Trout Thrive Below WV Flood Control Dam
Charleston August 25 New findings report the Tygart river near Grafton shifted from a bass stream to a trout habitat after a flood control dam lowered water temperatures. State officials planted 4000 brown and 6000 rainbow trout and anglers caught brown trout below the dam. Tests showed 75 degree water 18 miles downstream on the hottest day, with prior mine acid pollution having driven bass from the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Tygart River
West Virginia
State Conservation Commission
Grafton
J W_ Hoesen, Jr
la Commussiones
Y. D. Gray
Tva Dam
Tennessee
Clinch River
Hesen
Tygart
U. S
The
Conservation Commission
Taxi Driver Picked Up For Driving Too Fast
Ney Moran a local taxi driver was arrested by city police for driving at an excessive speed on Walnut Street at 10 45 o clock Saturday night He appeared before Mayor Charles King in municipal court this morning and was fined 5 dollars plus costs after admitting he drove his cab too fast.
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Walnut Street
Ney Moran
Charles ©. King
Moran
Firemen Plan Special Meeting This Evening
Final arrangements for the Firemen's Jubilee week in Grafton will discuss fundraising to sponsor a WPA fire station construction. The Graf ton Fire department calls a 7 o'clock meeting tonight at City hall. All members are asked to attend.
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Grafton
WPA
New Classes Start at Grafton Senior High Amid Staff Changes
Principal H E Odgers announced a big expansion for Grafton Senior High with new classes in agriculture art music and more. Two agriculture classes and one each in other subjects will run alongside a new Future Farmers of America club led by Festus Waggoner. Music duties will split between Lucas Finney and Miss Naomi Robinson. Art classes led by Miss Georganna Bennet, Miss Margaret Grinnan joins admin staff. Several teaching changes followed last year’s staffing criticisms, with two vacancies still to fill for bookkeeping and shop drawing posts.
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Grafton Senior High School
H. E. Odgers
Future Farmers of America
Festus Waggoner
Lucas Finney
Naomi Robinson
Georganna Bennet
Ue High School
Margaret Grinnan
State Department of Education
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Board of Education
Mary Thomas
Thomas
Northwestern University
Cather
Gladys Hickman
Katherine Shepler
Charles McDade
Shepler
Joseph Mahaffey
Delores Curry
Edwin Knotts
Roosevelt vetoes Carr damage claim bill over river pollution
President Roosevelt vetoed HR 2431 to let the Court of Claims rule on Carr China Co. damages from glazing loss blamed on Tygart Valley dam runoff near Grafton West Virginia. He deemed the claimant remote from direct riparian injury and questioned government liability. The dispatch notes nearly 2,000,000 French prisoners held by Germany in occupied territories.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Court of Claims
Carr China Company
Grafton
W. Va
Tygart Valley
War Department
Carr Company
Warder to Take West Virginia Bar Exam in Charleston
Attorney Irwin Warder, son of the late Dr and Mrs A H Warder, now in Washington DC, arrives in Grafton to prepare for the West Virginia bar exam in Charleston on September 10 11 and 12. A Georgetown Law School graduate, he may open an office to practice law in Grafton.
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Irwin Warder
Away From County After 57 Years Visit
Mrs Maude Warder Vanzile long absent from Taylor county returns to Grafton for a weekend visit with County Clerk and Mrs Ed C St Clair. She travels with her husband William and son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Albert Fortner from Detroit Michigan. The city and county look different to her yet familiar landmarks stand out.
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Taylor
Maude Warder Vanzile
Webster
Grafton
Ed C. St. Clair
Beech Street
William
Albert Fortner
Detroit
Michigan
County
Vanzile
Indian Made Doughnut Legend Sparks Sweet History
A shortened tale recalls an Indian craftsman failing to strike a cook at close range. He instead speared a flat cake she held, dropping it into a pot to create the first doughnut in history.
Neely to Get Moose Honor in Indianapolis
Governor M M Neely of West Virginia opened the Loyal Order of Moose national convention at Cable Tabernacle and heads toward the supreme governor ship unopposed in the election. West Virginia delegates arrived by air in a WV aeronautics plane piloted by Major Hubert Stark Neely, with the theme Our Mothers.
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Supreme Governorship
Indianapolis
Ind
M. M. Neely
West Virginia
Neely
Is Name
Two Are Arrested As Drunks Over Weekend
Two men were arrested for drunkenness over the weekend. Pat Squires was nabbed on West Main Street at 9 30 p m Saturday and posted 11 bond but failed to appear before Mayor C O King, bond forfeited. Matt Dawson was picked up at 3 19 a m Sunday at 635 West Boyd Street and ordered to ten days on the street in lieu of a 10 fine and costs.
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West Main Street
Pat Squires
C. O. King
Matt Dawson
West Boyd Street
Roosevelt Hosts Duke on Private Railway Car Visit
President Roosevelt and the Duke of Windsor spent private moments at the White House with a social call described as casual. The royal guest breakfasted with the Roosevelts aboard the president’s private railcar before traveling to Anacostia naval air station for a flight to Norfolk.
