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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1943
Page
4
In Central Africa camps soldiers joke with mock orders yet fear the halt call, and few pets exist compared with the north. Officers recall Africa as vast and rich, while soldiers buy homeward treasures like ivory and ebony carvings, shaping a global minded postwar outlook.
Dr. Paul H. Price announced that new facilities at West Virginia University enable the state geological and economic survey to pursue studies vital to the war effort. The investigations cover coal, oil, gas, clay, manganese, iron ore, brine, salt, water resources and tacit formations, with Price submitting his final report before joining the army. R. C. Tucker named acting state geologist during Price's absence.
Charleston high school hosts a large volunteer drive for the OPA OCD mailing center with shifts from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Students in grades 10 to 12 are urged to join, with 150 volunteers per shift and room for 225 at the Charleston High School cafeteria. 176000 books processed in four days. 24 of 150000 applications had errors.
Gov. Neely reappointed two members of the old five man conservation commission to the reorganized agency. Irving A. Cohen of Charleston was named to represent the sixth district for a term ending June 3, 1968, and Finis Dara Hornbrook of Wheeling was named from the first district for a term ending June 30, 1968.
Couples listed include George Denver Howell and Rosabelle Crouch of Eskdale, Walter David Ecktes and Elizabeth Maze Wheeler of Magazine Hollow Charleston, George Jennings Sprathing and Patrick Cecil Tepper of Belle, and William Wesley Davis and Betty Lou Hughart of Big Chimney. Nebraska's state flower is the goldenrod.
Col Darryl F Zanuck movie executive returns to civilian life after War Department grants leave May 31. He can be recalled at any time and had served as reserve lieutenant colonel directing documentary films in Tunisia and Kiska. Patterson said Zanuck unwisely drew salary from Twentieth Century Fox after draft.
Miss Betty Kerr age 18 is in serious condition in an Elkins hospital after a beating. She was found unconscious in a roadside ditch along Route 23 near Beverly Road by Monty Willis. Police say she left home last evening and went to a road house then a sister's home before losing memory.
Richard D. Pirnack promoted from captain to major in the U S Army at the Sixth Service Command in Columbus Ohio. He served 20 years in the regular army, prior adjourant for the West Virginia military area headquarters, now chief of the enlisted section with the Sixth Service Command. He entered service as a private in 1917 and served with the Sixth Cavalry at Fort Bliss Texas. He was called to active duty as a captain in 1940.
A two piano recital was held last night at the Charleston Woman's club by pupils of Walter Bricht of Mason College of Music and Fine Arts. Peggy Hall and Jackie Johnson played Mozart Sonata in D major. Pauline MacDonald and Enor Sutherland performed Debussy Suite. Mary Bob Croft and Louise Green offered variations on a Beethoven theme. Marjoria Thomas and Lois Silverstein presented Rachmaninoff Suite No 2.
Four days after Joe D Ward’s return to work at Amherst Coal Co Buffalo Creek Logan County reported its fourth mine fatality in as many days. Ward died in a hospital after a crushing accident at the state fort today leaving a wife and one child at Boone’s Camp, K. This marks the 11th Logan mines death this year.
Ysauro Domingo of Page filed suit in Kanawha court against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co alleging He was walking along a public path when a train that had stopped started and knocked him down, severing both legs.
In Porto Alegre, public ambulances will switch from gasoline to charcoal and be used only for patients too ill to travel by normal means. Private car use is banned in Brazil amid fuel shortages, with toll effects on mobility and emergency medical access.
The Union Mission camp for nursery children opens at 1 p.m. today with public invitation. Over 80 children will attend regularly this summer and others will spend part of the time there. Rev. Pat B. Withrow and James F. Stroud will welcome visitors. Located in Abney park on 800 acres, the site includes buildings, cottages, a tabernacle, playgrounds and a swimming pool. The Kanawha Valley Bible conference will be held there from July 20 to July 18.
Timothy Marvin Rife 35 of South Charleston pleaded guilty before U S Commissioner W H Belcher on Thursday night to forging narcotic prescription forms. He is held on a $1000 bond for the Bluefield term of the federal district court opening Tuesday. The Nebraska motto quoted appears as a misprint in the report.
John Starsher of North Charleston was reelected president of the Kenawha Valley Baptist Sunday school and B P U convention at an all day Hampton Baptist church meeting East Bank. Other officers include Aubrey Amey Marmet treasurer C T Hensley Charleston missionary education chairman W P Adams South Charleston vacation church school director Ernest L Honts Charleston Sunday church schools director T Howard Kingston North Charleston vice president Charles Young Charleston clerk T Howard Kingston children director Fret Kenney Wiichers Creek young people's director Rev W M MelKinney Chelyan leadership education director.
Rep Elliott D. proposed using war prisoners to build flood control projects to relieve labor shortages. Rep Randolph D W Vad urged completing a dam on the Savage River near Piedmont West Virginia.
A bankruptcy petition was filed in federal district court yesterday by Frazier Evans of Boomer. The debtor listed liabilities of 401.75 and assets of 25.
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