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  Oral History Interview: William B. Newcomb

  William B. Newcomb

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia business history. This interview concerns the history of the Anderson Newcomb-Stone & Thomas Company. He also discusses: his family history; building construction; fires and floods; clothing; criteria and practices for marking up prices; and individuals such as John Valentine, James Stewart, Abraham Lincoln Shockey, and Oscar Ryan.

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  Oral History Interview: William B. Newcomb

  William B. Newcomb

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia business history. This interview continues the interviews about the history of the Anderson Newcomb-Stone & Thomas Company. Mr. Newcomb discusses: women employees at the store (including women in middle management); desegregating the store; African-American employees (such as Marion Alexander); discrimination; salespeople; management; and individuals such as Pearl Snedejgar, Shirley Schultz, Harriet Casto, Effie Newman, Ann Roten, and Edith Thomas.

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  Oral History Interview: William B. Newcomb

  William B. Newcomb

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia business history. This interview continues the interviews about the history of the Anderson Newcomb-Stone & Thomas Company. Mr. Newcomb discusses: managing and renovating the store; comparisons between his department store and other department stores; and individuals such as John Wannamaker, John Valentine, Charles N. Anderson, Eugene Anderson, Mr. W. B. Anderson, John Anderson, Custer Mayner, and Culley Stewart.

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  Oral History Interview: William B. Newcomb

  William B. Newcomb

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia business history. This interview continues the interviews about the history of the Anderson Newcomb-Stone & Thomas Company. He discusses: hiring high school girls to work at the store; an annual company picnic that included a trip to Camden Park; women from churches helping the employees out; retirement; price-freezing during World War II; pension plans, vacations, salaries, and employee benefits; managing the store; comparisons between his store and other stores; business during the Great Depression and World War II; and individuals such as Larry Tippett, Harry Wolfe, Shirley Schultz, Mirvine Garrett, William B. Anderson, and John W. Long.

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  Oral History Interview: William B. Newcomb

  William B. Newcomb

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia business history. This interview concerns the history of the Anderson Newcomb-Stone & Thomas Company. Mr. Newcomb discusses: World War II and its effects on the businesses (including price controls); dealing with sellers; sales tactics; toy manufacturers; dress regulations; their pneumatic tube system; his experiences working in an unfamiliar department of the store; hiring and firing employees; and individuals such as Larry Tippett, Harry Wolfe, Shirley Schultz, and James Smith (an African-American elevator operator).

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  Oral History Interview: Vernon Nicely

  Vernon Nicely

  The majority of Mr. Nicely's interview is a musical rendition of ballads from the early twentieth century. Also included is background information on the songs.

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  Oral History Interview: Paul Niday

  Paul Niday

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Mr. Paul Niday, born October 16, 1933, began working at Owens- Illinois, Inc. in 1952. He performed numberous jobs at the plant and retired in 1993 as a mechanical foreman, just seven months before the plant shutdown. Mr. Niday discusses the details of his work, changes that occurred over the years, union activities, company-sponsored events and the specific contributions of blacks and women at the factory.

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  Oral History Interview: Norman E. "Red" Noble

  Norman E. Noble

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia police history. Norman E. Noble was captain of the Huntington (WV) Police Department. He discusses: several cases; Bertillon investigation techniques; police chiefs such as Gil Kleinknecht and Ottie Adkins; and upgrading and maintaining police equipment.

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  Oral History Interview: Paul H. Noe Sr.

  Paul H. Noe Sr.

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. A transcript of this interview is not available. In this tape, Mr. Paul Noe Sr. discusses his early childhood in Wayne and Mingo Counties. He also tells about his experiences as a cool miner in Mingo county form 1915 until 1953. During this time he discusses the many hardships he and his family had to endure.

