W H File Named To State Vet Committee
Governor Meadows appointed eight World War II veterans to a special eight member legislative committee to study the condition and opportunities for ex servicemen. The group will include the State Director of Veterans Affairs and other leaders, with $15 000 allotted for surveys and investigations to report to the 1947 legislature. Members named: Dana R. Hamilton F Guy Ash Raleigh Lee Stubbs Clarence E Martin Jr Herbert Welch Ivan Mynes Paul J Carr and William H File Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. File,s Jr
Clarence_Meadows
Meadows
Fred L. Daringer
Marion
Veterans Affairs
the American Legion
House
Senate
T Will
Dana R. Hamilton
F. Guy Ash
Charleston
Raleigh Lee Stubbs
Fairmont
Clarence E. Martin, Jr
Paul J. Carr
Hinton
and File
Area Veterans Given Discharges
Nine area veterans were discharged from the Army at Fort George G. Meade MD separation Center per a press release. Names include Roger E. Meadows Lillybrook. Norman F. Simpson Hinton. Roy S. Kessler Marfrance. Mack L. Luttrell Crab Orchard. William R. Hurie Rupert. Dixon B. Bradley Hinton. Bill B. Williams Hinton. Coral R. Pack Beckley. James F. Aleshire Seth.
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Army
Fort Geeorge G. Meade
Pie
Roger E. Meadows
Lillybrook
Norman FE
Simpson
Hinton
Roy S
Kessler
Marfrance
Mack L. Luttrell
Crab Orchard
Pfe
William RK. Huriey
Rupert
Dixon B. Bradley
Bill B. Williams
Coral R. Pack
Beckley
James F. Aleshire
Seth
Two Service Women Cast Ballots in Advance of Primary
Doris Shult, Pharmacist’s Mate of the Waves, and Lt Nellie Godbey of the Army Nurse Corps, have already cast ballots in the Circuit Clerk’s office under a special election statute. Four ballots were mailed to soldiers absent from Beckley and five absentee civilian ballots were also sent. Service members may return absentee ballots up to 10 days before the election.
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Doris Shult
the Waves
Nellie Godbey
Army Nurse Corps
Circuit Clerk's Office
Beckley
Circuit Clerk’s
Sweeney recalls 1940 Republican Senate nomination
Tom Sweeney reflects on the 1940 Republican nomination process and the letters he received praising his vigorous campaign against what he believed were forces undermining core American principles.
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Republican Party
United States Senate
America
Pines Creek Land Sells For Five Thousand
Deed transfers filed in the County Clerk's Office show Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jarrett buying Pines Creek property from Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Lewis in the Slab Fork District for about 5000 dollars. Other deeds include A. G. Davis to Archie and Remona Smith for lot 232 in the Davis Garrett subdivision at Lanark for about 509 dollars.
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J. P. Jarrett
R. L. Lewis
Pines Creek
Slab Fork
A. G. Davis
Archie
Remona Smith
Davis-Garrett
Lanark
RB. H
Edith C. Hopkins
J.D
Mariam B. Ballew
Whitestick
Mabscott
Lina May Lilly
W. W. Setlift
Glade Creek
Raleigh
Ray and
Hutdin
Eliza Mahone
Beckley
W. M
Fannie E
Taylor
Samuel Glasco Begins 60 Day Jail Sentence
Samuel Glasco starts a 60 day jail term in the county jail after a judge sentenced him in Criminal Court for assault and battery. He paid a $25 fine and court costs after pleading guilty following a reduction from a felonious maiming charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Glasco
W. A. Riffe
Glasco
Eskimos Bury Dog With Child to Guide Spirit
Report notes Inuit burial custom in which a dog is interred with a deceased child to help guide the young soul in the afterlife, reflecting traditional beliefs about animal companionship and the journey beyond.
Rites Set Friday For A A Hatcher
Funeral services for A A Hatcher 72 of Amigo will be at The Community Church Coal City at 7 p m Friday. Rev J C Tilly will officiate burial in Coal City cemetery. Hatcher born November 27 1873 in Egeria. survived by wife Dora and ten grandchildren. services at Caffee Funeral Home then church.
