Beckley Chamber Plans 1948 Drive for Coal By-Product Industries
Beckley Chamber of Commerce outlines a 10 point program for 1948 to establish coal by product industries and expand Beckley to 25 000 population by 1950. Other goals include street and sidewalk improvements, better lighting, road work to Beckley from Sophia, hotel facilities, public rest rooms, air mail and transportation upgrades, traffic improvements, and a permanent coal exhibit. Committees were formed to break the plan into actions and to craft slogans for program cards.
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Raleigh Register
Beckley
W. Va
Tyhana
Beckley Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Sophia
West Virginia
Phill A. McDaniel
Tennessee Gas asks expansion permit for new facilities
The Tennessee Gas Transmission Company seeks authority from the power commission to build additional facilities at a cost of 16,275,000 dollars. The project would ensure deliveries under an option with United Fuel Gas Company and Hope Natural Gas Company operating in West Virginia.
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Associated Press
Washington
Tennes
See Gas Transmission Company
Power Commission Authority
United Fuel Gas Company
Thhe Hope Natural Gas Company
West Virginia
Curley Allen Files For Constable Post In Town District
Curley Allen 31, operator of Curley's Place on the U S 19 21 By Pass, filed a certificate of candidacy for constable in Town District on the Republican ticket. Raleigh County circuit clerk's office records list him as a Army veteran and member of local civic groups. A campaign committee and local leaders discussed Red Cross plans and blood bank program during a March meeting in Richmond.
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Curley Allen
Curley
C. G. Peregoy
Elmer Davis
W. M. Reeser
Glenn W. Stewart
L. H. Davis
Murs
C. I. Bepler
American Red Cross
Glenn
Webb
Polly Jo McCullough
Sprak I
L. D.ters
Harry May
Strader
Heldir
English
Eastern Area
T. C. Moorefield
Executive Greens
Richmond
J. K. Edmundson
Raleigh County
United ‘States
Robert Burns
Navy Sells Butter at 1812 Cents Per Pound
In Oakland the Navy sold 73,000 pounds of butter at 1812 cents per pound. The aged stock, returned from Saipan, was labeled by the Agriculture Department as unfit for human consumption and bought by the Peterson Tallow Company of Oakland.
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Associated Press
Oakland
Calif
Navy
Saipan
Department of Agriculture
Peterson Tallow Company of
Final Rites Held For Andrew Lucas Of Eccles
Final rites for Andrew Lucas 72 of Eccles will be at 11 a m tomorrow in Calfee Funeral Home chapel with Rev John Halpin officiating Burial will follow at Calfee Cemetery Mi Tabor Lucas died Wednesday night after a long illness He was born in Lithuania November 8 1875 and came to the United States 36 years ago He had been a resident of
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Calfee Funeral Home
Andrew _Lucas
Eccles
John Halpin
Calfee Cemetery
Tabor
Lucas
Lithuania
United States
Baileysville Man In Welch Hospital For Heart And Kidney Trouble
Baileysville resident and former BAILEYSVILLE-L. R. Gore, an employee of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, is a patient at Welch hospital undergoing heart and kidney treatments. Pineville visit reports J. E. Slone and Mrs Grady Keel visiting Grace Hospital in Welch where a sister is receiving care.
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Register
Pineville
J. E. Slone
Grady Keel
Caretta
Grace Hospital
Welch
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