Incinerator Contract Signing Delayed By Death
The incinerator contract with the Goder firm of Chicago is delayed two to three days after the death of the firm's representative’s father. City work on grading roads and incinerator site continues as council discussions on a shorter stack face a dissenting vote from Councilman Vic Willhide. The delay shifts the final decision to Thursday.
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Goder
Chiago
Illinois
Grafton
City
Cremalte Wbocal
Ton
Cimnerator
Victor Willhide
Wilhide
Commies Ready for Invasion of Formosa
Reports hail a Nationalist claim of a major air attack on a fleet of Communist invasion craft near Formosa. About 2800 boats reportedly sunk off the China coast as Kai-Shek remains confident he will still lead a year from now. Military observers warn that if the Reds aim for Formosa this year they must act before mid July to avoid monsoon dangers.
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Formosa
China
Orpostte
Obenerattetao Chis ‘Kai-Shek
Mon
West Virginia News Roundup Highlights Court, Levy, Synod
Huntington employee Wallace Bogess must serve a one to five year sentence for unlawfully wounding a coworker in a Huntington arcade. Raleigh County voters consider a three year extension of a school levy adding 267000 dollars annually for salaries textbooks and buildings. Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia Lutheran delegates will elect Pittsburgh synod officers on May 22 in Greensburg. West Virginia's five day forecast calls for above normal temperatures with showers tomorrow Friday and cooler weekend readings.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Imon
Huntington Regional Water Ane Administration
Wallace R. Bogess
Huttonsville
Bogess
Huntington
Pttor
Raleigh County
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Pittsburgh Synod, Evangellical Lutheran Church
Synod
Greensburg
Weather Bureau
Mary Hall
Grafton
Wheeling
Barbara Redinger
Mary Virginia Monroe
Ellen Gainer
James Yost
James Glenn
George Moyer
Nancy Anne Staley
Parsons Firemen Stop Serious Hospital Fire
Parsons firemen prevented a major blaze near a private hospital this morning. The flames destroyed Dr. Guy H. Michael's home connected to Tucker County Hospital by an annex, causing about $7,000 in damage, while the hospital with 20 patients remained unevacuated as Elkins crew arrived to assist.
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Parsons (P
Tucker County
Guy H. Michael
Michael
Parsons
Elkins
Aes
Propose Next Session Of Legislature Set Up City Theatre Tax
In Charleston two WV legislative committees studying city finances consider authorizing a city theater tax at the next session. They will defer recommendations after further study and compile a list of proposed levies for the legislature. A prior theater tax faced court ruling and Charleston repealed a similar levy.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Supreme Court
Dag
Child Struck Killed By Auto At Bus Stop
A nine year old girl Naomi Lea Fox of Hill Run was struck and killed by a car at a school bus stop near Middlebourne Tyler county yesterday. The driver Raymond Allen of Lima was not held.
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Middlebourne
Tyler County
Naomi Lea Fox
Hill Run
Raymond Allen
Lima
Acheson and Bevin discuss cooling Cold War tensions
Secretary of State Dean Acheson met with British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin in London to discuss easing Cold War tensions. He arrived after talks in Paris with French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, where an American aid pledge for French forces in Indo China was agreed.
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London
Dean Acheson
Ernest Bevin
Acheson
Paris
Robert Sehuman
Indo- China
Gross Sales Tax Shows Sharp Drop in West Virginia
West Virginia faces a major drop in its gross sales tax with two months left in the fiscal year. Tax Commissioner C. H. Koontz cites coal industry strikes as the main cause, with collections trailing by more than 4.6 million dollars versus the same period last year across all industries and total year receipts around 25 million dollars.
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Charleston
West Virginia
C. H. Koontz
Your Last Chance To Obtain The Great Weekly Sentinel
Rural Taylor county and neighboring counties gain a weekly paper starting May 12. It promises farm news, state and national updates via Associated Press wives, home town notes, comics, and livestock market quotes. Subscriptions priced at 50c plus tax for one year, mail or bring to Graf ton Sentinel, 102 Latrobe Street.
