Miners Complete Extension Course Final Exams At Mount Hope
Thirteen of seventeen miners finish six week coal mining extension at Mount Hope high school. Examinations cover work since June 5 by Hobart Watson and J D McClung. Successful participants receive diplomas and plan to take state mine foreman and fire boss exams.
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Register
Mount Hope
Mount Hope High School
Hobart ‘Watson
Oak Hill
J. D. McClung
Beckley
West Virginia University
Mining School Extension Department
State Department of Mines
McClung
Watson
Presbyterians Compile Service Members List
The Rev. Charles McNutt and church members of the Presbyterian church in Fayetteville are assembling a roster of congregants serving in the armed forces.
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Register
Fayetteville
Charles McNutt
Presbyterian Church
Soldier AWOL Fayetteville Taken From Jail
Soldier Michael Krevonic, held on charges of being absent without leave from a South Carolina post, was removed from the county jail today by military policemen en route to Charles Town. The rest of the text references sandals and is unrelated.
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Register
Fayetteville
Michael Krevonic
South Carolina
Charleson
Five Russellville Women Attend Camp At Beckwith
Five of eight Russellville Farm Women's club members attended Camp Beckwith this week. County home demonstration agent Mrs. Rachel Ferguson noted the effort required to leave home and cited one woman canning 115 quarts of cherries early in the week. The attendees named were Mrs. Earl Hall, Mrs. C. A. Haynes, Mrs. R. D. Burr, Mrs. C. C. Moore, and Mrs. Esta Burgess.
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Iy Register
Fayetteville
Russellville
Earl Hall
C. A. Haynes
R. D. Burr
C. C. Moore
Esta Burgess
Ferguson
Oak Hill To Host War Manpower Meeting
War Manpower day events move through West Virginia this week with Oak Hill hosting the session on Monday July 17. Andrew Edmiston state WMSP director notes the Oak Hill office will also host essential industry reps offering war jobs to applicants. The Oak Hill employment office recently won top honors for securing workers and received a plaque.
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Register
Oak Hill
West Virginia
Andrew Edmiston
WMSP
Silicosis Kills George Abshire
George Albert Abshire 41 miner died of silicosis at his Mount Hope home Friday. Funeral at Presbyterian church Monday at 2 p.m. Dr. W W Pharr to officiate. Burial in Oak Hill's High Lawn Memorial Park. Survived by wife Mabel Perry Abshire and children Charles James Ashley Lewis Ray Hazel and Mrs Ralph Deal. Also mother Mrs James Sawyers and sisters Hazel Goldie Mrs B J Adams Mrs James Dailey and Ralph Lewis and sister Mrs C E Smith of Houston Texas.
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Register
Mount Hope
Presbyterian Church
George Albert Abshire
W. W. Pharr
Abshire
Oak Hill
Highlawn Memorial Park
Mabel Perry Abshire
Mount Hove
Charles James
Ashley
Lewis Ray
Hazel
Ralph Deal
James Sawyers
Hazel Goldie
B. J. Adams
James Dailey
Ralph Lewis
Akron
C. E. Smith
Houston
Texas
Kaymoor Miner Hurt At Work In Kaymoor Mine Incident
Manuel Cuervo, 45, a Kaymoor miner, is in Beckley hospital after coal dust blinded his eyes. He was struck in the face by swirling coal particles while at work and admitted Friday.
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Fayetteville
Manuel Cuervo
Kaymoor Mines
Beckley Hospital
Clinic Checks 70 Youngsters for Defects in Powellton
Doctors and nurses at a Powellton clinic examined 70 children aged six months to seven years. Of 43 families present, 53 were white and 17 black. Defects included 18 with tonal issues and 19 needing dental work. 55 normal weight, 3 overweight, 12 underweight. One skin disease and one hydrocephalus case were found. Six doctors and several nurses and student aides conducted the screening.
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Register
Powellton — Koppers
A. E. Bays
Montgomery
P. L. Gordon
Powellton
C. G. Merriam
Beards Fork
C. M. Dunlap
Kimberly
S. V. Luddy
Henrietta Marquis
Beckley
Ruby Shirey
Stamaford
Kathryn Thomas
Mary Knight
Hilda Snyder
Glen White
Jessie Johnson
Laird Memorial Hospital
Edith Peyton
Georgia Thomas
Helen McClung
Paratrooper S Mann Wounded in France Informs Family
Mrs William Seward learns her son Frank B K Mann 32 was seriously wounded in the invasion of France on D day according to a War Department telegram. Hunters Bradbury arrives home after 22 months in the Aleutians and Harry Bradbury reports safe arrival in England. Sgt Archie A Bradbury remains in a New Jersey camp.
