Schools Purchase West Side Lots In Grafton Area
Taylor County Board of Education revealed today it purchased 41 lots in McGraw Yates addition from Grafton Development Corp. The city abandoned streets and alleys within the property except a paved west street and the King property alley to preserve access. The board plans educational and recreational use, with abandonment easing city costs.
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Taylor County Board of Education
Grafton Development Corporation
Prince
Grafton Senior High School
Luby Street
Board of Education
McGraw, Yates
VA Official Talks To Kiwanis Club Tuesday
The Kiwanis club heard Joe T. Brown, contact officer for the local Veterans Administration office, explain the various assistance offered to ex-servicemen. Brown discussed VA help with pensions schooling and vocational training as veterans seek benefits. The cactus is the state flower of Arizona.
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Kiwanis Club
Joe T. Brown
Veterans Administration Office
Mr. Brown
Farm Bureau Directors To Meet Tuesday Evening
The Taylor County Farm Bureau board will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. County Agent Lloyd Reid announces delegates W. M. Brown Chester Sharps and Lloyd Sayres will report on the state convention at Jackson's Mill August 12 to 14. Ellen Jane Wiseman and George Plymale will recount attendance at the Older Youth conference there on the same dates. The general bureau membership is invited.
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Taylor County Farm Bureau
Lloyd Reid
State Farm Bureau
Jackson's Mill
W. M. Brown
Chester Sharps
Lloyd Sayres
Ellen Jane Wiseman
George Plymale
The
Bureau
Charleton Child Dies Of Tick Spotted Fever
Irena Lee Miller aged 10 died in Charleston hospital from Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Health officials say the tick borne disease has a high mortality rate. She was daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carsel Miller of Kenna West Virginia.
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Charleston
Irena Lee Miller
Rocky Mountain
West Virginia
Carsel Miller
Kenna
New 4 Lane Highway For Wheeling Moundsville
Road commissioner E L Worthington told the Ohio Valley board of trade that surveys are under way for a relocation project to finish the last link of a four way connecting Wheeling and Moundsville. Three alternate routes for the remaining section of State zone 2 are being studied from McMechen south to the Wheeling city line.
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Wheeling
E. L. Worthington
Ohio Wall
Board of Trade
Wheelng
Moundsville
McMechen
Wheeling City
Truman revises 1947 tax revenue outlook upward
President Truman noted an unexpected upturn in tax receipts in a revised budget message. He estimates 1947 tax revenues at 39.6 billion dollars, up from January’s 31.5 billion forecast, while 1945 peak receipts were 43.8 billion. Fiscal 1947 is only about 1 billion below the prior year’s collections despite a 6 billion cut by Congress.
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Truman
Congress
Mrs. Mary Satterfield Dies at 79 in Haymond Area
Mrs. Mary Emma Satterfield of Route 3 died at home at 8:30 this morning at age 79. She was a longtime resident of Thier county, widow of Abraham L. Satterfield. Born March 10, 1867 in West Virginia, she leaves seven children, two siblings, 26 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Funeral services Saturday at 2 p.m. at Haymond church with Rev. Stoneking Groves officiating. burial in Haymond cemetery.
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Mary Emma Satterfield
Route 3
The
Haymondity
Thier County
Abraham L. Satterfield
West Virginia
Jacob B
Malissa Ford Snyder
Westerman Brethren Church
Florence Watkins
Haymond Church
Stoneking Groves
Haymond Cemetery
Webster County Teachers Protest Board Placements
A 29 member delegation led by George Arnold and Scott Bobbitt protested Webster County Board of Education placements before superintendent W. W. Trent, seeking remedies for recent appointments and transfers. Trent asserted county boards hold jurisdiction over teacher placements.
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Charleston
W. W.trent
Godwin Shaffer Named Local Maytag Dutch Oven Dealer
The Godwin Shaffer Company of Route 50 and St Charles Street was appointed local distributor for the Maytag Dutch Oven gas range. Thousands of orders poured in nationwide. Mr Godwin was among the first dealers approved.
