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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1957
Page
1
Forecast calls for clearing and cooler tonight with valley fog. Low 55 to 63. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. 24 hour temps ending 5 pm show 11 a.m. readings 67 and 68. Tygart Dam reports high 86 and low 68.7. Morning low last night 63. A.M. today 68 and 11 a.m. today 68.
Merle E Haddox announces expanded swimming hours at Tygart Lake State Park starting this week. The bath house will be open Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday evenings until 730 PM. Lifeguards on duty with Bill Murray Bob Walter and Tommy Miller on site.
Digest reports Albert Schweitzer expressing gratification at worldwide response to his cautions on atomic experiments. Nagy is returned from Romania to Budapest to await a show trial. Kiwanis secretary notes aiding 109 million underprivileged children in 42 years. A tropical disturbance prompts hurricane hunter mission from the Navy. Nazi war criminals released from British prison in Werl as the facility closes. In Togoland, seven villagers are killed and three seriously wounded after an attack on Teensaum.
Grafton police reported an unknown man in a new model car with out of state plates was soliciting subscriptions to The Sentinel and offering to sell the daily paper. Sentinel circulation manager Bill Siemon notified police after spotting the man on Monroe Street. The caller could not provide a name or full description, and officers searched without success. The investigation continues.
Taylor County Board of Education faces petitions over a proposed $5 capitation tax to fund schools. More than 2,000 names collected. deadline Friday. If 10 percent of voters sign, the issue goes to a special election, but funds for such vote are lacking. Only Taylor and Marshall counties are known to consider the levy.
The Taylor County Health Department schedules its regular immunization clinic for Thursday June 27 instead of Wednesday. Local residents are advised to attend on the new date for vaccines and routine immunizations.
Nationalist China warned its offshore islands of possible Communist invasion after the heaviest artillery bombardment in three years. Civilian casualties were reported with at least 20 injured. Quemoy endured massive shelling with about 9,395 rounds, leveling roughly 180 homes and raising fears of higher military losses.
Severe thunderstorms reduce the year’s second heat wave as temperatures rise in the Far West. Rain drenched New York City and parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Minnesota volunteers battled Crow River flooding from Delano to Dayton, washing out crops along the Crow and Minnesota rivers. Warmth lingered in California with fire warnings as floods threaten cropland in Minnesota and western Pennsylvania.
Five people die after a station wagon and a car collide near Benton Tennessee. Among the dead are Raymond Atkins 54 and his wife Ruth 54 and their daughter Ruth Patterson 23. Patterson’s 3-year-old granddaughter Barbara died later at a hospital. Also killed is Dorris N Kincaid 30 of Flowah Tenn, driver of the other car reported stolen Saturday. Police say Kincaid’s car sideswiped the Atkins vehicle after skidding, state patrol reports.
U S secretary Harold Stassen outlines a three stage plan reducing armed forces. First stage caps US and Russia at 2 509 000, Britain 750 000, France 750 000, with progress toward 1 700 000 for US and Russia. West Germany highlighted as key. Labor MPs press Macmillan to back Soviet nuclear test halt.
Post office boosts on July 13 raise Special Delivery to 30 cents for items up to two pounds, with broader increases across Money Orders Registered Mail and Insurance. Summerfield proposed these changes to cut a projected 28 million dollar annual shortfall, inviting comments by June 15.
North Korea and China mark the seventh anniversary of the Korean War by calling U N command to Panmunjom and threatening rhetoric from Pyongyang to Quemoy. Pyongyang and Peiping radio stations attack the United States with sharp blasts.
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