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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1955
Page
6
Grafton Fire Department hosts a free dance at City Hall tonight from 9 to midnight featuring Round and Square dancing with Tony Sorbella's orchestra and the Variety Ramblers. No admission as two music groups donate their time to the department. A cake walk guess cake and refreshments are planned for attendees aged 14 and up to boost the equipment fund.
A 10 year old Tunnelton boy, Robert Scott, drowned yesterday after falling into a pond at an abandoned strip mine near Howesville. Playmates John Greaser and Tom Welbow witnessed the accident as a bulldozer operator, Joseph Fitchett, found and recovered the body. He survived by his parents, five sisters, three brothers, and both sets of grandparents. Also reported, Thomas J. Murphy, 52, secretary to the chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, died suddenly today after a heart attack.
INDIANAPOLIS Ind The Forty and Eight a divisive body within the American Legion seeks to form its own group after a June 5 meeting the executive committee recommending secession The faction claiming about 100 000 members accuses regional leaders of domination using Legion money and prestige to maintain control led by J Earl Simpson and four other committee members
A list of 45 families sign for FBS, naming Mr. and Mrs. Nettie Anderson through Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hustead among many couples. The long roster includes multiple households led by Anderson Cathell Conner Cropp Kinsey Withers Boyles Exline Forman Mayle Montgomery McVicker Poling Sharp Woodyard Allender Brown Craft Jewell Poe Turner Beall Bolser Logan Satterfield Brown Lough Vincent Matthew Robison Smith Bradley McCartney Law and Hus tead.
Open court games are set for this week with East End facing Maple Avenue tonight Mollohan's meeting East End tomorrow night and Collegians versus West Side Thursday All games start at 6 30 p m on the Maple Avenue playground court
Mr and Mrs Ernest Carlson who have been patients in Grafton City hospital since April 10 after a two car crash that killed five will be released Wednesday and return home They thank The Sentinel for many cards gifts visits by ministers and prayers of everyone The piece notes a mongoose is valuable for killing poisonous snakes
A federal commission urged decentralization to curb government overreach and shift duties to private initiative and local levels. It warned against tax overlap, noting federal share of taxes at over 20 percent and favoring national action only for unresolved or large scale needs. Rail clerk aide John J O Connell Jr dies at 64 in West Haven after heart attack.
Charges of operating a house of ill fame were withdrawn against Mary Swisher of 120 West Boyd Street. A private citizen had obtained the warrant but withdrew it before the hearing. Swisher was freed under $200 bond. A 17 year old girl named Miss Colebank, arrested with her on loitering charges, was fined $25 and released.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad orders 1400 freight cars totaling 10.7 million dollars from three manufacturers. ACF Industries will produce 200 70 ton cars at Huntington plant costing 1.43 million dollars as part of the order.
Neil Freeze 23 of Graf ton and Ralph Stuart Fast 25 of Chicago former Graf ton residents were found guilty of burglary in Washington County Circuit Court Abington Va. They faced Judge T L Hutton with a five man jury and received five and seven year sentences respectively in Virginia State Penitentiary. A third man Thomas Freeze cousin of Neil was at large after a June 5 burglary where Patrolman Slemp was wounded at the laundry doorway.
Lewis J. Walker forfeited a $101 bond on a reckless driving charge after failing to appear in City Police Court. Howard Robert Godwin faced drunken driving and hit and run counts, fined $101 or 30 days for the drunk charge and $16 plus costs for the hit and run, with jail in lieu of fine. In Brooklyn, Rev. William J. Farrell, 43, chaplain of the Catholic Seamen's Institute, died Saturday and was nicknamed Big Santa by seamen of many faiths.
Bethlehem Steel Corp chairman Eugene G. Grace said Bethlehem has raised its raw steel capacity by nearly 50 percent and finished products capacity by 56 percent since World War II. The report places peak polio infection around August.
Mrs Halpin runs the Palisades Park cleaning crew with 16 sweepers and 500 seasonal staff. The 340 by 120 salt water pool is scrubbed before opening each day, with 23 refreshment stands and a seafood restaurant cleaning 1,500 meals daily. A truism anchors her: a clean park draws crowds, while a dirty one loses them.
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