City Tightens Belt After Liquor Profit Rejection
Grafton faces a halted quarterly liquor profits payment of 1521.16 as Auditor Sims blocks transfers citing constitutional bans City Manager Curtis D Decker says belt tightening is underway while the State League of Municipalities seeks a special legislative session to restore funds Executive Maloney notes possible governor action if the court upholds the rejection and the city may still hire later for street repairs if funds return.
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Grafton
Curtis D. Decker Todo
State League of Municipal
Pat E. Maloney
Supreme Court
Sims
Decker
City Crematory Site Still Sought By City Council
City Manager Curtis Decker says no site has been found after 15 months as the council and Tyler County Board of Trade committee continue scanning the county for a secluded all weather road site. A location over a mile from Blueville is under study, with focus on winds, terrain, and nearby residents. Decker invites citizen input while editor Eldora Bolyard welcomes letters to the Sentinel.
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Curtis JD. Decker
Tyler County Board of Trade
Mankar Continua
Blueville
Decker
Eldora, M. Bolyard
The
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Sentinel Feature Highlights Interesting Grafton Women
The Grafton Sentinel announces a new weekly feature starting Saturday, twenty issues, profiling notable local women in civic life charity work or motherhood. Selections will be varied and announced with each weekly installment. Martinezburg area note: Pr. E. L. Cook resigns from Newton D. Baker hospital to resume active Army duty after leave.
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Grafton Sentinel
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Sentinel
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Newton
D. Baker Hospital
Veterans Administration
Army
Williams Meets Gavilan In Madison Square Rubber Bout
Lightweight champion Ike Williams and Cuban challenger Kid Gavilan clash in a ten round non title bout at Madison Square Garden. Williams is listed as a 6 to 8 favorite in a heavily bet fight with money on both sides.
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Declares War Not Inevitable
Winston Churchill told MIT mid-century convocation that war is not inevitable. He warned Europe might have been communist and London bombed without the atomic bomb’s deterrent, urged perseverance against tyranny, and said peace may be preserved if resolve remains. British papers called the speech a recipe for peace.
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Yorkshire Post
London Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Tornado injures three at Uniontown Country Club
A tornado swept Uniontown causing three injuries and significant damage across the Country Club and six farms. Two victims were treated at Uniontown hospital. Damages to the country club and surrounding properties are estimated between 150000 and 200000 dollars, with a dairy farm yard, fruit orchids, and a movie screen valued around 40000 dollars.
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Uniontown Hospital
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Virginia Lint
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Robert C. Itagan
Milk price cut lowers milk quart cost in Clarksburg region
Local consumers in Clarksburg area pay two cents less per quart for regular and homogenized milk after a price reduction agreed at a meeting of producers and distributors last month. The new scale sets regular milk at 21 cents and homogenized at 22 cents, affecting Fairmont, Grafton, Buckhannon, Yowlesburg, Philippi, Salem, Shinnston and nearby communities.
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Salem
Shinniston
Congress backs Churchill on peace hinged to atomic bomb
Washington lawmakers largely support Churchill's Boston speech linking peace to continued possession of the atomic bomb. Critics led by Senator Langer attack the wartime premier. others, like McMahon and Hickenlooper, stress shared future deterrence and the North Atlantic Pact as vital to unity among free nations. Chairman Tydings notes the bomb as keystone but calls for additional military arms to avert World War III.
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R-Iowa
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Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
President Stewart Speaks At Luncheon
Huntington West Virginia university president Arvin Stewart told educators that the struggle between communism and western democracy is the single most important fact in the world today. He said the communist American system will remain the largest fact for years as today’s students become tomorrow’s leaders. He urged that students be taught to understand today’s world to fulfill their trust.
