Why WV Town Names Trick Drivers This Season
State travelers face deceptive town name matches as many towns sit outside their counties or share names with counties. Examples include Hancock in Morgan County and Morgantown in Monongalia, with numerous near misses and misdirections across Kanawha, Greenbrier, Webster, and other counties.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Omer
Hancock
Hancock County
Harrison
Harrison County
Mingo
Mingo County
Morgan County
Clay County
Randolph County
Mountain State
Morgantown
Monongalia
Morgansville
Doddridge
Barboursville
Barbour County
Cabell
Lewisburg
Lewis County
Greenbrier
Greenbrier County
White Sulphur Springs
Green Sulphur Springs
Summers County
Kanawha County
Kanawha Falls
Fayette
Kanawha Head
Upshur
Jacksonburg
Jackson’s Mill
Jackson County
Wetzel
Lewis
Wood
Woodlands
Woodruff
Marshall
Woodville
Lincoln
Fayette County
Fayetteville
Mason County
Mason
Masonville
Masontown
Stalin Auto Works keeps ZIS as a sideline in Moscow
Stalin Auto Works remains the sole producer of the ZIS car but treats it as a sideline. Deputy director Karzov notes the plant produced hundreds of cars last year, with trucks bicycles and buses far outstripping car output. The ZIS sells only on special order costing about 70 000 rubles.
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Moscow
Stalin Auto Works
Ivan Ivanovich Karzov
Soviet Union
Karzov
Communist Party
Komsomol
Stalin
Rabbits Without Fur campaign spurs Wyoming drives
Cheyenne Wyoming. A ruling by the attorney general says rabbits do not grow fur and rabbit carcasses do not require licensed fur dealers. Campaigns to remove an oversupply have led to drives near Pine Bluff and Douglas where more than 3 000 rabbits were killed, as ranchers complain of crop damage.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Pine Bluff
Douglas
Driver Training Credit Expanded by Simulated Devices
Charleston officials announce a revision in driver training rules allowing approved simulated training devices to substitute for part of actual behind the wheel driving in high school and college courses. The 10 percent driver training credit toward premiums may be reduced from six to three hours of real driving, replaced by twelve hours of simulated device instruction.
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Charleston
Thomas J. Gillooly
Gillooly
Mont Chateau to close for rebuild near Morgantown
The Mont Chateau property on Cheat Lake near Morgantown will be closed to vacationers this summer while the Conservation Department replaces the inn which recently burned. Director Carl J. Johnson said the goal is spring completion with a $400,000 project and plans to finance the final $100,000 after consulting New York bond attorneys. Construction is aimed to start about July 1.
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Charleston
Mont Chateau
Cheat Lake
Morgantown
Conservation Department
Carl J. Johnson
Johnson
New York
West Virginia items mix of bans and honors
A digest of West Virginia notes reports workshops in Halifax by WVU Davis in Nova Scotia, election of Eustace Florance as secretary treasurer of Chesapeake and Potomac TelCo group, fines eyed for fire truck chasers, a 50 year lock 15 service award, barge recovery efforts on the Ohio River, soil condition checks by the federal soil conservation service, dam damage near Leachtown affecting fishing, rabies inoculation drive for dogs, planning commission revival in Huntington, alligator found in Parkersburg sewers, and various police, civic, and health notices.
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James J. Salmons Jr
U. S. Lock 15
Ohio River
Sardis
Ohio
Huntington
U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers
Fire Marshall Urges Safe Fourth of July Observance
West Virginia Fire Marshal C A Raper warns that illegal sales of fireworks harm people and that many injuries occur when laws are ignored. He says celebrations should be left to experts to keep children safe and ensure a happy holiday.
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Charleston
C. A. Raper
Trick Newspaper Alarms State Man
A Williamson West Virginia man phoned Columbus police alarmed by a fake Columbus Tribune story claiming four friends were hurt in a crash. Police notes show the caller cited an address that did not exist and linked to a penny arcade that sold phony newspapers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Williamson
W. Va
Columbus Tribune
Lillian Black
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Grant County
Grantsville
Calhoun County
Grant Town
Marion
Petersburg
Wood County
Summersville
Nicholas
Summers
Taylorsville
Taylor
Preston County
Braxton
Clay, Gilmer
Logan
McDowell
Raleigh
Webster Springs
Webster
Logansport
Marion County
Clayton
Monongah
Putnam
Pocahontas
Rand
Kanawha
Randolph
Ohio County
Panhandle
Hiroshima Maiden
Hiroshima
U.S
Tomoko Nakabayshi
U. S
THE
Associated Press
Reede A. Davis
West Virginia Tech
Business Administration Department
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Eustace L. Florance
Maryland
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Virginia
Washington, D. C
Howard Bartlett
Spencer
Mississippi Valley Barge Line
U. S. Lock 18
Parkersburg
Federal Bureau of Soil Conservation
Marshall County
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Leachtown
Kanawha River
Wirt Wood County
Brooke County
Farm Bureau
Mayor Theater
Ernest E. Winters
Chamber of Commerce
Seventh St
Pittsburgh
George W. Purvis
Wheeling
South Charleston Sanitary Board
Kay George
Board
Spe
East Bank
Jackson's Mill
West Virginia State Medical Assn
State Home Demonstration Council
State Health Department
Morris Harvey College
Morris Harvey
McNary, Ariz
International Council of Industrial Editors
Los Angeles
Employes Bulletin of Weirton Steel Co
Fairmont
Russell F. Bonasso
Ft. Meade
Cabell S. Davis
International Association of Personnel In Employment Security
Toronto
Canda
Northern Panhandle
Hanna Coal Co
Big New Ireland
Baltimore
Coats
Knights OF Garter
Windsor Castle
England
Order of the Garter
Britain
Elizabeth I
Duke of Edinburgh
St. George’s Chapel
Earl of Iveagh
Earl Attlee
Anthony Eden
Winston Churchill
Knights of the Garter
Winston
Knight of the Garter
Sir Anthony
International Radiophotos
Fire Marshall
Tropisan
Mowey
Kay's
Neville St. Beckley
Elgin Millicent
Elgin Huron
Hadley
Elgin Hazelton
Elgin Belvidere
ELGIN
Elgin Ardmore
Wender Jewelry
Neville ST
Beckley
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