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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-10

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-10
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Police today were Investigating
ne suspected larceny OF two pistols.
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Asca the homo OF Corbett HanOr.
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-18

ginia, it is steadily travelling the
upgrade of the rough roads. Ma
chine-mining of coal is giving
the families of miners more lei
sure, and wages have been ris-
ing. Southwest Virginia needs
more industries, of the type that
do not have to depend on the
availability of raw materials,
such as the needlecraft trades.
Cattle-raising should invite new
industries to use it's by-products,
These and other possibilities are
now being studied by the Bureau
of Population and Economic Re-
search at the University of Vir-
ginia.
Those who travel the mountain
roads Of the far Southwest year
by year, nowadays see more paint
in the mining villages. High up
on the mountain one sees a glass
window in a cabin where there
was none before. The people who
live in it are of old and sturdy
American stock and they are ris
ing constantly to better things.
Southwest Virginia is a region
of two-fisted men and straight
limbed women with some of the
old Vests elan. 1t has future
without metes or bounds.-Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-18
RAMEY FLATS

Pvt. Rufus Mullins, who was
for several months overseas, has
been discharged from the army.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thurman Elem
ing visited at the home of Harri-
son Mullins Sunday.
Dollie Mullins is very ill at this
writing.
Sunday visitor sat the home of
Annias Moore were Mr.. and Mrs.
S B Kerby Logan Stanley and
family, Clara Mullins, Justine
Mullins, Allene Stanley, Earl
Triplett and Gerald Triplett
Church services will be held at
Ramey Flats Sunday. Everybody
come.
Dexter Ratliff and Faye Smith
have returned from Georgia.
Hoyt B. Stone killed a large
copper head on his way home
from school Friday evening.
Harrison Mullins and Annias
Moore are working on Thurman
Fleming's house this week.
Mrs. Crit Stanley is still on
the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Estil Triplett Wis
tied at the home Of Cowan STAN
ley on Big Ridge Sunday.
Mrs. Kenos Stone, who has
been seriously i'll, is improving.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-18

erly and Maryland Yates
Mrs. Pola Beverly and Leona
Beverly spent Sunday night with
Mrs. Maynard Beverly.
Mrs. Liza Jane Rudded and
daughters, Dollie and Anna Mae
of Wise spent the week lend with
George Hill.
Mrs. Carl Layne and daughter
left Wednesday for visit in
Akron, Ohio.
Billy Yates spent few days
leave recently with homefolks.
He visited his grandmother,
Lily Yates of Shelby, KY, We'd
nesday. Wednesday night with
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Slemp.
Mr.. and Mrs. D S Bray spent
Sunday at Skeetrock.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-18
NOTICE

To the Board of Supervisors
and Hansel Fleming, Common
wealth Attorney of said County:
Take notice that on the 10Th
day Of November, 1915 we will
move the Circuit Court of Dick
enson County, or the judges who
shall hear the case, to make an
order authorizing and declaring
the territory set out and describ-
ed in the. annexed ordinance to
be annexed to the town of Clint
wood, Va.
Corporation of Clintwood
By C. Mark French, Counsel,
Ordinance annexed to above
notice.
At regular meeting of the
Town Council held at the may
or's office for the town of Clint
wood on Oct. 2, 1945.
Present: Clarence Stone, may
or; Earl Speer, B. B. Dotson, A
L Reece and E P Kennedy.
Be it ordained by the Town
Council for said town that it is
desired by the Town Council of
the Town of Clintwood, Virginia,
and said Council does hereby de
clare that it desires to annex a
strip of land adjoining said town
to the south which is described
as follows:
BEGINNING at a stake 1920
TT. south of the northwest corner
Of the present town of Clintwood,
thence west 2016 feet to a stake;
thence south 264O feet passing
through Yates Gap to stake;
thence east 2076 fit. to stake in
the east line of corporate limits
of Clintwood; thence 1920 #.
with said line to the point of be-
ginning.
1t is necessary and expedient
to annex said addition to the said
town because it is densely populat
ed and needs police protection,
street lights, water and sidewalks
and the terms and conditions up
on which it is proposed to annex
said property is to at once furn-
ish city water at the same rate
as is charged in the present town
of Clintwood, Virginia to the
street lines, or public road prop
erty lines, of all residents of said
proposed addition who desire
city water and to provide public
lighting along the state highway
through said addition as is now
provided in the present town of
Clintwood Virginia, and to use
the funds collected from taxation
from said addition for the next
five years in paying for said i'm
provements and any sewer pipe
and sidewalks that may be con-
structed in said addition by said
town and to furnish said addition
with the same police and fire pro
lection as is now afforded with,
in the present corporate limits
of said town.
The above ordinance w 5
adopted by the vote of all mem
bers of the said Council.
Clarence Stone, Mayor
w. H. Mccoy, Clerk
Virginia, Dickinson County, to-
wit:
I, w H Mccoy, clerk of the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-18
JAMESTOWN NEWS

