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s-:e.n-u-aaI'-li rIS.Uthein mePetersp. m. ioay oy a siate Peters .Creek mine of Creek Coal Co.Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eu-leane Mullens; three daughters, Teda . Karen, Charlotte Sue andC. F. Breisacher, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Smith, and Rosemary Smui| Sharon Kay, all at home; his father,eeidftn-irJatntsfterle.oiofU-tars.:C-rar-satn,v-enJV.HitieroeLuther Mullens and two brothers, Dennis and Mlihurn, all of Craigs-ville.The body is at the White Mortuary at Summersville.Unidentified ManFalls to His DeathPark Finished{Continued From Pa^e 1)less than 18 hours after work hadbegun.Two artificial lakes had been dug, .a trail-lyoe gravel road hadCeremony Marksof(Continued From Pajre 1}j severed to signalize the climax ;the fantastically-big operation, j As early as 4:30 p. m., Anderson | jubilantly anonunced: j “We’ve got it whipped!”; At that hour, Coonskin Trail Rd.,1 was being graveled and smoothed as rapidly as a parade of 50 hurrying dump trucks could carry the material onto the mile and a half route.Meanwhile, giant bulldozers, earth carryalls, rollers and other equipment were allocking the baseball diamond site.Anderson said it would be ready on time for last night’s baseball er’game and members of the Charles-^jton Reds junior league baseballbeen carved through the ruggedTiBwerAn unidentified man fell 40 feet to his death last night on Louden _Heights road a quarter of a mile jhniside, picnic tables were in place, |^ui from the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- j fireplaces built, a dance pavilion ^hre~~ * 11111 f o Ui *-* Vi '■j 17 ri i n - ***T.—_ ~ ~ ------*-----' ------ --------- : in a uuubi.way depot, city police reported. erected, toilets built, a baseball dia- me‘T r TP TJ V^A , A ^ 1 • I . *BCiftngn-ei.oxLr. C. F. Honaker of the city police said the man apparently fell ‘from a cliff to the road. He was j pronounced dead on arrival at aioc'2l hospital.The officer described him as about 55 years old, five feet 10 inches tall, weighing with dark greying ha; eyes.When he was discovered at the bottom of the cliff, he was wearing s. grey coat and vest, overall pants,! | brown work shoes, and was carrying celluloid-rimmed glasses and a ipipe,mond and playgrounds finished and M equipped, and shelters erected. ^The park job apparently got A-plus rating from the most criticalCruof all judges, the public.j Spectators moved from one attraction 1c another, trying to seeect'ot game were convinced, They wereie,Jilt;25H-ngnapciiztion hand an hour and a half be* fore game time.Inventor PresentGov. Okey L. Patteson on the grounds at noonor. clarnveawear-73,Mrs. William Bell,Is Dead in California145 pounds 4 everything in one evening andand brown: praising the operation which made the park possible,Tne speed, skill and teamwork with which the project was completed drew the praise of city, county and state officials.Visitors on the final day of “Operation Coonskin” included Gov. Patteson, Mayor Andrews and aTwil-at ; 0QS1cPai .ChE ; erei §1,0delegation of officials from Oneidaing an Operation zette” hat, sat downCoonskin-Ga-to a meal ofm-: barbecue steer,ne •slaw, beans and;Lty milk with two judges of the State; grandchildren and fivedimemg Yas .Supreme Court, members of the Kanawha County Court and others.Mrs. William H. Bell. 73. formerly of Charleston, died yesterday at the home of a grandson in Riverside, Cal.. where she was visiting.Mrs. Bell was the former Miss Gertrude Malcolm, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Malcolf of Charleston,Surviving are a daughter, twosister?. Mrs.G. F. Goff, Mrs, G. F. Grissingcr, Sr.. Mrs. K. D. Ruffner and Mrs. A. P, K.ilburn. all of Charleston, andOne of the worlcvs outstanding Mrs M, O. Overall of Beverly Hills,on'inventors and manufacturers of heavy earthmoving equipment. Le-^!|Toumeau. flew into Kanawha Ait-iiia q^ort and was takpn immediately by °?«!. Coleman to see his great machinesnct-en; at oxDlcksson:re.HerCal. ServiceRiverside.and burial will be Insenters.work on the site of the second artificial lake.LeTourneau echqed the sentiments; of Gov. Paiteson in commenting on the vastness of “Operation Coon-: Ugaretsskin.”