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The Charleston Daily Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 4

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CHARLESTON IN YtARS GONE BY WILMA nGCENWmiAM YEARS AGO i (JMu mi) A gasoline tatik truck exploded! at the rear oT the Skyline Cab garage in the 300 block of Lee Street Wednesday causing a fire that destroyed a two story brick and frame building that boused the Cleaners, Earl's Lunch and the dispatch office of the cab company, damages were estimated at J100.000. Earl T. Browder of SI. Albans was tie new president of the Charleston Building Contractors' Assn. SO YEARS AGO (Jan.

10, Leaking gas from a small stove claimed the lives of a young Davis1 trees couple night. Dead were Rupert Hill and his wife, Mrs. Violet Teel Hill. Judge George W. McCiintic rescinded his retirement announcement and said he would con mission had misconstrued its pur poses, Circuit Judge Arthur P.1 Hudson Saturday handed down an opinion reversing the commis sion action in granting a license to the W.

Va. Power and Transmission Co. to develop hydro electric power on Cheat and Blackwater rivers. He said the li cense was "sadly lacking in nomic advantages to the stale, PROUD TO BE REPUBLICAN Blake Defends Political Role Adj. Gen.

William E. Blake, said Monday that he hasn't been! aware that "military considered a political plum. "I have always thought that service in the military forces of' country was motivated by patriotism rather than patronage." he told an annual Army National fuard Technicians" Conference. Blake devoted a major part of his prepared remarks to the state armory construction program over the past four years, and to reorganization earned out in the Air and Army National Guard. But the frequently controversial member of Gov.

Under wood's administration said that. in any resume of his department since ne took over in 1957. is inescapable that the age old cry of 'politics' in the National Guard should receive some pre "Well, what wrong with dis cussing politics? Politics is the machinery of our government. It is only through politics that we have a commander in chief. God forbid we should ever commander in chief any other ay." Blake said he made no gies for "the well established fact that I am am an active member Republican party.

Also, I am exceedingly proud mat Gov. underwood let me occupy a responsible position. Blake introduced his successor, Asst. Attv. Gen.

Gem Hal Wil liams, who assumes the adjufftit general's post next Monday with Gov. eJect Barron inauguration. He called Williams "a dedicat ed young man" who has had ai great interest in the National Guard, and who has assisted ini legal work of tlie armory pro gram and bond financing over State Sheriffs Select Mingo Man President West Virginia sheriffs yesterday! reelected to the presidency of tinue "indefinitely" as federal their association a man whose el court iufto ligibility to bold the office of sher HfKnitsI nHptirlnnK caiH ul. Court was uo hope of recovery for Mrs. Howard B.

Chambers of Wil Opal Summers of Washington jliarason. a former deputy who as Mrqet who ran screaming lmosurned the office of sneriff when a the street when her housecoat 'vacancy occurred, had been serv caught on fire. She suffered first, second and third degree burns over her entire body. 30 YEARS AGO (Jan. 10, Upholding the constitutionality! iiie 1929 water Power Act and declaring the Public Service Com ing as association president last year.

The Mingo County Court refused to Eive Chambers toe oam ot oi fice after the November election when the contest developed. How ever, Chambers is serving until a court ruling is handed do James Copley, the Republican candidate defeated by Chamuers, first raised the ouestion. All other officers chosen nere yesterday afternoon during the organization's annual meeting were elected to tneir posts November. They include: Thompson ot BecKiey. first vice Dresident: Lou Buckley of Moundsville, second vice Dresident; De Kuhns of Charleston, chairman of the board; Frank H.

Conaway of Fairmont, secretary" Howard Frankel of Huntington, treasurer. Don Weddington of Charleston was re elected executive secre tary. Sheriffs will introduce a meas ure to the 19C1 legislature making them eligible to succeed them selves. The group also is proposing the establishment of a snenin du reau in state government. The association completed meeting today with an FBI presentation on weapons and law en forcement.

