Weather Forecast Looks Warmer With Showers Near Weekend
The forecast calls for considerable cloudiness with warm temperatures and scattered showers. Highs expected 68 to 74, Saturday remains cloudy and mild with rain turning colder in the afternoon. Temperature readings include 65 to 66 during the day, 58 low overnight, and 54 last night, with 11 am today at 66 and rainfall of .19 inches in the past 24 hours.
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Sather
Grafton
Florida
Charleston
Parkersburg
Huntington
United Nations Security Council bid backed by US wins on first ballot
Digest lists multiple items from the era including the Philippines with US support defeating Czechoslovakia 51 to 20 for a Security Council seat, plus other world and local news such as a deadly elevated train fire in Chicago, West Virginia governor race results, and weather notes amid a midwinter mild spell.
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United Nations
Philippins
United States
Czechoslovakia
United Nations Security Council
Weekly Carrier Collection Notice
Subscriptions due collection by the carrier boy this Friday night and Saturday morning. Please have your receipt card and correct change ready. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Grafton Sentinel
Six Applicants Seek Police Chief Job
City Manager Harry B. Batson announced six applications for the open city police chief post. No action will be taken on any application until after the new year, with two from out-of-towners. Acting chief Clyde DeBaer has performed satisfactorily and may continue as acting chief indefinitely.
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Harry B. Batson
Batson
Clyde DeBaer
DeBarr
Feast of the Immaculate Conception Masses Held
Catholics observe the Holy Day of Obligation on December 8 with Masses at St. Augustine's Church in Grafton at 8:00 am and 5:30 pm. The Children's choir will sing at the morning Mass and the Men's Gregorian choir at the evening service.
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St. Augustine's Church
Grafton
C&P rate hike approved by West Virginia PSC
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. won PSC approval for a 2.7 million dollar annual rate increase affecting about 280,000 subscribers in West Virginia. The commission deemed the increase just and reasonable, with trims to long mileage charges for rural areas and a required report on completed expansions in Huntington Barboursville Kenova and Wheeling Moundsville districts. Suburban protests were noted though several civic groups testified against the hike.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Chesapeake & Potomas Telephone Co
State Public Service Commission
C&p
C. H. Johnson
PSC
Alredy
Telephone Company
Service Commission
Huntington - Barboursville - Kenovi
Wheeling-Moundsville
West Virgina
Johnson
Pse
Commission
Morgantown
Huntington
Barboursville
United States pushes UN plan on Hungary visit and veto
United States leads push at the United Nations to authorize Dag Hammarskjold to Moscow for Hungary talks as Moscow resists entry of UN observers into Budapest. Britain and France sit in as a new resolution seeks harsher action, while Washington protests Soviet tank use against civilians in Budapest.
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Bruce W. Mann
United Press
United Nations
Ni Y
United States
Dag Hammarskjold
Moscow
Hungary
Hammarskjold
Russia
U.N. Oeservers
France
Britain
Janos
Budapest
Hammareskjold
Butt
Hemmmiaraiypyid
Intcome
United
Legation
Hunters Report Luck As Deer Season Wanes
As the 1956 deer season nears its end, Grafton hunters report success with several notable bucks and does. John Musgrove Jr. bags a 180 pound 10 point buck in White Day, Robert Lance shoots a 140 pound right point buck, Henry Trickett a 150 pound 11 point, H L McGee a 100 pound spike, and Ray Parkhill a 110 pound doe in Preston County. State tally shows nearly 13,000 deer killed in four days this week, with 11,200 by Wednesday and an estimated 2,450 on Thursday. Four people wounded in hunting incidents statewide this season. Season ends Saturday at sundown.
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Grafton
John Musgrove, Jr
White Day
Robert Lance
Henry Trickett
H. L. McGee
Hardy County
Ray Parkhill
Gay Street
Preston County
Pacific Fleet Vigilant Today Against Pearl Harbor Repeat
The Pacific Fleet rests on high alert to deter a Pearl Harbor style attack. Fifteen years after the surprise strike, defenses are modernized with radar, early warning aircraft, and dispersed carriers and submarines across the Pacific, while battleship row in Honolulu is largely deserted except for the Arizona as a reminder of the past tragedy.