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Great Weekly Sentinel
New “Weekly Sentinel
Taylor County
Barbour, Marion, Harrison
Monongalia
Associated Pi Y Many
Grafton
Coun
Grafton Sentinel
Latrobe Street
Telephone
Weekly Sentinel
Nation's Oldest Confederate Veteran Passes
John Thomas Graves known as Uncle Johnny dies at 108, last veteran at Higginsville Missouri State Confederate Veterans home. He valued simple comforts and spoke of will and peace, enjoying feeding himself, smoking, chewing and social chats in his final days.
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Washington
Johnny
Johnny Graves
Confederate Veterans Home
Higginsville
Missouri
John Thomas Graves
Missgiitti
Russell Wolfe Sentenced to 25 Days in Taylor County Jail
One man, Russell Wolfe, 40, of Gladesville, was found guilty of creating a disturbance and unlawfully trying to enter the Monty Harvey home at 9 Grand Street. He was fined 50 dollars and costs by Municipal Judge Guy Allender, and in default, imprisoned 25 days. Four others charged were found not guilty and released from custody.
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Monty Harvey
Grand Street
Russell Lwolfe
Gladesville
Municipi
Guy Allender
Taylor County
Clifford Smith
Independence
Ray Smith
James’ Simeral
Reedsville
Kermit Zickafoose
Grafton High Band Boosters Plan for Next Year
Band Boosters met at Grafton High School led by president Mrs Burl Mason to discuss festival appearances and fund management. Director Paul Shahan praised the Morgantown District Band Festival showing and attendees planned a special Huntington Band Festival fund, with plans for a spring concert on May 25 and camp and sash committees formed for uniforms and tickets.
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Burl Mason
Paul Shahan
Morgantown
Huntington
The
Elk's [Lodge
Grafton High School
Magon
Kenneth Cole
A. B. Cutright
C. W. Pitzer
George Newcome
Paul Klepful
T. J. Boshell
Edward Kirby
Ralph Shahan
R. H. Stephenson
Warren Mahaffey
A.J. Williamson
George Cassell
D. W. George
Howard Courtney
Camp Caesar
Truman nominates Johnson as assistant secretary of the Army
President Truman nominates Earl Dallamgg Johnson a New York investment counselor to be assistant secretary of the Army succeeding Archibald Alexander who becomes under secretary. Senate approval clears Johnson for the post as the Army reshapes its top ranks. The House Armed Services Committee pigeonholes a plan to build 97 million dollars worth of homes for veterans per committee chairman Carl Vinson.
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Washington
Truman
Earl Dallamgg Johnson
Secre
Army
Johnson
New York
Archibald Alexander
House Armed’ Services Committee
Carl Vinson
Star City Miner Indicted In Shooting
A Morgantown special grand jury indicted Vincenzo Stefanizzi a 46 year old Star City miner on murder charges in the shooting of Dr. Paul Douglas a coal company physician fatally shot in his car at a ferry slip The indictment arose after Stefanizzi said he was insulted by a physical examination about eight months earlier The panel also returned four other minor indictments.
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Morgantown
Star City
Vincenzo Stefanizzi
Paul Douglas
Stefanizzi
Douglas
Man Gets Prison Term for Shooting Liquor Agent
Orville W. Moore was sentenced in Welch criminal court to two to ten years in the state penitentiary for wounding State Liquor Agent Arthur L. Jones near a McDowell County moonshine site. He also drew concurrent sentences of one to ten years for carrying a shotgun while making liquor and one to five years for operating a moonshine still.
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Athens
McDowell County
Orville W. Moore
Welch
Moore
Arthur L. Jones
Jones
Reds Walk Out On UN Talks For 24th Time
In Bangkok the Soviet delegation walked out of a United Nations meeting for the 24th time while balking at replacing the Nationalists with Communists in Chinese representation. The session devolved into parliamentary vitriol as opposing sides clashed over the Chinese delegation.
