Gala Bond Premiere At Opera House For This Is The Life
Tonight at 9 10 the Opera House hosts a Gala Bond Premiere of This Is The Life a Universal comedy romance starring Donald O Connor Susanna Foster and Peggy Ryan Tickets available at the Social War Bond Premiere booth Attendance supports the Fifth War Loan Drive with film exhibitors and the local War Finance Committee coordinating the event The event is intended to fill the theatre before the Bond Premiere feature and attendees are urged to arrive early to clear the venue by 9 10 prior to the screening
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Grafton
Grace Spridkman
pyThis
Beries
Ar Activities Committee
Ion Picture Industry
Oppp
Ib. In
Jay Fleming
Universal
Donald O'Connor
Susanna Foster
Peggy Ryan
Louise Allbritton
Iiant
Young O'Connor
E’armied
Foster and Ryan
Mmy
Patrick Knowles
O'Connor
Knowles
Miss
New Auto License and Old Numbers Guidance Issued
motorists will use both numbers for 90 days as new license plates are issued for 1944 1945. Old gasoline ration coupons bear inked numbers and must not be altered. Ration boards will issue gasoline rations for three months. new plates must be on cars by July 1 or later.
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Tomas J. Schofield
OPA
Mr. Schofield
Road Commission
Final Rites Today for Victim from Tornado District
Taylor county workers bury nine tornado dead in two mass services at Simpson and Lawrence Scolish families. Rose Scolish hospital bound after mistaken identity in transfer. Red Cross allocates lumber for rebuilds and rehabilitation. Wenrick to Clarkburg office leads relief with Carter in charge. Garlic in kettle with green beans noted. Army Ordnance accuracy claim included.
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Taylor County
Kittle
Simpson
Lawrence Scotish
Red Cross
Rose Scolish
Sam Scolish
Phillippi
Rose
Barbour County
J. E. Wenrick
American Red Cross
Clay Bartlett
Lawrence Scolish
Olen Kittle
O. E. Corder
Okey Lough
Taylor-Barbour
Columbus
Wenrick
Clarksburg
Josep L. Carter
Taylor County Receives State Aid Funds
Charleston June 27 The State Board of School Finance announced distribution of 136750 in state aid including refunds on amounts held at the start of last school year to cover teachers retirement payments. Counties listed Logan 14225.66 Mason 6484.85 Mingo 2596.52 Summers 1340.5 Ti 427.69 and other sums.
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Charleston
State Board of School Finance
Logan
Mason
Mingo
Summers
New Director of C and P Telephone Co
L Ebersole Gains of Fayetteville, president of the New River Company, Mt Hope, was elected a director of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia at the last board meeting, announced by Lloyd B Wilson, president. A West Virginian and Princeton graduate, Gains is a coal operator and attorney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association, vice president of the National Coal Association, and a member of the American Bar and West Virginia State Bar Associations. He is also a Rotary member, trustee of Lawrenceville School, and active in Fayette and Raleigh Counties.
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West Virginia Coal Association
National Coal Association
American Bar Association
West Virginia State Bar Association
Gaines
Rotary Club
Lawrenceville School
Fayette
Raleigh
Transferred Naval Cadet Bolyard Joins Preflight School
Reports say Richard E. Bolyard son of Mr and Mrs Shade Bolyard of Ong Street has been transferred from Walla Walla Washington to Naval Pre flight School at Santa Barbara California in return gave them cigarettes and gum Pvt Schultz and buddies Martin Shorty from New York City and Raymond Trent of Lyne Virginia are dubbed the three musketeers Visits by George Newcome visiting his son in Belgium Navy V 12 unit Emory and Henry College and Hampden Sydney College noted Also Joe Talago home from Kansas University and Harold Jabo Fawcett visiting his father Mary Schultz recalls her son Frank W Schultz marching through Rome with Gen Clark's Fifth Army
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Naval Aviation
Richard E. Bolyard
Shade Bolyard
Ong Street
Walla Walla
Washington
Naval Pre-Flight School
Bt. Mary’s
Calif
Oine
Pvt
Shultz
Ment
Martin “Shorty
New York City
Raymond Trent
Lyne
George Newcome
USNR
Grafton Senior High School
Mary Shultz
Market Street
Frank W. Shultz
Rome
Mark Clark
Fifth Army
Talgo
Hunger strike planned by FID rep over REA policy
Representative Harry Chester of Rural Electric Association announces a hunger strike to protest alleged political interference in the REA program. He says he will not eat after June 28 until the REA program is freed for farmers, urging action from President Roosevelt and Congress.
