Hinton Raises Daily Jail Cost Passed to Public
Summers County Court increases daily jail cost from 57 cents to 1.50 dollars. Mayor P. J. Carr says the city will pass the added cost to fines and consumers. He questions county court authority and notes city residents already pay jail upkeep through taxes. Carr says Hinton cannot house prisoners locally and plans no contest to the county decision.
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Y Register
Hinton
Minton
Summers County
P. J. Carr
Carr
Facion
Jatter
Coun
T Winton
Harry Anderson to Build Three Ewart Ave Homes
Harry E Anderson received a building permit to construct three five room frame houses on Ewart Avenue at about 3500 dollars each. Roy E Pyles obtained a permit for a three room frame house on Ellison Avenue. Dewey Combs secured a permit for a four room cinderblock house on Chip Street costing 3000 dollars.
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Ewart Ave
Harry E. Anderson
Office 9
City Recorder
Ewwart Avenue
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Ellison Avenue
Connn
Wa Pees Dewey Combs
Chip Street
Blindness Fear Drives Browne to Death at Uplifters Club
The 52 year old London born former rabbi and author Lewis Allen Browne ended his life with poison at his California home after leaving a note saying he preferred death to blindness. Police said the note dated Sunday referenced months of visual decline and the fear of darkness. Browne authored This Believing World Why Jews Are Like That How Odd of God The Story of the Jews and other works.
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Uplifters Club Ranch
Browne
Former Raleigh Countian Dolly Brunk Dies in Charleston
Dolly Brunk, a former Raleigh County resident and wife of F H Brunk of Charleston, died at 12 50 AM today in St Francis Hospital Charleston. Born March 9 1913 she is survived by her husband one daughter Mrs Margie Lee Mays of Charleston one brother George Brogan of Piney View and three sisters Mrs Willie Snyder of Tester Mrs Rebaennet of New and Mrs Easel Thompson of Piney View Funeral services will be held locally and are incomplete.
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Raleigh County
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Charleston
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George Brogan
Piney View
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Tester
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New
Man Waives Resistance Hearing in Preliminary Case
Harold Brown of Lester weighed a preliminary hearing before Magistrate J P Meadows yesterday. He is held on a $500 bond pending grand jury action on a charge of resisting arrest. Also noted are fines for a broken window pane and swearing, and Roy Milam of Saxton ordered to pay court costs for disorderly conduct.
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Lester
J. P. Meadows
Gram
Roy Milam
Saxton
Meadows
Delaware Man Heads Second District FCA
BALTIMORE Frank W. Richardson of Camden, Del., is named Second District director of the Farm Credit Administration. The district covers Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico. His term runs to December 31, 1951, succeeding J Allen Frear Jr. of Dover, Del., who resigned.
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FCA
Associated Press
Baltimore
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Camden
Tet
Farm Credit Administration
Delawar
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Puerto Rico
J. Allen Frear
Dover
Del
Alumni Chapter Phi Delta Pi Meeting Tonight
The alumni chapter of Phi Delta Pi has been called for tonight at seven o clock in Beastley s Sport Shop.
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LUMNI
Phi Delta Pi
Beastley
Labor Opposes Move to Change Seniority Rule
Washington reports organized labor protests against Senator Albert Thomas Utah proposed to alter Senate Labor Committee seniority partition. He sought seven Democrats to six Republicans, planning for Ives to remain as the sixth GOP member, triggering opposition from unions aiming to repeal the Taft Hartley act and minimize GOP influence on labor panels.
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Associated Press
Washington
Albert Thomas
Utah
Ves
Senate
Certs Wddivonak
Thomas
Congress
Ives
Mount Hope Cubs Plan Minstrel Show
Mount Hope Cub Scouts met Monday at Grimnett Street Clubroom to choose a January theme. After discussion with the Cub Committee representative they selected Minstrels and will plan with dens and den mothers to stage a minstrel show at the January Pack Meeting at the Mustang Corral. Chiefs will craft gags stunts songs and lances for the occasion while den members Warren Bennett Sherwood Wilkins Harry Caperton Billy Bennett and Kenneth SuClip played ping pong and learned chess in recent meetings.
