Taylor County teachers and staff hired for 1948 49 term
Taylor County Board of Education recent meeting hired 14 teachers with three new face in Haymond Hepzibah and Thornton schools and nine bus drivers including Tra Louden while salaries for non teaching staff stay flat due to budget cuts with teachers losing ten dollars a month after a 1945 levy expired.
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Taylor County
Taylor County Board of Education
E. Guy Kuhn
Rober C. Sloan
Grafton
Carrie Sinsel Fast
Haymond School
Loraine McAvoy
Hepzibah School
Ester Zoe Walls
Thornton School
Mildred Gerkin
Beulah
Grimes
Margaret Hancock
Josephine Little
Edyth Martin
Muriel Posten
Gertrude Rasmussen
Elizabeth Stout
Jean Shingleton ‘Kearns
Earl C. Magie
Vern ‘McMin
Kuhn
Board
Cae Tre Pure
Race on a New Constitution intensifies in East Germany
Communists in eastern Germany race to draft the first postwar constitution with a September target. Berliners hope Moscow talks soon yield a west east compromise and Berlin’s lifting of the deadlock. Officials in Berlin report no comment while Washington and London relay updates to occupation forces. General Sir Brian Robertson flies to London for foreign talks.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Berlin
Germany
Washington
London
Brian Robertson
Foreign Office
City Completes Levy Estimate For 1948 49 Budget
City council projects 116 643 for general government operations plus 57 000 for water department for 1948 49. Fire truck funds to be raised by volunteer fire department with no city expenditure. Estimated non tax revenue 83 289 07. Levy set at 33 554 at existing rate. Class I 9 5 cents Class I property 19 cents Class IV 38 cents. Water department revenue 53 684 22 with 3 000 delinquent and 315 78 cash. See city page.
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Water Department
Grafton Volunteer Fire Department
Find Body Of Actor's Wife Week After Death
In Los Angeles a nude body believed to be Lavonne Silvers, 31, estranged wife of Lou Silvers, was found in a bathtub after detectives forced entry. A neighbor reported she had not been seen for days. Detectives found tablets and suspect an accidental sleeping medicine overdose.
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Los Angeles
Lavonne Silvers
Lou Silvers
Nudists Gather For Annual Convention
Nudist enthusiasts from the American Sunbathing Association convened for their 17th annual convention at Sunshine Park in Mays Landing New Jersey. About five hundred delegates were expected for the first meeting here since 1939 with sessions to be conducted nude under the park superintendent Dr Isley Boone who enforces a strict clothes forbidden rule.
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Mays Landing
N. J
Sunshine Park
Isley Boone
Seventh Hepzibah Polio Victim Is Identified Today
In Clarksburg Aug 4 the Hepzibah infantile paralysis list rose to seven as Shirley Vernon six was identified by County Health Officer A J Kemper. Marceline Vernon sixteen, a cousin, was not polio. One Hepzibah child has died.
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Clarksburg
A. J. Kemper
Shirley Vernon
Jackie Vernon
Morris Memorial Hospital
Milton
Shirley
Rain Boosts Corn and Tobacco Across Region
Charleston reports the past week brought beneficial rain for corn tobacco, improving pastures and meadows while delaying pay harvest and threshing of small grains. Some local shock wheat damage noted as rains retarded activity.
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Charleston
Federal
State Crop Reporting Service
Senate Talks Endgame on Anti-Poll Tax Plan
Washington reports Republicans edge toward a decision on anti inflation and housing bills as Senate debates a poll tax issue. Taft predicts a Tuesday quitting time while Morse defends constitutional limits in a long floor fight with Hill and others.
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Washington
Aue
Social Congress
Republicad
GOP
Taft
R-O
Morse
St. Ore
House
Hill D-Ala
Senate
Democrats Ban Race Segregation at HQ Staff
Washington Aug 4 The Democratic National Committee bans race segregation in its headquarters staff in a bid to win negro support. National Chairman J Howard McGrath says the policy follows Truman’s bid for government jobs and armed forces. He expects to announce a negro assistant to the chairman and notes no discrimination in hiring clerks and stenographers. The GOP runs a negro division with Val Washington of Chicago as head.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
McGrath
William L. Dawson Ofllinois
Republican National Committee
Val Washington
Chicago
Illinois
William Murphy
GOP
Dayton Strike Continues With Guards On Patrol
Dayton faces a prolonged labor dispute at Univis Lens Co as Local 786 UEW voted to continue the strike until a satisfactory agreement is reached. National Guard helmeted units guard nonstrikers while pickets dwindle and union leaders plan rallies and meetings. The strike, now 92 days old, remains unified despite tensions as organizers condemn violence.
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Dwight Pitkin Dayton
Univis Lens Co
United Electrical Workers Cio
National Guardsmen
UEW
Leothard Wernstaff
Herbert Hirschberg
Dayton
Park Responsibility Asked to Return to City for Memorial Park
The Park Commission in Grafton requested the City Council take over all responsibility for Taylor County War Memorial Park located at Parkview. Commission members representing American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars asked to be relieved of duties. Council asked for written requests before action. Walter Robinson chairs the group with Woody Squires and Glenn Sapp.