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Reds
Bangkok
U.N
Becaus
Tesol
Well-Child Clinic Thursday at Grafon Junior High
The Well-Child Clinic sponsored by the Grafton Woman's Club meets in Grafon Junior High health unit rooms on Thursday May 11 with Dr. Cora Lenox of Philippi in charge. Mrs. Lenox, R N Mrs Corinne Stafford and club members assist. For ages six weeks to school age and returning patients 9 30 to 12 00. New patients 1 to 3 pm.
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Grafton Womans Club
Grafon Junior High School
Cora Lenox
Philippi
Lenox
Corinne Stafford
R. N
Womans Club
Truman Vows Western Development Push In Fallon Wyoming Speech
President Truman declared in Fallon Wyoming a determined push to develop western resources despite opposition he labeled as reactionary. He praised the Wyoming dam project as a world wealth source and contrasted it with the Teapot Dome scandal while criticizing communism and imperialism in a speech during his western tour.
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Washington
Truman
Casper
Wyoming
West
Fugitive Davenport Captured in Las Vegas Nevada
FBI announces Stephen William Davenport once on the Ten Most Wanted list has been captured in Las Vegas Nevada. Davenport, 42, a native of Keokuk Iowa, escaped from Quincy Illinois jail last July and became a nationally known felon.
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FBI
Washington
Stephen William Davenport
Las Vegas, Ney
Keokuk
Davenport
Quincy
Ill
Wittenberg senior Mary Elizabeth Klauenberg cited for scholarship
Springfield, Ohio report notes Mary Elizabeth Klauenberg daughter of Theodore and Mrs Klauenberg 302 McGraw avenue received a certificate of merit for first semester of the 1949 60 school year at Wittenberg College She was among twelve students earning all A grades and is a fine arts major in her senior year at the college.
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Springfield
Ohio
Mary Elizabeth Klauenberg
Theodore Jacob “Kiauenberg
McGraw Avenue
Ghagh
New WV National Science Academy Chooses Downey President
William Downey of Fairmont State College was elected president of the West Virginia Academy of Science at its annual Bethany meeting held over the weekend. Downey succeeds the former leader and assumes duties immediately.
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Bethany
West Virginia
Efforts To Get More Money For Morgantown Lock And Dam Defeated
Pennsylvania congressman Eberharter sought 500000 more for Morgantown lock and dam on the Monongahela river. The House voted 66 to 21 against the proposal, keeping the total at 2 million.
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Morgantown Lock and Dam
Morgantown
Pennsylvania
Monongahela River
House
Eberharter
Pittsburgh
Public Fountain Memorial Comes to Gratton Streets
The World War II Mothers Club donates a public drinking fountain as a veterans memorial to be installed at a street corner in Gratton. A second fountain awaits location due to water and sewer line issues, with installation before Memorial Day. May 30 events also include street painting of parking net lines on city streets.
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Ee Pai
City Water
City of
Grafton
Sheynen
Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee Face Marriage Troubles
Hollywood reports say Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee, married twenty years, are amid rumors of strain. Brother Larry hopes for a separation not a divorce. an attorney cites unsettled relations while Crosby tours Europe and reconciliation is hoped for in June. Dixie Lee has not commented.
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Hollywood
Crosby Brothers
Ding
Dixie Lee
Paris
D:xe
Bing
Larry
John O'Melveney
Singer
Dixie
Attoreny
Europe
Crosby
Excited Women Call Out Firemen At Brush Fire
Two women residents in South Grafton alerted the Grafton Volunteer Fire Department to a brush fire near a house between Fanny and Ross streets. Firefighters arrived to learn a man with a burning permit was burning trash and the situation was in order.
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Grafton
South Grafton
Fanny and
Ross
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