The Glenville Mercury Ar Grq Barbr Student New~Paper • GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE • Publiahed Weeld7

The Glenville Mercury ar Grq Barbr Student New~paper • GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE • Publiahed Weeld7

U quYOUency are enthuslasta one of tlloae who ju ..con-niley ~-,;oi~-;;;;;;,.,;,I&;;;•;,.;.N;,;o,;,. ,;Z;,;0,;,·===="7'=="'G"'J"'en"'Yil"'""'l"'e,,;,W=•=t "'V"'ircuua.,;;,,· ,·=,T=~=,•,",',M=arch==2"'0,=1"'M=S==...,===="'S"'iqle==Cap="''...,S,c-=,.ta• the home is getting to be only . •oll.uneh eOilftter. you are in for Pfc. Richard Smith REV. PERRY COX SPEAKS hard Hfe ahead, ac:cording to one A PEOPLE MUST ntsley Ruml. who in a recent Reported Missing HERE; S YS oColWNET article. "G<> to School • and See the World," thinks that fu- [n Actton, Germany LEARN TO OUST PREJUDICES tare 1enerations of school children Uould a nd will be t:ra•eling acrosl Pte. James Rjchard SmJth, 21 ------. Before the world can expe.rieDCe ..e continent in a sort of sc:hool yean old, of Glenville, is reported Tournament Scorea peace. people of the ,arious natiODI "o.m on wheels. He thinb all Am missing in action in German)' as of must. tJnderstand each other u peo ericans of high aehool age should February 26, it was l earn~ bere Reaioa 1 at Wheelia1 ple. iaYe 10 thousand miles of national last week when the parents, Dr. and Warwood 69. Parkersburg 62. That was the opinion or tlt;e ReY. 'iawel as a part o( their education. Mrs. W. T. Smith, reeeived u t.ele Perry Cox, nctor of tht Episcopal *They should get acquainted with gtam from the U. S. War Depart Re:l(ioo 2 at Clulu.itvr• Church of Weston. who apoke in Ame:ric&M from other sections of ment. No other details weTe giYea, Normantown 85. Washington J.rv. convocation Wednesday morninc OD 1M nation and envision its promis- ex.cept the usual note waa append· ing 34. ''Prejudices," marking his third ap. 1111 future through first-band knowl ed: uu tunhu infonnation or de pearance here · as a guest speaker. lldce of its industry, agriculture, tails are received you wilt be noti Re:.-ioo 3 at Fa.irtaoal Before a world peace can be ob pd natural resources," amonc other fied promptl)'." Morgantown 43, Elkins 38. tajned, prejudjces, which he de beaetlta. The cost, he estimates, will Pfc, Smith, who trained with ao scribed as ,.convi~tions or principlu h roughly 600 million bucks a anti.tank battalion, had been as-- Rewioa 4 al Ke:7•e:r held before any thought is given • • , Jar. signed to the 11 7th Infantry, 30th Kingwood 42, Keyser 38. the t'!ontinual false medium of view• Division, in General Simpson'11 Ninth ing things !rom an empty mind," is Army and bas been ettp;td in sey· Re•i- 5 at Beclcle,. muat be suppressed. He be.litves as e.ral major battles. inctuding the Beckley 65, Richwood 29. that understanding between people be famous one at A.ac.hea. o! different countries c:ould be ac• "'llot.ed" by his lah.-de-dah parent& Married to th~ for111er Mila Mabel Region 6 at Sot~lh Ch&rle.. on complished by what he tenned ''c:ul· fll dlte.rminc hi profes~ion, wa! Reed of Pinch and the father of Stonewall J ackson (Charleston) tural relations." ,aued in a room ""oith a dollar bill, 'two small c.hildren, Pfc. Smith iA a n 55, M:mtgomery 39. "We want others to know what • able. and a.n apple. U he those only son. He entered the s.e.niee in we are like and in what we are or t'lae Bible they knew he would be 8 March. 1943. ~nd has been oveneas Re.ioD 7 al HaDtiDIIoa are not $killed,.' he ~aid. HJnltitu· the apple, he would go In- since June, 194.4. His wife anti chil Logan 39. Huntington Central 3'1. tions like the College,'' be aaJd, .tl:"liilrieultur< ; and if be pieked up dren Jive at Pineh. "can create not only peace, bat bill. they were sure ha A former student in Glen,;riUe Re.-ion 8 al Blue&el.i guarantee t-hat peace will last." be a banke.r. But Johnny State Colleg-e, Pfe. Smith recei'ftd Bluefield 46, Williamson 29. Drawing an incident from hll his ¥oorl.h. A~ they watched the B. S. degree at We.st Virginia many experiences as a world travel· a. keyhole he stutfed University and at the time he eater- Chan.ce never helps those who do er, the Rev. Mr. Cox told of being bill tn his pocket, ate the ed the service wu an employe in the not help themselves.--Sopboeles. ·in ·Bonn, Germany, in 1935. when a be thumbed through the Glenville Bankinr and T rust Com- large medical meeting was in pror· pany, A Glenville Mercur)' Photo ress. Germ.a.ny's doctors, at the B e hu t:v.