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The Charleston Daily Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 19

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A A I A I A I A 1, 1951 PAGE NINETEEN Scouts Elect City Leaders Boys To Take Over St. Albans Saturday ST. ALBANS, Feb. 1--In a hotly contested election of Boy Scouts of Aibans. the Progressive party trith its list of candidates received a majority of the city's seats for Boy Scout Day to be observed Saturday.

Two tickets were presented, tiie Progressive party and the Wheels- party. Bill Hensley, an Eagle Scout, won over Myron Campbell for mayor. Others to be elected were: Councilmen-at-large Donnie Hawkins and Ramie Trimble; councilman, first ward. Jay McCormick; second ward, Ross Spurlock; third ward. Jon Leighty; fourth ward, Tommy Williams; fifth a Tommy Clatworthy; sixth a Tommy Thompson; eighth ward, Charles Sutpin.

The seventh ward did not elect a councilman. Mayor-elect Hensley called his council together to confirm appointments and to fill the vacancy of the seventh ward. Ronald Sex- ion was chosen councilman. Other positions filled by appointment included: Vice Mayor Ramie Trimble: City Manager PaulCarr; City Clerk Charles Hutchison; Po lice Judpe John Lily: Police Chief Jigger Robinson: Fire Chief Jack Health Commissioner John Vaughan: i 'Engineer Roy Smith: street commissioner Steven Bissel. Five Scouts were appointed to the commission, Jon Leighty, Pat Muilins.

John Vaughan, of troop 75, Julian Martin and Merit Escue, Mayor Heusley announced the appointment of the standing committees of the council: Finance, Jon Leighty, chairman, Charles Sutpin and Tommy Thompson; lire. Tommy Clatworthy, chairman. Tommy Williams and Ron- Edison School Leads in Polio Drive Lending all county schools In "March of Dimes" collections, Edison school pupils hold charts, above, -which show that they are well on the way toward meeting their quota of $100. Last year, also the county's top school in contributions to fight polio, Edison pupils raised $S68. Their efforts are "spurred on by the knowledge that three of their own pupils, Mary Kathryn Caudill, Donald Martin and Eu- gene Booth, are polio victims.

In the picture, left to right, are Richard Okcs, Judy Kidd, Carolyn Hartwell, Stephen Wood ford and Mary Kathryn Candid. Mrs. Kuth Bslianih, principal, announced that Mrs. Florida Bird's sixth grade class is leading classroom competition with Thursday total of $56.55. Mrs.

Dagmar McCullough's room now hag, turned $50.50 in. The drive at Edison will continue until Monday. Causes Home Blaze Loss Is $8,000 At City Residence A landslide' above a home occupied by T. M. Lowen and his family at 2008 Piedmont Rd.

that ruptured a gas line into property -was city firemen for" starting a blaze that caused $8,000 damages to the residence. Xowen. told firemen he was first awakened by a noise about 2:15 a. m. He discovered the earth movement that piled up a large quantity dirt immediately behind the house had pushed against the wall, knocking, the kitchen sink away from the anchorings and bringing down the curtains from their hangings.

He immediately aroused his family and they evacuated to another home. Force of the slide had ruptured the gas line. Fumes reached a large heating unit in the basement and exploded, setting fire to the two-story frame house about 4:13 a. m. Firemen from Washington street and Central stations responded to the alarm.

They estimated $4,000 damages to the property arid a slmillar amount to the contents. Firefighters were blocked in their efforts to control the when a Virginian railway engine ran over a fire hose and severed it. He'll Become 7.500 Hamburgers sleeping Provided rkriTYBVNT TTt-nYi MP1 ft OGDEN, Utah fell asleep his long sleep in a railroad box car to the Ogden city judge. "Sines you're tired," said the Judge, "you can sleep 30 more days in Austrians Get Steel Mill As Gift From Americans DONAWITZ, Austria (UP)-- A $7,380,000 steel blooming gift of the American people, has gone into-operation, mak- State Trooper Resigns State Trooper Jack A. Miller of St.

Albans has resigned from the department of pubic safety to accept employment with Carbide and Carbon Chemicals division. W. E. Biirchett, state police superintendent, said Miller joined the South Charleston detachment 1949. June, Even Paul Bunyan couldn't throw tliis bull fur by the tail, and if you think that's tall tale, read his weight: 2,470 pounds on the hoof.

