McCarthy Target Of Proposal For Inquiry
Representative Frank Karsten proposed an inquiry to determine if Senator Joseph McCarthy s charges of Communism in government are a hoax deceit or fraud on the American people. He noted two Republican controlled house committees once investigated a list of names of state department employment applicants and found the department satisfactory. He said most if not all of McCarthy's cases were on that list.
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Washington
Joseph McCarthy
Frank Karsten
McCarthy
Karsten
Missouri Democrat
House
State Department
Disorder Breaks Out In May Day Observances In Berlin Territory
Disorder broke out during May Day observances in Berlin with about five thousand western Berliners clashing with East Zone police at Potsdamer Platz. Eastern police retreated as reinforcements arrived on both sides to disperse crowds amid fears of escalation. Soviet leader Stalin appeared in Moscow as a large air show unfolded featuring jet planes in peacetime displays.
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Berlin
East Zone
Potsdamer Platzz
Peole
Belin
Telephone Strike Worry Dispelled West Virginia
Charleston officials report no disruption today as a nationwide Western Electric strike ends after an early morning NY announcement. Pickets were planned but not ordered in West Virginia. Talks resume this week between Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone and C I O Communication Workers. J D Shepherd hints at decisions possibly leading to a settlement without details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
New York
Western Electric
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
C-I-O Communication
J. D. Shepherd
Huntington
Criminal Trials Resume Thursday in Taylor County Court
Taylor County Circuit court docket shows trials to begin Thursday with State cases including Moran Moran and Coole Haymond Smallwood Weaver and Haller. Friday May 5 lists Leach Krechel Delaney as remaining appeals and misdemeanors in the current term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Circuit Court
Richard B. Bord
Donald Moran
Letch W. Coole
Haymond
Roy Smallwood
Charles R. Weaver
Robert Lee Haller
State
Dorothy Leach
Charles P. Krechel
Jesse Lee Delaney, Jr
Fairmont UMW Men Discuss Reactivating Welfare Fund
Two United Mine Workers District 31 officers from Fairmont joined other union officials in Washington to plan reactivating the UMW welfare fund. President Cecil J. Urbaniak and district fund director Clyde Riley left Fairmont for the meeting as payments from the fund had been suspended during recent contract negotiations and no resume date was given.
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Fairmont
United Mine Workers District 31
Washington
UMW Welfare Fund
Cecil J. Urbaniak
District Fare Fund
Clyde Riley
April Mishaps Now Total 41
West Virginia state police report four traffic deaths over the weekend lifting April deaths to 41, the highest monthly toll since 1948. Total highway deaths this year reach 103, with eight lives lost in the weekend’s accidents and drownings. Corlite incident involved 32 year old Estill Patton arrested after a truck strike on a Monroe County station wagon killed 6 year old Barbara Joyce Williams. Patton faces preliminary hearing on involuntary manslaughter driving without license drunken driving and leaving the scene.
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Charleston
West Virginia
State Police Accident Prevention Bureau
F. EB. Springer Saga
Estill Patton
West Prestonsburg
Kentucky
Monroe County
Barbara Joyce Williams
Bluefield
Patton
Peterstown
Fishing License Sales Soar as Season Opens in Taylor County
Opening of the fishing season drew a license boom at Taylor County Court house with 471 licenses issued by Saturday noon. For January through April 1949, 426 licenses were sold, generating $1,367 this year versus $869 last year. State-wide licenses contributed $1,158 from 386 hunting and fishing permits at $3 each, plus $14 from seven hunting licenses at $2, and $150 from 75 fishing licenses at $2, plus $25 from one non resident hunting and fishing license and $20 from two non resident fishing licenses. Revenue returns to Charleston for the State Conservation Commission and supports stocking fish and game locally.
