Modern Mine Planned in Babcock Area
Surveys in Fayette County indicate a nine mile rail spur and expanded mining near Landisburg if financing and right of way align. Massey Coal Co plans a 1,000 man operation with a modern plant, rail widening through Babcock Park, and possible relocation of park cabins.
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Thomas F. Stafford
Babcock
Fayette County
Landisburg
E. Morgan Massey
A. T. Massey Coal Co. Inc
Richmond
Babcock Coal and Coke. Co
Medo Fuel Co
Russellville
Royalty Smoke
Coal Co
Sewell
Paul Morton
Morgantown
Landis
Burg
Johnson
Morton
Mission
Jng
Massey
Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
Babcock Way
Gandisburg
Massey Inter-Park
Ests
Glade
Charleston
Babcock Park
Carl Now
Mrs Adda Pryor of Pineville Dies
Mullens West Virginia Mrs Adda Lee Pryor 67 died after a cerebral hemorrhage at her Pineville home at noon Sunday and died at 3 am today in Bluefield Sanitarium She was the widow of E R Pryor a Wyoming County lumber executive Surviving are two sons Edward R Pryor Mullens and Harold Radford Va a daughter Louise Pineville a brother Ray Dodge Martinsville a sister Mrs Ruth Doebler New York five grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Thursday in the Pineville Methodist Church with burial in Sunset Memorial Park Beckley The body will remain in the Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home chapel until 10 am Thursday
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Ruth Doebler
New York City
Pineville
Methodist Church
Norman Morgen
John Payne
Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley
Robertson and Foglesong
PT Pleasant A Plant Prospects Still Good
The United Nations warned 78 North Korean towns housing military installations to evacuate before Allied air raids. Leaflets dropped by B2 bombers out of Okinawa urged civilians to move from danger zones as Fifth Air Force carries out strikes behind front lines. In Huntington and Charleston, local obituaries and notices follow, including deaths of Northcott, Mrs. Pauley, and Vance, with Point Pleasant area still in the running for an atomic energy plant site per AEC officials and local leaders.
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Robert B. Tuckman
Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Glenn ©. Barcus
U. S
Fifth Air Force
United Nations Command
Radio Seoul
North’Korea
Pi- Huntington
Will Andrew Tot
Charleston
Point Pleasant
Joe Burdett
State Board of Control
Walter J. Williams
Atomic Energy Commission
Burdett
Mason County
Willams
Stock Market Ends Narrowly Mixed In Quiet Session
New York trading closed with a narrow mix as many issues held close to the prior close. Some shares slipped slightly while others rose a fraction, leaving overall readings largely unchanged and focused on small moves rather than direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Weather forecast for West Virginia shows scattered storms
Partly cloudy conditions with scattered showers or thunderstorms likely in south and east portions tonight and Wednesday. Low temps around 6 to 63. Extended Aug 6-10 forecast calls for near normal temperatures with showers Thursday. WV normals 74 north 75 south. Beckley and Oak Hill reports show variable highs and lows with notable rainfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gay
West Virginia
Beckley High
Seseererey
Mine Service Strike Settled at Mabscott
The five day strike at National Mine Service Company Mabscott ended at noon today. Workers will resume work Wednesday. An across the board five cent hourly raise, six paid holidays, and company payment of 40 percent of life insurance premiums were agreed upon. Wages rise to 1.71 for crane crews and 1.36 for warehouse workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Mine Service Company
Mabscott
Tamshill
R. H. Magee
Magee
K. ©. Butler
United Construction Workers
Butler
Heber St
Distraught 18 Year Old Disappears From Veendam at Sea
Patsy Ann Partridge an 18 year old art student disappeared from the liner Veendam in mid Atlantic after leaving a note expressing despondency. She was en route from England to visit an aunt in Short Hills New Jersey. A seaman saw her pacing the deck in a distraught state and a detailed search by crew and passengers followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoboken
N.J
Veendam
Harm Oldenburger
Holland-American Line
Patsy Ann
Blood pledges urged for Wednesday blood drive
Beckley residents are asked to pledge blood for a Wednesday visit of a mobile unit at First Baptist Church in Beckley. Only 58 pledges have been received. center hours are 1100 a.m. to 400 p.m. Appointments can be made by calling 4165.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Coal City
Mobile Blood Unit
Robert L. Davis
Permissive City Manager Favored In Beckley Charter
Beckley Charter Revision Committee approves changes including a permissive city manager and ward representation. The group plans to report to City Council next week with a vote expected on adopting the permissive manager plan and possible ward divisions amid ongoing political tensions and unrest in Korea.
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Beckley
Pusan
Imanager
Berrilla
Rman
Korea
Carshe
Council
Negro gambler ambushed in Chicago on South Side
Theodore Roe a 33 year old wealthy gambling boss known as the last of the old guard resisting syndicate control on the South Side policy wheel was killed last night. He stepped from his apartment when assassins blasted him with a shotgun, hitting him twice in the chest and once in the neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ineodore Roe
South Side
Roe
Huntington TV station claims world power title after switch
WSAZ-TV Huntington boosted its transmitter power to 84 kilowatts from 1 kW and became the world's most powerful station briefly, surpassing WNBF-TV of Binghamton. WSAZ planned a July 1 program change to direct coaxial cable reception, plus a channel switch from 5 to 3 as part of a larger upgrade.
