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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
3
Society and club activity notes list Elidea M. Bclyard and Telopheas 185 in a brief society column. Item presents names and affiliations with no further events or dates attached. Reads like a short social register update from a local page.
Brief note reports W C All among manager of Lincoln Funeral Home underwent major surgery at St Marys hospital in Clarksburg this morning. Also mentions Billie DeMoss cadet nurse returning to Charleston from Thorn ton and Joyce Ann and Ronald Lewis Cole leaving for San Francisco with relatives nearby.
Glenice Queen, daughter of H M and Mrs Queen of Route 2, and Lt. (re) Charles R. Cather USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Cather of Flemington, married December 1 at Calvary Baptist Church in New York City. The bride wore a fuchsia gabardine suit with winter white accessories and a corsage of white rose buds. Glenice is a Simpson high school alumna who studied at Alderson Broaddus College and the Emergency Hospital School of Nursing in Washington DC. Cather, a Flemington High School graduate, Salem College attendee, and West Virginia University student, later served as Navy instructor of history and commercial law at Flemington High School.
Members of the Vicktory 4-H club, who run the refreshment and recreation committees for the club Christmas party, met at Richard Van Parkhill's home on Gay street to finalize plans. Louise Cutright presided and announced a January bake sale with Elois Gillispie Nancy and Norma Lee Parkhill as organizers. The Clover Pals will exchange gifts at Friday’s party. Present were Louise Cutright Barbara Carruthers Joan McKinney Judy Miller Nancy Smith and club leader Mrs F S Smith.
Members of the American Legion auxiliary held their annual Christmas party and gift exchange at the auxiliary headquarters on Latrobe Street after a regular meeting led by president Mrs. T. H. Shields. A luncheon served by a committee including Mrs. Shields Mrs. Virgil Poe and Mrs. Arch Stavely marked the event with Christmas decorations and poinsettia centerpiece.
A series of December events are postponed and rescheduled across local groups including the W C T U at Baptist church, Tau Phi Lambda at Supreme Forest Wood men circle, Degree of Honor at V F W hall, Kings Daughters Bible classes at Blueville and United Brothers churches, Quota Club Christmas party at Cafeteria Court, Fidelis club at Mrs Rhea Fisher’s Washington street home, with hostess changes and holiday gift exchanges noted.
Miss Thelma Marie Robinson daughter of Mr and Mrs Wa Robinson of 87 Lincoln Street married Joseph Stanley Chis son of Mr and Mrs Alexander Chis of Hooversville Pa in a Saturday ceremony in Oakland Maryland. Rev J E Johnson officiated the single ring wedding. The bride wore poucre blue with a red rose corsage. Chis has been an engineer at the Tygart dam for two years and is a Hooversville High School graduate.
NBC correspondent George Thomas Forster reports from Leyte that Japanese ground forces on Ormoc Island are completely disorganized, scattering, and have lost contact with leaders, signaling the beginning of the end for the Emperor's forces in the Ormoc valley.
Pvt. John Ellis Bartlett of Little Rock arrives in Graf ton to spend a 10 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Archie R Bartlett. He joined in July and finished basic training with the infantry. He reports to Fort Meade on December 24. T Kenneth Cole assigned to U S S Grafton son of Harold Cole of Grand street husband of Frances Shackelford residing in San Francisco. Eugene Whistner seaman first class on 30 day leave visiting sister and father in Buckhannon. Thomas Warder petty officer third class on 20 day leave from Philadelphia staying at 602 Jefferys street. Pvt Albert Colebank to wave tonight for Camp Atterbury after visiting parents. Veterans of World War II eligible for American Legion membership since Oct 29 42.
In Charleston on December 14 the Office of Price Administration announced new rationing prices for groups 1 and 2 stores covering Dodd Ridge Harrison Lewis Marion Monongalia and Taylor counties. Tangerines list 41 cents per dozen for sizes 150 and 176 35 cents per dozen size 200 31 cents per dozen. Other changes include apples 30 cents for 2 pounds lettuce 26 1 2 cents per pound onions 3 pounds 21 and 19 cents depending on size potatoes 5 pounds 24 cents spinach 16 cents per pound with most remaining items unchanged.
Red Army sappers faced heavy antitank defenses as they pressed toward the capital, with German and Hungarian forces laying mine fields. Air battles erupted near Sevastopol, while 12 towns fell and seven more were reported captured in Slovakia and eastern front areas as Soviet forces pushed the offensive.
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