Clubs Listen to WLW Broadcast at Hotel Grafton
Kiwanis Rotary and Lions plan dinner at Hotel Grafton to hear WLW’s Builders of Destiny from 7 15 to 7 45 P M. The event honors Grafton as origin of Mother's Day with address by William C Handlan. Nearly 100 civic men expected. program arranged by Charles N Prickitt.
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Taylor County Board of Trade
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Alabama delegates chosen in wake of walkout pledge factions
Alabama tallies show rival factions within the party vying for delegates as the walkout pledge factions oppose Truman supporters. Gov. James E. Folsom, a native son candidate, trails in early delegate-at-large counts, ranking 12th in a field of 24 amid farm population notes and a 1947 boom context.
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James E. Folsom
New Farm Electrification Hostess at Mill
Mildred Dotson, a junior home economist with Monongahela Power Company, becomes Mill Hostess at Jackson's Mill. In training at Clarksburg and Fairmont since June last year, she recently earned a Marshall College degree in home economics. She will demo lighting and electric home appliances all summer, with kitchen and laundry equipment drawing most visitor interest. She participated in the Farm Electrification conference three day meetings, noted for bringing hundreds of experts to the event.
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Mildred Dotson
Monongahela Power Company
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Marshall College
Miss Dotson
Huntington festival opens with first bands on scene
Morgantown and Clay-Batteller of Blacksville lead off as the largest festival unfolds. Huntington junior high bands arrive by 5 pm for a joint concert, with homeowners hosting visiting bandsmen. The parade and guest conductors mark the climactic events ahead of Saturday’s noon showcase.
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West Virginia Institute of Technology
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Ohio
University At Athens
Ten pickets fined in ciuat Buckhannon
Ten pickets including a United Mine Workers official were fined 75 dollars and costs and given suspended 20 day jail terms after pleading guilty to a non union miner incident near Hodgesville during the recent wage work stoppage. Judge Dailey accepted pleas on misdemeanor charges and dismissed felony indictments.
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Jerome Dailey
Carl Pitzwather
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Aleas
Robert Elman
Alex Kuruce
Noth
Barbour County
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Galloway
United’ Mine Workers
Pean
Big Delegation To Attend State Jaycee Confab
About 250 Jaycees from across West Virginia will attend the annual West Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting May 7 to 9 in Bluefield. Speakers include Gwynn Eamonds, Frank Fister, and General Hoyt S. Vanderberg. The Geisenbriar Trophy will be awarded for outstanding local Jaycee work, presented by Jim Hanna. The convention closes with installing new officers led by Frank Fuscaldo. Nearly four in ten Canadians rely on export trade for their livelihood.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Vandenberg
Air
Jim Hanna
Huntington
Frank Fuscaldo
Neely
Wood
Max
Parkersburg Veterans Condemned For Disturbance at Meeting
Parkersburg May 5 The Parkersburg ministerial alliance condemned a group of war veterans for creating a disturbance at a religious sect meeting ten days earlier. Rev Robert A Moore Baptist pastor and alliance president issued a resolution denouncing taking the law into one’s own hands and violence while praising groups discouraging such acts. The report also notes unrelated notes on manna and Mindanao depths.
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Parkersburg
Robert A. Moore
Bonds go well Charleston bid for state road issue
An average annual interest cost of 1.6 percent was bid for 1,000,000 dollars of State Road bonds by a syndicate led by the Chase National Bank of New York. In all, 18 syndicates representing 78 financial houses submitted bids for the issue.
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Charleston
Chase National Bank of New York
City Council Seeks Revised Power Contract for Street Lighting
At a recent meeting the council delayed definitive collection timing and plans inauguration of new services on July 1, the start of the new fiscal year. It asked Monongahela Power to submit a revised contract for street lighting after minor changes were identified prior to action.
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Monongahela Power Company
Chester G Poling to be interred in state cemetery
Coxswain Chester G. Poling of Parkersburg killed in the Pacific during World War II will be re interred at the state's only National Cemetery tomorrow at 10 a.m. His body arrives at 5 17 p m and a local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars detail will honor the service. Surviving are his wife Helen Moss Poling and a child. brothers and sisters listed. Marble from Paros referenced.
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Pacific
Henry M. Poling
Grafton
Poling
Bartlett
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Helen Moss Poling
Fred D. Poling
Howard Poling
Montaville
Charles Poling
Holliday Cove
W. Va
Albert Eisner
Gratton
George Phillips
Parkersburs
Local Man Fined Five Dollars For Assault Charge
Harold J. Phillips of f street was fined five dollars and costs on assault charges after his wife Mae Phillips filed a complaint. Constable Paul R. Messenger arrested Phillips under a warrant obtained by his wife. The case reflects a domestic dispute in Morgantown.
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Harold J. Phillips
Mae Phillips
Phillips Ws
Paul R. Messenger
Card QF Thanks for Kindness and Flowers
The Wilmoth family extends thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness, sympathy, and flowers during the illness and death of Miss Dollie Wilmoth. B. E. Wilmoth and relatives.
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Dollie Wilmoth
B. E. Wilmoth
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