Ex Navy Officers To Boost Beckley Reserve Battalion
Beckley will host a meeting to explain activation procedures for an organized naval reserve unit. Comdr Robert C Lefferty and Thomas F Stafford led discussions with 95 former enlisted men and 112 officers already applying. Members from Beckley and nearby towns voicing intent to join, with RCNS to seek charter and a date change for monthly meetings.
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Beckley
Robert C. Lefferty
Charleston
Naval Service
Raleigh County
Thomas F. Stafford
RONS
Navy
Signal Service
Mt. Hope
Mullens
Oak Hill
Hinton
Fayetteville
Pineville
Stafford
RCNS
Graves Renominated As VFW Commander
The VFW post plans for re election of Commander Graves at the next meeting in the Memorial Building. Nominees include Russell Neeley Okey Mills Thomas OO Garnet and Charles T Ross with Bill Honaker Rae lain and Joel Conner as trustees. A dinner for the play cast of Cornzapo ppin will be held March 24 and a national marble contest is being considered.
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Graves
W. W. Vines
Lew Sheffler
Bill Honaker
Okey Mills
Mittee
Guy Graves
Thejos Fhonline
Russell Neeley
Thomas OO. Garnet
Charles T. Ross
Raelain
Joel Conner
Corn
Zapoppin
Roy Thomas
Ed Tanner
National Headquarters
Localis Post
Italians to work in Czechoslovakia under treaty
Five thousand Italians, facing job loss at home, will work in Czechoslovakia under an Italo Czech accord. They must pass two medical exams, one by a Czech doctor at a northern Italy assembly point. In Czechoslovakia they will receive the same work and living conditions as Czech laborers.
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Associated Press
Rome
Czechoslovakia
Mary
Italy
Hi-Y Officers Named at Woodrow Wilson High School
The Hi-Y Club of Woodrow Wilson High School elected George Ballard as president with Scotty Davenport as vice president Gerald Wood as secretary Buddy Taylor as treasurer and Don Hylton as sergeant-at-arms. Twelve new members were invested including Don Hylton Ralph Lawson Buddy Taylor Edward Lilly Lotty Davenport Jimmy Halstead Harold Pruett Richard Thompson Bill Stanley Charles Wilson and Paul Walker. Winston C sponsor.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
George Ballard
Scotty’Davenport
Gerald Wood
Buddy Taylor
Don Hylton
Ernie Hylton
Earl Kinzer
Bob McClung
Veterans to discuss related training program at Woodrow Wilson High
Veterans in five on the job training classifications will meet Monday night in Woodrow Wilson High School library. Dean L Ricketts of the local Veterans Administration contact office says salesmen bookkeepers managers clerks and partsmen will form classes for related training courses. Sessions will be three hours once weekly with teachers to be named at the meeting. Mercantile courses will follow in trade schools.
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Woodrow Wilson
Dean L. Ricketts
The
Veterans Administration
Ricketts
Mercantile
Total Employment On Rise In State
Total employment in the 12 largest manufacturing plants in the Charleston Montgomery area reached 21 574 in January this year up from 20 476 a year earlier the West Virginia State Employment Service reported In a labor market digest the service noted vacancies mainly in clerical work while unskilled or semi skilled labor shows greater availability Some workers who were earning high wages during war years are willing to take lower paid jobs while those previously in lower pay brackets seek higher wages Overall employment rose from last year but job losses from war layoffs and plant shutdowns affect about 8 500 people in the area and ripple into related businesses
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Charleston
Charleston - Montgomery
West Virginia State Employment Service
Lservice
Four-Point Labor Plan Proposed by Civitan Warden
Alcatraz warden to explain denial of English lessons for prisoner Richard Neumer who sought a University of California correspondence course. Neumer, a 1935 Nashville bank robber, aims to learn writing to "expose" Alcatraz. The Civitan meeting also outlines a four-point labor management plan emphasizing wage and price clarity, production as progress, protection against strikes in essential services, and reform of labor law.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Alcatraz
Richard A. Nuemer
Sweden
Michael J.o
Roche
E. J. Miller
Neumer
University ‘of California
Nashville
Smyrna
Tenn
Ing
H. P. Philbrick
Standard Esso Company
Beckley Civilan Club
Philbrick
Guy F. Walker
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ALLOA
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Iamond
Sparkling Center
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Kredit Jewelers
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Beckley Theatre
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