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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
18
The state expects no additional deaths this year, aiming for a fatality rate near 2.7 per million tons. Last year output reached about 15.5 million tons with a rate around 3.0. The labor commissioner credits safer conditions to mine safety standards enacted in 1940 and effective July 1. Question asks for the high explosive abbreviated TN T.2-C. 8: H.
County notes list residents visiting relatives and moving to town with names including Christine Wright Ernest Tuck and Henry Keeler. Christmas services at Grace Methodist and Watch Night planned, with a ministerial meeting attended and visits to Washington Arlington noted. The piece closes with a trivia answer: A&P had about 10 800 outlets in 1940 across 38 states and DC.
Brush Creek Virginia with Ruth M Kerns inviting all children up to 13 to her home on December 28 from 10 30 a m to 3 p m for lunch and play bring a cheap sturdy toy not expensive toys are discouraged visitors include Mr and Mrs Page H Heirini mus of Washington DC and Mrs Laura C Dailey plus Mr Clyde Collins and families weather notes report a heavy sleet event leaving ground slick on Friday night and Saturday
Brucetown Virginia December 18 young people of the Bruce town Church held a business meeting at the home of Mr and Mrs S J Swimley Wednesday night. Herbert Fisher is visiting Washington DC for a few days. Arnold Gordon and daughter Helen were dinner guests of Herbert Fishel. Morris Heiskell of Washington DC spent Sunday with his mother Mrs Katie Heiskell. W T Swimley of Winchester visited his parents S J Swimley.
Grimes Virginia reports preaching at Galilee next Sunday morning. Christmas entertainment planned for Christmas night. Local salesman Sirbaugh of Northern Virginia Power Company visited on Monday. Families Russell visit and trip details include Camp Croft South Carolina. Weather brought sleet and rain causing damage and telephone outages. War news tempers Christmas spirit but hope remains.
The report notes that current mining activity reduces fatalities per million tons compared with 1940. It states Virginia will mine about 17 million tons this year and implies improved safety outcomes based on production and mortality rates.
State Labor Commissioner Thomas B. Morton said this year shows a slight decline in mining fatalities and pledged greater efforts to cut deaths further. The year’s Virginia total reached 46 after the Keen Mountain fall Dec 12 that killed Pierce Sheppard, 39, a conveyor operator, keeping the 1941 toll two above last year.
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