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Coal City
Council Hatcher
Amigo
J. C. “Tilly
Hatcher
Egeria
Austin Hatcher
Dora
Primitive Baptist Church
G. H. Edwards
Edwards
Creed Polk
Peach Picker Request Seeks 15 Workers in Martinsburg
Raleigh County requests 15 men over 16 to pick peaches in Martinsburg for two weeks starting August 12. Pay is 45 cents an hour with 5 cent bonus if tenure completes. Board and lodging provided in cabins with running water. one work leader position at $6 a day plus expenses and 1.5 cents extra per group. Travel with Fayette County group. more details from County Agent’s office.
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Raleigh County
Martinsburg
Fayette County
Pre-Induction Examinations Notified for Beckley Men
Selective Service officials announce two Beckley men Baylor Crawford Smith and Charles Robert Beples must report on July 14 for pre-induction examinations for entry into the armed forces.
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Baylor
Illinois man hikes 24 miles on 77th birthday
Springfield reports John H. Keest of Middletown walked 24 miles from his home to the capital to mark his 77th birthday. He has repeated the trek for nine years, completing the journey in about six hours and noting he was not tired.
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Illinois
OPESS
Springfield
Area Friends Of The Land Chapter May Be Organized
West Virginia may form a four-county chapter of Friends of the Land covering Fayelte Summers Raleigh and Mercer counties. Charles Hodel says the national movement founded in 1940 aims to conserve soil water and health and life with non profit non political work. Local chapters would unite nature lovers farmers gardeners forest owners sportsmen and others for conservation efforts in the face of severe surface soil decay.
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West Virginia
Friends of the Land
Fayelte
Summers
Raleigh
Mercer
Charles Hodel
Columbus
Ohio
Fife
Huntington
Hodel
Charleston
Panhand
Wheeling and
Martinsburg
11 Questioned in Baltimore Holdup
The Baltimore grand jury questioned 11 witnesses about the Century Athletic Club holdup. Police officials and club members testified as authorities weigh whether the crime was staged by an out of town gang. Loot is estimated from thousands to potentially $35,000, with official figures unclear. FBI Chief Atkinson said federal action hinges on cross state theft.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Century Athletic Club
Hamilton R. Atkinson
East Baltimore Club
Fred Wallford
Federal Bureau of Ivestigation
Atkinson
Century Club
FBI
Goes Back To School But Not to Classes
Louis Consalesio returns to the former Clyde, Ohio school building he once attended. He bought the three story brick former school, abandoned since 1940, to convert it into a laundry and dry cleaning establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Clyde
Louis Consalesio
Consalesio
Charleston man held on multiple WV fraud charges
Beckley City Police hold 35 year old Charleston man James J Ferrell on fraud charges after he defrauded business establishments in Charleston Fairmont Montgomery Richwood and Beckley. He allegedly took a $30 down payment for meat scales and an adding machine claiming to be a Toledo Scale salesman and representing several WV scale companies. State police will transfer him to Charleston to face charges.
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Beckley
Charleston
West Virginia
James J
Ferrell
Frank Abbott
Abbott
South Oakwood Avenue
Fairmont
Montgomery
Richwood
R. G. Coen
Cara
Toledo Sele Company
West Virginia Scale and Equipment Company
Wheeling
Fer Jtell
Synthetic Rubber Plant Opens Today
The U. S. Rubber Company resumes production at its war built synthetic rubber plant after a 10 day shutdown caused by a small number of employees refusing new assignments. Factory employs about 350 men and union members agreed to return to work. The plant makes synthetic rubber from butadiene and styrene.
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Associatea Racas Institute
U. S. Rubber Company
George Graham
Graham
CIO United Rubber Workers
Prisoner Charged With Parking Lot Theft
Portland police puzzled by a prisoner who insisted on guarding the patrol car lot next to the jail in all weather. He was found selling parking space to hurried midtown shoppers at 25 cents per car.
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Associated Press
Portland
Obe
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State Vet Committee
Tom Sweeney
Republican
Pol
Cohen
A. A. Hatcher
Wilson’s Weekly
Aloe Food and Nutrition
Wilson & Co
Bermuda
Wilson
George Rector
Area
Rhodes
Inson
Spic & Span Cleanser
Cherrios
Gerbers
Mustard French's
Nu Shine
Brooms
Cassie
Ibe
Bic
Ball — Mason
Jars Oy
O. Onc
Housewives Consolidated
Carolina Super
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