This purebred holestcin was heiiiKT 'slaughtered Thursday at M. McCown anil Son Co. on Tyler mountain and is destined to become hamburger. Milbcrt McCown says he'll dress out at Thru Train Planned PRAGUE new train called the "Muscovite" will be introduced next May on which passengers can ride between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union without changing coaches, the government-o Czechoslovak Railways has announced. It will run between Moscow and Prague in winter and Moscow and Carlsbad Dannie Hawkins: streets; Bonnie Hawkins.

chairman. Jay Mc-Cor- ing this huge state-owned steel works one of the most modern mick and Ross Spurlock. The council will meet Saturday in Europe. The mill will furnish 60 per cent a 9 a. m.

to complete -the Austria crude steel It BUSINESS BRIEFS Wheeling Steel Prof it WHEELING, Jan. 31 of the Wheeling steel corporation and subsidiaries today issued 1950 preliminary report showing net earnings of 518,314,517, an increase of more than 510,000,000 from 1949. The 1950 profit figure included the deduction of 517,342,000 in federal taxes, of which $2,023,000 were placed one built in 1865, in which workers turned out the steel strips, heated to Fahrenheit, with six-foot poles. last month when they tried to organize a general strike by shutting down a blast furnace, None of the workers has protested the dismissals and there was hint of. trouble when Clyde N.

The old i i mill was I King. EGA administrator in Aus- scrapped in 1942, when the works tria, dedicated the mill. installed a modern one. When the Russians dismantled the latter as! war booty in 1945, engineers duglBurma Plans Projects into the scrap pile and painstak- summer. Passengers 1 about 1,585 pounds and after boninir should produce about 1,260 pounds of or around 7,000 hamburgers.

The- 6-ycur-old Riant was purchased from Boiiham'fl dairy where hi: was a'herd bull but had outlived his usefulness. McCown points to his unusual weight suying- most bulls tip the scales at about 1,700 or 1,800 pounds. now must change from. i broad-gauge to Czechoslovak medium-gauge coaches: at. Cerria in eastern the new train the undercarriages of the coaches will be changed 'instead.

The cow-Prague run takes about three and a quarter days. --When the sun rises each day the first'point of the United States to feel its rays is Mount'Katahdin, to Maine. in California and woke up here," Leo Phillip said as he explained jai.l" OTHER "HEART" GIFT BOXES OF PLANTERS SALTED NUTS AND CHOCOLATE NUTS AT S1.00-S2.00-S2.50-S3.00 AND UP. ALL POUND PURCHASES Of PLANTERS NUTS ARE PACKED IN A VALENTINE BOX FOR YOUR VALENTINE OF 100! PIECE DELUXE STREAMLINED H'liiiil'm ingly put the rusted old 'mill together again. The new blooming mill, manufactured by the Morgan Engineering of Alliance, Ohio, and by International General Electric Company and Hydro Press, of New York City, can handle up to payments under the excess profits 75 000 tons Df steel a month.

There Is enough steel in Austria now to keep the new mill run- tax act of 1950 covering the latter half of the year. Earnings for 194S were reported at a net $7,895.265. The statement set the dividend on 1,423,897 shares of common stock, following full payment of out more than 1,000,000 tons of RANGOON, Burma famous Burmese teak may soon find itself in competition with, other Burmese hardwoods if plans by Dr. A. V.

Monroy materialise. Monroy, a forestry expert with the United Nations food and agriculture organization, has come here to help the Burmese establish an integrated forest industry. He says the Burmese have neglected ning to capacity. However, several species because of the bias of the nationalized Alpine-Mountain Steel Works hope that in three or four years, Austria will be turning in favour of teak. Some of these are well suited for conversion into fibrewood, plywood and pulpwood.

Other species can be used for car- COMPLETE TOOL SET POUSHESl WAXES! i. Givwi finlihl outstanding preferred stock, at $11.59 per share. The comparative 1949 figure, adjusted to en equivalent number of shares, is $4.27 per share. JL Sets Record PITTSBURGH, Jan. 31 The Jones Laughlin Steel in its annual statement, reported yesterday a net income of $39,744,000 for 1950 compared with $22,248,000 the previous year.

It was the larg- esi volume of business the company has ever reported in its en- lire history. THE 1950 earnings amount to 57.35 a share on 5,200,654 shares of the new par value common stock outstanding. The 1949 net income was equivalent to 54 per share on the same number of shares of common stock. An overheated automotive en- rine may be caused by a gasoline mixture that is either too lean or too rich. steel annually, double the presant rate.

The maximum the old mill coald process was 40,000 tons monthlj. This Alpine Mountain plant in the lovely Mur valley employs 5,111 men. Iron ore and steel scrap ire converted In the plant's blast furnaces" into blocks of crude steel. The blocks are heated to 2,900 degrees Fahrenheit or more, then tossed into the blooming mill which kneads them into plates, called "blooms" between six and eight inches thick. The Marshall Plan which paid for the new blooming mill also is buying the Donawitz plant a new structural and a new processing mill.

Donawitz steel workers, traditionally elect Communist shop stewards in their factory but vote overwhelmingly Socialist in the munici- pay, provincial and state elections. However, the factory's leading Communists were dismissed He proposes picking favorable locations in the country and going to work on what is available. The projects will be financed by the Burmese government and will include the making of plastics, nn industry entirely new to this country, Monroy said. Bark of. the American desert shrub, guayule, was chewed by the ancient Mexicans to extract rubber and make bouncing balls for games and ceremonies.

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