Forestry meeting eyed for Southern Soil District board
District forester H M Hart and agents from Haleigh Summers Mercer and Fayette Counties will attend a special Thursday session of the Southern Soil District board to discuss forestry management. About 44 550 acres in four counties and 63 150 trees plus 22 100 shrubs are slated for distribution through the U S Soil Conservation Service with emphasis on woodlands and wildlife planting.
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H. M. Hart
Haleigh
Summers
Mercer
Fayette
Southern Soil District Board of Supervisors
Flord Rothlisberger
Beckley
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Division of Forestry
State Conservation Commission
Hart
Southern Soil Conservation District
Floyd Rothlisberger
Rothlisberger
West Virginia
Huntington
LeSage
Yo-Ag Federation Names Officers
The Beckley Federation of the Future Farmers of America elected officers at Shady Spring High School with Dennis McCutcheon Nuttall High Lookout president Darrell Brown Spanishburg secretary treasurer and Carlos Bowden Shady Spring reporter Advisor P C Karickhoff Nuttall will lead next meeting at Shady Spring on October 25. Tran Hill High Streyor chapter also belongs but did not attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Federation of the Future Farmers of America
Shady Spring High School
Dennis McCutcheon
Nuttall High School
Lookout
Darrell Brown
Spanishburg High School
Carlos Bowden
P. C. Karickhoff
Nuttall
Shady Spring
Tran Hill High
Streyor
Fperation
Mining Explosives Classes Under U S Bureau Plans
Lloyd G. Fitzgerald directs five lesson mining explosives courses at Stotesbury and Tams this week. Sessions include 1 and 3:30 p.m. today at Stotesbury and 1 and 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday at Tams. Fifty men attended the first class. films, dummy cartridges, detonators, and blast devices are used. a completion card will be issued to attendees. The Philippine Islands are described as a vast triangle spanning 1152 miles north to south.
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Stolesbury
Tams
Lloyd G. Fitzgerald
Mount Hone
U. S
Bureau of Mines
Stotesbury
Fitzgerald
Mrs. A. R. Long Sr Suffers Stroke in Fayetteville
Mrs. A R Long Sr of Fayetteville suffered a stroke Saturday morning and was admitted to a nearby hospital.
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Register
Fayetteville
A. R. Long
Fayette Man Fined for Drunk Driving
Dewey Ernest Kuhn of Scarbro Fayette County was fined 50 plus costs after arraignment before Justice of the Peace G Oley Mills for drunken driving. His license was revoked and his car impounded. Walter E. Terry defaulted on a 50 fine and costs after a hearing before Police Judge J M Henderson and was committed to Raleigh county jail.
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Fayette
Dewey Ernest Kuhn
Scarbro
Fayette County
Justice of the Peace
G. Oley Mills
Walter E. Terry
J. M. Henderson
Raleigh County
Former Head of Schools Expires in Raleigh County
James Bryson aged 84 of Maple Meadow former Raleigh County superintendent of schools died at home after a long illness. Funeral at Crab Orchard Baptist Church tomorrow at 2 pm with burial in Sunset Memorial Park. He began teaching in 1884 and served in Raleigh Mercer and Wyoming counties. He was married to Alicia Bryson who died in 1934. Survived by two sons D W Bryson and George W Bryson two brothers and three sisters.
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James Bryson
Maple Meadow
Raleigh County
D. W. Bryson
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Shirley Donnelly
Sunset Memorial Park
Bryson
Alexander
Mary Riffe Bryson
Raleigh
Mercer
Wyoming
Beckley
Crabb Orchard
Alicia
George W. Bryson
War
Henry Bryson
Harper Road
Simeon Bryson
Cambria
Corala Bryson
Lester
Reuhamah Smith
Mansfield
Caroline Canaday
Teachers Urged to Instill Conservation in Pupils
Dr. M. J. Horsch urges public schools to teach conservation and social responsibility for natural resources at Raleigh County Secondary School Principals Association meeting. He warns resources will dwindle without change and cites waste in coal, copper, lumber, wildlife, soil, and oil as alarming.
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M. J. Horsch
West Virginia
Horsch
Bureau of Mines
Gatewood Girl Honor marks Doris Berry’s ninth birthday
Doris Faye Berry daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Berry Gatewood was honored at a party celebrating her ninth birthday with family and friends.
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Register
Gatewood
Doris Faye Berry
Jack Berry
Gadget of the Month Club Led by Mary Lou Moffitt
Mary Lou Moffitt, 29, longtime stockholder, pushed a gadget of the month club for Nu-Way Appliance Corp of Los Angeles. She became club president after the idea proved costly for the company to launch. The club still considers new gadgets via inventors with no manufacturing ties and now headlines women centered advertising with 91 percent of members being women.
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Mary Lou Moffitt
Nu-Way Appliance Corp
Los Angeles
Miss Moffitt
Nu-Way Appliance
Inmate Maria Berasi Receives Kiss From Iturbi at Jail Recital
Pianist Jose Iturbi sings Kiss Me Again to inmate Maria Berasi at a Los Angeles county jail recital. Iturbi obliged the prisoner with a kiss after the performance, per international reports.
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Maria. Berasi
Josef Iturbi
Los Angeles County
Iturbi
National Jaycee Leader to Speak at Beckley Dinner
National vice president Gwynn Edmonds of Huntington will address Beckley Junior Chamber members at a free membership feed on October 20. Frankie Fuscaldo, Fairmont state Jaycee president, will attend the dinner along with other invited state officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Frankie Fuscaldo
Fairmont
Magellan Claims Philippines for Spain in 1521
The Philippines were claimed by Magellan for Spain in 1521 but actual colonization did not start until 1565, marking a long gap between claim and settlement.
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Magellan
Philippine Islands
Spain
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H. B. Thomas
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
J. M. Jones
Cool Ridge
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Yo-Ag Federation
Just
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Dial
Tso Es
Iturbi Obliges
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May Bldg
McCreery St
Fort Pitt
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