Highway Safety talk at Kount View Parents Teachers
About 40 parents and teachers attended a presentation on highway safety by Assistant Superintendent George M. Parker. He cited alcohol gasoline mixing as a major cause of deaths, listed risky factors, urged better pedestrian provisions, and urged adoption of Safety Education in elementary schools. Eugene Colcord presented Scout awards to Bobby Showen Chester Cantley Lantie Jarrell and James Johnson.
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Kount View
George M. Parker
Parker
P.T. A
United States
Eugene Colcord
Colcord Coal Company
Bobby Showen
Edwight
Chester Cantley
Lantie Jarrell
Mount View
James Johnson
Ameagle
Senate Blocks Move to Ratify Salary Increase Bill
The Senate refused to complete action on a House-passed bill boosting 12 state official salaries. Senate action ended 20-7 as House earlier approved 52-32 and recessed. Delegate Taylor urged delay. Kump signaled veto if enacted now. Three salary-related measures were sent to the Senate for consideration.
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Associated Press
Charleston
House of Delegates
Senate
House
Taylor
Fayette
Kump
Health Workers Meet to Plan West Virginia Health Assoc Event
Miss Beulah Graybeal and J R Erwin of the county health office met with Dr Hugh Robbins in Charleston to arrange plans for the second Southern District West Virginia Health Association meeting on March 12. Graybear is chairman of the nurses division, Erwin chairs the inspectors division, and Robbins will finalize the health officers program. The group aims to mirror the previous meeting and will convene four times yearly across thirteen county districts.
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Robbins
Charleston
Rites Tomorrow For Mrs. Perry
Funeral services for Mrs. J. W. Perry 74 of Mt Hope will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at Mt Hope church. Burial follows in Mt Hope cemetery. She died Friday in a Beckley hospital after two weeks critical illness from diabetes. Survived by husband three sons and two daughters.
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Register
Mt. Hope
J. W. Perry
Beckley Hospital
Perry
Cauc
Caremont
Fayette County
Per
Order of the Eastern Star
White Shrine
Methodist Church
W. R. Perry
J. H. Perry
Beckley
D. C. Perry
D E. Warden
F. P. Smith
Clifford
Theodore Darby
W. D. Darby
Cabin Creek
W. S. Darby
Marmet
Zack Evans
Huntington
Josie Darby
Father and son open sessions in same Taylor county courthouse
Fifty years after Hugh Evans first opened court as sheriff in the Taylor county building, his son Herbert Evans conducted the first session of court in the same courthouse, marking a rare family continuity in local justice.
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Associated Press
Grafton
Hugh Evans
Taylor County
Herbert Evans
Hugh
G. W. Wood Still Critically Ill
G W Wood a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad brakeman from Glen Morgan remains unconscious most of the time at Raleigh General hospital after being found in the yard two hours after leaving home to feed his dogs. Doctors cannot determine the outcome and warn he may recover gradually or die suddenly. The illness is attributed to natural causes.
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G. W. Wood
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Glen Morgan
Raleigh General Hospital
Wood
Coal City PTA At County Meet
Coal City parents and four teachers will represent the Coal City Parent Teacher Association at a general meeting of PTA organizations in Beckley tomorrow. Mrs. C. T. Mooney and Mrs. H. D. Clark the parents and teachers Mrs. Ove Ferguson Marvin Conner Mrs. Cecile E. Daniel and Mrs. Buck Redden were designated at a meeting here Tuesday. Dorsey Biggs Beckley Newspapers advertising manager addressed the meeting and the Dinkier brothers of Beckley played string music.
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Register
Coal City
Coal City Parent Teacher Association
Beckley
C. T. Mooney
H. D. Clark
O've Ferguson
Marvin Conner
Cecile E. Daniel
Buck Redden
Dorsey Biggs
Beckley Newspapers
Dinkier Brothers
Boy Who Slay Man To Be Tried Jan Fourteen
A 15 year old, Carless Allen of Dorothy, will face trial in criminal court on January 14 for knifing Roy Douglas, a 43 year old electrician, who died in Charleston after the August 7 incident at Eunice. Smith and Turner receive new hearings on embezzlement charges with February 3 set for their trials. The state supreme court ordered two year penitentiary terms for each if found guilty.
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Harley M. Kilgore
Criminal
Carless Allen
Dorothy
Roy Douglas
Eunice
Douglas
Charleston
Carless
Jackson Smith
R. E
Betsy” Turner
State Supreme Court
Smith
Turner
Raleigh
Supreme Court
Floods Likely In Many States From Midwestern Spring Rains
Rain-swollen streams swirled over their banks in the middle west and east today flooding low lands and menacing a wide ex panse of territory from Missouri to Pennsylvania. Torrential rains reached cloudburst proportions creating acute flood conditions in years. Streams approached or reached flood stage in Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana Missouri and Illinois.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Treatment Aids Epilepsy Suffering Girls Arrested
Isabelle Neely and her sister Mrs Mary Lilly, both claiming epilepsy, were reported by county health officer Dr W W Hume to be responding to treatment. They had been arrested for drunkenness with two men, Raymond Meadows and Robert Lemons, near Shady Spring. The girls begged for their medicine, taken daily for years, and were jailed while their condition improved with smaller daily doses.