Special Aeent B. Brown of Pittsburgh was the Chelyon Minister Heads Baptists The Rev. Edward W. Turns of Chelyan has been elected presi dent of the Ministers' Council ofi the Kanawha Valley Baptist Asm. He succeeds the Rev.

Paul iWatlington Jr. of Charleston. Other officers elected lor I960 are the Revs. James H. Hall of the Tyler Mountain a 1 1 Church, vice president, and Ed ward Elliott, associate minister at the Calvary Baptist Church, Charleston, secretary treasurer.

The association comprises 50 lo cal churches with a membership! ferred treatment." He added: I the last four years. I of more than 15.000. WHY SPEND MORE FOR FIBERGLAS DRAW DRAPES? 50x63 and £00 50x90 Hand washable with no ironing Deep buckram backed pleats No shrinking, stretching or sun damage Full, neatly stitched side hems Milk chocolate, white, light sand Sorry, No Mail or Phone No Layaways Drapery Downstairs Graham MY ANSWER My hwbaatf to a beeaaae aware tf this at the tint, and we cvea have MveUr chiUrea. After feat, he aaawreatlr deserted me as a gether. He at tinea becomes mistreaUBg me terribly.

This roaaJtlw has continued now for OMre ttuut twenty years. Can you gfTe me any advice oa this matter? He claims that it is a s'ekaets and that God cannot jvdge him tor an affliction tf this kind. E. T. M.

Many people who become throu ghly entrenched in a vicious habit are apt lo make it appear as it is eitner a sicKness or a genital weasness of some sort. This their best way of justifying wl they are doing. Ever since the times of Freud. this has been the fashion, and many present day psychologists and psychoanalysts tend to equate an conauci ot inis Kind, and even criminal conduct, with some kind of mental illness. When all is said) and done, they can almost prove that no one is bad, only sick.

The (Bible teaches it is sin! While it! started as a sin it soon became a disease. We have witnessed in our cru sades around the world how people were considered to be complete homosexuals, or confirmed alcoholics, or addicted to the use of narcotics, have not only to have a vital faith in Christ, but their faith in Christ has completely and permanently delivered them from these entrenched habits. Your husband has no excuse. This is one of the sins Paul mentions in Romans. Chapter ona.

Negro Admits Assault On White Mother Of 10 BLUEF1ELD iAPJ A Blue field Negro was charged last night with raping a white woman and 13 year old daughter. a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Lewis Perdue, Jack Peoples 27, ail unemployed laborer, pleaded guilty to a charge that he raped Mrs. Helen Home. a widow and mother of children. Sunday night.

Peoples pleaded innocent lo the" charge that he Mrs. Home's daughter on Dec. 20, He later withdrew the pica and waiv led to the grand jury on the charge of assaulting the girl. He was bound over lo the Mer cer County grand jury and return ed to jail. Perdue said any bond would nave to be set by the Criminal Court judge.

Police Capt. Charles Cregcer said Mrs. Home was beaten, knocked off her seven foot high S1EE nights? pless The miseries of Acid Upset; may strike tonight but why toes and turn? Relief cornea in moments when you take Tims. Fast, long safe relief from acid indigestion, heart burn or gas. Tums at the bedside keep you on the right side restful Bleep.

3 roll pack, mo thing woKits tint rvm back porch aixl dragged yards through a wooded area littered: ilh broken glass to an abandoned schoolnouse where the alleged as jsault occurred. Three of Mrs. Home's children, aged 9. 7 and 4, watcher their mother, barefoot and wearing a nightgown, answer a knock at the door. As she was dragged from the house.

Mis. Home yelled to the children to go to a neighbor's house and "call Ihe cops," Creg ger said. Later, the 13 year old daughter identified Peoples as the man who allegedly assaulted her the night ot uec. Now for the first Traditional She had been accosted while carrying home Christmas pack ages, choked and dragged under an abandoned house. She told officers she saw her assailant under a street light as he left the scene.

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