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the Park Commission
Grafton
Taylor County War Memorial
Old City Park
Parkview
Commission
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Walter Robinson
Woody Squires
Glenn Sapp
Ed of Education Adopts $40 Budget
The Taylor County Board of Education last night adopted a 1948 49 budget totaling 535 537 a net decrease of 36587 from last year. Superintendent E Guy Kuhn called it a very thin budget as 80 percent of the total covered salaries Only emergency replacements are planned with no funds for new equipment building changes or additions The decline stems from the expiration of a three year old special levy and loss of State and Federal Aid totaling about 8600 0 offset partly by higher sheriff's office cash balance and other sources
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Taylor County Board of Education
E. Guy Kuhn
Kuhn
Board of Education
Sheriff's Office
Education
West Virginia Dairymen's Association convenes judges Ayrshire awards
At Jackson's Mill Aug 4 the 27th annual West Virginia Dairymen's Association convention started with a meeting of feed dealers and a cattle club gathering. Jersey cattle were judged and dairy specialist C B Gearhart of Penn State spoke on breeding and profitability tonight. Grand and reserve champions were chosen at Ayr.
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Jackson's Mill
Feed Dealers Association
West Virginia Cattle Club
West Virginia Dairymen's Association
Jersey
C. B. Gearhart
Penn State College
Ayrsee
Hog Prizes Hit 32.00 Per 100 At Moundsville
In Moundsville on August 4 hog prices surged at the livestock auction with town officials reporting $32 per hundredweight as a peak. The day saw a range from $29 to $33, with sales momentum lifting average veal figures and signaling a potential national record.
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Moundsville
Cleveland
Jury Selected for Fayette Murder Trial Amid Venue Debate
In Fayetteville on August 4 the selection of a 12 jurors from a 20 member panel neared completion for the murder trial of Lemuel Thomas Steed, a 28 year old black man. With only 14 of 200 summoned qualified and 60 more reporting, testimony was expected to begin in the afternoon. Steed is charged with slaying Loren R. McClung and robbing him of 8000 dollars. Judge R J Thrift Jr had offered a change of venue, which defense counsel declined, stating they would proceed with jurors who had qualified.
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Fayetteville
Lemuel Thomas Steed
Steed
Loren R. McClung
Smithers
Fayette County
R. J. Thrift, Jr
Thrift
Frank Love
Showers Forecast Tonight For Grafton Area
The forecast calls for scattered showers today and tonight with possible showers Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday is predicted after a warm spell with a high around 78 today and 84 yesterday. low last night 63. APPOINT SHAVER CHARLESTON Aug 4 William Paul Shaver of Fairview, Marion county, named by conservation director C F McClintic.
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Shaver
Charleston
William Paul Shaver
Fairview
Marion County
C. F. McClintic
Currie Protected Him In Job When Navy Asked
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster testified before the House Un American Activities Committee that he remained on the government payroll during World War II despite Navy and Civil Service opposition. He described obtaining intervention from White House aide Luchlin Currie and C. B. Baldwin to stay employed, while denying spying or Communist ties. The Civil Service Commission reportedly viewed him as a Communist and recommended barring him.
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Washington
Ang
Nathan Gregory
Silvermaster
Russia
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Horse Toy American Activities
Miss Bentley
S.D
Odessa
Resettlement Administration
Maritime Labor Board
Farm Security Administration
Board of Economic Warfare
War Assets Administration
New York
Secret Police
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Navy
Civil Service Commission
House
UN American Activities Committee
Silvermasted
Silvermast
Luchlin Currie
White House
C. B. Baldwin
Patterson
Louis Russell
FBI
Civil- Service Commission
Currie
Will Charge Son as Find Fathers Body
The body of Gomer Ell Myers was found near the Ohio river in Huntington. Police say murder charges will be filed against Myers’ 25 year old son William known as Tater Myers, who was arrested, attempted suicide, and was moved to a county jail. Witnesses noted bottles of shellac thinner and hair tonic near the scene amid reports of a night of drinking.
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Huntington
Gomer Ell Myers
Ohio River
Sixteenth Street
Herman Frazier
Myers
Frazier
William
Tater) Myers
Cabell County
Cecil Russell
Wendell Gillespie
Sacketti Will Agree To Extradition In Detroit Torture Robbery-Murder
Charleston August 4 Extradition to Detroit for first degree murder in a torture slaying is planned. James Sacchetti 31 of Chicago was arrested after a four state police FBI hunt. Sacchetti reportedly agreed to extradition per Detective Lt Dewey Williams. Also notice about Fred Densmore Parkview attending Dixie theatre presentation Love from A Stranger starring John Hodiak Sylvia Sidney and Ann Richards.
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Sacketti
Detroit
Charleston
James Saccketti
Chicago
Saccketti
FBI
Dewey E. Williams
Charleston Police
Sacchetti
The
Grafton Sentinel
Fred F. Densmore
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