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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1946
Page
7
Whitestick Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Mabscot plans a Christmas program and party with a surprise Santa Claus. The meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m will include the first such program by the lodge and the election of new officers. All members are urged to attend.
Five officials from Greenbrier Dairy Products Company attend the West Virginia Dairy Products Association annual two day convention in Huntington. Officers were to be elected at today's session. A Milk Industry Foundation spokesman defended milk price structures in an address to about 150 delegates noting that 1944 Indiana University study found industry profits below one third of a penny per quart.
American Legion will undertake its third mass pilgrimage to France in 1947. National Commander Paul H. Griffith announced the invitation from French President George Bidault for a sentimental journey to the Legion's birthplace. Over 25 000 members and families joined the 1927 trip, and about 5 000 attended in 1937.
The Scotch Whisky Association urged a 10 percent reduction in domestic spirits for 1947 amid dangerously low stocks. Exports were not mentioned for cuts, and rationing remains informal at bars and shops with high black market prices.
Pfe Henry E. Figgatt returns to his station at March Field California after a nine day furlough with his mother Mrs Myrtle Ennis of Skelton He completed training from airplane and engine mechanic school at Keesler Field Mississippi on August 27 and from engineer mechanics specialist school for P 80 jet planes at Chanute Field Illinois on November 1 He now serves with the 615th Air Engineers Squadron.
Thomas Lee Cumbow 24 year old Navy veteran and Woodrow Wilson High School graduate will assume duties as Beckley patrolman. Mayor Burke said Cumbow earned the top civil service exam score Friday to replace W B Gilkerson who resigned after his performance bond was cancelled following a South Fayette gun battle. Cumbow lives at 1604 South Kanawha Street and is married to June Marie Peters. their daughter was born during his service aboard the USS Mississippi.
Coal City resident H. C. Whitley, co owner of Coal City Supply Co., has arrived back in Coal City after a several day visit with friends and relatives in Georgia. Lt Gen Robert L. Eichelberger announced U S occupation troops will have holidays limited to Christmas and New Year s plus the afternoon before each, revoking earlier extended breaks.
Joan Berry's lawyers ask for 75000 in superior court on Chaplin to declare him father of Berry's child. Counsel Joseph Scott and A I Rosse petition for judgment against the actor claiming Chaplin's worth is 3000000.
Ira J. Davis 66, a former night club operator, willed about 43 000 of an estate worth 120 000 to Harrison and Doddridge County public school systems in West Virginia. Widow receives 40 000. three others get 1 000 each. Davis died November 2. Executor Harry Hanna noted the will reflects his education in West Virginia. Hold harmless for the schools to receive 46 200. A separate note describes a Chicago hold up at Charles Coffee’s grocery where a gunpoint demanded money. 100 dollars were taken.
Mary Waddell 124 year old daughter of the Rev and Mrs Dewey Waddell Coal City Firec Road section is reported to be improving from a kidney ailment. Family physician notes she once had a fever but insists scarlet fever was not present. She attends Collins Junior School.
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