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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1957
Page
1
Stefan Cardinal Wyssynaki, the first prelate from behind the Iron Curtain to visit the Vatican in years, departed for his home in Red Poland today after a forty day stay.
Firefighters report a blaze destroyed C. H. Saucer’s one story nine room Webster house with an estimated loss of 8000 to 10000. Firefighters arrived at 10 10 am and battled three hours amid water shortages and road barriers 4.5 miles south of Grafton on a dirt road off US 119. Fire damaged kitchen dining room and roof with 18 firefighters on duty. Saucer reportedly had 5000 insurance on the house and 1000 on furnishings.
NEWTON New Jersey a 20 year old Vivian Masters captured the local jail at gunpoint in a dawn siege over a $40 traffic fine. She held Patrolman William Knoll captive for about 10 minutes before officers disarmed her and cuffed her. Masters, a mink rancher known as a marksman, had previously targeted Patrolman Charles Young who had arrested her for a prior stop signal violation.
Low temperatures marked Bryce Canyon Utah at 25 degrees as the coldest spot in the nation this morning. The warmest reading Sunday reached 109 degrees at Presidio Texas according to the U S Weather Bureau.
The region endures extreme heat with many areas reporting temperatures near 90s to mid 90s. Bluefield and Huntington record statewide highs as thousands seek relief in pools and parks. Officials warn no substantial relief before next weekend amid drought risks to crops and gardens. Local recreation sites like Tygart Lake State Park see heavy crowds seeking shade and cooling.
Storms across the Midwest and Northeast killed at least 20 people in weekend floods. Heavy rain swamped St. Louis and surrounding areas with up to 18.78 inches in Belleville and 8.73 inches downtown, forcing about 6 000 residents from homes and prompting large Red Cross relief efforts. Eleven drowned in New England, six in Michigan, four in Wisconsin, Indiana, and two in Illinois and New Jersey, with the Beaufort Missouri mobile flood death toll rising to seven in one family.
Five day forecast for West Virginia shows temperatures averaging eight degrees above normal with continued heat through Thursday. Cooler spell expected Friday or Saturday. Scattered thundershowers Tuesday through Friday, likely under one quarter inch. Average seasonal temperature around 72 degrees.
Weekend mishaps claim six lives in West Virginia including four traffic fatalities and a rare amusement park accident where a seven year old Kanawha County boy William Slate of Ward was decapitated by a miniature train. Other deaths include Gary Ray Church 15 of Whaley Camp drowning after swimming Tug River, Remis Clay Jr. 32 of Charleston killed in a curb strike and 100 foot plunge, Orpha Watts 60 of Philippi in a head on collision, Aubrey V. Toler 46 of Cyclone dying after car plunged 20 feet, Charles H. Henry 38 of Dorothy dying after missing curve, and Anita H. Dial 31 Huntington killed when passenger in skid into another vehicle near South Point Ohio.
In Pomeroy Ohio police chief Frank Hudson reports near total collection of delinquent parking fines, with payments arriving from as far as Florida though one local ticket remains unsettled. A separate incident recounts 10 year old Joseph Coleman from Canonsburg Pennsylvania firing at will through Maple Street, briefly terrorizing a small community before being subdued and detained for observation.
The Grafton Enforcement Agency and a city committee led by Mayor R D Stout declared four local buildings unfit for standing and ordered their razing. Properties listed include 25 East Bluemont Street owned by Andy Poe, 117 St Johns Street owned by Bessie Moore, Wickwire Road resident Mrs Roy Kiger, and 12 Mulligan Avenue owned by Ken Manear who requested the ruling be appealed. Owners have 20 days to appeal to circuit court.
Western powers pressed Russia for details on a two to three year suspension plan amid Big Five disarmament talks. U S officials Holmes and an unnamed general plan to visit, serving as checks on Stassen, while Britain and France weighed demands for a simultaneous halt in bomb-ingredient production.
Raymond N. Bushell, first American admitted to the Japan Bar, says the Girard case cannot yield a fair trial in a Japanese court. He lambastes Japanese justice as a 19th century joke and notes prosecutors' influence on judges. Girard, 21, from Ottawa Illinois, is accused of killing a Japanese woman at Camp Well firing range while she gathered scrap metal.
More than 1,000 people filled the Little Brown Church in the Vale to mark the 100th anniversary of the hymn’s composition. Four veterans of the Weatherwax Brothers troupe performed. The hymn was written by Dr. Williams Pitt, a Wisconsin dentist, in 1857 after seeing the church’s setting. The Rev. Glenn Utterback led the service and praised the quartet’s voice as marvelous. The other item notes the Interstate Commerce Commission approved an 11 percent rate increase on less-than-carload Railway Express shipments on Eastern railways.
The Public Service Commission will not reopen hearings on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad plan to remove the last two passenger trains Nos 343 and 344 between Grafton and Wheeling. PSC chairman Hillis Townsend said decisions since May hearings do not justify reopening the case. The PEC must decide if the trains will be cut, despite protests claiming the service remains needed.
London the Scot Yard disciplinary board ordered a police guard to resign for refusing to shave an untidy beard. Police Constable Stewart still defiantly wore the beard, and the board gave immediate notice to Sir Nott-Bower, the metropolitan police commissioner.
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