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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1931
Page
4
Health figures show deaths from diseases of the heart in West Virginia drop to 1 040 in 1930 from 1 632 in 1926, the lowest since 1925, while total state deaths rise to 18 220. Accidents remain the leading cause, with 1 784 deaths, and infancy illnesses remain significant, as diphtheria and whooping cough claim young lives.
Vivian Graham granddaughter of Anton J. Cermak becomes Chicago’s official hostess after his inauguration on April 27. The 14 year old, likened to Alice Longworth and Dolly Gann, blends poise and social savvy while remaining modest. She greets national leaders and broadcasts, earning wide acclaim as a precocious civic figure.
May weather favored crops across West Virginia with fruit prospects strong and overall production above five year averages. Wheat June 1 condition 68 percent, oats up, hay crops well above average, pastures improved with rains. Apple prospects bright though drought in 1930 left some trees poor. pear crop strong with expected 96,000 bushels.
Announcement celebrates Blossom Dairy as a Charisatan institution, praising a new plant on Virginia Street between Pennsylvania and Tennessee Avenues. It promises innovations in equipment and service for Charleston’s sixty thousand residents, stressing quality, price, and customer faith.
Miss Utley, an 18 year old evangelist with a ten year preaching record, will open a Union Mission campaign this afternoon at three. She spoke to 15,000 in Jackson Square Garden New York at age 12 and will headline evening services daily except Saturday with Sunday afternoon sessions. Tonight she will present A Two Fold Mission and Build a Bridge. She arrives with secretary Miss Gladys Campbell and Mrs I M Dryer, from Monterey California, former pastor of the Congregational church.
Five-year average production runs 59 000 bushels with prospects for a heavy peach crop statewide. June 1 condition at 86 percent implies about 1 158 000 bushels, compared with 122 009 bushels in 1830 and the 1925 1929 live-year average of 538 000 bushels. Perches in West Virginia and most of Virginia show similar patterns.
In California and nationwide, farm labor remains plentiful with supply at 104 percent of normal and demand at 86 percent. The June 1 ratio shows supply at five tenths of the demand, down from 128 percent a year ago.
The twenty millionth Ford car visited Charleston yesterday on a county wide tour. It arrived before noon escorted by local Ford dealers Charleston Motor Safes and McMillion Motors to the state house. Governor W. G Conley and J. B. Madison welcomed the car and the driver. They inscribed their names in the log and rode a short distance in the vehicle. The car will be preserved at Greenfield Village near Dearborn, Michigan.
The Charleston Gazette Gazetter and Kearse theater host a 8 street parade and film showing The Front Page for boy scouts and Gazette newspaper boys next Thursday at noon. Scouts will meet at the Gazette office, then march to the theater with high school band leading. All Gazette couriers and Yelpers and boy scouts invited. Grandmother motorcyclist from Leamington Spa attends women’s rally. Chris Herbert rode 274 miles for longest distance prize.
Partly cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers expected Sunday across Ohio and portions of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky. Local river readings show KanaWha river boat movements and various dam and pool levels at several cities including Pittsburgh Parkersburg Point Pleasant and Portsmouth with minor fluctuations in level and flow.
Traces of a prehistoric people once inhabiting eastern Kentucky have been found in rock shelters. Dr W D Funkhouser and Prof W M Webb report in a university publication that ashes, animal bones, mussel shells and skeletons suggesting mule remains were uncovered with Smithsonian cooperation.
Cleveland June 13 Increasingly hotter flames in engines due to demand for faster pickup and high speed performance push engineers to new designs. Archie S Colwell describes raised compression ratios from three to four to six to seven to one and innovations like aluminum and beryllium parts, copper heat‑conducting cores, dome pistons, and modified cylinder heads to reduce detonation and manage heat.
In Minneapolis on June 13 a University of Minnesota professor of bacteriology says tularemia carried by woodticks may explain the disappearance of ruffed grouse and the cottontail rabbit. He cites years of lab work suggesting tick bites transmit the disease.
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