Fairmont Electric Strike Ends at Westinghouse Plant
Fairmont Electric strikes end at Westinghouse Plant with workers returning to roles in shipping receiving maintenance and production set to resume July 31 after a two week cooling-off period while union officials announce full operation will restart. separate Tokyo dispatch reports the US B-29s carried out a major raid on North Korea delivering about 500 tons of bombs, smashing a key railroad target and marking mass precision bombing from new US forces.
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Tae Wees Jong
Fairmont
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Cis
CIO International Wnien
Electrical Workers
Tokyo
United
Far East
United States
38Th Parallel
Albert Moore Held For Grand Jury On Murder Charge
Morgantown police report Albert Moore 30 held for grand jury on murder charges in the death of Joseph Blaney 65 and Mrs. Margaret Miller 25. Moore allegedly admitted to throwing Blaney’s body into the Monongahela river near Uffingtin after a money dispute and then tossing Mrs Miller into the river when she cursed him. The double slaying followed a dispute at a fishing cabin over work for a grocer. The bodies were found Sunday. initial reports suggested drowning.
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Morgantown
Albert Moore
Willam M. Bowers
Joseph Blaney
Margaret Milter
Monongalia County
Moore
Blaney
Mike Gill
Monongahela
Uffingtin
Gil
Miller
Chi
Ute Rliney
American Deaths Up To 42 In Korea War Tally
Tokyo headquarters of General MacArthur reported 42 Americans killed in Korea, with 190 wounded and 256 missing. They warned counts had been greatly exaggerated and likely reflect confusion with units. Officials said many listed as missing probably remain with their units and will return.
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Nigde
Jame Bufano
Feriton Avenue
The
Bronx
Korea
Erickson
Kum River
Walton Walkers
Secod
Walker
Army
Air Force
Tokyo
J, Lawton ‘Collins
Hoy Vandenberg
MacArthur
Laneh
Two Girls Born At Hospital During The Night
Two newborn girls were reported at Grafton City Hospital. The first, born to Mr and Mrs William Brown of Route 5 Grafton at 6 37 pm weighed eight pounds six and a quarter ounces. The second child, born to Mr and Mrs Guy Lockhart of Route Simpson at 10 28 pm weighed eight pounds ten ounces.
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Grafton City Hospital
William Brown
Route 5
Grafton
Borith
Guy Lockhart
Route T Simpson
Woman dies at Huntington hospital spurs grand jury probe
Huntington W Va. Prosecutor Edward H. Greene calls for a grand jury after autopsies show Pauline Cook died of pneumonia at Huntington State hospital following transfer from Barboursville unit. Discharged Barbourville staff tied to ongoing controversy. hospital board official denies direct link.
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Huntington
Cabels County
Edward H. Greene
Barboursville State Hospital
Pauline Cook
Huntington State Hospital
Wooul
Barboursville
Greene
Cook
Barbourville Hospil
Security rules to be announced by defense department
Washington report states unified security rules for all armed services public relations offices will be issued today. Army unit alerts for movements will be announced in the relevant Army area and in Washington with no details on units smaller than two divisions. Navy supplies no concealed data but will not disclose detailed data or statistics. An analogous instruction will be issued to the Army as well. A Canadian major, Lloyd Hill, plans to go over Niagara Falls Sunday in a steel barrel, with Jean Lemire noting only a 15 percent chance of survival for Hill’s “Jiges diox” barrel marked No 13.
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U. S
Korea
Kum River
Kum
Taejon
Reds
Tanyan
Pusan
Washington
Armed Services
United States
Defense Department
Army
Farkan
Navy
Lloyd Hill
Niagara Falls
Jean Jer
Lussier
Hill
local enlistees join air force and army from grafton
Sturm James Robinson and Clyde DeBarr of Grafton Route one enlisted today per Sergeant Charles H. Donaldson. Sturm joins the Air Force, Robinson and DeBarr join the regular Army with Robinson to train at Fort Knox Kentucky and DeBarr bound for Fort Benning Georgia. The air force seeks reserves volunteers, following a terse World War II veteran telegram saying willingness and dependability.
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Sturm
James Robinson
Grafton
Clyde DeBarr
Charles H. Donaldson
Air Force
Robinson
DeBarr
Pontnox
Kentucky
Fort Benning
Georgia
Washington
Old U Building Finishes Its 20 Years Of Work
Morgantown WV Old University building known as the Old Library completes its derouted role dating to 1931. The structure now houses President Comptroller Registrar and other offices while Woodburn Hall temporary space accommodates Psychology Philosophy and the large lecture room is reassigned to the Registrar with Armstrong Hall expansion.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Armstrong Hall
Woodburn Hall
Psychology
Woodburn
Consumer Sales Tax To Get Airing In Court
Kanawha circuit court heard a challenge to the state tax commissioner authority to set consumer sales tax formulas. W. Woodrum, Miami restaurant operator, sues Tax Commissioner C. H. Koontz alleging overcharge by using total purchases plus a 50 percent markup to compute tax on 3 percent of the total. He asserts consumer tax receipts were improperly mixed and overcharged.
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Charleston
Kanawha
W. Woodrum
C. H. Koontz
Woodrum
Miami
Kanawha County
Koontz
Plane Crash in Arizona Baffles Officials
A search plane located wreckage of a large multi engined craft that exploded on Bassett Peak southeast of Tucson. Three survivors were reported on a ridge nearby, but the aircraft type and number aboard remain unconfirmed as authorities search for remains.
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Arizona
Air Force
Ciial Air Patrol
Tucson
Ariz
Bassett Peak
Homer ‘Byrd
Byrd
Tax cut bill shelved amid Korean War crisis
The Senate Finance Committee put off a dollar-plus excise tax cut after a White House warning it would be prudent to hold cuts amid Korean developments. A Treasury statement supported delaying tax relief, with many lawmakers expecting higher taxes if the crisis deepens. Republican Sen Taft called the bill effectively suspended, urging clear status to avoid delaying purchases.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Treasury Department
Treasury
Robert A. Taft
Arden Pepper Appointed Cadet Officer of the Day
Colonel John C. Pitchford announces Cadet Arden Brooks Pepper Jr of Grafton West Virginia has been named Cadet Officer of the Day. Pepper attends West Virginia University Morgantown as a law candidate set to graduate in June 1951. The postwar Air ROTC camp at Langley AFB inaugural in 1947 comprises students from over twenty colleges across several states.
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John C. Pitchford
USAF
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Camp
Langley Air Force Base
Virginia
Arden Brooks Pepper, Jr
Walnut Street
Grafton
West Virginia
Pepper
West Virginia University
Morgantown
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Virginia Comstock
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Trotter
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Kum River Line
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Mate
Herbert Gehr
Gehr
Dorothea Matthews
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