•o sisters, one of whom, meeting, adopted a 1·esolution t blt Mrs. Robert Freee, teaches in Par Blind Senior From Davis Will Be "Aryan blood is dHI'erenL fl'om any kersburg High Sehool and came here other human blood . . . ln texture Tuesday evening when she heard Graduated Here With 'Class of '45 ... qaality . . . It gives a man a news that her brother wu miuinc • superior standing in tho world." in aetion. Another eister, Mary JC .. When the robed seniors walk si.gnm.ent on two sheet3 of blank Fitty·se•e.n Jewish doeto1"5. who is a student in the Uni.. ersity. a.cross the Male I• June to receive paper. were 'not prejudiced, dis.scntt!d, and diplomas, DaYid Tewell, blind stu· Enjoying all social events on the weTe executed; others were sent to J. R. Wagner One dent from DaYia, Tucker County, Campus, he can be seen at every. concentratio·n camps. "N'o human persons will reatiu a 1onc-sought·for ambi· th.ing from a basketball game to a living on the face of the earth is Of County Men to tion a.ad tenniDate a long period of wiener roast. ia an active m.em.ber stronger, nothing is stronger. than hard work wb9 he wiU be graduat- of the tCollege Y. M. C. A . and the the fiber of prejudice," he added. FR.OM THE SAGES: Teach Gardening ed with a teachinc field in social Current Events Club. President of Explaining the narrow viewpoint .... prosperous peaeetime economy science. the St;pior Clas!S, be au tomatic~y possessed by the people of many na· •• tndw-e only upon the basis of a Mr. John R. Wagner, instructor Ente.ring tbe Colle~e in 1941. Mr. beeame a member of the S'udent. tions, the speaker said they \\'en in· 118iftrsall,y welt-edue.ate.d peop1e ... in physics .4ad mathematics, is con- Tewell, or ''DaYe,' as enryone o n Coune.il in September. doctrinated to prejudice to so Jarp fte U. S. must educate for pe.aee, ducting a course in rardenin« at the the CampUJ: calls him, will have Next to li,.,tening to the radio (he an extent that they would uswallow '- not in the ostrich-like fuhion Court Houn each Tue.sdlly e·n ninc, completed work f'or the A. B. de- has a small one in b~ room in Louis eV('I')'1:hing told them in their coua .. IJiftUtd between World War l and a~ o port of :A county-wide program gree in four yean, ma.intaining an Benne-tt Katt), movie-going is his try . . . There must be some !fOOd Wetid War n. We must make edu- of similar course~ in various com- a bove-a,·era1e C'Rde for the entire next favorite pastime. He says be way, $Ome profitable way, out o.f the n for peaee rulistlc . . . Ex munities. period. can see the exit lights and a faint wa1·." on the solid fou.ndation of a Home veg~table garde.nh'li:' coar. Becoming blind at 13, when he reflection from the screen, although Explaining that meetings ot duc.ated people we cannot 11 1 se.s for all persons ·ove.r 14 yean of suffered a brain tumor, Dan. ' en- he depends entirely upon the sound world leaders, inforntation and edi· tain a high national income or age who plan to produce or work in tered the West Vira'illia School for for following the story. A compan- torinls through the press and radio, ~rd out democraey with good gardens this summer are being con· the Blind at Romney in 19'9..;6 and ion is also helpful, he says, to fi11 in hod furthered the cau~e of under tlitilenah.ip." "Education s ducte.d in warious eommunitie~ of was graduated in 1934. While en- the ''blank s poU," where dialogue stnnding between people, he amrm. Jllpty Force."' published hy the Gilmer County in eonneetion with rolled there, ..where he learned is scarce, and read the titles. "I ed that people are wrong when lbey IL E. A. of the United States. the rood conseJ"Yation cente.r. Braille a.nd received elt'!me.ntaty and h:1ve one adva nta ~e when the pit· Isay the modern age has made the Cla.sses were org-.snized last high school t ra.inin,::, he was prui- tut•e' gets out of focus," he said. world smnllel' ... "Time has ahriv· A IOOICLET found iTI c.ne otf.ce, wHk at Glenville (next meeting dent of the sophomore clas and of A "well·read" student, · ~Dave ,'' elled. not space," he said. JMlbllaUcl by the General A~socio Tue~ay evtning). Baldwin, New- a senior literary society. regularly read about one buok each Urging his audience to ~o~.•orlc t~ tioft of S.ptl in Kentucky puts a berne. Mound Run. Tanner. San_d j ~ith th«:! aid of _o.n old ba~tere.d week before his "talking book'' m<~- v..oatJ the objective of elimination ot auok in its back by looking under Fork, Troy, Linn. Edmiston, Dll.Sk, wh1te cane. shown 1n tht- p1dUl'e chine, a phonograph on which he pl"ejudice between peo.,ple, the Rev. .. educational bed. Titled 1vrhe .COning:., or Little Con., CedarTille, above, " Dave" goes everywhere on playt'!d recorded books, failed to op- l\fr. Cox said, ''The Parliament of Cluman lbrxian A.theistic Sth Col· Dawson. Spruce, Normantown, the Campus alone, and on sliek days erate. The machine took 12-inch Man is in session-with no rules or .an in Our America ~ Public Stumptown, Lockney, DeKalb, Tan· of winter, with less ''spins" than records that played about tweh,e orders. Everyont'! mus:t debate ••. Sebool• and Its BackgTound," it in ner No. 4, Shoek. Laurel. tbe average student. When he en- minutes eaeh. They were recorded Those of us who ran to take it into len that American educators are 1'hese. courses are plannelyin:- for Not completely blind, Tewell ean figurt'! at the loeal high school, be no Easter vacation this canninc- '!IUI'ac (to be di~~d ia see faint outlines of b:&.ck.lichted where he iB doing practice teach year because of transpor DEAN CJtA WFOilD SPEAKS AT the third meetinc o.t each cl2.13). objects and eee lig:hts. He is often ing in an American History class of tation shortages, Dean 8UIIIIERSVIU.E._HJGH SC.. OOL ch~ined when hr speaks to dop Ijuniors and seniors. Robert T . Crawford eased MISS JAMES, INSTitUCT~ and telephone