Mountain Choir Festivalmont Largest Choral Talent Yet
A large assembly of choral talent is set for the Mountain Choir Festival Association’s eleventh season at Arthurdale on July 25. Two Sunday programs will run 2 to 4 PM in the Arthurdale Gym, with a final program that evening featuring the University Symphony Orchestra directed by Kenneth Wood. The festival will include the Festival Choir and soloists, with noted conductors and music supervisors from Clarksburg and Fairmont. A combined rehearsal is scheduled for June 30 at 7:30 PM DST at State Teachers College, Fairmont.
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W. Va
Mountain
Arthurdale
University Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Wood
Sg “Ng
Dbinson
First Presbyterian Church
Winifred, Bell
Clarksburg
State ‘Teachers College
Fairmont
Ghoristers
Mountain Choir Festival lists composers and venues across several towns
The piece outlines festival rehearsals across Fairmont and nearby towns including Shinnston Philippi Mannington Terra Alta Rowlesburg Tunnefton Grafton Kingwood and Arthurdale. It notes that most choruses were composed in the last 20 years and cites American composers Huss Gaul Thompson and Kuehn with premieres in Mt Lake Park and NBC broadcasts. European composers Branams Holst Kodaly Drake also represented with the Festival Choir performing cappella and with two pianos or with orchestra.
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Sihde May Tre
Fairmont
Maygarstown
Clarksburg
Shinnston
Philippi Mannington
Terra’ Alta
Rowles- Burg
Tunnefton
Grafton
Kingwood
Arthurdale
Henry Holden Huss
Harvey Gaul
Randall Thompson
Ferdinand Kuehn
Festival Choir
The
Mountain Choir Festival Association
Mt. Lake Park
Felix Robinson
Mountain Choir Festival
NBC
9Fedinand Kuehn
Baltimore
Johannes Branams
Gustav Holst
Zoltan Kodaly
Harold E. Drake
O. B. Fawley Music Company
Morgantown
Former Grafton Man Serves With Honor Guard
Private First Class Frank Bonner a former Grafton West Virginia resident serves on special duty in Philadelphia from June 19 to July 7. He is part of a special detachment of the 772nd Military Police Battalion Fort Meade Maryland guarding a collection of 150 German paintings exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to benefit children in the American Occupation Zone Germany. Admission is fifty cents, the collection valued around 50 million dollars.
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Philadelphia
Frank Bonner
Grafton
West Virginia
772Nd Military Police Battalion
Fort George G. Meade
Maryland
Philadelphia Museum of-Art
Berlity
90Th Infantry Division
United States Army
Merkers
Germany
United States
Railroad Officials Travel Through Yesterday
Baltimore and Ohio vice president C W Van Horn traveled through Graf ton yesterday morning on Train No 29 en route to Cincinnati Ohio. Engineer Wilson Morrow maintained a maintenance of way trip through Grafton from 5 42am to 6 30am on Train No 69 toward Wheeling for inspection. The report also notes a fatality at a coal mine on Davis Creek and state police identifying a body found in the Ohio river near Woodland Dam as Albert Kopec formerly of Weirton.
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C. W.van Horn
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad System
Grafton
Cincinnati
Ohio
Wilson Morrow
Wheeling
Charleston
Bimmy Holley
McCorkle
Lincoln County
Short Great Coal Company
Davis Creek
Simpson
Ohio River
Woodland Dam
Moundsville
Albert Kopec
Weirton
Dewey discusses campaign as Berlin blockade looms
Dewey talked over election plans with his running mate Earl Warren in Albany meeting yesterday and last night. Republicans in Albany and Rensselaer counties planned a reception on the Capital steps upon his arrival with a likely speech. The session was overshadowed by New Yorker's concerns over the Russian blockade of the American British and French sectors of Berlin.
