West Virginia Advances Aviation Prospects with Hangar Move
The West Virginia Board of Control and West Virginia University bought an $11,000 hangar near Morgantown airport to support postwar aviation development. The move signals a potential aeronautical school at the university, complementing existing pilot training. Raleigh County faces a $150,000 airport bond vote June 4 to join a growing state network of air facilities.
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West Virginia
State Board of Control
West Virginia University
University Groulias
Morgantown
Robert Roth
Board of Control
West
Raleigh
Neely
Walter Hattis
Beckley
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Clraksburg
Martinsburg
Elkins
Huntington
Charleston
Raleigh County
MODEL FOR UNIONS IN A 1910S UNION HISTORY NOTE
The June Readers Digest profile praises the Typographical Union as democracy in action. It highlights elections, regular financial reporting, and a high voting threshold for strikes, noting the union’s 1815 founding in Washington and its push toward a broadly democratic labor movement.
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Reader's Digest
William Hard
America
Congress
A.F.L
C.I.U
American Labor Movement
Washington, D.C
Union Printrs
Colorado Springs
Printers Union Ideals Shape Apprentices Through Education
A 1920s to 1940s overview notes how printers join the Typographical Union after absorbing 149 lessons from the Bureau of Education. Apprentices are taught union duties, cooperation with capital, high workmanship, cost reduction, and loyalty, with enemies including preachers of class war and fascist ideologies. The article lauds the union as a model for American labor.
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Printers’ Union
Bureau of Education
Typographical
Rattlesnakes Return Recorded by Marlinton Editor Cal Price
Cal Price of the Poca hontas Times notes the first rattlesnake sightings near White Rocks in Marlinton area. William Crigger, fire tower keeper, killed a big yellow snake after it emerged from winter den and a second black rattler struck at him but was killed. Last year rattlers appeared May 6. this year May 9.
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West Virginia
Cal Price
Pocahontas Times
Marlinton
Willian Crigger
Beaver Lick
White Rocks
Mr. Crigger
Bill
Miners Urged to Join Kaiser Shipyard Effort
A Kaiser Pacific Coast shipyard representative will visit the area to recruit Fayelle and Raleigh county men for ship construction. The issue arose after Bluefield Coal Company charged Kaiser with luring miners away, prompting calls for War Manpower Commission attention as coal production and shipbuilding both loom vital to the war effort.
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Henry Kaiser
Pacific Coast Shipyards
Fuayette
Raleigh County
Fayelle
Raleigh
Pacific Coast
Bluefield Coal Company
Eastern Coal Corporation
Kaiser
U.S. Employment Service
Eastern Company
Coal Company
U.S
Oregon
Cutworms and the stick plan plus wartime gallantry
County Agent H B Thomas prescribes tongue depressors as a cure for cutworms in tomatoes cabbage and beans likening the pest to Germans in a wartime pattern He also mentions other folk remedies including wrapping stems with newspaper and using weeds to smother pests The piece notes Dr Winston Roberts Jr a Duke graduate decorated for gallantry in the Pacific and recounts a Mull Soy milk story linking soy to childhood milk allergies and a Beckley store selling the product
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H. B. Thomas
Tommy
Cutworm
Eisenhower
Montgomery
Register
Tor
Winston Roberts, Jr
Seventh Army Air Force Medical Corps
Duke University
F. J. Moore
Affinity
W. C. Mays
Stamford
H. E. Moran
Fireco
Dr. Roberts
Association Petition Is Dismissed In Charleston
Federal Judge Ben Moore dismissed the Fidelity Assurance association petition to reorganize under bankruptcy laws and ordered the Central Trust Company to transfer all assets to state court receivers. The order preserves funds for expenses and claims, with a possible appeal noted by Charleston receivers Isaiah Smith and Arthur P. Hudson and Auditor Edgar Sims.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Ben Moore
Fidelity Assurance Association
Central Trust Company
Moore
Supreme Court of the United States
Fidelity
Central Trust Company of
Isaiah Smith
Arthur P. Hudson
Edgar B. Sims
Bluefield Man Taken By Death
Harry C. Pedigo a Bluefield lawyer newspaperman and merchant died at his home after a heart attack yesterday He previously practiced law with Harold A Ritz later became a journalist and the first sports editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph He later managed the Pedigo department store with his brother Funeral services are planned for Monday
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Bluefield
Harry C. Pedigo
Pedigo
State Supreme Court
Harold A. Ritz
Charleston
Bluefield Evening Leader
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
BE. S. Pediga
Sears
Mandy
Rites for Hallie Harper Held at First Baptist Church
Miss Hallie Harper, 44, dies in New York after an operation. Rites conducted this afternoon at 2:30 at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Earl J. Grose officiating. Burial in WadWoo cemetery. Pallbearers named J. O. Freeman, Enoch Phipps, Cecil Swim, Harry Anderson, Farl Bibb, D. W. Bryson, Matt Griffith, Francis T. Conway.
