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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 12, 1946

Page

10

Freewill Baptists To Hold Sunday School Convention

The Beckley conference plans a Sunday School Convention at Sophia Free Will Baptist Church starting at 10 a.m. A combined Sunday school will open the meeting and a picnic dinner will follow. Delegations report by letter from Maynor Lillybrook Killarney East Gulf Coal City Sophia Grace Chapel Dry Hill Bethel Kilsyth Grassy Bank Ghent Good Hope Odd Berry Brancy Iriquois and others.

Freewill Baptiste Beckley Sophia Free Will Baptist Church W. M. Booth Booth Maynor Robert Barley Lillybrook

Car Shortage Hits International Nickel Operations in Ontario

FAIRMONT AP The rail car shortage cutting Northern West Virginia coal output for weeks has disrupted International Nickel Company of Ontario operations here. Purchasing agent William T. Waterbury arrived to protest the limited supply of coal from the northern field, valued for its metallurgical use.

Fairmont West Virginia International Nickel Company Ontario Canada William T. Waterbury International Waterbury

What No Beard Faces Coal Shortfall and Output Cuts

What No Beard? warned production would shrink unless coal shipments rise. He said the plant was receiving only a small fraction of the usual supply and that deliveries must return to normal over the next five months to cover the deficit.

Travel Bureau Aids Wives of Soldiers Overseas

Adelaide Kerr profiles Miss Gans of AWVS who runs Information Service for Army Dependents Proceeding Overseas, helping wives in Greater New York and 27 other cities plan moves to join husbands in Germany. The service answers questions on luggage, immunizations, passports, clothing, and shipping, with guidance from Army sources.

Adelaide Kerr Germany Marion 5S Gans American Women's Voluntary Service Greater New York Miss Gans Army Service Forces Port of Embarkation Second Service Command Army Greater New York War Department Richard A Prater Manhattan AWYS Philadelphia Washington, D. C Atlantic City Albany Cleveland St. Louis Tulsa New Orleans San Francisco Denver Chicago Indianapolis Wichita Omaha Butte Mont Fairbanks Alaska Altoona Trenton N. J Harding Township Roslyn N. Y East Rockaway N.Y Xenia Ohio Europe AWVS

Radioactivity Increase Reported Near Bikini Blast

Emory University physicist Dr. Robert Tragemann reported a definite rise in atmospheric radioactivity about ten days after the Bikini detonation. He cautioned he is not fully convinced the increase is due to the bomb. Atlanta is 6,000 miles from Bikini. Dr Lingemann noted the experiments were not an unqualified success.

Associated Press Atlanta Bikini Emroy University Robert Tragemann Lingemann

Navy Vet and Wife Buy Property Near Coal City

Navy veteran Frank Brinegar and his wife purchased a store and home between Coal City and Princewick from Lyn Thompson. Brinegar, discharged after two years with Norfolk, Virginia service tied to variable test factors. The couple own a nearby home. Thompson plans a new house near the Coal City post office once materials are obtained. The note concludes with a mistranscribed line about a titmouse.

Register Coal City Frank Brineger Princewick Lyn Thompson Brinegar Navy Norfolk Brinegars Thompsons

Lillybrook Man Ill in Norfolk During Holiday Visit

Lillybrook resident Bob Underwood, employed in the Lillybrook shop, is ill at relatives in Norfolk Virginia. Underwood, with his wife, went to Norfolk last week for the holiday and weekend with relatives. Friends in Lillybrook do not know when they can return home.

Register Lillybrook Bob Underwood Norfolk Underwood Underwoods

Local Printers Buy Golf's Plant Story

Three Coal City printers purchase the Denny Goff Printing Company at 208 Third Avenue and plan to operate the Raleigh Printing Company. Buyers are L. W. Starks James A. Prince and Mrs R L Sadier, former Logan Banner staffers with Beckley Newspapers Corp. and Western Kentucky veteran Starks. The deal follows returning visits from locals, with ties to Illinois and Holinois.

Illinois Coal City J. M. Cannuy Loraine Louise Burke Ethel Mge Callahan Denny Goff Third Avenue Holinois Raleigh L. W. Starks James A. Prince R. L. Sadier Logan Banner Logan Beckley Newspapers Corporation Starks Prince Kentucky Beckley Newspapers

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