Four-Day Walkout On Atom Project Ends At Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge Tenn a four day wildcat strike at the atomic project site ends with workers returning to work. R W Cook of the AEC reports all 10 AFL Knoxville Building Trades Council crafts represented back at Maxon Construction Co as work resumes on two plants. About 3 000 workers involved none given for cause. protest reportedly over use of non union labor in pipeline project from Nashville to supply atomic installations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Ridge, Tenn
R. W. Cook
Oak Ridge
Atomic Energy Commission
Cook
AFL Knoxville Building Trades Council
Maxon Construction Company
Maxon
Prades Conneil
J. C
Knoxville
Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel
National Labor Relations Board
The
Wolkout
AEC
Maxon Construction Co
Dayton
AFL
Knoxville Building Trades Council
Fcitelal
Oman Construction Co
Nashville
Tenn
Oman
Middle Tennessee
GOP Clears Way For New Fights In Foreign Policy
Washington reports that Senator Vandenberg is urged by Republicans to set a Republican stance on the administration's China Japan and possibly Israel attitudes. Recuperating in Michigan from major operation, he plans to return to Washington for the new Congress on January 3. Party colleagues want early clarification of the bipartisan foreign policy course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vandenberg
Amnesia Victim Is Ex Paratrooper Returns to Ohio for Treatment
Ray Mauk a 20 year old ex paratrooper with amnesia was identified after fainting at a Pax restaurant and held at a county jail. He is en route to Kentucky to visit relatives after a stay at New Boston Ohio. He was discharged two months ago from Percy Jones VA hospital and says little to his father Lonnie Mauk about his past or family.
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Beckley
New Boston
Ohio
Ray Mauk
Pax
Lonniie’ Mauk
Daniel Carroll
Carter County
Kentucky
Glen Mauk
Clear Fork
Kentuck
Maui
Percy Jones Veterans Administration Hospital
Battle Creek
Michigan
Japan
Faqhey
Mark
Army
Washington
Veterans Hospital
Albert Post Crowned Taylor County Corn King in Contest
Albert Red Post of Hepzibah Community won first in the high yield corn contest run by the Veterans Farm Training Class in Taylor County. His 236 bushels per acre topped last year’s county fourth place but trailed Barbour county’s Beryl Hardin who achieved 250 bushels. Eight class members reported yields and affirmed that proper seed and fertilizer boost production even on hilly land.
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Veterans’ Farm
Albert
Red) Post
Hepzibah
James Kerns
Post
Beryl Hardin
Barbour County
Taylor County
Narrow Escape As Car Hits Ball Home
Three year old Jimmy Ball narrowly escaped injury when a driverless car rolled into the Ball residence on Country Club road causing about 200 in damage. Owner Jimmy Peters of Baltimore and Ohio railroad works repairs the car and covers costs. Peters, a volunteer firefighter, suspects passing trucks created suction that moved the parked vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Ball
Jimmy
Orval Ball
Country Club
D. Sm
Jimmy Veters
Country Club Road
Peters
Ball
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Dinner and meeting held by 40 & Sers at Legion Home
Voyageurs enjoyed a chicken dinner at the Legion Home on McGraw avenue last night. The monthly meeting was attended by local men and members from Kingwood Terra Alta and Rowlesburg, said George Vogel the organization secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
40 & Sers
Legion Home
Voyageurs
McGraw Avenue
Kingwood
Terra Alta
Rowlesburg
George Vogel
New Members Initiated By Graf ton Elks Lodge
Ten men joined Graf ton Lodge No. 308 BPOE at last night’s initiation. New members include C C Bolyard Olaf Lawson George Newcome Ralph Thornhill Earl Henderson Samuel J Gerard Wilbur Simpson Charles Messenger James D'Annunzio Herbert Ball and King Larkin district deputy grand exalted ruler presided and welcomed by Jack R Nuzum. An Elks dancing party with Hal Hartman and his Mello Aires of Fairmont is scheduled for this weekend at 10 p.m. for members and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Lodge No
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
C. C. Bolyard
St. John Street
George Newcome, Jr
