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...rainy night in 1941, a young Presbyterian minister and his dark-haired bride arrived at their first parish. Scotts Run, near Morgantown, West Va., was a drab example of a drab species-the coalmining community. In its unpainted houses set among barren yards lived 5,000 mine folk. But Scotts Run was just where the Reverend Richard Charles Smith wanted to live...
...inventors are Clarence and Lonnie Gapen, who run a paint & wallpaper business in Morgantown, W. Va. They worked on their tire formula for six years, recently perfected it with the help of the Andy Brothers Tire Shop in Washington. The abrasive material (a sawdust mixture) is mixed with recapping camelback (uncured rubber compound) under pressure, then applied to a tire by the usual molding process. The Gapen brothers claim that their tires will outlast ordinary ones. They have driven some of their recaps 9,500 miles...
...came home to Burke county in a very real way this week, said the Morgantown (N.C.) News-Herald, when two homes received official notices of sons who had been . . . 'lost in action in performance of his duty and in service to his country.' . . . We will keep green the memories of these young soldier-heroes, who have given . . . their lives to the cause of freedom. Homes are bereft and friends saddened, but the grief should be mitigated by the consciousness that to die for one's country is not to have lived in vain...
Mahion Fechter, of Patohogue, L, I., N. Y., A. B. Indina '40, Bernheimer scholarship; James F. O'Connor Jr., of New York City, A. B. Columbia '40, William Choney Brown Jr. scholarship; Daniel C. Draper, of Morgantown, W. Va., A., B. West Virginia '40, John L. Cadwalador memorial scholarship; Lawrence F. Ebb, of Dorchester, A, B. Harvard '39, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; Richard F. Newton, of Ligonier, Ind., A. B. Indina University '40, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; John D. Ramsey, of Kaneas City, Mo., A. B. University of Kansas '40, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship...
Thirty-five years ago last week the football team of West Virginia University met the Michigan team of Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost at Ann Arbor. When the West Virginians returned home the Daily New Dominion of Morgantown interviewed them and reported...