Fayette Camp for Scouts Is Being Planned
Fayetteville details for a Fayette county boy scout camp at Clifftop were decided at a courthouse meeting of scout executives and troop leaders. Two camps will run in July, consecutively, with ration points arranged though each scout must bring his own ration book. A full time caretaker has been hired. camp open year round. cots to be provided later. H. E. Willson chaired the meeting with Charles E. Wood and M. H. F. Kinsey also speaking.
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Fayetteville
Fayette County
Jily
C.C.C
H. E. Willson
Oak Hill
Charles E. Wood
Cincinnati
M. H. F. Kinsey
Charleston
Party Honors Eleanor Small at Home Birthday Event
A birthday party honoring Eleanor Small was hosted recently by Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Small at their home. Guests included Geraldine Berry, Jack Lawton, Bethel Trump, George Lawton, Joy Stevenson, Ray Jones, Rosalie Kingery, David Whitten, Erma Berry, David Breeden, Evelyn Morris, Bill Lair, Virginia Thompson, Jerry Darling, Laretta Small, and the hosts.
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Quinnimont
Eleanor Small
F. R. Small
Geraldine Berry
Jack Lawton
Bethel Trump
George Lawton
Joy Stevenson
Ray Jones
Rosalie Kingery
David Whitten
Erma Berry
David Breeden
Evelyn Morris
Bill Lair
Virginia Thompson
Jerry Darling
Laretta Small
W. D. Trump
Walter Caldwell to Enter Army
Walter Caldwell arrived here to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. Ray Caldwell before joining the U S army. He was a junior at Marshall college in Huntington and a member of the enlisted reserve corps U S army unassigned.
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Register
Fayetteville
Walter Cald
Ray Caldwell
U. S. Army
Army
Marshall College
Huntington
Axis Balkan weaknesses hint at Allied push in war
A regional assessment notes seven or eight German divisions in the Balkans pointing to Axis fragility. Italians suffer bombed ports while London observers foresee sea and air incursions toward the Aegean, Crete, Sicily and Sardinia. Canadian assault forces in Britain stand ready as fresh American troops gather in the United States. Norway’s coast remains contested as patriots harass German lines.
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Balkans
London
Aegean
Crete
Sicily
Sardinia
T Roeps
British Isles
America
Norway
Fayette Man Elected District Governor of Rotary
Weiler William Thompson of Montgomery was chosen district governor at the Charleston convention. A longtime Rotarian, he has held city posts and attended Rotary events in Havana in 1940 and Toronto in 1942. A 1928 West Virginia Law School graduate, he led campus activities and was a Phi Delta Theta initiate and past West Virginia Alumni president.
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Weiler Montgomery
William
Bill” Thompson
Montgomery
Rotary Club
Charleston
Thompson
Ciiy
International Rotary
Havana
Cuba
Toronto
Canada
West Virginia Law School
Phi Delta Theta
Hle
West Virginia Alumni Association
Oak Hill High Seniors Run City For A Day
Oak Hill High seniors seized control of the town from eight in the morning to six in the evening with Walter Bugin as mayor and Kitty Lou Anderson as secretary. The student officials issued fines for parking and speeding, conducted a city mission from street cleaning to police work, and used fines for school purposes.
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Oak Hill
Walter Bugin
Claude R. Hill
Jim Perry
O.H.S
Dewey Kincaid
Bugin
Main Street
Regar
Fire Department
Kitty Lou Anderson
Margaret Sifers
City Recorder
Ernest Smith
Billy Clark
Barbara Merrill
Willie Bashell
Patty Backus
John Wilson
Perry
Ed Graff
Jimmy Thompson
Ted Zemonek
D. D. Wilson
James Titlow
Billy Whitney
Joe Martina
Oscar Yon
Si Harvey
Emma Duncan
Lucy Duncan
Billy Hughart
Mary Warden
Rosemarie Martin
Helen Sutphin
Patricia Ryan
Hazel Foster
Bertha Zelek
Martha Kay
Mary Rose Tynatoich
Herbert MccGray
Alene Blake
Lorraine Presnik
Dorothy Presni
Imogene Farmer
Gretlis Campbell
Catherine Crawford
Barbara Merritt
Edna Honaker
Dreama Lively
Dorothy Oatridge
One Man Classified I A by Local Selective Service Board
Fayetteville report notes only registrant James Eversole listed as I A after latest meeting. Eleven others received tentative I A pending physicals. numerous names appear under Class II and Class III A with individuals such as John Deldridge Basil Shaffer Frank Reed and others.