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Arvin Stewart
West Virginia University
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Mrs. Gawthrop Attends Farm Bureau Convention in Columbus
Pearle Gawthrop of Route 2 Grafton agent for the Farm Bureau insurance firms will attend the twenty third annual convention in Columbus Ohio April 6 and 7 The program includes a sales day for company representatives plus the annual meetings of Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Fire Insurance and Life Insurance Dr Samuel N Stevens president Grinnell College Grinnell Iowa is principal speaker on sales day Other activities will be announced in the see MRS GAWTHROP page
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Route 2
Grafton
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Columbus
Ohio
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Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company
Samuel N. Stevens
Grinell College
Grinell
Iowa
Gawthrop
Miners In W Va Stop Work To Honor Leaders
West Virginia miners holidays to honor union leaders John Mitchell and John L. Lewis. Rallies planned at Kingwood and Stretch with a 18 unit parade, free ice cream for children, and speeches by UMW officials and local dignitaries.
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John Mitchell
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Kingwood
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UMW International
District 31
Cecil Urbaniak
Fairmont
Preston
Charles P. Wilhelm
R. Dayne Halbritter
J. H. Benson
Monongalia
Russia Sees Brit France Pacts as Dead After Pact
Moscow sources say the Soviet Union will deem treaties with Britain and France null after signing the North Atlantic Security Alliance. The memorandum states the Atlantic pact undermines UN foundations and breaches international agreements. The British foreign office rejects U.N. charter violation claims.
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Maloney Seeks Special Session If Sims Upheld
Charleston report says Auditor Sims refused to authorize quarterly liquor store profit transfers to cities, risking a crisis. Pat Maloney of the State League warns the governor to convene a special session if the Supreme Court upholds the action, with a meeting set for April 9 in Charleston.
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Supreme Court
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Chayleston
Maloney
Rotary Anns Are Guests Of Club Rotary Anns Are Guests Of Club
The Grafton Rotary Club hosted Rotary Anns at Hotel Grafton. Mrs. S. J. Walters welcomed the guests as a new musical program followed dinner. A Senior High male quartet performed with pianist Nancy Anne Staley, opening with Swing Low.
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Ralph Richman
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Enor
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George Moyer
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Lady Seeks Best Use Of Final Year In Oklahoma City
A widowed Oklahoma City woman with a year to live asks how to spend $10,000 for maximum happiness. Respondents urge living fully, seizing moments, and forming friendships as she awaits guidance from the LADY page.
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Daily Oklahoman
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Withers to be Reinterred at National Cemetery Saturday
Second Lieutenant Wilson Windar Withers 19th Engineers, killed in action August 15 1943 near Mt Etna Sicily, will be reinterred at the National Cemetery with services at 11 o clock Saturday April 2. He enlisted December 1941 after Pearl Harbor, served in Puerto Rico Ft Belvoir North Africa and Sicily. Survived by widow Ruby Ramsey and parents J G and Mrs Withers plus sister Ivadell and brother James.
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Claim Man's Death To Be Accidental In Huntington
Detective Chief Azel T. Bryant says the death of Cornelius Kennedy, 53, near the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks in East Huntington appears to be an accident. Coroner F. X. Schuller cannot determine exactly how Kennedy died as the case remains open.
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Azel T. Bryant
Cornelius Kennedy
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Baltimore and Ohio
Coroder F. X. Schuller
Renew Efforts To Extricate Body From Bridge Disaster
Rescue teams pressed to retrieve the body of Paul Sanders 39 Radford Virginia trapped under debris after the Bluestone Bridge span collapsed dumping five men into the river. Virgil Thomasson 42 Princeton Eddie Brown 29 Romney John Albert 38 Radford and C B Rigney 32 Dublin Va died. Thomasson died two hours after hospital care. Others were dead upon rescue or remained missing. Frank Young 30 Ford Va survived by jumping to safety.
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Radford
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Princeton
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Romney
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Rigney
Dublin
Thomasson
Frank Young
Ford
Tucky
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Miss Farley Dies At Buckhannon
Friends mourn the death of Margaret Farley a longtime Buckhannon resident. Born in Randolph County she was over 90 and lived at 2 East Wilford Street with the Flanagan household for fifty years. She was the last of her family. Funeral services are planned for Saturday at Bartlett Funeral Home.
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