Jaycee Meeting Planned Tonight in Grafton
Local Junior Chamber of Commerce members plan tonight at 7 30 at Taylor County Board of Trade offices to finalize plans for presenting a new street flusher to the City of Grafton. The flusher, funded by clubs and citizens, arrived before Memorial Day and has been used in experimental washings. It will enter regular service once formally presented. Jaycees report about $700 still needed to complete funding.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Taylor County Board of Trade
Grafton
The
Jaycees
Truck crush kills man beneath vehicle on Route 20
Richard Kenneth Repass, 23, of McComas Mercer County, was killed when the truck he rode in left State Route 20 below Bluestone Dam and landed upside down over an embankment. A second passenger, Carl Browning of McComas, was treated at Bluefield Clinic for undetermined injuries. The driver and a third passenger escaped injury.
PARRISH AGENCY OFFERS REMARKABLE NEW LISTINGS
Multiple properties offered with aggressive pricing and terms. 7 room country home at end of City Bus One recently modernized with bath and basement garage, 11 lots at 6500 with loan arranged. 13 room house near Rt 50 hospital with 3 baths and 1800 income apartments, terms arranged, property to pay for itself. 311 Barrett St home 6 rooms bath on level lot with finished basement, insul brick, 1900. Parkview business and grocery/lunchroom with 40x35 block building, owner sacrificing for quick sale and open to contract terms.
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Bath
Nerg Hospital
Barrett St
Parkview
Main Street
Firemen Sponsor Magician Show at Grafton Junior High
The Grafton Volunteer Firemen sponsor Ray Mond, billed as the World’s Greatest Magician, with five assistants and elaborate equipment. The show is Friday at the Grafton Junior High, doors open 7 p.m. and start at 8 p.m. Tickets are available from fire department members.
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Grafton Volunteer Firemen
Ray Mond
Grafton Volunteer Fire Department
City Seeks Second Pump Supplier for Boiler Upgrade
The city reports the 10:00 a.m. status on page one and notes the old steam boiler plant remains on standby. Administration is advertising for suppliers to provide a second pump, aiming to improve service reliability.
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Subes
City maps water lines and expands street lighting plan
City engineering mapped all known water lines during cleaning work and improved hydrant maintenance. The electric utility now furnishes power for street lights after the city sold its lighting system and bought from the utility. Present lighting costs are about five thousand six hundred dollars annually with future increases as new fixtures are added. About 35 previously out of order fixtures have been repaired since the takeover. A list of street light locations is prepared and will be installed as finances allow.
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Power Company
St. Marys Street
City replaces old pumps with electric system at water station
The city plans an all electric pump house and disposal of antiquated boilers after cleaning the clear well. A full railroad car of sand was removed from a 24 by 18 inch opening to prevent grit in treated water. Auxiliary booster pumps were repaired and put back in use while old doles and pipes were replaced to restore free flow.
Government continues defense over Lias gift tax case
The government challenges the defense argument that funds owed to the government were earned by other members of the Lias family. Testimony aligned with Watson suggesting at the 1947 conference that money and property in Mrs. Lias’s name were reported for gift taxes, while Lias claimed he could invest as he chose without regard to ownership.
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Gregory
William Manos
Lias
Watson
Former Local Man Victim of Wreck
Lewis Albert Devroy 23 formerly of the Thornton community was fatally injured in a Detroit cab wreck early Friday. A cab driver, he died from the crash. Surviving are his parents Walter and Pearl Cox Devroy of Detroit, his widow two children seven sisters and three brothers all of Michigan. The Devroy family moved to Detroit years ago.
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Lewis Albert Devroy
Thornton
Detroit
Michigan
Young Devroy
Taylor County
Walter
Pearl Cox Devroy
Devroy
Lias Authorized Checks and Inventories Across Cities
On cross examination Watson testified there was no disposition by Lias to conceal operations or records. He stated Lias granted written authority to inspect bank accounts and to take inventories of safety deposit boxes in Wheeling Pittsburgh and Detroit.
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Watson
Lias
Wheeling
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Appeals court upholds Taft Hartley restraining order dispute
The appeals court said the supreme court allowed contempt for disobeying court orders and noted the act under which the order was issued may be unconstitutional. Lewis and the union argued no strike evidence or authorization existed, while the court found neither was convicted of causing the walkout. Spy case ties to FBI supervised info. Washington investigators scent signs officials blocked Soviet arrest. House unamerican activities committee eyes hearings on Bell Aircraft espionage at Buffalo plant with planned evidence of a Soviet wartime purchases official.
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Lewis
Appeals
Supreme Court
Cotrt
Washington
House
House un-American Activities Committee
Bell Aircraft
Buffalo
N. Y
Bell Airacobra
Blind readers gain print via light to sound device
A new device lets blind people read ordinary print by projecting a narrow pencil of light onto the text. The light alters the shape of letters into audible sounds, enabling reading through sound.
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Jaycee
Parrish Agency, Inc
Firemen
Royal
Loar Jewelry Store
Malone’s Drug and Chemical CO
Honor Confederaty
FBI
Bell
RR Ork
W. Main St-Graftow
W.va
Carl B.white
MGR. Plow
Fred Allen
NBC
Ford Theater
CBS Network
Yicr
Ford
Fashion Academy
Shriver Motor Company
Ford Sales & Service
U.S. 50
West Main Street
D.C
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Patricia
Nancy Packett
Jefferson Davis
Statuary Hall
Confederacy
International
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