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  Oral History Interview: Dorothy Mitchell Norwood

  Dorothy Mitchel Norwood

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. At the time of the interview, Dorothy Mitchell Norwood was living in Huntington, West Virginia. She discusses: her childhood; World War I; detailed information about her travels (including small sections on the Grand Canyon, Bermuda, Central America, Mayan ruins, Europe, Australia, and some information on sandstorms); money differences between then and now; entertainment (including silent movies and vaudeville); World War II; other languages; a long section on the stock market crash and the Great Depression; her family; small sections on radio and television (including Lee DeForest and the mechanics of both radio and television); as well as other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: Robert Null

  Robert Null

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia communities, focusing on Ceredo. Mr. Robert Null discusses: various coaches (such as Paul Brown, Beau Shimbuckler, Thomas E. DanVule, Eli Camden Henderson, Carl Kenneth Ward, Guy Smith, Willis P. Peterson, Kenneth Dale Craycraft, Charlie Schneider, Stan Parish, Richard Tredway, & Tom Scott); football players (such as Frank Ward, Burt Ward, Ted Smith, Jeff Riffe, Stewart Way, Robert Alexander Morris, Jimmy Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little, Piggy Varns, Vitto Regassi, Wally Reardon, Freddie Wyatt, Bruce Bosely, Sam Huff, & Mike Lewis); other individuals (such as Jimmy Hammer, Simpson Griffith, & Dick Griffith); coaching tactics; and other topics relating to football.

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  Oral History Interview: Gladyce K. Nunn

  Gladyce K. Nunn

  Mrs. Nunn is a retired school teacher who in 1974 was living in Oceana, West Virginia. In this interview, she focuses on her teaching experiences. Mrs. Nunn also reflects on the changes she has observed in education.

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  Oral History Interview: Darlene O'Brien

  Darlene O'Brien

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia business history. Darleen O'Brien was an employee of Gino's Pizza Company, Incorporated. She discusses: her personal background; her employment background; the history of Gino's; the pizza business (including marketing, advertising, hiring, and management); as well as Gino's and its effects on the surrounding community.

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  Oral History Interview: Perry Emmett O'Brien and Winifred O'Brien

  Perry Emmett O'Brien

  At the time of the interview, Mr. O'Brien was seventy-four years old and his wife, Winifred, was sixty-nine. They have spent most of their lives in Ripley, West Virginia, where Mr. O'Brien taught mathematics, practiced law, and in 1973, was president of the Jackson County Historical Society. Mrs. O'Brien is a retired school teacher. Mr. O'Brien discusses family history, childhood recreation, and his experiences as a teacher and attorney. Mrs. O'Brien discusses her education and childhood.

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  Oral History Interview: Ben J. Oldaker

  Ben J. Oldaker

  This interview is one of a series conducted with West Virginia farmers about growing up on farms and about the farming business. Mr. Oldaker has been a farmer for his entire life in Buffalo, West Virginia. This interview concerns Mr. Oldaker's family which traces from post-revolutionary America, and the experiences of a farmer. At the time of the interview, Mr. Oldaker was living in Buffalo.

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  Oral History Interview: Otheletta Blake Orr

  Otheletta Blake Orr

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. The subject of this interview is Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop,WV. Otheletta Blake-Orr attended the camp from 1958- 1962. She discusses: her personal history; her experiences at the camp (including her first kiss); her duties at the camp; racial integration; what she learned at camp; anecdotes; music at the camp; and other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: Genevieve Owens

  Genevieve Owens

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. This oral history centers mostly on life as Genevieve Owens remembers it near the present day sites of Ritter Park, Cabell- Huntington Hospital, and the area near the hospital during the 1920's and 30's in Huntington, West Virginia. Focal points of the interview were: everyday life, especially during the Depression and the time immediately before; the Hanging Tree, reported to be in what is now Ritter Park; streetcars, a Model T Ford; early radios; the 1937 flood; the Ku Klux Klan; the condition of the area now known as Fairfield Stadium in the 1920's and 30's; World War II; morals, mores, and expectations in the 1920's; reciprocity and neighborhood relationships in the 1920's; some comparisons between then and now; and other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: Leo Oxley

  Leo Oxley

  Mr. Oxley was born in Hurricane, West Virginia, and has spent most of his life practicing law in the Huntington, West Virginia area. In 1979, he was a practicing attorney residing in Huntington. Mr. Oxley discusses various aspects of his career, such as his education at Marshall College and the University of Kentucky Law School, work in corporation law departments, and private practice. He also reflects upon the changes he has observed in the legal system and the need for law schools.