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Godwin and Shaffer Company
Route 50
St. Charles Street
Godwin
Godwin- Shaffer Company
Maytag Company
Newton
Iowa
Wheeling Stalls On New Cigarette Taxes
In Wheeling the proposed cent-a-pack cigarette tax, set to begin September 1, was delayed indefinitely after wholesalers objected to revenue stamps required for collection. City manager C Walter Smith said the stamps would be part of the process, noting the city had purchased 25 million stamps. The tax was expected to yield 50 000 to 100 000 annually.
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Wheeling
C. Walter Smith
City Abandonment of Street Right of Way Described
The text describes SYCAMORE going and leaving family room to travel to and from their garage while preserving ingress and egress over 40 feet. Grafton never paved the street and abandoning 20 feet would relieve the city from maintenance costs. No damage or injury to any person is expected from the street abandonment per the ordinance.
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Grafton
UN delegate accuses Soviet veto of prejudice on Transjordan
Paul Hasluck Australian delegate to the United Nations security council charged the Soviet Union with prejudice for blocking Transjordan's U N membership bid due to lack of relations. He argued council members must consider all nations, not just own governments, as other powers backed Mongolia's bid and opposed the veto stance. China and Soviet Russia supported Mongolia's admission, signaling a split with the United States and Britain on the eight applications before the council.
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Tarr
N.Y
Paul Haslubk
United Nations Security Council
Rusa
Transjordan
U. N
General Assembly
Australia
Netherlands
United States
Egypt
France
Great Britain
China
Andrei A. Gromyko
Hasluck
Russia
Council
Hassluck
Soviet
Mongolian People’s Republic
United Nations
U. N. Security Council
Injured Woman Hospitalized After Kanawha Boulevard Crash
Mrs Thelma McDaniels was hospitalized in Charleston today with injuries from an automobile crash on Kanawha Boulevard. Authorities and attending doctors said she sustained injuries described as serious but not life threatening.
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Charleston
Thelma McDaniels
Kanawha Boulevard
Parkersburg Business Man Mant Dies Last Night
Parkersburg Aug 29 John Wyless Dudley 67 retired businessman and musician died at his home. A WVU alumnus he served as organist for the first Methodist Baptist and First Presbyterian Churches in town.
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Parkersburg
John Wyless Dudley
Ducey
West Virginia University
First Methodist
Baptist
First Presbyterian
Death in accidental trailer fire at Lookout site
Peterstown Aug 29 Basil Dilion 29 burned to death yesterday when fire destroyed his trailer home. Dilion worked for a construction company conducting strip mining near Lookout. Fire believed caused by an oil stove in the trailer. The District flower is the American beauty rose.
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Peterstown
Basil Dilion
Dilion
Lookout
YMCA and Legion discuss relation during Grafton talk
Joseph J. Genthner of the National YMCA Financial Service Bureau spoke to local Legionnaires on the Relationship of the American Legion and YMCA at a Legion meeting. A YMCA movie was shown by Jimmy Watkins. Several new members were introduced and Edward Whitescarver was named first vice.
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Joseph J. Genthner
Financial Service Bureau
National Council of Ymca
Grafton
YMCA
American Legion
Legion
Jimmy Watkins
Edward Whitescarver
Delegates Given Final Instructions at State Convention Meeting
During a business meeting delegates to the state convention Saturday were given their final instructions as they remain confined to their homes due to illness.
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Arizona
Latrobe St
Helis Matone’s Drug & Chemical
Farm Bureau
Charleton
Wheeling-Moundsville
Esther Williams
Red Skelton
Bathing Beauty
Bayloft
Haymond
Webster County
General Plumbing
P. Kreckel
Pearl Street
Auto Ee
Pure Oil Service
West Main Street
Sycamore
J. Morgan Copeman
Kingwood
W. Va
Pauline Kirkpatrick
Beauty Shop
PHONE
Creels
Coole’s Novelty Store
Harenyeel
Manor Mountaitu
Mant
Columbia
AmVets Dance
Chek Glenn AmVets Orrhestra
AmVets Club
Parkview
OFLC
THAS
Feri
Malone’s
DRUG
Paice LR
LS Smfti
West Side Beauty Shop
Coole
Ubeorgie
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