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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1955
Page
1
The report covers varied spots from Vienna handing over postwar enterprises to Austrian authorities on August 12, to volcanic activity near Riainahue, Chile, and police actions in New York and Boston. It notes figures like Charles Luciano and incidents including jewelry heists, polio outbreaks in Massachusetts, and labor convention developments in West Virginia.
Taylor County Board of Education set a 1965 66 estimated budget of 9047,938.92 an increase of 34,243.24 over last year and a levy rise to fund it. Four resignations were accepted creating four vacancies with little fill in sight. Receipts climb to 632,063 aided mainly by state funds while expenditures total remade across major categories.
City Manager J Frank Wise announced Aug 16 enforcement of new rules requiring a city license to sell merchandise brought into Grafton for sale. The move targets candy and bakery trucks and clothing from outside businesses. Licensed outsiders face fines. price set at 10.50 per year. Local merchants urged to report unlicensed selling.
Sarasota report notes three retired circus elephants named Jewell Ginny and Eva travel to Bowling Green for easy retirement. Once part of Ringling Brothers original East Indian herd used for labor in winter quarters the elephants now live at ease in retirement.
Washington forecasts show August will bring above normal temperatures across most of the northern two thirds of the nation with near normal readings in the Pacific Northwest and northern New England. Central and northern plains likely the hottest, while the Southeast and Gulf states stay cooler than average and rainfall patterns vary regionally. The heat wave persists with 100s in many areas and no relief expected for several days.
The day saw temperatures rising to a high near 96 with Downtown readings higher. Residents faced a forecast of 88 to 94 by afternoon and evening with a low around 65 to 70 as isolated thunderstorms and cloudiness paused the heat.
Sheriff Owen W. Kilday said a prison uprising in San Antonio ended when he used a blazing pistol to stop the riot. He blamed leniency for the unrest. A prisoner was killed and two injured as convicts demanded better food and a later curfew.
Radio Peiping claimed 11 American airmen released after prison sentences on November 23 1954 signed confessions admitting they were spies. The broadcast highlighted two senior officers Col John Knox Arnold of Montgomery Alabama and Maj William H Baumer of Lewisburg Pennsylvania who allegedly led the 581st Wing tasked with CIA backed operations. The text said the airmen admitted their B29 was shot down over Communist China during an espionage run.
The Atomic Energy Commission reported that the Soviet Union has resumed testing nuclear weapons within the past few days. The brief notice offered no details on whether hydrogen or atomic detonations were involved and pledged no further amplification.
John Mor ile, the assistant coach, has been named head football coach at Williamson High School, signaling a leadership change in the football program.
Two of eleven Americans held by Communist China are to be released. They were arrested when their B 29 was shot down in January 1958 during the Korean War. John Arnold of Montgomery and Adie Od William Baumer of Levisware Pa are named in reports.
A Brinks robbery in Buffalo netted 498 500 with three gunmen fleeing. One guard wounded by machine gun fire. two accomplices captured near a residential area after tear gas forced surrender. Loot recovered, cash left untouched at Brinks garage. Suspect Salermerio fled, authorities say he is extremely dangerous and may still have the weapon.
A four day meeting of religious leaders from 13 countries ends with a resolution declaring August 6 as the international day of prayer for world peace. The pledge includes an earnest appeal to ban all hydrogen and atom bombs.
Sheriff Donald L Vars reported two inmates Earl William Bucy 35 Wellsburg West Virginia and Robert M Barber 24 Binghamton New York tried to dig a tunnel from their cell into an adjacent cell over which Wanda Mae Friend 30 of Wellsburg is overseer. The attempt was discovered and halted.
A New York policeman, responding to noise in the sea lion pool at a Brooklyn zoo, arrested two men found attempting a swim with the sea lions on a Tuesday night. The incident drew attention to safety lapses at the facility.
In Los Angeles a storeroom blast scattered shrapnel as a 12 pound ham used as evidence in an old felony case exploded. Custodians cannot clean the scene until the Superior Court issues an order. In a separate item, 20 prisoners breached a restaurant kitchen in Tampico and escaped.
A bank car from Lloyds was hijacked on the outskirts of Coventry today, with £23,000 in mixed notes seized. The money was in a green suitcase and intended for transfer from Gosford Green to the Central City branch. Police say the car was stopped at the city edge and the cash moved to another vehicle. one man was arrested, details withheld.
Soviet Premier Bulganin told the Supreme Soviet he did not believe the Eisenhower proposal for an exchange of aeriel and photographic data would have real significance and called the Geneva talks a turning point despite Western insistence on staged disarmament steps and a ban on hydrogen weapons.
White House officials say Eisenhower’s disarmament plan faces a chilling effect as the United States notes Soviet Premier Bulganin did not flatly reject but signaled reservations. The issue may be raised at the United Nations disarmament subcommittee meeting in New York on August 29. Hagerty told reporters he informed President Eisenhower of Bulganin’s speech but declined to reveal the President’s reaction.
Bulgaria admitted two its fighter planes shot down an Israeli airliner killing 58 people. London reports Bulgaria apologized for pilots rashness and pledged to pay damages to families and to Israel for material losses.
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