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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1957
Page
8
GRAFTON POSTMASTER Loren A. Hoffman urges residents to mail gifts and cards early to ensure delivery before Christmas. He notes expanded facilities, extra help, and a city Christmas mall, and offers packing tips, proper addresses, and two free pamphlets on wrapping and postage. He stresses card sorting and local versus out of town deadlines.
The Taylor County Boots and Saddle Club will hold the December meeting this Thursday at 7 30 in the council rooms of City Hall. Members should reserve for the Saturday banquet at Drummond's Restaurant at 7 00 p.m. A banquet for members and families is funded by W T Bradshaw, with club president Ola De Moss handling reservations by Thursday night.
Professor Harold Wilson of West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station presented a paper on the revegetation of strip mine spoils titled Carbon and Nitrogen Contents of Some Nonvegetated and Vegetated Mine Spoils at the Golden anniversary meeting of the American Society of Agronomy in Atlanta Georgia last week. Several Experiment Station staff attended the jubilee meeting including Dr G Gordon Pohlman head of agronomy Dr O J Burger agronomist Dr Melvin Johnson assistant agronomist and Frank Whisler graduate student. Dr Pohlman formerly national president of the Society in 1955 and now serves on the Society's organization and policy committee.
The Saturday Evening Post argues that if steel wages rose and prices kept rising, the industry would have faced losses exceeding 21 billion dollars from 1955 and 1956, potentially wiping out postwar expansion. It notes such a deficit would have bankrupted the industry long before it could accumulate it. It also mentions the USS Princeton’s 1943 Philadelphia launch and Navy Operation Decreeze’s deep Antarctic penetration.
Arthur Sylvester Keener 53 of 25 W Boyd Street died December 2 at 10 30 a m in Grafton City Hospital after long ill health. Born August 2 1904 in Taylor County he lived most of his life in Grafton. Survived by wife Sarah Frey Keener and five children Dorwood Donald Kenneth Marie Shultz and two sisters Mary Keener and Hattie Snodgrass. Ten grandchildren. Member of Pentecostal Church Webster. Former mail truck driver and 12 years with Ellers Taxi Co. Funeral Wednesday at 10 30 a m Bartlett Funeral Home with Rev Lena Saffel. Burial Bluemont Cemetery. Friends may call.
Salvation Army workers in Graf ton urged Christmas donations to fund the local Citadel drive opened yesterday. Shoppers stretch funds as kettles collect dimes and dollars while a kettle house is built to ease cold weather bell ringing. Applications for Christmas baskets proceed, with canned goods and fruit among items. acceptance runs through Friday. office closes Saturday.
Chicago dispatch notes sorghum races ahead in Iowa Nebraska and Missouri with harvests quadrupling last year. Kansas tops wheat as sorghum output surpasses wheat for the first time. Drought research and Soil Bank programs push sorghum from a traditional forage crop to a major grain, with markets shifting toward feed mills alcohol producers and seed merchants. global names and uses span durra Egyptian corn millets and Guinea corn.
Elizabeth McNemar, venerable Webster resident, was feted at her home with a turkey dinner hosted by Paul Wolfe and wife on the eve of her first birthday posthumous. Though disabled and in a wheelchair, she keeps engaged with sewing, reading, TV, radio, and time with grandchildren Richard and Mary Elizabeth Wolfe. Nearby family attended from Knottsville, Samson, Grafton, and Webster. The day also noted PTA and Mission Circle activities and a Sunday/holiday gathering with relatives from Pittsburgh, Rosemont, and Morgantown.
Gov. H. W. Underwood expected to appoint a new secretary of state within eight hours to fill the post left vacant by the death of D. Fitt O Brien. The likely appointee will hold the state seal power, ending 25 years of Democratic control. Possible candidates include Mrs. Helen Holt, Holt Byrne, and Fleet Greene.
Governor H Underwood announced a second monthly Radio Television Reports to the People for next Monday night. The speech will cover the 1958 59 fiscal year budget prepared by his administration for legislative submission in January. Finance Commissioner George B Viewer Jr and Tax Commissioner John A Fields Jr will join him on the program.
The Grafton High School Blue and White Bearcat Band will present its annual Christmas concert on Thursday December 12 at the high school. Old time carols and modern Christmas music will be performed. Potentially the majorettes led by Nancy Shahan and Ada Kemple will do a special routine. Directed by Band Director Joseph Henry.
Washington reports on amateur Moonwatch stations aiding scientists by tracking satellites like Sputnik. About 15 volunteers per team divide the sky with homemade telescopes to record sightings, using tape recorders and radio signals from the National Bureau of Standards.
A tiny four point eight inch rocket weighs six tenths of a pound and delivers a one second thrust to spin the Vanguard third stage for a stable trajectory. Dr J W Rossen of Atlantic Research Corp explained the device at the American Rocket Society meeting as key to satellite deployment. The Navy is building a base at Rota Spain near Paros, Columbus’s 1492 voyage port.
Mrs. Leonard Bernstein recalls her husband Lennie as a multifaceted artist. He leads the New York Philharmonic as conductor, comps for Broadway's West Side Story, performs as pianist and recording artist, and balances a bustling schedule. Their daughter Jamie shows budding talent while Felicia Monteverdra’s early romance with Bernstein framed domestic life.
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