Christmas Mailing Sets Local Record At Grafton Post Office
Postmaster James T. Murphy reports a 25 percent rise in Christmas mail and a 204,000 piece surge through the cancelling machines this pre holiday season at Grafton. On Monday the post office processed 30,100 pieces in a single day, an all-time high. Parcels will be delivered on Christmas Day with no city or rural deliveries during the holiday period. Citizens are urged to pick up mail promptly as staff extend thanks for cooperation.
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James T. Murphy
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Murphy
Snow Forecast Hopes Fade As Local Bets Christmas Snow
The Weather Prophet predicts a white Christmas with three to five inches of snow, though Graf and locals doubt the eased indications. Shoppers rush to finish gifts before 6 pm as stores extend hours to 9 pm. temperatures hover around 28 at noon, with yesterday’s high at 37.
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Graflans
Eatherman
Ther
Greyhound Bus Wrecks Injures One Passenger
A Charlton to Columbus Greyhound bus carrying 49 passengers collided with a car yesterday near Charlestow n and wrecked a utility pole. One driver sustained a small facial cut, reportedly not requiring hospitalization. Burdette of Charleston was among those responding to the scene.
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Dtinbar
Tec
Charlton
Columbus
Greyhound
Poling
Char- W. Burdette
Charleston
No Sentinel Tomorrow Christmas Day Grafton News
In line with an annual custom the Grafton sentinel will not publish tomorrow Christmas Day so staff may celebrate at home with their families.
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Grafton Sentinel
Gratton Senthiel Invites Attendance for Out of the Storm
J E Durley and Lydon with Lois Collier star in Out of the Storm at Dixie Theatre on West Main Street tonight. Gratton Senthiel extends the invitation for theatergoers to attend the presentation.
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Ie Gratton Senthiel
Durley
J. Eisner
Lydon
Lois Collier
Dixie Theatre
Four Meet Death Violently In State
Four West Virginians died in separate incidents across the state. In Fairmont a car collision killed Mrs. Lawrence Facon and left others injured. A tractor incident near Pricketts Creek fatally injured Howard W. Shaw as props were being removed. John Vallant of Laywell perished in a house fire. Ronald Drake was found dead in a car near Clay Junction, likely from carbon monoxide. In Kanawha county George Breeden died during a yard altercation. Near Philippi gas production from a local well will be developed by Hope Natural Gas.
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Charleston
West
John Vallant
Lay
Fayette County
Ronald Drake
Clay
Clay Junction
Cal. T. S Mvers
Cedar Grove
Kanawha County
George Breeden
Lyle 8
Wooddell
Graftonian
Breeden
Truman To Greet Nation On Christmas Radio Address
President Truman prepared to speak to the nation from his Independence Missouri home at 5 16 p m EST delivering a merry Christmas message. A 35 foot Christmas fir decorated with bulbs will light the White House yard ceremony on the south lawn with Marine Band music and carols. Snow blankets the Truman estate as guests gather for Washingtons traditional ceremony while Lovett updates the president on world events via long distance.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Independence
Truman
Missouri
White House
Washington
Marine Band
Harry
Lovett
Ten Men Dead in Alaska After B-50 Crash
FAIRBANKS Alaska December 24 Ten air crewmen were killed when a new B-50 bomber crashed en route home from Davis Monthan Air Force Base Tucson. The four engine plane vanished Wednesday night during arctic testing and was found burned ten miles south of the base. Ground parties and helicopters were to reach the wreckage today.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Air Force
Japan
Hilson Air Force Base
Simpson Constable Turns Gunman On Grafton Visit
Everett McCoy Ervin, constable of Simpson, arraigned on a complaint of armed robbery before Municipal Judge Guy Allender. Bound over to the Grand Jury with bail set at 2000 dollars. Companion Boyd Modesitt fined 25 dollars for intoxication. Ervin released after parents posted bail. status as constable uncertain.
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Everett McCoy Ervin
Simpson
Guy Allender
Paul Starkey
Ervin
Boyd Modersitt
Starkey
John
Irene
Simson
Hugh McPhail
Court House
Amnesty frees 15 Jap war suspects. Tojo among hanged
Tokyo reports that General MacArthur released 15 high ranking Japanese war criminal suspects from Sugamo prison on Christmas Eve. Among those freed were three members of Tojo's Pearl Harbor cabinet, with two others later serving in his war cabinets. One notable figure described as a propagandist is in an insane asylum after charges were dropped in 1946. The amnesty extended posthumously to two former leaders who died recently. A ninth man remained under house arrest. In Washington, Hugh D. Scott Jr. announced a Republican National Committee meeting set for January in Omaha.
