Grafton Sentinel shines through June 25 1956 edition
The Grafton Sentinel, a daily except Sunday publication since 1908, prints its June 25 1956 issue from Grafton West Virginia. Editor Monte F Bourjaily and staff, including Lee Roberts and William P. Tunner, deliver local news, trends, and notices. Subscription rates vary by location with home delivery by carrier in Barbour and Preston counties.
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Grafton Sentinel
Sentinel
Monte F. Bourjaily
Wiliam P. Tunner Lee Roberts
W. T. Lockard
William Cockrell
Elizabeth Hayhurst
Matl
Wes
Virginia
Virginies
Barbour
Preaton
Grafton
W. Va
Fitness for Living and the fight for youth health
Vice President Nixon addresses the President's Conferencer on Fitness of American Youth urging action on physical education in schools and community recreation. He cites that many regis trants are unfit for service and 40 percent of WWII servicemen could not swim fifty feet. He urges more gymnasiums, land for play areas, full time recreation leadership, and camping to improve national well being.
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Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Theodore Francis Green
Rhode Island
Senate
Justin Smith Merrill
Vermont
Merrill
Keen
Green
Walter F. George
President Eisenhower’s Personal Hospital Radio Setup
Walter Reed Army Medical Center provides 1000 pink speakers for Ike with four stations, including WGMS, to filter out announcements and pop songs. Walter Reed graduation speaker Dr Isidor Ravidin, a University of Pennsylvania medical school major general, was slated for months. A chalk drawing of Ike’s ileum and other updates fill the press room as reporters await updates on Gettysburg shots and a possible extended Gettysburg stay.
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University of Pennsylvania Medical School
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Army
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Leonard D. Heaton
Heaton
Elenpower
Panama
Gettysburg
Walter F. Tach
White House
Joanne Wows in New York as Brightest Starlets Rise
Georgia born actress Joanne, soon to star opposite Robert Wagner in A Kiss Before Dying, recalls a rough 1950s move to a cold water York Avenue flat with Rawn Harding. She describes noisy nights near a motorcycle club, rats in the shabby tenement, and scarcity of food as she pursued theater and television.
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Manhattan
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Joan Greenwood
Kim Stanley
Janice Rule
Miss Rule
Stanley
Millie
Kenneth Tynan
Joovne
New York
Wilk
NATO Moves To Expand Pact After Stalin Death
NATO members in Paris initiate a three member study group led by Lester Pearson Gaetano Martino and Halvard Lange to broaden the alliance beyond military defense to include political economic social and cultural cooperation. A questionnaire with nearly 49 headings will guide replies due by August with a September meeting to draft a report for December consideration as alliance unity and posture face shifts in the post Stalin era. The move follows a waning of wartime tensions and shifts in member defense priorities as Greece Turkey and West Germany later joined the pact.
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Paris
Lester B. Pearson
Gaetano Martino
Italy
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Norway
Canada
Lester Pearson
Pearson
Security League” of Free Nations
Massachusetts posts forest fire danger meter signs on highways
The state will place signs at 50 points along highways showing a meter image with an arrow to indicate the daily forest fire danger rating from one to five. This new measure aims to curb forest fires by informing drivers and residents of current risk levels.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Air rights sale eyed over Illinois Central tract in Chicago
Just Air 34 and developers discuss selling 77 percent of Illinois Central Railroad land in Chicago. Arthur Carlson notes Prudent ial building purchase of 3 percent acres for 2.27 million aids future negot iations. Engineers cited past air rights estimates from 50 to 200 million for the entire tract.
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I. C
Carlson
Randolph Street
Mailman Fights Back as Dog Named Queenie Follows
HUNTINGTON Virginia area report notes James Arthur, a letter carrier, bitten by dogs four times over four years. He now uses a Boxer named Queenie for protection on rounds. Queenie’s jealousy keeps other dogs at bay as Arthur continues his daily mail route amid canine incidents.
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Huntington
James Arthur
Huntsington
Arthur
Queenie
Portugal market sweeper dies after baptism wedding plan
Antrocimento, Portugal. Domingos Fais, a market place sweeper, though in poor health, wished to wed. He was baptized in the morning and died that same evening, ending his wedding plans.
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Antrocamento
Portugal
U —Domingos Fais
Chicago River to Lake Michigan Promoters Talked City Rise
The speaker traced plans from the 1930s envisioning Chicago Radio City or tall apartment hotels and larger office developments along the Chicago River extending to Lake Michigan, outlining a long held dream of major skyline changes.
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Lake Michigan
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