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Dewey
Albany
Rensselaer County
Earl, Warren
California
Berlin
Prospects Pressure for Rules Changes Amid Strikes
Prospects pressed for changes to rules to boost member pay as a looming strike was averted when President Truman assumed control and the Army managed lines. The government sought and obtained a restraining order to keep workers at work, later dissolved by Federal Judge T Allen Goldsborough. About 190,000 members across three brotherhoods would then be legally free to strike.
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Truman
T. Allen Goldsborough
Brotherhoods
Former resident of Grafton dies in Chillcothe hospital
Friends mourn Henry C Moore 54 formerly of Grafton who died yesterday morning in Verrans hospital at Chillcothe Ohio. He lived in Parkersburg in recent years and worked as a conductor for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. A World War I veteran he belonged to the Baptist Temple of Parkersburg the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and American Legion Post 15. He leaves a wife Elizabeth Marie Keherer Moore a daughter Margaret Ellen a brother J B Moore and two other brothers and two sisters. Funeral set Thursday at 1 30 p m from Schafer and Byham Funeral Home with burial Friday at Bluemont cemetery.
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Henry C) Jack) Moore
Grafton
Verrans Hospital
Chillcothe
Oho
Parkersburg
Moore
Baltimore and Ohi Railroad
Baptist Temple of
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainman
American Legion Post
Elizabeth Marie Keherer Moore
Margaret Ellen Moore
J. 8. Moore
James W. Moore
Cincinnati
Ohio
W. T. Moore
Margaret, Ga
Hershel Fox Salem
Lena Collins
Littlestown
Schafer and
T.B. Turnley
Bluemont Cemetery
Bartlett Funeral Home
Merchants Discuss Town’s Growth and Merchandising Plans
A large session last night covered campaigns, parking, roads, new businesses seeking to enter the town, taxes, and legislation affecting merchants. Residents raised concerns about coal tipples, odor from the crematory, and ward officials debated ongoing local matters. Mention was made of water use for pork production and the rise of artificial dairy breeding in modern agriculture.
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Asia
K of C Members To Hold Meeting Tonight
A Knights of Columbus lodge meeting is set for 8 pm in the K of C hall. Grand Knight A T Moscar announces two sound motion pictures as the evening feature and urges a large turnout.
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K. of C. Lodge
K. of C. Hall
A. T. Moscar
Division Trainmaster Leaving For Nova Scotia
Mr and Mrs A N Peters of 345 West Main Street plan a two week vacation in Nova Scotia Canada departing tonight by motor. Mr Peters serves as trainmaster of the Monongah division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
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A. N. Peters
West Main Street
Nova Scotia
Canada
Mr. Peters
Monongah
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Railroad Cars Weld Seam Process Demonstrated at Huntington
Huntington June 30 A new welding method for railroad coal cars by the American Car and Foundry company was demonstrated here. Editors of industrial trade magazines toured the plant where the process began in April after receipt of materials and approval, signaling a shift from riveting to welded seams in car construction.
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Huntington
American Car and Foundry Company
Chesapeake and Ohio rail cars production milestone
The Chesapeake and Ohio railway orders 6000 of the 70 ton steel hopper cars. At the factory, production runs steadily with cars riveted and welded seams, though output has been limited by manufacturing pace, with about one car completed every 17 minutes as work continues. No birds in Africa are reported extinct.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Africa
Democratic tensions heat up as Truman stalwarts weigh bids
In Washington amid Democratic debates in Philadelphia next week Senator O Mahoney of the Democratic platform committee calls high prices and Congress gridlock a key campaign issue. Leon Henderson of Americans for Democratic Action suggests Truman may bow to trusted Democrats. Pro Truman forces cite 46 pledged votes and 618 convention ballots needed for nomination. Henry A Wallace attacks the administration and foreign policy, arguing the current program costs 20 billion dollars a year and worsens inflation, harming labor and fixed incomes.
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Gorumuen
Tage One
Washington
O'Mahoney D.-Wye
Republican Congress
Truman
O'Mahoney
Democratic Platform Committee
Philadelphia
Leon Henderson
Americans For Democratic Action
Henry A. Wallace
New York
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