Mingo County Poverty Tour Exposes Hardship and Hope
The Charleston Gazette reports on a July 6 tourism outreach to Mingo County showing widespread unemployment near 10 percent and deep poverty. Residents describe rugged life, religious culture, and community action programs that rebuilt homes, expanded education, and fought corrupt voting rolls while locals gain awareness of government antipoverty initiatives.
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Cove Pye Hur
Mingo
PaNwo
Colting
Local
Community Action Board
Hays
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Tage
Imost
Mingo County
Slyvia Mounts
Sylvia Mounts
Mary Folens
Merrimac
Harold
VISTA
Economic Opportunity Commission
Weather Outlook for June 1 1949 Central Regions
The bulletin reports scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers across parts of Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky with high temperatures in the upper 80s to mid 90s and lows in the 60s to 70s. Humidity remains high and varying cloudiness expected with showers today tonight and possible thunderstorms mainly in the south and west.
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Virginia
Sndon
Charleston
Aeauar Bejmeidt
Westeros
West Virginia
Marth
Kentucky
Coal mine advocate decries system amid black lung talk
A Charleston activist told Williamsburg miners that government and industry profit motives ignore coal dust illness. He argued free enterprise and weak unions shield the Establishment and criticized state spending on sports vs miners’ health. He led a crusade for dust disease legislation in West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Williamsburg
Charleston
W. Va
J. Butt
West Virginia
Buff
Kentucky
Ex Raleigh County Clerk Harry Anderson rites today
Funeral service for Harry Ward Anderson 72 former Raleigh County Clerk of 24 years will be at 2 pm at Beckley First Christian Church. He died Friday in Beckley VA Hospital. Survived by widow Jessie sisters and other relatives. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park.
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Beckley
Beckley First Christian Church
Harry Dward Anderson
Raleigh
Anderson
V. A. Hospita
Summers County
Dunnsmore Business College
Staunton
Raleigh County Sheriffs Office
Beckley Lions Club
American Legion
Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce
France
Jessie
Fietchher
Mann
M. M. Gladwell
Kathleen Anderson
Sunset Memorial Park
Keyser-Bryant
Becklest
Visiting Boy Drowns At Logan
A 13 year old, Willie Mays White of Hattiesburg Miss, drowned crossing the Guyandotte River near Logan while with a cable. His body was recovered six hours later. He leaves his grandmother Mrs Lucille Whyte and his stepfather James Farhy, sister Katherine Wr, and half brother James Earl Roberts of Hattiesburg. The body is at Patid Funeral Home in Logan for burial.
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Logan
Willie Mays White
Hattesburg
Miss
Guyandotte
Lucille Whyte
James Far Hy
Katherine Wr
James
Earl Roberts
Hattiesburg
Patid Funeral Home
Howl
Artillery Duels Over Suez Canal
TEL AVIV says Israeli and Egyptian artillery traded intermittent fire across the Suez Canal Saturday night and Sunday. Five Israeli soldiers were wounded. Egyptian mortar and artillery targeted El Qantara and Port Taufiq with heavy damage claimed on the Egyptian side.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Suez Canal
el Qantara
Port Taufiq
Logan School Aide Ralph R Willis Dies at 61
Ralph R. Willis 61 of Neibert, Logan County, assistant county school superintendent for 22 years, died Saturday at Logan General Hospital. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Honaker Harris Funeral Home Logan. Buried Ridgelawn Cemetery Huntington. Survived by wife Kile Avis Willis and mother Clida Ward Willis. Former Mount Gay School and Logan Central Junior High principal. World War II veteran.
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Logan
Honaker- Harris Funeral Home
Ralph R. Willis
Mr. Willis
Neibert
Logan County
Logan General Hospital
Mount Gay School
Logan Central Junior High
Plane Crash at Kanawha Airport Claims Bollinger Family
A single engine plane returning from Kentucky crashed near Sutton Airport in Braxton County. Bollinger, a student pilot, and instructor Dwiggins died after the crash. Sherry Bollinger died later at Charleston General Hospital. One survivor, the Bollingers’ relative said, will be taken to Skidmore Funeral Home. Authorities investigated fuel and flight details.
