Show c Tv — ‘y ! t' THE GARLAND TIMES UTAH GARLAND CLASSIFIED S"Hlme of the Hills’XXvl u: (Editor’ Note: Thl coal!” John Peter Salley one of an party had picked up what seemed to be another rock and found it to be bituminous coal Today West Virginia with its 585 mines often as the “coal ' f U I a V bin of Develop New Industries As early as 1790 a furnace was built by Peter Tarr of King Creek near the present site of Welrton now one of the biggest steel producing cities in America Cannon balls made here were used by Commodore Perry’s fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 Michael J Owens son of a coal miner invented a machine in 1903 and started a new West Virepoch in that industry in prewar years ginia produced glass china and pottery valued at million dollars annually Miflin Marsh made stogies and sold them to passengers on Ohio river boats in 1840 M Marsh & Bon Is reputed to be the Wheeling In the largest stogie manufacturer United States And back In 1915 when World War I cut off the German supply of playing marbles Akro Agate was founded at Clarksburg and today the concern makes over half of the world's glass marbles InBut lest West Virginia’s dustrial achievements blind us to her other claims to fame and distinction let ns look farther than bltumlnoua coal production natural gas petroleum chemicals salt atone hardwood limber steel and Iron manufacture textiles glass pottery ceramics and others There is also the romantic and historic West Virginia And there is the mountainous and scenic West Virginia which has become one of the nation’s greatest recreational areas v On of exploring When William Tompkins used natural gas as fuel to evaporate water from brine in 1841 he became one of the first men in the United States to use gas for industrial uses West Virginia’s natural gas production in 1944 was 213 billion cubic feet 1797 In Elisha Brooks began extracting salt for commercial purposes from a brine spring in Kanawha valley near the present site of Charleston Other West Virginia salt works have been operating for more than 100 years rSi f fected not with the Civil war as a cause but rather as an opportunity December 31 1862 the congress the United States gave its consent to admit West Virginia as a state and the next spring on April la anoth- er In the “Stories of the States’ series) By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Feature t “Chust look at dis! It’s is referred to America” M tV '°4V side Virginia revelation Anyone must marat the agriculture and fruit that are produced In a state that ranks among the first In industry Prize beef and bituminous coal? Yes anything is possible in West Virginia ’‘Stonewall” Gen Jackson was born at Clarksburg and West Virginia also gave the nation John W Davis Pearl S Buck and Ann Jarvis In case you’ve forgotten it was Ann Jarvis who in 1907 asked a to friends group of Philadelphia wear white carnations on the first anniversary of her mother’s death CHIEF EXECUTIVE Watson Mesdows was elected the 22nd governor of West Virginia in 1944 A former lawyer he had served as state attorney general and judre of the 10th judicial circuit court before his election He Is a native of W Va where he was born February 11 1904 The first white men went info what is now West Virginia ns early aa 1719 and a few years latef- cabins were being built After 173S South Branch valley began to fill up with the overflow from Shenandoah valley and from Pennsylvania and Settlers were of several Maryland — and the nationalities composition of the people of Weat Virginia has been different from that of the country east of the mountains Story of Controversy West Virginians heartily supported the Revolution and sent troops to help New England and the Middle Colonies but the history of western Virginia before 1801 is a story with of controversy eastern ginia Socially politically and ecothe two sections were nomically like from the very beginning Western Virginia was democratic while eastern Virginia was aristocratic' The Idea of separation was foremost long before the Civil war When war broke out between the hrfe were bound to states in 1861 be repercussions the through tire state Eastern Virginia was the Western heart of the Confederacy Virginia was opposed to secession The long desired separation was —and Day founded thereby State of Mother's Contrasts border is The state’s northwestern the Ohio river the aquatic highway that opened the West But the and the Kanawha rivers are important too West Virginia’s elevations range from 240 to 4860 feet above sea level with the highest average elevation of any state Yes east of the Rockies it’s a mountainous state but every wooded hill every shady nook and every sparkling stream belongs to just such a state About 60 per cent of the state’s area js covered by forest with trees ranging from spruce to prickly pear in the highlands cactus and other plants lowlands wildlife and extensive areas combine to lure vacationists to West Virginia's two vast national forests the Mononga hela and the George Washington The state also has 15 state parks and seven state forests in the Scenery Fishing swimming well what hunting hiking riding golf tennis boating — do you want for recreation? And what Is your trade what are your business ambitions your for success? And specifications what of your "dream” home where nature is loveliest? Perhaps the answers are — in West Virginia! V' - U X Service ive members who will be as Is not mere personal which drivea a senator for Individual promiIs a part of his Job U ef strengthen the sovereignty the sovereign state be represents Another thing which