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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1949
Page
4
The publication traces its roots to 1870 as a weekly, later daily except Sundays since 1903, and it is entered as second class matter in the Grafton West Virginia post office under the 1879 act.
Television schedule highlights NBC offers Henry Morgan and Jimmy Durante with Screen Director's Playhouse while Shir ly Temple and Sports Time appear. CBS features The Goldbergs and Joan Davis Comedy alongside Young Love Drama and Capital Cloakroom. ABC presents Lone Ranger This Is FBI Ozzie and Harriet and boxing Beau Jack versus Tuzo Portuguez with Russ Morgan Show on MBS.
A fragment notes a wish to sing Christmas carols as a friend does and suggests carol singing raises mood and prompts people to pay him. The tone resembles a casual narrative about holiday songs and generosity.
Washington police investigate the unexplained death of 21 year old Jean Costello an airline employee. She collapsed at work in Washington and was rushed to a hospital before being flown to Boston where she died. Her home is listed as Herington Kansas.
A 1950 census inquiry advances as Census Director Philip Hauser pushes for income figures. The move aims to illuminate economic conditions and household earnings, with international attention on how income data will be collected and reported.
Pro football for Eastern Standard Time features the Cleveland Browns defending All-American Conference title against a seven-club All-Star team. NBC offers 2:45 p.m. program from Houston Texas with Eddy Duchin at 8:30 p.m. and Meet The Press at 9:30 p.m. Major Geo Racey Jordan appears on television. Also NBC-8 One Man's Family at 9 and CBS-8 Mama Drama at 9. Friday Theater Little Women at 10 followed by The Ruggles etc.
William H. Dean age 73 died in Los Angeles on December 12 after living in California for 22 years. Born in Grafton in 1875 to John and Elizabeth Barbee Dean, he is survived by brother C. L. Dean of 611 Kennedy Street, Grafton. Burial at San Fernando Valley Cemetery, Los Angeles.
Larry Thomason of Seattle, Washington, reunites with his blind dog Butch the boxer after a two week disappearance. The Seeing Eye companion was found and brought back, described in a Seattle newspaper story.
The 44 day strike ends on November 11 as U S Steel agrees to monthly pensions of 100 dollars including Social Security and covers half the cost of a welfare program at five cents per hour. President Benjamin P Fairless says prices reflect rising production costs. Murray refrains from comment until full price list is reviewed.
The report details U.S. Steel raising prices while cutting tin mill product costs from January 1 1950, with stainless steel unchanged. It notes the fourth postwar increase tied to new union contracts, and cites Q3 earnings of 108.7 million for 21 leading firms, down from 1948. It also mentions the Boniface origin of the Christmas tree and Ralph Kiner leading the league in home runs for the first four seasons for Pittsburgh.
A compact chronicle from 1941 to 1945 lists key WWII milestones. Major dictums, battles, capitulations, and turning-point moments feature leaders Roosevelt Churchill Tojo and Eisenhower alongside naval air campaigns and pivotal battles. The piece highlights Pearl Harbor, D‑Day, Berlin’s fall, atomic bombs, and the 1945 U.S. victory over Japan as defining war events.
Senator Johnson of Colorado reported at a Washington press event that Dr. Harold Urey warned reporters that a single A bomb with 1000 times the power of the original could obliterate New York or Washington. He said work on such a weapon is underway.
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