McGraw Avenue
Olaf Lawson
Dorsey Street
Ralph Thornhill
Philippi
Earl Henderson
West Knotts Avenue
Samuel J. Gerard
Beech Street
Wilbur Simpson
Charles Messenger
James D'Annunzio
Flemington
Herbert Ball
Lincoln Street
King Larkin
Martinsburg
Jack R. Nuzum
Elks
Larkin
Elks Lodge
Hal Hartman
Mello Aires
Fairmont
Honor Roll Lists 64 St Augustine High School and Elementary Students
Sixty four students across St Augustine High School and elementary grades earned 90 or higher in scholarship over the past six weeks. Seniors Robert Litzinger John Lawrence Waters Anna Marie Saccone and Wilma Tighe top the high scholastic list with others including Edward Grinnan Michael Tucker Charles B Turner and Geraldine Dougherty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Augustine
Robert Litzinger
John Lawrence Waters
Anna Marie Saccone
Wilma Tighe
Edward Grinnan
Michael Tucker
Charles B. Turner
Geraldine Dougherty
Gene Paul Behan
Joan Duncan
Mary Genenette
Margaret A. Kunst
Delores
Chinese Move Government Seat To Formosa Site
Premier Yen Hsi-Shan’s emergency cabinet voted to shift the seat of government to Taipei Formosa and to make Sichang in Sikang the general headquarters for operations on the mainland. Gen Chang Chun resigns as southwest China head. Gen Ku Chu Tung gains the post and remains chief of staff. Nationalist forces to wage organized guerrilla warfare on the mainland as a sign of losing the war. Yen Hsi-Shan flies to Taipeh, making it China’s fifth capital this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chengtu
China
Taipei
Formosa
Yen Hsi-Shan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sichang
Sikang
Chang Chun
Southwest China
Ku Chu Tung
Southwest
Reds
Taipeh
Corma Mowery To Address Local Teachers
Miss Corma Mowery of Clarksburg, a noted educator, will give the principal address at the Taylor County Teachers Association banquet at Grafton High School cafeteria on Monday December 12. R Virgil Rohrbough and Sherman Haselden will also speak. High school students will perform music including a vocal duet and trumpet solo, with Christmas carols to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corma Mowery
Clarkshire
Taylor County Teachers Association
Grafton High School
Selah Haun
James Yost
William Frey
Aselden
Helen Brown
Virginia Yost
John Pollard
Organiza
New Enrollees In Police School
Police Chief Joe Mask announced several new enrollees in a two week FBI locally run training program. The group includes Buckhannon officials and Grafton firemen with other local enlistees from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Grafton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Joe Mask
Mask
D.D. Marple
Buckhannon
Paul Mackey
James L. Westfall
C. E. Layman
Grafton
Victor C. Haller
Earl Bennett
Jasper Kale
W. D. White
Samuel Gerard, Jr
Forest Edwards, Jr
Bond E. Sluss
UMW Chief Awaits Signers Amid Short Week
Washington: John L. Lewis waited for new signers as miners began a three day work week while coal mines produce 7,340,000 tons annually under contract. Lewis seeks to press contract demands as small soft coal firms in the Midwest and South returned to five days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Midwest
Lewis
Memorial City VFW Auxiliary Observes Fifteenth Anniversary
About seventy attendees gathered at the VFW hall for a banquet marking the fifteenth anniversary of Memorial City Post 3081 Auxiliary. Reverend Carl Davis gave the invocation and Colonel Raymond Kenny of Grafton spoke on home service for veterans and Pearl Harbor’s December 7 1941 anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial City
Veterans of Foreign Wars
V.F.W
Carl Davis
T. J. Moran
Raymond Kenny
Grafton
Pearl Harbor
Kenny
Washington
U.S. Army Tast
George Washington University
New Lodge
Rhea Fisher
Florence Wilkinson
Arnold Knotts
T. R. Shields
Auxiliary
Women Steal Mink Wraps From Store in Huntington
Police say two women who stole 1700 dollars worth of mink wraps from a Huntington fur shop two weeks earlier are linked to one or two thefts yesterday. Detectives note a $210 suit and a $175 cloth coat were taken from two clothiers in similar fashion, with the proprietor left briefly alone as the theft occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Norman E. Holderby
Holderby
Child Victim Of Rare Disease Dies Yesterday
