New Attacks by China Reds Gain Momentum Across Korea Front
Across Korea Chinese forces press toward the Wonju Yoju road while MacArthur warns against overestimating early gains in the Seoul sector. Allied air power strikes concentrate on eastern and central fronts as troops regroup and defend major routes.
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Stateside GIFs Star Letter Sparks Military Pay Debate
AP report from Washington notes readers criticize a letter writer who claims servicemen, except draftees, earn more than civilians due to salaries and pensions. Air Force and veterans respond, calling the piece propaganda. The Washington Star published 33 letters, noting the writer may have hit a jackpot. In Huntington, City Council rejects a non Communist non Fascist oath for city workers as unconstitutional.
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West Virginia Five Day Forecast for Feb 14 18
Cloudy and mild this afternoon with occasional rain and highs in the 60s. Tonight turning colder with rain changing to snow and lows 28 to 32. Wednesday snow, windy and colder, then much colder Wednesday night. Temperatures stay below normals across the region with a 0.25 to 0.50 inch precipitation expected.
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Press bans cover seven Nazi executions in Landsberg
In Frankfurt Germany U S officials banned press coverage of the impending executions of seven Nazi war criminals at Landsberg Prison citing fear of demonstrations. Relatives have been notified to visit prisoners. The move contradicts earlier policy and follows German criticism of the planned executions.
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Hall of Justice
Waterlift Delivers Water Amid Columbia Water Crisis
Emergency measures in Columbia Pennsylvania curb shortages after a massive ice jam disrupted the Susquehanna River. Operation Waterlift sent hundreds of thousands of gallons via about 30 milk-truck tankers, moving up to 3,000 gallons per trip. Trucks run around the clock but rationing persists as officials call the situation dire.
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Jackson County
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New Feud Brews Over Truman Appointment
A Senate fight over Reconstruction Finance Corporation leadership heated as Fulbright charges against adviser Dawson resurface. Truman reappointed RFC board, drawing calls for hearings while Douglas Maybank and others weigh in amid White House pressure and fatigue critiques.
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West Virginia Federal Grants Rise Beyond 1 Million
Federal grants to West Virginia for the year ending June 30 1951 total 27 496 555 dollars an increase from prior years led by 8 926 000 for dependent children aid up 24 percent from 7 196 145 last year Old age assistance 5 394 000 down three percent from 5 561 937 highway construction 4 787 649 up three percent from 4 652 us hospital construction 385 949 up 460 percent from 247 652.
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Senate Committee On
Big Four Deputies Plan Paris Meeting Details
Paris hosts Big Four deputies from March 10 to 15 to set terms for a US Britain France USSR foreign ministers meeting. A French official said the deputies will decide venue and date and might have Philip C. Jessup represent the United States after talks in Washington.
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Ceiling on Raw Cotton Ordered as Appeaser
Washington under orders from OPS Director DiSalle moved to set a raw cotton ceiling near 45 cents a pound to placate Southern senators while limiting clothing prices. The action signals broader price stabilization moves as commodity exchanges resurface, with oils and beans also affected. Two workers died in a coal mining accident at Crossed Creek, Adams County.
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Washington
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Bottlers Oppose Tax to Finance Medical School
Charleston hearing shows soft drink bottlers overwhelmingly oppose a penny per bottle tax aimed at funding a four year medical and dental school. Only John C Morrison of Charleston favored the measure saying alternate House and Senate bills would be fair. The tax would extend to fountain drinks dairy orange and chocolate drinks.
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Senate
Senate Finance Committee
John C. Morrison
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Fire Boss Bill Debated As West Virginia Senate Weighs Safety Control
Senate discussion centered on a proposed plan to raise fire boss inspection control by consolidating authority of unions and companies, with key figures like Arnold Vickers of Montgomery involved. Meanwhile the legislature defeated a House-passed divorce bill 17 to 13 in the Senate, and the House narrowly rejected a merit system removal of Conservation Commission employees. The divorce bill was altered to strike insanity as grounds, and desertion requirements were shortened from two years to one.
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Arnold Vickers
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Associated Press
Charleston
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Senate
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Bills seek jail feeding fees in small counties
Legislation in the House would allow sheriffs in counties of 30,000 population or less to restore the old jail feeding fee system. Two companion measures set daily allowances by county size, with monthly itemized expense reports to the county court and costs excluding supplies paid from a separate fund. The plan contrasts with the long-established system abolished in 1947 after a bitter fight.
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D-Gilmore
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Governor Defends Soft Drink Tax for Medical School
Governor Patteson blasted bottlers in a radio address over their opposition to a five cent soft drink tax aimed at funding a four year medical school. He called the bottlers' stance a fight by Coca Cola against small independents and urged parents to accept a one cent tax as a privilege to secure medical care.
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Fortune
Coca Cola Company
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Republicans Chop Up Civil Defense Measure
Indiana lawmakers cut a $650000 civil defense appropriation to about $30000 and shifted funding to state police officers for area defense. A proposed $500000 medical stockpile fund was dropped entirely, reflecting a lean, economy-first committee action.
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Indianapolis
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House of Representatives
Flying Saucers Were Navy Balloons in Cosmic Studies
A Navy official said flying saucers were real but were giant 100 foot diameter plastic balloons used in high altitude cosmic ray research. Dr Urner Liddel explained balloons rose to 19 miles, wind speeds reached 200 mph, and sunlit bottoms at dusk created saucer appearances.
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Urner Liddel
Office of Naval Research
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Liddel
Senate Panel Proposes Judge Growth and Pay Rise
Charleston report shows Senate Judiciary Committee backing a bill to raise circuit judge pay from six to ten thousand dollars annually and creating new single county circuits in Harrison Randolph Raleigh Mercer Wyoming Cabell Putnam Lincoln Boone Lewis Upshur counties with reorganized lines. House GOP pushes two year study of the road commission amid party tensions.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
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Rayleigh
Mercer
Wyoming
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Boone
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WV University two year medical school accepts 31 of 152
Morgantown officials said 31 of 152 state applicants were accepted for the fall term at West Virginia University's two year medical school. About 700 inquiries came from out of state. no out of state applications considered since before World War II. Weekend accidents in Morgantown area claimed Marmon L Wright 62 Westover Howard R Nes tor 12 Kingwood and Elizabeth Parsons 71 near Tunnelton Burns died in a home fire. In Bluefield Johnny Sawyers of Saint Clairs Crossing Virginia was fatally injured when a runaway truck crushed him against another vehicle.
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West Virginia University
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Kingwood
Elizabeth Mr. Parsons
Tunnelton
Bluefield
Johnny Sawyers
St. Clair’s Crossing
Miners Injured In Mullens Area Fire Hits Webster Springs
Resistor Staff Writer reports three miners injured near Mullens after a mine mishap at Bailey?s and a machine rollover at Iemana mine. In Webster Springs a daytime fire destroyed a restaurant, barber shop, meat market, and record shop causing about $30,000 in damage.
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