Saint Albans Couple Charged With Murder In Child Death
A Saint Albans couple faces murder charges after a three year old girl Ida Smith died from a brain hemorrhage while in their care. Authorities say the child and her sister Natalie were left with Mrs Lilly May Smith and Junius Ross Smith last September. The Smiths admit beating Ida over a refused medicine and a wall strike or a board hit is alleged by their statements. The case follows ongoing trials and other state news including a hospital superintendent charged with involuntary manslaughter in a separate death from an overdose.
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Saint Albans
Webb
Lilly May Smith
Junius Ross Smith
Ida Smith
Charleston
Smiths
Ida
Smith
Mr Smith
Webo
Natalie
Mrs. Smith
Hope Smith
Huntington
Virginia Comstock
Barboursville State Hospital
City Manager seeks written explanation from gas firm
City Manager A Page Lockard requests a written explanation from Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Co regarding hours long gas service interruption after a repair in Grafton during a winter storm. He plans a conference with company officials but insists the remarks be in writing for city archives.
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West Virginia
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company
A. Page Lockard
Pittsburgh& West Virginia Gas Co
Clarksburg
Grafton
Two Taylor County Lads Training At Wyoming Air Base
Private Jack D. Stull and Private Joseph E. Knight from Grafton West Virginia are training as Air Force Technicians at Warren Air Force Base Wyoming. The program, announced by the commanding officer, uses the historic Cheyenne post to train airmen in electrical clerical and administrative specialties, automobile mechanics, powermen and teletype repair.
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Jack D. Stull
Homer D. Stull
RFC 5
Box
Grafton
W. Va
Joseph E. Knight
Lawrence E. Knight
Air Force
Usaf Technical School
Warren Air Force Base
Wyoming
Oficer
Cheyenne
City Financial Problems Under Specific Study
Charleston WV reports two special legislative groups study a county and city budget program for the 1951 legislature. Dr. Carl M. Frasure and Dr. Clyde L. Colson of WVU lead the commission and analysis of budgets for 55 counties and over 200 cities and towns. The groups meet at 1 p.m. to discuss a personnel bureau plan and proposed road legislation.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Commission On Interstate Cooperation
Carl M. Frasure
West Virginia University
Bureau of Personnel Administration
Frasure
Clyde L. Colson
WVU
Flood Threat Looms Across Ohio River Valley
Rivers push toward flood stages in Ohio River Valley as the weather bureau forecasts crests near flood levels for Parkersburg Wheeling Huntington Gallipolis Marietta and Portsmouth Ohio in the next day or two. A water-logging front and snow flurries lower flood danger though rivers rise. Two Weston brothers Ferrell Fisher 11 and Johnnie Fisher 6 died in the West Fork river while attempting a rescue on a swift stretch near Roanoke Jeannie fell from a swinging footbridge into swift waters.
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Charleston
Ohio River Valley
U.S. Weather Bureau
Huntington
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Wheeling
Gallipolis
Marietta
Portsmouth
Ohio
New Martinsville
Ravenswood
Elk River
Clay
West Fork
Weston
Ferrell Fisher
Iis
Johnnie
Joseph Fisher
Roanoke
Jeannie
Ferrell
City Police Court Decides Three Cases and Fines
In Municipal Police Court today two intoxication charges and one panhandling count were disposed. Edward Armold of Wesserman Hollow and Barned Davis of Grafton forfeited $11 bonds for failing to appear on intoxication charges. Robert Morgan of Moatsville was arrested for panhandling and sentenced to three days shoveling snow from city streets.
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Edward Armold
Wesserman Hollow
Barned Davis
Grafton
Robert Morgan
Moatsville
Funkhouser
Final Induction Calls For Four Local Men
Final induction calls of Taylor and Barbour counties were issued last week marking the first since decentralization. Barbour’s award location is the Barbour County Court House in Philippi while Taylor’s remains at the Grafton Post Office. The Taylor county list includes Richard Grow 690 Boyd Street Grafton and Harry Reed Route 5.
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Taylor and Barbour County
Taylor-Barbour County Board
Barbour County Board
Barbour County
Barbour County Court House
Philippi
Taylor County
Grafton
Richard Grow
Boyd Street
Harry Reed
Nature Is Kind To Grafton With Snow Melt
The weekend brought perfect weather easing flood danger in Grafton. From the hills behind the river observers noted rapid absorption and melting of snow over two days, and by Sunday afternoon the downtown area showed relief as sewers handled the runoff and roof snow diminished.