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Isabelle Neely
Mary Lilly
W. W. Hume
H. O. Hanson
Hanson
Miss Neely
Raymond Meadows
Robert Lemons
Deck Holdren
Shady Spring
Two Kidnapping Suspects Caught Near Seattle
Fred Orrin Haynes a former Folsom inmate surrendered at the Tacoma police station while state troopers pursued a man and a woman missing from a cottage near Seattle after the body of a ten year old boy was found near Everett. Lee Haskel Fowler, 36, was held in Dellingham jail as federal officers questioned him about December 27 when Charles Mattson was abducted for a $28,000 ransom.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
Fred Orrin Haynes
Folsom
Cal
Charles Mattson
Seattle
Everett
Wash
Lee Haskel Fowler
Dellingham
William Cole
State Police
Fred Haynes
California
Cole
Fowler
Charles
Flood Threats Across Regions Prompt Evacuations
Forecasts of colder weather raised hopes for rain abatement in parts while many families prepared to evacuate as river stages rose. Over 100 families near Hamilton Ohio and others in Poplar Bluff Missouri and Williamsville Missouri fled. The Ohio River neared Cincinnati flood stage but expected to stay just below 52 feet with a continued rise only through tonight and Saturday.
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Associated Press
Hamilton
Ohio
Poplar Bluffs
Williamsville
Indiana
Ohio River
Cincinnati
W. B. Devereaux
Devereaux
Lewis Lewis Funeral Services Today
Funeral services for Miss Louise Fances Lewis 75 who died of heart disease at her Glen Daniel home will be held at Alderson Baptist church at 2:30 p m Sunday with Rev Ritchie Ware in charge. Burial in church cemetery. Born Raleigh county January 16 1861 she worked 35 years in Alderson hotel with sister Lizzie Wilkes before returning to Beckley and later Glen Daniel. She was the last survivor of her immediate family.
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Louise Fances Lewis
Glen Daniel
Alderson Baptist Church
Ritchie Ware
Christian Church
Ceme
Alderson
Miss .Ewis
Raleigh County
Samuel
Nellie Flirman Lewis
Lizzie Wilkes
Beckley
Wilkes
Miss Lewis
Vermin Killers May Get Prizes
Fayette county Hunting and Fishing Association president K. K. Warden announced a 1937 vermin killing contest with a $40 prize to be awarded to the club if 2,500 vermin are killed, funded by the state game commission. The contest will launch at the January 27 meeting at 7 30 p.m. in the circuit clerk's office where new officers are to be chosen. Former merchants offered merchandise prizes and the association matched them from its funds for double awards.
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Register
Fayetteville
K. K. Warden
Fayette County
Watkins to Guard Inaugural Health Station at Charleston
Dr. Charles Watkins, public health training center student, was ordered to Charleston to set up an emergency medical station for the inauguration. He will provide first aid to attendees at the state house exercises and return to his work here early next week.
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Charles Watkins
Public Health Training Center
Charleston
Watkins
State House
Health Director To Speak Tonight
Dr. A. M. Price state director of county health will discuss public health laws and regulations at a meeting of county health authorities here tonight. He will lecture officials and trainees of the public health training center and representatives from the county office. Milk laws water purification and sewage disposal will be stressed.
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A. M. Price
Jail Spencers to House Firemen in County Jail
Volunteers of the fire department gain a club room in the former jail. City officials state that going forward all arrestees will be confined in the county jail.
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Associated Press
Spencer
Earl Dollman Slayer Tells About Murder
Superintendent P D Shingleton said Lawrence Gingell of Kensington Maryland admitted participating in the Thanksgiving day slaying of W Earl Dollman a Charleton salesman aged 34. Gingell arrested in Maryland two weeks earlier blamed the actual slaying on William B Reed a 25 year old fugitive. Shingleton added Gingell had confessed involvement in the killing of 65 year old Elwood Mathews Maryland farmer in late November.
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Associated Press
Aleston
P. D. Shingleton
Department of Publicafety
Lawrence Gingell
Kensington
W. Earl Dollman
Charleton
Shingleton
Gingell
Maryland
Dollman
William B. Reed
Elwood Mathews
Alimony Dodger Ordered in Court
Robert Farley was arrested about 4 AM and jailed after missing two court appearances. He faces contempt of court in a case brought by Edith Lowe Farley, who obtained a divorce last May and seeks $50 monthly maintenance for herself and their children.
