Sewer Council to Meet With Committee on Citys Sewerage
Beckley chamber of commerce sewer committee seeks talks with city council and Raleigh Coal and Coke officials to resolve the sewerage problem. Chair Hodel favors a home rule charter election to run the system as a public utility, with July improvements possible. Hedrick cites WPA funds as potential aid and Neely notes only one WV regional office. Directors approve three $10 shares in holding company over Skelton airport. Peregoy and Bumgardner join the chamber.
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Raleigh Coal and Coke Company
George Watkins
Coal Company
Charles Hodel
Sewer Committee
Grover C. Hedrick
WPA
Hedrick
Beckley
Hodel
Council
W. A. James
M. M. Neely
Chamber
National Coal Commission
Neely
West Virginia
Fairmont
Skelton
Chamber of Commerce
Co. G. Peregoy
J. Lewis Bumgardner
Damages Sought Over Mount Hope Shovel Incident
Ruth Gibson sues Mount Hope claiming her steam shovel was damaged while deepening Loup creek to prevent floods. She alleges her husband operated the shovel for the city and did not collect all wages. seeks 1500 in damages, with actual shovel damage at 600 plus parts freight and installation. The shovel sits idle as suit proceeds.
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Register
Mount Hope
Ruth Gibson
Fayetteville
PWA
Corporation of Mount Hope
Magistrate sentences hoboes to twenty days
Five hoboes were picked up this week by Special Officer B. L. Slater and jailed in Fayetteville. They were charged with illegally riding manifest freights and received 20 days each, pending fingerprinting and investigation by state and federal authorities. The sentences were handed down by Justice R. C. Godsey.
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Register
Thurmond
B. L. Slater
Fayetteville
R. C. Godsey
State debt limits in Nebraska since 1875 constitution
The Nebraska constitution has forbidden state debt beyond $100000 since its 1875 adoption, establishing a long standing fiscal ceiling to govern borrowing by state government.
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Nebraska
Unclad fugitive escapes after hatchet attack chase
Fayetteville officers pursued Clyde Buchannon of Brown as he fled into New River. He stripped and swam across waist deep water, then vanished into nettled mountainside, leaving the chase ongoing and officers exposed to poison ivy as they returned.
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Register
Fayetteville
Clyde Buchannon
Brown
Gypsy Rose Lee
A. E. Moses
Buchannon
New River
Moses
Oak Hill push to locate coal bureau offices
Local citizens pressed anew to locate the soft coal commission district office in Fayette while others urge Bluefield Wheeling and Fairmont sites not to interfere. Fayetteville backs the county seat as home for the offices, expected to hire about 12 staff for regional statistics. Mount Hope also backs a site near the two large operators in the New River fields, the New River company and hoppers, in the Little City with the Big Welcome.
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Register
Oak Hill
Soft Coal Commission
Bluefield
Wheeling
Fairmont
Fayette
Andrew Edmiston
Weston
Fayetteville
Tri-Cities
Four Gamblers Sentenced Ten Days Each in Fayetteville
Deputy Sheriff Virgil Lyons brought John Wayne Sam Davis Ben Cooper and Willie Davis before Magistrate R C Godsey this week on illegal gambling charges. Each man received ten days in the county jail with Willie Davis also charged for running a gambling joint according to the commitment.
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Register
Fayetteville
Virgil Lyons
R. C. Godsey
John Wayne
Sam Davis
Ben Cooper
Willie Davis
City to Host Westinghouse Mechanical Man Willie Vocalite
Beckley audiences will view Willie Vocalite the Westinghouse mechanical man on Saturday June 19 at the Beckley Music Store venue. Operator Jack Berno commands the stage using voice control to make the device perform tricks such as lights, talking, and lighting cigarettes. Four performances are scheduled at 12 30 2 30 4 30 and 8 o'clock with the machine traveling by its own truck to venues nationwide.
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Beckley
Beckley Music Store
Willie Vocalite
Westinghouse
Jack Berne
Berno
Willie
Jack Berno
Westinghouse Mechanical
United States
Carl C. Drewery
Legion Meeting Called Tonight in Mount Hope
American Legion Post 103 will hold a meeting tonight to elect delegates for the Seventh District Convention in Ronceverte on July 3 and 4. Adjutant G. H. Pettit urged all active members to attend at the Legion hall.
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Mount Hope
American Legion Post
Ronceverte
G. H. Pettit
Pettit
American Legion
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