Union Officials and Mayors to Speak at Beckley Labor Day
Labor Day celebration at Woodrow Wilson stadium Beckley West Virginia features speakers from United Mine Workers District 29 B H Jenkins and Sidney C Box along with Mayor G C Hedrick and M A Neeley UMW Leighton Farley will host ceremonies including invocations vocal selections prizes and contests with a six hour program and details to be announced at Memorial Building tomorrow night
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Beckley
Woodrow Wilson Stadium
Larkin Philpott
United Mine Workers
Chamber of Commerce
B. H. Jenkins
District
Sidney C. Box
United Construction Workers
G. C. Hedrick
M. A. Neeley
U. S. Senate
Evening Breeze
Mullens
Roy Lee Harmon
C. E. Jones
Leighton Farley
Rival Senatorial Candidates to Speak at Pettry Reunion
State and national candidates will address the Pettry family reunion at the Flats starting 10:30 a.m. Sunday September 12. Speakers include U S Senate contenders Chapman Rever com and M M Neely, Governor candidate H S Boreman, Supreme Court hopeful Judge Fred L Fox, and other officials. Ministers and quartets also slated to perform.
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Register
Raoma
Pettry
BP. Pettry
United States
Senate
Chapman Rever.com
M. M. Neely
H. 5. Boreman
Lewis Miller
Ripley
Fred L. Fox
Pocketbook details FHA insured loans and 100 percent options
The article notes FHA insured loans up to 95 percent of value with examples for six thousand dollars or less. It adds veterans may, in some cases, obtain 100 percent loans via a mix of FHA and veterans' insurance. It also reports Austrian trade union membership rising sharply, from 331,213 in 1945 to 1,238,088 at the end of 1947, across white collar, manual labor, public service, and other workers.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Austrian Federation of Trade Unions
Price Soars At Des Moines Farm Auction
In Des Moines Iowa a 160 acre Melvin Town area farm sold for 302 per acre totaling 48320 the auctioneer John McDowell reported six bidders opening at 250 per acre. The farm last sold 65 years ago for 1200. The note adds a remark on bird extinction across two centuries.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Melvin
Town
John McDowell
Ice Pick Operation Aids Mental Patients
The State Board of Control cites 45 ice pick brain operations at Weston and Huntington State Hospitals with no fatalities and promising results. Drs Knapp and Reuser report cases of release for work and college plans. the procedure, though brain surgery, is quick and done with consent.
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Lee Garrest
Charleston
State Board of Control
Joseph L. Knapp
Edward Fl. Reuser
Weston
Huntington
Dorothy Family Hurt In Wreck At Marmet
Six persons were injured including a 13 year old when a car driven by J. D. Moore collided with a Covey vehicle as it turned off a highway at Marmet Sunday. Owens Covey 43 sustained arm and leg injuries her wife fractured jaw both treated at Kanawha Valley Hospital. Charles ton residents W J Hardman and E F Siles also injured.
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Marmet
Owen Gs Covey
Traux-I Traer Coal Company
Kanawha Valley
Moore
Charleston
W. J. Hardman
E. F. Siles
Boone Countian Raccoon Permit Case Lands Three Fines
Three men were fined 23 dollars each after pleading guilty in a Boone County case involving a request for a permit to keep a raccoon as a pet. The chain shows Payne bought the animal from Ashley, who bought it from Fields, who bought it from Mrs. Don Snyder of Kanawha County. Snyder said she found the raccoon on a road in Pocahontas County intending it for her children. Prices reported were 10, 12, and 12 dollars respectively.
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Boone County
Boone
Payne
James M. Ashles
Ashley
W. Fields
Fields
Don Snyder
Snyder
Kanawha County
Noh Payne
le Inocahontas County
Baby Clinic to be Held Wednesday in Raleigh Counts Health Dept
A clinic for white babies will be held at the Raleigh Counts Health Department in the court house Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, with Dr. C. A. Smitl as clinician. BOMBS FOR TSETSES LOXDON The colonial insecticide committee plans a bomb attack on an uninhabited island of Lake Victoria. A chemical bomb dropped from a helicopter would release insecticidal smoke kept near the ground by foliage to target tsetse flies and potentially other insects. The trial aims for selectivity and uses an uninhabited region to minimize danger.
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Raleigh Counts Health Department
C. A. Smitl
Associated Press
Loxdon
Colonial
Air Parcel Post To Be Started In The United States
Postmaster J T Hollandsworth announced a new air parcel post service with restrictions. Parcels up to 70 pounds and 100 inches overall length can be sent by air with rates varying by distance and weight. Rates from the US to Canada and Mexico are five cents per ounce and to other Latin American countries one and a half cents per half ounce.
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J. T. Hollandsworth
Air Parcel Post Service
United States
Canada
Mexico
Gas Men Urged Not to Force in Resource Where Coal Will Serve
At the Eighth Annual Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course in Beckley President Gardiner Symonds of Tennessee Gas Transmission urged natural gas not to displace coal in heating jobs that coal can handle. Questions of gas use and future expansion were discussed as the course opened at the University with WVU officials and industry leaders in attendance.