poles. thinking them students' qualms the past Dean Rob.;rt T. Crawford was IN BIOLOGY, lli ' IU.. ' pe<>ple. " [ moat speak to a lot of STRADER Ill SUBSTITUTE week when he announced speaker in an assembly prQIT3m at tbem.'' be told th6 .Hereury, ..for I IN nov eTJt caA.DE that there WILL be one. Summerrrille High School the past Miss Goldie C. James, io.nructor speak to a lot of tbincs that don't --- Clal!.'les will be dismissed Wednesday afternoon. His topie was in biology, WlB unable to meet class. answer." Wanda Strader, s-en.ior, taught Thursd-ay, March 29, at -..aeation Por a Free People..', Be es Tuesd:ay and Wedne.sday beeaaae His sister, .Hrs. Dot()thy Gruden, grade ai.x at the Troy Grade School noon. and the vacation ...... -...ed the rruter need which of iUne:.ss. Her clus in Bioloey 452, who enrolled here in Pebruaf'1, Friday in the abaenee of Mts. Bon will end at 8 o'clock Tuelt for education now, A.fter the meeting at Orma Tuesday, was reads a.ll his lea~ona to him. Be nie Erwin, who attended a regional day morning, April 3. ~. he ••de a short talk to taught by .Pru. D. L. H.. gbt . types assignments on his Royal por· batketball tournament in Clark.sburf. Mid-semester t-eporta & lliP aehool seniors. table, althoup he recently com- The Normantown VUc.inp, who play will be due April 2, ac He who boe.at. of llil dexent, plain~ that. while ty.pinc a .lhort ed in the tournament, are coached I cording to the College cat praise.s the deed.i of anotbe.r.--sea- &tory the nbbon came unhooked I by Mrs. Erwin'a b.rother, Eugene alog. eea. and ., a -ult be "tn>ed'' tile aa- William.o, 1Coll..., wnduat.o. =------....:

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that it is an lNTF.lR..."JATION- 1 T he AL organization - actually functioning, when there is so Glenville Mercury much said and comparatively little done towoard interna Student WecklJ New•paper of tional cooperation in other Clera'\"iiJe St.ate Colleae fields. Th.ere bave been endless .DA.fJFY-NlTIO~ . .. Will Published eat"n Tuesda~' by the elasses in Journalism in Glenville pleas made to the public to er is ihe stuff that takes you State Colle,£e and entered at the give generously and many tine after you've only been blabbing at liOstoffice. Glen\•ille. West Vit·einia. tributes, undoulbtedly dl>serv the drug store a halfhou.r ... Said as second-class. m~il Tatter. ed, paid the Red Cross. It is Lucille H.: "Thia Friday my fatber based on some of our most doesn't get home until Satursen·ed Good Friday .f rom OWL £:>1 THE ATI'IC, THE SDAL resulting in many failures in work el·al amt. of it . . . Jaclc.'s contribu or of_ France, followed Napol 12 noon until 3 p. m. IN THE .BEDROOM, MEN, too far advanced for thcir previous tion folJows: eon Jll to the battl-efield and A Lent observance i-s in progres..:: WOMEN A~D DOGS, THE WIAR training, the writer said. Changes in GSC .•• Janet ''Who and chw·ch members are being asked BET WEE'S" MES A!\'D WO:'ofEN. sez I'm a sad sack'' Bogg&---bappie.r arose magnificently to a tragic George P. T uttle, regist~r of the to sacrifice to the e:o.i.ent of contrib· The book is fillert with such humor- disposition . .. J ack Rade.r-blood situation. laying the founda University of Illioois, with a small uting a spe~i al offering far mission pressu-re bat'k to normal atte:r tour tions of the great organization ous :;:tories as, T·HE NlGHT 'l'HE stall'" presently is appraising hun ar)' work. GHOST COT IN, UNfVERSITY nament . . . W AA--basketbaH to of mercy known and respect dreds of courses given in the ~er To date the Methodist chut'che.s DAYS, THE L.~DY ON 145. softball .. . Chessie S.-no more ed the world over as the In vices to determine the. amount of have raised 25 million dollars in the high s~h oo l influence (sbe says) ..• ternational Red Cross. TDfELESS MEXICO is consid- c.ollege c1'edit that should be allowed. Crusade for Christ movement and Each gal to guy-"Spring is here Unprepared for the 45,000 ered Hudson Strode's mo~t im- the local ongregation went O\·er the (We hope) . easna1ties, both the French portant book. He pn•jo:ent~ Me~; and Austrian Army medical top with the quota assigned here. can history from Montezuma t.o Tbia Week We HO-HUM DEP"T. . . . "lilac" and eervices may as well lr.lve been For the Eas ter observance, the our own day in its fu11 glory. We .. Doc,.. Brannon... "Ha.rdm an. Taylor c-hurch will have a speeial st'rmon by Present •• • -S. Cunningham, Bailey-Cox, Tew non-existent. •Forgetting his hn\Te a g1•eat nE'cd {or unde ~·~ tand I errand, Dunant organized a the pastor nnd special music. ing )Jexico, hecause we have ell and his rad.io. a,. Homer Paul Hecbr! Certain instructor, busily engaged relief and nursing corps of 300 many dealings with he1·. OUI' next L--ives at Normantown. doot· neighbor, and TE\fELESS in some di£~ourse to her students, eoldiers and townspeople and Seniors, Graduates E-nrolled in collt~ge upon <:.o.m J.f.EXICO aids in making that un was inten-upted by some loud whis- made every house in the town M A 1 f pletion of her juniOr year in a hospital. Upon returning to Or det·standing easy. pering on the part of two boys in ay pp Y high school. the room. Looking a:t. the two with THE LE."