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Register
Mount Hope
Den
Grimnett Street
Cub Committee
Mustang Corral
Warren Bennett
Sherwood Wilkins
Harry Caperton
Billy Bennett
Kenneth Suclip
Baine R. Hicks Dies After Fatal Attack
Funeral services are set for Baine B. Hicks 54 of 223 Crawford Street at 2 pm Wednesday at his home with Rev. C. E. Walker officiating. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park with Masons directing. A retired master sergeant with 23 years service and World War II veteran, Hicks died Monday in a local hospital after a fatal attack. He had worked with the West Virginia Department of Unemployment Compensation in Beckley for three years and was born in Independence, Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Mollish Hicks.
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Crawford Street
I Rev
Independence, Va
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Beckley Masonic Lodge
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Kaye Canaday Faces Court Ruling After Mayoral Bid
Local politics in Pomeroy. Kaye Canaday, suspended mayor, vows to defy a court order and return to the mayoral seal, claiming he will fight the restraining order and seek legal action as he awaits the change of governorship. Citizens witnessed a stormy council meeting with calls about water concerns.
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Rohas
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Jerome
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Herbert
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Columbus
West Virginia Briefs Highlight 1948 Toll and Local Updates
Adj Gen Fox reports 248 West Virginians drafted in December, surpassing quota. Charleston, Wheeling, Wentworth, Whitfield, Fairmont, Beckley, Martinsburg stations listed. Berkley Springs begins mail delivery decades late after club drive. Elkins timber land sale to Point Mountain Lumber with sawmill planned. 1948 highway tolls claim 409 deaths, up from 388 in 1947 per State Police. Banking probe calls for status of 105 state banks and rust companies. Clay County death ruled natural causes for 65-year-old W W Morgan found at courthouse steps. Huntington girl of 9 suffers severe burns near a heating stove, principal also burned while dousing flames.
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Chearleston
Adj
Charles R. Fox
West
Clay
W W. H. Morgan
Point Pleasant
Clay County
Huntington
Dorothy Horn
Cabell School
E. W. Taylor
Sutton Dam Fund Bailey's Goal
Washington ally Rev Bailey D WV advances Sutton Dam funding in Congress. He recalled securing a 7500008 dollar appropriation for the Elkins River dam near Sutton in the 79th Congress and will seek 1500000 more as part of a Kanawha Valley water control plan including Bluestone and Simmersville projects.
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Washington
Sutton
West Virgina
Bailey
D-Wva
Congress
Elkins River
Kanawha Valley
New River
Simmersville
Gauley River
Private Rites Set For War Victim
Private funeral services will be conducted at 2:39 p.m. for Staff Sergeant Frane Adams Jr. at the Crab Creek home of his parents Mr and Mrs Franklin Adams. The Rev Donnelly will officiate and burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park. Adams body arrived today. He was killed October 3 1994 during a bombing mission over Germany as a member of the 92nd Bomb Group Eighth Air Force. Born April 13 1924 at Pemberton he enlisted April 19 1943. He was a Woodrow Wilson High School graduate class of 1944 and a member of the Methodist Temple. He is survived by his parents three sisters Yolande Melba Adams and Doris Annie Adams all of Crab Orchard.
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GOP Rebels Plan Minority Scrap in Senate Fight
Associated Press reports Republicans plan a minority challenge to Senate leadership proposals as insurgents remain vocal. Taft retains chairmanship of the GOP Policy Committee after a 24 to 14 caucus vote, while Lodge Morse Baldwin criticize Taft and pledge continued protest to shape party direction.
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Ohio
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Girl Burned as Clothing Ignites From Stove in Class
Four year old Marjoe Gortner is at issue over a marriage service labeled voidable by Los Angeles County counsel. In Long Beach a chapel service paired Raymond Miller and Alma Brown. The case hinges on whether a child can legally act as a minister.
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Los Angeles
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Ray Dowds
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Alma Brown
Long Beach
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Dowds
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