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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1954
Page
1
New York-Capital Airlines will be the first U S carrier to operate jet turboprops for passengers spending 45 million dollars over three years for 40 Vickers-Viscount transports from Britain.
London faces a cabinet decision after Eden travels from Geneva to report on Indochina talks. Churchill may back a Southeast Asia defense pact if the Reds stall, while two-week goodwill period expires with suspected delay tactics and no clear cease fire.
French Union troops abandon Cho Noi after a weeklong assault by Communist forces. Rebels seize the seminary at Koang Phon Gho and gain control of the ground floor after hand to hand combat. Heavy losses reported on both sides as French airstrikes target rebel positions to defend the Hanoi Haiphong corridor.
Strong winds, downed lines, and scattered showers mark a violent storm across the Tri County area with power outages near U.S. Route 50 and U.S. 119. Officials discuss a northern Thruway extension from the Virginia line toward the Pennsylvania border to serve Grafton Fairmont Morgantown Clarksburg Philippi Buckhannon Elkins and Pittsburgh, arguing traffic studies and regional development would justify bonds and revenue.
Federal judge William E. Baker died of a heart attack at his hotel in Berkeley Springs. He served on the U S Court of the Northern District of West Virginia and chose April 3 as a qualifier retirement date. Baker born February 25, 1873 in Beverly, practiced law there, and was appointed in 1921 by President Harding.
Parkersburg lawyer Robert B. McDougle is reported by Charleston Daily Mail to have ABA committee backing for a federal judgeship in West Virginia. He also received referrals from Rep Will Neal and GOP official Hallanan, boosting his bid for a lifetime seat. another Parkersburg man, ex state senator Herbert Borein, is cited as a rival candidate.
The Pruntytown area buzzed as residents speculated a mountain lion killed Trooper W R Withrow's chickens and Riley's rabbits. Eyewitness Utt described a light tan beast much larger than a dog and linked sightings to a mountain lion.
An 84 year old grandmother in Minneapolis confronted burglars in a grocery store raid near her home. She used a barrage of old slices and a milk bottle to rout the thieves, who dropped a cash register and fled.
Bandits wearing masks subdued a bank messenger at Mercy Hospital during a payroll delivery. They seized a $25000 payroll bundle in full view of about a dozen witnesses as the midmorning robbery unfolded.
President Eisenhower exits a Washington press conference stating he has said his last word on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy unless events change. He warns subversives will be rooted out by due process and without retaliation as the Oppenheimer case remains unsettled with a Security Board decision pending.
About 100 Taylor county youths will attend a 10 a.m. Monday session at Grafton High School to start safety instruction under State Police Cpl G F Randall and W R Withrow. It marks the first organized school patrol unit in the county with plans for future classes and raincoat fittings funded by a 1.07 donation from Grafton Lions.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Indochina is grave but not hopeless. He cited increasing Chinese and Soviet arms to Red forces and warned the region endangers U S and allied security as Geneva talks seek a formula to halt fighting.
In Cobourg Ontario city workers chasing a rumored lost sewer line used a geiger counter. The device clicked above ground when it passed the long missing main, solving a nagging municipal problem in the atomic age context.
Washington investigators cleared the way to publish some of Secretary Stevens' telephone talks about his troubles with Sen. McCarthy. Prospects were dim that the most heated calls from the Army McCarthy hearings would see the light of day.
Yugoslav authorities report a Belgian airliner attacked by a Soviet jet over Yugoslav territory. The radio operator was killed and two crewmen wounded as cannons and machine gun fire raked the craft. Initial reports placed the plane near Maribor inside the frontier.
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