-'IJrN•G TOWEJ!. AJ\ID 11 Geneva, he publi she~ a 30,000 Civil Service Jobs Q.-.perates a typewr·iter with a scornful eye, she as-ked, Lo\.m I OTH.ER STOll ! ~ br Katherine word pamphlet telling of t he great speed. disturbing you?'' Wbe.reupon, one battle and suggesting a plan Of interest to !ltudents mas be an Annt" PoJ'ter is n title of a volume N--ow, stays at ho:me instea.d of of the two lQ.oked up and replied foT vol'unta,ry ,relief so:cieties announcement by the Civi'l Senice which also contains THE SOU'RCE, Verona Mapel Hall. politely, "No/' and went. baek to iD aU nations. The next year Commission of an examina-:.iun t? THE WlT'ND3S, THE LAST A- rdent basketball fan. his whispel'ing. iD the face of impending wart;, ~ecu 1·e applicants for junior profes- LEAF. THE GRAVE, TB_E OLD Things we hadn't notjced before he made a tour of all the cap- ~ ion al assistant poS"ition5 with the OJtDER, THE Cl!RCUS, A DAY'S W-ilting to do ber part in cam- ... Ava Nell Loudin is a "lefty" .•• itals and courts on the Conti- Government. The positions •pay S.2.· WORK. TFI!E DOWNWARD .. pus ae t ivirie~ Campus lookin' prettier every day. nent. and in three months per· 433 a y~al' including the amount for PATH OF VI·SIO~. T.he•. callec- 1- s majoring in comme.rce nnd ... R. Brannon's diminisliinc ban.k- euaded sixteen nations to send o\·ertimt'. tion demon su·at~s the fact that English. 1'011 ... Tennis court getting" dry. representatives to Geneva For the examination either appi'O· Katherine Anne Porter is one of L--oves chocolate cake. . . . Mary K. Sflumate.'.s and. BobbJ where, i.o October of that Jij.'iate education or experi~nc .... or a the really gTt:nl contentporary L--ikes to read novels. Coe's sudden interest in sports ••• principl es (·ombination of the two. i11 qualif~- Wl'it~J'S. year, to effect upon 1-s a junior b)t vit1.ue of at which the Red Cross now rests. inK. Pe1·sons are espedally t~ eeded GSC boys' thought8 turned to mar• tending ~\l mmet· ~ehool. bles instead of love for a few mo Today its covenant canies the for positions in the fields of business Bernard !'! MU1!!JER PLOT, and Dust to dust; ters from home-a service that cannot enter on duty u ntil ~t fteJ THE XEW EUR>OPE. He: If you 'll re-t·ead my 1a51. let- lf .rou don't like my ~eater is very near and dear to our their l!'raduation. Iter you'll find that I love you dcvot Keep your hands off my sororit1 hearts just no •• but only one Applicants will be ~\·en a. ,niL· CRADUATE ACCEPTS TEACHING edly on page- 1. :nudly on page 3, pin. of many such services. Well ten test consis ting of que!:'1ions to POSITION AT SAND FORK und passion:.tely on p:ige 6.--Jay we know, too,_ the... part t_he Red test their a ptitude fur !earning and walking. A g i1•l who we_nt out with a Gl Cross plays JD. such dJsastel"':5. 1adjueting to the dutie~ o!' ~h e posi - ~ :\li. P..uhl' :\1 ssenger. i!'radu:.tc realized t en minutes later that h• as floods, fammes. fires and 1 tion ~ of 1944. aecerted '' teac_hing posi C:-. mpus !\tan : J could adore :l gal v.•as a W-0-.L-F. earthqu ake~. tudents interested in the:e posi- tim in t he S.?.nd Fork grade school like yau. ' ' It wa a fine tribute to a tions mar obt.ain informat.ion and Ithe pa..~;et week. suel"eeding Ann Coed: You'1•e out o.f luck. Thert' It's notbing- much to think of great organization when, af- appl.icati~n form.! at fir•t and set'ond- Keith. For the past flm m?nth Mis.c: ain't nobody like me..-.o\ubu1·n. But e''el-y now and then ter Red Cross workers came elasc po! t offices. or direct from the M e.,-s e~ger ha:- been teach1ng at the J wandel' where Mahatma GhandJ so gallantly to the scene of U. s. Civil Ser\'ice Commission, Ellis Run one· room school neat· POM.E C3..t'rie.s his f ountain pen. tragedy on December 7, 1941. Wa~hington 25. B. C. Information Alice. They caJl her miss a 17; . . . someone asked how the Red al!!o c2n be obtained !rom Mits They call her rnis.s nt 2Qo-; SonH! duughtet's a_re findi.n.c it Cross got there so soon ~nd the Louise Whitlow, instructor in Com- 1 ~embers of th~ College Red Cross I They call her miss at 52-; difficult to look as young a thej.r reply came baek that the uRed merce. unit met Tuesday evening anll She must have mil'sed aplE"nty. mothe t·~t. Cross didn"t have to .get there. started making USO scrapbooks. -Georg• Washington U. ft W A ,S there."' Because of illness, Dr. J . r.:. Girls h.ave completed two Navy Fcmall' voice to bus dri\·e.r: Can't Certainly such an o.~~a~~z~., Shreve, head of the _Education de-- swea!~rs and 186 Navy sewing kits. . Jt h:is _be~n said that college l}!e Iyo u wai~ until I get my t!lothes oaf tion de~erves every Jilt Jt parlm.ent. met his d a.s.ees only one Sentors on Lht campus "had meas- 1s very s1mdar to a laundl'y. \ ou And .,o Gl's twisted the.ir necb eets--wbether it be material- day. Friday the p1st week~ urements taken Cor caps and go.wna get out of it exactly what you put out of joint wbne the laundnu ly or moral]y. Pe,rhaps "its '• in the rt~gi!tra.rJs office the past into it-but you'd never l"ecognize climbed aboard witb a balket of greates-t feature is the fact Boy War Bonds. week. it.- MiMiM"ippi State. elolbirlc.

