Proposed Bottling Plant Sparks Neighborhood Debate
The planning and zoning commission was asked by the city council to decide if Lilly street should remain a residential area or be declared a business street. A $150000 Dr Pepper and Seven Up plant plan on Lilly street faced opposition from residents and property owners on Lilly Virginia and Ellison avenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilly Street
Whch
Virginia Street
West Neville
New Planning and Zoning Commission
Phil McDaniel
T. 5. Rice
Lilly and Virginia
Ellison Avenue
McDaniel and Rice
Raleigh
Coca-Cola
South Oakwood Avenue
E. S. Pugh
Cammission
Farareters
Second Street
Swillinger Finn
Seamen Sought In Beckley Area
Captain Dwight R. Timmons of the War Shipping Administration will visit the U S employment service in Beckley to recruit seamen with papers for wartime service. Experienced mariners will be placed aboard ships within days and receive pay, food, quarters, sea bonuses and a $5 000 insurance policy. The Merchant Marine links production and battle fronts and must be strengthened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight R. Timmons
War Shipping Administration
U. S. Employment Service Office
S. Fayette Street
Timmons
Merchant Marine
Fourth Avenue
Pittsburgh
U. S
Mining Extension Classes Delayed To October 3
D. J. McClung of West Virginia University says the mining extension classes planned for Beckley and Fayette County will begin October 3 instead of September 19. The delay follows requests from the War Manpower commission for two week job relations courses starting in Brooklyn tomorrow. Locations will be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. McClung
Mining Extension Department
West Virginia University
Beckley Area
War Manpower Commission
Fayette County
Brooklyn
Campbell Property Sale Ordered For Campbell Heirs
Special Judge George J. Ballard entered a decree for the sale of a one fifth undivided interest owned by John Beckley Campbell Jr. in a Jot and filling station beside Mountain Motors on Newville Street. Heirs have contracted for sale, with guardian John Berkley Campbell Sr. representing his son in the action.
Beckley Music and Electric forms in Beckley
The Beckley Music store and Beckley Electric company consolidate as Beckley Music and Electric with 23000 dollars in capitalization. Colin McLuckey serves as president and manager, joined by E A Hall as vice president and W L Humphreys as secretary treasurer. The firm operates from Fayette street, selling music instruments and appliances and specializing in built in electric kitchen equipment. The former Music store has operated since 1921 and the Electric company from Neville street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Music Store
Beckley Electric Company
Beckley Music and Electric
Colin McLuckey
The
New Concern
Fayette Street
E. A. Hall
W. L. Humphreys
Neville Street
Former Beckleyan Emory Sanson Dies in Oregon Funeral held for Emory John Sanson in Portland pneumonia cause
At the First Baptist church in Portland Oregon funeral services were held for Emory John Sanson formerly of Beckley. Death attributed to pneumonia. He was a defense plant worker and is survived by one son Billy Sanson of Crab Orchard and siblings Dother Lee Sanson Oak Hill Shirley Sanson Stanaford Effie Stover Mabscott and Lucille Casey Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Portland
Oregon
Emory John Sanson
Beckley
Billy Sanson
Crab Orchard
Lee Sanson
Oak Hill
Shirley Sanson
Stanaford
Effie Stover
Mabscott
Lucille Casey
Denture Dispute Yields $20 Damages in Trial
Magistrate J. P. Meadows ruled that Lora Thomas of South Heber Street is owed $20 by dentist G. D. Mitchell for a damaged upper plate bought January 17. Mitchell testified the plate was temporary. Thomas said she wore it briefly and had to handle it with a finger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Meadows
Lora ‘Thomas
South Heber Street
G. D. Mitchell
Miss Thomas
Kester’s Dry Cleaners
Jesse Thomas
Uial
Mitchell
J. K. Edmundson
Meadows
State Lawyers To Hear Adm Gatch At Charleston Meeting
Rear Admiral Thomas Leigh Gatch will address West Virginia lawyers at the State Bar association meeting in Charleston on September 30. The one day event at the Daniel Boone hotel includes a symposium on bar service relations with the armed forces and a memorial for lawyers killed in the line of duty. Admiral Gatch will speak at the annual dinner in the evening.
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Charleston
Thomas Leigh Gatch
U. S. Navy
West Virginia
State Bar Association
Daniel Boone Hotel
Bar Association
Armed Services
Charles McCormick
Wheeling
C. C. Chambers
Logan
Admiral Gatch
Homer A. Holt
Robert MacDougle
Parkersburg
Mabscott Man Held In Jail
Alfred Deweese of Mabscott is jailed on theft charges after waiving preliminary hearing. Bond set at $1000. Police say he drove B A Walker’s 1941 Pontiac sedan valued at $830 from Princeton after keys were spotted in the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Deweese
Mabscott
J. P Meadows
G. H Osborne
Deweese
Princeton
Pole
B.A Walker
Main Street
Osborne
Piecing Through War Wounds of Infantryman Waymon Stanley Jr
Waymon Stanley Jr an infantryman is recovering in an England army hospital after surgery removing 57 shrapnel pieces from his left side. He was wounded in France on August 22 and 10 shrapnel fragments also hit his left leg. He joined the army in 1943 and served in Ireland before France. His wife Anne Thompson of Wilison Street now lives with his parents on Harper Road and their 13 month old son Chester. Mrs Thompson’s brother James A Thompson Jr was wounded on Guam.
