Board Faces Dilemma Over Weather Closures and Pay
The Raleigh County Board of Education closed schools for eight days due to severe weather. It argues eight days were not taught and proposes paying teachers for the days missed plus eight days of additional instruction, to protect pupils and honor contracts. The plan would require about $40,000 extra across counties, but would meet moral and contractual obligations.
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Raleigh County Board of Education
Raleigh
Expanded rationing signals wartime supply fears in Washington
Officials reaffirm strict rationing despite food surpluses, opposing War Food Administration calls for relaxation. OPA prevails temporarily, Sugar and some meats will be tighter while overall living standards remain high due to farm productivity. No clear plan for Ration Book No 5.
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von Rundstedt
Washington
Germany
War Food Administration
Europe
O.P.A
America
Local quirks and town talk spark daily life around town
A narrator wanders City Hall and Memorial Building meeting figures like Al Hazlewood with a stiff neck and Corporal H M Kern, learns about surplus Army goods, amphibious ducks, and hunting plans. Pigeons at the courthouse, stamps from the state road commission, and a snow resilient school system figure into a lively, human scale panorama of local life.
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Memorial Building
H. M. Kern
United States Army
Raleigh County
Matherly Receives Promotion In Naval Service
William Morris Matherly, formerly a yeoman third class, is promoted from coxswain to boatswain s mate second class after a year with a motor torpedo boat squadron in the South Pacific. A Mullens High School graduate from Mount Hope, he worked at the South Charleston naval ordnance plant before enlisting in 1942. He later served at Arlington, Fort Meade, and two years in Alaska, with prior naval training at Fort Benjamin Harrison. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Matherly and Mrs. S. A. Bennett of Abraham.
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William Morris Matherly
South Pacific
R. B. Matherly
Route 1
Mount Hope
Matherly
Mullens High School
South Charleston
Naval Ordnance Plant
Navy
Arlington
Virginia
Alaska
William Matherly Elmer Bennett
Fort George G. Meade
Maryland
S. A. Bennett
Abraham
Pearl Harbor
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
War Hero Shrewsberry Joins Airborne Troops in Europe
FC Warren W Shrewsberry of Ghent joined the army in 1943 after graduating from Shady Spring high school and working at Fireco Coal. He trained at Camp Gordon Camp Wheeler and Camp McClellan before going overseas July 6. He and Sgt Carroll Calvert of Princewick served with airborne troops that landed in Holland last September. Calvert trained at Camp Blanding and Fort Benning then sailed to England.
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Warren W. Shrewsberry
Ghent
France
Paris C. Shrewsberry
Shady Spring High School
Fireco Coal Company
Camp Gordon
Camp Wheeler
Georgia
Camp McClellan
Alabama
Holland
Carroll Calvert
Princewick
Forest Calvert
Stoco High School
Camp Blanding
Florida
Fort Benning
Camp MacKall
England
Navy Veteran Edwin Murray Celebrates Service Milestones
Edwin J. Murray, son of E. P. and Mrs. Murray of Pemberton, with over six years of active navy duty, trained at Norfolk and served in the Pacific. He fought on D Day, earned three campaign stars, and طی transfers across France England Scotland Iceland before returning to the U.S. He recently visited family in Pemberton then travelled to Georgia to see his wife and son before returning to duty.
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Edwin J. Murray
E. P. Murray
Pemberton
Navy
Naval Training Station
Norfolk
Virginia
Signal Air Corps School
Murray
Pacific
France
England
Scotland
Iceland
Roanoke
Edwin Murray
A. A. Turner
Beckley
Georgia
WWII Servicemen on Leave and Reassignment Notices
Tony Brezo aviation machinist mate second class is on a 20 day leave with his parents in town after 14 months in the Southwest Pacific. He earned combat air crewman wings in August 1943 and will report to Fallon Nevada for re assignment. R R Dowdy signalman third class sails with the coast guard ice cutter Southwind which helped capture the German steamer Externsteine off Greenland. He attended Woodrow Wilson high school and joined the coast guard in 1943. he will report to Boston after leave. Ray B Garten private first class has reported to Ashville North Carolina for reassignment after a furlough with Talcott relatives following service from Camp Shelby and assignments in Panama and the Galapagos Islands over 35 months.
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Fter
Southwest Pacific
Tony Brezo
Ralph Brezo
Miller Street
Brezo
Fallon
Nevada
R. R. Dowdy
H. A. Dowdy
Clyde Street
Coast Guard
Greenland
Boston
Southwind
Dowdy
Woodrow Wilson High School
United States Coast Guard
New York
Catalina Island
California
North Atlantic
Massachusetts
Ray B. Garten
Alice Garten
Public Forum Urges Blood Bank in Raleigh County
In Raleigh County, J L Pitzer urges the Beckley area to establish a blood bank to aid wounded service members. He cites wartime casualties and offers that former nurses could organize blood drives, with local residents volunteering to donate repeatedly to save lives and support a postwar hospital effort. Pitzer notes two of his sons serve and asks Raleigh Register to promote the cause.
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Local
Public Forum
Beaver
W. Va
Raleigh Register Public Forum
Penman
Beckley
Raleigh County
J. L. Pitzer
Firemen battle burning tar at garage fire
Two tar barrels boil over and ignite in the Beckley state road commission garage behind Byus Mankin Lumber Co. Fire Chief W H Weidensall reported the 12 30 p m call was the first fire of 1945. Damage stayed with the tar barrels.
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State Road Commission
Byus-Mankin Lumber Company
Beckley Fire Department
W. H. Weidensall
The Bulge Crisis Viewed From The Frontline
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes the Allied stand in the Belgien bulge with Hodges and Patton pressing the northern and southern fronts. He warns the German counteroffensive remains dangerous, Liege and Antwerp as key targets, and air power could devastate any German withdrawal. Auctioning of art objects in England dates from the 17th century.
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First Army
von Rundstedt
Hodges
Grandmenil
Patton
Bulge
Bastogne
Liege
England
Miller Plane Mystery Ends Glenn Miller Flight Tragedy
Trombonist Glenn Miller, leader of the American Flying Band, left England for Paris on December 15 aboard a USO show flight that vanished. No trace of the aircraft has been found, and the fate of Miller remains unresolved. Morton Downey appears in a final photograph with Miller during the tour.
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Glenn Miller
Morton Downey
Britain
Miller
England
Paris
International
Beaver's Historic Floor Lumber Mill Era Questioned
The informant recalls Beaver once housed the world’s largest floor lumber saw mill but asks why that status was temporary and whether wood floors are still sourced there today.
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Beaver
Hospital Blue Plate Births and Pepper Expectation
Lively scenes at Raleigh General Hospital show staff amused by a playful nickname hospital blue plate for newborn Korn and Lamb. Meanwhile Mrs. Pepper awaits the arrival of a baby Pepper, hinting at a family of culinary themed names.
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Raleigh General Hospital
Hospital
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