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WSSF BASKETBALL GAME The eight regional winner!! wtU s.pec:tiveJy. durin~ the !rRbC'D. Jane CC,;mpete this week in the. S~ate Hirl• Lew also eame up with nn ".-\bra~ ~hool Tournament m t.:e Wt..;- ~ Vir- o\·jc" in the p-erson of Kenneth gm;a Univet·sity fieJtl house, Mor· Sims, who had a 27-polnt!-:peT.. game Weekly Round-up guntown. average during the season. ·Cairo had At a recent meetinJt of t.ht- Big a \\lell-balaoced team aU yeaT, witlt In Sports Ten ConferE:lce at Cla.rksburg the j a fine shot In Sheet:. Cl~y, with a following All-Conference team \\'3E vete.ran nnd aggressive t.~:umtet, wa.a By Jack Rader selected: Forwards, Lemine of :\lor-1 dongerou,; to ever)• opponent. U gantown, and Kldtly, Weston: cen- ~ wttneE~ed by tbt- fact that they wtu-e ter. Leskovai, w~t Fairmont.: the c nly team t.o beat. t.he Sp(oncer The nati,nal basketball tourna · . Tellow Jacket on the1r home floor ~unrds, Moran, Gtafton, and ._ttmd- -th· M , C th r f ment in Madison Square Garden, lei·, Elkins. 1s season. t. ary !i a o 1e: o New York City, will go into the Se\·eral schools in the sta:.e may Cl8rkl1burg, coached by Frank semi-finals today and tomorrow. have baseball teams this spring. as ("Yac.k''l lfazza.' the ex-Salem Col Among those teams entered pesides indicate<\ in recent meetings ·n !eve :tar, surpnsed thf experts b7 We. t Virginin, whieh had the mis- which th~ _port was appr season. Cheered by the recent hela West Penn, it was learned here Looking bar:k o\·er the b:askethall dee:l:trntio.n b)' President Rooseve1t today. season jusL tnminated, we find that that he favor!t the continuance of i\JeC: Iung '!:.'::id he would go to there have been several outstanding STEAK DINNERS the game, the majors are looking F:linnont !rom here but pTobnbly teams in this section tlris season. To forward to another great season, l:tter will ha\'e a ptrm:lnent head· name 8 few, we 5hould influde NO't· !------Only a fe.w players a.re holding out qua11.ers in the Elkins Division area mnntown. Weston. Jane Lew, Clay, for more moqey, the most notable I and probably will live at Elkins. Cairo, St. ~fury's o{ Clarksburg, and beiOg Bill :'-litholson of the Chicngo Suceeeding I. N. (Tke) Fetty a! the local Glenvme: Red TerTor-s. CONRAD'S Cubs, George :McQuinn of the St. agent in Ci1mer County, McClung ~ormant.own gets top .rating be· Louis Browns. and AI Gerhause.r of has been instrume.nta.J in organizing cause they were undefeated in Ceo RESTAURANT the PMlade.lphia Phillies. That. ,man I and executing a number of special tral Wes t Virginia Conference play, power is the. _big problem is evi farm progJ·ams nnd has been sue- losing only to Spencer in regular denced by the fact that. the Cincin e:eo.ssful in coordin~ting fann activi· se.:lson play. Weston is remembered nati Reds recently signed two forty tie with lhe war effort, espedally for its Lwo·man scoring combination two year old veterans. Several play in the capneity as o:ecretary of the of Bill Kidch 20-21 one seeded tennis player in the )iembers of the Cu1·rent Events ENERGY E>tcitiagl Tropical! ll<>mantiel country. Others close behind him in- Club and n class in Sociology saw a EAT FRUIT Tyrone Power. MyYna Loy the lose.r!, uptured 2 elude Don B ud~e. Frank Parker, special ~t' l't•e ning \l( the Warner THE RAINS CAME M :.nd \Va)·ne Sabin. Brotbet·s '5hot·t suiJject release, led by Hall and · C· "This Is Yot•r Eneuiy," at the Pic - ~ Thursday-Friday, llal'<'h 22.-23 pined 4 points eae.b. SURE SJ G~ OF PRING- W·A.4. tut·e.lnnd Theatre Priday, th1•ough ORANGES Olsen and John$On the winners. wu h1gh gals s\\i nging for distance when it the cout1:esy of !\h-. C. W. Mal'!h. THE GHOST CATCHERS s points while Welch comes their turn to bat in softball. I With Gloria J ean• .Martha O'DriscoU, and Clark and Bodkin Some of theln can l'enll)• sock the The .:=eventeen minute 6lm was APPLES Leo Ca.Tillo ea.eb. ball. too. Othe•·s t' mplainetJ a!ter· rwotfuced in Ce1·rnany to be used a~ Pta.lllcMikta Pta. ....-ards of b•·uis.ed finge.l'S, the nsult tCI'I'O.I'iStie propaganda in countries LEMONS Satu1·day, March 24 .. Tiitle1' wn .. about to invade, retained ~w e Ic h ! of trying to ft.Qp a line-~rive by Two Big Wutera•! Hardman - ll beckoning witb theil· Cnhtnges. mon o( the original Gc1'n1an com- GRAPEFRUIT Alan Lane ,'"' lat• k 2 menta1·)r, although interp1·eted by a 0 Bodkin 2 Should any major lea~ue scout be STAGECOACH TO Stalna.krr 0 interested in good pitchers, this 1s na.l'l'ator who also added an explana- MONTEREY o Cunnin~ham 0 to mform you that Juanita (Light.- tion at the beginnif1J!' and provided plus E R Ell en 0 additional comment.ary for added R. B. STORE TEXAS RANGERS o B~~tt \'E . ~ ;~~~~db~~~~~~::l:ke:"!re ~!~>l·e~; scene!t. ~ Su.nday-llonday, March 26-2.6 "fcj!1 Tot.a.l 13 Igood fot·m. and for speed on thl The ~hol't , which played a •'egular !.------' B•tty Gr3ble, 1\obert Younc Wanda Strader. senior. bases, E'\•elyn Finster "takes the ~~~::.dn:,-:~· ~dt~~~· r~:2 ib~::·de~·~~"~e:. ;:.