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FID
Harry Chester
Roosevelt
Congress
Taylor County 4-H selects youths for Older Youth Conference
Taylor County 4 H clubs sent four outstanding members Mary Succurro Rosemont Optimists Mary Louise Watkins Haymond Raymond Matthews Pruntytown and Kenneth Krause Rosemont to the Older Youth Conference at Jacksons Mill State 4 H Camp June 22 29 Each was chosen for strong project records and leadership and will return with ideas for Taylor County 4 H camp duties at Camp Towles August 13 19 Eugene Cole Pleasant Creek also to serve as assistant counselor Special sessions will cover rural youth roles in society education homemaking and community progress led by Senator Harley Kilgore and others
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Taylor County
Jackson's Mill State
Mary Succurro
Rosemont Optimists
Mary Louise Watkins
Haymond
Raymond Matthews
Pruntytown
Kenneth Krause
Rosemont
Camp Towles
Eugene
Cole
Pleasant Creek
Webster Springs
Jackson's Mill
Harley M. Kilgore
CB. Smith
Polly Johnson
Hans
Maryland
West Virginia
Gertrude Humphreys
4-H
Nancy Williams
Missing in Action SGT Alfred Campbell Jr
Mr and Mrs A M Campbell of 817 Beech street report their son Sgt Alfred M Campbell Jr missing in action in the European theater since June 15. He served as a first armored B 17 crew member and was overseas since May 4 after entering service in 1942. He attended Grafton High School Fairmont State College and WVU Law before joining the Army Air Forces. Evelyn Campbell, his sister, is Parkview Elementary principal. Castor oil note follows on perfume production.
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War Department
A.M. Campbell
Beech Street
Alfred M. Campbell
Young Campbell
U. S. Air Corps
England
Eemy
Grafton
Cambell
Fairmont State College
College of Law
West, Virginia, University
Evelyn Campbell
Parkview
Parkview Soldier Killed in Action in France
Roy Wilbert Kirby, 35, of Parkview, son of Frank and Cora Kirby, reported killed in action in France on June 4. A U S Army glider infantry volunteer since 1942, he entered service in 1942 and served in England from 1943. Born July 29, 1909 at Cove Run Barbour County, he was active in the Methodist church and Fraternal Order of Eagles, and previously worked in Bedford Ohio. Survived by five brothers Earnest Mene of Grafton Ledford Kirby Parkview Theodore Delvert Kirby Newell and Jackie Kirby at home.
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Pfe
Roy Wilbert Kirby
Frank
Cora Boyles Kirby
Parkview
France
U. S. Army
Bedford
Ohio
Ingleton
Earnest Mene
Grafton
Ledford Kirby
Theodore and
Delvert Kirby
Newell
Jackie Kirby
Nine Called for Army from Taylor County
The Taylor County Selective Service board announced nine men left for induction to the U S Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison while five colored men were called for pre induction exams at Huntington. Names include Clovis Lloyd Knight Charles Leo Carder Jean Pershing Harter Clarence Edward Grow and Alfred Daniel Phillips with Phillips transferring to Parsons others listed from Beckley Akron Tiffin Pensacola and several reflect pre induction examinations for Negro members. The article notes a hairbrush used by the Navajo Indians is made from stiff broom stems.
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Taylor County Selective Service Board
United States Army
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Huntington
Clovis Lloyd Knight
Charles Leo Carder
Jean Pershing’ Harter
Clarence Edward Grow
Alfred Daniel Phillips
Parsons
Francis Lyle Welch
Beckley
Lawrence Brown
Akron
Ohio
Clyde Earl Mc
Wounded in Action Staff Sgt Richard Gill in Cherbourg Battle
Mrs Elizabeth Gill of 18 Barrett Street received word that her son Staff Sgt Richard Gill of the U S Army Glider Infantry was seriously injured in the Cherbourg battle. Gill, a Grafton High School and Fairmont State College alumnus, entered service over two years ago after managing Petrey's Shoe Store in Fairmont. He trained in England before the June invasion.
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Elizabeth Gill
Barrett Street
Richard Gill
Focal. Ind
U. S. Army
Cherbourg
Young Gill
England
Grafton Senior, High School
Fairmont ‘State College
Petrey’s Shoe
Fairman
Brazil
Elan of
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Women of the WACs Write New American History
The article honors the Women’s Army Corps for their vital wartime service in World War II. It highlights roles from hospital work and lip reading to Braille, lab work, pharmacy, psychiatry, ambulance driving, air defense control towers, invasion maps, and strategic communications. These women are praised as essential to liberation and peace.
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Wacs
Agpee
Women’s Army Corps
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Opera House
Fort Pitt Shoe Stores, Inc
Army Ordnance
C&p Telephone CO
L. Ebersole
Fayetteville
Kansas
Joe Tala
Harold “Jabo’ Fawcett
Frank Fawcett
Youths OF
Sgt. Campbell
Rocco Festa
Brooklyn
Jing
Mandy Beachhead
U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto
Pakview
Wwfrance Jie
Malone’s Drug & Chemipalco
Thoreland
Drag Ana Chemical Co
U.S. Army
The
ARMY
Wac
Adjutant General
U.S. Army Recruiting and Induction Section
Munitions Building
D. C
Flease
Jim
Salerno
Patitzis
ENO
Pitase
Myon
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