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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
4
The Penney Company board approves a special payment equal to two weeks’ pay for full-time associates employed since 1949 and on a pro rata basis for part-time and newer staff. More than 50,000 Penney items will participate, excluding management and certain profit-sharers. J C Penney manager S Ebert notes widespread distribution.
Grant and Tucker counties contended for the eight day deer season record. Official totals showed Grant leading with 752 deer to Tucker's 720, while a Conservations officer cited 776 for Grant, a new county high. statewide, 6,122 deer were reported killed during the eight day period, with final county totals pending. Also noted is a nonrecurrent Thrift and Profit Sharing Plan payment to Grafton store employees.
Nations including Canada Britain Denmark Sweden Norway and Argentina join Greece in a broad relief drive. Maternity clinics X Ray units shoes blankets sanatoriums and food shipments back a vast rehabilitation program. Scandinavia coordinates health specialists for mass exams and immunizations targeting all Greek children with 800 000 already examined and plans to import birds to turn a mound into a sanctuary by fall.
Japan's Foreign Trade Corporation for Textiles signals silk demand revival with October export contracts totaling over 8500 bales, up more than 1000 from prior. Silk merchants forecast 10,000 bales monthly by year end, still far below prewar levels. In California, a police incident ends with a jab and a tangled tale after a driver clashed with a suspect who fled after a stop-sign incident. A suspect shoe sole held a folded $20 bill, and in Orlando a detainee quipped about stealing. The piece also notes Texas football recruit James Tatum at 18, six-foot-seven, and Maine's new coach David Nelson, who once played with Tom Harmon.
A giant Berlin air raid shelter is being buried in the zoological gardens to serve as a bird sanctuary. Workmen are using power shovels to cover the bunker and will plant trees and bushes on top so that by next summer a sylvan appearance emerges.
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