PWA rescinds former order on relief labor use
Washington June The Public Works Administration rescinds an order limiting grants to relief labor payrolls and allows 45 percent of project costs in grants with loans to cover the rest. The move, announced by Horatio Hackett, encourages but does not require use of relief labor and follows months of criticism from borrowers and WPA activities. Legislation pending in Congress could extend PWA for two years and permit about 200 million dollars for grants, with ongoing questions about revising existing agreements on 115 percent terms for projects such as a bridge in Jacksonville Florida a Kentucky prison and a 20 million dollar Pennsylvania institutional building program.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
PWA
Horatio B. Hackett
PWO
House
Senate
Jacksonville
Fla
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Holt missing from Parley Washington meeting attendees
West Virginia delegation led by Representatives George W. Johnson and Jennings Randolph attend a Roosevelt hosted meeting at Jefferson Island club off Chesapeake Bay. Senator Rush D. Holt and Representative Joe L. Smith miss the start. John Kee of Bluefield to attend the final conference.
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Washington
George W. Johnson
Parkersburg
Jennings Randolph
Elkins
West
Robi L. Ramsay
Follawsbee
Andrew Edmiston
Weston
John Kee
Bluefield
Graves Perry Promoted to Supervisor of Field Agents
Charleston June 25. Tax Commissioner Ernest K. James announces Graves Perry, Monongalia county field agent, promoted to supervisor of field agents effective July 1. Also named Waitman D. Gall Jr. of Phillippi to succeed the late B B Rohrbaugh as deputy commissioner in Barbour county. Perry's appointment aims for closer supervision.
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Charleston
Ernest K. James
Graves Perry
Monongalia County
Tax Department
James
Waitman D. Gall, Jr
Phillippi
B. B. Rohrbaugh
Belington
Barbour
Perry
Divine Plans Coast Drive in Hunt Trial
On June 25 in Los Angeles counsel for John Wuest Hunt a follower of Father Divine said the Harlem cult will engage on the West Coast in the main act case. Hugh MacBeth his negro attorney predicted Father Divine may aid, seeking political influence from Alaska to Mexico as the movement takes charge locally. Hunt, called the Revelator and Jesus Christ, will testify next Sunday promising a dramatic, earthquake like hearing as Father Divine moves in. Hunt is accused of betraying Delight Jewell aged 17.
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Los Angeles
John Wuest Hunt
Father Divine
Hunt
Hugh MacBeth
MacBeth
Rocky
Mauuntain
Ocean
Alaska
Mexico
Mis Sion
Cout
Jesus Christ
Suesany
Beth
Delight Jewell
Savage River dam cost rises with higher height
Charleston reports the Savage River flood control project cost rising by about 1.1 million to roughly 2.7 million dollars. W. D. Luplow cites a need to raise dam height by 15 feet to achieve 20 000 acre feet storage and greater safety, noting earlier estimates at 1.6 million and excluding rights of way damages.
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Washington
W. D. Luplow
Savage ‘River
Cumberland
Potomac River
Piedmont
W. Va
Luplow
David J. Lewis
Jennings Randolph
Elkins
Cat Kills Copperhead Snake in Yard Incident
Morgantown June 25 Cecil Gates Jr said his year old Angora cat killed a two foot copper head snake in the Gates home yard after a death struggle when the reptile met the cat in the yard.
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Morgantown
Cecil Gates, Jr
Friends
Gates
Card of Thanks for Father L S Jacobs
The Jacobs family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during their father L S Jacobs illness and death. Special thanks go to Rev James E Fidler the lodges G T Bartlett those who sent flowers and offered car use. The children.
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L. S. Jacobs
James E. Fidler
G. T. Bartlett
Banke debits rise for week of June 23
The Charleston Clearing House association reported debits of 13,647,465 for the week ending June 23, raising the year total to 315,831,901 and showing a 24.83 percent increase over the same period in 1936. The note mentions a spillway capacity greatly increased.
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Charleston Clearing House Association
Associa
Coal Company Ends Indefinite Suspension After Wage Clash
The Jewell Valley Coal company operation in Buchanan county remains suspended after failure to reach wage classification agreement with United Mine Workers representatives. No contract was reached. Dr Huston St. Clair said equipment from the mine closed since April will be moved to Jewell Ridge and salaried employees have been taken off the payroll. Seven hundred men were employed.
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Bluefield
Jewell Valley Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Buchanan County
Huston St. Clair
Jewell Ridge
Six youths held for theft probe in district
State police announced the arrest of six youths, ages around 25 per cent, in connection with a spate of thefts across the district over the past several months. Investigators, led by Trooper J Tutwiler, continue to question the detainees as the inquiry proceeds.
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Rayburn
D.tex
White House
Shantung
Friedlander
Fashion Shop
W. Main
Grafton
Holt
Joe Smith
Illin Beckley
Divine
Coast Drive
Savage River
N.C. Conner
Consumers
Conner
Kodak
W.R. Loar & Son Everything Photographic
Walnut St
Califora
Noopeck
California
VEAL
Chuck Choice
Royal Typewriter Agency
Standard and Portable
Clyde S. Holt, CO
Adams Street
Fairmont
Archdeacon
Catalina
Hartley
Coal Company
Quits
Morrison’s
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