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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1949
Page
4
Established in 1870 as a wetary newspaper the paper operates nine daily editions except Sundays since 1903 M B MacLEOD is General Manager Eldora M Bolyard serves as News Editor The paper invites voluntary communications but requires they be signed and avoid obscene or scurrilous content for broad public interest discussions.
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NBC offers Perry Co mo season finale at 8 30 featuring Jimmy Durante 9 Eddie Cantor 9 30 My Good Wife with Arlene Fran jers 10 Dragnet Drama CBS presents Jack Carson Comedy at 8 8 Ruth Hussey in Craig's Wife 10 Friday Playhouse Drop Dead ABC line up shows The Fat Man 8 30 This Is FBI 9 30 The Sheriff MBS airs Plantation Jubilee 8 30 Carmen Cavallero Band 9 Opera Concert 10 Meet the Press with Sen Hickenlooper of Iowa.
Clifford Martin elected mayor of Tunnelton as 99 ballots set a local record. E C Maier named town recorder and five council members chosen with a tie between Roy Montgomery and Henry C Miller. Preston County Youth Fellowship elected officers Miss Maxine Plum president and plans UCYM trip to North Carolina. Tunnelton 4-H clubs sponsored a Firemen’s Carnival stand to fund Camp Dawson trip and organized a July softball team under Reverend Kerr. next game mid June.
The Preston County Health Department announces immunization clinics from June 7 to August 3 for babies from three months and six months for whooping cough, diphtheria tetanus smallpox, with typhoid if indicated. Parents with unprotected children should immunize at the health dept or with their physician. schedule lists Albright Bruceton Mills Masontown Reedsville Tunnelton and Hove Run dates and times.
Funeral services for Ella Menema Austin Norris, who died yesterday at 511 West Wilford Street, will be Sunday at 1 30 PM at Bartlett Funeral Home. Rev O J Howsearth of the Christian church will officiate with burial at the Issuement cemetery. Pallbearers are Frank Hankins James Bloomfield Claude Mullinax Harold Gillespie A P Rowe and W A Harrison. Friends may call at the Bartlett Funeral Home after 10 AM today.
Beatrice Farish rises in a quiet suburban morning torn by fear her marriage may end. She watches daughter Marianne and recalls honey moon days with Porter while balancing duties with Frances and others as inner voices mutter of change and loneliness. The scene shifts to memory of October’s promise and a day that may reveal fractured ties.
Preston County Health Department members attended a West Virginia State Health Conference in Charleston. The American Legion Auxiliary plans officer installation at 8 p.m. in the old Legion Hall with hostesses listed. St Peter's Altar Society held a meeting and planned a spaghetti supper for June 16 at 6 p.m. in the Community Building with postmeeting refreshments. The Browns schedule a pre season game with the Chicago Hornets at Toledo on August 14.
Herbert N Nose 51 of Tunnelton Route 1 died Wednesday at 9 p.m. in Newton D Baker hospital Martinsburg after six months illness with serious condition since March He was a farmer miner World War I veteran member Mt Israel Church American Legion and longtime Tunnelton resident Funeral services Sunday at Mt Israel church at 2 p.m with Reverend J W Nottingham officiating Legion military honors by Taylor County Post 12 and Kingwood Post 56 Interment Mt Israel cemetery Bartlett Funeral Home in charge.
The Grafton Volunteer Fire Department sponsors Ray Mond the magician for a show at Grafton Junior High School auditorium tonight at 8 p.m. Mond will be aided by five assistants as the audience awaits doors opening time.
India signed trade pacts with ten other countries last year. The country has about 4 000 towns with populations of 5 000 and above. India's film industry ranks second in the world, next only to Hollywood.
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