A revival is now going on at
Valley View church, with real
gospel preacher bringing the mes
sage. You're invited to come.
Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther Yates Sunday were Fer
noy and two children, Peggy Sue
Branham, Faye Stratas, Ruth
Beverly, Bobby and Donald Bev
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-18
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
A FRONTIER WITH A FUTURE

Where Southwest Virginia be-
gins is a question which may de-
pend much on the mood Of the
geographer who is at the momen!
fixing the boundaries. Ii he is
candidate for public office seek
ing the support of the region, he
may include virtually everything
west of Lynchburg within the
gesturing sweep Of his index fin
ger. 1t is actually not until one
has gone west of Roanoke that
one is in the country of the blue
grass and the roohodendron, and
not until Abingdon has been pass
ed that the heart of the tier of
Virginia counties which are a
part OF Appalachian America"
is really reached. This is Virgin
las last frontier. One no longer
sees the coon-skin cap and the
moccasins of the pioneer, but as
he explores the language Of our
mountaineers the folklorists may
still occasionally find himself
touching the remotest past Of
Chaucer.''
Isolation is still the distinguish
ing characteristic of the region.
Mountains are still natural bar
riers that hold back the tide Of
seaboard folkways. In the far
Southwestern section of Virginia
roads are still narrow with many
hairpin curves. Heavy coal trucks
breast the highest mountains, but
one still sees the horse-drawn
wooden sled loaded with supplies
for the family that does not often
come down from the hills.
The birth-rate is high and so
is the fertility rate which is has
ed on the number of children I'M
der years of age per 1000 wo-
men from 20 to "A years of age
in the population. In 1910, six of
the counties in the tier had an
estimated per capita annual in
come of less than 5000; five had
per capita income of less than
$500, and four the per capita in
come was less than $500 In none
of the counties, with independent
cities included, was the estimat-
ed per capita income in excess of
$500 when the census of 1910
was taken.
Although the change has taken
place slowly in Southwest Vir-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-18

Town Council of Clintwood Va,
hereby certify that the foregoing
ordinance is a true copy of the
records of the said town.
Given under my hand this Oct
10th, 1945. w. H. Mccoy, Clerk
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
Doctors Point
The w ay

The American medical profession has an
nounced a l4-point program for expanding
medical service based on extension of volun-
tary health insurance plans under local
controls.
American medicine is fighting socialized
medicine as a matter of principle. for it
makes little difference to the fine doctors
OF our country whether or not our medical
facilities become state controlled with everv-
one subjected to a compulsory tax for their
support The doctors who objected to being
reglmented by the state, could quit.
Doctors know that under socialized medi-
cine IN European countries, service to the
public has not advanced as it has in the
United States where ambition, enterprise
and opportunity in medicine have carried
It's accomplishments beyond those obtained
under any other system.
First rumblingS of what state medicine
would mean to all the people have been
heard in recent complaints about treatment
and practices in the veterans hospitals here
at home. Such hospitals are not moved
by the incentive to excel that govern in
dependent medicine. The veterans hospitals
fall under political control and the newt
able jealouSieS and prejudiceS that abound
IN bureaucratic organizations, creep in They
offer good example Of the pitfalls the pub
lie would encounter if our medical system
were socialized and fell under political con-
troll
The fight to keep American medicine free
in order to assure the extension of qualified
public health and preventative medical
service, is something the people should not
make light Of Their future and not that
of the doctors is at stake
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
Give Same Medicine
To Both

