West Virginia Floods and Conservation Call
A State editorial urges stronger flood prevention for West Virginia. It notes recent floods on the Potomac tributaries and in Fayette County, criticizes reliance on costly flood control dams, and advocates hillside reforestation contour farming and farm ponds to reduce runoff. It calls for timber and mining practices to curb scorched hillsides and damage.
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West Virginia
South Branch
Potomac
Birch River
Braxton County
West Fork
Fayette County
Ci Izen
Tygart
Bluestone
Sulton
Ohio River
Texas
Aymy
Sears
Conservation Or Catastrophe Warns Of Flood Costs
A historical call urges restoring headwaters with trees and grasses to absorb flood waters and reduce downstream damage. It argues regrassing slopes will make soil sponge like grandfathers’ days, lowering future flood risk and costs, and stresses conservation as the affordable path for future generations.
Weapon for Peace in the Nuclear Era
The piece argues Russia could overrun Europe with vast divisions while the U S and Russia both own atomic weapons. It contemplates why Russia hesitates and praises the bomb as a deterrent and time to prepare, calling the atom bomb a weapon for peace that has ended one war and delays another.
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Russia
America
Europe
Bug Dust Appeals for Help for Desperate Lionel Avenue Family
Bug Dust recounts a Lionel Avenue family's dire status after illness leaves the breadwinner bedridden and debts rise. Red Cross gives 20 and Salvation Army 3 but ongoing needs include $25 for medicine and utilities. Neighbors offer food and clothing while the family awaits Public Assistance. readers urged to donate via the Red Cross and parish offices.
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Lionel Avenue
Bug Dust
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Cancer Society
Detra
Regionally Speaking Military Men in News Overseas and at Home
Report covers soldiers from Beckley area meeting medical exams at Ft. Meade and home duty. Includes Lt. Robert Hatcher and Mrs Rachel Say, Harold Persinger recalled to Marine duty in Korea, Griffith and Underwood aboard USS O'Hare and Hawkins, pilots Spencer and Seigo in training, and soldiers Wells Hicks Hicks awaiting Japan duty with Seventh Division.
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Ft. Meade
Robert Hatcher
Locust Drive
Hatcher
Active Reserve Corps
Army
Germany
Rachel Say
Q Bany, Beckley, der
Mt. Hope
Vality Lumber Com
Korea
James " Harold Persinger
Connie Persinger
Sand Branch
Marine Corps
Reserve Corps
China
Bedlck Knob
Skelton
New River Company
Mediterranean
Areca
O'Hare
United States
Sixth James Fleet
Jimmy Griffith
Fairdale
Omer Lee Underwood
Mabscott
Hawkins
Jackie Lee Wells
Frank Pitzer
Whitby
Japan
Wells
Marion W. King
Sullivan
Beckley
Ft. Knox
Sophia
Pvt
Jack E. Hicks
Maggie Hicks
Seventh Infantry Division
Actress Joanne Dru and John Ireland face separation on tour
Joanne Dru and John Ireland, married a year, plan ongoing work apart as Ireland takes a minor film role in Colorado while Dru contemplates retirement. They discuss the strain of actor marriages, family duties with their children and in-laws, and possible moves to Vancouver if Summer and Smoke goes on tour. Six Fayetteville couples receive licenses. small town notices of guests and returning travelers appear alongside.
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Hollywood
Joanne Dru
John Ireland
Joanne
Johnny
San Francisco
Ocean Drive
Hoover Dam
Joannie
Dick Haynes
Harmes
John
Joba
Richard
Skippy
Haymes
Joanna
Nugent
Dru
Ireland
Peter
Miss Dru
Colorado
Vancouver
B.C
George Junior Republic Inspires Italian Youth Center
A Freeville based project for youth self government described as the world’s smallest republic hosts 125 citizens who earn their keep by working at school and in projects. Monsignor Carroll-Abbing praise highlights its cheerful, work driven atmosphere and its influence on Italian youth centers.
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John Goette
Central Press
Freeville
N. Y
George “Junior Republic
Haly
Boys Republic of
Santa Marinella
John Patrick Carroll- Abbing
Freewill
U. S
Snark
Boys Republic
George Juniors Republic
The
Republic
Donald T. Urquhart
William R
Daddy
Carroll-Abbing
Urquhart
United States
Ank
George Junior Republic
Monsignor Carroll-Abbing
Urquhast
The Fixed Look of Death in Battle and Belongings
In Korea, HAL BOYLE chronicles how combat deaths leave little beyond bone and dogtags, with wallets and notebooks revealing private items loved by the slain. Personal effects tell quiet stories of soldiers, from letters and photos to a captain’s notebook found after a loss, illustrating the human side behind the statistics.
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Hal Boyle
Korea
Mae
Japan
Blond
Truman creates Economic Stabilization Agency to manage controls
President Truman announced the creation of a successor to OPA called the Economic Stabilization Agency to study national business and labor and prepare for possible price and wage controls. He noted any widespread controls hinge on ESA readiness and congressional authorization. Rationing could follow under the new law, but only after the ESA is established.
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CPA
Truman
OPA
The
Economic Stabilization Agency
FSA
ESA
James Marlow
Washington
Russia
Congress
Lweek
Iwe
Across the River and Into the Trees Hemingway Novel Review
A mixed critique of Ernest Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees noting impatience over the delay, a Venice setting, and a Colonel Cantwell romance with Renata. The review calls the dialogue artificial and the book an imitation of Farewell to Arms, with limited literary success beyond vivid travel scenes.
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Ernest Tremingway
Scribner's
Hemingway
Richard Cantwell
Renata
Venice
Trieste
Richard
Henry
Catherine
Four New Teachers Named to Y&O School
Four new teachers started at Y&O Elementary School on the first day. Irene Tolliver joins in place of Mildred Miller, Paul Christie takes Second A and third grade, Retta Sanders replaces Mildred Baliwin, and Mary Mesley teaches fourth and fifth grades. Enrollment stands at 165 students with grade-by-grade figures: First and second B 30, second and third Vi, fourth and fifth 40, sinth 38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y&o
Rogtster Starr
Irene Tolliver
Mildred Miller
Paul Christie
Mildred Baliwin
Retta Sanders
Mary Mesley
Oak Hill Worker Treated For Fractured Leg
Oak Hill man Agorey B Light, 4, sustained a fractured right leg while working with Appalachian Electric Power Company on Thursday. He remains in satisfactory condition at Oak Hill Hospital.
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Register
Oak Hill
Agorey
Oak Hill Hospital
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Mullens Man Undergoes Tonsillectomy at Malens General
Glenn Cozort, 29, of Mullens, underwent a tonsillectomy at Malens General Hospital Thursday morning. Eastern Star chapter 135 members will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Layland.
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Register
Mullens
R. Glenn Cozort
Malens General Hospital
OES
Layland
Lawton
Order of the Eastern Star
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Piney Street
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United States Naval Air Technical Training Center
Memphis
Billy J. Seigo
East Beckley
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Naval Service
George Spencer, Jr. Lakes
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Fayetteville
Department of Defense
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Persinger
Pet
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Mihdred Louise Christian McLmore
Kimberly
Lewis Ernest Holliday
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Tyvokout
Otis Kinder
Patricia Ruth Bowles
Laylani
Bec D. Newman
Mont- Fomery
Daisy Smith
William Fuzene Spanxfer
Mary Virginia Darnail
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Grant Sams
North
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Tennessee
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Rob Pickel
United States Army
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Community of Tomorrow
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