Phone Company Expands to Add 300 Waiting List Phones
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company moves its operating room from the second to third floor of the Green Bank and Trust Building with a 50,000 dollar equipment spend and 3,000 dollar restructuring. Completion expected by late August. Five new switchboard positions and 280 more lines, bringing total to 1,600 lines, plus a 25 percent rise in operating staff. Shrum contractors remodel the third floor to house the facilities, including blue walls and fluorescent lighting.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Green Bank and ‘Trust Company
Francis C. Chambers
Chambers
Shrum Contractors
Clarksburg
Bank
Selective Service
OPA
Phone Company
Reappoint Gerkin Optometry 80
Harleton June 19. Mist of 35 appointments announced by Governor Mea for Senate review at the special session. Most appointees are listed as to serve additional terms, including current major system council members. The announcer notes lack of new faces in the slate.
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Harleston
Mea
State Senate
Regista
Eisenhower Named Possible Columbia University President
Walter Winchell claimed Eisenhower has resigned as army chief to become Columbia University president next fall. Officials dismiss the rumor though Columbia sources say such reports surface regularly. Maj. Gen. Parks says no intention to quit this year and that trustees raised the possibility privately.
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Winchell
Eisenhower
Columbia University
New York
New York Daily Mirror
Walter Winchell
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
Washington
Columbia
F.L. Parks
Army
Parks
Army Public Information Division
Board of
Rent control extension bill seen passing Senate
Senator Buck predicts Senate approval of a House backed extension to eight months with permissive rent increases up to 15 percent. The bill, a compromise, drops government controls on commercial construction and keeps the Hawkes amendment potential. President Truman’s veto is urged by Senator Taylor, while Buck hopes for signature as the current law expires June 30.
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Washington
Buck
Senate
Taylor
Idaho
Truman
Landlord
Tennant
Truman nominates Wilson to head Turkish aid mission
President Truman nominated Edwin C. Wilson ambassador to Turkey to lead the American mission under the 100 million dollar Turkish aid program. The nomination was sent to the Senate along with Charles B. Saltzman's appointment as assistant secretary of state.
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Washington
Truman
Edwin C. Wilson
Turkey
Senate
Charles B. Saltzman
New York Stock Exchange
Collins warns of U S military weakness in wartime
Lt Gen J Lawton Collins told a Miami gathering that Russia outnumbers the U S army by about 20 to 1 with over 10 000 aircraft and could field 200 divisions plus 100 more from European satellites. He urged immediate steps to strengthen defenses and avoid repeating Pearl Harbor mistakes.
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Miami
Fla
J. Lawton Collins
U.S
U. S Army
Russia
Europe
War Department
Reserve Officers Association
Collins
Pearl Harbor
Expect Early Ratification Of New Shipping Contract Reached Today
Washington and New York reports show bipartisan support for a new foreign aid study plan led by Senator Vandenberg. State Department officials caution on full adoption, awaiting Marshall's review. Separately, union and shipper negotiators reached a five percent wage settlement for 110,000 seamen on Atlantic and Gulf coasts, with ratification by union members and shipowners possible after meetings. West coast officials anticipate spillover effects from east coast agreement.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Vandenberg
United States
State Department
Department
Republian
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wil Clayton
Clayton
Treasury
Marshall
Michigan
New York
John W. Gibson
Atlantic
Gulf
Nathan Feinsinger
Labor Department
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union (Cio
Curran
NMU
American Communications Association
The
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
CIO
Gibson
Slight Relief In Cool Weather Wave
The region enjoyed warmer conditions with temperatures climbing to 71 by noon after a 62 degree high yesterday. Overnight low was 52 and by 8 am this morning 61. Rainfall since yesterday totaled 0.2 inches as a cool wet pattern persisted with showers forecast for tomorrow.
West Virginia Business and Professional Girls select Bluefield site
The West Virginia State Business and Professional Girls group chose Bluefield as the site for their 1947 conference to be held in October. Date and exact plans to be announced.
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Charleston
West Virginia State Business and Professional Girls
Bluefield
Judge Watkins To Make Decision Friday Afternoon
Judge W Merle Watkins set 4 PM Friday as the deadline to decide the case of Frank B Cather vs City of Grafton if no settlement is reached. Lawyers for both sides argued mandamus to compel Mayor C O King and Commissioners to pay a court-ordered judgment from city funds. The mandamus proceedings began in Taylor County circuit court Saturday to force payment to Mr Cather.
