West Virginia utility property assessments cut by board
Charleston July 8 A valuation of 655 139 700 for tax on public utility property in West Virginia was set by the Board of Public Works. The figure is 1 880 400 below last year and 84 059 200 under the tentative 1948 assessments submitted by the State Tax Commission after three days of hearings. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bears the largest levy at 94 209 600, down 790 400 from the tentative, while air and bus lines, and railroads see notable reductions. Details for classifications appear with tentative figures in parentheses, to be continued on page 3.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Board of Public Works
Yesae
State Tax Commission
Commission
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Tax Commission
Colored Organizations Demand Civil Rights Plank At Democratic Platform
Philadelphia July 8 More than twenty Negro organizations urged a Truman civil rights plank at platform hearings. They pressed anti lynch and anti poll tax measures plus FEPC, with the National Negro Council calling for an emergency special session of Congress. CIO leaders backed a Roosevelt platform and repeal of Taft Hartley, while the NAACP urged Democrats to reject bigots influence and stand for Americanism.
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Max Hall
Philadelphia
President Truman
Mr. Truman
National Negro Council
Congress of Industrial Organizations
James B. Carey
CIO
Carey
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Democratic Party
Lewis abortion trial in SRD day
Julia Darling a 29 year old Huntington office worker testified in common pleas court that she bore a child last year by Dr William M Lewis 61 the defendant in a murder and illegal abortion case. She said the birth occurred April 20 1947 and Lewis was the father.
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Huntington
Julia Darling
Common Pleas Court
Miss Darling
Miss Ferguson
Huntington Memorial ‘Hospital
Edward H. Greene
Oakland Memorial Hospital Project Awarded in Oakland Md
A contract worth 428000 is awarded for the Garrett County Memorial Hospital to be built on Keyser Ridge road near Oakland Maryland. The 50 bed facility sits on six acres and uses land owned by the city. Moyer Brothers of Altoona Pennsylvania won the bid as the lowest bidder. The project honors George Loar who left 175000 for a memorial hospital but costs required additional local fundraising of over 100000. The federal hospital aid plan will cover half of locally subscribed funds.
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Garrett County Memorial Hospital
Oakland
George Loar
G.W. Loar and Company
Grafgie Jewelry
Keyser Ridge Road
U.S. Highway 219
Moyer Brothers
Altoona
Coolest Night Since June 17 Recorded Here
The temperature dropped to 49 degrees in Grafton last night the lowest since June 17 when it was 45. W. D. Myers, local weather observer, reports last night’s low capped a run of cobbler temperatures since Tuesday. Yesterday’s high was 75 as 89 to 90 degrees marked the July Fourth weekend. At 8 am today the low rose to 65 but had jumped to 78 by noon with sunshine. The forecast calls for fair weather today tonight and Friday with slightly warmer conditions.
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Grafton
W. D. Myers
Eisenhower Out Of Democratic Presidential Race
President Truman aides declare General Dwight D. Eisenhower definitively out of the Democratic nomination. A Truman spokesman cites private assurances from close friends and Eisenhower's own statement that he could not accept a party nomination. Democratic Chairman J Howard McGrath labels the draft reinvigoration as definite and final.
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Jack Bell
Philadelphia
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
New York City
Columbia University
J. Howard McGrath
Eisenhower
Page
Scarbro woman seeks young man for security in ad
A 25 year old Scarbro resident, blinded as an infant, placed a personal ad in the Charleston Gazette seeking a “good man” to provide security. She described herself as brunette, five feet tall, 114 pounds, living with a widowed mother with heart illness, and asked for a man under 35 with a steady income.
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Scarbro
Charleston Gazette
Logan
Secur
Julia Yackie
Board of Education To Name Personnel Tonight
Taylor County Board of Education will name maintenance personnel at its regular meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in Sept. E. Guy Kuhn's offices. The date for naming maintenance personnel by law is July 5, but a holiday Monday moved the meeting to tonight. Other items of business are scheduled for discussion. City Council meets Friday at 8 p.m. at City Hall to hear the second reading of Ordinance 179 authorizing Monongahela Power to supply street lighting.
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Taylor County Board of Education
Guy Kuhn
City Hall
Monongahela Power Company
Believe Settlement Near In Rail Dispute
Signs today point to a possible settlement in the wage dispute involving three railroad brotherhoods and major railroads. Ahead of a union management conference at the White House, a union leader suggested an announcement from the White House could come today or tomorrow, with optimism about a favorable outcome. Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman has been seeking a breakthrough in the deadlock.
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Washington
White House
John R. Steelman
Harmony Grove marks centennial of Harmony Grove Baptist Church
The Harmony Grove Baptist Church celebrates its 100th anniversary with a July 9 centennial event. Services run 10 a m to late afternoon with a noon dinner. Former pastors Rev L T Harvey Rev M B Stump and Rev Henry C Loying will preach. Music by local choirs will accompany the day’s program.
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Harmony Grove Baptist Church
L.T. Harvey
Kanawha Head
M. B. Stump
Phoenix, Ariz
Henry C. Loying
Bridgeport
T. B. Lawlemot Pairtont
W. J. Richardson
Pruntytown
St. John's Methodist Church
First Baptist Church of
Taylor County
Charles Wheeler
E. J. Armstrong
Alexander Scranage
Michael Coffman
Jonathan T. Currey
Scranage
Harmony
North Carolina Faces New Record Polio Epidemic
Raleigh reports infantile paralysis advancing toward the 1944 peak as 408 cases exist across four counties. Thirty seven cases were logged yesterday amid July 4 closures, with no quarantines on pools or theatres. Coastal and mountain areas remain normal, while central NC bears the heaviest outbreak as communities prepare care and prevention measures.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina
May Call Meyers In Freight Gauge Probe
Bennett E. Meyers, the retired two star general in a DC jail, faces a new probe into World War II freight bills. House subcommittee chairman Bender says he will subpoena Meyers before summer’s end. Meyers was jailed last winter after convictions for inducing a business associate to lie to senators about war contracts.
