Red Cross Water Safety School To Open In Hinton
The American Red Cross Water Safety School will run in Hinton from August 7 to 18, serving Summers Raleigh Mercer Monroe and Greenbrier counties. It offers Junior Life Savings Senior Life Savings and Instructors and Examiners courses plus combat swimming instruction, with no charges for participation.
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Red Cross Water Safety School
Hinton
Register
American Red Cross Water Safety School
Raleigh
Mercer
Monroe
Greenbrier
National Red Cross
Red Cross
J. Mignini
Arthur Leone
Pittsburgh
Fedele Reace
French
Morocco
Leone
Local Red Cross offers four swimming courses at Summers County
The Summers County Red Cross sponsors four courses beginner intermediate swimmer and advanced swimmer with no age or time limits aside from senior life saving required for advanced level Junior life saving is for ages 12 through 15 or seventh grade who have completed Red Cross swimmer or pass swimmer test A functional aquatic course for 17 plus teaches skills for safety rescue and military service applications It is run by Milton Cavana and supported by H H Hoover who notes yearly certificate renewals for instructors and triennial renewals for senior lifeguards Applications are at the Greenbrier club Hinton West Virginia
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Red Cross
Milton J. Cavana
Summers County
Hh. G. Hoover
Hoover
Greenbrier Club
Hinton
19 Summers Men Headed For Army
Seventeen young men transfered from foreign selective service boards to Fort Thomas and Huntington for induction examinations. Delbert E. Miller Jr led the Fort Thomas group with Earl W. Lowe and others assisting. John F. Hutchison led the Huntington group with Ralph J. Rhodes as assistant. Three draft statuses were updated at a board meeting, changing Herbert O. Burdett to 1-A, Orval F. Kirby to 1-A, and Vivian Mansfield to USA.
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Register
Hinton
Sinks Grove Navy Man Wins Commendation For Heroism
Sinks Grove coxswain Robert Marshall Burdette of USN received a Navy commendation for gallantry after rescuing a shipmate during the June 7 1944 invasion of France. Amid fire, explosion and sinking danger, he dived from a destroyer escort to pull a man from rough seas between two hulls and brought him aboard. Burdette, born January 17 1925 in Resaco West Virginia, enlisted June 1 1942 in Richmond Virginia. his father C Ray Burdette resides in Sinks Grove.
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Register
Sinks Grove
Robert Marshall Burdette
USN
Secretary of the Navy
United States
France
Burdette
U. S. Naval Service
Resaco
Raleigh County
W. Va
Richmond
C. Raymen Burdette
Committee Forms To Aid World War I Veterans In Hinton
A Veterans Rehabilitation Committee convened its first meeting in the local selective service office to aid discharged soldiers. It aims to help old jobs or secure new ones and to assist with pensions. Chairman Mark Meadow leads members from U.S. Employment, Rotary, Kiwanis, American Legion, and district representatives.
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Register
Hinton
Selective Service Board
Mark Meadow
Frances Shaw
U. S
W. A. Brown
Rotary Club
Mann
Kiwanis
R. L. Hanifin
American Legion
Jumping Branch
J. C. Deeds
Green
J. C. Honaker
Talcott
O. E. Garten
Pipestein
Homer Neely
Forest Hill
Roy Crawford
Sister of Mrs Bright Appointed Red Cross Worker
Miss Marguerite Asher, visiting at Mrs George Brights Hill Park drive home, leaves for Washington for six weeks training at American University and then overseas to join a recreational center for American troops near a fighting front. She is principal at Apple Grove school, Mason county. Torture was long a recognized part of Scottish criminal procedure.
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Marguerite Asher
George Bright
Hill Park Drive
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
Asher
PL Pleasant
Mason County
Apple Grove School
Maine
American University
Washington
Kinney Reports To Miami Paper
Henry Kinney of Hinton, former sports editor for the Beckley Post Herald, will join the Miami Daily News as reporter after visits to Washington. He previously worked at Hinton Daily News and Huntington Advertiser, and is son of Mrs. J. P. Pitzsimmons of Hinton.
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Register
Hinton
Henry Kinney
Beckley Post-Herald
Miami Daily News
Miami
Fla
Washington, D. C
Gordon Kinney
Miami Sunday
Hinton Daily News
Beckley Post Herald
Mrs Dolin Heads to North Dakota for Brother’s Funeral
Mrs J R Dolin expects to leave Sunday for Cavalier North Dakota to attend funeral services for her brother J C McMillan. She received word of his death Saturday night. He died Friday night.