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W. Merle Watkins
Frank B. Cather
City of Grafton
C. O. King
John Newcomb
John Knotts
Nurse Genevieve Whelan Cauliflower Dies in Clarksburg
Mrs. Genevieve Julia Whelan Cauliflower aged 40 a Grafton nurse dies after three months illness at St Marys hospital Clarksburg. She worked at Grafton City Hospital for two years and prior five years at veterans hospitals in Rutland Heights and Huntington. Born September 27 1906 at Grafton she was a graduate of St Augustine High School and St Marys School of Nursing 1927. Survived by husband J Corrett Cauliflower two children Mary Ann 12 Julia 11 two sisters Ann Smith and Mary Brumage. Funeral Monday at St Augustine church with burial Mt Calgary cemetery.
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Genevieve Julia Whelan Cauliflower
Grafton
St. Mary's Hospital
Clarksburg
Grafton City Hospital
Veterans Hospitals
Rutland Heights
Mass
Huntington
St. Augustine High School
St. Mary's School of Nursing
James A.whelan
Ann Smith
Mary Brumage
St. Augustine Church
M. J. Hannon
Mt. Calgary
Bartlett Funeral Home
Fire school set for Morgantown July 28 to 31
The 17th annual fire school will be held in Morgantown from July 28 through July 31 for fire chiefs and firefighters statewide.
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Morgantown
Burglar Hums In To Rob Western Union Safe
A burglar entered the Fourth Avenue Western Union office last night armed with a pistol and humming a tune. He demanded the staff open the safe and escaped with an undetermined amount of money.
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Pittsburgh
Fourth Avenue Western Union
Father Charged With First Degree Murder In Fla Warrant
Miami Florida June 19 four warrants charge two counts of first degree murder and two counts of assault with intent to murder. against a stocky gray haired father for the brutal baseball bat slaying of his two children and the shooting of two neighbors. State Investigator I Ray Mills said he asked Peace Justice Henry L Oppenborn to set a hearing for Monday for Chris Russell 59.
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Miami, Frs
I. Ray Mills
Henry L. Oppenborn
Chris Russell
Recovery 10 Russia on a join Paris note
Paris dispatch reports France and Britain giving Russia until Monday to join a three way meeting with Molotov in the week of June 23. The aim is to discuss participation in a European recovery plan with American aid or to proceed with reconstruction without the Soviet Union.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Russia
Europe
Soviet Union
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Ieter Georges Bidault
Ernest Bevin
U.S
George C. Marshell
Bidault-Bevin
Marshall
University
London
Bevin
Mines Idle on Monongah Division Car Shortage
Seventy six Monongah division mines face idle status as only 1 417 of 3 250 hopper cars ordered by more than 150 mines on the division are available. Yesterday's loadings totaled 1 302 with 1 920 cars loaded on Tuesday and 2 404 on Monday.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
May Improve Station Parkerburg
Baltimore official C W Van Horn executive vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad conferred with Parkerburg city officials and the board of commerce on proposed improvements to the passenger station here.
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Parkersburg
C. W. van Horn
Baltimore, Md
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Board of Commerce
Pan American Plane Crash Near Megadine Syria
Thirty seven aboard a Pan American World Constellation Eclipse crashed while attempting a forced landing near Megadine Syria during a flight from Karachi to Istanbul. Fifteen were killed or reported dead. eight passengers and seven crew among the missing or injured. Survivors include Purser Anthony Volpe and Stewardess Jane Timothy of New York. Capt. Hamilton Smith led Damascus office staff toward the scene as the craft was last heard from over Habaniyeh in Iraq.
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New York
Pan American World
Constellation
Megadine
Syria
Ate Pan American
Kerachi
Instanbul
Nemes
Adid
Damascus
Anthoniy Volpe
Jane “ ‘Iothy
Ese
Istanbul
London
Hamilton’ Smith
Ban American
Habaniyeh
Iraq
Park Renovation Plans Move Forward This Saturday
Taylor County officials and the Board of Trade met to approve preliminary park work. Crews will clear brush and remove unwanted wood debris to ready the grounds for a modernization effort aimed at attracting visitors.
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Taylor County
Taylor County ‘Board of ‘Trade
Health Department to test beauticians and barbers in upcoming weeks
Charleston and Wheeling schedules show 19 more than 290 beauticians and 45 others seeking barber licenses. Examinations will be held in Huntington the week of July 14 and July 9 respectively as announced by the Health Department.
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Charleston
Huntington
Wheeling
Health Department
Truman Deliberates On Taft-Hartley Bill In White House
President Truman weighs a decision on the Taft Hartley labor bill amid division within his party. White House aides offered no clear sign whether he will sign or veto and said the message to Congress could be ready around noon tomorrow.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Charles G. Ross
White House
Ross
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