State budget shows $170000 surplus and $4.39 million carryover
Budget Director Cleveland M Bailey announced a July 1 cash balance of 4 394 000 with an actual budgetary surplus of 170 000 driven by unspent state-wide building program funds and other carryovers. He warned revenues depend on wartime conditions and urged spending restraint when turning to peacetime.
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Cleveland M. Bailey
Bailey
Board of Public Works
Mineral Industries
West Virginia University
Marshall College
Glenville
Shepherd State Teachers’ Colleges
Concord State Teachers College
West Virginia State College
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Portrait of W. W. Trent to hang in state education offices
An oil painting of State Schools Supt. W. W. Trent will be hung in the reception roof of the state education department. The portrait, by William Edouard Scott of Chicago, was based on Trent’s visit to West Virginia in 1939 for the Negro division’s high school program. Scott has won international acclaim and previously painted former Gov. Holt during his West Virginia visit.
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W. W. Trent
State Education Department
I. J. K. Wells
William Edouard Scott
Chicago
Trent
West Virginia
Scott
U. S
Holt
Vitrolite and Glass Featured in Blossom Dairy Store Front
The Blossom Dairy store at 904 Quarrier Street showcases a vitrolite front retailed in the Charleston area by Gates Paint Manufacturing Company as agents for Libbey Owens Ford glass products. The interior includes vitrolite, mirrors, table tops, a lunch bar top, and large glass windows and front door supplied by Gates. Interior decorations were supervised by Hassell Gates and Russell Smith.
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Vitrolite
Blossom Dairy
Quarrier Street
Charleston
Gates Paint Manufacturing Company
Libbey -Owens
Gates Company
Hassell Gates
Russell Smith
Victoria club charter issued for local non profit group
A charter was issued yesterday to the Victoria club a non profit social organization in Parkersburg Incorporators include W G Miller Lucille Janetos and Edgar E Nye all of Parkersburg.
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Victoria Club
Parkersburg
W. G. Miller
Lucille Janetos
Edgar E. Nye
The Brighter Side Continued from Page Six
A reader letter from Joe Turp thanks the desk for insight, jokes about Sweeney and congress, and closes with a personal sign off. The note reflects community column tone and reader engagement in The Gazette.
Defense Bonds and Political Banter in 1941 Washington
The piece recounts defense bond sales nearing 525 million with May outpacing expectations and outlines official expectations of 300 million monthly needs. It also sketches anecdotes about policy and office culture, including a brisk exchange with Works Administrator Carmody and a late-arriving Joe Martin and Wendell Willkie at a New York dinner.
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Lucky Break House
GOP
Joe Martin
Joe
Wendell Willkie
New York
Willkie
Defense
Treasury
National Defense
Morgenthaw
Proof of Disaster In 1926 Is Sought
Washington reports search of death and burial records in Mississippi and Alabama for Benjamin H. Ashe whose 1926 Gulf of Mexico fishing boat disaster led to a West Virginia widow's compensation claim. Clippings say Capt. Harry Ohlemutz survived. Ashe reportedly swept away in a squall near Horn Island.
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Washington
Benjamin H. Ashe
South
West Virginia
Andrew Edmiston
D.w.va
Mississippi
Alabama
Ashe
Gulf of Mexico
Harry Ohlemutz
Ollie Ford
Asive
Horn Island
Nero Fiddling With Ulcer Pains Promised Relief
A vintage ad-like notice touts 260 Box of Udg tablets for stomach ulcers indigestion and gas pains. It claims relief or money back and lists Cohen Drug Company and various drug stores as sellers.
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Nero
Cohen Drug ‘Comepany
AGY
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