Hospital Plans Decorated Trays For Holiday Patients
The Grafton City Hospital will begin using holiday tray covers and decorations in the Children's Ward daily and on Sundays for other patients. Special covers celebrate Memorial Day Independence Day Flag Day and birthdays. Board trustees and staff express commitment to a homelike hospital environment and announce trays to arrive before Memorial Day.
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Grafton City Hospital
Childrens
James McKelvey
Audra Corley
Alabama Electors Voice Free Voting in Electoral College
Alabama voters face two paths for presidential electors. The state supreme court ruled the 11 electors may vote their conscience, while a slate of delegates pledged to oppose Truman and civil rights may be chosen. Eighty four candidates seek 26 delegate seats and 28 pledge to block Philadelphia convention if Truman is nominated or civil rights are included. The other item notes stalled government action amid a rail workers strike and wage dispute with mediation and proposals for a 15.5 cent raise.
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State Supreme Court
Alabama
Truman
Philadelphia
Washington
Douglas
White House
Railway Labor Acte
Salvation Army calls for clothing for tornado homeless in Clarksburg
The Salvation Army seeks clothing bedding or any spare items for those made homeless by the Clarksburg tornado. Call Capt Wiseman at 586 to arrange pickup.
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The
Salvation Army
Clarksburg
Wiseman
Sears Allstate Tire test car visits Grafton for safety display
Sears Roebuck sponsors the Allstate tire test car arriving at 68 W Main St Grafton at 2 30 pm on Thursday for public exhibition until 5 00 pm Albert White from the Allstate tire division will explain the new Premium Quality State Tires features with cutaway sections and rayon cord samples The 22nd stop of a 6000 mile tour covers 48 communities across New York Pennsylvania West Virginia Delaware and Maryland and aims to promote highway safety and tire care through scientific planning and development
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Sears Allstate
Grafton
Sears
Sears Roebuck and Company
W. Main Street
Zeppa Ash
Albert H. White
Allstate Tire Factory
Allstate
New York
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Delaware
Maryland
Fairmont
White
Devil's Causeway
San Antonio
Tellits
St Louis Post-Dispatch Wins Pulitzer Prize
The St Louis Post-Dispatch won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for its Centralia Illinois mine disaster coverage and ensuing reforms in mine safety. Awards also went to Tales of The South Pacific and A Streetcar Named Desire, with 14 prizes announced by Dr Frank D Fackenthal.
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New York
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Centralia
Ill
James A. Michener
Tennessee Williams
Frank D. Fackenthal
Columbia University
Paul W. Ward
Baltimore Sun
Soviet Union
Virginius Dabney
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dabney
Fourth Circuit affirms $7,000 award in Dineen railroad crossing case
In Richmond Virginia on May 4 the U S Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a West Virginia District Court judgment awarding Scott O Dineen seven thousand dollars for injuries from a railroad crossing accident after overturning an earlier $3 600 judgment appealed by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company.
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Richmond
U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Scott O. Dineen
West Virginia
Family Left Homeless By Fire At Noon Today
A McGee residence housing a family of three burned at noon, origin undetermined. Owner Gus J. Lambert listed property value at 1,000 with furniture at 1,500. Crafton and Grafton volunteers battled the blaze, saving a neighboring home and guiding a bucket brigade effort. The Goodwin family were away. the home collapsed on firefighters arrival. A radio show from WHAW showcasing Texas Bill s and His Smokey Mountain Girls will perform at Grafton Junior High School tomorrow night at 7 pm under the Fire Department sponsorship.
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McGee
John Proctor
Soodwin
Gus J. Lambert
Goodwin
Crafton Volunteer Fire Department
Grafton
Goodman
James Peters
Roy Marshall
Ray Osborne
Lloyd Sprage
Texas Bills
WHAW
Grafton Junior High School
Grafton Volunteer Fire Department
Texahoma Playboy
Little Betty
Pappy Sud
Fiddlin
Jim
Cousin Ann
Hank and
Dale
Absentee list names several residents and participants
Absentee names appear in a community notice listing George Newcome Evelyn Paugh Mrs. John Newcome Lulu Chen Oweth Mrs. Helen Stewart John Greathouse Jessie Layman Mrs. Lottie Todd Pearl Waugh I Thomas Yates Leslie Clayton Myrtle Ridenour Gussie Wanstreet Carrie Cole Gail Goodwin Ruth Bumgardner Robert C Sloan Hilda Lake Georgia Williams Mary Dillon and Dorothy McDaniel in an official roster.