The Department of Justice the SEC, the
Federal Power Commission, the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and numerous other
Federal or state agencies, are constantly on
the alert to protect the public from short
comings in private enterprise.
For example, the railroads cannot build
mile of line without proving to the Inter
state Commerce Commission that it is neceS-
Sary for public purposes. Corporations cam
not sell dollars worth of stock until the
SEC or state corporation departments 60
through their plans with a fine-tooth comb.
Electric companies cannot make a move
without public permission from numerous
Federal and state boards and bureaus.
But compare such practices which gov
eminent applies to private enterprise for
the protection of the public, to the total
lack of governmental interest in protecting
the taxpayer from political schemes to
spend tax funds.
For example, is there any reason to sup
pose that proposals for government-owned
business projects, promoted by politicians
who spend the peoples money, are any less
apt to need careful supervision and check
ing, than are the projects of private capital?
AS matter of fact the taxpayer has prob
ably suffered more less from misleading
statements to promote government in bust
ness, which is exempt from the restrictions
and taxation placed on private business,
than he has from any chicanery in private
ly financed enterprise.
With government demanding and spend
ing as much of the peoples money as it is
today, 1t is imperative that proposed political
business projects be able to meet the re-
quirements of laws applying to private en-
terprise. Certainly there should be no obiec-
ton by government to taking the same
medicine it dishes out.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
II e w $ Of The
B OOk w OrId

Ever since the days of Delilah,
beautiful women have found ways
to get information from the enemy.
Some years ago, the Japanese gov
eminent sent word to Germany
that they had need of women of
the white race TO serve in their
espionage service. In 1885. a Ger
man family by the name of Kuehn
landed on the Hawaiian Islands.
The father was a scientist. There
was also his beautiful daughter
Ruth, who was known in Germany
to have been on very intimate
terms with Geobbels.
The family had already estab-
lished themselves socially, when an
ultra modern beauty parlor was
opened in Honolulu With its ex-
pert staff. and its permanents and
facialS comparable to those of Fifth
Avenue, it was quickly a sensation
among the women of the Islands.
But 1t was most appreciated BY
Navy wives. American girls living
far from metropolitan luxurieS. The
place became the clearing house of
all Hawaiian gossip. Women dis
cuSSed who was in town. who was
leaving, furlOughS, assignments.
ships arrivals and departures. The
well-liked manager was Ruth
Kuehn.
The story behind this story. and
many others besides will be found
in Spies and Traitors of World
War H. by Kurt Singer.
John Steinbeck's "The Red
Pony" illustrated by Wesley Den
MS, is the Book-of -the- Month
Clubs new book dividend.
The war between censors and
correspondents is legendary. But
in Normandy, Robert j. Casey re-
lateS in This Is Where Came In"
he had the unique experience of
working with a censor who told
him, Il just figure that our main
Job here is to get the news back to
the United States. All we're sup
posed to do is keep vital informa-
ton from the enemy" Il had
never heard censor express such
revolutionary ideas before, and
said So" writes Casey. Then he
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
Councilman Mason

The death of city councilman James H.
Mason on Saturday came as an unexpected
blow to the community.
Always popular in athletics, fraternal and
civic circles, Mr.. Mason marked II years of
service as a city official when reelected to
a seat on the city council this spring. En-
dowed with great sense of civic conscious
ness, Councilman Mason's most recent act
was sponsorship of the resolution asking for
a city-financed swimming pool, and was
later named chairman of the swimming pool
committee by Mayor Benin.
In his efforts to serve the city, the coun-
Gilman had headed group of city officials
which had asked federal aid in restoring
shipyard construction work in Wyandotte
early in 1941.
Famed as a rover, Mr.. Mason had been
a member of the city championship rowing
crew several decades ago and in later years
was an active member of the boat club here.
Born in Scotland, the councilman followed
the American tradition by making every
effort to better the community in which
he had made his home
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
We Have no Choice

