YMCA committees for 1047 named
Mason Tucker, president of the YMCA, announced the committees for the ensuing year at a board meeting. Eight directors attended as seven committees were approved, with the membership committee to be announced next. Committees include house building and equipment, program, community relations, Weaver activities, special constitutional and legal, tavern, and others with several named members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason Tucker
Young Men's Christian Association
Tucker
Boar
Paul E. Malone
Claud Ebert
Paul Defenbaugh
James F Holt
Victor C. Willhide
Virgil Rohrbaugh
Clyde C. Richman
Bo Powell
Richard Shafferan
Edgar T. McKee
W. D Gent
Kenneth Haun
Earl
Randall McKinney
Les Casner- Frank
Gerard
Ed Willams
William ‘Bell
Charles Proudfoot
Carrol
George Manson
James F. Holt
C. W. Z. Lockard
Jed W. Robinson
Paul P .Warden
Arta F. Shom
Joseph L. Evans
Wegnens
Carll
C. W. T. Lockard
Charles Carpenter
Betty Williams
Virginia Mason
Robbery at Holloway Drug Store in Pineville
In Pineville on December 17 a daylight robbery at Holloway drug store netted an estimated 1200 to 1500 dollars from a small safe. The safe was forced open with a crowbar and abandoned near Kin Fork about 6 am. Clyde Holloway reported the missing loot and the store doors were found intact afterward. details on how the safe was removed remain unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
Holloway
Paul Gooch
Clyde Holloway
Harvard Sociologist Regrets Hollywood Film Views
Carle C. Zimmerman of Harvard told Boston Congregational Club members that the film industry should address a deteriorating family system by removing a discredited group described as synthetic childless people of simple intellect. He urged reforms to control social breakdown and restore family stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Holly‘wood Film Society
Carle C. Zimmerman
Harvard
Zimmerman
Boston Congregational Club
Grafton Sentinel Raises Prices for Subscriptions and Ads
The Grafton Sentinel announces a price increase effective January 1 1947 due to higher costs for labor paper ink and other production items. New rates apply to print and rail deliveries as well as display and classified advertising with no full offset of rising expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Sentinel Pub. Co
Grafton Sentinel
Grafton
Cartier
Carrie
Paver
Latrobe Street
W.va
Cllientele
Public address system bought by Clarksburg group
H D Douglas, 68, choked when his false teeth caught in a piece of liver at his West Pike street home. Firefighters arrived with equipment, then transported him to a hospital. A Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting approved buying a public address system for civic events to be loaned to other groups for worthwhile purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
H. D. Douglas
Douglas
West Pike Street
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Legion Home
Husband Shoots Wife To Death In Busy Shopping District
NORRISTOWN December 17 Mrs Helen Grant 34 a waitress and mother of four children was shot to death in a crowded shopping district as bystanders watched Police Chief Robert Reilly said Thomas Grant 48 a brewery worker was charged with murder after walking into a police station three blocks from the scene and saying I just shot my wife Here is the gun I am sorry that taxicab driver she was running around with was not there I was going to shoot him too.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Helen Grant
Robert Reilly
Thomas Grant
Reilly
Sumatra larger than Java with far fewer residents
Sumatra is more than three times as large as Java yet has fewer than one sixth as many people, highlighting a vast population density difference between the islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumatra
Java
Kee Expects Three New Flood Control Projects
Rep. Kee of West Virginia said he hopes for approval in the next Congress for three flood control projects in the Kanawha valley. The Gauley river dam, the Greenbrier dam above Hinton, and the Elk river dam above Charleston have Army Engineers approval, pairing with Bluestone under construction to complete the valley flood control system.
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Washington
Kee
D.-W.va
Congress
Great
Kanawha Valley
Gauley River
Greenbrier
Hinton
Elk River
Charleston
Army
Bluestone
Docket Lists Drunkenness and Traffic Blocking Arrests
A city police docket this morning lists two drunkenness arrests and another arrest for obstructing traffic. The items reflect routine enforcement and do not indicate further charges or outcomes.
State Police Inspect County School Busses
State Police last weekend completed the inspection of more than 1200 school buses, including 10 for Taylor county, according to Troopers W. L. Gergen and R. Wayt. Two local buses were found to be derelict and taken out of service. Local officials urged patience as a parts shortage and aging fleet threaten service. Only 71 school bus accidents were reported so far this year as officials noted 483 buses are eight years old or older and warned unruly pupils threaten safety on overextended routes.
