Jack Shipman Elected President of School Board
Pineville Wyoming county school board elevates 25 year old Jack Shipman editor of the Pineville Independent to president after Lon F Byrd resigns to become county sheriff. Shipman will serve until November 1938 per term rules. W C Bailey notes possible youngest WV board president. Shipman cites possible peers younger.
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Register
Pineville
Wyoming County
Jack Shipman
Herb Shipman
Lon F. Byrd
Byrd
Shipman
W. C. Bailey
West Virginia
TVA Contends Program Legal In Supreme Court Reference
The Tennessee Valley Authority argues in federal court that its vast hydro power program on the Tennessee River and tributaries is constitutional. The TVA response follows a suit from 19 private War Camp units seeking an injunction to curb expansion of the authority’s activities. TVA solicitor James Lawrence cites the Ashwander decision to support using generated power for flood control navigation and market transmission.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Ashwanders
United States Supreme Court
TVA
Alabama Power Company
Rutherford Tot Stricken With Pneumonia
Rhodelle Patricia Ellen nine month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Edd Rutherford is seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia in a Rutherford City hospital ward this week.
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Register
Rhodelle
Patricia Ellen
Edd Rutherford
Self Supporting Athletics Ordered by Education Board
The Wyoming county board of education ordered that school athletics be self supporting to end using school buses for transporting athletes to contests. Superintendent W C Bailey noted demand for bus use has grown, and buses will serve only pupil transport. A 1937 model bus, 50 seats, costing $1938, was purchased and will be used this week.
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Register
Pineville
Wyoming County Board of Education
W. C. Bailey
Bailey
Harley Christian
Newspaper Plant Becket Beckley Community Note
A 1936 document includes praise from Rev. Ross Culpepper for Beckley newspapers the Beckley Newspaper Corporation and its Twin Papers the Post Herald and Raleigh Register. It lauds open press free speech and civic service while noting new milk ordinance explanations by Raleigh county health officials. The letter dates Nov 24 1936 and references Beckley W V.
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Beckley Newspaper Corporation
Post- Herald and
Raleigh Register
New Quarters
Prince Street
Beckley
W. Va
Ross Culpepper Beckley
Worker’s foot crushed in railroad shop incident
Allens Ollie Martin, 44, of Tra benegro, sustained a crushed right foot while working as a machinist’s helper at railroad shops. No bones were broken, doctors at Mullens hospital said, and he was expected to be discharged in a few days after a cross head fell on his foot.
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Register
Allens
Ollie Martin
Mullens Hospital
Martin
Thanksgiving week survey of crops and weather
The article notes Thanksgiving week impact on turkey and pork production for holiday meals. It discusses uncertain early snow, gardeners planting root crops like cabbage turnips beets and carrots, celery storage issues, and the slow but ongoing arrival of pallets. It also remarks on cabbage broccoli and garden diseases and overall satisfaction with conditions and late start allowing continued development.
Highway Open as Cemeteries Fill This Winter
Regina weather seers predict an open highway and crowded graveyards this winter with mild conditions overall and epidemics of colds and influenza. The forecast links open roads to full cemeteries and widespread illness across Canada.
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Associated Press
Regina
Sask
Sakatchewan
Canada
Rough Playing Puts Big Knife In Abdomen
In Mullens two men were hurt in a kitchen incident described as a rough game. Ray McDonald, a restaurant cook, was stabbed in the abdomen and hospitalized. James Braxton is free on bond. Trooper Walker said both men said it was just playing and no prosecution was intended unless complications arise.
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Register
Mullens
Mullens Hospital
Liberty
Ray McDonald
Ward Wylie
James Braxton
Trooper Walker
Reassurant
McDonald
Braxton
Pittsburgh Brewery Reports Half Million Net Income
The Pittsburgh Brewing Company and its subsidiary Tech Food Products reported net income after all charges for the year ending October 31 of 534,533 dollars, or 4.42 dollars per share on 121,002 shares of preferred stock. The prior year showed 20,015 dollars or 0.16 dollars per share on 122,002 shares, with 1,000 additional shares acquired by the subsidiary.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Brewing Company
Tech Food Products Company
Drunken Drivers See Decline in Mullens Area
State police and local magistrates report fewer drunken driving arrests last weekend with only three charged. Lee Eller of Glen Rogers fined 25 dollars and ten days in jail for DUI, with Lawrence Dillon getting the same for moonshine possession. Robert Lester fined 25 dollars for wobbling driving, Earl McGraw fined 50 dollars and jailed when unable to pay, and five others labeled plain drunks fined five dollars each.
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Lee Eller
Glen Rogers
A. A. Browning
Skin Poplar Gap
Lawrence Dillon
Eller
Robert Lester
Corrine
Kirk
Earl McGraw
Mullens
Browning
Luther Mullins
Sam Lambert
Blaine Jackson
James Privett
E. H. Snodgrass
Rev Criswell to Preach Tomorrow Thanksgiving service
The Rev J M Criswell pastor of the First Baptist church will preach at a Thanksgiving Day Union service tomorrow at 10 a m. The principal city churches vote for a joint observance at the Methodist Episcopal church South. Banks and businesses close. many residents go out of town for football games or visits with Roanoke awaiting the V P I V M I classic. People include W H Ruby Lester Early Pauline Early Ray Keely Virginia Ray Keely David Lucas Woodrow Cook.
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Register
Mullens
J. M. Criswell
First Baptist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Anual
Roanoke
W. H. Ruby
Lester Early
Pauline Early
Ray Keely
Virginia Ray Keely
David Lucas
Woodrow Cook
Steel Concern Stockholders to Receive Dividend
New York reports U S Steel Corp will pay $25 219 667 to more than 60 000 holders of its preferred stock with a $7 dividend on arrears since 1933. Dec 24 payment to records Dec 1 follows a day of broad stock gains as nearly $100 million was distributed across 50 corporations while some workers received bonuses.
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United States Steel
Associated Press
New York
U. S. Steel Corp
U. S. Steel Preferred
Chevrolet
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Raleigh
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Tom Waleia
Ing, Fon
Lydia
Pinkham
Nature
Lydia E. Pinkham
Hollywood
Radio City Music Hall
Rockefeler Center
18Th Street
Broadway
SUITS
New York City
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Walker
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Methodist Church
TOM Walker, Inc
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Danei
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Marsha Hunt Ming
Charlie Ruggles
Mary Soland
Adolpn
America
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit, Michigan
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