Senator John D. Hoblitzell at Kanawha Airport, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
1958/10/28
Description:
'Left to Right - Unknown, Senator John D. Hoblitzell, Jr., Senator Chapman Revercomb, Governor Cecil Underwood' at President Eisenhower's speech at the Kanawha Airport.
Left to Right - Joseph Allen Overton, Jr., a Parkersburg lawyer at U.S. Dept. of Commerce under Eisenhower administration, Senator John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. and Louis S. Rothschild under the Secretary of Commerce for Transportation. Overton later became a president of the American Mining Congress. They may well have been met to discuss the routing of West Virginia's first interstate.
A photograph of Senator John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (center) and Kaiser Aluminum officials presenting a flag made with aluminum manufactured at Kaiser's Ravenswood, W. Va. plant. At the time of event Senator Hoblitzell lived in Ravenswood.