Flight of Jet Fighters to Buzz Beckley During Air Exposition
A flight of F-80 jet fighters will buzz Beckley St. Airport Sunday during intermission of the Smokeless Coal Field Air Exposition. Led by Major Howard Hively, the Deacon, the jets will perform aerial tactics at 600 mph. Capt. Vermont Garrison, an Eagle Squadron veteran, will fly with the 334th Shooting Stars, sharing the Deacon's wing. Hively plans precise navigation to hit Beckley nose on, using fuel-efficient altitude.
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Beckley-St.ope
Jack Beard
Beckley Squadron Air Force Association
Air Power Committee
Howard Hively
Deacon
Fourth Fighter Group
Strategic Air Command
Andrews Field
Beckley
Air Power
el Chico
Air Force
Kley
334Th
U. S
Vermont Garrison
Berlin
Garrison
Calez
France
Europe
Stalag Luft 3
Barth
Germany
Hively
Eagle Squadron
Washington, D. C
Beckley Mount
Ington
Dunn
Betty
Edmundson
W Barham
Coal Mining Gets Its Share of New Gadgets
The Southern Appalachian Industrial Exhibit features 267 exhibits highlighting new mining gear. Highlights include a 28 ton portable tipple on rubber tires, a tiny under 4 foot bulldozer, a self contained air compressor, a trackless air power unit, and a new mine telephone system using the trolley rail as its circuit. The show notes a shift toward rubber tired equipment and belt conveyor movement in coal mines, with the portable tipple offering grading and preparation functions for small operators and strip mines.
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Associated Press
Bluefield
Beckleyan Serves Berlin Air Lift
First Lt. Clarence E. Gilmore of Beckley serves on emergency duty operating the Berlin air lift at Rhein Main Air Base Germany. He flies food and supplies to Berlin as part of Operation Vittles. Since July 1946 he has logged nearly five million miles and moved about 46 000 tons of vital cargo despite long, exhausting mission days.
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Clarence E. Gilmore
James R. Gilmore
South Kanawha Street
Berlin
Rhein Main Air Force Base
Germany
Woodrow Wilson High School
Patrick J
Michael B
Beckley
Lt. Gilmore
Helen Cornewell
Randall Wooddell
Gilmore
Air Force
Rites Set Today For John Smith
John Milton Smith 84 of Grandview died in a local hospital and will receive last rites at 3 p.m. today at Granview Christian Church. Officiating are Rev A H Wilson and Dr Glenn W Stewart with burial in Grandview cemetery under Mason lodge supervision. Smith lived in Raleigh and Fayette counties all his life and worked as a telegraph operator for Chesapeake and Ohio Rail Way before retirement and later ran a hotel for AUSTRALIAN AIRCRAFT. He was a member of Grandview Christian Church Masonic Lodge 95 Beckley Beni Kedem Temple Charleston and a 32nd degree Mason. Survived by one son Claude Warren Smith of Richmond VA four brothers Rev Paul J Smith W I Smith Hunter Smith and Emory Smith and two grandchildren.
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John Milton Smith
Grandview
Granview
Glenn W. Stewart
Masonic Lodge
Smith
Pax
Henry and
Mary Carper Smith
Raleigh
Fayette Counties
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Grandview Christian Church
Masonic Lodge No 95
Beckley
Beni- Kedem
Charleston
Claude Warren Smith
Richmond
Paul J. Smith
W. I. Smith
Jonben
Hunter
Emory Smith
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Bituminous Coal Institute
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Sydney
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England
South American
Canada
India
Siam
Sweden
de Havilland Company
Keatley Bros., Inc
Prince St
Brud
Qi Savuu Fuk
S. Cohn
West Va
Ie . Ee
Teh
Cohen's
Cohen
Ist
Admiral Electric Refrigerator
Admiral Electric Range
Lewys Electric
Hamilton Beach
Summers Street
WCHS
Cohen Drug
Cap
Andy
Milt
PISOL
lIn
Cohen’s
Kercaier
Cohens
Thrift Buys
EPSOM
AVOR
Vitalis
Tonis
Absorbine JR
BEAU
Amd
Jar
Goodyear Guardian
Plasti-Cleer
VITA
Cutex
Neville
Yeager
Liniment
Haley
Purlin Tomic
Nurry Genuine
Meat Resisting Glass
A Beckley Ackley
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