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Federal Maritime Commission
Roosevelt
Anacostia
D. C
Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Sir Louis Greig
White House
Multigenerational Bunner Family at Grafton Gathering
A Grafton West Virginia family gathering featured three pairs of tins with five year old Freddy and Frankie Bunner, positioned beside 18 year old Ralph and Ray Bunner from Washington Pennsylvania. Top row shows great uncles Gilbert Frederick and Everett Franklin Bunner from Washington DC, both long time U S Navy department mechanics.
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Grafton
W. Va
Freddy
Frankie Bunner
F. S. Bunner
Washington
Ralph
Ray Bunner
Grafton W. Va
Gilbert Frederick
Everett Franklin Bunner
Washington, D. C
U. S. Navy Department
High Command Continues Frontline Battles Across Eastern Front
Devastating Luftwaffe strikes target the Bryansk rail junction as German forces press a major push from the Gomel area. A quiet sector near Lake Simen and Smolensk shifts to active combat with renewed momentum. Antonescu’s Romanian and German units siege Odessa while Tallinn faces isolation from rear-area links. Church relief efforts in China total over 1 million dollars in three years. An ocean trench east of the Philippines lies deeper than Himalayan peaks rise above ground.
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Bryansk
Gomel
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Lake Simen
Leningrad
Smolensk
Ion Antonescu
Odessa
Tallinn
Estonia
Picnic Movie Teaser Totals 500 Carr China Employees
Carr China pottery employees and families gathered at Dawson's Camp on US Route 50 for a full day of games, meals, and a evening dance. More than 500 attended the event with prizes awarded for races, crafts, and a notable 94piece Blue Rhodendra Carr china set won by Mrs. Lovie Breedlove.
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Carr China Company
Dawson's Camp
U.S. Route 50
Edgar T. McKee
Everett Gough
Sanford Ringler
Arthur Hebb
Stevenson
Sapp
Bobby Simmons
James Weverlin, Jr
Paul Gough
Betty Lou Freeze
Mr. Shader
Andy Smith
Babe Jane
Tom Shingleton
Floyd Lisk
Cleo Curry
Mae McVicker
McKee
Lovie Breedlove
Park View
Carr China
Aged farmer Coffman dies after stroke at 76
John Marshall Coffman 76, a retired farmer, died Saturday from a stroke at his son’s Flemington Route 1 home. Funeral services were held at Wallace church at 2 PM, with burial in Odd Fellows cemetery. He was born May 3 to Augustus William and Susan Rogers Coffman and married Alice Webb, who predeceased him. Surviving are nine children, a brother Julius of Salem, and sisters Harriet Husted and Martha Coffman.
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John Marshall Coffman
George E. Coffman
Flemington
Wallace Church
Odd Fellows Cemetery
McGrumphy Funeral Company
Mr. Coffman
Augustus William
Susan Rogers Coffman
Alice Webb
William Coffman
Rachael
W. Va
Albert K. Puller
Kalamazoo
Mich
Lola Coffman
Pittsburgh
Julius Coffman
Salem
Harriett Hustead
Martha Coffman
Parkersburg
Whopper Catch and Global War Stage Notes
Mrs. Trene Dickey of Lock Haven Pennsylvania reels an 18 pound lake wout at North Bay Ontario. Analysis discusses Persia as a Nazi strategic prize, its oil, its threat to supply lines to the Soviet Union and India, and the Allied need to potentially occupy Teheran. Also notes New York potato crop forecast for 1941 at 24,240,000 bushels, ten percent below last year.
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Trene Dickey
Lock Haven
North Bay
Persia
Ukraine
Fuehrer
Russia
Persian Gulf
Baltic
Black Seas
Vladivostok
India
Middle East
Egypt
Suez Canal
Teheran
New York
Seven of a Jersey City family killed in Waldwick bus crash
Waldwick New Jersey August 26 seven members of a Jersey City family die and at least 16 are injured when a Central Greyhound bus collides with four autos. Victims include Joseph Bason 38 wife Blanche and children Charlie Marian and Ursula aged 8 6 and 4 plus sisters Elizabeth 25 and Ann 19. Bus driver Carl Ramsey 30 Albany New York held on charges of reckless driving. Bus bound from Albany to New York with 32 passengers. bus and Bason car erupt in flames.
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Waldwick
N. J
Joseph Bason
Blanche
Charlie
Marian
Ursula
Bason
Elizabeth
Ann
Jersey City
William
Bergen County
John J. Breslin, Jr
Tum
Carl Ramsey
Albany
Edward Shaheed
Sheridan Avenue
New York
Gas Abundant For Labor Day As East Stores Fill
Washington reports Tanks of 100,000 filling stations in the East will be filled this Labor Day and Sunday to prevent shortages. Ralph K. Davies, acting defense petroleum coordinator, says a daily system will aid dwindling supplies for August. Suppliers will split monthly gallons into five daily quotas and deliver daily if possible. Station operators will set sale limits per customer based on quotas and vehicle flow. Davies advises motorists to plan prudent Labor Day trips and consider shorter journeys.
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Washington
Ralph K. Davies
Defense Petroleum
Davies
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Don “Red” Barry
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Cheyenne
Hugh Herbert
Grafton High
France
Germany
Poland
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Rhodendra Carr China
Moose
High Command
Church Committee For China Relief
China
Philippine Islands
Himalayas
Thor Gladiron
Gladiron
Loar Jewelry Store
George
Malone’s Drug and Chemical CO
Iran
Imea
Irene Dickey
Klein & CO
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