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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1951
Page
2
Readings from a safety feature discuss survival odds in a modern city during a nuclear blast. Basements and subways offer better protection, while ground-level exposure risks radioactivity. Experts warn about long-term contamination from ground bursts and water/food impacts.
Mrs. P. L. Rose aged 30 of Chelyan died Saturday at the home of her daughter Mrs. C. P. Anderson in Oak Hill. She is survived by four other daughters, two sons Ivan of United and Ben of Baltimore, 21 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Services are set for 2 p m tomorrow at Chelyan Methodist Church with Rev. W. M. McKinney officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park under Pryor Mortuary arrangements. Body to be taken to the church an hour before the service.
Congress wrestles with rent control extension and a broader housing bill as Southern Democrats and Republicans resist government controls. A new plan for coordinating production agencies is expected, while critics condemn blocking private builders and note small business manpower issues.
Labor groups demand equal treatment for executive and worker wages during mobilization. Applications to the salary board run about 50 a day with roughly 750 cases awaiting action. Regulations would allow automatic raises within a percentage range to minimize cases needing prior approval. About 150 cases have been decided. few outright refusals have occurred, though some bosses’ requests were put on hold for further justification.
The article quotes Cole criticizing a program run by the Housing and Home Finance Agency. He labels it a paper solution that in practice is bogged down by red tape and foot dragging, hindering actual housing construction. Exemption from credit controls is noted to aid erection of necessary housing.
Former State Man Dies in Kentucky Louisa June 17 Dr Anthony Wayne Bromley physician to the family of Chief Justice Fred M Vinson died at 81 after 55 years in Louisa practice He was born in Wayne County West Virginia graduated from Electrc Medical School Cincinnati in 1896 Known for a home prepared ointment He served as vice president of the First National Bank of Louisa and belonged to the Kentucky State Medical Association Survivors include a daughter and son.
Police say Reba Hart and her sister Rose Szyuch shot Rufus Grubbs and Burl Hart during a family argument in Darber. Burl, who survived, said his brother’s wife and sister shot him. Grubbs lay dead in a bloodstained kitchen. The woman faces a murder charge as investigators proceed.
About 120 men report for the four shifts as the local CIO affiliate counts roughly 1,200 workers at the plant. Plant officials were expected to issue an official statement later in the afternoon.
John Carper eighty of 803 Bigley Avenue dies after long illness at home. partner of late U S Senator Davis Elkins in oil and gas. survived by wife Mamie, daughter Virginia, son John S., sister Hattie Ewner, brothers James, Clay, Irvin. Service at Bartlett Mortuary. He was a Charleston resident for about 50 years and active in Kanawha lodge and Scottish Rite bodies.
C. and C. Engineer was to be relieved in Huntington at 4 44 a m. Talman's first railroad job was as a fireman. He was promoted to engineer in 1828. For years he was listed as an extra, filling in for other engineers laid off.
The NMU and other maritime unions see contracts lapse at midnight Friday. NMU seeks 40 hour weeks, a 25 percent wage rise, paid vacations, and removal of inequities. Current rates range from $213.73 to $315.34 monthly, with engineers and radiomen earning higher sums. East and Gulf officials avoid strike language, while West Coast radiomen announce a strike.
The department urged immediate steps to train women for essential jobs facing a shortage including nurses teachers lab technicians and stenographers. It supported training women beyond traditional roles and orientation for those who never worked, plus male orientation to work with or supervise women and merit promotions for women where feasible.
FAIRMONT June 17 Tony Petrovich of Four States Marion Peearty received a Holmes Safety Assay award for forty years of coal work without a lost time incident. Petrovich works in the O Donnell mine of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Co.
Forecast shows mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms across Charleston Virginia Tennessee Pennsylvania Maryland and the region. Highs range from 70 to 80 degrees with variable conditions in each area.
A mine watchman reported to state police an arson attempt at the Sigley Coat Co. coal tipple near Tunnelton, Preston County. He fired five or six shots, believing he hit one of two assailants who fled into the brush. Similar violence has occurred in the turbulent area since February.
A German life from Gdansk region continues after two years in total darkness in a bunker where six soldiers hid while looting stocks. Retreating Germans blasted the entrance seals, trapping the men with food wine tobacco and a dwindling candle supply. Water leaked through cracks and was mixed with Rhine wine to extend limited liquid stores.
The obituary outlines the death of a Hurricane area resident a retired trucker and church member. Survived by wife Mrs Lary Bess two sons Roy and Larry of Pr mt seven daughters and five brothers. Service details and burial plans are given, with multiple other individuals named in associated notices.
Beckley attorney Burke Lynch will speak to members of the West Virginia Claims Association at the new Elks Club in Beckley. The meeting follows a cocktail hour at 5 30 p m and dinner at 6 30 p m. The group is open to any West Virginia resident whose primary work is handling insurance claims.
MADISON June 17 Special Curtis Hager about 45 of Ramage hospitalized this morning with serious cuts to the head. Basil Hager 40 of Ramage jailed on felonious assault charge after a fight over a woman. State police say Curtis was struck with a beer bottle. two men later died by self harm. several others died later from illness. The report notes burial details and improvised measures due to lack of tools to break concrete.
