Funeral for Mrs Lillian Coffman Held at Augustine
The funeral for Mrs Lillian Mae Coffman 36 director of Taylor County Public Assistance was held at St Augustine church with Rev M J Hannon officiating Burial followed at Mt Calvary cemetery Bartlett Funeral Home directed the service Mr Coffman husband and their five year old son William Keith suffered minor injuries in the same crash while driving a car belonging to Arnold Ogden Hall a Potomac State College student State Trooper W D Sergent continues inquiry Mrs Coffman who came to Grafton in 1941 leaves a daughter Karen Ann and a family including her mother sister and brother in law and several siblings
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Mae Coffman
Taylor County Department of Public Assistance
St.Augustine Church
M. J. Hannon
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Bartlett Funeral Home
William G. Coffman
William Keith
Coffmans
Paradise Beach
U. 8
Here
Arnold Ogden Hall
Oscar Hall
Clarksburg
Potomac State College
W D. Sergent
Coffman
Grafton
Karen Ann
Anna Annette Yeater Kuhn
Thomas V. Yeater
Mannington
Marie Flaharty
Genevieve Shupp
Corton
Laura Stanford
Bradford
Park caretaker positions offered to veterans group listed
The article notes applications be received for park caretaker roles with living quarters provided. Disabled veterans favored. caretaker to reside year round. Applications may be sent to heads of AmVets American Legion and VFW in the city. Park commission members named across the three groups.
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Park Commission
AmVets
Chester Rogers
AmvVets
John Sheets
William Pierson
W.F.W.— Harold, Cross
Woody Squires
Walter Robinson
American Legion
Richard Bord
the Legion
Nathan Coulson
Charles Cather
School Board Approves Band Instrument Purchases
Vaughn Meinn Warden, a junior high teacher, and Henry Canfield, a one room teacher, with the Bans Parents club, saw the board authorize three new forms for the band. The club will buy one sousaphone, the board one sousaphone and an euphonium. Repairs for nine large instruments are set to Nuss Manufacturing in Harrisburg. The board also approved more fluorescent light fixtures as part of Flemington High School lighting upgrade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inn
Henry Canfield
Bans Parents Club
Nuss Manufacturing
Harrisburg
Changes Made In Schedules Of City Buses
Grafton Transportation introduces an expanded schedule effective last Sunday June 8 with new afternoon Blueville Fetterman and B O Blueville runs. A noon B O station to Fetterman trip improves noon service, aiding residents in that area. Blueville riders are advised some trips use the hospital bus loop. A full schedule appears tomorrow in the Sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Transportation Company
C. W
Chick) Lawson
Blueville
Fetterman
B.&o
Sentinel
Fire destroys Raleigh County store post office and apartments
A two story frame fire at Clear Creek on Coal River destroyed the Workman Brothers store, post office, and six rooms of the Workman families. Fire chiefs cite defective wiring and say losses range from 40 000 to 50 000 with 1000 cash and 300 in the post office lost. insurance partial. The blaze drew Beckley and Whitesville fire departments, focusing on containment. The body of Mr Gainer was viewed after a sudden illness at City hospital with a possible poisoning claim and a transient was questioned and released.
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Beckley
Raleigh County
Clear Creek
Coal River
Bernard Martin
Whitesville
Martin
Workman Brothers
Herman
Sherman Workman
Seunwadtu Dom Page Onesr
Gainer
City Hospital
Belington
Mag. Jefferys
Hungarian republic toppled by communists and elections
The Vilag newspaper quoted Albert Szent-Gyorgyi noting the expulsion of 12 scientists from the Hungarian Academy of Science as reactionaries. Istvan Ries, the justice minister, said a new election law was being drafted for a national election planned in the first half of September, potentially disenfranchising enemies of the state and their relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vilag
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Hungarian Academy of Science
Istvan Ries
Joint Meeting This Wednesday Of Directors
Directors of the Taylor County Board of Trade and of Industries for Grafton Inc will hold a joint meeting at the trade board offices this Wednesday night at 8 pm. Jairus E Gavitt executive secretary urged all directors to attend, saying the meeting would be most important.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Board of Trade
of Industries For
Grafton, Inc
Trade Board
Jairus E. Gavitt
County school repairs and upgrades across multiple sites
The report outlines extensive remodeling and safety upgrades at numerous schools. Projects include furnace and heating system improvements, roofing, painting, window and door renewals, new restrooms, dining and kitchen relocations, lighting upgrades, and electrical installations at West Grafton, East Grafton, First Ward, Knottsville, Hepzibah, Rosemont, Flemington High, Simpson, West Hill, Rock Union, Thornton, Haymond, Webster, and the school bus garage.