The reason the citizens of every nation
should insist that world peace be eStab-
liShed on a sound foundation this time, is
made evident by the casualty figures re-
leased by the British Commonwealth and
Empire. And it is we'll to remember that
the atomic bomb had not added its toll to
the figures recorded. If Germany had been
able to use it, London would have been a
barren waste and New York city of sky
Scraper skeletons.
AS it was, the total British casualties were
1927 CAB killed, wounded missing or priS-
oner of war. These figures included 532, 233
dead or missing Civilian casualties were
60585 killed and 86,175 wounded.
It is no worse for a civilian to be killed
or wounded in war than for Soldier-death
is as final for either. But it brings war
closer home to the people and impreSSeS on
them the fact that they are responsible for
government, its officials and its policies.
They must take more interest IN seeing that
small cliques and groups of men are not per-
mitted to endanger life and property to
crafty personal greed and ambition.
The agencies of destruction perfected in
World War II, to turn loose upon the world,
indicate that if another war is permitted, it
will be the civilian populations that are
wiped out Therefore, it is up to the people
themselves to prevent such catastrophe.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
atomic Energy
Produced By
THO Methods

Light and other manifestation
of atomic energy are produced in
two ways. points out the Better vi
sion Institute. Ordinarily such ener-
gy is released through disturbances
of the electrons, negative charges
of electricity which revolve around
the nucleus of atoms. The nucleus,
composed of protOnS, which are
positively charged, and neutronS.
which are electrically neutral, is
not affected when electrons are
torn away from the atom, as when
wood burns or chemical action
takes place. Under ordinary condi-
tons the atomic nucleus is very
stable and reSistS change.
However, when an atom is
smashed the nucleus is broken up.
Since most of the energy in an
atom resides in the nucleus, ire
mendous amounts of energy are
released when atoms are smashed.
The suns energy arises from atom
smashing" says the Institute. IF
its energy came from simple cleo
tronic changes, as in the burning
Of wood, the sun would have be-
come cold and dark long ago. But
because it obtains the bulk Of its
energy from the interior of atoms,
it will shine and provide light for
human needs millions upon mil
ions of years in the future before
all it's energy is disSipated."
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
The Truth Will our

1t has long been difficult for the private
electric industry to get government agencies
to recognize the fact that its rates to Gus
toners have been declining Seadily. There
has been no lack of government publicity
showing that Federal power plants, which
are publicly subsidized and tax exempt,
have reduced rates.
For years the electric light and power in
duStry has protested to the Department of
Labor over the fact that electric rates have
been grouped with the cost of fuel and ice,
thus making it appear that electric rates
were going up rather than down.
Finally, the June issue of the Monthly
Labor Review, published by the Depart
ment of Labor, for the first time made clear
to its readers that from August, 1882 to
April, 1945, the average price of gas and
electricity dropped 35 per cent
During the same period, food gained 461
per cent, clothing 436 per cent, house fur
niShings 43.8 per cent, fuels other than gas,
28.5 per cent.
There has been a steady decline in the
rates Of the investor-owned electric indus
try since its inception. Last year it paid
over $700,000,000 in taxes, which if it had
been exempted from to the same extent as
publicly-owned plants, would have meant
further enormous savings to customers.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
10 b KILN
Federal Projects