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Taylor County
Gergen
R. Wayt
Grafton
Public Safety
Tata
Wervie
Department of Public Safety
Boggs
Colder Weather Promised By Tomorrow Forecast
An arctic cold front swept across the nation, driving sub zero temperatures from the northern plains through the Great Lakes into the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys. Forecasters warned the cold belt would stay below normal most of the week as up to nine inches of snow and winds up to 45 mph hit Minnesota Wisconsin and upper Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Plains
Great Lakes
Ohio
Mississippi
Eastern
Seaboard
New England
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Rites Held For Guy Robinson In Fairmont Tragedy
Last rites were held Wednesday for Guy Robinson aged 14 who died Sunday night in a motor vehicle accident near Fairmont. He was grandson of Mrs. Cole of Thayersrce and son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy J. Pearson of Whee Lends, a West Fairmont High standout and four year basketball team manager. Born July 6 1931 in Belington he was a native Cration and leaves many relatives and friends in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy
Robinson
Cole
Thayers
Rce
Fairmont
Cis
Chu
Qsey J. Pevason
Furgier Heise Cole
Craiton
S&alded
U.S. 200
Belington
West Fairmont High
West Highlig
Ten Taylor County teachers attend regional CTA meeting
Ten representatives from the Taylor County Classroom Teachers Association attended a regional conference in Clarksburg at Central Junior High School. The session theme was Reading and Developing Finer Human Relations with Dr. D. A. McGarett of Morris Harvey College as speaker and Miss Virginia Recter of Marshall College on Problems of Reading. Attendees from Grafton included S H Haseldon and others, with additional participants from Flemington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Classroom Teachers Association
CTA
Clarksburg
Central Junior High
Waldo Hotel
D. A. McGarett
Morris Harvey College
Virginia Recter
Marshall College
Hazel Daniels
Huntington
Grafton
S. H. Haseldon
Deloes B. Curry
Ruth Batten
Virginia Hanway
Florence Wilkinson
Geneva Hilkey
Donna Ryan
Louis Talbott
Roberta Chenoweth
Flemington
Missing Ham Mystery Under Local Probe
Deputy Sheriff W H Canfield investigates a missing ham found last seen by owner Lee Martin of Curve Bridge. The ham vanished from a small outbuilding via a rear exit, prompting questions about possible theft or disposal and drawing in railroad shop workers as leads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Canfield
Lee Martin
Quar Curve Bridge
Canfield
Martin
Balticarre and Ohio Railroad
Maran
Jai
Wee J
Boy Begins Life Sentence in Thrill Kill at Waynesburg
Fifteen-year-old Donald Mulleneaux was sentenced to life imprisonment for first degree murder in the slaying of Kathryn Fletcher, a 63 year old farm woman who befriended him. He pleaded guilty to stabbing her in the back with a butcher knife to gain a thrill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesburg
Donald C. Mulleneaux
Kathryn Fletcher
J. I. Hook
Milleneaux
Jaycees Raise $133.57 For SA At Saturday Kettle
The Jaycees collected 133.57 for the Salvation Army last Saturday as volunteers staffed the wishing well kettle from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. About 12 members worked, urging pedestrians to donate for food clothing and toys to aid needy children this Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaycees
Salvation Army
Tax Payments By Check Risk to Taxpayers
Charleston date line reports the Supreme Court refused to hold a bonding company liable for defalcations by a state employee who forged and cashed unemployment checks. The suit sought $2,000 indemnity from Continental Casualty Co. concerning Charles Summers, junior accountant with the department through 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Supreme Court
Continental Casualty Company
Charles Summers
High priced lawyers seek 75000 for Chaplin paternity suit
In Los Angeles on December 17 the attorneys for Joan Barry set a 75000 damages claim in their paternity case against Charles Chaplin. Counsel Joseph Scott and A H Rossey petitioned the superior court for judgment. Chaplin's attorney C E Millikan testified Chaplin is worth 3 000 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Joan Barry
Charles Chaplin
Miss Berry
Joseph Scott
A. H. Rosse Yessterday
Superior Court
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