======-=-=-=-=-=-=-=:::: SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY cake.'' For power hitting we refu struction carried on by the German . L'l TECHNI<:OLOR you, deal' scout.,, lO Ellen Welch, Al·my. Gray Barkel'. junior, arnng A Swell Place With Adolphe ll.enjou lf.ary Jo Elly:,on, anti ,Janette Cun- etl for lhe spt>c:ial sc•·eening. and to Spend An Tallulah Is Coming In ;~:~~fJ~~~i:~::T~~~::~~::Y _"·i:: ~~~; ~~P:·rt~~;~~~· ,~::'\:r .~:~.g~"!; Evening! LlFEJB(}.~T! D. EP'T: Katherine ":\1uscles.. Ifa ll., the g i'O\tp. Open Until II P. M. enl!rgetic president of W.-\.o\, who, ;======:::::; thoue-h snl:tll in statu1·e, jc; nlway!t seen in the thick of action when the gals perform each :lfonduy 11nd CENTRAL Wednesday e\'enings. RESTAURANT BITS 0' TBIS AND TI!AT Kenneth L. •·Tug•· Wil~on is the new head of the Western Confer- p. m. to organize team.s. ence, succeeding the late Major ' ~ Finstu and Mary Jo Elly- Griffith ..• The l'Oster of the Wuh 1 Now Is the Time llthose:n t.aptain~. They ~e- ington Senators show~ that there I 1 team~ and pla}•ed their are twelve Cuban$ listed .. . \Ves~ To Do Your . We'dne!.day n i ~h t. Elly- min~er College of P ennsylvBnia I won the game 13--4. have been unbeaten on their home ' l Dllllno•ha,m'• '\'ol!eybaJJ team ftoo'r fo1· two years . . . F••ertdie SPRING team the put Schott o! Akron. Ohio. is the new I I * they won t.-v.•o "white hope" among the heavy. I HOUSECLEANING 15·8 and 15-W j weights m boxing, which prompted BUY BONDS · Ione sports sc.nbe to doeclare tbat if he should be taken h)• Uncle Sam, l See Us For I see farther !han the- the bo~ing world would ,-et a Schott THOMPSON'S * be has the giant'~ in the .-'l.rm(y). I Wallpaper and ! moUnt on.-Coleridge. ------I' KANAWHA IINION ij Furniture. of thP day, by de· The mind ought sometimes to bt' REX'ALL STORE I spend it on two so~ amused, that it may the. better re BANI only-tho~e by turn to thought, and to itself. CALHOUN j may be got. and Phaedrus. Glenville, W. Va. Member Federal Depoeit something may be ------I SUPER SERVICE ! lasurance Corp. Write to servicemen.

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On The J..and, In tbt Air, And on The Sta Scrap PI,. Ingenuity Equal With Our Frie~da In The Senice Equipment, ARC Girls l'rtnJe Three -tlon WE FORGE'!'.'' CONDUCT A •~ Je.aaita w.. tr.u Kindoeu is the key t)lat unlocks "SAFETY PATBOL," heinduction Call No. 2'7 Us been. the dool' of h.appinHS.--d.. Edgar. able for showing iD tile recei•ed: at the of&ee of tAe Gilmer lllan:b :.-30, an4 facalqr Count7 S~leetive Semce Board. ------who willh to - .., of The group, compriain.c 18 meb, wi¥ classes may &:rl'llftP ta do J.. n Glenville on Friday, April 6 "Going My Way" in.: Gray Barker, who ia at 11 :30 A. M. tor exarninati.on in lhe fllms. Baotia,cton o~ th•e r.ouo·wiag day. Gets 7 'Oscars' "LEST WE FIOBGET,• a of the quaint old daJO and t1ut NOTE TO ENS. WATSON brielly Inion the pro,_. of In the Mercury of the past week family automobile. wuow NOT 1uanita WettfaU quoted a Jette} A few million movie fans held CQNDUCT A KEETING,'' from Ella. Ray Watson, USJIIR, that their breaths tbe past Thunday ly exhibited at the said, "TeU Misa James I would like evening when Hollywood's most Theatre by Barker to set her tie in.to one of the b•g coveted awards, the Academy 110s Lemuel Q_ Stoopnogel, who sha.rb 1 Nw out here." cars," were given out. ously Illustrates many of dar Well, Ray, it seems as il Miss Deep voiced Bing Crosby, unlike to be avoided in pJannin• and 10 James can cope with anything- his horse, really ran FOB.W ARID, &C&AP FO& CII.AJ'TiiiiiEN- 'hb 11M cr...... Cleftt II .Uwac• ducting a meeting. SAFETY even 1harks; for upon bearing your to claim his gold sprayed statuette lal ~be , ,_.. •I •elal tr.. • b..... lap , ...... ae .,.., wW •• TROL" shows h.ow sehoob ba" ~omm e.nl she sa.id, "Tell Mr. Watson .... Ia ~ Croll craft thps Ia 11M Da&c:• New Galau ...-. AS tipl .. ga.nized boys and girls to in~ tor the best acting of the year (Aid eae o1 &a.e ...... prM•cta. a brueJet. •• w'llaJcll T/1 ~ SUwestre. I'd love t.o do so----only I'd want his the judcea) in ''Going My Way." ., Jfew Y ull::, .. patUq aata1Lla1 '"eMs. M.fety of other school ehildren. big knife. I wouldn't try it with a lngrid Be~an , described by the scalpel." United Press D! "all chocked up," The 6rs1 two American Red Croa lo Iceland fu.nlisbed ~ recreation. was acclaimed the best actreaa of &lrll oa duty in Lbe Ne• Hebridei center with a meacre t:u.ppl7 of AI· Sgt. Jack Conrad arrived in Glen ,poup J lept under the open Jky, YICe pipe and IC!