New Strip-Miner Calls Artificial Lakes For Lands
Norwood Coal Mining plans 6 000 acre White Oak Mountain lease to yield 300 tons daily, with Beckley and Firecreek seams mined. R. H. Smith says 20 to 25 workers to start, 15 trucks to haul coal to Beaver tipple, and potential expansion next spring. He urges artificial lakes to aid drainage and water table, and outlines reclamation plans under state rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Leith
Norwood Coal Mining Company
New Raleigh Gert
White Oak Mountain
Grace Land Company
A. G. Wilcox
Beaver
Ernest L. Bailey
R. H. Smith
Norwood Company
Smith
Beckley
Firecreek
Boyd Huff
White Oak
Hinton
Quinnimont
Fayette County
Layland
Southern
Knoxville
Tennessee
Beaver Tipple
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Huff
Indiana
Illnois
State Conservation Commissions
Department of Mines
Tri-State
Ohio
Panhandle
West Virginia
Raleigh County
Crab Orchard Youth Wins 50 Prize for Electrification Project
Fred Crews fifteen of Crab Orchard receives a fifty dollar prize from County 4 H agent Mary Elizabeth Wolfe for second place in the 1944 state club contests with his rural electrification project. He plans to buy war bonds and materials for further work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Crews
F. H. Crews
Crab Orchard
County Fourth Club
Mary Elizabeth Wolfe
E. C. Stover
Crews
Woodrow Wilson High School
Pinner's
Webster Springs
Raleigh County
Jackson’s Mill
Beckley Students at West Virginia University Rally Amid War
Beckley youths at West Virginia University join war effort changes as freshmen join campus life under war restrictions. Veterans form West Virginia University Veterans Association to aid ex servicemen, while students in training programs and accelerated courses adjust housing and studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia University
Bethany Mountaineer
James Meadows
David Beavers
Thomas Williams
Mathias Powers
Jack Turner
Glynn Cage
Beckley
Jim Meadows
Beckley High School
Sigma Chi
Edna Arnold
University
Swillinger
Harry Jack Swillinger
Camp Sibert
Alabama
The
Amy
Universe
School of Jurvesury
Harry
West Virginia University Veterans Association
Ralph Berman
Medical College of Virginia
Gene Mann
Fletcher Mann
School of Home Economics
Gene
W. V. UL
Mann
WLA
Mavis
University of North Carolina
Mary Belle Polley
Beesley Birk
Della Gamma
Mann's
Havas
Pearl Harbor
School of Medicine
Mickey Moore
T. C. Weeks
Bill Williams
Mickey
T. C
Beta
Bill
Phi Sigma Kappa
Army Air Cadets
Army
Lieutenant Commander John W. Wirtz Promoted in Navy
John W. Wirtz former Beckley Motor Company manager and Beckleyan is promoted to lieutenant commander retroactive to August 17. He served at Norfolk Naval Air Station for over two years and now works on repair of planes from the South Pacific. He is married to Helen Swartz and they have twin daughters born in November 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Wirtz, Jr
Beckley Arotor Company
Navy
Leutenant
Comimnander
Beckleyan
R. C. Hornbrook
Woodlawn Avenue
Comdr
Wirtz
Hornbrook
Air Assembly and Repair Department
Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Virginia
Helen Swartz
Athens High Schools
Concord College
Raleigh County
Lai T. S. Williams
A. G. Mead
Studebaker Corporation
South Bend
South Pacific
Motor Company
Hunter Brothers Enjoined From Cutting Timber Tract
A temporary injunction restraining Van and Perry Hunter of Naomi from cutting or removing timber on a 40 acre Marsh Fork tract was granted to Rowland Land Co and Raleigh Wyoming Mining Co. The suit centers on land ownership with an ejectment action likely. Bond posted for $1000 to cover costs and possible damages. The ruling awaits further ownership proceedings. The Sweden Lutheran Church note appears unrelated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sing van Hunter
Raleigh County
Judge Meadows
Iand
van Hunter
Perry Hunter
John Ward
B.C. Calycord
Scherer
Gasoline Dealers to Discuss Restoration of Inventory Losses