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Hallie Harper
First Baptist Church
Earl J. Grose
WadWwoou
New York
J. 0. Freeman
Enoch Phipps
Cecil Swim
Harry Anderson
Farl Bibb
D. W. Bryson
Matt Griffith
Francis T. Conway
1944 Presidential Election Seen as Handicap Affair
Washington reports that wartime racing significance and massive absentee voting may tilt the 1944 election. An estimated 11 million service members could cast ballots by mail, potentially forming 25 percent of the total vote and influencing the outcome. The article notes no precedents to guide predictions and highlights women voters as potentially decisive.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
White House
Army-Navy
Schools Make Small Tools Trade Them for Big Ones
Kanawha county schools produced and deployed over eighteen thousand mechanical devices including calipers dividers and vises for the war training program. Director Henry E Knight says the project is praised as the cradle of small tool production with a barter system among centers and Vermont has exchanged equipment for parts. Training remains the priority. workers rotate through machines to both learn and contribute to war needs.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Kanawha
Henry E. Knight
Knight
Washington
Vermont
Kanawha County
Collins High School Plans Tonight Sermon for Seniors
Fifteen seniors from Collins high school prepare for graduation with events this week including a senior picnic and junior-senior banquet. The class sermon is set for 8 pm at Winding Gulf Methodist church with Rev. Rowland Kennedy delivering the sermon and Miss Rachel Kessler providing piano.
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Collins High School
Winding Gulf Methodist Church
Rachel Kessler
Rowland Kennedy
Nora Lilly
Glee Club
Eugene Scntt
The
Post-Herald
Maxine Burdiss
G. C. Turner
Board of of Education
Garman Greene
Golden FE Meadows
Board of Education
Oral Fartey
U. S. Navy
Opal Adams
Garnett Cole
Ramsey Cuthbert
Ralph Dardy
Oral Farley
Lois Finchum
Margie Hope
Charles Hambric, Jr
Helen Justice
Armine Kell
Maxine Laverty
Cliffton Lilly
Sam Pulaski
Judge Decides Alimony Amounts
In Raleigh county circuit court divorces, Grace Taylor Grogan received custody of a 9 year old child and $20 per month alimony. Henry Willams was ordered to pay $15 per month to Nancy William while pending, plus $10 costs and $875 attorney fee. Gracie Fincher won her divorce from Hooper Fincher and custody of Mattie Sue Fincher. A non-suit was entered against Charley Levine trading as the Raleigh Junk company.
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Raleigh
Grace Taylor Grogan
Walter Grogan
Horace Edward Grogan
Henry Willams
Nancy William
Sis
Clarence W. Meadows
Gracie Fincher
Hooper Fincher
Mattie Sue Fincher
George H. Jung Company
Charley Levine
Raleigh Junk Company
Rita Ralston Meets Clark Pasquin in New York Night
Rita Ralston travels from California to New York to see a bank about her father’s $20,000 note and ends up dining with and later watching actor Clark Pasquin. He opens up about his uniformed rejections, revealing a mix of charm and disappointment as they bond over shared tastes and books.
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Rité Ralston
New York
California
Clark Pasquin
Rita
Pasquin
Clark
Duffy
Wallaby
Rita Ralston
Blossom Ranch
War Plays Big Show Now in This Town
Rita and Clark navigate a charged social scene at a debutante gathering as Gloria shows growing malice. A park drive ends with a tender kiss and a warning about Rita’s looming choices. Gloria’s plans unfold as she learns Rita’s hotel details. To be continued.
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Rita
Gloria
Hotel Cheltenham
Submarine Commander Donaho Receives Second Gold Star
U S S Flying Fish under Commander Glynn Donaho earned the second gold star for a daring Western Pacific patrol. In five patrols the submarine sank 100000 tons of enemy shipping and damaged two, with three enemy ships sunk in one engagement. Donaho, 38, of Normangee Texas, also set a high combat success record.
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Associated Press
U. S
Watson
Glynn Robert Donano
Flying Fish
Donaho
Normangee
Texas
Pacific
China Coast
Midway
Mandatedstand
Solomons
Recalled Candy Store Incident and Depth Charge Attack
He recalled the candy store incident and a depth charge attack. A crewman summed the danger with the line Captain, it ain't this hot sweat I mind, but the cold sweat that keeps coming out on me when those damned depth charges keep coming down.
Mrs Taft Dies at 51. Funeral Set for Arlington
Mrs. Taft, widow of former president and chief justice William Howard Taft, died today at her Washington home at age 51. She was mother to Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio and Charles F Taft, assistant director of the office of defense health. Funeral services are planned for 2 p.m. Monday with burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Associated Press
Washington
William Howard Taft
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Reine
Norton
Randolph
Stamaford
Edison
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