often forces a senator to walk alone or as part of a small group is sectionalism— not hidebound attitude either but the demand that he truly represent even the interests of his community if those interests conflict with those of other parts of the country The ancient antagonism of has never quite died It was only a little over three decades ago 17th amendment was that the the popupassed which authorized This was lar election of senators the largely through accomplished L if not apart from the main of West Virginia the village of Martins-burhad ’’30 houses" and the community was building "a courthouse of no inconsiderable size and eleis the gance” Today Martinsburg Industrial center of the Eastern Panhandle PanWest Virginia's Eastern handle has as its main attractions Cacapon state park old homes of ferent area In 1776 the Washington family In Colonial and large days Berkeley springs apple and peach orchards Harper's Ferry historic center at Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah is the state's oldest town The Eastern Panhandle is only 52 miles from Washington 73 miles from Baltimore and 261 miles from New York It is one of the favorite and vacation spots for areas trip from metropolitan state legislatures The Republicans benefited by the failure of the Democrats to mainalliance but they tain a now suffer in turn from other sectional and Ideological cleavages I other remark one man the heard day that two recent speeches one Morse Republican of by Senator Oregon and the other by Senator Byrd Democrat of Virginia each expressed views much more in line with the opposite party’s than with their own organizations There are many other similar anomalies in the 80th congress as there were in the last session The belief that the extreme cowill be in the saddle nservatives over any ready to ride liberal move is not generally sup— history True has shown ported that the American people can atand just so much reform at a time But on the other hand they have seldom been willing to sacrifice past social gains Consequently when the Republicans have been swept into fice after periods like the Wilson “New Freedom" they have been very chary of repealing laws which were passed In answer to a demand for new privileges for the many X w miUi vail f BUSINESS INVEST OPPOR St MACHINE BLOCK ir Cement pumice 300 nr vibration Compreaaion with $025 Total oper cap Weekly profit Smaller model $4500 vestment S8500 Immediate delivery CALIF P O BOX 75 OAKLAND INSTRUCTION UNDECIDED ABOUT TOUR FUTURE? 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Cash BBT Satoa Registers Salt lake dksk exchange Sail Laka City Utah WmI BrMSway Norses Pay Forerunner of the modern U 8 medical department was the army authorized for department hospital the continental army In 1775 “Each regiment" said the order "shall he equipped with one hospital there shall be a matron with every 100 sick ar wounded to supervise nurses bedding and so forth and 1 nurse far every 10 sick or wounded Matrons will receive 50 cents per day nursaa twenty four ninetieths of a dollar” Upheld Court’s Integrity Only one justice of the United court has ever Supreme impeached— and that one was acquitted and resumed his seat an the bench according to the Encyclopaedia Brltannica Articles of Impeachment were brought before the senate against Justice Samuel Chase in 1804 because of his activities In behalf of the Federalist party States been Protect Metal Because of their imperviousness to water and atmospheric moisture resin coatings excel as phenolic primers on structural steel and are often used pigmented with red lead blue lead and other corrosion inhibfor painting of uniting pigments derwater structures such as locks and dams or for the interior protecof tion water tanks St tmair- Senators Bricker (left) Taft: Hold Presidential Key Some Good Pointers On Writing Letters to support all of its tenets or not And I can see the hackles of congress rise even on the leftish side at the suggestion that “the initiative was returning to the hands” of associNational Manufacturers’ ItTTER 'NRlTlNQ HINTS' ation Mr Truman was removed by the election from a number of restraints and pressures from groups which favored courses he personally disliked but be has not been party to any move to sacrifice past “social gains” and I cannot aee congress allowing the few reactionaries in either party or in the house or Write as You Talk senate to set back the clock a The As the Beards point out in their ARE you Senator Work will come more easily of the United “Basic History if you’ll bear in mind that a letFor Hie State States" the Republicans despite ter is merely conversation beMany people fail to realize the their landslide victory over Wilson tween friends Just write as you to in 1920 did not or could many factors which contribute not "stamp would individualism in the senate In the out speak the spirit of progressive or radifirst place each senator is and so cal in old American insurgency Remember people you by your himself considers an ambassador tradition and yet ever new In its letters Do you know judge the correct salutafrom a state — it is his business tion and ending for varloua tvpee of letcondapplication to changing ters? Are you sure of your English and to serve that state to the best of his It pays to brush up? itions” grammar? ability and his ability can be greatbooklet Our "How to Write Harding’s “normalcy" and Cool- Letters for All Occasions” includes many ly supplemented by the prestige he rules and hints Send 2S cents idge’s conservatism temporarily did samples Indeed acquires to Weekly Newspaper Service 241 