G C Murphy Plans Oak Hill Store After Building Purchase
G C Murphy Co plans a new Oak Hill store after purchasing the Hill Building the Frazier building and a jet from C E Duncan. The parcel fronts Main Street 101 feet and runs along Oak Street 112 feet to Blake Street, housing West Virginia State Employment Service Bus Terminal New River Supply and Sam's Taxi stand. The company aims to serve growth and future town needs and plans a store at the current taxi stand corner with occupancy expected after July 1 1949. Dr R F Kelly Oak Hill Investment Company president notes a possible separate building at Central Avenue and Lewis Street to house the Hill business parking and two stores.
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Meelster Stat
OAK Hill
G. C. Murphy
Hill
Frazier
C. E Duncan
Main Street
Oak Street
Blake Street
West Virginia State Employment Service
New River Supply Company
Sam’s Taxi Stand
Oak Hill Investment Company
L. A. Frazier
C. £. Duncan
J. 5. Mack
Murphy Company
Notites
R. EF. Kelly
Central Avenue
Lewis ‘Street
Ies
Refinishing Furniture To Be Discussed For Art Meeting
The Beckley Art Group meets Tuesday at 7:30 PM in the Raleigh County Library. Mrs. B P Knight and Mrs. T S Rice discuss refinishing furniture and wood finishes, with a demonstration. Members bring their art works, and Mrs Rice will display dried over prints of flowers mounted on velvet.
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Raleigh County
Beckley Art Group
B. P. Knight
T. S. Rice
Rice
Local Sophomores Organize New Club
An organizational meeting of the G. G. Club was held yesterday afternoon at the Westwood Drive home of June Rice. New officers elected: Evelyn Sardewell president, Barbara Palmer recording secretary, June Rice corresponding secretary, Janet Walker treasurer, Peggy McNeish reporter. Green and white are the colors. The oldest daily newspaper now will hold its next meeting on Oct. 18 in Peggy McNeish’s Randolph Street home in Alexandria Virginia.
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G. G. Club
Westwood Drive
June Rice
Evelyn Sardewell
Barbara Palmer
Janet Walker
Peggy McNeish
United States
Peggy
Alexandria, Virginie
McNeish
Randolph Street
A C Comer 75 Dies at Graydon in October 1873 census note
A C Comer aged 75 died at his Graydon home Sunday at 3 am after a four month illness. Funeral at Lansing Baptist Church Tuesday October 5 at 2 pm with Rev Kenneth Painter officiating. Burial in Lansing Cemetery. Born Lansing October 11 1873, husband of Amelia Comer, survived by four daughters, two sons, two brothers, and one sister.
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Register
Graydon
A. C. Comer
Lansing Baptist Church
Kenneth Painter
Lansing
Amelia Comer
Augustine Comer
Bultla Comer
Juanita Comer
Daisy Ethel Comer
A. C. Comer, Jr
Tomothy Comer
C. M. Comer
Tip Comer
Ramsey
Nancy Ethel Grantz
Roanoke
Infant dies in hospital after three day illness
Mary Frances Omsler two month old daughter of Mr and Mrs William Omsler of Minden died at Montgomery Hospital Saturday night at 9 p m after a three day illness from pneumonia Last rites set for Monday at 2 p m at grandparents home Mr and Mrs Roy E Treadway with Rev W W Sniffer officiating Burial at Turley Cemetery Oak Hill Survived by parents two brothers William Omsler Jr and Charles and a sister Stella all at home
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Welter
Minden
Mary Frances Omsiler
William Omsler
Montgomery Hospital
Roy E. Treadway
W. W. Sniffer
Oak Hill
Turley
William Omster, Jr
Charles Omster
Stella Omster
Births at Raleigh General Hospital Names and Dates
Mr and Mrs Woodrow Toney of Harper Road announce the birth of a daughter Dicxie Sue on October L at Raleigh General Hospital weight seven pounds three ounces Parents also announce a son Ernest Ross born October 1 at Raleigh General Hospital Mother is the former Joyce Stover.
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Woodrow Toney
Harper Road
Dicxie Sue
Raleigh General Hospital
Ernest Spencer
Carter Street
Ernest Ross
Raleegh General Hospital
Joyce Stover
Campaign Opens To Secure Jobs For Handicapped
OAK HILL National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week spurs a local drive to place handicapped workers. J P Painter says 40 applicants seek work, 11 are veterans, with community leaders and clubs backing the effort. A Security Agency survey shows handicapped workers perform as well as nonhandicapped in 109 plants.
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Register
OAK Hill
J. P. Painter
Roy J. Smith
West Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs
Rotary
Lions Clubs
William G. Winchell
Vocational and Rehabilitation Service
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary
WOAY
Eddie Rickenbacker
American Legion
Painter
Federal Security Agency
United States Employment Service
Federal Inter-Agency Committee
Plane Forced to Land at Fayette
A 1948 Aeronca owned by Oscar Tate was forced to land at Fayette airport yesterday afternoon due to bad weather while en route from White Sulphur Springs. The incident occurred after noon as the plane headed to Fayette.