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Huntingto
Wsaz-Tv
Huntington
Wnbf-Tv
Binghamton
N. Y
WNBF
WSAZ
L. R. Rogers
Huntington Televiewers
Charleston
W. Va
Portsmouth
Howver
Cincinnati
Columbus
Chicago Hog Market Quarantined To Halt Disease Spread
The Bureau of Animal Industry imposes a partial quarantine on Unico fog market to curb vesicular exanthema spread. About 34,000 hogs had reached the union stockyards when the quarantine began, disrupting purchases by outside buyers and causing price drops of about $1.10 on barrows and gilts and 50 cents on sows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bureau of Animal Industry Today
Union
Starica
Rain and drought drive aid talks across states
Light rain offered scant relief to drought zones in Maine and Tennessee while Connecticut drought relief efforts relied on rainmakers. Farmers faced pasture losses and market cattle surges as the USDA moved to aid affected states. Separately, Pvt. Hugh S. Carter, AWOL from duty, ended his sitdown protest at Blackstone station and faced military disposition. Aid actions targeted Oklahoma plus a regional conference with Alabama Arkansas Georgia Kentucky Mississippi Missouri South Carolina and Tennessee. Massachusetts and Maine designated as disaster areas for loans. The Interstate Commerce Commission approved reduced hay transport rates to drought states to help feed livestock.
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Associated Press
Maine
Tennessee
Kentucky
Nashville
Venn
Hugh S. Carter
Blackstone New
Atlanta
Korea
Carter
Blackstone
Boston
Mass
Ft. Lawton
Wash
Army
Pickett
Manly
California
Jehovah's
American Veteran Witnesses Sect
Navy Medical Association
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Mississippi
Missouri
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Interstate Commerce Commission
South Producers Get Wage Notice From Mine Chief
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers warned that current contracts end Sept 30, signaling a potential widespread mine shutdown next month. Southern coal producers meet in White Sulphur Springs Aug 11 to discuss terms amid looming negotiations and possible impact on 240 million tons annual output.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Mine Workers ‘Union
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Moody
Lewis, Moody
Harry M. Moses
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Crash Death Toll Still a Mystery
Waco Texas authorities struggle to identify the dead after two Greyhound buses collided and burned near Waco. At least 28 bodies recovered, 25 injured, with many victims possibly cremated. Drivers Milton Berry Herring and Billy Malone among the dead. Only seven identified by midmorning as officials and families seek answers.
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Waco
Tex
Here
Creyhound Lines
Texas Department of Public Safety
Milton Berry Herring
B. E
Billy) Malone
Texas
Herring
Malone
South to Aid Adlai Says Democratic Leaders
Associated Press report notes top Democrats forecast Southern support for Adlai Stevenson in November. Louisiana Senator Russell Long and Rhode Island Senator Theodoret Green say Republicans cannot win the South. Missouri Michigan and Kansas primaries loom as Truman factions and Kefauver backers clash. The Georgia electors are pledged to Stevenson and Sparkman, despite independent bids.
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Associated Press
Dixie
Adlai E. Stevensons
Llinois
Ponseuu
Russell Long
Louisiana
Theodote F. Green
Rhode Island
Missouri
Truman
Pendergast
Thomas F. Calaking Patt
Michigan
Taylor - Symington
Senate
Augusta
Eisenhower
Paul Douglas
J. Bj
iStevenson
Buck) Taylor
Taylor
Stuart Symington
Asuadta Wo
Democratic Executive Committee
Adlai Stevenson
John J. Sparkman
Herman Talmadge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Four Die In Miami Airport Crash
A troubled C-46 twin engine plane plummeted 204 feet to the ground at Miami International Airport killing four aboard. Pilot Capt. Robert E. Smith aged 29 of Miami and co-pilot John Norman Goodman formerly of Vicennes Ind. died along with Thomas Slaughter 15 and his brother Glenn 13 both of Orlands Florida. Both pilots worked for Resort Air Lines Inc of Miami. Goodman’s father Benny Goodman was personnel director for the airline. The mix up of names briefly suggested Goodman was related to the orchestra leader Benny Goodman.
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Miami
Fila
Miami International
Robert E. Smith
John Norman Goodman
Vicennes
Ind
Thomas Slaughter
Glenn
Orlands
Florida
Smith
Goodman
Resort Air Lines, Inc
Resort Air Lines
Dixie Walker
Benny Goodman
iBenny Goodman
Raleigh Infant Is 45th Polio Suspect
Beverly Cook an 18 month old Raleigh child is named the county 435th polio suspect after returning from a polio hospital another child was there to take her place Linda Bright a one year old Raleigh child was the second of 45 cases sent to two polio hospitals and later returned home as not polio Rosemary Fleshman secretary for the Raleigh County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said the Cook child was taken to Morris Memorial Hospital at Milton.
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Raleigh
Beverly Cook
Okey T. Cook
Linda Bright
John Bright
Rosemary Fleshman
Raleigh County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Cook
Morris Memorial Hospital
Milton
Price Boss May Resign Tomorrow
Ellis Arnall, the Price Stabilizer, is reported likely to resign to President Truman tomorrow. A familiar source says him hoping to return to Georgia by Sept 1 to resume private law practice and other duties, with the resignation effective that date after heading the post since last February.
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Washington
Ellis Arnall
Truman
Arnall
Georgia
Michael V. 1di
Ohio
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W. Griswold
Prestwick
Scotland
Atlantic
H. Vincent McGovern
New Jersey
Harald W. Moore
Harry Jeffers
Newark
George Hambrick
Sayre
Oklahoma
Adda Pryor
Air Force
Northcott
Old State Game, Fish and Forestry
William G. Conley
Republica
States Commissioner of Agriculture
Wirt E. Pauley
Pure Oil Co
Dawes
Robert Lee Vance
Vance
Ohio River
ARC
Sabine
Orville C. Burleson
T. N. Thurman
U.S
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut River
Connecticut
Aunons
U. S. Department of Agriculture
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Jon Lewis
Pesee Sektas
Oses
Represen
Steel Industry
jMoody Group
Sam Wood
Waco Times-Herald
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Wood
Dems
Adlai
Price
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