Miss West Virginia Pageant Tomorrow At Moundsville
Ten contestants from across the state will vie for the Miss West Virginia crown in Moundsville with floats being prepared for a parade and the pageant at Spurr Memorial playground featuring past titleholders and a Miss America 1947 guest.
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West Virginia
Moundsville
Joan Estep
Wheeling
Spurr Memorial Playground
Estep
Barbara Jo Walker Hummel
Atlanta
Pat Summers
Parkersburg
Alice Louise Ross
Buckhannon
C. B. Ross
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Janis Carol Haymond
Mannington
Frances L. Carnes
Marshal College
Huntington
Billie Marie Tabor
Bluefield
Sas
Diplomats confer as crisis in east west deepens
Frank Roberts and his fellow diplomats met in Washington after talks with Stalin. London signals keep showing plans for a western German government this fall, with Russians pressing for deferment. Taft backs federal housing funds but delays, Tobey urges rejection of the McCarthy plan amid party divisions.
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Frank Roberts
Smith
Roberts
Stalin
London
Foreign Office
Berslin
McCarthy
Taft
House
Tobey
R.-N.h
Senate Banking Committee
Toby
Freezing Syrups Boost Peach Canning Flavor
Advert promo touts a 1948 edition of Finer Canned & Frozen Fruits offering tips to improve peach preserves. It promises natural flavor, brighter color, and better texture with a simple syrup change. The 32 page book includes recipes and can be requested for free by mail.
Church leaders split over artificial insemination ban
The archbishop and most of the commission back a restrictive view on donor insemination though not as an official Church of England document. Only Dean W R Matthews differed, opposing a blanket ban. Public hearings pause, but closed sessions will continue to probe Remington and loyalty programs amid wartime espionage links and a courier case. The note cites 18,000 U S motion picture theaters and recalls the first U S air mail flight by balloon on August 16, 1859.
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Geoffrey Francis Fisher
W. R. Matthews
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Bentley
New York
Washington
Ferguson
Senate
Remington
United States
Firemen to attend Keyser convention delegation named
Fire department plans for Jubilee Week activities were outlined. A committee will represent the town at the West Virginia Firemen's Association convention in Keyser August 26 27 28, including John Proctor fire chief Lloyd Spragg William Deavers and Harry Hanleiter.
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Piremoon
W. Va
Archibishop Defends Assisted Insemination Findings
The document, a 70 page report by theologians and lawyers, argues that between husband and wife assisted insemination following attempts at normal sex acts may be justified if it fails to produce a child. It indicates a nuanced stance within church discourse.
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U. S. Senate
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Congress
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Tom Stewart
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P.O
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Maki
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Duquesne
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Lane
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Hex
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