Communist forces on the eastern front fired rockets halting U.N. tanks near a river south bank and pushed back a column near a supply dump north of Chupari 11 miles east of Kumhwa. Navy data cited 8,695 U.N. casualties at Wonsan with total April 22 to June 14 losses around 215,293 including 17,072 prisoners and 198,836 killed or wounded as navies bombarded the port. Red troops reinforced central front lines while eastward movements were reported above the Hwacheon reservoir.
New York report quotes Korean ambassador Dr You Chan Yang claiming war cost 3,000,000 Korean lives and left 10,000,000 homeless. He spoke upon accepting honorary chairmanship of American Relief for Korea Inc, noting widespread loss of all possessions.
Washington June 17 doctors on the national advisory board of the Doctors Committee for Improved Federal Medical Services urged Congress to consolidate federal health agencies. The statement cites Hoover Commission findings that five major and 30 smaller agencies run uncoordinated medical programs and called for immediate executive action.
A wartime defense of the 29th Division members from Virginia and Maryland condemns a convention for omitting key Allied actions at St Lo Brest and subsequent fighting on German soil. The speaker laments the insult to hundreds of dead and argues for recognition of tactical successes alongside strategic outcomes.
Pierre Olivier Lapie nears defeat while Mau thces Persche leads Independents to a Hautes Alpes victory. The coalitions fear a split by RGR right wing with Daladier factions possibly joining de Gaullists, risking control. President Ambol commutes Petain's life sentence to confinement in a hospital. Auriol orders Petain moved from prison isle to mainland hospital.
Edest Eugene Miller 47 of 601 Monroe St engineer for the State Board of Cano died Saturday in a local hospital after four years with the department. Burial at Spring Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife Tressa Ellen Miller a son Thomas Eugene a daughter Mrs Richard Miller of Charleston and sister Mrs Earl Lively of Wyandotte Mich. Pallbearers listed. Memorial service at Central Methodist Church officiated by Rev Albert R Young.
In New York on June 11 the CIO Transport Workers Union announced a settlement of a three day disruption to Pan American World Airways trans Atlantic service. The TWU said the agreement was ratified and workers were to return to duty. The strike began over 89 firings at Idlewild and La Guardia prompting a general holdout of 1900 ground and flight staff excluding pilots. Pan Am canceled one overseas flight and delayed others up to 12 hours.
In Bonn Germany 2500 Free German Youth members clashed with 200 police near the Petersberg protest site. Police seized demonstrators and forced removal of blue shirts billed as illegal uniforms. Dozens jailed and mobility restricted as police confiscated film and dispersed crowds.
Prince A Tyree of Beckley died Saturday at Swine. Survived by one brother G W Tyree of Charleston, a sister Mrs Janie Christian of Beckley, four half brothers John Tyree of Washington DC Harrison Tyree of Latto s Theodore Tyree of Beckley, one half sister Mrs Estelle Sawder of Beckley. Services at Sweensyburg Church at 2 pm Monday with Rev Janes of East Beckley officiating. Burial in Hoskins Cemetery near Sweeneyburg under Tyree Mortuary of Oak Td. Body to church from Lo %. Tyree’s bear ab hour before sa’vier.
A 12 man Air Force helicopter set out from Fargo North Dakota toward Dayton and landed near O’Hare Chicago after a blast alarm. Firecracker blasts caused panic among residents in South Charleston. The device had been seized earlier from an illegal operation. State police were involved.
A spokesman at a Washington area Air Force Base would not reveal details of a test run for an H-14 Sikoreen craft. Air Force officials previously stamped secrecy on the mission and declined to discuss the timing or specifics of the operation.
John William Hoskinson a 71 year old retired farmer from West Hamlin died at home. Survived by his wife Alice four sons Chelcie Perry Evermont Theodore three brothers Bert Tom Roscoe twelve grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services at Curry Chapel near Portersville Lincoln County at 2 pm Tuesday with Rev. R P Isaac officiating burial in church cemetery under Johnson Koontz Mortuary Hamlin arrangements. Body to be taken to Evermont Hoskinson home Monday before service.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Webb Bragg aged 78 of Dothan Fayette County died Sunday at home in Oak Hill. Survived by siblings Collie Webb Georgia Broyles Alice McCallister and several Bragg relatives including William Harvey Bragg Herman M Joseph W Addison G and Benjamin F Bragg. Body at Tyree Mortuary Oak Hill.
San Francisco dispatch reports Chinese Red radio listing Orville Jones of Charleston West Virginia as a prisoner of war in Korea. The broadcast also named Cpl. James Scott of Roanond Virginia and said all had broadcast recorded messages home though no quotes were released.
William A. Ream age 75, former Morgantown drug store proprietor for 48 years, died at home after months of illness. He came from Zanesville, Ohio in 1902 to open Resgo's Brug Swere, later selling in December due to health. Survived by widow and daughter Mrs Purest Ry Thompson of Morgantown. Visiting Nurses Association meeting set for 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the city building.
Mise Clary aged six died yesterday in Martinsburg in a local incident. Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Miss Bessie Clare 66 who managed Martinsburg Business College for about 25 years.
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