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MacArthur
Sugamo
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Ishamel Okawwa
Hayao Tada
China
Kumataro Honda
Yakachiro
Foreit
Madrid
Rescue hopes dim for airmen stranded on Greenland icecap
Eleven men marooned on a Greenland icecap face slim chances of rescue by Christmas as the carrier Saipan and helicopter crews rush to the scene. Weather worsens with strong winds and snow, delaying aircraft and potentially extending the peril. The Navy commands Denfeld ordered maximum effort, but five days may pass before the carrier reaches Greenland.
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Washington
Greenland
Navy
Norfolk
Saipan
Strange Christmas Eve in Holy Land Amid War Weather
In Jerusalem on December 24, 1949, war and weather threaten Bethlehem's Christmas pilgrim scene. Sandbags, barbed wire, and mine zones mark routes once traveled by Joseph and Mary, as Arab Jewish clashes keep the region in uneasy truce and hope for peace remains distant.
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Bethlehem
Jesus Christ
Joseph
Mary
Holy Land
Woman Sentenced in West Virginia Stabbing Case
Ardell Jackson of Craigsville West Virginia received a 30 month sentence after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of Beulah Whedbee a 95 year old mother. The incident occurred when Jackson returned to the Baltimore apartment finding children inside and a vase thrown before a knife attack followed.
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Patelinor
Ardell, Jackson
Craigsville
W. Va
Regan
E. Paul Mason
Beulah Whedbee
Balimore
Pay hike proposal sparks Capitol reaction on military pay
Washington December 24. A 15 percent average rise in military pay triggered political reaction on Capitol Hill with hostility from some lawmakers. A five member civilian advisory group proposed boosts across services to about 451.6 million a year, raising pay differently by rank and not increasing four star officers. A private would gain about 80 dollars a month. recruits would see no raise.
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Capital Hill
Congress
Army
Navy Air Force
Coast Guard
Public Health Service
Coast and Geodetic Survey
United States Proposes Feb 7 Austrian Peace Talks
The United States proposes Britain, France, Russia and the Soviet Union resume Austrian peace negotiations in London around February 7, 1949. Samuel Reber, chair of the deputy group, asks for a London meeting and for a copy of the proposal and replies to the Austrian government. The dispute centers on what assets in Austria may be claimed by the Soviet Union.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
London
Samuel Reber
State Department
Big Four
Foreign Ministers Council
Reber
Council
Council of Foreign Ministers
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
Austria
Ata Sétiain
Council Orders End To Fighting In Indonesia Area
Paris December 24 The security council ordered an immediate end to fighting in Indonesia and the prompt release of Indonesian leaders captured by the Dutch. The Christmas Eve vote stood seven for and none against with four nations abstaining. A Colombian Syrian demand for withdrawal of Dutch forces failed with seven for and six abstaining. Russia urged condemning the Netherlands as aggressor.
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Paris
Security Council
Indonesia
A.S
Ace
Netherlands
Russia
AP Writer Back From China Has Word On China
AP staffer reports from Nanking on December 24 that northern China remains quiet with the Reds dominant north of the Yangtze. He says Chiang Kai-shek’s forces are largely inactive, with Peiping and Tientsin building defenses to deter trouble rather than readying for fight, signaling a move toward negotiated peace.
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Associated Press
Harold K. Milks
China
Nanking
Yangtze
Pieping
Tientsin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Manchuria
Peiping
Kalgian
Tangku
North China
Wreck Victims Show Improvement After Collision
Three injured in Handley crossing collision with a B and O passenger train show improvement at Grafton City Hospital. William Arthur Morgan 19, chest injury. Guy Denis Curry 30, shoulder injury. Lewis Bradshaw Plainfield NJ driver of a 1938 Pontiac, car badly damaged after being struck while nearly cleared the tracks. Federal and state governments spent over 17 million dollars to cut forest fire losses last year.
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Handley's Crossing
Baltimore and” Ohio Railroad
Mobile
Paul P. Warden
William Arthur Morgan
Alfred Morgan
Guy Denis Curry
Route 1
Lewis Bradshaw
Plainfield
Mediare
Grafton City Hospital
Bartlett
Bradshaw
Grafton
Curry
Morgan
Americans Have Individual Ideas About Christmas
The Associated Press surveys American Christmas customs from Boise to Boston. Highlights include a sheep-herder’s ball by the Idaho Basque Colony, carolers in homes in Nashville and New York, Old Christmas in Rodanthe, North Carolina, and an international weekend in upstate New York with guests from 22 nations. The Boston state house glows for the holiday, and Atlantic City lights the boardwalk with festive trees and a Santa arrival.
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Associated Press
Boise
Idaho
Nashville
Tenn
United Narld
Tions
Lake Buccf
Cess
N. Y
Alvhamton
Dow
Johnson City
Endicott
Rotary Home
Rodanthe
N.C
New ‘York
Boston
Massachusetts
Beacon Hill
Atlantic City
J.J
Santa Claus
New York
Lady Social Worker
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