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Beckley
Gardiner Symonds
Tennessee Gas Transmission Company
W. M. Reeser
K. Lynn Stevenson
Amere Gas Utlites Company
M. W. Prowfoot
Godfrey L. Cabot Company
Symonds
Sr. Hagerman
Amere Gas Utilities
Cond
Katowice
Poland
Cos
Nike
Cou
Worker's Party
Upper
Ishesia
iPoland
Uwdere
Tennessee ‘Transmission of
Southwestern Gas
Appalachian
FPC
New York State
New England
Lawrence Hunter
Columbian Carbon Company
Charleston
Irvin Stewart
West Virginia University
Joseph M. Low
The
Hope Natural Gas Company
Clarksburg
University
University School of Mines
State Public Service Commission
Fuel Gas Industry
Frank Mrus 51 Lanark Man Dies at Home
Frank Mrus 51 of Lanark died at his residence at 3 15 am yesterday. Burial will be Thursday at 2 pm at home with Rev Roy Foster officiating. Burial follows at Slanford cemetery. He was born May 19 1897 in Austria and came to the U S 40 years ago. Survived by widow Fidyl Rutledge Mills and one son Frank Jr both at home, three sisters Mrs Billy Bailey of Stanaford Mrs Mary Tolstick of Summerlee and Mrs Rosie Rock of Smithfield O.
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Frank Mrus
Lanark
Roy Foster
Slanford
Calfee
Austria
Jona
Josephine Mius
U.S
New River Company
Slanaford
Fidyl Rutledge Mills
Frank Jr
Billy Bailey
Stanaford
Mary Tolstick
Summerlee
Rosie Rock
Smithfield
Brothers Fined Five On Assault Charges
Two Raleigh men, James and Ike Smadlers, were fined five dollars and costs each yesterday by Magistrate G. O. Mills on assault charges. Both brothers were arrested by State Police. James Smadler also faced drunkenness charges and received 30 days in jail with a five dollar fine and costs.
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Raleigh
G. O. Mills
Neenle
James
Ike Smadlers
Jal
Sophia Soldier Begins Training at Air Force Technical School
PFC Jerry E. Evans of Sophia starts study at USAF Technical School Fort Francis E. Warren Cheyenne Wyoming announced by Col J C B Eliot. Courses include aviation engineering construction equipment operation plumbing carpentry drafting surveying electricity and other building trades along with automotive mechanics and administrative training at the historic post now part of the Air Force Training Command.
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Sophia
Jerry E. Evans
G. W. Evans
Usaf Technical School
Fort Francis N. Warren
Cheyenne
Wyo
J. C. B. Eliot
Inow
Air Force ‘Training C Command
Monroe County Keeps Mobile Library Service
Charleston reports Monroe County will take over the book mobile project from January 1 as a county-wide service. The State Library Commission plans further county demonstrations after the 1949 session with McDowell Roane counties next. The tour includes Doddridge Ritchie Calhoun Roane Putnam Mason Pleasants Tyler Harrison Jackson and Wood counties.
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Associated Press
Charleston
State Library Commission
Dora Ruth Parks
Monroe County
McDowell
Roane
Mason
Pleasants
Tyler
Harrison
Jackson
Wood
Eastern Gas and Fuel acquires Glen White surface rights
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates buys the 109 acre Glen White surface site from Beaver Coal Company in Philadelphia. The area includes 170 houses an office store club house recreation hall church school and mining structures. Mine closed in 1945 and workers previously relocated to Stotesbury and Helen mines. Conservator Ben Hf. Ashworth issues pistol license for Fred Cole Lillybrook with a $3500 bond.
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Glen White
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Beaver Coal Company
Philadelphia
Lppie
Beaver Coal Corporation
EGF
Stotesbury
Helen
Architect S
Division
FE. EB. White
CCB Singkeless Coal ‘Company
Koppers Coal Company
Ben Hf
Ashworth
Fred Cole
Lillybrook
Lillybrook Coal Company
Cole
Kellogg's All-Bran Advertising Claim Seeks Double Your Money
A Portsmouth Virginia reader endorses Kellogg's All-Bran for two decades as a daily remedy for regularity. The ad urges adding one serving of All-Bran with milk and ample water, offering a double-your-money-back incentive if not satisfied after a ten day trial and requesting carton returns to Kellogg in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Kellogg's Allbran
We. L. Carmichael
Portsmouth
Kellogg Company
Battle Creek
Mich
Kellugu
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Raleigh Register
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Walter F. Freeman
Washington, D. C
Huntington State Hospital
Boone Countian
Beckley Distributing CO
Darress Mreet
Watch Sale
Kord
Benrus
Gruen
Bulova
Elgin Waltham
Mido
Shaeffer
Parkers and
Eversharp
West Virginia
Kredit Jewelers
Neville Street
Beckley Theatre
Beckley Hotel
Hill Building
Oak Hitt
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West ‘Virginia
Speccal Ale
Mee
Etd Brewing
Eee Muntington W. Sf
Ynton
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