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Robert Farley
C. M. Ward
Edith Lowe Farley
Farley
Story Telling Class Organized by County Recreation
The county recreation department announces a new story telling class for youngsters. Directed play goals include seasonal topics discussed at weekly meetings led by Miss Sybil Bair, WPA recreation leader, with first session at Central School annex library Saturday at 10 a m.
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Tom Gatherum
Sybil Bair
WPA
Central School
Gatherum
Inspector Plans Grade A Milk Compliance at Lewisburg Ice Cream
F D Fields the district milk inspector from Bluefield spent the week inspecting the Lewisburg Ice Cream company and advising on Grade A milk standards. He reported plans with plant officials to install or adjust machinery to meet Grade A requirements by March 1.
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F. D. Fields
Bluefield
Lewisburg
Oil Line Blast Kills Six In Oklahoma Repair Crew
In Pryor Oklahoma four women and two men died when a Gulf Oil and Refining line exploded during a leak repair near Strange Oklahoma. A seven man crew was at the site at the time of the blast.
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Associated Press
PRYOR
Okla
Strange
Gulf Oil and Refining Company
Fugitt Assumes Kiwanis Office In Beckley WV
W R Fugitt opened the Kiwanis year as president at a noon meeting outlining aims for the year. He urged standing committees to act from within and without waiting for tasks. A district secretary note said International President Callen will visit West Virginia in April with Beckley Kiwanis hosting an interclub gathering with southern clubs.
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Kiwanis Club
W. R. Fugitt
Crews
Clarksburg
Callen
West Virginia
Beckley Club
Hartwell's Father Dies After Emergency Surgery
Friends of John Hartwell, Fayette county scout executive, learned his father died after an emergency appendectomy in Montclair New Jersey. Funeral services were planned in West Deerfield Massachusetts with Hartwell returning home early next week with his mother.
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Register
Oak Hill
John Hartwell
Fayette County
Montclair
N. J
West Deerfield
Mass
Hartwell
Hollow Horn Bear on U.S. postage stamp portrait
Brule Sioux chief Hollow Horn Bear is depicted as the Indian figure on the 14 cent U.S. postage stamp. The image highlights the tribe and a notable leader in a commemorative stamp issue.
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U.S
Sis Freed From Jail After Health Visit and Bond
Dr W W Hume released Eugenia Sis Waldron last night with orders to report Monday. Four girls Mildred Wesley Gertrude Holloway Ruby Landiford Lucille Holloway examined by health officer. bond for Sis set at 1000. four girls held awaiting health report due tomorrow. Police raided Sis Place on Harper road Tuesday night. five women and Sis's husband arrested. eleven men released. place padlocked by injunction.
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W. W. Hume
Eugenia
Sis” Waldron
Sis
Mildred Wesley
Gertrude Holloway
Ruby Landiford
Lucille Holloway
Harper Road
C. M. Ward
W. A. Thornhill, Jr
Agreement 10 Meet Monday Announced in Detroit
General Motors and the United Auto Workers announced opening negotiations in Detroit Monday to settle the labor dispute. Strikes have idled about 114,000 GM workers and sparked rioting at Flint, with 27 injured. Evacuation of sit down strikers will occur before Money day morning as negotiations begin.
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Associated Press
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
Frank Murphy
General Motors
Flint
Mich
Murphy
Michigan
Ohio
Georgia
Missouri
Tennessee
Indiana
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Merit to Decide Holders of Jobs
Charleston Merit examinations will be held for employees of the new Unemployment Compensation department. An official pronouncement says all appointments so far are temporary, pending merit tests. Aside from James H. McGinnis, acting director, the appointees include Clifford M. Mohl Nelda B. Reymann Richard Amick Cabell Davis George A. Betlinger Richard G. Repaire Gordon B. McKalip Betty Jane Stewart Dorothy Lory E C Ray Alice Reedy Partelow Bob Bullock.
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Charleston
James H. McGinnis
Clifford M. Mohl
Nelda B. Reymann
Richard Amick
Cabell Davis
George A. Betlinger
Richard G. Repaire
Gordon B. McKalip
Betty Jane Stewart
Dorothy Lory
E. C. Ray
Alice Reedy Partelow
Bob Bullock
Motors Stocks Helped by Truce in GM Strike
A temporary truce in the General Motors strike lifted shares of selected automotives steel rubber and specialty stocks in today s market while many others faced sizable offerings. Fragments indicate fractions rose to two points in early trading with the truce boosting optimism for some sectors.
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Associated Press
New York
General Motors
Mustached Henry Timmons Stands Alone Among Oklahoma Senators
Henry Timmons of Tulsa remains the only one among Oklahoma's 44 senators to wear a mustache, highlighting a distinctive facial style in the state delegation.
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Henry Timmons
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Senators
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