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Fayette
Oak Hill
Oscar Tate
VFW Proposes Whiskey Sale by Drink Plan
The Veterans of Foreign Wars urge the State Legislature to enact three laws to fund a veteran bonus, permit whiskey sales by the drink in clubs, and abolish the State Department for Veterans Affairs. James R. Davis, Williamson, presented the proposal at the State Council meeting. He claims a five year funding window with no extra taxpayer cost, using whiskey revenues and $330,000 biennial Department of Veterans Affairs funds.
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VFW
Veterans of Foreign Wars
State Department For Veterans Affairs
State Council of Administration
Lew Sheftler
James R. Davis
Williamson
Department of Veterans Affairs
Rainbow Group Holds Mount Hope Dance Party
Members of Rainbow Assembly 14 and guests attended a party hosted by Winola Chapter 59 at the Mount Hope Lions Clubhouse from 8 p to midnight. Decorations, icebreaker games, dancing, and refreshments filled the evening as Rainbow parties plan more events in the future.
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Register
Mount Hope
Rainbow Assembly No. 14
Winolia Chapter No
Mount Hope Lions Clubhouse
Ann Coleman
Jean Benson
Patsy Weichel
Tommy Lou Rodgers
Nancy Boyd
C. O. Alford
Assembly
Cecilia Harless
Winola
Hubert Garvin
Rainbow Advisory Board
R. B. Benson
Petaseoe
Winonia
Rainbow
Mullens Area Coal Output Stays High in September
Virginian Railway figures show Mullens area mines produced 3,268,250 tons during September’s 25 work days. Labor Day pause, partial resumption on part time schedules, and shutdowns for lack of orders affected some ops, while August results had record state totals and Mullens saw a slight weekly dip before a five day run of heavy daily loadings.
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Register ‘Statt Wiiter
Llens
Mullens
Doorey
Virginian Railway
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
The
Virginian
Mullens Area
China Aid Urged By House Group
A House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee urged stronger American aid for China, including military assistance, saying China’s survival as a democracy is vital to global security and its fate could decide the East’s balance between Communist Russia and the democratic West. In China, government dispatches claimed a military setback for Communists as forces recaptured two last points on the Peiping Paoting railway near Paoting.
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Associated Press
Washington
China
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
Russia
Lis
East
Kweisui
Suiyuan
Peiping
Paoting
Hopei Province
President Truman's glasses found in Charleston West Virginia
A radio announcer Mort Cohn called from Charleston to report he found President Truman's reading glasses near the speaker's rostrum after a speech in Charleston West Virginia. He realized later the glasses belonged to Truman and sent them by special delivery to Washington.
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Charleston
Associated Press
Washington
Truman
W. Va
White House
Mort Cohn
Cohn
Probers fail to prove grain speculator use of inside info
Four House Republicans said they cannot prove any grain speculator under fire last winter used inside information. A second finding accusing government buying programs of lifting food prices drew Democratic rebuttals, calling it an indirect attack on the U.S. world recovery effort since the war.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Thurmond Attacks Truman Civil Rights Bait For Votes
In La Plata Maryland Governor Strom Thurmond denounces Truman civil rights plan as bait to gain minority votes. He condemns the anti lynching bill as murder and insists segregation is a states rights issue letting states decide. Thurmond also criticizes interracial mixing in public places and churches.
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Associated Press
LA Plata
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Truman
States Rights Party
Fore and Aft
Nicotina XIV
Old Charles County
Congress
Massachusetts
Jwe
Mail courier horseman logs 140000 miles in 15 years
Australian pack horseman Jim MacDowall has ridden 140000 miles and spent 5000 days in the saddle over 15 years delivering mail twice a month. His fortnightly 360 mile route ran between Coen and Laura in Cape York Peninsula without a holiday.
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Associated Press
Sydney
Australia
Jim MacDowall
Cape York Peninsula
MacDowall
Coen
Cooktown
Laura
Fifteen Men Called for Draft in Wyoming County
Fifteen Wyoming County men registered for the peace time selective service will undergo pre induction physicals this week. The first ten go to Mullens for 8 a.m. Wednesday from the Peoples Bank Building. A second group of five will report Friday. October quota is 30. Moler notes about half of the 2,000 registrants have been classified. delays and illiteracy cases are discussed. Also mentions medical advisors and early inductee procedures. Art Pollard joins Washington Redskins as rookie halfback after captaining Arizona in 1948.
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Register
Mullens
Wyoming County
Selective Service
D. Grove Moler
Wyoming County Draft Board
Mullens Draft Board
Peoples Bank
Beckley
Moler
Draft Board
Wyoming County Board
B. W. Steele
Ward Wylie
RING
Phoenix
Ariz
University of Arizona
Art Pollard
Washington Redskins
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