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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
8
George Hardman aged 35 of Hildebrand dies in Morgantown hospital from injuries suffered at work last week in the Alexander company mines at Hildebrand. The accident prompted an official inquiry and safety reviews by local authorities and the mining firm.
Joseph V. Gamsjager was elected chef de gare of the 40 and 8 society at the Legion Home meeting last night. New officers include Charles R. Skaggs as kid en commissaire intendant and Arthur Yates as correspondent. A Buckwheat festival color film followed, with next meeting set for June 1 for Ladies Night led by Dr. Charles M. Wells. Members from Preston county attended.
Five Taylor county Farm Women’s Clubs will participate in National Home Demonstration Week events and the State observance at Jackson’s Mill May 9 to 13. Attendees include Mrs. Frank Gull of Country Club, Mrs. Jm. C. Bradley of Glade Run, and Mrs. Lloyd Sayres, Mrs. Hugh McDaniel, and Miss Helen McDaniel of Knottsville.
Four Collins infants born at Lebanon Hospital weighing a total 17 pounds 14 ounces include two boys and two girls. First, a 4 15 boy, then a 4 3 girl, a 5 5 boy and 3 7 girl. Father Charles Collins said the babies Andrew Raymond Edward Charles Linda Carol Barbara Ellen, will be named. Parents married since 1941 have a two and a half year old son Stephen.
Fred Schaus of Newark won the student body president election at Mountain er college with 2 053 votes to 1 207 for Eli Bassett Jr of Welch. Most of the student ticket members backed Schaus. Attorney General Partlow announced the resignation of Assistant AG John C Vance of Clarksburg to join Preston and Davis in Charleston. A body taken from the Kanawha river was identified as Frank Humphreys 178 of Charleston, with no signs of foul play.
The ongoing rescue effort names four trapped miners or workers from Shenandoah and Girardville. William Kelly, 49, Joseph Wowak, 34, both Shenandoah, and Raymond, 35, and William O'Brien, 53 of Girardville, with hopes a valve may admit air to sustain life.
Parrish Agency offers multiple homes and lots for sale. Listings include a seven room bungalow at 2 East Wilford needing repairs for 2100 with good loan, a 522 Gay St four room bungalow with basement, a Parkview bungalow with five rooms and a garage priced around 3000, a six room, full basement house at 444 W Main near a bakery priced 2650, and two Maine Street building lots totaling 3600.
The minutes list members for committees across multiple departments including Membership, Advertising, Agriculture, Education, Fire Safety, Industry, Legislation, Recreates, Trade Promotion, Transportation, Public Health, and Housing. Noting optimism for regional industrial growth, speaker Patteson praises a new power station as key to Valley development and West Penn Electric’s ongoing river-area expansions.
About 106 090 production workers in 49 plants are affected as talks stall after five and a half hours of union company discussions. Reuther attended, seen as a potential shift in the conference dynamics and possible settlement change.
A Shanghai garrison report claims Nationalists repulsed two Red columns in a heavy battle two miles northwest of Shanghai on the highway to Narking. The clash is described as near Taichong with several hundred Reds dead and wounded and twelve captured.
A simple prepared vegetable dish combines snap beans with whole grain corn. Use canned or quick frozen vegetables and season with salt pepper onion and a tablespoon of butter or margarine.
Across a 350 mile wilderness stretch in Labrador officials report a suspected solid trough of iron ore possibly spanning 10 to 60 miles wide. The finding centers on a broad iron ore deposit considered highly promising for future mining development.
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