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Grafton
Tornadoes and floods hit vast regions amid thawing streams
Flood waters rolled into western Nevada and north central California while a cold wave hit Ohio. In Illinois Greenville and Mt Olive reported over 750000 dollars in damage from Saturday tornadoes that killed three people and injured about 20. In Greenville two women and in Mt Olive a man died. California and Nevada floods forced about 5000 people from homes as rivers rose threatening levees. Linda Hammonton Sacramento Ukiah and Reno areas faced evacuations and flooded orchards. Natural Guardsmen and volunteers aided relief efforts.
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Washington
Nevada
California
Ohio
Illinois
Greenville
Mt. Olive
Esta McFarland
Jean
Mary Ward
St. Louis
Phillip Horn
Bellwood
Ilinois
Linda- Hammonton
Sacramento
Fresno
Ukiah
Truckee
Reno
One Million Chinese Reds Fight The Retreat Masterly
General MacArthur and Allied reports say one million Chinese troops are in Korea pressing the retreat of the Eighth Army north of Pyongyang. Refugees flood Pyongyang as engineers blow the Taedong River bridge and troops escape southward under Maj. Gen. William F. Dean.
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Pyongyang-Wonsan
Songchon
Erstward
Pyongyang
Seoul
Sibyon
U. S. 1St Marines
U. S. 7Th Division
Changjin Reservoir
Hageru
Yudam
Black Arrow
Ko'fori
U. & 7Th
Hyesanjin
Manchurian
Chongchon River
U. S
Kunurl
Bak
Tasson
Kur
William F. Dean
MacArthur
Walton Walker
Pyongyange
Taedong
Waere
Eighth Army
Inchon
United Nations
Korea
Koyes
Tenth Army
Hemhung
Hungnam
Chingjin
Mac‘Arthur
North Korea
Pin
Penney Personnel Receive Special Christmas Checks
The J C Penney Company board approves a year end bonus equal to two weeks pay for full year 1950 for full time associates. Proportional bonuses apply for part time and those employed less than a year. Over 50 thousand associates nationwide participate including about 25 at the Grafton store.
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J.C. Penney Company
A. Owents
Penney
United States
Grafton
A. W. Hughes
Store Associates
Hughes Atnee
Manos Theatre Collects 400 Cans for Salvation Army
Gus Giankos manager of the Manos theatre announced four hundred cans with water value about 125 dollars were donated at the Saturday morning matinee for the Salvation Army. Captain Wiseman took the cans to headquarters for use in Christmas baskets.
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Manos
THE
Salvation Army
Gus Giankos
Manos Theatre
Captain Wiseman
Big Fire Destroys Pt. Pleasant Morrison Store
A three story Morrison Company department store in Pt. Pleasant was leveled by a major blaze last night. Fire units from Point Pleasant Mason City Huntington and nearby towns battled the flames for hours. Damaged adjacent buildings included the Mayflower Hotel and Cafe. Two firefighters were overcome by smoke and gas with one treated and released. An apartment and a doctor office in the Morrison building were destroyed. Merchandise damage is estimated near 100000 dollars pending inventory checks. The fire disrupted power service in southern Mason County for about 90 minutes and traffic along several highways was halted.
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PT. Pleasant
Point Pleasant
J. Morrison Company
Mason City
Huntington
Virginia
Pomery
Gallipolis
Middleport
Ohio
Mayflower Hotel
Mayflower Cafe
Morrison Company
Ralph Sisson
Pomeroy
Point Pleasant Clinic
Otto Shobe
Morrison
Faye Suttle
J. R. Shirmer
Charles E.romine
Romine
Morrison Chain
Charleston
Mason County
Gallipolis Ferry
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Humbington
Glass Company
George McCoppin
Ruby
Lato
Defense Department
Joseph Essington
West Virginia _Archaeological Soci
Essington
Gas Company
Lockard
Wyoming Air Base
John W. Green
USAF
Cleveland
Alex Kun
USN
Akron
Truman
Moros
International
City Police Court
Manchuria
Yalu R
Miles
Vonovane
Online
Otori
Nature
Forean
VFW
James H. Brink
Ant
Army
Shtagn
Willian Craft
States
Brink
Walter Reed
Army Hospital
Washington D. C
Fort Meade
U.S
Associated Press
Tom Lambert
Lambert
Penney Associates
Polio
Saramento
Sutter Hospital
Nina
Earl Warren
Altuouziache
Polly
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