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West End
West Grafton
East Grafton
First Ward
Knottsville School
Hepzibah School
Rosemont School
Flemington High
Simpson School
West Hill
Rock Union School
Thornton School
Haymond School
Webster School
Coin Toss Decides School Superintendent Nomination in Court
In Jackson's Mill a coin toss contest to decide a party nomination for state school superintendent moved to court. The toss awarded Nationalist Party candidate Bill Zucchero of Montgomery the nomination after a tie with Arthur Upton of Clarksburg from the previous day’s primary.
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Jackson's Mill
Mountaineer
Elmer H
Bud” Freese
Wheeling
James Cooper
Thomas
Supreme Court
Bill Zucchero
Montgomery
Nationalist Party
Arthur Upton
Clarksburg
Union Veterans Hold Memorial Service
Reno Camp No. 6 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War held memorial services at Bethel Methodist church last Sunday with Ed Locke delivering the memorial address. John Snider Ona C. Jefferys assisted, and Wayne McKee blew taps. A separate item notes Mrs. Alice Todd finding a lost diamond while weededing in Weed ing Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Sons of Union Veterans of the
Bethel Methodist Church
Ed Locke
Mr. Locke
John Snider
Ona C. Jefferys
Wayne McKee
Kidnapped Victims Spur Search in Ramat Gan Pool Incident
Hagana urged Palestine Jewry to aid in locating two abductees seized at a staffed pool in Ramat Gan. Military patrols searched the area as authorities cordon the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirlat Shaul
Ramat Gan
Hagana
Palestine Jewry
Brigg’s wage reopening clause sparks contract dispute
The Briggs case continues with the company arguing its contract offer matches or exceeds terms accepted by other auto firms. The dispute centers on a wage reopening clause and whether the proposed conditions were equivalent to competing offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briggs
Truman Seeks Example of Hemisphere Peace and Harmony
The text notes President Truman focusing on showing how Western Hemisphere peoples can live together peacefully, negotiating differences if they arise, as a model for the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Western Hemisphere
Snakebite Injures Child At Charleston Hospital
David Ray Wilkinson 9 told doctors he touched a copperhead while reaching for a soft drink bottle. He was admitted with a badly swollen arm after the bite. The June 10 item notes the Supreme Court agreed to rehear the $8000 verdict in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad truck collision case near Big Chimney, involving driver M C Kirkhart and United Fuel Gas employees. a $6,000 verdict was returned in one suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
David Ray Wilkinson
Hos Pagern
Supreme Court
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
M. C. Kirkhart
United Fuel Gas Company
Big Chimney
Henry Clay Tawney
United Fuel Gas
Railroad
Kirkhart
Household Finance Wins Sutton Case
The Supreme Court affirmed Household Finance Corporation's right to damages under a contract barring Maxwell V. Sutton from small loan work in Clarksburg for a year after leaving Household. The appellate ruling sent the case back to Harrison circuit court to proceed per the opinion, after previously denying an injunction against Sutton becoming manager of the Lowndes Savings Bank and Trust personal credit unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Supreme Court
Household Finance Corporation
Maxwell
Sutton
Clarksburg
Harrison Circuit
Lowndes Savings Bank and
Trust Company
Lawyer Dyre Dies in Montgomery at 63
Charles Theodore Dyre, a Fayette County attorney with eight years of practice, died yesterday at his home in Montgomery. He was 63.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Charles Theodore Dyre
Fayette County
Four Hurt In Wellsburg Freight Wreck
Wellsburg June 10 four crew members were hurt and nine cars derailed today in a collision involving two freight trains and a wreck train on the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Co line near Wellsburg West Virginia. A wreck train allegedly on the Eastbound track derailed nine cars of the freight across the Westbound track. A few minutes later a second Westbound freight struck the derailed cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsburg
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Co
West Virginia Panhandle
Here
13 Year Old Girl Delivers Baby at Salvation Army Hospital
Major Harry Ward announced a 13 year old girl gave birth to a healthy seven pound ten ounce son at the Salvation Army hospital. The names of the girl and her 18 year old husband were not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Salvation Army Hospital
Harry Ward
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Mars
Gsoffman
Raleigh
Corgner’s
Malone’s Drug & Chemical Co
Homestead
Alice Todd
Household Finance
Sutton Case
Allene
the Corners Restaurant
Four Corners Restaurant
DeMoss & Zinn Radio Service & Sales
West Main Street
Boylen’s Cleaners
Roy R. DeMoss
Marvin E. Zinn
THE
First National Bank
Consumer Credit Dept
Wayne M. Sinsél
Mer
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Charles F. McDermott
Ainess
Hickok
Barton's
Bonafede
Little Gem
Pur
Columbia Bonafede
Forcella
Code’s Novelty Store
Latrobe ST
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