Pity Poor Postman This Christmas Season
The Grafton Sentinel reviews the Christmas mail surge as millions mail early. Volume climbs from 150 million daily to about 500 million pieces, with 500000 regular workers and 250000 temporary helpers on duty. Postmaster General Summerfield vows no mail remains undelivered on Christmas Day.
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Louis Cassels Mae
United Press
Washington
Sevral
Post Office
Arthur E .Gummerfield
Summerfield
Firemen to Present Black Shetland Pony Tonight at Grafton
The Graf ton Fire Department will present a black Shetland pony at the Dixie Theater between 8 and 9 p.m. Tickets at the door. The event accompanies a coal industry feature noting cautious optimism for 1958 with expected coal output around 500 million tons, driven by electricity demand, export markets, and stable pricing.
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Grafton Fire Department
Washington
Dixie Theater
United Mine Workers Journal
Tom Pickett
National Coal Assny
Rotary Raises 68 For Salvation Army Helper Funds
The Grafton Rotary Club raised 68.17 for Salvation Army Christmas baskets as Lt. James Pappas noted. Lions Club had gathered 38.50 earlier. Army in three counties collected about 700, with 91 baskets distributed though 130 applications, and Pappas said this was somewhat less than last year. Also Kentucky’s Kentucky Invited basketball cantury.
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Grafton
Pappas
Lexington
West
Virginia University
Kentucky
Ohio State
Christmas Tree Brightens Grafton City Hospital Hilltop
Sentinel reports a celebrated Christmas tree atop City Hospital visible from most of Grafton. Homes glow with season lights and a local lighting contest draws many entries. Community services at Main and Latrobe triangle, jail and state police offices decorated, as children prepare stockings for Santa.
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Gladys Parkinso
Sentinel
Grafton
City Hospital
American Home Department
Grafton Woman's
Iine
Enry
Main
Latrobe St
Taylor County
Jim Liller
Bud” White
Pete Hilkey
Moose Home
Belle Bolyard
John Grimes
Dick Kenney
Dale ‘Ware
Joe Sloan
Kenney
Yule Tree Service at Main Latrobe Triangle
A special community Christmas service will be held at the Yule tree in the triangle between Main and Latrobe streets from 6 15 to 6 45 pm today. Carols will be sung and prayers offered to observe the birth of Christ. The services will be non sectarian and citizens were urged to attend. The note mentions Christiania once the capital of Norway was renamed Oslo in 1925.
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Yule Tree
Main
Latrobe
Christ
Bethlehem Christmas Amid Refugee Hardship and Tense Peace
Bethlehem marks Christmas with pilgrims to the grotto while about 30 000 Palestinian refugees crowd its hills and streets. Most refugees from Israel live in camps in Jordan and face poverty and idleness as they long to return home. Soldiers stand at a distance on the border, but hope for peace remains uncertain.
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Bethlehem
Holy Land
Jordan
Israel
Abdelahad Jabera George
Judean
Christ
Manger
WVU Graduate Faculty Grows in Morgantown
Dean Robert B. Dustman credits the Feaster report for highlighting the growth of West Virginia University graduate school's faculty. He notes that expanded faculty aids teachers and technologists and elevates education statewide, even as the Feaster report shows public school children trail national norms by two years by ninth grade.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Robert B. Dustman
Dustman
Feaster
West Virginia
Eston K. Feaster
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Nage
Rotary
Army
WVII
Christiania
Norway
Oslo
Yule
Wilson Florist
WVU
Ous
Godwin & Shaffer Odwin Furniture and Appliances
W. ST. Charles
Laan Ware
Nwo Reve
Merry Christmas
Lee Bennett Paint Company
Skaggs
Jewelers
Sunbeam Appliances
Spiedel
B&o Watch
The
First National Bank of Grafton
Grafton Drug & Chemical CO
Malone Speedy Drug Store
Soar Bath
Ee Edi
Next Prime
Deep Cut Rate Drug Store
Rexall Store
Malone
Hugh
Soul ' Spellman
Tod
Japan
Paris
Gaillard
France
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