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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1947
Page
2
The commission now requires filing fees before petitions are docketed for hearing for truck bus and taxi operators. In prior years hundreds applied without appearing for hearings after docketing. Fees authorized by the 1947 Legislature range from 5 to 10 dollars.
Mrs. Catherine Trent of the Planned Parenthood Assoc will address the YWCA monthly purple affairs committee at 8 p.m. Monday in the association building on Trier Street.
Mary A. McGee of 1411 Virginia St E marks her 90th birthday and 50 years in the Kanawha valley. Born in 1837 at Mt. Carbon she recalls Civil War moves near Hugheston and Dublin Depot and meeting Gen Stonewall Jackson. She and Dr. Frank L. McGee raised ten children in Nicholas and Kanawha counties. Active in church and Daughters of the Confederacy, she stays busy with crocheting reading travel and plans a plane trip to California. She treasures family silver and reads The Gazette daily while riding downtown on a city bus.
Summersville residents contributed to the scout expansion drive totaling 625 dollars with overall town donations surpassing 685 dollars. General chairman Walter G. Crichton announced the figures yesterday as the Summersville Lions Club led donors with 25 dollars. Local clubs and groups are still reporting contributions. A committee led by Porter Harold C. E. McDowell and Mrs. Aline C. Allison managed the solicitation.
The Public Service Commission set Monday at 10 a.m. for the Ohio Valley Bus Co. to seek authority to raise bus fares in Huntington and nearby. Citing a first quarter net loss of 135,713 the company seeks a city cash fare increase from eight to 10 cents and token pricing from four for 25 cents to five for 35 cents, with hikes of 5 to 15 cents on certain routes.
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