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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 02, 1948

Page

4

Grafton Sentinel Subscription Rates and Details

Grafton Sentinel lists delivery by carrier at 30 cents per week. Mail in advance: one year nine dollars, six months four fifty. Outside WV and Virginia ninety US dollars per year. Paper published weekday afternoons from 102 Latrobe Street, Grafton, West Virginia. Includes editorial staff and Associated Press notice.

Grafton Sentinel West Virginia Virsinks Latrobe Street Grafton W. Waitorigl M. B. Macleod Eldora M. Bolyard Eeeee Ngee

Coast Labor Peace Brings Three Year Maritime Pact

The three year contract ending the West Coast maritime strike marks good news for both sides. If the pact holds, no major reasons for a repeat walkout loom, while East Coast workers also reach a settlement the same day with retroactive wage provisions to August 21. Experts note retroactive terms could have prevented disruption and urge negotiations to begin well before old contracts lapse.

Higher Postal Rates and Government Mail Costs

Congress approved higher postage rates to take effect January 1 with exceptions for regular first class letters and second class mail. The increase funds higher postal worker pay, while government mail remains a free franking privilege, masking poor business practice in the Post Office Department.

Congress Post Office Department Post Office

Bible Thought for Today Delays in God’s Timing

A Bible thought emphasizes patience as delay tests faith. It urges readers to endure without rushing events, noting that impationer gains nothing and faith alone sustains. The inquiry asks why God’s chariot and wheels tarry, reflecting a lesson on waiting for divine timing.

Impationer

Sports Leaders Gather For 60th AAU Convention

NEW YORK Dec 2 The Amateur Athletic Union opens its 60th annual convention with over 350 sports leaders attending. The four day meeting aims for a placid session with no controversial issues on the agenda. Key items include chartership tournaments, record proposals, committee elections, and officer selections. Janis A Rhodes mayor of Columbus Ohio, presides and outline meetings with 31 regional AAU committees.

New York Amateur Athletic Union Toiay AAJ United States AAU Jurisd Janis A Rhodes Calumus Ohio Eeuanizti el Ab Naga Wit Chen Wha Avery Brundage United States Olympic Assocision Brundage

Networks clash in two hour holiday radio blitz

In a rare broadcast rivalry NBC CBS push two hour holiday variety shows spending Thanksgiving with a packed talent slate. Contenders propose joint scheduling to avoid clashing time slots and perhaps share a 1 pm Christmas hour.

C. E. Butterfield New York NBC CBS Topler Henry Aldrich Burns and Allen al Jé Merle Oberon

Shinnston Man Struck By Car

Cecil L Linn a 52 year old deer hunter from Route 2 Shinnston was hospitalized with head injuries after walking into a passing car on West Main near the Monongahela Power offices at 435 am. He was struck by a 1937 Plymouth driven by Tomes G Binnock Jr of Pruntytown an employee of the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys. Linn was discharged from the hospital this morning. Switzerland operates an aerial cable railway rising 3600 feet in 13000 feet carrying 450 passengers per hour. Federal and state governments spent over 17000000 to induce forest fire losses last year. The word restaurant was first tied for a Faris eating place established in 1765.

Cecil,l. Linn Shinnston West Main Street Monongahela Power Company Lawrence Messenger Tomes G. Binnock, Jr Pruntytown W. Va W. Va., Industrial School For Boys Hunter Messenger Linn Switzerland

Savo Returns to Town with Last Cab to Jersey

In New York James Savo the pantomimist revisits Times Square with Margie Hart. A humorous recount follows a late night cab ride to New Jersey, a DDT warning, and reflections on fame and wartime life as he laments the end of easy Jersey trips.

York James Savo Jimmy Sin Italy Defense Transportation Mr. Savo New Jersey Csten Savo Margie Hart Miss Hart M’sieu Savo Ead Hart Jimmy Paramount Times Square Jersey Margie Connecticut Hudson Perry Holland Tunnel Jersey City Twelfth Street Astor Savo

Sugar Bowl Stadium Largest World Steel Arena

Twane Stadium at New O hosts the Sugar Bowl with an 85 000 seat capacity making it the largest steel stadium worldwide. Cruelty is listed as the cause in about zero percent of divorces in the United States with desertion and neglect following in frequency. Afghanistan, with a backward history, is hiring American engineers to aid irrigation drive and industrial projects.

United States Afghanistan U Aid

Poirot intervenes in Celery Cloade drama chapter

In a tense Long Willows scene Lynn faces a brutal Rowley Cloade as his grip tightens. Hercule Poirot arrives to defuse danger, analyze crime, and press for a coffee fueled discussion on filiation crime and character within the Cloade family in a stormy, cellared confrontation.

Hercule Poirot Rowley Lynn Mademoiselle Long Willows Poirot Mademoiselle Lynn Charles Trenton David Hunter Ley David Gordon Cloade Rosaleen Cloade Rosaleen

Mother and child die in freak wagon accident

In WAUSEON Ohio a farmer, his wife 27 and their two year old daughter Judy drowned after a wagon loaded with corn overturned in a ditch. The wagon pinned them in about 18 inches of water as the husband James Pontius steered too wide at the field’s end.

Wauseon Eugene Fontius Judy Pontius William James

Soap makers claim germ killing in soap water mix

Soap manufacturers assert that soap can kill certain germs when diluted to one drop of soap in 1,000 drops of water.

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