The meeting at 8 p m tomorrow in the Memorial building auditorium will cover new Office of Price Administration rules for restoring legitimate inventory losses of gasoline dealers and distributors. F W Builes of the Sixth District Petroleum Association will lead the discussion for this dealer-distributor meeting sponsored by the State Petroleum Association and the petroleum industry rationing committee. The session will address replenishment for accident losses and dealers who missed the filing period and relief for those who unknowingly passed counterfeit coupons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Price Administration
Memorial Building
F. W. Builes
Sixth District Petroleum Association
Sixth Congressional District
State Petroleum Association
Petroleum Industry Committee On Rationing
Thomas J. Schofield
Schofield
Orville Wheeler Commissioned Second Lieutenant
Orville Ray Wheeler son of Mr and Mrs V V Wheeler of 302 Clyde street was commissioned a second lieutenant in the army on Thursday after completing the 17 week officer candidate course at Fort Benning He enlisted September 24 1942 and served at Fort Mc Clellan Alabama before joining the OCS Wheeler attended Woodrow Wilson High School and Glenville State College where he starred on the varsity football and basketball teams The officer candidate school trains privates corporals and sergeants to become leaders in the modern infantry forces and to knowledge values of administration and military law
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Ray Wheeler
V. V. Wheeler
Clyde Street
United States
Infantry
Fort Benning
Leutenant
Army
Fort McClellan
Alabama
Wheeler
Woodrow Wilson High School
Glenville State College
America
County High School Principals To Meet At Eccles
Raleigh county high school principals will convene at Eccles junior high school Monday evening. President T F Bartlett announced the meeting will begin at 6 30 pm with dinner served in the school lunchroom. Eccles principal D C Lynn hosts the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County High School
Eccles
Raleigh
Eccles Junior High
T. F. Bartlett
D. C. Lynn
Peacock statue lineage traced to Alexander the Great
The text notes a peacock, native to Ceylon Burma Malaya and Java, being imported into Greece by Alexander the Great.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ceylon
Burma
Malaya
Java
Greece
Alexander the Great
Sixteen Youthful Farmers Cited as Victory Farm Volunteers
Sixteen young Raleigh County residents were cited as Victory Farm Volunteers for last summer’s farm work. The youths, including Jack Moye and Dennis Clower, received certificates signed by War Food Administrator Marvin Jones and state extension director J. O. Knapp. Each earned at least three weeks of satisfactory service in the third year of the war, with certificates to be mailed this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Victory Farm
Marvin Jones
J. O. Knapp
H. B. Thomas
Jack Moye
Glen White
Eula Mac Shelton
Beckley
Leslie C. Harvey
Dennis Ralph Clower
Phil Ammar
William J. Baksa
Leslie Ray Upchurch
Jonben
Samuel Edward Grim
Winding Gulf
Warren Alderman
Fairdale
Ismael Brooks
Lillybrook
Buddy White
James Brooks
Astel Ransom
Coolridge
Robert Lee
Grim
Kenn Benton Kirby
Ange Robert Douglas Gouldin
Thomas
W.fl V
Elmer Foster Wounded in Action in France
Pax residents Mr and Mrs Ton Foster learn their son Private Elmer Foster has been wounded in action in France. The family was notified by military authorities of his status with the American forces abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Foster
France
Register
Pax
Ton Fosster
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Concern
Shady Spring
Beckley Youths
By Jane Leith
Fairmont
Seidman
Prince St
Beckley Newspapers Corp
W. Prince
ANG
COLA
Nehi Bottling CO
Gurges St, Beckley, W, V
Via Spoke
John W. Wirtz
Lieut, Cmdr
J. W. Wirtz
Hunter Brothers
Sweden
Beckley Ice & Feed Co
Tee
Sherwin-Williams Paints
Orville Wheeler
NEX
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Bank Beckley
W. VA
Raleigh Fire & Rubber Company
Gillette
Beckley, W. Va
Kanawha and
Prince Sts
Dial
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