Presidential Approval Is Sought for Bridge Project
The 1941 42 budget gains county court approval for the South West Grafton bridge reconstruction. WPA funding and presidential action are awaited. State tax commissioner's approval plus city and county backing set the stage for a total overhaul including straightening and new approaches. The undertaking aims to restore hazardous bridge access affecting the South side and Tygart dam area. The Taylor county board of education meets to adopt budgets and plan teacher placements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
W. VA
Francis L. Wartley
WPA
Washington
Tygart Dam
Bridge Street
City Commission
C. C. King
Taylor County Board of Education
Card of Thanks for Loraine Deavers
A heartfelt thank you to friends and neighbors for sympathy during illness and after the death of our beloved daughter and sister Loraine Deavers. Special gratitude goes to Rev. Paul Dick and the First Brethren church, car donors, flower senders, and G. T. Bartlett and staff for their assistance. May God bless you all. Mrs. Laura Deavers and Brothers and Sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loraine Deavers
Paul Dick
First Brethren Church
G. T. Bartlett
Laura Deavers
Five Dollar Fine Paid Frees Man From Jail
Ray Reed, convicted of assault and battery in the court of Justice Ona C. Jefferys, was freed from custody yesterday after spending the weekend in the county jail when he initially refused to pay the $5 fine and court costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Reed
Court of Justice of the Peace
Ona C. Jefferys
Civil Service Exams Open for Various Positions
The U S Civil Service Commission announces exams for accountant roles with 2600 to 5600 annual salaries, requiring accounting or auditing experience and CPAs for part of the experience. Closing date September 18, 1941. Also junior inspector posts in Wage and Hour with 2000 salary, with regional testing and experience requirements, closing September 18, 1941. Industrial specialists may apply until further notice with salaries 2600 to 5600. Additional openings include Superintendent of Construction 3200 to 5600 by August 25, 1941 and Card-Punch Operator 1260 by September 2, 1941. Applications via Washington office or local post offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Civil Service Commission
Certified Public Accountant
Oat
Department of Labor
Washington
The
Commission
Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners
Morgantown Art Center Praise By Local Teacher
Miss Georganna Bennett, art instructor at Grafton Senior High, praises the Morgantown Art Center a WPA project visited in the university city. The center offers clay modeling block printing advertising color drawing pottery and watercolor and oil painting under director Loisca of New York City. Exhibits from Washington and New York are shown at the center and at Scott's Run gallery, both open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georganna Bennett
Grafton
Morgantown Art Center
University City
Loisca
New York City
Washington
New York
Art Center
Scott's Run
B and O Freight Loadings Rise in Week Ended Aug 16 1941
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reported 64 408 cars handled in the week ending August 16 1941 with 41 861 loaded on line and 22 547 received from connections. This marks an increase of 11 047 from the prior year. The preceding week saw 65 355 cars, with 42 620 on line and 22 735 from connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Good Will Tour Route Planned
A 450 mile tour across western Maryland and parts of Pennsylvania is planned for September 9 to 11 by the Upper Monongahela Valley association. Stops include Hagerstown Antietam battlefield Keyser Cumberland Pittsburgh Somerset Irwin Bedford Chambersburg and Fort Necessity. The itinerary features visits to the Mellon Institute Heinz plant and a ride along Pennsylvania's new super highway with a dinner in Pittsburgh and a break up in Oakland or Mt. Lake Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Hagerstown
Pittsburgh
Antietam
Mellon Institute
H. J. Heinz Food Products
Monongahela Valley
Upper
Monongahela Valley Association
Sutton Critchfield
Fairmont
George Beerbower
Kingwood
Chamber of Commerce
Keyser
Red House
U. S
Cumberland
Rotary Club
Fort Cumberland
U. S. 40
Alexander
Chambersburg
Bedford
Somerset
Irwin
Roosevelt Hotel
Heinz Plant
Historic Fort
Uniontown
Fort Necessity
Keyser’s Ridge
Oakland
Mt. Lake Park
Parking Meter Revenues Jump At City Meters
City Collector-Treasurer John A Newcome reported a sudden rise in parking meter receipts last week totaling 77.80 dollars, up from 67 dollars the prior week. All meter revenues are remitted to the device supplier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Newcome
Relatives Thank Clergy Funeral Home Staff and Friends
The relatives of the late Mary Elizabeth McManimon express gratitude to Father M. J. Hannon Lynch Funeral Home staff and friends and neighbors who provided cars sent flowers and offered sympathy after her death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Elizabeth McManimon
M. J. Hannon
Lynch Funeral Home
Methodist Church assigns pastors to Grafton area
The Pittsburgh Conference of the Free Methodist church closed its annual session and assigned ministers to five districts including Fairmont Morgantown Beulah Kingwood Grafton with appointments listing E C John George E Lynch T S Ritter C L Dotson and others across Enterprise Monongah Owings Rivesville Rovalette Gailee and Hardman J D Stephens as supply pastors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
the Free Methodist Church
Fairmont
Rochester
Buller
Uniontown
E. C. John
George E. Lynch
Morgantown
Beaulah
Kingwood
C. H. Cuisler
Plan Ceramic Show At Fete Elkins WV Fifth Annual Exhibit
West Virginia ceramics exhibit planned for Elkins Festival October 2 3 and 4 aims to display both educational and entertaining ceramic products from over twenty firms. Sutton Critchfield Fairmont director mails invitations to ceramic makers including glass plants and pottery factories to showcase manufacture steps and processing in the Mountain State Forest M.C. A. gymnasium. The Valley Kanawha and northern Panhandle areas host about 30 to 35 plants in this industry statewide for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Upper
