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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1950
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment from the Graton Sentinel includes Associated Press text and rates, touching on public distribution, pricing, and distant references to a 26 hour period and a grim prediction of Americans killed or injured. The piece also mentions an illustrated booklet by Underwriters.
A 1950 Bennett Cerf piece recounts a Dutch Treat club dinner with Will Mahoney and a shipwreck tale, weaving Americans and Brits as island rulers. It notes a dinner in Borndley California with Joseph Henry Jackson and a quip about Samuel Eliot Morison and a Mann heir, ending with a request for a free Fire Safe Home booklet.
Ives confronts Stoll and Benedict amid a tense night at Hammer Ranch. Benedict seeks escape as they plan a ride north, while guards and tense loyalties tighten around the bunkhouse and the locked door to freedom.
Special to Central Press surveys Korean War air logistics by MATS flying supplies from California and Hawaii to Korea, contrasting with Berlin airlift. It notes F 80 shooting Star jets, tank production orders, and Russian atom bomb doubts, ending with home fire safety guidance and precautions.
Mrs. Rachel Caroline Phillips Hawkins of Hammond Route 1 died at 1 30 am after a long illness dating to February. Born April 1909 in Tucker County she was daughter of Jerome and Mary Phillips. Survived by second husband Lester Hawkins four children and siblings. Funeral details not listed. Fire loss rising this year prompts home safety reminder.
Morgantown will switch to Eastern Standard Time about ten days before turning clocks back one hour. The city council decreed the change yesterday as most parts of the nation will not adjust daylight saving time until the end of September.
About 300 voting and alternate delegates from 48 counties are expected to attend the 31st annual West Virginia Farm Bureau meeting at Jackson's Mill from August 28 to 30. Principal speakers include Roger Fleming.
Ives enters the colonel's rooms and discovers a torn belt and a fake envelope later, the colonel hints at schemes and a lethal plan. Ives grapples with fear, realizing Carradine's treachery and a possible target on his own life as Brule and others circle the truth.
The Washington D C secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation Dr Roger B Corbett agricultural counsel National Association of Food Chains and Judge Max DeBerry Hurtsville of the Third Judicial Circuit of West Virginia will be the banquet speaker on Wednesday evening August 30.
West Virginia University two year medical program accepts 30 incoming students for the semester starting September 18. Two hail from Preston County Forea while 175 applicants sought spots, out-of-state applicants excluded. Most accepted had pre medical training at the University. After the two year course, students must attend an uncredited four year medical school for junior and senior years to earn MD. Notable accepted include Harold William Felton of Rowlesburg and William Henry Harriman of Terra Alta.
The Sentinel offers courteous telephone service for society notices delivery inquiries and newsroom questions. Contact numbers direct readers to circulation Pauline Hultey and the advertisement department. Indians cultivated butter bean varieties in New Mexico when Spaniards arrived in 1540.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rachael Caroline Phillips-Hawkins will be held Saturday at Bartlett Funeral Home at 1 30 p m with Reverend Clyde W Ash officiating. Interment follows at Montrose Cemetery. Friends may call at Bartlett Funeral Home.
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