•P lumber. Old the yea..r. E'VUJ' a.Jgbt they prayed tor clear IUOUae caDJ oa ttilts ~ wlred tor ville the past week ~ spend a few At a meeting of the Sorial "Going !'fly Way,'' receiving the weather and empt1 1pam cans. eleetrlcity provlded indirect ll(btl.Da d:.ys with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. award for the be.st picture of the Tbeir quartera sUU lacked a root. ~~ I tort-for walls decorated b)' mitt.ee Wednesday evening it Leland Conrad. Bu.lldlnl materl.ab were scarce; their soldier ta.le.nL agreed that lhe IV. S. S. F. year, enjoyed no less than seven root bad to come out of the scrap The l~k of aece.ua.ry supphea ln Sgt. Conrad was wounded in a.c~ mittee be allowed to ponsor a awards. Barry Fitzgerald swept. away pUe--empt7 rpam c1ns, u there were the Weate.m Desen proved no ob~ t ion in France Oct. 24 and ret urned dent-facult.y baaket.ball game all competitors for the beat sup e.aou&)l. pounded llat and laid like rtacle to club workers lD Nor\b We over the alopine, primitive Afrlea.. J!-ootLQJ:, throU&h the NIOJ March 24, for the purpose. of to the slate! about two weeks ago. porting actor. One prognosticator He is receiving treatment for his framework. So tbey prayed, too, that surroundinc their oace bombed-out pleti.D.g their goal. we read predicted Fitzgerald would Gl appetites would aot slacken. Jt club bulld.J.DJ, the-y collected dlsc:ard wounds at the Mercer Hospital, Three parties are planned for the get a dol.lble award-for both best 'Oak three da7s. but rlnall7 the lut ed bottles wbJcb lheJ &rouad do"'D Richmond, Va. tlatteaed tin wu "pra ed on." Now Cor cups aad 11usu. semester. On the. week--end of actor and best support.ing actor (he 7 Ri.s wife, the former Mi!J Mamie the rain eouJd come. Hospital recrealiou worke.ra have 6, the junior class is to was nominated for both). h. was ln every war z.ooe Red Cross become expert seave.a.aen. From ~o Bush, and aon, Jack, Jr., live in party. The sophomore difficult to classify him. beco.u_se h.is workera uae every amaginable llctm Wl"t'Cked Japanese a ad German Charleston. to \o se.nt a party on the role in uway' made him a star. Tbe produce equlpment suve the pleaes. the)' nlvaae alumin um D.lhtl.nc torc:u. Wllh them It Isn't strips, then teacla COI;Ivalesce.at GU April 27. A date for the famous film chalked up two other 1 quesUoa of. "Cfve us the tools and to turn out braceltts. watch bands Pfc. William Boggs was in Clarks has not been set. awards-for Leo McCa~y , both for we will do the job." ln. many cases, and other mi!IDen.tOL From spent bore Saturday night to see the Nor~ best direction and best original the)' must make their own tools out ~!tells. nuta. bits ot wood. sea sheUJ ealtown Vikings win over W"'h of anythinl and everytbia1 that a.ad bright pebbles, soldiers mUe ~"-nger is momentary madnN~, story. U you reo.Uy want a correet ; ngton fr\'lng in the final game of comes Co band. man7 usetul and ornamental arti.c:.let control Jour passion or it wiU summary of uway,'' just aflk Jan~ ln the Marianas, Red Cross (lrls u.ader their dJrection. trol you .-Ho~ace . the Region 2 Basketball Tourna~ ette Cunningham. furnished lbelr recreat•on tent wltb ln Fouia. una,inatlve Red CroQ ment. Pte. Bogp is stationed at dl.scarded packlnaz cases and bomb hospital recreation workers beQied We expect everything, and ut u Eth~~ •Barrymor~ received an . racks. Discarded crales made their JWCICal needles !rom Arm)' doctors. prepared tor nothing.-Mml:. Swet Martinsburg, W. Va. maek bar. Plywood scraps, painted Tbe7 wheedled soft leather !rom the Oscar for the best supporting ehine. . . in red a.ad black ~quares, were Air Corps. [n no tlme at aU the7 Lt. ll'illiam 0 . Whetsell, who has actress of t he year, in "None But fastened to up.turned bomb nclu t.o were teach.inl so l dier~pati enta to the Lonely Heart," which starred m;~ke checker tables. make · moc:assuu; wh1cb aerved u been stationed •t Walla Wall~ expected before the drive cloleS. 1&1 Lhhrr ihi"CA ous Red Oroo eirls hoiJ)itaJ 11ippers. W aeh., haa left. for ove.ueas ' \C:Iut.Y. Cary Grant. the solicitors. Be i! a pilot i ~ t b; ~Y Air Corps. Perhaps closest behind ••coing lly Way" in the voting for the best. Cadet. Nui'R France5 Gerwig, who pix was "Wilson,'" which. if Holly- Rad__er and Weaver Argue Compulsory arm. Your Car ID F• is in training at Johns Hopkins Hos- wood hadn't been so (ond of our M'J' T . . y M M . A Spriq Cbeck-Up! pital in Baltimore. i.s spending a shedding loaro, would ha.ve eome 1 ttary ratntng at . . eetang out on top. Zanuck's great picture _ , __ _ __;______~ twenty-day vbit Yt·ith her parents, CLENVJU.£ .SERVICE Mr. and Mrs. Ocie Gerwig of Orton. of our World War I president (and I " _ _ 1TEWEU.S VISIT HOME, . . . it is great) rec.eiveds ix awards, but It wdl be a sur~ notace to the BREAK SPEED R£COilD STAnON Yeoman 2/r: Patty Jack left to all for technical innovations. We world that the Umted States shalt! ___ would walk alone if we la. d l)Ot make the peace conference an D 'd T II - d h'· - day for Shoemaker. Calif.. after • .. · , • 1me g~ture , ut slS~ 11 ace id.Je argued J:ac.k Rader I av1 ewe ., eemor, an spending a ten-day leave in G l en~ Walson above \Goang My Way,'' h ' h d G W • ter, Mrs. Dorothy Gruden, sopbo~ rillt . From Shoemaker, Yeoman but we're willing to tak~ that sop om~re , as ~ ~n drover h e&Y·, more, probably broke aJI speed rec- Now Ia tbe TUDe to Haft l'at k wiU go to t-he tenitory of H a~ c.hance. ::~s~ 0°fm;::iwa~ :~:, p:t~:y \n~l~: ords Saturday morning when Mn. Y - r Brake. Relmed I waii. Moppet. M?rgarct O ' Brie~ ~as in tary training, before members of Gruden received a teleg-ram at 10 . . there p1tch1ng too-rece1V1ng a t.h C ll y M C A T d a. m. stating tbeiu brother, CPO 1st . 