“It is * magnificent effort and demonstrates that people—whenthey band together in a common effort — can achieve wonders.”DrivenCooperation Key(Continued From Pape 1) alon^; :ce cream for the work-County, N, Y.The New Yorkers, in Charleston on the last leg of a survey of airport facilities in four eastern states ;and the District of Columbia, said i they were “astounded” by what :thcy had seen.Their spokesman, G. Carl Morse,said the officials decided after seeing Coonskin Park to build a park at Oneida County’s new' airport.Morse, chairman of the Oneida. County board of supervisors added, however, that we’ll never be able to accomplish anything like this (Coonskin Park),”The visiting officials toured the park grounds in a jeep caravan provided by the West Virginia National Guard.A striking example of thebyquitha□rhTagrschtimnorTnatbutthaTmonotenocTUcc I Mi iUr-con- :stawere sent tn the scene • by Ashton-Crnvley and Zain Bros.They needed a genuine coonskinand oi' ufack-OI ol oiUoi oration Coonskin” building chair-cK- jrnan, Gov. Patieson. Judge Fred sftiL. Fox of the Supreme Court, ind IRebhan. project vice-chairman w-labor, they covered the distance )in” the still unfinished Coonskin Trail |Rd.Lied j Showing his usual affable na-^Iture. the governor took the bumps net,: and ruts in high spirits while *et-iap.oi ima Ira.115,1 Earlier, he wasfur hat to present Paul Anderson, Operation Coonskin’' general chair-iman. M. L. Angel of Angel's Royal; hours'tins aby Charles J. Kuhn, “Op-.Fur filled the bill gladly and withno charge as his contribution.Ted Coleman, project equipment chairman, issued an emergency request for lumber cut in lengths late last Saturday. ILeslie ■ Happy) Ray. co-owner of j Ray and Shaffer lumber mill with Edison Shaffer, 'ordered out the crews for Sunday work at the mill on Falling Rock Creek. The lum-complete look at the usable came through on time.tribulions made by Kanawha Valley businessmen in order to build the park was that of the Meador Floor Co. of Charleston.The Meador Company rushed a six-man crew to the park on two notice to sand the floor of dance pavilion when of-thebigfacials decided to give the floor aprofessional finish.To do so, Meador had to call theSpecial :men in from another job.A baseball game on the newly-Tof0X1eitlactC Ar: for Ma j 666 ! 152i?h,graded diamond launched last ,535U Cl 'I night’s celebration, with The Izette Junior League nine defeating ithe Charleston Reds team, 3-2.Then park visitors crowdedpark grounds.Spanlrs.Need Cited.drivenby theThank me for this-? Ray said, around the pavilion where Chuckall2.0C118listWhy we people ought to thank you pfrduc and his Invincible Musicians ; thelrs.!Array foot bridge and shown howod-oldaraccessible the Dark would be withfellows us suchin Charleston for a wonderful p*_ »tv.°iving^pteyc-d for a dance, through the 0 j cooperation of the AFL Musicians’One thousand feet of half inch!Union-pncAr;permanent bridge over Elk River hemp rope was urgently needed as] A square dance under the direojginguard lines bridge.A call toon'^:from U. S. Rt 119.Kocj At the end of Coonskin Trail Rd.ter.; £t also was pointed o\\t to the gov-^jernor the still unpaved stretch of‘Baldwin Supply lev. i state-owned Coonskin Hollow Rd.! reply:*]“:from the eastern park entrance to : The*;ncr!the Ruffner Hollow Road.L'he will“Where do you rope was there.11 to. the ot sis-andP11.1Uovd,Performing yeomanlike work jpaulcy of the Charleston Concrete on the park road yesterday was Flooring Co. who neglected theirthe Army foot]lion of Paul and Sally McKowr. ofjehcTyler Mountain followed and a be brilliant fireworks program topped this]off the evening of entertainment, it?'11 Movies shown by the Esso Standard Oil Co. also were included anthe program.Lawrence Baldwin Co. broughtwantThen there were fellows like TroyL. S. (Wilt) Coleman, himself*. Head of the L. S. Coleman road building company, Coleman whsbusinesses, missed their dinners and worked like trojans doing all the preliminary work to ready the road.general supervisor of the biff road fireplaces and fishing lakes.Taft Asks Aehesonbuilding project.His company took on the center stretch of the road through thePauley personally supervised the pouring of concrete at many of the projects sites and he, as so many(Continued From Page 