prestige if ac- end our internationalism their (coin) But 17th York N St New can but T Print your quired by nothing seniority next choice was Herbert Hoover name addrese booklet title a long way toward go making been speaking with continwha had up for lack of ability Eastern Panhandle Is Favorite Spot for Vacationers used to talk about “this seek of the woods” and West Virmay Eastern Panhandle ginia’s the answer to how the expreshave sion started Back In the wilderness days the area was called "The Northern Neck of Virginia" Eastern Panhandle retains a flavor all its Own Gouging Into Maryland and Viyginft as It does It partakes of the traditions of both those dif states and remains somewhat MRlfflJNG of western and southern influence states which had already by means of state primaries or other subterfuge managed to take the choice of senators out of the hands of the hard to get into Baukbage the corral come time as the “sons of the wild jackasses” used to be It Isn’t the lack of s leader so mnch as a surplus of them that worries Republican politicos — that and the danger that the leaders may start leading In different directions Another factor not calculated to further unity is the flock of presidential bees crawling all over the In his Inside of the capitol dome December poll Gallup listed four senators as possibilities in the fol9 per lowing order: Vandenberg cent Bricker 8 per cent Taft 2 per Nation Clingi 1 per cent cent and Saltonstall To Old Reform These are small figures compared Harold Laski the British to the poll's 52 per cent granted labor leader would have us believe Governor Dewey of New York or that there is a “return to reaction” Staisen's in America Minnesota's He says in a recent 17 per cent the two leading Galarticle under that title that ”in abanBut that doesn’t mean lup's list doning the Roosevelt heritage Mr the candidates think that way about Truman made the shaping of the it Nobody Is placing bets yet As postwar economic policy of Amerthe veteran National Republican ica the concern of business and Committeeman Clarence Budding-to- not of congress" Mr Truman Kelland said: would be the first to deny that he “I don’t think you are going deserted the New Deal heritage to see the matter jell at all whether he was personally Inclined antll Ohio decides whether it la backing Taft or Bricker When that decision is made the linev up wiU come fast” that EisenhowGallup predicted er's star would rise higher and thus whip the hopeful senators to added zeal buttons labeled "Draft Lapel Ike” are already out Under whose banner Eisenhower would be drafted it Is not stated but it is genleanerally conceded his personal ings would be more Republican than Democratic Neither Vandenberg nor friends have begun to fight and at this writing neither one has even indicated publicly he is in the running More distressing to the men who have to make the upper house members hew to the Republican line is the old problem of the progressive element Some people re predicting that there may be more harmony in the next session so widely the minority among split last time than among the majority with its swollen ranks Some are worrying lest they Republicans be divided to the extent that their power will be considerably reduced & ACCESS SINCE Analyit and Commentator 1616 TRUCKS A PiPlMION By BAUKIIAGE New$ WNU Bnt It ambition to work nence — it THE PANHANDLE STATE the map of West Surrounding Virginia are typical scenes of the state: (I) Blackwater falls the administration building (2) at Babcock stale park (3) a coal tipple New (4) modern and (5) apple River canyon growing AUTOS Constructive GOP Congress Depends on Party Harmony Eye Street NW D C Washington — Now that the WASHINGTON 20 Lincoln issued 1863 President settled senate first problem its has his proclamation West Virginia beof the committee chair came the 35th state of the union two —naming Is men the next big question months later whether the Many Historic Shrines are goThree states and two rivers meet ing to be able to at historic Harpers Ferry where develop a leaderraid was John Brown's ship able to ride falls Seneca herd and estabstaged Blackwater lish the party disrocks Pinnacle rock the burial the state mounds at Moundsville cipline necessary for the historic building capitol control The Reshrines — all are interesting and worthwhile majorpublican is very slim ity to mountain blue From tops and there are a grass farms the agricultural restof number of West is a vel depart m eijt BARBS ual concern over conditions affecting the less privileged In 1923 for example he had called on the surance companies to study unemhe had enployment insurance dorsed an amendment abolishing child labor he had frightened the reactionaries to death when he proposed the inheritance tax to "redistribute overswollen fortunes” Going further back into history we note that after three successive even victories the Republicans when they had majorities In both did not repeal houses measures "reform" passed up ta 1900 When t returned they in 1921 power although attempts were made to do so such measures as the income and inheritanc taxes were not abolished or reduced to an empty gesture Yeaterday’i radical is tomorrow’s conservative The nation lion dollars prize heifer being auctioned the ballroom of the Congress hotel in Chicago for $1300 fell down and had to be slid back t her pen Many a lady might have fallen for How are our children going to gel the laugh from aur modern bathini girl that we do from the gay nip Let’s hope we leave ty bathers? more to their sen of humor 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