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Taylor County Court House
Court House
Charleston
State
Conservation Commission
Held For Driving Intoxicated In Thornton
George Frey of Thornton was arrested Saturday night by city officers on complaints from motorists in the city parking lot at St John and Main. He was charged with operating a truck while intoxicated and with operating without an operator license. The owner William Daff of Thornton was also charged with intoxication. both men are in the Taylor County jail awaiting preliminary hearing at 5 p.m. Ray Kennedy of Grafton was arrested for intoxication and is jailed in Taylor County.
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George Frey
Thornton
St. John
Main Streets
Prey
Frey
William Daff
Daff
Taylor County
Ray Kennedy
Grafton
Tayler County
Silver Gifts For Grafton And St Augustine Grads
Local businessman G H Coulson, manager of Loar Jewelry, announced that every girl graduating this June from Grafton High School and St Augustine High will receive a sterling silver spoon as a lasting keepsake. Each graduate will be invited to visit the store today to choose from a selection of patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton High School
St Augustine High
G.H. Coulson
Loar Jewelry Company
Two motorists held on speeding charges
Two motorists appeared on speeding charges in the office of Justice of the Peace On a C. Jeffrey's today. Thomas R. Freeze, 19, of Ethel Street, was fined 25 dollars and costs after being cited by State Trooper E. L. Duckworth for driving a motorcycle at 40 mph in a 25 mph zone on the Grafton Park road. Ralph D. Fast, of Leonard Street, driving a 1938 coupe at 40 mph in the same limit, paid 25 dollars and costs in justice court this morning.
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Office of Justice of the Peace
Leonard Street
Grafton-Park Road
E. L. Duckworth
First Serious Mishap In Fishing Season
In Putnam county West Virginia a fishing accident killed three people yesterday a six year old boy named Robert Null his father Ovan Null and Denvis Casto all died at 18 Mile Creek near Buffalo while attempting to rescue the boy Officials and funeral home workers described the tragedy as the season s first serious mishap on the water.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Putnam County
Robert Null
Buffalo
Ovan Null
Red House
Denvis Casto
Hamilton Quits Past Hamilton Quits Past
Floyd Scotty Hamilton former All American WVU basketball star resigns as head coach of all sports at Welch High School. Native of Grafton he hinted plans but a Washington area school was considered. Hamilton was on the 1948 WVU NIT championship team and was once considered for WVU freshman basketball coach before Press Maravich took the post.
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Floyd
Scotty) Hamilton
West Virginia University
Welch High School
Grafton
Hamilton
Washington, D. C
WVU
Press Maravich
Red Brown
Job Of Reversing Situation Rests With Industry
University of Pennsylvania President Harold Stassen told the United States Chamber of Commerce that capitalism is the most undersold system while socialism and communism are oversold. He urged American industry to lead the informational effort to foster understanding of capitalism among workers to influence political drift and potentially end the cold war with Russia.
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Washington
University of Pennsylvania
Harold Stassen
Stassen
United States Chamber of Commerce
Russia
America
Workman
Wreck Victim Returns Home After Tragic Accident
L. A. Hugill, sole survivor of a six fatality automobile crash, returns home at 321 Dewey Avenue from Vincent Pallotti hospital Morgantown. He suffers internal injuries and lacera tions but is convalescing at home, resting well though uncomfortable. The wrecked car is displayed on Morgantown’s courthouse square to warn motorists after families consented to the exhibit.
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L. A. Hugill
Dewey Avenue
Vincent-Pallotti
Morgantown
Japan Counts Visitors Since Surrender to 1949 End
The trade and industry ministry announced that more than 22 000 persons visited Japan between the surrender and December 31 1949.
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Tokyo
Japan
Trade and Industry Ministry
Farm Women Observe Home Demonstration Week in Taylor County
May 1–6 observance led by Taylor County farm women clubs with window exhibits to show Home Demonstration aims and benefits. New Haymond and Wickwire clubs organized. Farm Women’s Council coordinates county efforts. Truman quote underscores national goals.