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Fayetteville
James Eversole
Selective Service Board
William Grose
Oral Lewis
Benjamin May
Milton Akers
William Flint
John Kania
Jack King
Seibert Lively
Donnie Pennington
Luke Wimmer
John Deldridge
Basil Shaffer
Frank Reed
Andrew Wooten
George Johnson
James Lewis
Ralph Weal
Hughie Windsor
Ralph Burgess
Waymond Fitzpatrick
Alexander Satler
Ernest Kesterson
Raymond Kelley
Harold Brehm
Emmett Craddock
Wiliam Shaffner
Frederick McCormick
Stovd Morgan
Jessie Ribb
Garland Crone
Curtis Patrick
Ronnié Hobbs
Chester Vane
Bernard Flint
Clyde Rumons
Robert Brown
George Chambers
James Hodges
Robert Dawson
Silas Spangler
Woodrow Boyd
Daniel Davis
Leon Stewart
William ‘Fufts
Linwood Thomas
Carlos Smith
Theodore Minor
Troy Painter
Egbert Henley
Edward Blanchard
Starlen Teaster
Gaxford Burton
Raymond Arthur
Ty Swaggerty
Orville Mathews
James Lafferty
Terry Ferguson
Noel Griffith
Okla Meadows
Edward Marchio
Student Nutter Visits Miss Dummitt Home Weekend
Miss Ronda Line Nutter a West Virginia Institute of Technology Montgomery student is spending the weekend in the home of Miss Georgia Dummitt in Fayetteville.
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Bby Register
Fayetteville
Rondaline Nutter
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
Georgia Dummitt
Fayette nurse Snow in Hawaii arrives safely
Bertie Johnson of Mount Hope learns that her daughter, Second Lieutenant Geraldine L. Johnson, a United States Army Nurse Corps officer and AMM Hope High School and Jersey City Medical Center graduate, has arrived in the Hawaiian islands after enlisting October 15, 1942 and prior private nursing in New Jersey.
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Weiler
Mount Hope
Bertie Johnson
Geraldine L. Johnson
United States Army Nurses Corps
Hawaiian Islands
Johnson
AMM. Hope High School
Medical Center
Jersey City
New Jersey
Nurses Corps
Dutty
Soviet forces seize rail stock as war pushes toward Europe
Soviet communique reports a major capture in the last days including 39 mortars, 600 rifles, 300000 cartridges, 190 freight cars, 11 locomotives and stores. Russians overran rail lines branching from Novorossisk, severing road routes between German positions near Novorossisk and Axis forces in the Kuban valley.
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Red Army
Africa
Novorossisk
AxiFreaps
Kuban Valley
Nichols Returns Home After Week in Oak Hill Hospital
Mrs. F. B. Nichols of Oak Hill has returned home from Oak Hill hospital after a week of treatment. Her condition is improved.
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Oak Hilis
F. B. Nichols
Oak Hill
Oak Hil Hospital
Scarbro Woman Leaves Hospital After Pneumonia Recovery
Joan Hillon of Scarbro, patient at Oak Jil hospital since April 28 with pneumonia, returned home this week in improved condition. Harvey, Hare, and Foster of Hinton went to Portland Oregon where they joined Kaiser shipyards.
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Scarbro
Joan Hillon
Oak Jil Hospital
Oregon
Register
Alderson
C. B. Harvey
Melvin Ahare
Ozzie Foster
Hinton Jett
Pentland
Kaiser Shipyards
Grant to Observe Ohio County Experiment in Defense Post
Big Forest state headquarters of Civilian Defense reports Brig. Gen. O. S. Grant, third assistant national director in charge of the protective division, will observe the Ohio county experiment and later inspect the securtor posts at Wheeling.
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Office‘ of Civilian Defense
0. S. Grant
Ohio County
Secu
Wheeling
Moose Officers Are Installed In Oak Hill Lodge
Oak Hill Lodge Loyal Order of Moose installs officers for twelve months. Clyde Runions named governor and Cather Jones secretary among others. Trustees named Petrowski, Sexton, Helton. Anniversary May 11 with class initiation and banquet for Jones. Runions served as national convention delegate. Jones elected alternate.
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Oak Hill
Oak Hill Lodge
Sanford
Scntt
Helton
Carl Short
Carl Blackwell
Lee
Sutphin
Summerlee
Per+ singer
Lacy Neely
James Nix
Sanford Scott
State Garage
Locvue
Jones
Lodge
Runions
Cincinnati
Altera‘e
Rangers Commando Raid Memory Letter Reveals Bold Landings
A World War II commando raid described by Lieut Dance recounts a nighttime landing on German shores. The unit traveled by boat, carried light gear and knives, and faced sudden combat before slipping back to sea. Dance and three fellow Americans from the Rangers share details of fear, thrill, and rapid withdrawal.