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Roger D. Greene
Washington
Bennett E. Meyers
Bender
Ohio
House
Meyers
District of Columbia
Army Air Forces
Patterson Field
Thomas F. Proctor
Justice Department
Post Office Department
Asee
Israeli agrees to extend truce amid Arab rejection
Rhodes July 8. Folke Bernadotte said Jews favor extending the Palestine truce but Arabs rejected it. In Lake Success the Israeli government asked the United Nations for emergency action to halt the Egyptian attack, while Shertok reported Israeli forces ready for determined action on all fronts.
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Rhodes
County Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
Lake Success
United Nations
U. N
Trygve Lie
Moshe Shertok
Security Council
Shertok
Israel
Hunger Crazed Bear Kills Child in Michigan
A black bear seized three year old Carol Ann Pomrankey from a forest ranger family in Michigan’s North woods. Her mangled body was found beside a forest stream near the Pomranker cabin at Mission Hill fire tower. Minutes later a posse shot and killed the bear after the child’s mother alerted searchers.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Michigan
North Woods
Carol Ann Pomrankey
Carol Ann
Arthur Pomrankey
Allen
Pomranker
Mission Hill
Hussion Fined for Hazardous Driving in May Court
Fayetteville July 8 Lemuel Thomas Steed, 28, of Abner Negro, indicted by county grand jury for murder of Loren R. McClung, a Smithers pharmacist. Prosecutor Carl V. Vickers said no trial date has been set.
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Fayetteville
Fayette County
Carl V. Vickers
Lemuel Thomas Steed
Bdomer
Loren R. McClung
Smithers
Steed
Elks Bar Communists From Membership Rolls
Philadelphia July 6 delegates to the 84th grand convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks voted two by law amendments to bar from membership anyone directly or indirectly connected with the Communist party.
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Philadelphia
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Communist Party
Lodge
Palestine On The Brink Of Full-Scale War
The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session over the Palestine crisis as Egypt reportedly opened an offensive against Beer Tuvia near Tel Aviv. Folke Bernadotte said Arabs rejected a three day extension while Jews accepted the proposal, signaling a likely expansion of hostilities. The U.N. moves include evacuation of observers and staff, with U.S. naval units en route to Haifa to assist.
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Max Boyd
Cairo
Israel
Tel Aviv
Palestine
Folke
Rhodes
Beer Tuvia
Bernadotte
United Nations
United States
France
Belgium
Holy Land
U.S
Palau
Haifa
U. N
Marquette
Haifa Bay
ythe"Puthum
Henley
Owen
Fine Of 25 Dollars For Hit And Run Case
Marvin Leroy Smith of 504 James Street Bridgeport appeared in Mag C P Lucas court yesterday and paid a $25 fine plus costs after a hit and run incident. Trooper E L Duckworth reported Smith struck a car owned by P E Lucas on West Main Street near the North Pole Tee company. About 50 in damage was caused, according to the justice of peace.
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Marvin Leroy Smith
James Street
Bridgeport
Mag. C. P. Lucas
Wet Smith
Btal
E. L. Duckworth
P.e.lucas
Titcas
West Main’ Street
North Pole Tee Company
Justice of Peace
Interview Aims to Probe Lewis Hopkin Case in NLRB Action
The National Labor Relations Board nears a crucial step in investigating John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers over Taft Hartley act violations. An interview with Welly Hopkins, Lewis's chief attorney, is sought to present the union side before a potential federal injunction. The dispute centers on a union shop clause tied to a new wage agreement.
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Washingtonon
Aoe
Robert N. Denham
National,Labor, Relations Board
Industr
John L. Lewis
Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Seeam
Ste) Steel
NLRB
Miners Return Pressure Grows in Pittsburgh and West Virginia
Industrial unrest continues as about 78,000 soft coal miners in Pittsburgh area Idle while officials push a mission to resume work. Roughly 55,000 miners in steel company mines refuse to sign a new contract with John Lewis, with government decision pending on court action. A return-to-work movement gains traction in West Virginia where only 7,000 of 105,000 are idle.
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Pittsburgh
United’ Mine
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
Episcopal Minister Accepts Challenge To Devil Debate
Annapolis Md July 8 The Rev James L Smiley of St Anne s Episcopal church accepted a devil debate challenge from Sunday school teacher Alexander Andres who said he could prove there is no devil Smiley promised to present Bible proofs from the shoulder
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Annapolis
James L. Smiley
St. Anne's Episcopal Church
Alexander Andrews
Smiley
Ediwiri
Episcopal
Grafton Geniinel invites Joe Paul Robb to Dixie show
The Grafton Geniinel invites Joe Paul Robb of 112 Spruce Br. to attend tonight's Dixie Theatre presentation of Jungle Flight, starring Robert Lowery and Ann Savage, the current attraction.
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Grafton Geniinel
Joe Paul Robb
Spruce Br
Robert Lowery
Ann Savage
Dixie Theatre
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Happy
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Yates Avenue
Ona C. Jefferys Court
U.S. 119
DeSoto
Stevens Brothers
Elks Hencyforth
Max Harrels
United Nations Security Council
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Welly Hopking
Denham
S. S
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