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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1949
Page
3
Society and club notes by Mrs Naomi Lawson report on upcoming meetings and social events with contact telephone 185 for details.
Miss Helen Chenoweth of Flemington wed Lewis A Fleshman Jr of Alderson at Greenbrier Baptist Alderson WV. The ceremony featured double ring vows with Rev G Plyborn. receptions followed at Alderson home with family and out of town guests from Flemington Charleston and beyond.
Producer Edward Small chooses Tony Dexter of Talmage Nebraska from about 75000 applicants to star in Valentino as I Knew Him. Dexter, 29, war veteran and drama graduate of the University of Iowa, has never appeared on screen before.
Miss Mary C. Snodgrass of Matthias West Virginia became the bride of James H. Rector of Parkersburg at a July 29 ceremony in the Andrews Methodist church parsonage on McGraw Avenue. The Rev Arta P. Shomo presided with no attendants. The couple will live in Parkersburg.
The ninth annual Losh reunion will be held tomorrow at Webster Baptist Church in Webster. A basket dinner will be served at noon followed by a business meeting and officer elections. An afternoon program is planned, and relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend.
The Young Adult Class of the First Baptist church held a covered dish supper at the church yesterday evening. Mrs. Mary Hanleiter read scripture and led group hymns, Ray Newton spoke on the Good Samaritan, and members conducted routine reports during the business session.
Mary Keeney and daughters Izabeth and Betty of Rainelle, along with Mrs Elsie Dolan of Frankfort, are mentioned in a local notice detailing residents connected to the event.
The notice catalogs upcoming August gatherings. Fetterman Methodist Church hosts a picnic after Sunday School at Linn School. reunions for Atha, Yates Gawthrey, and Losh groups are set in Marion County and Webster areas with basket or casket dinners and invited attendees.
Local items announce the Cil No 44 meeting in W F W hall on East Main August 14, plus numerous family and club reunions and church events across August 14 to 21. Notable gatherings include the Brown church Grove, Morgan family reunion near Fairmont, Red Wing Club, Quota club at Hotel Grafton, and various women’s and missionary groups with times and locations.
Mrs W H Reese known as Ma Reese of 758 Pearl street remains seriously ill at home for two weeks. Dorothy Burnside of Maple avenue leaves for two week vacation at Cullver Lake NJ and New York City. Delbert Bolyard and children Karen Roger Gary guest at Mr and Mrs George Shaffer Pruntytown Pike.
The text lists names in Baltimore area and Blueville visitors plus a long passage on an underwater sphere named Barton. It describes pressures at 6000 feet, 27 million pounds force, 2600 psi, with lights, motion picture camera, surface telephone line, wire recorder, amplifiers, radio telephones, oxygen supply, carbon dioxide absorption, and six hour diving capacity.
A detailed description outlines a massive descent sphere used to lower a man from a height. The cast steel shell measures 13-4 inches at the thinnest, weighs about 7,000 pounds, and is suspended by a 5/8 inch steel cable from a 100-foot crane. The sphere has a 15 inch door and fused quartz windows three inches thick, with woolen clothing and blankets worn by the climber.
19 year old Florence Bondi known as Miss Cleveland enters Miss America pageant attempts to mail a song for Clevelander Johnny Gluck to Glenn McCarthy builder of the Shamrock Hotel in Houston The song There s a Bit of Sham rock in Houston explains the decoration hiding part of Miss Bondi.
James V. Hunt and Albert J. Grosa of Milwaukee tell a Senate committee they never received value or a letter from Hunt after paying $1000 to secure sheet steel via a War Assets consultant. Clarene Oehler of St. Louis is accused of sending confidential items to Hunt by letter, later labeling the info "cotttal" as a prelude to a future job with Hunt.
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