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Utop
William Seward
France
Frank BK. Mann
War Department
Hunter Bradbury
Aleutians
Howard
Harry Bradbury
England
Sgt
Archie A. Bradbury
New Jersey
Marine Expected Home On Furlough
William Barnum Muir, after 25 months in the Southwest Pacific as chief of a First Marine Corps division tank unit intelligence section, is expected to return home on furlough. He holds a Presidential Unit Citation and a commendation from his division commander. Born April 28, 1924, in Sun, he attended Mount Hope High School and enlisted August 29, 1941, at Beckley. he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Muir of Meadow Bridge.
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Register
Meadow Bridge
William Barnum Muir
Southwest Pacific
Marine Corps
Charleston
Muir
Sun
Mount Hope
Beckley
John €. Muir
Carnival Raid in Logan Seizes Ten Vendors
Ten concessionaires arrested at a Logan carnival posted bond of 500 each as state police and city officers raided the midway. They hauled the operators away in a chartered school bus. one man escaped through a bus window.
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Associated Press
Logan
Set
B. E. Wright
Beckley Major Harold H. Smith Reported Wounded in France
Wife of Major Harold H. Smith confirms via War Department and Red Cross that he was seriously wounded in action in France on June 15. Smith, a West Virginia University ROTC graduate, served with the Fourth Division since January 1944 and was posted in England before the invasion. He and his wife Eileen Jarrell have a 10 month old daughter Sharon.
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Harold H. Smith
Beckley
France
Eileen Jarrell
War Department
Washington
Major
Canvassers Seek $100,000 Shortfall in Bond Drive
Oak Hill faces a $100,000 gap toward a $240,000 quota for E bond sales. About 100 canvassers will go house to house next week to try to close the shortfall. Bond sale chairman C. L. Garvin blamed weaker performance on past easy quotas and the July Fourth holiday overlap.
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Br Register
Oak Hill
C. L. Garvin
Garvin
Page Man's Unit Labeled Essential in Italian Campaign
Private James F. Phipps of Page serves in a balloon anti aircraft battery praised by army and navy for excellent work under fire in Italy. The unit claims five enemy aircraft shot in overseas service with three down at Salerno, while its gas makers and lookout posts provide critical balloon barrage protection for the port area.
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Register
Page
Jamesf. Phipps
Ramie W. Cantley
Army
Navy
Fifth Army
Salerno
Phipps
Allied Force Advance
West Virginia to Host War Manpower Celebration in Beckley
One of seven War Manpower celebrations will be held in West Virginia during the week starting July 17 with Beckley hosting on July 18. War Manpower director An drew Edmisson announced the plans. The program to promote employment in essential industries will be prepared by Walter G. Francis, area WMP director.
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West Virginia
Beckley
Andrew Edmisson
Walter G. Francis
WMP
Lubricant Discussion Set By Mine Institute
New River and Winding Gulf Electrical and Mechanical Institute will meet at the Appalachian building Thursday at 7 30 p m. J D Alspach of Huntington will discuss the choice and care of lubricants with M K Clay as secretary announcing the event.
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New River and Winding Gulf
Wyoming Plans New Schoolhouse for Coal Mountain
Superintendent Virgil Stewart said a four room schoolhouse will be built at Coal Mountain once the War Production Board approves funding. The 120 pupil town, lacking facilities since its 18 month establishment, will use non critical materials with future expansion, at an estimated cost of 23000 dollars.
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Register
Pineville
Coal Mountain
Wyoming County
War Production Board
Virgil Stewart
WPB
Hassel T. Hicks
Welch
Williamson
Red Jacket Coal Corporation
Stewart
Leslie Walls
Ina McGraw
Coal Company
Food Conservationist Now Working In Pineville Area
Miss Lucile L Hodkins of the West Virginia university extension division has been assigned to the Pineville area as an emergency assistant in food preservation. Her office is in the courthouse. she will demonstrate countywide techniques for saving food and urges clubs and individuals to request information on canning, cheese making, and related equipment.
