Pairmont Girl Is Recent Bride Of Captain Findley
Helen Marie Haught Bigs of Fairmont wed Captain Paul M. Findley son of Flemington in a June 4 ceremony at the Baptist Temple Fairmont Rev J William Bonner officiated The bride wore soldier blue with white accessories and orchids She is a West High school graduate and attended Fairmont State college The groom is a Simpson high school graduate who worked for Craig Motor before service and is stationed at Fort Benning Ga They spent their honeymoon in Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Marie Haught Bigs
Ross M. T
Fairmont
Paul M. Findley
Ernest Findley
Flemington
J. William Bonner
Baptist Temple
West High School
Fairmont State College
Capt. Findley
Simpson High School
Craig Motor Company
Fort Benning, Ga
Maryland
Betrothal announced for Mary Lou Hufford and Pvt Robert Thompson
Mr and Mrs H G Hufford of Fairmont announce the betrothal of their daughter Mary Lou to Pvt Robert F Thompson, son of Mr and Mrs Mearl H Thompson of Fairmont. Mary Lou graduated from West Fairmont High in 1944 and works as a telegraph operator for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Thompson also graduated from Fairmont West High last year, enlisted in the U S Army last July, trained as a paratrooper in Colorado, Texas, and Fort Benning Ga, earning wings on May 11, 1945. Wedding date not announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. G. Hufford
Fairmont
Grafton
Mary Lou
Robert
F. Thompson
Mearl H. Thompson
Grafton High School
West Fairmont High School
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Pvt
Thompson
Fairmont West High
U. S Army
Colorado
Texas
Fort Benning
Dinner Theatre Party Is Enjoyed In Clarksburg
Kight Beta Sigma Phi and three guests traveled to Clarksburg on Saturday for a dinner and theatre party. Attendees included Mrs. Howard Lawson, Mrs. Russel Mathews, Mrs. John Paul Floyd, and the Misses Arlean Moore, Dorothy Pickens, Dorothy Sway, Mary Alice Burnside, Eldora M. Bolyard, with Ann Robinson of Grafton, Anne Evans of Washington PA, and Mary J. Hehle of Parsons as guests. Until 1896 Miami Florida was an Indian trading post with two dwellings, a storehouse and a small fort. The Indians of South America revere the annatto tree and have cultivated it for centuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kight Beta Sigma Phil
Clarksburg
Howard Lawson
Russel Mathews
John Paul Floyd
Arlean Moore
Dorothy Pickens
Dorothy Sway
Mary Alice Burnside
Eldora M. Bolyard
Ann Robinson
Grafton
Anne Evans
Washington, Pa
Mary J. Hehle
Parsons
Miami
Fla
South America
Church Class Dines at Mrs Thomas Home
June 26 The Philathia Sunday School class of the First Baptist church will meet at the home of Mrs Lillie Thomas for a covered dish dinner at 6 30 p m. June 27 A Fellowship coverer 1 dish dinner will be held at Andrews Methodist church at 6 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philathia
First Baptist Church
Lillie Thomas
Andrew's Methodist Church
Emergency and major surgeries cited in Clarksburg note
Local hospital updates show Charles Schooley of Thornton undergoing emergency surgery. Other patients include Mrs Sally Goodwin and Mrs Lina Dickerhoof, admitted for medical treatment, while George Johnson seeks major surgery amid a lunch meal dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Schooley
Thornton
Sally Goodwin
West Main Street
Lina Dickerhoof
Newburg
Jclly Hospital
George Johnson
Grafton
Safe And Sane Burma India Air Transport Record
London reports India based RAF transport command claims a world safety record with 78,500 hours flying and nearly 1.8 million miles covered while only four fatalities occurred. Over 15 months the group carried 100,000 passengers, 15,000,000 pounds of freight and 5,000,000 pounds of mail along an 18,000 mile route from Delhi to Rangoon, a distance comparable to London to Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safe and Sane
Burma-India
Air London
R. A. F. Transport Command
India
Burma
Delhi
Rangoon
Teeth Found at City Incinerator in Odd Turn of Events
In Hagerstown Maryland a man finds a complete set of upper false teeth at the city incinerator. The discovery occurs as residents joke about diet changes. Separately, more than 60,000 soldiers in the Mediterranean Theater attended courses by the Armed Forces Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Mediterranean Theater
The
Armed Forces Institute
Senate Hopeful Poll Signals Early Treaty Ratification
In a nationwide poll the basic charter draws strong support across parties with 36 Democrats and 16 Republicans likely to vote for ratification. Senator Hatch and colleagues praised the findings as evidence the international agreement could reach the Senate foreign relations committee within four weeks. The San Francisco segment notes regional reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
America
Foreign Relations Committee
Hatch
D-N.m
Hill
D-Ala
San Francisco
War Today on Japan Bombardment and Invasion Outlook
Discussion of impending amphibious invasion plans fueled by massive aerial bombing of Japan. General Arnold asserts Japan will face unprecedented destruction, with a predicted 2,000,000 tons of bombs in the coming year, and questions how long Japanese civilians and industry can endure. The piece compares German bombing to future Allied strategies and notes the Wright brothers first airplane cost under $800.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Arnold