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George Newcome
Evelyn Paugh
John Newcome
Lulu Chenoweth
Helen Stewart
John Greathouse
Jessie Layman
Lottie Todd
Pearl Waugh
I. Thomas Yates
Leslie Clayton
Myrtle Ridenour
Gussie Wanstreet
Carrie Cole
Gail Goodwin
Ruth Bumgardner
Robert C. Sloan
Hilda Lake
Georgia Williams
Mary Dillon
Dorothy McDaniel
Murder writs sought in Ohio slayings
CADIZ Ohio May 4 A Piney Fork man Floyd A Bunyan 21 signed a statement admitting he killed William F Rouch 38 last Wednesday Prosecutor Victor Rowland said Bunyan will be indicted for first degree murder by a forthcoming grand jury Also three Jefferson County men James Rage 21 Lloyd E Bunyan 21 Oscar T Westbrook 24 all of Piney Fork are to be indicted in the slaying of William F Rouch whose body was found on a side road near Harrisville The skull was crushed with a two pound sledge hammer recovered from a creek east of there
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Cadiz
Victor Rowland
William F. Roush
Floyd A. Bunyan
Donald Tope
Bunyan
Jefferson County
William F. Rouch
Wheeling
W. Va
Rowland
James Rage
Lloyd E. Bunyan
Oscar T. Westbrook
Piney Fork
Rouch
Harrisville
Salem college names Tigress for top all around student
Highly honored Salem college students recently chose Miss Cathleen Saucer daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Saucer of this city as the Tigress the school's best all around student of the year both scholastically and socially The designation highlights her outstanding academic and social achievements within the campus community.
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Salem College
Cathleen Saucer
Charles Saucer
Folio Given Two Year Term For Liquor Sales Conviction
Frank Folio of Clarksburg received a two year penitentiary sentence from Federal Judge William E. Baker after pleading guilty to three of seven counts in an indictment charging wholesale liquor sales without a government permit. The filing notes shifts in farm and motor equipment since 1920, mentioning horses replaced by machinery to free 55 million acres formerly used for horse feed.
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Wheeling
William E. Baker
Frank Folio
Clarksburg
United States
U.S
Mother's Day Radio Program Voices 1910 Proclamation
The program features the Andrews church choir and Community Chorus directed by Paul W. Shahan with Mrs. Seymour at piano. Wip Robinson of WVVW announces, George Blackwell narrates, and Jane Windowmi impersonates Anna Jarvis. West Virginia Wesleyan College President W. J. Scarborough voices Rev. Harry Howard. Charles Carpenter of Grafton wrote the script and voices Gov Glasscock. Cyril Monty Craig will read the Mead proclamation. Rev Arta F. Shomo gives the prayer. There are about 17 species of albatross.
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Andrews Church
Paul W. Shahan
O8i
W. J." Scarborough
West Virginia
Wesleyan College
Harry Howard
Charles Carpenter
Grafton
Gov
Glasscock
Woodrow Wilson
Clarence Meadows
Cyril
Monty) Craig
Arta F. Shomo
Motive Stated in Slaying Case Indicates Robbery
The prosecutor said robbery was the motive for the slaying, citing evidence found at the scene and linking the suspect to the crime. The testimony framed the case as a robbery that escalated to homicide.
New Sponsors For Grafton Junior Band Named
Six new sponsors and two substitutes were chosen at tryouts held last week at Grafton Senior High School. Band Director Paul W. Shahan announced the selections: sponsors Mary Jane Rosier Joyce McKinney Norma Moore Jean Cochran Joyce Cole and Freda Hill. Substitutes include Virginia Paugh and Dorothy Blackman with holdovers Pappalardo Patrina Smith and Beth.
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Grafton
Grafton Senior High School
Paul W. Shahan
Mary Jane Rosier
Joyce McKinney
Norma Moore
Jean Cochran
Joyce Cole
Freda Hill
Virginia Paugh
Dorothy Blackman
Pappalardo
Patty Vinia Smith
Beth
Fighting reports near Neve Yacov and Atarot
Informants describe 30 shells landing in the Neve Yacov Atarot area with no casualties and little damage. Jerusalem remained quiet overnight, though scattered firing was heard this morning in Mekor Haim, within a zone where British forces enforce a Jew Arab truce.
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Neve Yacov
Atarot
Jerusalem
Mekor Haim
Death of Mrs. G. W. S. Grove at 59 in Charleston
Mrs. G. W. S. Grove, 59, wife of the chief land department in the state auditor's office, died after a long illness in Charleston on May 4. What follows is a brief obituary noting her public service and family.
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Charleston
G. W. S. Grove
State Auditor's Office
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