NewEsso Service Station Opens Friday on Oakwood
Beckley’s new Esso service station at Oakwood and Third avenues opens Friday with grand rites and souvenirs. Morton A. Johnson will supervise operations. Keith Hancock becomes active Manager with Robert Lively and John Maddy assisting. The facility features a modern lobby, rest rooms, a large service bay, hydraulic lift, tire and battery services, pit for heavy trucks, and a full Esso line including Atlas tires and batteries. Built by E F Cooper on property bought from J B, the station sits on a key traffic route into Beckley.
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Oakwood
Third Avenues
Lillybrook Coal Company
Morton A. Johnson
Lillybrook
Johnson
Keith Hancock
Robert Lively
John Maddy
Esso
Oakwood Avenue
Essolene
Essolube
Atlas
J. A. Hunt
Gulf and
Stonecoat
Cooper
Guy D. Brown
J. B
E. F. Cooper
J. J. Lamb
Polar Flyers Expand Esso Station Network to Beckley
Polar Flyers, after pioneering in Gauley Bridge over 15 years ago, has expanded into Montgomery, Oak Hill, and Charleston under the Esso banner. The Beckley entry concludes a three year market buildup, with Brown optimistic that Beckley will outperform existing five figure monthly gallonage at Oak Hill, Montgomery, Gauley Bridge, and Charleston.
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Montgomery
Oak Hill
Charleston
Esso
Beckley Ser
Vice Station
Brown
Beckley
Van Zeeland Sees Roosevelt In Informal Economics Conference
Belgian prime minister Paul Van Zeeland arrived in Washington for an informal world economics conference with President Roosevelt. The visit coincides with Van Zeeland receiving an honorary Princeton degree, a courtesy linked to his prior time as a graduate student. Modern Mesopotamian boots echo 4,000 year old Hittite carvings.
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Associated Press
Washington
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
Roosevelt
Princeton University
Mesopotamia
Mild Clash on Johnstown Front at Bethlehem Steel Plant
A non striking Cambria plant employee from Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown Pennsylvania arrived by streetcar at the Franklin gate as pickets tried to halt the cars. State police escorted workers into the plant while a man stood atop a car near the trolley and an officer looked on placidly.
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Cambria
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Johnstown
Franklin Gate
Fight Made on Joe Robinson
Sixty labor leaders ministers educators and writers sent President Roosevelt a letter opposing the appointment of Senator Joseph T. Robinson to the Supreme Court. The Workers Defense League released the document, calling itself the official defense agency of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and said investigators have learned it is futile to expect aid from Robinson against planter terrorism in his state.
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New York
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U. S
Joseph T. Robinson
Supreme Court
Workers Defense League
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
League
Robinson
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