State plans 200 gaming centers for surplus garden supplies
West Virginia faces a need for about 200 community centers to handle surplus garden supplies. The state food conservation committee, led by J. O. Knapp of Morgantown, formed a subcommittee to plan canning centers with 2 to 10 sites per county and immediate equipment funding indications.
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Charleston
West Virginia
State Food Conservation Committee
J. O. Knapp
Morgantown
Oak Hill man earns disability discharge and finds work
Oak Hill resident Cecil B. Lindsay has received a certified disability discharge from the United States Army Air Corps. He is now employed by the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in Oak Hill after previously being stationed at Vichy Air Base in Vichy, Missouri.
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Register
Oak Hill
Cecil B. Lindsay
United States Army Air Corps
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Vichy Air Base
Vichy
Missouri
Women asked to serve country with meat ration plan
The wartime bulletin answers homemakers questions on the new meat and food rationing under War Ration Book No. 2. It explains what meats and foods are covered, the basic 16 point weekly allotment, validity and expiration of red stamps, and how points are calculated for odd ounces with retailer-provided conversion tables.
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Wickard
Louisiana
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
Wilson's
OPA
New York
Indiana
Pay Go Compromise To Be Pushed Through the House
A pay as you go compromise to abate part of a year’s income tax is to be pressed in the House during four days of debate. Two major plans aim to wipe out or reduce the 1942 liability for most taxpayers while using a 20 percent withholding on wages starting July 1 to collect taxes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Capitol Hill
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Ramspeck
Dga
Robertson
Forand
D-R
Doughton
D-N.c
Anderson
D-N.m
Doctor to See Condemned Man at Moundsville
Governor Neely ordered Weston State Hospital superintendent Dr J E Offner to travel to the state penitentiary in Moundsville to examine Thomas J Farley who is to be hanged April 2 Farley a 25 year old McDowell county coal miner was convicted for the August 31 1941 fatal shooting of James Adkins at Carswell.
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Associated Press
Charleston
J. E. Offner
Weston State Hospital
Neely
Moundsville
Thomas J. Farley
Farley
Offner
McDowell County
James Adkins
Carswell
Wine on State Ration List
Charleston report notes wine, like whiskey, is now rationed by the state liquor control commission. Customers are limited to one bottle per person per day as ships divert tank cars and the federal government increases purchases of white grapes to boost the armed forces raisin supply. Commissioner Carl G. Bachmann explained the order, effective yesterday, with wine added to the ration list under the same limit as whiskey.
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Associated Press
Charleston
State Liquor Control Commission
Carl G. Bachmann
Three Killed in Truck Car Crash Near Bluefield
State trooper J E Childers says L A Wilson of Lansing Michigan is jailed on manslaughter charges after a highway crash on US Route 21 near Bluefield that killed Preston Hawkins 60 his son in law Dennis Boone 26 and Boone's five year old son Malcolm. Hawkins died instantly while Boone and Malcolm died later at a hospital.
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Associated Press
Bluefield
J E. Childers
L. A. Wilson
Lansing
Mich
Mercer County
Princeton
W. B. Owen
Preston Hawkins
Dennis Boone
Boone
Malcolm
Hawkins
Tests for Barbers Beauticians Set in Charleston
The state health department announced an examination for barber and beautician licenses to be held in Charleston on April 19. Applications must be filed with the state committee by April 7, with about 50 applications received so far.
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Associated Press
Charleston
State Health Department
State Committee of
Barbers and Beauticians
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