Mountaineers Defeat Owls 57 to 46 in Charleston
West Virginia beat Temple 57 to 46 in Charleston as Eddie Beach and Mark Workman led with 13 and 12 points. The win, fifth in six games, continued WVU's advantage over Temple with a 5th straight victory over the Owls and followed a 51-46 prior win in Morgantown. Temple played a deliberate pace while WVU pressed with a fast break.
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Marshall College
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Huntington
Eddie Beach
Mark Workman
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Philadelphia
Connie Mack Celebrates 87th Birthday Quietly
Connie Mack, famed manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, marks his 87th birthday with a low key plan. He recalls birthday dates as uncertain, hints at a 1950 goal of another World Series and a renewed push for athletic success after years at Shibe Park. The piece also notes upcoming league competition including Boston Red Sox under Joe McCarthy as a tough challenger.
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Nelius J. McGillcuddy
Connie Mack
Lave
Philadelphia Athletics
Baseball
Connie
Athletics
A's
Shibe Park
Boston Red Sox
Joe McCarthy
Christmas season church and club meetings in Blueville area
December events include Woman's Society of Christian Service meeting at Blueville M E Church at 7 30 with a Christmas gift exchange A Capella Choir will perform The Christmas Story in Music at Andrews Church 130 p m public welcome no admission There is a combined annual Christmas party at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall 730 p m involving juvenile and adult Royal Neighbors and a gift exchange Junior Order Mountaineer Council No 44 meets December 22 at 730 p m Daughters of America Hall Protected Home Circle Local 655 meets 2 p m Christmas gift exchanges planned Weekly Sewing Club postponed to January 5 Cantata Child of Bethlehem at Beulah Baptist Church 8 p m December 23 Fidelis Club Christmas party at Mrs Rhea Fisher Washington Street 8 p m December 27 Senior 4 H club dance at Elks Ballroom 8 p m
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Woman's Society of Christian Service
Blueville M. E
Andrews Church
Child of Bethlehem
Beulah Baptist Church
Pruntytown
Chhoir
George Price
Fidelis Club
First Presbyterian Church
Rhea Fisher
Washington Street
Elks Ballroom
Mothers as chaperones plan for club event
Mothers of club members will act as chaperones for the event. A program is planned for the intermission.
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Community spreads Christmas cheer to neighboring mountain families
Spirit continues from page one as toys arrive from all states and letters pour in. More than $3,000 is on hand to fund hot lunches for local children. Six and half tons of clothing and foodstuffs have been sent to Shallmar. Nearby Maryland and West Virginia communities receive aid as Shallmar shares gifts with seventy families and clothes thirty more. Toys are repaired for mountain children with stockings set to be filled.
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Shallmar
Maryland
West Virginia
Money supply easing after controls end and cheaper living
The bulletin notes looser installment terms since government credit controls ended last June 30, with ease seen in autos and refrigerators. A marked drop in overall credit demand by businesses, farmers, real estate owners, and consumers could curb money expansion. Currency outside banks fell by $800 million from a year earlier and $1.5 billion since November 1946.
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Reserve Board
Monongahela completes phase of five-year build program
Monongahela power company advances a five-year plant and line construction plan, aiming to finish by 1951 with about 57 million dollars of new projects. Willow Island station, finished last February, adds 55 000 kilowatts and cost 12 million. A large line project will extend electric service to rural areas. Rivesville installation to reduce fly ash cost 175 000.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Virginia
Maryland
Willow Island
Rivesville
Christmas Eve Church Services In Grafton And St Augustine
Reverend Manson announced the annual candlelight communion at First Presbyterian Church beginning 11 p.m. Saturday. At St Augustine church a carol service starts 11:30 p.m. followed by a midnight high mass on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day low masses are at 7:00, 7:30, 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament to follow.
Christmas Day Services Highlight Area Churches
Various churches schedule Christmas programs and services. West Main Street Methodist hosts a 10 a.m. mass with a 7:30 p.m. candlelight service titled Christmas Through Twenty Centuries. First Baptist screens Nativity slides and hosts an evening youth program. St Pauls Lutheran plans morning anthems and a 7:30 p.m. program. First Church of Christ features choir numbers and communion after Bible School. St Pauls Methodist holds an old fashioned Christmas Service at 7:30 p.m.
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West Main Street Methodist Church
Thc First Baptist Church
St. Paul's Lutheran
Church of Christ
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Repeal Failing Outlook in 1951 Senate House Effort
Discussion on repeal of the Taft Hartley labor law shows a split Senate with Southern Democrats backing Republicans and Taft claiming many Ohio workers oppose erasing the law. Truman may renew demand in a future State of the Union, but House action appears unlikely this year.
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Senate
House
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Congress
Fiduciary Notice of Accounts for Settlement
Commissioner of Accounts announces accounts before him for Luke E Burdett non compos mentis under Mrs L M Burdett committee and for estates of W T Yearman and A Grace McDonald. Administrators John K Burdett and Wynnona Marshall, December 15 1949.
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Commissioner of Accounts For
L. M. Burdett
Luke E. Burdett
John K. Burdett
W. T
W. H) ‘Yearman
Wynnona Marshall
A. Grace McDonald
Richard B. Bord
Trustee's Sale of Real Estate in Grafton WV
By deed of trust dated October 26 1946 Harold Orton Walters and Rose Jeanette Walters secured debt to Home Building and Loan Association of Grafton WV. John K Burdett trustee will sell described property to enforce the deed in the record.
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Harold Orton Walters
Rose Jeanette Walters
John K. Burdett
Home Building and Loan Association
Grafton
West Virginia
Public auction sale of Grafton real estate
Describes a public auction of real estate in Grafton Taylor County West Virginia by The Home Building and Loan Association. Mortgage default noted with cash terms on sale day. Property includes southern halves of lots 388 and 389 on Fetterman plat, fronting a specified street distance, at courthouse steps January 116th, 1950.
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Taylor County
West Virginia
Home Building and Loan Association
Grafton
Taylorr County
Americas
Hison
Couli Grafton
Abner comic strip by Al Capp in the Clock series
Abner by Al Capp features in the LPL ABNER-By Al Capp iver THE C lock. a playful panel likely from a Sunday page, reflecting Capp's classic characters and humor.
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al Capp
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