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West Virginia
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
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County party favors Shady Spring for next commissioner
The Democratic leaders backed a Shady Spring District candidate in the August primary signaling their preference. An executive meeting at the Courthouse nominated four men, with James Shrewsbury as the eventual choice after hearing all parties, while Fred X Williams failed to gain broad support from Slab Fork District voters. The piece laments apathy and the decline of democratic participation.
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Shady Spring
Henry Brammer
Fred X. Williams
James Shrewsbury
Pimary
Shrewsbury
Brammer
Williams
Sophia
Slab Fork
William
Farming Fortunes in Raleigh County at Turn of Century
Editor Gene Scott notes Raleigh County's shift from agriculture to industry around 1900 while many large fortunes were built in a smaller population era. The piece reflects on how farms persisted yet diminished in size as the economy diversified.
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Post- Herald
Gene Scott
Raleigh County
Raleigh
Rural Development Urges Expanded Agriculture in Beckley Area
The piece argues farming three acres and up has grown, but coal dominates the economy. It calls for intensified agriculture across Raleigh County and nearby areas like Mayeule Mercer and Summers, stressing local production, cooperative organization, and the Rural Development Program to boost markets, incomes, and community health.
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Raleigh County
Mayeule
Mercer
Sunmers
Greenbrier
Monroe
Beckley
Bug Dust chronicles aid for a stricken Lionel Avenue family
A Lionel Avenue family facing illness and poverty receives relief from Red Cross, Salvation Army, neighbors, and local donors after Bug Dust highlighted their plight. By week’s end about 125 dollars and food donations were collected, with hospital costs and monthly welfare support anticipated.
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Lionel Avenue
Department of Public Assistance
DPA
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Ches
J. P. Monroe
Johnstown Road
Beckley
Olk
Bug Dust
Americans Have Chance To Prove Commies Right
Column argues Americans may prove Communist claims true if greed and hoarding rise amid wartime rearmament. Discusses price and wage controls, the Economic Stabilization Agency, and Symington as mobilization chief, warning of anti hoarding orders and potential shortages.
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James Marlow
Washington
Truman
OPA
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Economic Stabilization Agency
W. Stuart Symington
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Symington
New Red China Stamp Requests Reach Alaska Dealers
Anchorage vendors report cards from Communist China asking for catalogs on industrial tools and samples to aid war efforts. Cards mailed from Tientsin bear Mao Tze-lung imagery and a Red China flag. Some dealers see espionage, others treat it as a cautious inquiry about materials and trade through Hong Kong.
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Lachlan MacDonald
Anchorage
Alaska
Times
Hal Boyle
China
Tientsin
North China Import Corporation
Mao Tze-lung
Mao
Red China
Hong Kong
Wu Yang Trading Company
Gandhi Life and Death Through Fischer Portrait
Louis Fischer profiles Mahatma Gandhi in The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, examining his ascetic image and global impact. The biography notes Gandhi's nonviolence, social reforms, and 1948 assassination, presenting Fischer’s intimate, human view of the leader who opposed British rule and caste oppression.
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Mahatma Gandet
Louis Fischer
Harper
Gandhi
London
South Africa
All India
Fischer
Willy
Voice Goes to Bat For German Soldiers
The Associated Press reports the United States urged Western Europe to accept German soldiers in a united defense against possible Soviet attack. Voice of America said Americans share abhorrence of militarism yet support pragmatic measures amid a dangerous postwar world.
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Roes
New York
United States
Europe
Germany
America
Voice of America
Gas service approved for Bluefield area pipeline project
The Federal Commission approvedBluefield Gas Company to lay a six inch pipeline from Bluefield to Princeton. The Amore Gas Company serving Princeton will install a $4,609 measuring and regulating stand.
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Bluefield
The
Associated Press
Washington
Federal Commission
Bluefield Gas Company
Princeton
Amore Gas Cohties Com Pany
Well-Child Clinics Planned in Raleigh County
Raleigh County Health Department schedules two well child clinics this week. On Sept. 20 from 10 to 12 a Negro children clinic at the Health Department with Dr. C A Smith as clinician. On Sept. 21 from 9 30 to 11 30 at Dr E F Lowell Berey's Montcoal office with Greenland reported as ice covered up to 1.5 miles thick.
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Raleigh County Health Department
Health Department
C. A. Smith
Montcoat
Lowell Berey
Truman cites Louis Johnson code breach as turning point
Stewart Alsop notes Truman dismissed Johnson for two code violations, undercutting Acheson and advocating preventive war. Marshall becomes defense chief, Acheson remains secretary of state, and a stronger, more cohesive leadership team forms in White House and Pentagon.
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Stewart Alsop
Washington
Louis A. Johnson
Truman
Johnson
George C. Marshall
Dean Acheson
Korea
Capitol Hill
Navy
Francis Matthews
Marshall
White House
Dean G. Acheson
MacArthur
Far East
Formosa
Louis Johnson
W. Averell Harriman
Sidney Sours
State Department
Hedell Smith
C.I.A
Pentagon
Air Force
Thomas Finlever
Army
Frank Pace
John McCone
Finletter
Stuart Symington
Robert A. Lovett
Acheson
Lovett
State
Defense Department
Harry Truman
Our Hope in Years to Come a Rain Bri ngs Relief to Clarissa
Minneapolis columnist George Grim profiles a drought haunted Harvest Festival in Clarissa Minnesota where 62 days without rain left crops parched. An outdoor service united pastors and townsfolk across faiths before a late Sept shower that refreshed farms in Clarissa Eagle Bend and Bertha ending the drought’s immediate strain.
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George Grim
Minneapolis Tribune
Clarissa
Minnesota
Grim
Associated Press
Sunday Tribune
Minneapolis Sunday Tribune
Minn
George Etzell
Clarissa Independent
War
Korea
Minneapolis
Eagle Bend
Bertha
Dark City and Edge of Doom Review Returns From Hollywood
The piece critiques the film Dark City detailing Charlton Heston as a tough newcomer and Lizabeth Scott as a wary cafe singer, with a cynical love triangle and melodramatic suspense interludes. It also condemns Edge of Doom as a dismal tale of a priest-killer and a troubling funeral demand amid moral conflict.
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Viveca Lindfors
Lizabeth Scott
Charlton Heston
Hal Wall
New York
Heston
Scott
Lizabeth
Farley Granger
Sshe
Dana Andrews
Mala
800 Cabell Workers Return to Jobs at ACF Plant
About 800 workers will be recalled to the American Car and Foundry Company plant in Huntington to fulfill an order for 2 000 hopper cars for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. The recall raises plant employment to 1 200 under district manager J E Koontz. The note also mentions the loofah gourd known as the dishcloth gourd for its water absorbing properties.
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Huntington
American Car and Foundry Company
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
J. E. Koontz Uy Acf
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