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Waymon Stanley, Jr
England
France
War Department
Anne Thompson
Wilison Street
Harper Road
Chester Waymon
Stanley
Pfc
Ireland
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley College
Crab Orchard Improvement Company
James A. Thompson, Jr
Guam
Melvin Cochran
Lester
Ed Cochran
Trap Hill
National Taxi Company
Beckley
Army
Set
Leonard Cochran
Florida Army Air Base
Truman son in French landing participation noted
Mrs. Annie Truman of Church Street reports her son Corporal Arthur Truman has served overseas since April 1943. He fought in North Africa for five months, then Italy including Salerno, and now has taken part in the second invasion for France.
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Annie Truman
Church Street
Corporal Arthur Truman
Italy
France
North Africa
Salerno
Meadows Plans A Busy Week Of Campaigning
Judge Clarence W. Meadows of Beckley the Democratic gubernatorial nominee attends general election rallies in Mingo county today and tomorrow speaks in Bluefield Tuesday. He toured Lincoln county Saturday and with E B Pennybacker opens campaign in Cabell county Wednesday with three rallies. Joe L. Smith will accompany him to Clarksburg Wheeling and Martinsburg. Meadows touted fiscal restraint and urged voters to compare his record with the opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence W. Meadows
Beckley
Mingo County
Bluefield
Lincoln County
Meadows
Pennybacker
Cabell County
Huntington
Joe L. Smith
Clarksburg
Wheeling
Martinsburg
Smith
Charleston
Judge Meadows
Logan
West Virginia
D. Boone Dawson
Democratic Party
Raleigh Children Collect 700 Bushels Milkweed Pods
Raleigh county organizes a drive to gather about 700 bushels of milkweed pods for ships to Petoskey Michigan to produce life jackets for servicemen. Schools and clubs participate with bags supplied by government. payments to principals after shipping.
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Riadeigh County
Petoskey
Michigan
T. D. Gray
Raleigh County
BM. Asnworth
Schorly
Shady Spring
Byrd Runierman
Stratton
Graphi
Donald R. Maxey
Montcoal
Ashworth
Monteval Boy Scout Troup
Alaa
Board of Education
Kelly Farmer
A.A.A
H. B. Thomas
Gail Audlridge
Simeon Warren
Patterson Perry
Private Wilson in Army Hospital
Private Palmer Wilson, reported missing on July 27, is now in an army hospital in England per a War Department telegram to his parents Mr. and Mrs. E W Wilson of Jab Orchard. A Red Cross assisted letter states he cannot write for some time due to arm wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer Wilson
England
War Department
E.W. Wilsson
Jab Orchara
Red Cross
Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Wife in Beckley
Larry Dennis, described as a Beckley Negro, pled guilty to assaulting his wife. He was fined 25 dollars after police court on Friday night, following arrest under a warrant. Several others charged with drunkenness forfeited bonds by failing to appear for trial.
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Larry Dennis
Dennis
Democratic Rally Draws Big Crowd in Rhodell Theater
A large overflow crowd attended a Democratic rally at Rhodell theater Friday night. Speaker uy Hornor Davis of Charleston contrasted Roosevelt’s world leadership with Dewey’s inexperience while criticizing Republicans in Congress and the White House. Candidate introductions followed with Lynn Davis’s band between remarks and a vote of confidence from County Chairman Harry Anderson.
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U. S
Uy Hornor Davis UH
Charleston
Rhodell Theater
Davis
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Dewey
Gov
Kerr
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Pacific
Ralph W. Atkinson
K. A. Atkinson
Bougainville Island
Atkinson
Huntington Central High School
Marshall College
War High School
Bougainville
U. S. Shipping
America
Paibe
Pohiaar
Michigan Bush Co
Dent
Monrose Ave
W.W
Michipen
Commercial Printing Department
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Prince
New Electric
Beckleyan
Adm
Gatch
Newfoundland
Cpl. Truman
French Landing
Mother
Nixon Furniture CO
Appli
Nixon
Neville St
Pvt. Wilson
Army Hospital
Democratic Rally
Hornor Davis
Women OF Moose
Women of the Moose
Floreen Haynes
Mouse Lodge
Kate Smith Hour
Wils
Uien
Cote Pays Suen
Atlee Rex Wam Corporation
All Cohen Drug Stores
U.S.P
Enoch Cocie
U.S.M
Cohen Drug CO
Neville St. Beckley
W. Va
Boxer Rex
Chldrens
CopniLes
Corlaiving Shamim
Carly Colo Copsey
Boog
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