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Pearl Harbor
U. S
International
Pacific Fleet
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Naval Base
United States Pacific Fleet
Nav
Sydney
Australia
Taipei
Formosa
San Dergo
Califto
Sasebo
Japan
Nessee
Nevada
U S Plans Large Scale Aid For West Europe
Vice President Nixon outlined a major U S aid program to boost Western Europe hit by the Middle East crisis. The plan targets Britain, possibly France the Netherlands Italy and others with aid that may delay U S tax cuts to fund the effort.
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Eisenhower
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Middle East
Richard M. Nixon
New York City
Nixon
United States
Britain
Suez Canal
Egg Nixon
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France
Netherlands
Italy
AF Missile Runs Wild On Flight Toward Brazil
An intercontinental Snark missile escaped control after a test from Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Florida. It sped toward Brazil at about 600 miles per hour as radar failed to track or guide it back. Officials had no word on its fate by late morning.
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Washington !M
Air Force
Patrick Air Force Base
Cocoa
Fla
Resistance leaders warn of general strike in Hungary
Budapest labor chiefs warned Premier Kadar that continued arrests would trigger a general strike bloodshed and a national tragedy. The Central Workers Council issued the proclamation after 160 factory leaders were seized, prompting walkouts across Budapest as Russian tanks patrolled the streets and clashes left multiple dead and wounded.
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Ilona Nyilas
United Press
Budapest
Hungary
Janos Kadar
Central Workers Council of
Kadar
Othford
Ists
Jeszef Gatl
Eden Maintains Premiership After Suez Controversy
London reports Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden will stay in office to steer Britain’s economy after the Suez crisis. Fifteen Conservative rebels abstained in a confidence vote on Middle East policy, but sources say the revolt has fizzled and Eden retains party support.
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London
Anthony Eden
Britain
Suez
Eden
Middle East
Gasoline Rationing Not Seen For United States
Chicago. Arthur Fleming, director of defense mobilization, said the United States can help alleviate the oil shortage in Europe without endangering gasoline rationing at home. He stated Eisenhower’s plan to divert oil to Western Europe can be carried out without contemplating rationing in this country. Fleming spoke at a dinner meeting of the 13th biennial General Assembly of the States.
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Chicago
Arthur
Fleming
Defense Mobilization
United States
Europe
Flemming
Eisenhower
Judge Okays Listing Of Delinquent Names
BLUEFIELD West Virginia judge Waller V Ross allowed publication of the names of three juveniles and their parents after sentencing them to Pruntytown Industrial School for four automobile thefts and 13 break-ins. He said the action may warn other youths and their parents and noted no harm in making names public.
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Bluefield
West Virginia
Waller V. Ross
Pruntytown Industrial School
Ross
Yule Trees Fill Fire Headquarters
Fire Chief John Proctor’s residence hosted a Christmas tree display as trucks delivered specimens including white pine and Scotch pine bought from Belington nurseries. Proctor noted his own collection totals five pines with 10 to 16 already sold. He said inquiries about Mrs. Charles Custer’s decorations on Maple Ave and the display at the Municipal Building on December 10 were announced.
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John Proctor
Proctor
Belington
Charles Custer
Maple Ave
Boom In Babies Tops 1955 Mark
Washington reports the US Public Health Service says 4,202,000 babies are expected to be born this year. First nine months of 1956 show a 3 percent rise over 1955’s 4,091,000 births, due to more first children and larger families.
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Washington
Public Health Service
United States
Eisenhower calls stop to leakage of defense data
President Eisenhower declares leakage of defense budget and military manpower plans must stop. He voices concern over unauthorized disclosures and urges tighter information control to protect national security.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
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United Nations Today
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