WWHS Seniors Told Man Strengthened Under Adversity
Dr Joseph Clare Hoffman spoke to 292 Woodrow Wilson High School graduates, urging courage amid a stormy world of shaken governments and freedoms. He warned of tough demands and enduring adversity as youths shape future national and global issues.
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Joseph Clare Hoffman
Woodrow — Wilson High School
Hoffman
Rupert Brooke
Belgium
Carroll Simpkins
Beckley
America
Wanda Vass
Simpkins
Russia
China
Britain
One Big Happy Family Several Fired
HawthorneCalifornia turmoil erupts at a city council meeting as Street Superintendent Kaiser is fired, Police Chief Baumgardner demoted, Lt Parker named chief, and a July 3 recall election set for Mayor Hawley and two council members. Fire department resigns in protest, multiple fire alarms and a grass fire, an unidentified man punches a councilman, tires on the mayor’s car are found flat afterward.
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Associated Press
Hawthorne
Calif
William J. Kaiser
Jack Baumgardner
E. J. Parker
Walter J. Hawley
Wilbur M. Long
Clarence Wilbanke
Emily Riley
Supt. Kaiser
Long
Baumgardner
Melanie Dyner
Parker
Hawley
Weather Report Notes Fire Conditions And Delayed Crops
The weather forecast indicates fire danger rising while irrigation and non irrigation crops, especially wheat, experience delays due to current conditions. Authorities warn farmers to monitor conditions and adjust fieldwork plans accordingly.
Ambitious leap by SS officer ends in broken spine
A sixth would be death by own action, an SS officer leapt from height about 50 feet and fractured his spine, but survived the fall.
Clarifying Labor Terms and Civic Ideals
The text contrasts a ban on the closed shop with the more common union shop, where workers vote, and union shop agreements that require non-union hires to join. It closes with a call for universal peace and for individuals to value peaceful environments over other priorities.
Legal Answer To In-Law Trouble
Circuit Judge Leonard C. Reid ordered an estranged couple to stay in chambers until reconciled and then briefly left to greet them arm in arm. Vernon Siemers and Elizabeth Siemers said their divorce suit on cruelty stemmed from inlaw trouble and planned to take their two sons to Medford Wisconsin for the summer while seeking their own apartment.
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Chicago
Leonard C. Reid
Reid
Vernon Siemers
Elizabeth
April West Virginia sales rise across stores
Fourteen West Virginia stores reporting to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond posted an eight percent rise in April sales from the previous year. For the first four months of the year, sales ahead by six percent. In Charleston stores April sales were seven percent higher, and Huntington outlets rose six percent.
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Associated Press
Richmond
West Virginia
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Charleston
W. Va
Huntington
Eisenhower denies ordering expanded shell production
Margiotti pressed if Eisenhower sought more shells in April. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said the matter could not be under his authority and knew nothing of the Army chief’s actions. Marshall echoed that urgency for raunshells was in 1944, not May 1945.
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Margiotti
Eisenhower
Europe
Army
Secretary
Marshall
May
Hollywood Carter Eyes Have It in Clara's Way
Hollywood starlet Janis Carter draws notice for her blue eyes and sultry look likened to Clara Bow. A Cleveland native known for singing, stage work, and a Hollywood ascent via Darryl Zanuck, she holds several nicknames and titles reflecting her public image and fashion appeal.
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Carter
Clara
Gene Handsaker
Hollywood
Janis Carter
Clara Bow
Janis
Cleveland
Beverly Hills
Elsie Janis
Miss Carter
Elsie
Little Janis
Western Reserve University
DuBarry
Darryl] Zanuck
Vocational director to visit Beckley office Monday
F Ray Powers state director of vocational rehabilitation will visit the Beckley office in the Memorial Building on Monday June 2. Dean L Ricketts officer in charge of the Beckley VA office has returned from a three day staff meeting of VA officials in Huntington.
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Beckley
F. Ray Powers
Memorial Building
Dean L. Ricketts
Veterans’ Administration
Huntington
Baptist Debt Paid Prompts Celebration at First Church
The First Baptist Church plans a 10 45 a m service to celebrate debt cancellation. Dr A J Cook says debt dropped from 39500 circa 1943 to zero after payments made during the past winter. Guest speaker Dr Hugh D Pickett will attend. Mozart Gloria in Excelsis to be sung by an augmented choir. Violet Cook to play organ. Evening service at 7 30 p m features a sermon Do ing What Comes Naturally Is It Right or Wrong. Baptism will be celebrated with youth choir music.
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First Baptist Church
A. J. Cook
Hugh D. Pickett
West Virginia State Baptist Convention
Abandon Plans For Apple Harvest Festival
Plans for the postwar revival of Martinsburg West Virginia’s Apple Harvest festival this fall have been dropped. Apple Harvest Festival Inc. President John L. Lightner cited insufficient time and lack of public interest. The group will remain active and may revisit the event next year.
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Martinsburg
John L. Lightner
Apple Harvest Festival, Inc
Lightner
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