Decker Employees Get Company Paid Insurance Plan
Decker Clothes Inc employees with six months service gain hospital hospitalization benefits starting January 1, funded by the company through a union negotiated plan. Benefits include hospital room and board, $5 daily for up to 31 days, $10 weekly disability up to 13 weeks for non-occupational accidents, surgeons fees, and $50 maternity benefits. Chief Scalise endorses seven winter driving rules from the National Safety Council to reduce accidents, including using chains, testing brakes, wipers, lights, keeping speed in check, and avoiding skidding on ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decker Clothes, Inc
United Construction Workers
Ted S. Decker
UCW
Pany
Decker
A. Scalise
Scalise
National Safety Counncil
Old Clothes May Help Grow Skin and Hair
A Passaic, New Jersey, chemists’ extract from wool wastes yields Bodlancin P, a protein with 17 amino acids. The material could speed skin and hair growth after injuries, boost fur and feather growth in animals, aid cosmetics and dye work, prevent corrosion, and serve as a nutrient source, adhesive, or fixing agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Botany Mills, Inc
Passaic
N. J
Charles F. H. Jackson, Jr
Jackson
Army Air Force Enlist Ten Recruits At Beckley Station
Ten area men enlisted in the army and air force at Beckley Recruiting Station under Capt. James C. Mathis. Kenneth W. Wade, 17, of Cranberry, joined the air force for three years and was sent to Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Texas. Nine other recruits, all for three years, were sent to Ft. Knox, Kentucky for processing and assignment, including Willie H. Rogers, 20, Beckley. Edward L. Whittaker, 20, Pemberton. Foy M. Meador, 17, Sprague. Raymond O. Lily, 18, Hinton. Charles F. Bishop, 19, Hinton. Madison W. Smith, 24, Warren W. Richmond, 25, Hobart N. Kaylor, Jr., 24, Thayer. and Harry L. Minor, 22, Ansted.
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Army
Air Force
James C. Mathis
Beckley
Kenneth W. Wade
Cranberry
Lackland Air Base
San Antonio
Tex
Ft. Knox
Willie H. Rogers
Edward L. Whit
Funeral services for Norris E F Bennett
Norris E F Bennett 45 of Summersville dies at home of a business associate from coronary thrombosis at 9 30 yesterday. Funeral 10 30 a m Wednesday at the Methodist Church Princeton Memorial Park burial. He is brother in law to Mrs Milton Epstein of Woodlawn Avenue and survived by his wife.
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Norris EF. Bennett
Summersville
Methodist Church
Princeton Memorial Park
Princeton
Bennett
Milton Epstein
Woodlawn Avenue
Thomas Reese
Pilots in Demand Despite Use of Pilotless Planes
Air Marshal Lord Tedder in Oxford says piloted aircraft will remain essential for years. He notes pilotless fighters and bombers are plausible but require time and research before displacing aircrew. Defense must focus on air defense, as attacking from the air remains the gravest threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Oxford
England
Lord Tedder
Oxford ‘University
Tedder
Britain
United States
Aid for Refugee Students Sought
A Yugoslavian born immigrant Ljubisa Bolzic living in Belgium seeks aid from democratic universities to assist refugee students and professors. He proposes university fund gathering committees in each country with subscription forms issued at enrollment to raise about 370 dollars yearly for each of 10 000 refugee students. Belgium already plans to start at Brussels Ghent and Leuven next academic year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Brussels
Ljubisa K. Bolzic
Belgium
Bolzie
Oj F
Louvain
Ghent
Beards Fork Sailor Serves on Light Cruiser Huntington
Kenneth R. Christian, a seaman apprentice and son of Mrs. Effie V. Sibert of Beards Fork, serves aboard the light cruiser U S S Huntington. The ship recently completed a four month Mediterranean tour and a two month goodwill cruise visiting Naples Venice Trieste Mal y Athens Istanbul Tripoli and Suez Canal ports plus Massawa Eritrea Mombasa Durban Cape Town Buenos Aires Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro covering 28 507 miles.
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Hegister
Winer
Beards Fork
U.S.S. Huntington
Mediterranean
Africa
South America
Kenneth R
Christian
Effie V. Sibert
Huntington
Naples
Venice
Trieste
Maly
Athens
Greece
Istanbul
Turkey
Tripoli
Libya
Suez Canal
Masisawa
Eritrea
Mombasa
Kenya
Durban
Cape Town
South Africa
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Montavides
Uruguay
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
MacArthur Vet Dies of Injury and Canady Rites
Benny Frederick Canady 27 of MacArthur died in England from a brain hemorrhage after a concussion with the 39th Infantry in Germany. Funeral set 2 pm Wednesday at Crab Orchard Baptist Church. grave at Canady Cemetery with American Legion Post No. 32 in charge. Survived by a widow and siblings Amon Earl Glen Canady and sisters Mrs. Maddy Blevens Hicks. Body moved from Caffee Funeral Home to Amon Canady home in Crab Orchard. Also notes on Austria Norway trade deal.
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Ces Canady
Alien Frederick
Bethany Canady
P. B. Canady
Pemberton
Amon
Crab Orchard
Earl
Beckley
Glen Canady
Sullivan
Wilbur Maddy
Lester Blevens
Abney
Jim Hicks
Killarney
Caffee
Amon Canady
Benny Frederick Canady
MacArthur
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Shirley Donnelly
Canady
American Legion Post No. 32
Fantry Regiment
Germany
Ini
Rotterdam
Black Mar
Nantwich
England
Beckley Hospital
Adam
Fran
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Margaret “Johnson Bennett
Mary Virginia
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bennett
Welch
Austria
Norway
Vienna
Ministry of Trade
Dunne’s Insurance Report
Reserve Life Insurance Co
Fourth Avenue
W. Va
Pian
Hormel
Swift
Brookfield
Pillsbury Flour
Penick Golden Syrup
NLC C Ba LE Sa
Sauer Kraul
Stokely
Sauer Kraut
Wee
Kina
Phgt Ty
Phe
Alge
Phg
Idaho
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