MClaugherty Gets New Roads Office
Don McClaugherty, longtime public official, appointed to head the new West Virginia road office overseeing motor vehicle registration and driver licenses. The post, created by the Legislature, pays 5000 dollars annually and runs through June 30, 1951. He will supervise from Charleston, previously a Princeton resident and schoolteacher turned public servant.
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Don McInaugherty
Tion
Gov. Meadows
West ‘Virginia
State Road First
Ridles
Oo Hnerly
Princeton
Charleston
Beaver Hill
Bluefield
Mercer County
McClaugherty
Mercer County Democratic Committee
State Democratic Committee
James
Douglas
Army Air Corps
City Hall Office Looted and Suspect Detained
A man ransacked a Charleston city hall office Monday night and was held in jail. Patrolman William W. Walker identified C. E. Cobb, 41, of Falling Rock, as the suspect, finding clothing, stamped envelopes, cigarettes, and other items stolen from the custodian’s third floor office. Cobb received a 10 day sentence in the city jail on a drunkenness charge while investigations continue.
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Charleston
William W. Walker
C. E. Cubs
Falling Rock
Walker
City Hall
Cobb
Suit Claims Bank Made $1 000 Deposit Mistake
The Kanawha Valley bank is accused of a $1 000 error in depositing Thomas Durst's funds to his Durst Market account in Charleston. Durst testified he sent $7 161 to the bank May 21, 1946, but was credited correctly only to later receive a correction indicating a $1,000 discrepancy. The bank says the teller erred in haste and the mistake was not found until rechecking.
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Kanawha Valley Bank
Thomas Durst
Charleston
Durst
Sewage Works Association Forming In West Virginia
About 60 engineers plant operators city officials and industrial representatives from the state will attend a one day meeting at the Daniel Boone hotel Friday to organize the West Virginia Sewage Works and Industrial Wastes Association. They will adopt a constitution elect officers for 1947-48 and consider related business. FP S Fiie of Philadelphia president and W H Wisely of Champaign ill executive secretary editor of the Federation of Sewage Works Assoc Dr D B Moses Charleston du Pont official will be temporary chairman.
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Daniel Boone Hotel
W. Va
Federation of Sewage Works Assoc
D. B. Moses Charleston du Pont
Appeal Sought In Infant Death Case And Pipeline Suit
A Greenbrier Circuit Court convict seeks Supreme Court relief in a voluntary manslaughter case involving his infant niece s child found dead in the Greenbrier river weighed down in a sack. The defendant contends the baby died earlier and was placed in the stream to hide the birth. Separately United Fuel Gas Co petitions Doddridge Circuit Court to compel Judge Max Deberry to allow pipeline construction after a ruling that the petition failed to describe property or damages.
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Greenbrier
Supreme Court
Robert Paul Hicka
The
United Fuel Gas Co
Doddridge
Max Deberry
Deberry
Doddridgge County
Roane County to Wetzel County 20-Inch Line Plan
A proposed 70 mile 20 inch pipeline segment would extend from a Roane county point to Carnegie station in Wetzel county. The project aims to improve regional gas or oil transport and workforce development in the affected areas.
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Carleton E. Welch
Terrese
West Virginia University
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Order of Jater
Pauline Young
Belle
Geraldine Order
Alice US Sramey Briuze
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Albans
Lois Wills
Ansted
Grand Hope
Shrine
Lawson and Co
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M.M. Alexander
Edgar Lawson
Mortgage Li Property MA Real Estate Insurance
Mom
C&o
C&o Lines
Pullman
Pulliman
Nickel Plate
Pere Marquette
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
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Ohio
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Arter Paint &Glass CO
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