1)policy laid down yesterday by President Truman.But he insisted that the President went out of bounds in actingnoMan Dies in Falllord I most rugged part of the terrain, [others who still are unrecognized,; without Congress. lacejFarther east. Standard Asphalt .end!js the man who built Coonskin Park. Taft argued that jTar Co. was responsible for another j #ucn| difficult section but which also was j I Hcked in just two days. jring! Anderson’s, Inc., built the first; (Continued From Pa^e 1the base- ^The body is at Barlow Mortuary.The injured man was William E.IBird, 47. oi Loudcndale. who told ^ .i police his car was crowded off the rcversed his superiors and whose40 en 8. Of als I st? fri !sm i era swfirstportion in the vicinity of the base-oi;ball field and past the dance pavil-lary.row01inneed never would have arisen if the Administration had followed a firmer and jmore consistent line in the past.J Turning to Secretary Aeheson, jTaft told the Senate that any Sec-:Gkbeen “so 'Br'AB1retary of State who has.sidetnePut-and5 :n .dayxon are.3.The floor of the pavilion was completed by 4 p. m. to the accompaniment of hammer taloos of 40 or more AFL Carpenters. Above fluttered a banner of The Gazette.Final 3'oofing of was accompli shed ] stone fireplaces J ^‘Bricklayers were Iyer J out the grounds, nan] The second artificial lake, being built for exclusive fishing by chil-analdren under the sponsorship o: the Kanawha Game and Fish Assoc., was hurried toward completion.LeTourneau watched as some of the machines he invented and nowproduces scraped up dirt_ .Nahfsh\vav“ju7t‘ouisilt;1e’lheTityTimits.;P°licilt;* have precipitated the don- !serskidded 60 feet along the berm of:P,r of war hac! beUV re£,=n an.someone cise aamimsterto which he was,perhaps still is, so violentlyalongthetwo big shelters early. Handsome made by AFL spotted through-berm of:?I1' the road and went 10 feet over an | er o embankment before coming to rest|P1Q£ram I against a tree. . A%tHe was taken to Charleston Gen- P°^ed-era! Hospital in a Simpson Mortuary ambulance and attendants said Bird left fhc hospital without being treated, although he was reported to have injury.d;Kc the ] S and op-:°f imeyHe raised these specific points ]p in criticism of past policy: ;So1. At Yalta and .Potsdam the J 4United Stales agreed to the nccupa-jfirRus- he11U1. . C. iari-ocalTruman AttacksMrs. • ai un-lony i the required level.cck;I Savin he loved and [it to the dam, filling[dent Barkley also sat in.:he smell of; addressing a luncheon meet-fresh dirt and the sound of roar-sing of U, S. reserve officers at the ing machinery, LeTourneau mount-j Mayflower Hotel, Mr. Truman em-ed one of the pieces of bright yel- Iphasized that his order dispatch-! ideiNJow equipment and tested the con- ling American air-sea aid to the Ko-L ?! trols. jrean republic was aimed atsuffered a minor shoulder jtion partition of Korea, withjsians in the northern half.2. Failure to use troops in more vital China encouraged the Communists to aggression.3. Withdrawal of U.S. troops, accompanied by arming of South Korea, “invited attack,,f4. The Administration stand on Formosa “emphasized clearly the policy of non-intervention.“(Continued From Pase 1)Secretary Aeheson, Secretary of •the Treasury Snyder, top military* aT1d raced j leaders and other key officials at-the site to tended the conference. Vice Presi-offex-]jbei' rccr fttrVftl-Lrge. Q3 Believed KilledSeofiujanauraboth(C'antlnned From P*re TJtrouble. The crewmen apparentlySpectators milled about all over ]strengthening the peace-keeping amieexolodeP*anC 33 ^ ciastlcfi ^ 3m:;the more than 800 acres of park,powers of the Upited Nations. state highway patrolmen ssid.tio^niland ... . LHVa,d the acUo.1? tak?n J*?'they picked up 26 paratroopers, aiU Jcun-1 Said one enthusiastic citizen: jlhe hope we can finally arrive at!l)r,^J,rifi inn;nflrc! 'Man* Isn't it wonderful what \ peace in theUnited Nations.”msHeone newspaper can do.1finally arrive at ;ullinjured. The jumpers were scat- sp! world, through the tered oyw a 10.S(Juare-iniie area. ^HcThat is the onlv reason for ourTwoftliours afte * the crash, the [toill hi! mi nofiprr.Mv ' CIS
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 29, 1950
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