Monongahela
Elkans
M.C. A
Panhandle
Kanawha Valley
Sale of Bad Stock Sues Involving May and Partners
Mrs. Louis B. Gove sues chairman Andrew J. May and four others for 12567 alleging they sold her 800 shares of Greenbrier Mining Corp stock for 2000 and lent 567 while failing to renew a 7000 acre West Virginia lease. Defendants deny the charges as wholly unfounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Louis B. Gove
Andrew J. May
D.-Ky
House Military Affairs Committee
West Virginia
Gove
Julia G. May
Kentucky
M. A. Martin
Walter E. Blount
A. J. E. Mullen
Baltimore
Greenbrier Mining Corp
United States District Court
May
Two Jail Sentences Meted by Justice of the Peace
Justice of the Peace Jefferys sentenced Bernard Dalton aged 20 and John R. Morgan aged 18 to ten days in county jail each after they confessed inability to pay fines of five dollars plus costs for assault and battery on Ross Miter of Thornton. Both men were arrested on warrants issued by Miter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace Dna
Jefferys
Thornton
Ross Miter
Bernard Dalton
John R. Morgan
Mitter
Ukraine War Outlook Bad
Columnist Dewitt MacKenzie discusses wartime prospects with a Ukrainian reader, weighing Odessa's fate, German advances, and the Red Army's resilience. He estimates routes toward the Volga and Persian borders, weather delays, and the impact on Middle East alliances if Nazi gains threaten to reach the Persian border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Ukraine
Hitler
Odessa
Black Sea
Luftwaffe
Ukkaine
Red Army
Herr Hitler
Gound
Volga
Caspian
Caucasus
Jmy Ukrainin
Middle East
Granted Divorce After Wife Left Him In 1906
In Detroit on August 19, John Thomas Roberts received a divorce from Circuit Judge Guy A. Miller after testifying his wife departed nine days after their 1906 marriage. Roberts quipped I guess she isn't coming back as the court granted the dissolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
John Thomas Roberts
Guy A. Miller
Infant killed in car wreck near Romney
A 19 day old baby died and seven adults were injured when a car skidded on a wet highway and hit a truck on U S Route 50 twelve miles from Romney. The infant, daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Helmick of Baltimore, was among the injured at Winchester VA hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romney
Robert Helmick
Baltimore
Elkins
Winchester
C. R. Hawkins
British air attack claims sink 51 ships totaling 200000 tons
An Admiralty spokesman reported Axis losses since the last tally on July 10 at about 616000 tons. The Royal Air Force was said to have accounted for a large part of this figure in attacks on German shipping along the Norwegian, French and Dutch coasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Netherlands
Sex Relief Continued From Page One
A discussion of marriage necessity and prison visiting rules notes prisoners are usually seen by the same woman but mentions possible changes. Prof Hayner, born in China, has studied prison systems globally. Roosevelt's plan to ferry American long distance bombers to the Middle East could improve allied posture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof
Hayner
China
Vident Roosevelt
Middle East
Five Die In Brooklyn Fire At Panuco Pier Tragedy
New York August 19 five people are dead and at least 55 seriously injured as a fire barrels through the Cuba Mail liner Panuco and the Brooklyn pier sampling hemp cotton oil and chemicals. Twelve Cuba Mail crewmen are missing and a large harbor area remains at risk as officials probe possible causes and tally losses valued at more than a million dollars.
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New York
Panuco
New York Dock Company
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jones
William O'Dwyer
FBI
East River
Red Hook
Steel Strike Hurts Score at Sparrows Point Plant
At Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point, night shift clashes injure over 20 and arrest eight as union pickets block entry. Nicholas Fontecchio of the CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee says protests target intimidation by sub-bosses and company police. Vehicles damaged, some workers pulled from cars, and a union sound truck urged calm at dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Bethlehem Steel Company
Sparrows Point
Nicholas Fontecchio
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Bethlehem Mills
Fontecchio
Workers clash at mill gates amid protest and tax debate
The scene shows a huge American flag spanning an entrance gate to stop workers from entering a mill while about 200 cars blocked roads. Workmen diverted via detours as disorders began. The article discusses calls to cut non essential government spending and adopt a pay as you go tax plan with broader base to aid funding without hitting the poor, including proposals to adjust exemptions and raise revenue. Senator La Follette backs “ability to pay” and base broadening while opposing measures that would soak the poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Houston
LaFoette
Wis
Finance Committee
Wisconsin
Crash Near Forest Leaves Questionable Damage
The report describes a crash scene 40 percent miles from the city center in a thick forest. It notes Davies from Harrisburg confirming he is safe and that six ambulances responded. Military experts assess potential air forge risks and plan for operations in North Africa and Asia Minor. The Grafton Kiwanis club schedules a 6:15 pm meeting tonight at Rest, changing from the 5:15 pm time stated yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Davies
Sao Paulo
International Harvester Co
Davies
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Jhase
Dakar
Germany
North Africa
Asia
Minor
Grafton Kiwanis Club
Sentinel
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SPAN
Warder
Opera House
Abbott and Costello
Andrews Sisters
Dick Powell
Roscoe Karns
Ruth Donnelly
Roy Rogers
Tombstone
Horts
Green Hornet
Upper Monongahela Valley Association
Methodist Church
Grafton Area
Plan Ceramic
Fete
George W. Luzadder
West Main St
Klein & CO
New York River Dock
Bethlehem
Sparrow Point
Hart
United States
Chemical Malone
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