United States Army Air Forces
Germany
Reich
Nurses Wanted at Fairmont General School of Nursing
Fairmont General Hospital in Fairmont West Virginia advertises a three year nursing program approved by the U S Cadet Nurse Corps. Classes form for entrance June 4 1945 and September 4 1945. Information to Director of Nurses Fairmont General Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont General School of Nursing
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Fairmont General Hospital
Fairmont
W. Va
Generals, Geiss, and the China Theater Publication Trail
Geiss, with a cosmopolitan education from Furman to George Washington, rose from baker and army columnist to public relations officer and editor in the China Burma India theater. He launched Command Post, later the China Lantern, printed in Calcutta and distributed from Calcutta to Kumning, with weekly dispatches to readers in the theater as he traveled back and forth. Iran’s oil pools, long known, only gained commercial exploitation after a 1901 British concession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanter
Geiss
Furman
Oglethorpe
Duke
Vanderbilt
George -Washington University
Kansas City Journal
Fort Warren
Wyo
Wyoming Eagle
Cheyenne
Giess
Crook
Omaha
India
Oran
Gilbert X. Cheeves
China- Burma - India
Calcutta
GBI
Command. Post
China Lantern
Kumming
Cal_cutta
Amrita Bazar Patrika
China
CBS
Forces advance toward Aparri and Baguio in Luzon
Allied forces push south of the pocketed Japanese positions as spearheads drive toward Tuguegarao and Aparri. The 37th inch from the town, gliders debut in this theater carrying jeeps and paratroopers. About 1,000 Japanese dead reported by the 33rd division in the Balud river valley near Baguio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell W. Voleton
Tuguegaroo
37Th
Associated Press
Hamilton W. Varon
Balud River
Baguio
Luzon
Souvenir Seizure Amid Okinawa Battle Claims
Sailors aboard the U S S Zellars reported looting souvenirs after the Okinawa action on April 12 with Lt Charles Smylie recounting a man grappling a Japanese machine gun and shouting it was his. Also notes early theater and wartime marriage trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Calif
Seaman
U. S. S. Zellars
Okinawa
Charles Smylie
Rosepoint
Mich
Zellars
Pineapple design fan chair set pattern 7089 advertised
An old advertisement offers a pineapple motif fan chair or buffet set crochet pattern 7089 with set stitches directions. Send fifteen cents to Grafton Sentinel Household Arts Dept New York for pattern and list name address zone. Also promotes a 1945 Needle Work Book with free handbag patterns and notes Ann Winston Churchill’s service with the Bengal Lancers in India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grattan Sentinel
Pattern Dept
P.O
Station O
New York
Marian Martin
Grafton
Sentinel
Household Arts Dept
P. O
Station
New York 11
N. Y
Ann
Strategic Air Power Pushes Rapid Pacific Reach
The text cites quotes from Arnold praising the United States strategic air force as the greatest in the world and notes it moved from San Francisco to Okinawa in 36 hours. It discusses using bases for an aggressive campaign against Japan, aiming to peak this fall with extensive reach to eliminate industrial targets. James Doolittle is mentioned as the first to fly across the American continent in one day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Telands
Pacific
United States
Arnold
America
Strategic Air
San Francisco
Okinawa
Okingwe
Japan
Indus
James Doolittle
Lady Suffers Gas No More After Erb Help Treatment
A Grafton resident reports relief from stomach gas bloating headaches and constipation after taking Erb Help. The ad claims 12 herbs cleanse bowels clear gas and improve liver and kidney action, with the promise that meals no longer cause discomfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eldora M. Bolyard Society
Pairmont
Captain Findley
Mary Lou Hufford
Pvt. R. Thompson
Ars
Lydia B. Pinkham
Pinkham
Nature
Lydia E. Penkhamis
Tori
Paul Kiger
Jeanne
Peggy
Pattie
Joyce Kiger
Country Club Road
Maude Brown
Railroad Street
Miss Brown
Janie Wolfe
Chicago
Clay V. Miller, Jr
Clay Tit
Spencer
C. L. Reynolds
Chapel Hill
R. R. Donnelley &C C
Mrs. C. V. Milsons Printing Company
Walnut Street
Nations
St. Louis
Carter
Buffalo
N. C
Hamburg
Lackawanna
Marion
Ohio
Universal Cooler Corp
Lator
Ackiin Stamping Co
Mather Spring Co
Toledo
Houdaille-Hershey Co
Decatur
Jersey City
N. J
Bayonne
N. J. Times
Garfield Heck
Maple Avenue
Union Bridge
Carrie Hayhurst
Altha ‘Hall
Lydia Gould
Kent, Singer
Ison Jimmy
Betty Bailey Riley
St. Mary's Hospital
Meryle Bailey
Opaley
I Hotel
Pittsburgher
P Ces
Debi
Nardone Bay
Arsine Rooms
Bath & Radio
Gmat
Gesa- Comats
A Knott Hotel
Josh Duddy
Corre
Uniog
Java
Sumatra
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
Iran
Gall Brothers Company
Munco, Ind
Imake
Londonderry
Winston Churchill
Bengal Lancers
Alice Brooks
Boy Bonds
Cpl
Delmar van Horn, Jr
Jefferson
Iowa
Farmall
Yenomour
Rockies
Atlantic Seaboard
Plains States
Seaboard
International Harvester
Compan
Michigan Ave
Tita
International Harveste
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