Race Between Rising Pay Prices Feared by Truman
President Truman vetoed the Senate House compromise OPA bill calling it impossible and inflation prone. He warned the Taft amendment and Wherry Craw provisions would trigger widespread price hikes, wage boosts, and higher production costs, risking a spiral of inflation. The piece notes red snow sometimes falls in the Arctic as a color detail.
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The
Charleston Gazette
Truman
Washington
Congress
Wherry
Rep
Mr. Trusman
What's Your Opinion on Beating Summer Heat in Texas
Readers across Bibb street share tips to cope with 120 degree heat. Advice ranges from sleeping in outbuildings, wearing light clothing, and staying in shade to seeking air conditioned venues and choosing sport shirts over traditional coats.名
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Bibb
South Charlesian
Sheppard Field
Texas
Bathing Caps and Sun Glasses at Bargain Prices
Readable item list shows bathing caps sunglasses and suntan lotion with discount prices. Includes nylon hair brushes priced from $2.00 to $38.25 and miscellaneous cosmetics items. No narrative or event beyond sale listings.
Fine Cutlery and Nail Tools Advertised Prices
Retail listing details fine cutlery items including cuticle scissors fingernail clips pocket nail files and extra long nail files with prices from 9 cents to 15 dollars plus household sheets and implement sets priced 1.75 to 15.00. Names of items and ranges indicate a department store or catalog promotion.
Writers AssociationRaises 1018 for March of Dimes
West Virginia Sports Writers association announced it had raised 1018 for the 1946 March of Dimes. President Fred Burns relayed the figure from Granu and Rice as the group prepared for the writers wave-tag convention in Huntington. Rice praised cooperation and noted the sum was nearly double any previous year for sports driven paralysis appeals. The group planned a gathering at Huntington Press club before the annual meeting, golf tournament, and dinner.
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Huntington
West Virginia Sports Writers Association
Fred Burns
Association
Granu
Rice
Wationg! Foundation
Burns
Huntington Sporthi
Huntington Press Club
Program For A Bomb Tests Is Announced
The Associated Press reports a plan for Sunday's atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test targets fifty ships and is staged by a Superfortress wing six miles up, with aims to study effects on ships and military installations for national defense and to train personnel in atomic bomb attacks.
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Associated Press
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Marshall Island
Bikni
Honolulu
Tokyo
Bikini Lagoon
Bikini Atoll
U.S
Army Air Forces
Annual Red Cross Meet to Be July 10
The Ka nawha Clay chapter of the American Red Cross schedules its annual meeting for July 10 at p.m. in the Daniel Boone hotel ballroom. Chairman D Holmes Morton announced. Ramone Eaton, eastern area manager, will speak on the recent nationwide Red Cross convention in Philadelphia. All donors of one dollar or more to the Red Cross drive are urged to attend.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
Daniel Boone Hotel
D. Holmes Morton
Ramone
S. Eaton
Philadelphia
Beer tax yields WV 1 443 461 in first year under new system
West Virginia’s beer tax program under a new state agency reported 1 443 461 in revenue for the first year ending today, plus 1 040 972 other receipts. License sales produced 3989 19 and 14 400 from band forfeitures and license revocations as 94 licenses were revoked, 111 suspended, and 71 surrendered. Commissioner Fred B Watkins said the act is a major improvement and will expand enforcement and investigations as the 1945 legislature moved beer regulation to a separate Beer Commission effective July 1. In the year ahead the commission reported 2 854 retail licenses, plus 3 626 during the prior year, with 265 club licenses for package dealers, 109 for dining year, 126 for distributors, and one for a brewer.
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West Virginia
Fred
Watkins
West Virginia Beer Commission
State Tax Commissioner
Walmins
Geer
Vupares
Club Licens
Picnicker Dies After Tangling With Power Line
Jack Kinsey 18 of Rhodes Avenue South Charleston high school athlete killed late Friday night when a 2300 volt power line sagged into woods of Montrose section. He was with Leslie Schulz returning from a picnic. Schulz felt a shock and escaped danger. Kinsey’s body suffered severe burns and severed head. current remained on line about 30 minutes before workers stopped it. Kinsey graduated in spring from South Charleston High, played first base on the school baseball team. Surviving are his mother and stepfather and a brother.
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Jack Kinsey
Rhodes Av
Armor Pati
South Charleston
Woodlawn
Montrose Addition
Kinsey
Leslie Schulz
Henson
Schulz
Ponel-Company Mworkers
South Charleston High School
Phill
Beaver couple’s grandparent obituary note
Mr and Mrs Ja Davis of Beaver Pennsylvania are named in a short obituary note. The body was sent to Beaver yesterday for service and burial tomorrow. Also referenced is a U S farmer’s income with milk as the largest cash source and ranking of cattle cotton wheat and tobacco.
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Ja Davis
Beaver
Wee
U. S
Chelyan Baptist church hosts Bible school program
Children attending daily Bible school at Chelyan Baptist Church will present a program at 7 46 p m today in the church auditorium. A Friday picnic was held at the Union Mission Camp Grounds. Church activities include Holy Communion at 10 p.m and a Bible study session. vestry meets at 7 38 p m Wednesday.
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Chelyan Baptist Church
Union Mission Camp
L. A. Bryant
B. B. Nelson
Mesdames Wills Bryant
Bill Dunaway
Hubert Patterson
Dolly Slack Ferrell
Virginia Hurst Schuim
C. W. Slater
Jer. W. &. Longsworth
Betty Hudson
John Fi
Brotherhood of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
Jim Hover
Charles Day
Club News CWL Local No 2 to Meet at Kanawha Hotel
The CWL Local No 2 plans its monthly meeting Monday at 8 in the Kanawha hotel assembly room. Guest speaker Miss Emily Oldstead, sociology professor and dean of women at Morris Harvey College, will discuss The Problems of Juvenile Delinquency.
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CWL
Kanawha
Gues
Emily Oldstead
Morris Harvey College
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