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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1949
Page
5
Edison Kennedy, 29, was held in the Mingo county jail today for the murder of 19-year-old Franklin Buchanan, a Matewan truck mine employee, in a Sunday morning shooting. The report notes the unrelated sentence about alpacas and bears, indicating mixed OCR data from the page.
Fragmentary passage references a U S airline or rail context with over 100 million passengers and cites coach Dudley DeGroot and the Washington Redskins, then shifts to planetary diameters from Mercury to Jupiter, showing a mix of unrelated facts without a clear narrative.
Morgantown West Virginia University appoints Frank Walton as assistant football coach at the athletic department weekly press radio luncheon Walton, a line coach, succeeds in the role and brings prior coaching experience to the Mountaineers
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet appointed Marshal Alexander A. Vasilevsky minister of the armed forces, replacing Nikolai N. Bulganin who had held the post since March 4 1947 after Marshal Josef Stalin previously held it.
The Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmitriy Manuilsky is identified as the figure who shifted American Communist strategy from wartime cooperation with capitalism to class war. Budenz testified at a New York trial of Red party leaders that Manuilsky blueprinted the change at a Los Angeles UN meeting.
A parcel of old listings offers an 11 room 3 story home with 2 baths and attic apartment at 346 Walnut St, near FHA appraisal and GI terms, plus a cozy 5 room bungalow on W Francis St with immediate possession. Also for sale: one of Grafton’s oldest business houses on 100% block with favorable terms, a Moose Home near E Washington St, and parcels on W Main St and E Washington St suitable for dual homes or development.
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