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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1941
Page
8
Brisk shopping and early crowds as Christmas lighting begins in Grafton with work on a community project led by the Grafton Junior Chamber of Commerce. Funds cover lighting on Main and Latrobe streets until after New Year’s. prizes planned for best decorated homes across five wards. The sheriff and police chief will erect the Christmas tree near the county building as lights go on.
Vernonware showcases lit open stock in pastel shades as SKAGGS debuts new assortments. The release features varied hues aimed at brightening table settings and catching consumer interest in homeware markets.
A British bomber at low level set a supply ship on fire off the Norwegian coast last night and returned safely to base despite a hit from the ship’s anti aircraft gun. The air ministry said another plane bombed a wireless station, location not disclosed.
Flemington mothers announce a bingo party in the old College Hill building on December 12 at 7 30 p m The event is sponsored by local civic groups and aims to raise funds for community projects.
New York Dec 5 Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co announced by President John A Hartford that total additional compensation of 1.5 million dollars will be paid before Christmas to all employees with six months or more service, including part timers, nationwide. Similar bonus awarded last year.
Delbert Shahan 28 of East Grafton was jailed for 10 days after pleading guilty to drunkenness in a warrant. Justice George L. Jolliffe ordered the sentence and fines of $6 and costs, which Shahan could not pay, leading to imprisonment.
West Virginia Liquor announces two additional clerks at the Grafton store to handle the holiday rush. The move targets the two weeks before Christmas and the week between Christmas and New Year as customer volume peaks.
The Mother's club sponsors the Nursery school thanks Edward McDaniel Mrs Mae Reed and Miss Paula Smith for donations of food clothing and toys for the kiddies benefit. Beautification plans for the nursery yard include planting shrubbery and a fence construction. The nursery school is on East Wilford street.
John K. Burdett has moved his law offices from the Grafton Banking and Trust building to the Parrish building on West Main Street across from the courthouse. He occupies two newly decorated rooms, serves as city attorney, does general law work, and is a notary public.
Four members of the eighth grade at Grafton Junior High were omitted from the B honor roll. Names left out were Phyllis Towner Frank Todd Olga Corcovilos and Charles Weaver.
After the 6:15 dinner at the YMCA the Rotary club enjoyed a brief program led by R. M. Parrish. Three biographical sketches by F. E. Sampson E. S. Hamrick and T. L. Bolyard traced early life up to college days, with notes on defense factors if war reaches the Pacific and Japanese repatriation debates rising amid tensions.
A wartime update notes a wage pool of 100000 with thousands more awaiting transports off the Indo China coast. Both the United States and Great Britain fear Japan may invade Thailand as the opening move in a broader East Asia expansion. A Melbourne broadcast cited Australia’s cabinet remaining in Canberra over the weekend as government messages arrive and negotiations proceed.
The report notes that General Gen Sugiyama, the chief of the Japanese General Staff, attended an audience.
BUILD CAMP CLARKSBURG Dec 5. Work will begin immediately on a prison camp at Reader to house men to be employed on highway projects on state routes 7 and 20. E C Bennett, managing engineer for prison labor, announced last night.
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