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  Oral History Interview: John William Page

  John William Page

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Mr. John William Page was one of the first blacks ever hired to work at the Huntington Owens glass plant. In this interview, Mr. Page discusses the issue of discrimination against blacks and tells about the work he performed in the maintenance department and the automotive shop. He talks about his many family members who also worked at the factory and friends he made at work. He talks about the changes in management, layoffs, cutbacks, automation, and union activities. Mr. Page was laid off when the plant closed in December of 1993; he was only months from reaching his thirty-year retirement.

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  Oral History Interview: Sadie Page

  Sadie Page

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Mrs. Sadie Page, born December 6, 1947, began working at the Owens plant in 1974 as a selector. In this interview, Mrs. Page discusses the details of the jobs she performed which included selector, balcony worker, back-up cavity checker, and back-up crew leader. She also talks about shift work, friends from the plant, union activities, management, company-sponsored activities, automation, and the many changes which occurred at the plant during the 1980s. Mrs. Page tells, from a black woman's view, about the discrimination against women and blacks including her belief that the plant had unfair hiring practices and a story of discrimination her husband experienced at the plant. Mrs. Page left the factory in May of 1993, only six months before the plant shutdown, because she was suffering from crippling arthritis in her hands.

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  Oral History Interview: Sandra Page

  Sandra Page

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. The subject of this interview is African-American students at Marshall University and the Supreme Court decision on integration of the 1960s. Sandra Page discusses: her family; her personal history; racism and discrimination; racial integration and its effects on students; her experiences as a Marshall student; Douglass High School; her employment; experiences at a two-room school she attended; church; the benefits of having a sense of community; her views on education; Huntington (WV) and problems she sees there; a play performed at Douglass High School and the band at the school; her inspiration for becoming a teacher; and other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: George Parsons

  George Parsons

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia Vietnam veterans. Mr. Parsons discusses: his family (including his mother who was a member of a strict sect of the Church of Christ, which at the time did not allow radio, TV, holidays, or government or military involvement); the anti-war movement; protests he made in high school; anecdotes from his high school; threats people made against him; instructors who were Vietnam veterans; his employment as a police officer; starting a small press publisher; and other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: Rae Ann Parsons

  Rae Ann Parsons

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia communities, focusing on Ceredo. At the time of the interview, Rae Ann Parsons was the secretary of the First Baptist Church in Ceredo. She discusses: her family; different pastors of the church (such as Robert Davis and Dr. Armstrong); church programs; age and class differences in the church; the church's mission; raising money for a new building; church events; church deacons; and how the church has changed over the years.

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  Oral History Interview: Kenny Partlow

  Kenny Partlow

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Kenny Partlow was an employee at the Owens Illinois glass plant. He discusses: his employment history (at Owens Illinois and elsewhere); different jobs and duties at the plant; labor unions (including one that Mr. Partlow was president of); strikes and lockouts; machines taking jobs from employees; individuals such as Denny Silvis (a plant manager), Opal Mann, Kitty Dukakis, & Senator Ned Jones; the closing of the plant; racial & gender integration at the plant some discussion of politics; a very brief section on eating buffalo/beefalo; sports (mainly boxing); his views on Huntington, WV; and economics.

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  Oral History Interview: Cora Patrick

  Cora Patrick

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning rural life. The main focus is farming and farm life. Mrs. Cora Patrick was born in Lemon, Missouri, but was residing in Unionville, Missouri, at the time of the interview. The interview reveals her life as a farm housewife including aspects of housekeeping, preserving food, budgeting the household, and maintaining a family. Also included are drawings of a turn-of-the-century icebox.