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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1949
Page
3
Mrs Naomi Lawson reports on recent society and club happenings with updates from the community and social calendar notes.
Miss Marjorie Rodgers of Chauncey Ohio married Herbert Fornash Jr in a Saturday ceremony at St Pauls Methodist Church in Oakland. Rev Denver C Pickens officiated. Attendants included Betty Jean Travis and Jose Thomas Maxson served as best man. The couple will reside with the groom’s parents.
A surprise birthday party honoring George Plymale of Wickwire Road and a house warming for him and his wife was hosted recently. Guests included Herbert Boyles, George Shingleton, Flora Riggleman, Harold Riggleman, Bobby and David Riggleman, Joseph Montgomery and family, Jairus Gavitt, Walter Frank, Beritha Montgomery, Mason Boyles, Marion Frank, Betty Frank, Rosalee Boyles, Sonny Boyles, Beverly Montgomery, Virginia Marie, and Clyde.
The Grafton Business Girls Club voted to contribute 150 dollars to Camp Towles for the erection of an Assembly Hall at the youth camp. They met at the Grafton Hotel Wednesday evening with Miss Frances Proudfoot presiding. The group also donated five dollars to the Youth Planning Council. Guests included Mrs. Jo Haddix and members Betty Bolyard Maxine Cockrell Hazel Cole Nellie Cook Thelma De Moss Dorothy Douglas Helen Greene Mary Jean Grimnan Clara Jean Kines Norma Moore Gladys Murphy Marjorie Newcombe Frances Proudfoot Elizabeth Rendle Virginia Rosier Hellen Shomo Gloria Squires Virginia Mae Stine Eleanor Weekley Ellen Jane Wiseman.
Five members of the Feder Shop Craft at Baltimore and Ohio shops in Grafton volunteered to donate blood for Audrey Howell who lies in a serious condition at Myers clinic in Philippi. They drove to Philippi this afternoon to donate.
Final plans for an ice cream social to be held this Saturday at the home of Mrs. Hannah Compton were shaped at the Rose Hill WSCS meeting hosted by Mrs. Ethel Rutherford. The devotional period was led by Mrs. Frances Stansberry.
Brief listed notices report Mrs Wesley Sheffield and son Evan of Baldwin Long Island visiting her parents Mr and Mrs W F Cody Grow in Bluemont Street with husband joining soon for vacation. Robert D Nestor of Baltimore returns home after holidays with relatives and wife and son Bobby Jr traveling. Frank M Grimes visits his mother on Knottsville Road then returns to Charleston. Henry B Ford USN seaman arrives in Mediterranean aboard USS Coral Sea for six month cruise. Mrs S F Arble and others are in town for the weekend.
Contest hopeful Virgil Jackson and his children Tommy and Linda returned to Washington D C after visiting relatives over Memorial Day weekend. Guests at Fornashs on West Main included multiple Clarksburg families, and Fairmont visitors Francis McCartney and Helen Arnold spent holidays with Arnold and Collins families. A Baltimore trip accompanied by a lawn picnic at the Coole residence completed the holiday return.
Memorial Day guests include Mrs J N Wagner and family from Fairmont and Salem area visitors, with dinners hosted by Mrs Wagner. Williamsport visits recount Mrs J Lee Cooper and the Vincent family, plus Ohio visitors Miss Mary Barbee. A Grafton Sentinel staffer Jack Colebank and wife take a West Virginia trip. Hospital admissions and discharges listed for local residents.
June 4 meeting at VFW hall East Main street at 8 pm. June 9 Circle No 1 St John’s Methodist at 14 Addison street 7 30 pm. June 7 Circle No 2 St John’s Methodist at 107 West Washington street 6 30 pm for birthday and covered dish dinner. Members urged to attend.
Garden crops in the Webster area are slowly rebounding after a devastating hail storm and heavy rainfall that damaged fields though no property damage occurred. Visitors include Waldron D. Leach and Denver of Larado WV calling for Mr. Leach’s ill father Walter E. Leach in Washington DC. Various Morgantown residents joined local gatherings and a birthday observance at the Felton and Lake households.
Reports from Grafton City hospital note Little Richard Newton ill with whooping cough and pneumonia. James Moats shows improvement after Elkins hospital care. Clarence and Russell Bartletts host guests from Simpson and Elkins. Paul Wolfe and wife recover from pneumonia but remain homebound. Hugh McNemar of Elkins visits friends, while Charles Kinnaird of Morgantown nears full recovery from campus injuries and plans to work as WVU librarian this summer.
The article outlines Moddy's prepared arguments on the "able and willing" provision and the use of the $100,000,000 annual welfare and pension fund. It notes the clause was meant to protect miners from unsafe conditions, though it specifies only that miners must be able and willing to work, and discusses the extent of territory Lewis has shown.
Moody planned to press Lew to tighten eligibility for the $100 monthly pension and welfare payments funded by a 20-cent coal royalty. Lewis was expected to push for increasing the royalty to broaden support for miners and their families.
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