Smoky Joe Confronts Indignation Meet in Rawhide Gap
In Rawhide Gap late at night a mob demands keys and justice as Water rights under the Munro loaned ditch company collapse. Smoky Joe and Pack Rogan clash amid a jail escape, a theater crowd, and a town indignation meeting led by Judge Boots.
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Jane Morgan
Silver Hill
Pee Eos
Kid
Rogan
Joe
Shorty
Rawhide Gap
Boots
Ditch Company
Munros
Pudge Groner
Rance Hale
Rance
Smoky Joe
Goker
McDevitts
Connie
Joj Whisperin
Young Hale
Sub Normal Rain Hampers West Virginia Crops
The Federal State Crop Reporting Service says Eastern and Southern West Virginia had below normal rainfall for four straight weeks ending August 4, with state precipitation at 6.60 inches, 0.41 inch below normal. Temperatures averaged 74 degrees. Peanut pests affect corn, early peaches are good but rain shortfall may reduce grape size. Milk and egg production decline, prices rise modestly. Lamb and cattle markets firm but rising.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Federal
Logan
Canaan Valley
R.S. Virtue
Marshall
J. E. Saville
Jefferson County
West Virginia Sets 1952 Agriculture Production Goals
State Agricultur al Mobilization Committee chair J Ward Wood announced 1952 targets for full seeded wheat barley and rye. Wheat 80000 acres barley 14000 acres and 2000 acres at Ty e. Barley unchanged from last year and wheat raised from 77000 acres seeded in 1950.
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Morgantown
J. Ward Wood
State Agricultural Mobilization Committee
Wood
Tye
Britain to Build Atom Power Plant at Harwell
The Daily Mail says Britain plans the world’s first nuclear power station at Harwell with a 900000 pound grant. It would be coal independent and could power a housing center, with a full plant expected within four years. The plan aims to propel ships and advance atomic energy usage.
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Associated Press
London
The
Daily Mail
MAIL
Britain
Harwell
the Mail
Supply Ministry
Communists Decrease But Dangers Remain
In San Diego J Edgar Hoover reports U S Communist Party membership has fallen from 52000 to 37000. He says remaining members are more intensive and fanatical, with top leaders convicted or arrested, and warns that further rounds of arrests are planned.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Calif
J. Edgar
Hoover
Communist Party
United States
Federal
Bureau of Investigation
California
Seeona Jevel
U.S
Retail Pork and Egg Prices Rise Across Many Stores
Pork chops and roasts plus top grade eggs climbed in most stores this week as supply tightens and OPS ceilings affect lean pork. Produce prices edged higher in many items while mixed weather and rains reduced shipments of several vegetables during National Fresh Vegetable Week.
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Associated Press
Office of Price Stabilization
Camden
N.J
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
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Payne
W.va
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Rossroads
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EEF & Dairy Cattle
Basile
Madison Square Garden
F.F.A.F.H.A
Lawrence’s
Od c
Gates
West Virgintia
Weston
West Virginia Firemen's Association
National Home Demonstration Council
East Lansing
Mich
Gertrude Humphreys
West Virginia Agricultural Service
Workmen's Compensation Commission
C. P. Frame
Hoe
Oak Hill
Atom Power Plant
Kentucky
Neronal Distillers Products Corporation
New York, N.Y
Defense Production Act
Bureau
Jed
National Independent Meat
Packers Association
Axmour
Vienna
Matti Caflinarshyp
Lawson
Neville Street
Beckley
W. VA
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