Grafton Hotel to be remodeled into B&O YMCA complex
Unconfirmed reports say the Grafton Hotel will be demolished and rebuilt as a combined hotel and B and O YMCA. The basement would house a restaurant, first floor lobby, upper floors hotel offices, and floors three to six a public hotel and YMCA spaces. About 25000 dollars may fund renovations with work to begin in about thirty days.
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Grafton
YMCA
Mer
John Bradford
B & O Ymca
J. R. Murphy Co
Cumberland
Grafton Hotel
Luther T. Balter
Ttn
McGraw Construction Company
Bradford
E Men Accepted in Pre-Induction at Huntington
Six of seven men who left here June 18 for preinduction examinations were accepted for service. One, Date Robert Anderson, won immediate induction and joined the Navy, while five others were returned to Taylor county awaiting final induction. Also noted, Joseph Hillard Ellington, indelibly aged, left in a final induction call on June 15 and was assigned to the U S Army for reception. Card of Thanks note follows.
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Huntington
Faylor County
Dorwood
Junior Keener
Charles Alfred Patterson
Roscoe Lawrence Humphrey
Creed Richman
Albert David Fulton
Joseph Hillard Ellington
U. S. Army
Funeral services for Oscar McCormick Rites Tomorrow
Funeral services for Oscar McCormick 62 of Main Street will be held tomorrow at 10 30 am from Bartlett funeral home with Rev M J Hannon of St Augustine Catholic church officiating Interment will be in Bluemont cemetery He was a switchman for B and O Railroad a World War I veteran and member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Veterans of Foreign Wars He was born August 20 1892 in Altoona Pa and is survived by his wife
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Oscar McCormick
Main Street
Bartlett
Veterans of
Altoona, Pa
SSS
Panama Language Policy Cited In Speaker Selection Debate
Fragment discusses a bill continued from page one about cabinet action and electing a speaker, noting an automatic acceptance of resignation and referencing official language in Panama as Spanish. The text mentions interactions with the White House and ongoing political procedure.
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House
Panama
White House
Paul Brestel Returns To Civilian Life After WWII Service
Paul Brestel, totaling 109 points as his discharge certificate, arrives in Gratton to resume civilian life after enlisting in the Army Air Corps October 2, 1940. With 55 months in service including 24 overseas, he earned the Medal with three Oak Leaves and served as navigator on a B-24 with the 15th Air Force in Italy. He and wife Barbita DeMoss plan to return to work as a business associate with his father in Grand Street.
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Paul R. Brestel
Fhe Sevice
Grat‘ton
U. S. Amy Air Corps
Breste
Battle’ Stary
Canal” Zone
15Th Air Force
Italy
Miami
Fla
Bowman
Sotterbuy
Indianapolis
Ind
Barbita DeMoss
Hig
H-E
Brestel
Grand Street
Missing in action Pacific Lt. Lir Clay Robinson
Lt. Lir Clay Robinson USNR son of Mr and Mrs Fred D Robinson of 227 Maple Ave, Beaver Pa, listed as missing in action in the Pacific Theatre after being wounded near Iwo Jima while with the Fourth Marines. A graduate of Grafton High School Class of 1932, West Virginia Wesleyan College 1935, Harvard Medical School 1940, he studied at Worcester Mass hospital as a resident physician before entering the Navy in 1943 with the Seabees.
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Clay Robinson
USNR
Fred .D. Robinson
Maple Avenue
Pacific
U-8.navy
Fourth Marines
Iwo Jima
Eutenant
Ruth Craig
Beaver
Navy
Seabees
Tmts
Iwodima
Grafton High School
Robinson
West’ Virginia Wesleyan
Harvard Medial School
Pe God Hospital
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Edward Setler
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