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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1957
Page
1
State Troopers C W White and J N Liller urged drivers to back the Slow Down and Live traffic safety program. They defined excessive speed as any speed not suited to current weather, road, traffic, driver, or car conditions.
Digest from Baghdad reports Premier Nouri El Said resigning today as a prelude to a cabinet shakeup. Other items note Pra vdatony calling U S Senate Linus Pauling probe living McCarthyism, Indian Ambassador Mehta touts social welfare plans, and Kentucky Virginia police in a fatal coal mine case amid speed dangers and a public safety drive.
Monroe County Circuit Judge Nickell Kramer extended for 40 days the stay of execution for Rev. Clarence Tiz Jones on his 15 year sentence for breaking and entering. The judge cited the lack of an official trial transcript to be used in appeal. The report notes broader political and international items then tallying to a chaotic news page.
Detroit police faced embarrassment as a women’s division officer found the book Ten North Frederick by John O’Hara in the juvenile detention section and pulled it from the shelf. The work, recently banned by Police Commissioner Edward S. Piggins, drew criticism from officials.
Commissioner George S Sharp released a revised schedule for the West Virginia Workmen's Compensation Fund effective July 1. The plan lowers rates for 15 500 subscribers while some classifications see increases and the reading factor drops from 26 percent to 21 percent. New benefit limits also rise under a recent law for injuries after June 6. Highest basic rate remains 4 60 per 100 gross payroll for sawmills and logging. two classifications see increases steel erection and chemicals manufacturing.
Former President Harry S. Truman declared that his new grandson is destined to join the Democratic Party. He spoke in Boston noting the family’s political lineage and predicting the child would embrace Democratic ideals.
A Chicago case centers on Gravernet Kaufman a 56 year old heir who inherited 20 million from Otto Young. Attorneys request immediate distribution of Kaufman’s estate as eviction for non payment of rent proceeded with in U S District Court. The trust is divided into 18 equal shares and a judge set a 60 day period to determine assignments and receipts for beneficiaries.
Charleston West Virginia reports that dog owners spent 3.4 million dollars on 22.2 million pounds of dog food in 1956. Marvin Snyder, director of the agriculture department, notes growing pet food sales while 280000 dogs received 38 pounds per dog last year.
A collision involving a truck carrying migrant workers and a tractor trailer left multiple people near death in a hospital. The death toll rose to 20 as reports describe the bloodiest two truck crash in the nation with ongoing hospitalizations and injured victims still in danger.
State Mineral Chief Crawford L. Wilson reported April coal output rose sharply from 1956 figures. April production reached 1,317,207 tons versus 2,070,679 tons last April, with first four months totaling 51,119,727 tons compared to 49,889,423 in 1956. Fatalities through April totaled 79 in nine accidents, up from 51 in 1956, while April 1957 saw 11 fatalities in nine accidents.
Five people died and another was injured when a speeding car lost control on a wide curve near Clarks Grove Minnesota swerved into an oncoming automobile. Victims include Waldo Schul tz 41 of Minneapolis Marilyn Torgeson 22 Mason City Iowa Mabel Larson 44 Forest City Iowa Ralph Berard 58 Des Moines Iowa and Ralph Berard 58 Des Moines Iowa Kenneth Chapman 39 Des Moines Iowa hospitalized in fair condition. A witness said the first car traveled about 100 miles an hour.
The Weather Bureau reported the lowest national temperature of 25 degrees at Mount Washington New Hampshire and the highest Friday of 106 degrees at Needles California, highlighting a wide temperature range across the country.
Ottawa-born Army specialist 3-c William Girard fired his Japanese lawyer Ituro Hayashi on advice from his brother and U S counsel. Maj Stanley Levin said Earl J Carroll becomes chief defense counsel as the habeas corpus plea in Washington proceeds.
Mr and Mrs William D Thompson of Trenton New Jersey welcome a son in Mercer hospital weighing seven pounds four ounces Dr Rohrbough noted as the time chosen by the family The mother is Nancy Rohrbough daughter of State School Superintendent R Virgil Rohrbough long time residents of Grafton Grandmother Ruth Thompson of Beckley West Virginia The maternal great grandparents are George Rohrbough Weston and James Stafford Walnut Street Grafton
A nationwide search spanned 18 states for Christiana Wennerstrom, 16, daughter of Swedish diplomat Col Stig Wennerstrom, and Hugi Williams, 17, a Capitol page from Falls Church VA. They disappeared Sunday after dating about a year. authorities issued alerts as they travel reportedly in a 1951 blue Chevrolet sedan.
A severe windstorm swept through Mound City Missouri leaving toppled trees and damaged lines. In Wyoming the Greybull River began to recede after prompting evacuations along a 50 mile stretch. No injuries or home damage were reported as rivers neared flood stages and storms moved eastward across the central and southern plains.
Marshall County board of education received a petition with about 4000 signatures opposing a $19 per student school tax. The board must now call an election and secure voter approval to impose the local tax, unless 10 percent protest. President William Paul Bradford announced the petition in the office.
A head-on collision four miles east of Belleville on Highway 161 killed five people including four Mascoutah High School family members. Leroy Borrenphol 33 and his wife Chorinne 31 died, with their two children Leroy Jr 9 and Samuel 5 among the dead. Bruehl 27 of Belleville and another couple died at St Elizabeth's Hospital. Two children were injured.
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