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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1946
Page
4
James Holt notes carrier and mail subscription rates including one year seven dollars twenty, six months three dollars sixty, and three months one dollar eighty. The paper carries Associated Press dispatches and reserves rights. Letters to the editor may be published if signed and for purposes of public discussion.
The Nation Today explains how the expiry on December 31 of the excess profits carry back aids postwar recovery. If 1947 profits rise, a company loses refunds. operating loss carry backs allow refunds for 1945 or 1946 losses, while loss carries forward permit offset against 1948 or 1949 profits. If a company profits in 1947, no refund occurs.
Lydia and Captain Christopher Stark prepare to reunite after war as they marry quietly. Family letters, old flames, and new bonds mix with a long journey home to Connecticut. The pair confront past hurts and hope for a shared future as their train arrives.
The article urges sustained effort to clean Grafton city streets and sidewalks. It praises progress in Main Street cleanliness during recent rain and Christmas shoppers, and calls for broader merchant support, pedestrian responsibility, and more trash cans on principal streets to curb littering. It encourages blocks of merchants to sponsor refuse receivers to foster public help.
The nation faces a push for four and six lane highways as postwar traffic surges. Congress in 144 authorized a national highway network to link major cities, with routes under study and construction underway despite material shortages. Drivers praise faster, safer express highways while old two-lane roads fade.
Miners return to work after a long idle period and missed pay, with widespread industrial disruption across the Middle West. The piece argues the strike failed for miners investors and the public, warning warlike tactics do not pay and urging tougher federal action to avoid future stoppages.
A concise meditation notes that some chase wealth at the expense of life itself. It quotes Romans 14 7 urging that no one lives or dies alone, stressing shared humanity and accountability beyond worldly success.
In Washington the Federal Communications Commission hears a week of testimony on color television. CBS seeks early public use of sequential color. RCA NBC argues color remains four years away and should be all electronic. Numerous radio programs air tonight across NBC CBS ABC and more.
A wartime style dispute unfolds as southern coal operators resist unionization for foremen and an industry wide safety core while government plans to end wartime controls. Democrats vow tax cuts be paired with debt reduction as Pan American air routes clash with U S airlines in a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing. A World War II era joke about occupation zones circulates in Germany.
Central Press sketches a humorous snapshot of 1946 politicking and sports quarrels as figures like Bevin are booed at a York football game while others clash over popularity, gifts, and salary talk.
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