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Y Register
Pineville
Lucile L. Hodkins
West Virginia University Extension Division
Pinevile
Hudkins
Workers' mishaps decline in West Virginia during war years
Charleston reports that fiscal year ending June 30 recorded the lowest industrial accident total since before the war. From July 1, 1943, to June 30, 1944, West Virginia industry had 48 772 non fatal accidents and 459 fatal accidents, down from prior years, with June noting 37 fatal and 4 178 non fatal incidents.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Charles L. Heaberlin
West Virginia
Heaberlin
Hitler names Kluge as West Commander replacing Rundstedt
Berlin radio reports Field Marshal Günther von Kluge will command in the west, replacing Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt for health reasons. The change follows the Allies breaching the Nazi Atlantic Wall about a month earlier.
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Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Gunther von Kluge
Gerd von Runstedt
West
International
County Exceeds War Bond Quota in Final Tally
Wyoming county will surpass its 339000 dollar war bond quota by 161000 dollars by end of day Judge R D Bailey chair of the drive announced Pineville postmaster G A Brooks credited with selling 18000 in E bonds at his office Mullens staff disbursed 8000 more Bailey said the county reached about 89 percent of the E bond quota as part of the overall goal
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Register
Pineville
Wyoming County
R. D. Bailey
Bailey
G. A. Brooks
John D. Farmer
Mullens
Drunken Driver Receives Jail Term in Pineville
William Harmon of Wolf Pen was convicted before Magistrate W B Wilson of carrying a blackjack and driving intoxicated. He was fined 50 dollars and jailed six months for the weapon charge, plus 23 dollars and 30 days in jail for the DUI. The automobile was ordered impounded for six months.
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Resister
Pineville
Wiliam Harmon
W. B. Wilson
Harmond
Wolf Pen
R. D. Pratt
Mullens
New Richmond
Wilson
Sergeant Houck Held by Germans
Mullens tech Sgt. Harry M. Houck son of Mrs Jeanette B Houck Mullens has been captured by Germans announced by the War department American industrial casualties since Pearl Harbor total 37 600 killed
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Houck
Register
Mullens
Harry M. Houck
Jeanette B. Houck
War Department
Pearl Harbor
New Vocational School Plant Nears August 15 Opener
Pineville notes a vocational school building on the high school campus now up to the roof and ready to operate by August 15 as Superintendent Virgil H. Stewart stated. About $20,000 worth of equipment has arrived for the shops. The new facility uses a 100-foot square tennis court as a floor, a unique feature since most tennis players have joined the military.
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Resistor
Pineville
Sus
Virgil H. Stewart
Nell Walden to Lead Eastern Star Instruction in Mullens
Mrs Nell Walden a past worthy matron of the West Virginia Order of the Eastern Star will conduct a school of instruction for officers and members at the Mullens chapter meeting on July 13.
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Register Statt
Mullens
Nell Walden
West Virginia Order of the Eastern Star
Private Mwgraw Home From Camp
Pvt Clarence Mr Graw formerly with the gas company returns on furlough from Stout Field Indianapolis and visits friends and family at Tipple.
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Mwgraw
Register
Mullens
Clarence MrGraw
Tipple
Stout Field
Indianapolis
Maynors Visit Daughter-In-Law in Ohio
Mr and Mrs W F Maynor and daughter Betty Frances have traveled to Warren Ohio to visit Mrs W F Maynor Jr. The family details appear in this brief society note from the Register.
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Maynors
Register
Oa Mullens
W. F. Maynor
Betty Frances
Warren, Ohio
W. F. Maynor, Jr
Honeymooners in Mullens and Local Visits
Mullens notes report Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Orr of Lynchburg Virginia spending their honeymoon in Mullens after their Roanoke wedding and visiting Mr. and Mrs. R L Davis before returning home. June Shannon of Baltimore visits her Shannon parents. John Hale leaves for Pittsburgh to join Westinghouse with family to follow. Mrs H F Webster and Patty Ann visit her Glen Ferris relatives.
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Hepitter Ain Wreiner
Mullens
Lawrence Orr
Lynchburg, Va
Roanoke
R. L. Davis
Lynchburg
Register
June Shannon
Baltimore, Maryland
Mrs
R. R. Shannon
John Hale
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Westinghouse
Reglister
H. FE. Webster
Patty Ann
Hubert Lyons
Glen Ferris
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Wyoming
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Selective Service Board
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Wolfpen
Charles Burgess
Vancouver
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Pikeville
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Shamokin
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Charles E. West
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Earl Stacy
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