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Register
Hinton
J. R. Dolin
Cavalier
North Dakota
Fya C. McMillan
Norford Meador Reported Missing in Italian War Zone
Mrs. Jack Meador of Charleston was notified on Saturday that her nephew Norford Meador aged 27 has been missing in action over Italy since July 10. He served as a bombardier aboard an army bomber.
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Y Register
Hinton
Jack Meador
Norford Meador
Charleston
Italy
Alderson Girls Attend Camp Cowen This Week
Six Alderson girls join the Baptist Girls camp at Cowen this week. Attendees include Jo Anne Johnson June Craft Ruth Burdette Sue Carol Rowe Eleanor Hines and Ruth Roach as the program continues through August.
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Alderson
Camp Cowen
Baptist Girls
Cowen
Jo Anne Johnson
June Craft
Ruth Burdette
Sue Carol Rowe
Eleanor Hines
Ruth Roach
Promotion for N Joe Rahall to full lieutenant
Joe Rahall is promoted to full lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve. His parents Mr and Mrs Nick Rahall of East Main Street announce the promotion, noting his overseas service in the Mediterranean theater and prior postings in Boston New York and Norfolk. His brother Major Peem Rahall serves with the Army in England. Ground peanut duties are used to manufacture a new cork substitute.
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Joe Rahall
United States Naval Reserve
Nick Rahall
East Main Street
Rahall
Mediterranean
States
Arivy
Boston
New York
Norfolk
Peem Rahall
England
Public Notice Hearing on Cab Rates in Beckley WV
The Public Service Commission of West Virginia will hear on August 8, 1944 at its Charleston Capitol offices the application to raise taxicab rates in Beckley. Objections may be filed before the hearing. Named applicants include A B Chambers dba Radio Cab and several other Beckley taxi operators.
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M.C
Haelock
A.m
Capitol
Charleston
Public Service Commission of
West Virginia
Cit
Beckley
A. B. Chambers
Dba
Radio Cab
M. F
White Starsi
Thomas A. Wiliams
NuWay Cab
Ollie Robertson
Robertson Taxi
Cecil Stewart
Russell Carter
F. H. Carter
Union Taxi Company
Fletcher Carter
Day & Nite Taxi
Elsie Beitts
W. Va
Rrler
Autonomy plan discussed at UMW general meeting in Fairmont
A general meeting of United Mine Workers representatives from District 31 will be held August 13 in the Marion county courthouse Fairmont to draft autonomy resolutions for union districts. Local leaders Martin Bissett and Albert Stevens chair the event with Joe Zieminski noting the constitution allows such a meeting. The effort aims to empower Northern West Virginia’s 18,000 miners to vote on district autonomy.
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Associated Press
Fairmont
United Mine Workers
Martin Bissett
Richards
Monongalia County
Marion County
Albert Stevens
Jamison
Flemington
Taylor County
Joe Zieminski
Grant Town
Tamaqua
Ray Edmundson
John L. Lewis
Edmundson
Lewis
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Dial
Sinks
Grove
Carlson’s Main
Kinney
Newsman
Hinton Daily
Mrs. Dolin
Otesesns
Williams Tire & Battery Co
Prince St
Raleigh Motor Sales, Inc
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Fayette Street
McCreery St
Beckley, W, VA
Lee
Hash
Main St. Beckiey
Woodlawn
Espso Bervicenter J. Lucas
Beckley Hardware and Supply Co
Heber Bt
Tim
Lewis Terminal
South Fayette 81
Cor
Ava
Harper Welding and Supply CO
Kanawha
Bailey Jewelry Co
Neville St
Richmond Cleaners and Laundry
Kanawha Dial
Clark Stores, Inc
Cook’s Music Shop
N. Oakwood
Burma
Tom Gravely
MacArthur
Cpl
James Gravely
United States Army
WWVA
Wheeling
Gravely
Ml. Cpl
Camp Lee
Virginia
Camp Sutton
North Carolina
Pvt
Herbert Gravely
Oklahoma
Dominican Republic
the Star Beckley's
Ashworth Wome
Prince St. Dial
Finis
Coe
Kem
Koater
Beckley Ice and Feed Company
B. E, Silverman
Raleigh County Bank
Bay Williams
Oak Hill
Western Auto
J.C. Gingrich
Fayette St
Hall Service Hall
Chevrolet Co
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Scott’s Music Service
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Sherwin - Williams
Beckley Ice and Feed CO
R. R. Crossing
Roy Robinson
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