West Side Bus Service Schedule Sparks Local Support
Morning discussions note July start for West Side bus service extension from eB to O Station, with routes covering Maple avenue and famut street. Officials push to keep service in Grafton, citing junior chamber and county trade board efforts while residents weigh early departures and 80 minute return trips.
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Tae
Nity
Towl
Eb & O
Neil
Maple Avenue
Famut Street
Grafton
of Commerce
County Board of Trade
Glider Brings Out Four More Today From Shangri La
Amid jungle canyons of Shangri La in New Guinea a glider army transport rescued four more, including WAC Corporal Margaret Hastings, with five additional Filipino troopers and an Army captain still awaiting extraction as surveyors and cameraman report on the valley’s strange landscape and a newly built landing strip.
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Ralph Morton Hollandia
New Guinea
Alexander Carin
Netherlands Information Service
Acy
WAC
Cpl
Margaret
Hastings
Owego
N.Y
Supporters urge peace votes and farm labor travel priorities
A city council press urged affirmative votes to halt aggression and pursue peaceful settlements. It stressed a growing era for farm labor, urging travel priorities before harvest season and noting wounded soldiers transported to base hospitals.
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Fie
Fragmented War Era Fragments From a Patchy Column
The text presents jumbled wartime color about heat waves, fascist references, a ghost town setting, and a Berlin sky. It notes Grandpoppy Jenkins and a blue sky in Berlin, then mentions two million tons of bombs to be dropped on Nippon, implying heavy weather for Japan and continuing Allied air campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandpoppy Jenkins
Berlin
Nippon
Kaiser ship christening at Gratton yard ceremony
The 38 enlisted men of the Vancouver post attended a christening ceremony for the Kaiser company vessel led by Col. Lioya nider Lt. Era Krenoitath and Capt. Frank Beem. Miss Babette Johnson served as sponsor, with her mother Mrs. Roy Johnson matron of honor. Speakers included Edgar Kaiser of the Kaiser yards and Lt. Cmdr. Max Miller USN R. A plague was presented by Chief Watertender George Hunt USN. Also noted are transfers of Pvt. John Howard Poling to Ft. Lewis and Navy man Warren Earl Hebb arriving at Shoemaker for reclassification, with Hebb a Grafton High School graduate.
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Route 2
Gratton
Vancouver
Speecaees
Lioyanider
Era ‘Krenoitath
Frank ¢. Beem
Kaiser Company
Babette - Johnson
Ernie. Pyle
Roy
F. “Johnson
Edgar“F. Kaiser
Tancontes Yards
Max Miller
U.S.N.R
Pyle
George Hunt
USN
John Roling
Thornton
Pvt
Japanese redeployment halts in China phase one
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Japan ending Phase One of redeployment in China as main forces move toward Kweilin. It mentions abandonment of Yungning, severed trans-continental links, and isolation of about 200 000 troops in southern Asia. Gaps stretch from Liuchow to Pingkiang near the Indo China frontier.
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Kweilin
Japan
China
Yungning
Nanning
Asia
Liuchow
Pingkiang
Indo- China
Liu- Chou
Tamar
Tsuiret
Cois
Gins Needed for WLA from This Territory Soon
Announcement from Mrs. Jessie Lemley reports women from this city, Elizabeth Reams and Kines, already sent to Fremont Ohio center for the Woman's Land program. Eight girls will be sent from this county when a quota is raised. Applicants can obtain forms from the county agent in the Post Office building. Pay schedule and further details available from B A Hensley, county agent.
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Ohio
Jessie Lemley
Elizabeth Reams
Fremont
B. A. Hensley
Freight Engineer Brakeman Die In Michigan Train Crash
Jackson Michigan June 30 A New York Central freight train struck a passenger train in the depot at Eaton Rapids twenty miles northwest of here at 3 30 am killing the freight engineer and brakeman Twenty six persons aboard the passenger train were injured and rushed to hospitals by ambulance corps None reported critically hurt Fireman L J Hotchkiss leaped to safety David Greer of Grand Rapids was found dead in the wreckage Pending inquiry railroad officials said the passenger train from Jackson to Grand Rapids left Jackson a few minutes late State Police aided in rescue efforts as needed
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David Greer
Grand Rapids
L. J. Hotchkiss
Jackson
Trade notes mention fats oils exports for U S fuel
The fragment notes Gentina intends to ship surplus fats and oils in exchange for United States fuel. It cites 1694 in Charleston with mentions of Mexico's chief imports being iron steel manufactures and wheat.
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Gentina
United States
Charleston
Mexico
Brestel Promoted At Kroger With Military Service
Eugene Brestel son of Mr and Mrs H E Brestel of Grand Street has been promoted to buyer for Kroger stores and undergoes special training in Louisville Cincinnati and Columbus. After training he will serve as assistant meat operator at the Clarksburg store. He enlisted in the army and served 13 months while Mrs Brestel remains in Elkins for now.
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Jesse E. Goff
U. S
Army
Camp Butner
N.G
Puerto Rico
Pic
Goff
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Wallace
Texas
J. D. Golf
Monroe Street
Eugene I Brestel
H. E. Brestel
Grand Street
Kroger’s
Louisville
Cincinnati
Columbus Ohio
Clarksburg
Eikins
Brestel
Elkins
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West Side
Panama
Shangri LA
Central
Weiter
Rome
Brain
Pee Gale
Eee
Earl Carroll
Romema Eye Arden
Salam Mowbray
Stefan Bachelor
Eek
IWO Oe
Iwo Jima
J. &. Walthers
Milobar Springs
Army Air Force
International Soundphoto
John. Howard Poling
Camp Walter
Ft. Lewis
Tacoma
Washington
Warren Earl Hebb
US-1
Pauline ~ Hebb
Parkview
U. 8
Naval ‘Training and Distributon Center
Shoemaker
Calif
Hebb
Navy
Roy’ Hebb
West
Wilford
UG & Chemical CO
Grafton Transportation Company
Grafton, West Virginia
Sonicnlagioe
B&o
Te A
Ly. Station
Walnut Street
Combo Ty
Malone’s Drug & ‘Chemical Co
Dixie
Itory OF
SARTH
Paul
Chapman - Parks Serses
Joe Howst Lewes Ty Zoltan Korda
Eugene Brestel
Gwen
Akim Tamirofe
Anturo
Joseph Callela
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