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Frederick Smith
Crisfield
Charles Shaw
Philadelphia
Pvt
Howard Woodyard
Chase City
Virginia
U. S. Rangers
U. S. Rangers. Lieut. Dance
France
AEE
Andrew Bailey
Harper Road
Cuba
Lieut Dance
J.C. Dance
Army Signal Corps
University of Nebraska
Shady Spring
Beckley
National Guard
Panama
Fort Benning
Charles
Register
Army air corps flyer on sick leave visits parents
Roche Hatcher of the Army Air Corps, stationed at Madison Wisconsin, is spending a furlough at Fayetteville with his parents, Pie Hatcher. He is home on sick leave.
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Fayetteville, Ie
Roche Hatcher
Army Air Corps
Pie
Hatcher
Madison, Wis
New County Scrap Drive Planned At Memorial Building
County Coordinator W. R. Fugit will lead a meeting at the Memorial building at 2 PM to plan a spring salvage campaign. Participants include salvage representatives from local defense councils service committees of the Raleigh county farm bureau county salvage committee and civilian defense officials. The drive aims to collect 2.5 times the Scrap Sabbath total and extend through May 21, 22 and 24 and beyond the year. The goal sets 52 pounds per person with W H Skees of the salvage division WPB and B T Mitchell the state secretary speaking on national need and program details.
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W. R. Fugit
Rateigh County Farm Bureau
County Salvage Committee
Raleigh
W. H. Skees
War Production Board
B. T. Mitchell
Will Ispeak
Absenteeism Rises in West Virginia Mines Under Government Control
Miners face widespread absence during the first week of government operation with operators reporting up to 100 percent nonworking rates in some cases. Union leaders cite legitimate excuses such as breakdowns sickness or no coal loading. Officials accuse operators of misrepresenting absentee figures while shifting crews to avoid overtime on Saturdays.
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William Blizzzard
U.M.W
District 17
Blizzard
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Association
West Virginia
Fairmont
C. Fremont Davis
U.M.W. District 31
New York
Davis
The
Solid Fuels Administration
Dan le
Cronin
Daniel T. Buckley
Boston
Solid Fuels
Harald L. [Ckes
Roosevelt
Fuels Administration
Favell
Lytton
Rinefield
U. S. Army
War Department
Kanawha
Williamson and
Logan
Ashland, Ky
Harvey L. Wells
Frances Harris Improves After Auto Crash
Frances Harris of Santa Monica and former resident of this city was critically injured in a mobile accident five months ago. She has improved and been released from the hospital to recover at home.
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Qak Hilt
Frances Harris
Santa Monica
California
Allied offensive nears end of Tunisian campaign line
A spokesman cited thousands of enemy prisoners captured as the Tunisian campaign enters its final phase. An Algiers radio broadcast reported about 120,000 Axis troops encircled. Eisenhower pledged to continue until every armed German is removed from Africa.
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London
Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bizerte
Tunis
Corporal Dick Visits Oak Hill on Furlough
Corporal Samuel Dick of the United States Army spends a seven day leave visiting friends and relatives in Carlisle. After 13 months in service he has earned medals as a rifle sharpshooter and pistol expert and is assigned to the headquarters company at Camp McCain Mississippi. His wife Nellie Dick has been hospitalized for six months with improving condition. He is the son of Clarence Dick of Carlisle.
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Carlisle
Samuel Dick
United States Army
Camp McCain
Mississippi
Nellie Dick
Oak Hill Hospital
Clarence Dick
Pax High School Holds May Queen Coronation
Geneva Davis, senior, crowned Pax High School May Queen amid colorful ceremonies led by Mrs. Claribel Bigelow. Ruth Kidd, Betty Blake and Dorothy Williams Lafferty served as senior attendants with a program of processions, entrancements, flowers, and folk dances performed by students across grades.
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Geneva Davis
Pax High School
Dorothy Williams Lafferty
Ruth Kidd
Betty Blake
Claribel Bigelow
Leonard Tyree
Virginia Mullens
Billie June Torbert
Jewell Williams
Queen
Celia Warren
Madge Bennett
Louise Sowder
Ramona Tyree
Edna ‘Tormey
Janice Williams
Stoemaker
Ave of Diamonds
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