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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1954
Page
1
Digest reports United States requested release of 63 Americans, including 34 civilians and 29 service members, with mixed reactions from Geneva and Washington. Other items note record low coal output, desegregation debates, planned San Quentin executions, and various local incidents across the country.
A severe three hour electrical storm across the Tri-County area causes extensive damage. Fire crews report barns and outbuildings struck by lightning, with one large barn burning to the ground and mules and other livestock lost. Power outages span Rosemont and Wendell, with poles and a sub station damaged. Police and FBI actions unfold in a separate Phoenix kidnapping case and federal leaders push for Eisenhower era policies in Washington.
Camp Towles Bathhouse Campaign lags with only about 400 raised toward a 5000 target. Two week camps are planned at the site along with church picnics and family reunions. The bathhouse would service about 130 campers, add a dining hall, kitchen, and modern facilities. The camp, given to Taylor county youths by Ralph B Towles, hosts multiple camps and drew 3 000 participants last year.
West Virginia and six other states will host a civil defense exercise on June 14 and 15, coordinated by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the Second Army. The program, Operation Alert, tests 24 hour preparedness with over a million civil defense workers. Ground Observer Corps and Civil Air Patrol units in Grafton await alert.
Fifty bombers of the SAC reconnaissance wing were to fly to England as part of a large mobility training exercise. The operation involves about 1,000 officers and men, with half serving as maintenance and admin personnel already en route. The group will include 400 tactical airmen.
Temperatures will average near normal with a cooler trend early in the period and a warmer midweek. Expect showers and thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday and again Wednesday with total precipitation around one half to one inch.
Mrs Anthony Di Bonaventura a Roosevelt descendant gave birth to her first child in George Washington University Hospital on Thursday. It is a boy.
South Korea's President Syneman Rhee declares the time has come to withdraw from the Geneva conference. He tells United Press that every extra day of talks boosts Communist gains and adds he will not disclose when the foreign minister will be recalled from Geneva.
Charleston West Virginia July draft quota set at 250, second largest of the year as draftees enter the armed forces. National quota for July is 23,000. Harman Brothers of Grafton to build two earth dam projects for the U S Department of Agriculture and Soil Conservation Commission at Salem with a bid of 38 422 05.
In Geneva, French High Command says American made bombers hit rebel bases in Indochina near the Red River Delta. Targets include Nghai Phu and Co Noi stockpiles and Route 13 through low marshlands northeast of Han. The strikes followed the fall of two delta posts and amid Hanoi talks among Gen. Ely Gen. Salan and Gen. Cogny. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap's divisions were reported about 40 miles from the delta.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told 700 San Francisco World Affairs Council attendees that Communists may try to push U.S. defenses back toward the California coast. He warned such a move would be treated as a direct threat and would be met with U.S. action guided by what is vital to the United States.
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy charged during the Army hearing that his investigation into alleged Communists hit a black wall when probing higher ups. Special Counsel Ray Jenkins paused the cross examination amid questions about a December memorandum allegedly contradicting McCarthy’s testimony on Fort Monmouth commandant Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton.
In Louisville Kentucky the state funeral directors association refused membership to a mortician in a southwestern town. The grounds cited were that the mortician wrote to hospital patients and people at home to solicit business.
Charleston Health Director N B Dye says he is very encouraged by no polio cases reported among 7 127 second grade children in West Virginia. He took part in a nationwide Polio Vaccination effort. State supply of gamma globulin has more than doubled, enabling broader coverage for those exposed to polio.
Will Rossiter, 87, renowned composer of hits including Darktown Strutters Ball and Turkey In The Straw, died Thursday night at West Suburban Hospital. He also wrote I’d Love To Live In Loveland and Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland.
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