Rowan Charleston Fred C. Foltz Rose Lanningie Jeanette Johns Charles Onley Heuben Carp George Rayford Children’s Home Mission Lucian B. Compton Eliada Home For Children Asheville N.C Union Mission Tabernacle Tita

Kanawha Players award Oscars for acting talents

The Kanawha Players held their second annual Oscar prizes at the Shrine mosque end of season ceremony. Charles Brede received an acting award while Mrs Hansel and Kate Bosworth Johnson were honored for roles in The Old Maid and Oxecars production. Marjorie Frankenberger was named outstanding girl crew member and veteran director Dick Gage received praise for guiding the troupe.

Hansel Charles Brede Kanawha Players Navy Clnse Navy Air Corps Memphis Tenn Dick Gage Shrine Mosque Dival Audi Kiaise Taytore Pres- Hinise Dewey E.S. Kuhns Gage Charlote Lovell Plivers Jonger Phine Beuthame Herschel Willis Unine Meven O Considera Brette Ant

Veterans Honored by C P Veterans Emblems Rise in West Virginia

The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of WV named Raymond C. Williams in Charleston a two-diamond emblem for 49 years of service. T. P. McMillan and Mary West earned ruby emblems for two years, plus Ruth I. Lawson Mary M. Smoot four-star emblems for two years, Rene M. Ogle three-star for 14 years, Pauline Wo Larmoyeux and Frankie O Daniel one-star for five. About 110000 cans supply steel for medium tan.

Chesapeake & Potomac Talesphone Co West Virginia Yenterday Raymond C. Williams Charleston T. P. McMillion Mary West J. R. Ai] Crigier A. L. Crimmins Ruth I. Lawson Mary M. Smoot Rene M. Ogle Pauline Wo Larmoyeux Frankie O'Daniel

Red Cross Halts Nurse Recruitment Effort During War

The Kanawha Clay Red Cross chapter notified the Army Surgeon General to stop accepting Army Nurse Corps applications in summer. Since Pearl Harbor the chapter sent 477 cadet nurse applications. 420 enrolled and 214 assigned to duty. 166 enlisted by the corps. The committee, formed April 1943 with Miss Alma C. Corbitt as chair, spans several counties and honors workers including Atrs WH Baker Mrs Dan Barber and Miss Elizabeth Ewis. 47 Charleston cadet nurses in training will soon be ready for overseas duty.

Kanawha-Clay Dan Barber Elizabeth Evwis Corbitt Charleston

Gasoline Explodes Wounding Boy While Fishing

A gasoline can exploded at Sugar Creek mouth injuring a boy named Walker. He suffered second degree burns to the face head and feet and received care at Mountain State Memorial hospital. The incident followed a lighter believed water being ignited by the boy’s father. The hospital described his condition as poor.

Hererhel Walker Sissonville Road Sugar Crerk Hubert Walker Mountain State Memorial Hospital

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