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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1950
Page
1
Conflicting reports surface on seriousness of Korea setback as Pentagon officials prep an outline of needs. Generals Collins and Vandenberg, fresh from the front and MacArthur talks, assess manpower and equipment priorities, including National Guard mobilization and expanded industrial sources.
Owen Brewster of Maine holds a photo of an atom bomb explosion and calls in Washington for General Douglas MacArthur to be given the option of using the A-bomb in Korea. He says the Kremlin only understands tanks planes and atomic bombs.
Army Chief of Staff J Lawton Collins returned from a trip to Japan and Korea with optimistic remarks about the Korean campaign. He said troops are doing damn well and that everything will come out all right. President Truman awaits a direct report from Collins and Hoyt Vandenger on mobilizing manpower, but officials decline to reveal recommendations.
Private Kenneth Shadrick of Skinfork was the first American footsoldier killed in the Korean fighting last week. Residents in Wyoming County West Virginia joined a drive to boost U S Savings Bond purchases under a memorial slogan That’s for Kenneth Shadrick, hoping to honor his memory while increasing wartime bonds sales.
Charleston reports the Board of School Finance released $311,000 to nine counties for state aid in school construction. Allocations by county include Hancock 48000, Jackson 29390, Lewis 12000, Ohio 52769, Pleasant 43744, Ritchie 10000, Roane 33709, Tucker 250, and Wetzel 76503, funding already approved projects.
Longtime railroad worker Mr Daugherty retires after 17 years as road foreman of engines with Monongah division. He joined Oct 1 1906 and rose through roles from local fireman to locomotive engineer and travel foreman before becoming road foreman in 1949. An employee gathering presented him gifts from division officials.
Washington lawmakers debate the cost of the Korean war with a projected six billion dollar request for troops tanks and aircraft. Senator Willis Robertson says estimates may not arrive before next Friday while Senator Lyndon Johnson anticipates a large sum focusing on specialized air force maintenance rather than manpower.
Rose Hill Methodist church announces a new homecoming date. The annual event will be held on the fourth Sunday in July instead of the previously listed last Sunday in September due to scheduling conflicts. An all day program with a basket lunch at noon is planned.
City officials and Board of Trade members will host a special meeting at the Taylor County Board of Trade office at 7 30 p m to discuss revenue options and the municipality welfare. Dr Carl Frasure of West Vinonia University will join with two staff experts to continue consultations begun July 11 with city officials and Board of Trade leaders. City Manager Harry Curry invites all interested in the city's financial future to attend.
The West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs North Central District, comprising 12 clubs, will hold its annual convention in Grafton on September 22 at Andrews Methodist Church. Host club Grafton will welcome Morgan Heights Salem Clarksburg Fairmont Mannington Fairview Reedsville Shinnston Test Creek Flemington. Mrs Burl Mason and Mrs J V McGonagle chair arrangements. Out of town speaker unnamed. Mrs James N Wolverton Shinnston district president to preside. State officials expected to attend.
Washington reports that the Korean war has weakened Communist positions in Italy. Ambassador James Dunn says the Italian government, people, and press support American and United Nations intervention in Korea. Dunn spoke before returning to Rome after talks with the president and State Secretary Acheson.
Dr Bernard L Allen of Togus Maine has been named manager of the new veterans hospital in Clarksburg West Virginia. He will assume duties when the hospital opens in September or October as announced by Congressman Cleveland Bailey who said he had been advised of the appointment.
The Grafton Public Library relocates after 13 years in the Foreella building on West Main street to offices at the Grafton Bank and Trust Company building at the corner of Hoyd and Ethel streets near the G and P Tele phone company. Ida Williams is the new librarian, with John K. Warner as substitute. The library has a long history from MCA building to Court House basement, then Foreella, dating back over 25 years of sponsorship by the Eastern Star Woman's club.
TOKYO General MacArthur barred two American reporters from Korea news coverage AP correspondent Tom Lambert and UP reporter Peter Kalischer face travel bans amid accusations of aiding the enemy. Lam bert described grim prospects at Kum river and US troops’ chaotic retreats as Reds outnumber and outgun American forces.
Twenty Grafton subdistrict churches will join a Young Adult Fellowship rally at Evansville Methodist Church on Tuesday night July 18. Fairmont district superintendent Reverend William E Craig will be principal speaker, joined by Reverend E E Suite of St Johns Methodist Grafton who will give a chalk talk, with the group to conclude on the church lawn with a weiner roast.
Charleston West Virginia motorists must renew their license tags by midnight tonight under a 15 day extension. State Motor Vehicles Commissioner Don McClaugherty said no further extensions will be granted. The license bureau processed a large number of tag applications yesterday and expects more today.
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Tokyo report by AP correspondent O H King shows Korean forces and airlift crews hustling to keep supplies flowing. C-47 and C-475 aircraft shuttle troops and materiel, with unloaders racing to clear the strip as planes depart loaded. Falcons of a major airlift claim to outpace the Berlin operation, while returning crews race for rides back to Japan.
Washington reports indicate a serious Kum river defense crisis as American forces retreat on the left flank. An army spokesman cites heavy enemy penetration and the possible use of self-propelled 76mm guns. Frontline dispatches place the Communist spearhead at up to 2,000 troops, with center forces holding as several Red assaults are repulsed.
General George E. Stratemeyer announced that F-80 shooting star jets accounted for 85 percent of North Korean vehicle and material losses. He said jets flew 70.1 percent of combat sorties and, with T-49s, destroyed more tanks trucks and equipment than any other air attack.
Charlestown reports two special Fyke nets, valued at $40, owned by the Conservation Commission, disappeared from Cheat Lake near Morgantown while used for a fish life study. Monongalia County officers investigate the theft as a state property loss and wildlife study disruption.
National Guardsmen depart for two weeks of summer training at Fort Knox Kentucky highlighting postwar Korea era drills. More than 3,000 guardsmen and about 60 reservists travel by air rail and seven motor convoys from Morgantown Martinsburg Bluefield Ronceverte Williamson Paint Pleasant Logan Charleston Montgomery Parkersburg and Gassaway to set up and join advance groups already en route. Charleston headquarters detachments and Charleston post office personnel from the 854th Army Postal unit accompany the training drive to stay in touch with home during the exercise.
Washington debates wartime press control as Senator Lucas calls for voluntary complete censorship of troop moves at home and abroad. He urges General MacArthur be authorized to curb frontline reports shaping U S tactical moves amid Korean war coverage. Two correspondents faced restrictions from McArthur PR office.
Police in Charleston identified a 53 year old former resident Clinton Goode as the man who died after jumping or falling from a sixth floor hotel window in Washington. The case is considered possible death by own action and mirrors a prior incident. The West Virginia Water Service Company notes a C. C. Goode once employed as an auditor, who left June 30 to join a New York firm.
Charleston dispatch reports a West Virginia pick-up order led to the death of two Chicago detectives. They were knocking on the boarding house door of 28 year old Bernie Davis when gunfire felled them. Davis was sought in connection with a Time Finance robbery in Weirton and was later seized hours after the shooting three miles away. He was questioned by the state's attorney in Chicago.
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