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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1933
Page
2
BonneR ll contemplates paying for Rip's extra week while residents grumble over unpaid repairs. Jelly Bear scolds Top Notch for vanity as Willy-Nilly urges unity. Top Notch proposes winning the village poultry exhibition to raise funds and aid Rip.
The article argues that while youth are praised for honesty and realism, many lack empathy and responsibility. It contends that modern youngsters discuss facts with certainty yet avoid life’s realities such as illness, birth, and death. It warns that cynicism and avoidance risks hindering society’s hopeful remolding.
Prof. B. C. Paustian of Chicago was elected president of the Morris town Tenn. Normal and Industrial College, a Methodist church board of education release said. The junior college for Negroes was founded in 1881 by Dr. Judson S. Hill. Hyde Park notes the president’s plans for the new deal for industry and a Labor Day united front as he prepares to go to Washington.
Mrs Anna Laws 69 died last midnight at the home of her daughter in Fairmont after six months with carcinoma. She was born in Webster, daughter of Samuel S. and Ellen Waller, married to A Hill Laws who died in Washington six years ago. Survived by daughter Mrs Romeo Lawler and son Ray Laws, a World War veteran at Perry Point. Two brothers Howard and G Thomas Waller and a sister Mrs Grant Helms also survive. Funeral Friday at Webster Baptist Church. Interment in church cemetery. Jones Funeral Company Fairmont in charge.
Bids opened by the state road commission on seven bridge projects under the public works program. Bids will go to federal authorities before contracts are awarded. Unofficial bidders include TR Mills Charleston for the Hampshire Capon bridge 180-foot steel span at 25 045 dollars. A department of aeronautics will marshal county Graves creek at Louisiana State bridge steel superstructure to be instituted this fall.
A condensed list details bridge projects by county and city, with spans ranging from 60 to 150 feet. Fort Pitt Bridge Works in Pittsburgh appears repeatedly for substructure and superstructure components, with totals and contractors including Gybert Steel Company and E.R. Mills, reflecting mid-20th century infrastructure bids.
Ramsey calls for checks on private water power rights in flood season and push for a state water power bill. He notes West Virginia’s rich potential on the Tygarts Valley, West Fork, Cheat, New River and upper Potomac. He argues cheap power will lure industries and allow homes to heat with electricity.
Elkins WV August 31 The annual state homecoming and board meeting of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will be held at the S O F home Sunday September 3 An all day picnic and reunion is planned with thousands expected Attending state board members include B Bell Spencer president A J Wilkinson Huntington secretary treasurer J D Silcott Parkersburg R A West Morgantown H F Woody McMecken and Mrs Pearl Yost Mannington Claude Garrison Wheeling grand master will speak
Primo Carera, heavyweight leader, faces Tony Ganzoneri, former lightweight champ, as Ganzoneri trains in Pompton Lakes New Jersey for a comeback title bout against Barney Ross. Associated Press photo.
Lake Placid N Y Aug 31 Rescue crews pulled three Plattsburg Boy Scouts Robert Glenn 17 Tyler Grey 19 and William LaDue 21 from a two foot shelf on Wallface mountain after they survived two days trapped on a cliff ledge. They were hoisted one by one by a 25 foot rope to a higher ledge then descend to the gorge bottom 600 feet below with aid of four physicians. They had gone without food or water and endured a freezing night before reaching Adirondack lodges six miles away after dark. They expressed no fear during the ordeal.
Calvin Waller eight son of Mrs Joseph Waller Gaines of Davisson's creek suffered a double fracture of his left arm after eight foot fall from a tree limb to a concrete walk while playing at neighbor Jack Waller's home. A bee sting caused him to lose his grip. Also noted is the Louisiana five cent gasoline tax collection totaling 3 394 539 24 for the first half of 1933.
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