Patty Owens, four year old of Chicago, died after an operation on her windpipe at Tumois Research hospital. Ill with a fibrocystic disease since infancy, she suffered respiratory failure as her lungs filled with a heavy secretion following a cross country train trip from California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Patty Owens
Patty
Tumois Research Hospital
Tuesaday
California
Uranium Shipment to Russia in 1943 Reported by Howe
Trade Minister C D Howe disclosed in the House of Commons that in May 1943 Canada shipped about 1 000 pounds of uranium oxide and uranium nitrate to Russia through Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd. valued at $2 445 as a normal commercial sale. He noted the tests for atomic development were under way and the policy was to aid Russia, with 500 pounds of oxide and 600 pounds of nitrate requested for wartime use including armaments and medical needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
C. D. Howe
Russia
House of Commons
Howe
Eldorado Gold Mines
Lta
Missing California Airlines DC-3 sighted near Martinez area
A two engine California Airlines DC-3 with seven aboard is seen from the air near Pacheco south of Martinez in Contra Costa County. Ground crews rush to the area. The plane departed Oakland yesterday for Sacramento and disappeared in a heavy rainstorm shortly after takeoff. Survivors among three crew and four passengers not yet determined.
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Oakland
Calif
Pacheco
Martinez
Contra Costa County
California Airlines
Burbank
Sacramento
Greeting Cards Must Use 2 Cent Stamp This Year
Postmaster James T. Murphy warns that greeting cards mailed this season must bear 2 cent stamps, not 1 13 cent stamps, to avoid returns for insufficient postage. He urges sending cards by first class mail to prevent delays or dead letter handling during the Christmas rush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James T. Murphy
S. Yule
Soloist George Moyer to perform in Grafton High chorus
Soloist George Moyer, a senior and son of Mrs. Birdie Moyer, will be among the soloists for the Grafton High School Mixed Chorus program The Lights of the Christmas Story to be staged in the Senior High auditorium in December. He is active in music, member of the Mixed Chorus A Capella Choir and Senior Band, and was chosen for the All State Chorus at Huntington last year. He also represented the school with the Grafton Worhans club in a National Music Contest last spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Moyer
Grafton High
George
Birdie Moyer
Country Club
Huntington
Grafton Worhans Club
West Virginia official warns of threats to public schools
Trent, West Virginia state school superintendent, warned at the National Council of Chief State School Officers meeting that movements by non education agencies to control or dictate school policy threaten unity and effectiveness. He cited congressional efforts to subordinate education to health and welfare and the push for dual or triplicate school systems as major dangers.
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Biloxi
Miss
Trent
West Virginia
National Council of Chief
Department of Education
Congress
U.S. Office of Edu
Bare Your Bosom Ladies Style From 1950
Beverly Hills report on Mariusia spring summer collection shows bosom accent with deep center slashes and oversized revers. Designers offer options to cover or reveal, including deep square decolletage and high collars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Marusia
Red Cross Official Visits Taylor County Chapter
Isaac E. Brooks of Military Welfare Service in Washington made his first official visit to the Taylor county Red Cross offices. Miss Ruby Bonnfield said Brooks has been loaned to West Virginia as assistant general field representative prior to the Zand campaign planned for March.
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Isaac E. Brooks
Military Welfare Service
Military District Office
Army War College
Washington, D. C
Taylor County
American Red Cross
Ruby Bonnfield
Brooks
West Virginia
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Gop
Uee Gop
Albert Post ‘Corn King
Taylor
Albert Page
Canada
Bud Townsend
Edmonton
Alberta
International Soundphoto
Aus
Mr. Peters
Hazel Atlas Glass
Corma
UMW
Bulletin
Red Cross
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