Refrigerator prize winner from Evansville contest
Mrs. James W. Nottingham, 26, wife of a local minister, won a 6299.50 nine-foot 1950 Shelvador Refrigerator in a Bennett Refrigeration Service contest judged by Mayor Dorsey Bolyard and others. Her entry praised Shelvador’s practicality and quality, reflecting years of wanting the appliance.
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James W. Nottingham
Evansville
Shelvador
Bennett
Kitty
Monongahela Power Company
Dorsey Bolyard
Robert F. Gerkin
Arthur G. Yates
Grafton Sentinel
Nottingham
Selvador
Early mailing urged for Christmas cards by postmaster
Postmaster James Murphy urged residents to mail greetings early to avoid delays amid expected Yuletide mail surges. Out of state cards should be placed in collection boxes by December 15, local deliveries a week before Christmas. weather could snarl service and undelivered cards. He warned against using 10 cent stamps as they are returned for insufficient postage and noted third class mail rates and forwarding limits.
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James T. Murphy
Murphy
Pettrey Store To Close Tomorrow In Honor Of President
The Pettrey Shoe store in Graf ton will close all day tomorrow as funeral services for firm president G L Pettrey Sr are held at 2 p m at a Clarksburg funeral home. Pettrey died Saturday in a North Carolina hospital. Parker Hayhurst, the store manager, said operations will resume Thursday morning.
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Pettrey Shoe
Grafton
G. L. Pettrey, Sr
Clarksburg
Pettrey
North Carolina
Parker Hayhurst
DC-3 Crash Kills Two. Three Bodies Located in River
At National Airport a DC-3 crash left Mrs. William Chertow of Brooklyn and Neville Lassiter of Arlington dead. Pilot W. J. Davis and co-pilot Lloyd L. Porter remained trapped in the wreckage as rescuers, aided by lamps, worked through a rain soaked, low visibility day. The plane had originated in Memphis with a Norfolk stop, landing in Washington on a day of severe air traffic.
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William Chertow
Tennis Court
Brooklyn
Neville Lassiter
Arlington
Virginia
W. J. Davis
Lloyd L. Porter
Alexandria
Vaavy
Air Force
Memphis
Tenn
Norfolk
Washington
National Airport
Reform Agenda Urged to Target Urgent Congress Items
Reform leaders pressed for action on the most urgent items at the next Congress session. Hover warned that taxes above 25 percent of national income would spell disaster while current and projected spending would exceed 30 percent. He proposed reorganizing the civil service to curb red tape and waste that discourages capable officials.
Truman AEC Chairmen List Weighs 8 Candidates
President Truman's options for Atomic Energy Commission chairmanship include W Averell Harriman Lewis Douglas Thomas A Morgan and Charles E Wilson. The plan calls for consolidating federal health water grazing and forestry agencies to cut waste and unify policy while easing presidential burden across 65 agencies.
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Federal Hospital Service
Agriculture Department
Agriculture and Interior
President Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
W. Averell Harriman
Marshall Plan
Europe
Lewis Douglas
Great Britain
Thomas A. Morgan
Sperry Gyroscope
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric
International
20th Century Unrest and Hope in a Turbulent World
A fragmented digest notes the era’s warfare and peace drive, praising the United Nations as a fragile balance of hope and fear. It cites postwar budgets, office modernization, and Henry Wallace’s reforms, while reflecting on the century’s conflicts and the quest for safe homes and secure futures.
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United Nations
New Fear
Henry Wallace
Alexander Ing
Modernia
Mine safety inspection report incomplete at 800 Miners site
A company official stated that the 800 Miners mine had undergone a safety inspection, but details of the inspection were not fully disclosed. The report appears partial and leaves questions about the mine’s current safety status and compliance.
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Trom
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AEC
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William H. Ansel, Jr
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Rome
Hurry Supply Limited
Winpleld P Malone’s Drug Store
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Malone’s Drug and Chemical CO
Grafton Jewelry CO
Aouy
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Bulova
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Ronson
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Sunbeam
Philco
Wallace Sterling
Parker
Seth-Thomas
Duncan
Longi Wittnauer
Vernon Pottery
Marvella
Rogers
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