Gratton Rotary Club Holds Annual Yale Party
Fifty four people including Rotary members with their wives and children attended the family Christmas dinner at Four Corners Tuesday evening. The program featured Maxine Bever ly Janet Sinsel with Santa gifts for all children and a Salvation Army kettle duty planned for December 23 on Main Street.
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Rotary Club
Four Corners
John Jenkins
Rotary
Clifford Reynolds
Maxine
Beverly
Janet Sinsel
Sandy Hufford
Kenneth Godwin
Santa Claus
Nathan Mendelson
Ola de Moss
Salvation Army
Army
Main Street
J. C. Penney
300 Attend VFW's Party For Children
About 300 children joined Memorial City Post No 3081 VFW for a fourth annual Christmas party at the Manos Theater. Santa greeted guests while candy and popcorn were handed out. Entertainment included cartoons and a western film.
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VFW
Party For Children
Memorial City Post No
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Manos Theater
Santa Claus
Meredith Granted Parole From Federal Prison
John W. Meredith former cashier at Fairmont West Virginia bank was paroled from a federal prison after serving a little over one year of a three year sentence for altering bank records. Meredith 52 entered the prison November 26 1956 and was released at 930 am today after parole was granted following appeals. He was convicted January 24 1956 by a U S District Court jury in Wheeling on two counts of making false entries related to a $511000 shortage at the First National Bank of Fairmont. He had 21 years service as a teller and cashier at the bank.
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Lewisburg
Path
John W. Meredith
Fairmont
W. Va
Meredith
U.S. District Court
Wheeling
W.va
Morgan Rites Slated Thursday In Morgantown
Funeral services for Charles Wesley Morgan will be held at Jenkins Funeral Home Morgantown at 1:30 am Thursday. The Rev. Harry J. Neilson will officiate. Burial will follow in East Oakgrove Cemetery. Grayside rites will be observed by Morgantown Lodge A Y F and A M. Friends may call at Jenkins Funeral Home.
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C. W. Morgan
Charles Wesley Morgan
Jenkins Funeral Home
Morgantown
Harry J. Neilson
East Oakgrove
Grayside
Morgantown Lodge
A. YF
A. M
Country Club Union Council Sets Yule Party
Country Club Union Council met at Miss Louise McDaniel home with Irene Knight leading devotionals and Mrs Lelia Peters presiding. The Christmas party and gift exchange were planned at Mrs Thelma Kerns home. baskets of fruit foods and cards were sent to shutins. several members and visitors from Maryland and Virginia attended and praise was given to Fetterman Methodist church and the Union Christian Council for support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd McDaniel
Union Christian Council of the
Country Club Road
Louise McDaniel
Irene Knight
Lelia Peters
Thelma Kerns
May Keener
Fannie “Abel
Glays Sapp
Rosa McDaniel
Edith McDaniel
Mary Dawson
Abel
Hayward McDaniels
Philip Murphy
Stockton
Dortha McDaniel
Cecil Medrick
Morgantown
Murphy
Pocomoke City
Roy Calvert
Potomac Heights
Clarence McDaniel
James Shuttlesworth
Ernest Hunts
Paul Purkey
Portsmouth
Stanley McDaniel
Fetterman Methodist Church
Union Christian Council
Country Club Farm Woman's Club
Minor Abel
Ercel Vincent
Lee Linn
Myrtle Lough
Ray Keener
Delbert Dawson
Roscoe Murphy
Robert Thorn
Waitman Lough
Frank Gull
Labor leader reports German handicap employment plan
Walter J. Mason returns from West Berlin with details of a German system that requires 10 percent handicapped hires in firms with ten or more workers and offers training funds. The plan includes protected jobs for wives, free artificial limbs, and extra recreation for handicapped workers, with 300 marks monthly for retraining and reserved seats on transit. Mason reports to the President’s Committee for Employment of the Physically Handicapped.
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Esther V. Tufty
Central Press Ass. Nation Corresponde
Washington
Walter J. Mason
West Berlin
United States
Mason
Berlin
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Gratton Rotary Club
Yale
Harry Wittman
Entertainment Committee
VFW Post
Wittman
Post
Ed Dunaway
Don Mauphin
National Department of the Vfw
Venezuela
Simon Bolivar
Interior Department
Felix de Weldon
Broyhill
J. Lee Evans
Seenon Oas Bron
Gri Afton
Health
Malone’s Drug Store
Miami
Arthur Lawton
Fla
International Soundphoto
The
Grafton Sentinel
Grafton
Virginia
West Virginia
Country Club Union Council
Ber
America
Norman Rockwell
Cream of
KentUcky
Ucky's
Schenley Distillers, Inc
Frankfort
Louise Mc- Daniel
Robert Knotts
Myrtle ‘Lough
Irene Night
Rosa Mc- Daniel
Opal Lough
David
Jean Knotts
Betty |Kines
Claudis Kines
Detroits
Mich
Jerry Dunlop
Arthur Ashby
Raymond Solberg
Gary
Ind
Roy Moran
Lennie Ashby
Joe Sonneman
David Mentengre
New York
U. 5
Skaggs
Sunbeam Appliances
B&o Watch
WM. Archdeacon CO
RCA Victor
Loar Jewerly CO
S&h
B&o
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