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Bollinger
Sherry Bollinger
Simpson- Chandler
FRA Feadlats Wahkineg
iDwiggins
Sutton
Kentucky
Tthe Federal Aviation Agency
Uvours Wellwug Semans
Fred Fox
Transportation Safety
Charleston
French
MSB
Gassaway
Monongahela Power Co
Braxton County
Bollingers
Sherry
Ohio
Ravens‘wood
Kaiser
Rollinger
Skidmore
Simpson-Chandler Funeral
Dwiggins
Ransdell
Unanendohaerdt
Funeral notices and burial schedules across Kanawha County
A compilation of funeral times and burial locations for numerous individuals across West Virginia. Entries list names, towns, funeral homes, church services, and cemetery interment details, with rescuers aiding a June small plane crash in Charleston and prior related casualties noted.
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The
Charleston Gazette
Perry
United States
Harry Caudill
the Cumberland
Jack Weller
the Weather
Aas
Ram
I Am
Sam
Dola
WS. Weather Bureau
ESSA
Logan School
Kile Avis Willis
Clida Ward Willis
Canneville, Ky
Ridgelawn Cemetery
Huntington
Lotar
W.va
Democratic Finepaper
Daily Gazene Company
Gazette-Mail
Faa
Sunday Gazette
Newspaper Agency Corp
ALCOA
Reynolds Aluminum
Ana Vent
Aluminum Building Products Corp
MacCorkle Ave
Albans
W. Vo
Kanawha Airport
Anderson, Orville
Wallace
Akron
Ripley and Nitro
Cunningham Memorial Park
Bishor, Paul Henry
Elmore Ave
St. Anthony Catholic
Soureh
Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens
Black
Hattie Ethel
Millwood
Jackson County
Pine Grove
Pine Grove Cemetery
Brooks
Thomas E. — Beckley
So Pum
Aldersgate
United Methodst Church
Poratalbo
Flora Hills
Coste
Rose Cavallaro
Fla
Hinton
Cameron
Mary Frances
Covinstons
Shanklin
White Sulphur Springs
Hylton Cemetery
Eades
Lexie Sutton — Curbin
Pocahontas County
Pam Liberty
Mr. Bollinger
Presbyterial Church
Green Bank Aryborate
Wenonix, Kitey — Arnett
Raleigh County
Arnett Chapel
Pine Knob
Pekcok
Hill
Robart Lee Sr
Logan, Wabi Rebartetoma
Coser
Fefadt Lane
Holswade
Harry — Spencey
United Methodist Avernorial
Bit Spencee Cemetery
Ariah Sharon
Jose
Bae
Baptist
Emenoriah Park
Hyden
John B
Lakeland
Fie
South Charleston
Thornton Funeral Home
Oak Hill
Leffingwell
Delores Kathleen
Webster Springs
Dodd-Hurt
Legg
el Elna
Ansted
Richmond United Methodist Church
Church Cemetery
Madison
Dorsey Ruskin
Ruby
Violey
Danie Boone
Cunningham
Spring Hill Cemetery
Charleston Civil Defense
Air National Guard
Piedmont Airlines
Kanawha
Cab_ in Creek
John M. Gunderson
Evergreen Drive
Elkview
Randolph Skaggs
22Nd Street
Dunbar
Skaggs
Charleston Squad Jron
Civil Air Patrol
New Jersey
Cessanica
Smith
Clair Maxwell
Brookside Drive
Teays Valley
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Nice
Tyler Mountain
Lana Jane
Landisburg
Fayette County
End of the Trail
Clintonville
Spence
Hannah
Red Warrior
Assembly of God Church
Miami
Tollings
Laura
Danvile
Boone County
Six Mile United Methodist Church
Stalliway
Taten House & Trim
Glass House & Trim
Stone & Thomas—Paints
Stone Thomas
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