Miners Turn to Music in Steel Town Show
Nalepa a seven year mill worker and Scane a Benwood plant clerk join a 20 piece orchestra led by a former miner Tommy Whitely now musical director of the program. The cast also features Griffiths a 16 year employee and Stevenson a weighmaster with eight years service. John Wincheck, 62, the oldest cast member, serves as master of ceremonies and special auditor after 22 years with the company.
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Nalepa
Steubenville
Scane
Benwood
W. Va
Plant
Griffiths
Stevenson
Pop
Tommy Whitely
John Wincheck
Musical Steelmakers Gains Fame On Wheeling Radio Show
In Wheeling West Virginia a home talent radio program built by John Pops features a cast drawn from Wheeling Steel Corporation employees and families. The group, called the Musical Steelmakers, performs under Pop Moran and aims to showcase the talent of mill workers while balancing shifts and rehearsals across the mills. The cast, ages 17 to 62, includes four men in a quartet and a pianist, all combining work with performance as a community-backed effort."}
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Duke Moran
Wheeling
W. Vo
John Pops
Pop
Wheeling Offics
Wheeling Steels Corporation
Musical Steelmakers
Cis
Perot
the Musical Corporation
Mills
WWVA
Mutusl
Ct 5
Huskies
Frank Na
Walter Schane
Bariill
Griffiths
Ill Stevenson
Dagwell
Martins Ferry
Yerger Judging Team to Meet in Prescott district contest
Yerger High School vocational ag students will contest livestock and crop judging at Prescott Fair Ground on April 1. Top four scorers from a preliminary contest led by JJ. A. Harris form the main team, with a reserve quartet and a separate Yerger chapter quartet. Bennie Gilmore chairs the local chapter as speaker.
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Henry C. Yerger High School
Prescott Fair Ground
JJ. A. Harris
Charles Reed
Grady Yerger
Harold Vaughn
M. W. Austin
Frank Noble
Bruce Turner
Ramon Lewis
Alvin Thomas
Terrel Frieson
Yerger
Ruel Geeon
Willie Lee Ross
Bennie Gilmore
Arkansas
T. C. Davis
Sears Roebuck
Edson in Washington on War Production Barriers
Wartime shortages highlight how 1.75 million state laws and 100,000 court decisions hinder defense efforts. Federal suspension of nonfederal laws could help, though it would provoke a rights revolt. Building codes and anti migratory labor laws further obstructs war production and housing plans nationwide.
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Washington
United States
Pacific Coast
Bugahoo
Army
Navy
Industral
Eveery
Not Sisters The Steel Sisters of Wheeling Stage Cast
A World War veteran leads a Wheeling stage group featuring Regina Colbert, 19, a frea tured girl soloist, and Arden Wood, a young tenor who married former star Dorothy Ann Crowe. The Steel Sisters include Lois May Nolte, 20, Betty Jane Evans, 17, and Margaret Jane Evans, 20, with Harriet Drake, 20. They are not true sisters except the Evans girls, and several work in local plants. Auditions drive the show as Pop and the young musical director Tommy Whitely prepare a rehearsal before workers’ buses.
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Steele Sisters
Regina Colbert
Arden Wood
Regina
Dorothy Ann Crowe
Steel Sisters
Lois May Nolte
Betty Jane Evans
Margaret Jane Evans
Harriet Drake
Evans
Lois May
Harriet
Wheeling
Arden
Pop
Tommy
Advertisement for Bids Defense Public Works Project Hope Arkansas
The City of Hope Arkansas invites sealed bids for extensions and replacements to the sanitary sewer system with opening read aloud at 11:00 a m CST on April 8 1942. Plans may be inspected or obtained from MacCrea Ball Lefever Engineers for deposits. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to Waive informalities.
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Board of Public Affairs
City of
Hope
Arkansas
City Hall
MacCrea-Ball-Lefever Engineers
Gazette
Little Rock
City of Hope
Albert Graves
Guy Basye
Charles Spragins
Hitler and Churchill at Aberdeen Ordnance School
In Aberdeen Maryland soldiers with odd surnames like Churchill a lieutenant and Hitler a corporal attend the ordnance training school. Others named Berlin Wilson Long ad Short Lyttle Stoudt Hart Hand and Thumm are noted among the ranks.
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Aberdeen, Md
Hitler
Churchill
Ordnance Training School
Berlin
Wilson
Long
Home Front Mechanics Course Teaches Repairs at Penn State
In State College Pennsylvania women enroll in an evening course titled mechanics for the home front to learn fixing leaky spigots repairing electrical cords cleaning motors and replacing fuses as part of practical home repair training.
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State College
Pennsylvania State College
Labor Shifts as War Demands Force Policy Changes
The article notes workers may need relocation from prewar homes to war production areas as labor shortages rise. Anti migratory laws block movement, women and children aged 17 to 21 may fill gaps, and states consider loosening licensing rules for doctors nurses engineers and tradesmen. Massachusetts has extended textile mill hours for women. New York has modified its nursing standards law.
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Lion
Massachusetts
New York
Hope Arkansas invites bids for municipal water works upgrades
Docket No Ark 3 128 The Board of Public Affair of the City of Hope Arkansas announces a bid opening April 8 1942 at 3 00 PM in the City Hall for improvements to the Municipal Water Works System including a deep well ground storage reservoir and distribution extensions. Plans may be inspected with a $16.00 deposit. $5.00 of the deposit is refundable. Bids must be received by closing time and may be rejected or informalities waived. Mayors and officials listed.
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Board of Public Affair
City of Hope
Arkansas
City Hall
Hope
MacCrea-Buir-Lefever Engineers
Gazette
Little Rock
Board of Public Affairs
Albert Graves
Guy Basye
Charles Sprugins
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Prescott Fair Grounds
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Pewwens
Styles
Rae
FBI
U.S. Pat
Edson
Defense Public Works Project
J. Y. Peterson
U.S. Navy
Luzon
Pacific
Lieut
Corp
Ark
Children’s Shoes
S & Children Play Shoes
Rephan’s
Rephan
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