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Stassen
Taylor County
Farm Women's Clubs
Aire
Country Club
O. D. Dawson
Lenore Crouser
Farm Women’s Council
Hersel McCartney Glade Run
Arthur Wilson
Knottsville
Frank Gull
E. E. Moyer Simpson
Truman
America
Stalin Makes Dramatic May Day Showing
Washington reported on May Day in Moscow where Generalissimo Stalin appeared on Lenin's tomb dressed in a fawn uniform. A cheering crowd, chimes at ten, and a roaring artillery salute accompanied a shadowing air force display led by Stalin's son, a lieutenant general, as planes and bombers strutted their strength above Red Square.
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Washington
Moscow
Generalissimo
Stalin
Lenin
Red Square
Kremlin
Air Force
Committees Named for Taylor County Board of Trade 1950 51
President Paul E. Malone announced committees for the Taylor County Board of Trade for the 1950 and 1951 fiscal years. Members span divisions including Membership Recreation Agriculture Education Advertising Legislation and Government Industry Public Health Trade Promotion and Transportation with numerous listed names.
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Taylor County Board of Trade
Paul E. Malone
Wayne M. Sinsel
Claude Ebert
Dent Wiles
J. Paul Murphy
Glen Harman
Gus Giannakos
Robert F. Gerkin
Charles J. Jarrett
Mabel Randolph
John ‘Tenhidlder
O. Summers
Mason Tucker
Victor C. Willhide
Fred Jackson
J. Lester Bush
Mildred
Keif
E. Parkhill
Herel Ev- Tans
Lloyd Shriver
Gus Gianakog
Les McLear, Jr
G. W. T.lockhard
Parker Hayhurst
M. B. MacLeod
Merle Watkins
Harry Friedman
Hubert Parrish
Wheeler Cart Bachman
Robert T. Knotts
C. A. Curry
Hundred Attend State Journalism Institute in Morgantown
About 100 state high school teachers and students are expected in Morgantown next month for the 16th annual West Virginia Scholastic Journalism Institute. Charleston High School adviser Mrs. Elsie Bolin will preside over teachers sessions while Morgantown High student Mary Ann Weece will conduct student sessions. The institute is scheduled June 26 and 27.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
Scholastic Journalism Institute
Charleston
Elsie Bolin
Charleston High School
Morgantown High School
Mary Ann Weece
Four World War II Heroes Reburied Here Friday
Four war dead to be reburied in the local National Cemetery Friday at 10 30 a m in an eight group ceremony. The remains identified as Flight Officer John W Carroll Technical Sgt William J Hurst Corporal Charles W Maurath and Second Lieutenant Glenn E Manyity will be interred with services conducted by the local American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and clergy. Relatives listed include Ellen Brochard Lynnbrook MA Amandus T Hurst Lawrence IN Fred W Maurath Cleveland OH and Helen M Panyity Bradord PA.
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Europe
John W. Carroll
Ellen ‘A. Brochard
Lynnbrook
Massachusetts
William J. Hurst
Amandus T. Hurst
Lawrence
Indiana
Charles W. Maurath
Fred W. Maurath
Cleveland
Ohio
Glenn
Manyity
Helen M. Panyity
Bradord
Pennsylvania
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Ward
Daugherty Verdict Over Automobile Collision at Grafton
Homer B. Daugherty wins $650 in a municipal case against the City of Grafton after an auto crash on Lincoln Street. The plaintiff alleges a pavement hole caused by water line work by city crews in the east district. Ralph Landers faced his own suit arising from the same accident.
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Taylor County
Coury jJury
Homer B. Daugherty
Grafton
Daugherty
Lincoln Street
Ralph Landers
Landers
Route 119 Resurfacing Likely With Low Bid
Feather Construction Corp of Morgantown holds the lowest bid to resurface 6.9 miles of Route 119 from Grafton to Morgan Town, including sections to Haymond Hill and Skaggs Farm to the Monongahela county line. Work awaits bid reviews and approval by the Public Roads Administration.
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Grafton
Morgantown
Feather ® Construction Corporation of
Haymond Hill
Skaggs Farm
Monongahela County
Bida
Public Roads Administration
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