One of the staunch believers in the super
iority of American private initiative and
enterprise as contraSted with state socialism
in any form, is James D. Francis, president
of the Island Creek Coal Company and
former chairman Of the National Resources
Committee of the United States Chamber
of Commerce. On such Federal experiments
in specialization of industry as the Tennessee
Valley Authority and kindred projects, Mr..
Francis recently said they are mot only un-
necessary and costly to the taxpayers, but
are actually harmful.
Goal mines in the eastern region of Ten
nessee are being flooded by the IVA. In
that whole area, cost of producing cleo
tricity by steam would be one-third cheaper
per kiloWatt-hour than the electric current
generated by IVA, if the cost of plant con-
Struction, taxes which would have been paid
by private power plants, and other items,
were included in such consideration. In the
very sections of the country where the Fed
eral government contemplates construction
of additional hydroelectric plants there are
substantial coal reserves"
According to a 1887 report of Harold L.
Ickes to the President, the cost of making
electricity in hydroelectric power plants was
.006 cent kilowatt-hour overall, and the
cost in a steam generating plant was .004
cent
AT time when one of the major con-
Germs of private industry is to provide post
war jobs, the government is getting ready
to expand public power projects" lover three
billion tax dollars) (which will displace
100000 tons of coal annually, at an aver
age wage displacement to coal miners of
$3.50 ton," says an expert in the electric
power field, cor $63, 100000 in wages lost to
coal miners plus similarly Oppressive effects
on the railway and other transportation
industries"
Government does not have to spend
dime of taxpayers money to assure this
nation ample electric power at low cost,
under public regulation. During the war
emergency electricity has not been rationed
and in not a single instance has vital war
industry failed to get power when and
where needed from investor-owned electric
plants which produce some IS per cent of
the nations electric power.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
Ration News
Meats and Fats

Meats and Fats
Ration book No. Four, red stamps
V2Z2 valid through September 80;
Al-E1 through October 81; F1-K1,
November 80; L1-Q1 December 81.
Sugar
Stamp 38 good September l
through December 81 for five
pounds.
Shoes
Airplane stamps Nos. l, 2, 3, 4,
ration book No. good indefinitely.
Loose stamps not accepted.
Liquor
Ration book No. Four; stamp
valid throug September 80. Gin
unrationed.
The rationing Of gasoline, canned
fruits and vegetables and all other
blue-point foods and fuel oil and
oil stoves was Cancelled as of We'd
neSdsy, August 10.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
40 YEARS AGO
IN WYANDOTTE

Mayor Bishops three months la
boring with the Detroit United
Railway to lay a double track
through Wyandotte was knocked
out at the council meeting when
the five aldermen present voted
against granting a double track
franchise. In response the Mayor
issued a call for a mass meeting
of the city residents at Marx opera
house for the purpose of discuss
ing and, If possible, reaching a def
mite understanding on the paving
and DUR. double track.
In one of the last Steamboat"
races held at the turn of the CEN
tury. the freighter Powell Stack
house from Wyandotte was beaten
on the run from S.. Clair river to
the 500 by an hour by the Amasa
Stone. The freighterS' captain told
reporters he had not pushed the
StackhouSe to its full capacity in
the race since it was the freight
er's first trip up the lakes.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-13
Michigan Mirror by Gene Auemun

Editor Berkey presented the fol-
lowing comment In his newspaper:
These labor leaders CCI.O) say
that the war workers did a super
lative' job of turning out war
equipment and therefore are en-
titled to a bonus Of $1,000 each,
and that the money could be paid
from the unexpended balance Of
funds that were appropriated for
war with Japan.
Lets examine this q bit. Every
one Of those war workers received
extra pay during the war effort,
with time and one-half for over
time and double pay for Sundays
and holidays; and, while we hate
to say it, the whole country was
full of stories Of wasted time in
the war plants.
But, granting that every one
Of them did a full and honest days
work every day, what claim have
they as against the millions OF
soldiers and sailors who fought and
suffered on the firing lines, or on
the ships, or in the air? These
people who stayed at home, worked
in warm factories on comfortable
jobs and enjoyed the comforts OF
home were made better off finan-
cially by the war. The people OF
America will not stand for their
looting the public treasures now
that the war is over"
To which a lot of weary Mich
igan taxpayers, just as patriotic
as any ex-war worker. will add a
fervent "Ameni"
The road to federal subsidies is
also the road TO state capitalism
and its inevitable consequence: To-
talitarian government.