State interior toll bridges urged to be bought and made free
Road Commissioner Bailey pushes for legislative appropriation to buy the four interior toll bridges Prince Chelyan Cotton Hill and Point Pleasant outright to end tolls. He argues court-directed appraisals would ensure fair pricing, avoid politics and eliminate highway toll gates for a measurably cheaper modern highway system.
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New
Kanawha
Summersville
Prince
Interior
Chelyan
Point Pleasant
Bailey
Beckley
Prince, Chelyan
Cotton Hill
Hurton Bridge
Colton Hill
Kanawha Falls
Chimney Corner
Beckwith
Thhem
Rum
They All Pitch In At Shady Spring Canning
A canning session at Shady Spring center ends with 62 quarts of sauce and a strong neighborly spirit. Mrs. C C Lewis and Mrs. M Collins help peel and prep while E M Ashworth runs the saucing setup. The self help center culture shows as residents trade tasks and share wash up, with plans to return next year.
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Shady Spring
Fehben
C. C. Lewis
Daniels
Jobs for Veterans and the Challenge of Reentry
About 1.5 million servicemen have been discharged since 1940 with many disabled. Discharges average 35,000 monthly and may rise after Germany falls. Local draft boards plus government agencies will help place veterans as Congress acts. Despite plentiful openings, veterans seek new careers aligned with evolved talents and skills.
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Germany
Congress
America
Selective Service
Japanese Crisis Deepens as Tojo Government Falls
Japan reels from rapid regime shifts as Saipan falls and Nagumo dies in defeat. Navy Minister Shigetara is removed, Tojo loses power and cabinet stability wanes, signaling a vast crisis as U.S. advances into the Marianas reshape the empire’s fate and public sentiment.
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Simperor Hirohito
Saipan
Chuichi Nagumo
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Shigetara
Tojo
Japan
Nippon
Men O War and Beckley Servicemen in War News
Marine Gilbert of Beckley recounts eight months at Guadalcanal Tulagi and Admiralty islands. He visits home on a seven day leave with family, notes April 29 arrival, and recalls meeting Seabees and Navy force members. The piece also lists Beckley locals promoted to first sergeant and other soldiers stationed in the Panama Canal zone and Africa, highlighting training at Fort Benning and deployments in World War II.
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Ember
le Ace Gilbert
Beckley
Guadalcanal
Tulagi
Admiralty Islands
Gilbert
George Gilbert
East Main Street
Edward Bragg
Seabees
Bill Winston
Richmond Laundry
Navy
Islands
Main Street
Great Lakes
Ilinois
Gulftiart Micciecinni
Monro
Jungle Infantry
Panama
Reese
Brubeck
Harris
Bowling
Panama Canal Zone
Marguarite Brubeck
Fort Benning
Georgia
A. M. Harris
C” Street
B. F. Reese
South Kanawha Street
L. F. Bowling
Raleigh
W. Williams
Army
Snodgrass and Sherman brothers in wartime service
Crab Orchard and Stanaford families report multiple sons serving in the armed forces. Kenneth O Snodgrass remains in the 140th infantry cannon company at Camp Howze Texas while Thomas M Snodgrass Jr trained at Camp Hathaway and Camp Stoneman and went overseas January 10. Kenneth briefly visited home during a two week furlough. Claydean Sherman, of Stanaford and Wayland Kentucky, serves with the navy amphibious force with action in Sicily and Salerno and is now stationed in North Africa after promotion. Sherman previously worked at Stanaford mines and entered service in November 1942.
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Dallas Fitzwater
Faye Fitzwater
Meadow Bridge
England
Camp Alterbury
Indiana
Camp Breckenridge
Kentucky
South Pacific
Verseas
Cpl
Arlie Goins
Backus
Africa
Romulus
Michigan
Edith Goins
Italy
J. M. Snodgrass
Crab Orchard
Army Quartermaster Corps
Southwest Pacific
Kenneth O. Snodgrass
Camp Howze
Texas
140Th Infantry
Army
Kenneth Snodgrass
Thomas Snodgrass
Claydean Sherman
Stanaford
Navy
Sicily
Salerno
North Africa
J. J. Sherman
Wayland
Kenicky
Sherman
Bainbridge
Maryland
Little Creek
Virginia
Corn stalk mystery and wartime letters in Raleigh Register
A corn stalk with an ear growing from the top is discussed by County Agent H B Thomas and observers Posey Daniel and Miss Jane Leith offers a theory of an ancient Indian corn. The piece also shares wartime letters from Sgt. Fred Clark of Danville and notes on his Purple Heart and cheerfulness. local history items include Raleigh County Index 1886 and personal items from readers, with references to local officials and a World War II story from Lt. C C Lemon.
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W. P. Riffe
Crab Orchard
H. B. Thomas
Beckley
Thomas
Posey Daniel
Saxon
Posey
Jane Leith
Morgantown
Elizabeth Leith
Register
Fred Clark
Lincoln — Sireet
Meredith White
France
Lanark Elementry School
Pfe
Fred
79Th
Cherbourg
James D. White
U. S
Normandy
Callie White
Mark Clark
Daniels
George B. Chambers
Raleigh County Index
Raleigh Register
CG. W. Cook
Louisiana
Breck Wren
Sewell
Flynn Hall
Thomas B. Cook
Glamera
Secret German weapons hope amid war talk and morale
Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels touts secret weapons while British and American fronts surge. The piece notes flying bombs and rockets as possible threats yet questions their military value. It argues Hitler seeks a peace through force and that Prussian militarists doubt victory, predicting renewed civil stamina tests for England. The second item records a German soldier’s notebook line about retreat and a British radio report.
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Goebbels
Germany
Britain
Hitler
Churchill
Adnan
Europe
Normandy
Srape Ging
England
Wdt
Tola
Wuylner Upsus
Lttler
Fuehrer
Willer
Veteran arctic war veteran makes up for miss
Kenneth R. Keith, a 45 year old Chicago father of three, drafted November 1 1918 as armistice ended World War I, now serves as a navy bomber tail gunner in World War II. His age initially blocked a gunner assignment, but he persisted to become an extra in a Hawaii squadron. Two days before departure he was injured, yet he earned command of a bomber and its guns. Navy notes an anti climactic twist as he recovers with his family.
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Associated Press
Washington
Kenneth R. Keith
Navy
Keith
Chicago
Hawaii
Pop
State School Head to Attend National Education Conference
West Virginia State Superintendent W. W. Trent will travel to Washington August 1 to 11 as one of three representatives of the National Council of Chief State School Officers at a U S Office of Education conference. The meeting will discuss pending education aid bills and related topics. From Washington, he will proceed to Knoxville for a National Education Association south regional meeting.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. W. Trent
Washington
National Council of Chief
U.S. Office of Education
Trent
Knoxville
Tenn
National Education Association
West Virginia
Nle,a
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