National output rise proposed to boost jobs and growth
The 3 percent annual output rise is urged as a national goal to improve employment, production, and purchasing power. The council of economic advisers sets benchmarks for sectors including agriculture, power, petroleum, railroads, highways, and commercial building with specific investment targets and timeframes. Concurrently, reports from Oak Hill Hospital note injuries and admissions from local mines and medical patients.
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Associated Press
Washington
Council of Economic Advisers
Council
Congress
Truman
Edwin G. Nourse
Leon Keyserling
John D. Clarke
Register
Oakhill
Harry Fitzgerald
Carlisle
Oak Hill Hospital
New River Company
Oak Hill
Guy Brown
Joe R. Oliver
State Quiz Questions Available on Request
The Industrial and Publicity Commission offers a free 50 question West Virginia quiz with answers. Available on request to program leaders civic clubs and planning committees. Useful for teachers for club work and for history and geography classes. If demand exists more quizzes on other subjects may follow.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Industrial and Publicity Commission
Robert W. MecKinnon
West Virginia
McKinnon
Davin Dead at 57 Led Nickel Plate and Rail Lines
John Wysor Davin, 57, longtime railroad executive and president of the Nickel Plate Railroad, died today in his Cleveland home after a period of ill health. Born in Montgomery, West Virginia, he began with Chesapeake & Ohio in 1920, rose to executive roles, and led Nickel Plate from 1942 onward. He helped coal development across the C&O and Nickel Plate, leaving a family including his wife Ruth Ruffing Davin and three daughters.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
John Wysor Davin
Nickel Plate Railroad
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
Davin
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Robert Young
van Sweringen
Chesapeake & Ohio
Young
S. H. Montgomery
Montgomery
W. Va
John
Mary Elizabeth Montgomery Davin
Ohio River
Ruth Ruffing Davin
The
Nickel Plate
Davins
Oak Hill Pastor to Attend St Stephen's Service Beckley
The Rev. John A. Wilson of Oak Hill will join St Stephen's Episcopal Church Beckley for an 8 o clock Sunday holy communion service. An LO clock layperson will conduct the 11 o’clock service.
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Oak Hill
St. Stephen’s
John A. Wilson
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Beckley
Truck Radio Used To Save Village From Destruction
WEST JEFFERSON Ohio Mayor Homer Braithwaite credited a truck radio apparatus with saving the village of 2000 from a downtown fire that destroyed a residence a grocery store a filling station and a bowling alley. The blaze began about 1 20 a m and was confined with aid from Columbus and from London and Rome Ohio. Damage was estimated at about 100 000.
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Associated Press
West Jefferson
Homer Braithwaite
Richard Meriman
Braithwaite
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Columbus
Columbus Fire Department
London
Rome
Said
GOP Status Quo To be Disturbed, Chairman Claims
Republican fundraisers seek changes to win future elections as chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr. promises the status quo will be disturbed. National committee members and workers respond with calls for new leadership, a forward program, and end to the New Deal approach. Letters reveal diverse views on disbanding leadership, isolationism, or reining in the party’s alignment with New Deal policies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
Pennsylvania
Republican National Committee
Omaha
Neb
National Committee
Scott
National Committeeo
Downsite
Winots
Philadelphia
New Hampshire
Missouri
New York
Modern Furniture Co Fire Hits Neville Street Again
Beckley firemen answered a 12 55 p m alarm at Modern Furniture Company on Neville Street. Fire Chief Bernard Martin said it was the third or fourth call in a month. The sprinkler system kept flames in a basement room from spreading and damage mainly resulted from the sprinkler. cause undetermined. In Pineville the county clerk issued a marriage permit to M H Payne 78 Oceana and Angeline Kantseniss 25 Oceana.
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Modern Furniture Co
Beckley
Modern Furniture Company
Neville Street
Bernard Martin
Martin
Pineville
M. H. Payne
Angeline Kantseniss
Oceana
Coloradan to Die For 'Prayer Murder' Chronicle
CANON CITY Colo Robert S Battalino a 37 year old former prizefighter fidgeted and cussed in his prison cell awaiting the warden s call to death at p m MST He is scheduled to die for a crime linked to a so called prayer murder in Colorado.
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Associated Press
Canon City
Colo
Robert S. Battalino
West Virginia briefs report theft and tax figures
West Virginia police charge Bernard Gurden and John Goudy with armed robbery over about 50 dollars taken from a Wheeling tavern case. State tax receipts show cross sales taxes totaling 16 879 806 for six months ending December 31, exceeding 1947’s same period by more than 2 400 000. Kanawha County appoints Thomas Robertson as chief probation officer starting January 1 but with pay delayed until July 1. Battalino awaits execution in Indiana for the prayer murder of Michael Randolph, with comments on his last meal and prayers.
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Associated Press
Wheeling
Fidelius Strauss
Bernard Gurden
John Goudy
Charleston
C. H. Koontz
Thomas D. Robertson
Kanawha County
Michael H. Randolph
Denver
Lee Iknous
Randolph
Battalino
Hammond
Battatino
Roy Best
Trent Announces Personnel Change at Charleston Schools
School Superintendent W. W. Trent announced H. L. Duncan of Charleston as director of research and school house planning. Willis W. Chambers of Princeton will replace Duncan as director of veterans education. Duncan succeeds John Marshall, who left December 1 to join a Massachusetts school building commission.
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Charleston
H. L. Duncan
W. W. Trent
Trent
Willis W. Chambers
Princeton
Duncan
John Marshall
Massachusetts
Explosion Probe Report Began In Raleigh Mine Blast
A board led by State Mines Chief Arch J. Alexander opened a formal inquiry into the December gas ignition blast that killed two workers at the No. 3 mine of C. H. Mead Coal Co at Fast Gulf Raleigh County. Witnesses testified gas buildup followed ventilation disruption and an open ventilating door worsened conditions in the section where the victims labored.
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Charleston
State Mines
Arch J. Alexander
Fast Gulf
Raleigh
County
C. H. Mead Coal Company
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