0 81 Sgt.. James J4c.Mi11en, ·~compan miniature uoscnr" as the best child e . ege · · · · uea Class James Tewell, and their sis~ ied by his wile and children, has re~ a.ctre53. We saw her in "Lost An~ evenmg. ter. Lt. Molly Tewell, ANC, were turned to Nashville, Tt;nn., where be gel" here rece.ntly. Speaking on the affirmative aide both home from California. Mr. 1...------...J B to undergo an operation for "The Fithting Lady," a new of the question, Mr. Rader reviewed Tewell and Mn. Gruden were on I~ :.;,;_:.:::;=:~::::::::::::::::::=i4EI 0 1 8 abrapnet wounds which he received P..obert Taylor-narrated show, poh- benefits . _such program: More the bu.s bound for Davis by 10:40·. in. foreign service.. tog~-apbed in color and not playin.g than ~ mlll~on men may be perfect- Three sisters from Washington, The McM.iHen's visited at their the sticks yet. and uThe Marines at ly trained if all 18 · yea~:»ld.s are :11 well as one from Ridgely. were PUT WAR BONDS 0 1 home in M:tsontown and Mr. and Tarawa," wb.ie!.b pJayed here with ealle~ !or a. ~ear ~ traiAing; t~e home. AU the family ...a together llrs. Roy Langford in Glenville. "Fired Wife" in September, won ph~Jca_t _tTammg ~ 111 be valuable an except a brother in Belgium and a . awards as the two best doeumentar~ mamtaamng physical 8?d mental aister in Te..~a.s. This was Hr. Tew~ ON YOUR .A.rlent Walton, S. K. 2/c, who ies. Best animated cartoon was health; unempolyment ••ll be lea-. e-U's fint time to see Lt.. Tewell since hH been spending a leave with her "Mouse Trouble.'' uned. 1941. Both James and Lt. Tewell SHOPPING LIST .f)arents, Mr. and Mn. Simon Wtl ~ The past year rumor has it that Mr. Weaver held tho~ a tlom;>ul expect to be sent. ove.neas soon. ton of Coxta 'Milia, is t.o report at Cecil B. DeMille was ex,pecting two so;.y military program would '>c de.t. And remember Shoemaker, CaUf., March 24 for or three awards- on his salt water riment.l in that "'other nation.l will RED CROSS COLLECTIONS that w b e n you furtber a ipment. epic., "Reap t he Wild Wind." (lt !eC us arming and will diatru~t Ul. TOTAL 1161 so FAR . . . seems as if when they want to make It will not kHI un"!niJ•6Ymen~ any l)eed a amaU caab S/Sct. Huch ?tfoore. who was a " big" picture they put. the word more than ·Pr esident Roosevelt wae The .Red Cross drive ls eontinuing "wind" in somewhere in the title). successful in killing otr the pigs!' loan you can de wounded b)' a truck durin~: an air at a rapid pace, according to Col depend upon thia nid ~ o•eraeas, i.s spending a furlo·ugh Wen, when the awards were given Kr. Weaver said a larger army lege soliciton, Miss Erma Edwards iD GrantSYiUe and Nol'lll&ntown. out. Iormer soap u1esman DeMille could be promott:d by making the and )Jlisa Rose ·Funk. Until now bank for peracmal Sgt. Moo,.. will return to BtaUlltOD, was exasperated to ftnd the show in service more attractin to young $161 bas been collected from fae~ conaideration. All Va., eest week where be ls a patient reCeipt. of onl)· one. The special ef- men, and aaked, '*Is • man lfree ulty and students, and much more i!. ill Woodrow Wilson Hospital. fects men pot it for the perlecuy· when undet' military rule!'' arguinc :;::::::::=====::::::::==:; Joana treated with . . . magnific.e.nt gjant .squid., which in- tbal aucla a p.rogn.m would auppreu ~ confideace. Pfe. Maurice 0 . ..Tony" Yil1er. cldenta.Uy stole the ahow even if it freedom., ROBERT L. ~cGE£ stationed in France, was rece.ntl, (the aquid) was made of rubber. ~h• paocram. opentng with aonp, tnnlfU't'ed from the bone eavalry Only two women and on_s Dl&J1 • eeripture readiag by Bomer Paul FUNERAL HOME Frienclly, Eeicieat to the meehauiH.d uvalf7. P fe. Kil baye won more than one ot Holly- Beckert, and a prayer by WUlla Service wood's co• eted 100scan,' 1 aince they SallUDer.!, featured a talk on the ori· ler Us been oYeneas since February Ladr Auiataat f• 1. were inaururated in 1928---J.AJi.!e •in of the Y. M. C. A. by llr. Sum- • Rainer, Bette Davis, and Spencer raers. seoior. He outlined the work w--•a.;w.- Ptoa Camp Stoneman, C.lit., Pte. Tracy. The pa.st. year the awards of the orp.nization, aome of whieb Brooka Golden writes: went to Paul Lukas (''Watch on ar.e miuiont, athletict, atudent COY· "1 ba'f"e a daaqe 1n adttress and the Rhine'' ), and Je.nnlfer J ones ernment, st~ dy of racial problema, would appreciate it if 1ou would I(''Song of Bernadette"). The pre-t alld reereatton. use it u 1 don't want m1 eopg of eedinc year lin. llini•er Garson Enlyn Finater, pianist for the Ute Mereary dela,.ed any lancer and J ames Cohan Cagney were the &veninc, aaimd .Mr. John 1L War· ... aeu~Ury.'' rHipit:Dtl. ner, adYiaer, in eerTiq refreebmenta. , ______.! ...______...

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