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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1948
Page
3
Appealing for guests and trousseau gifts this pattern 7034 offers cutwork and stitchery designs. Includes improved visuals, charts, photos, and complete directions. Send 25 cents to Pattern Dept New York for the motif transfer and style 7034.
Grafton Quota club readies for annual Guest Day Dinner at Hotel Grafton next Monday at 6 15 pm. About 40 to 50 attendees expected with guests of members mothers or friends. Grace Mat Bartlett president and H K Debendarfer lieutenant governor to Atlantic City convention attendees. Alternates named. At last meeting the club voted to donate 10 to Camp Towles and sponsor a girl at Girls State.
The Minute Maids 4-H Club hosted a Mother's Day Tea at Mrs F B Smith’s Maple Avenue home. Decorations featured smillax and tulips as members presented poems songs and talks honoring mothers. Attendees included many club members and mothers, with corsages and carnations distributed by the club sponsor. The program closed with several mother themed poems and a solo performance. The latter portion notes Anglo-Saxons as early ring users and the meaning of wed as pledge.
A sequence of local club meetings and events scheduled for May 12 to May 14. Activities include Woman's club departments, Blueville Methodist church classes, American Legion Auxiliary, Kings Daughters, Pocahontas Lodge, Fisher Class, Literature Art and Book Review, Weekly Sewing Club, WMC First Brethren, World War II Mothers Club, Naomi Class, Andrews WSCS Circle No 1, and the Protected Home Circle with locations on Bluemont Street East Lincoln Street Walnut Street and VFW Hall. All members urged to attend.
Betty Casto was chosen president of the Girls Athletic Association at Grafton Senior High, with Elaine Gifford as vice president LaDonna Jenkins secretary Eileen Vevon treasurer and Betty Kemple reporter. Retiring officers include Betty Brown Mary Joe Francis Josephine Bryan Jeanie Jo Lockard and Polly Davis. Cinnamon is used for flavoring in some medicines. Bergen Norway is 50 rainy and pedestrians receive rain gear.
Mrs. L. J. Stover announces the marriage of her daughter Helen G. Stover to Charles Carmen LaPorte of Baltimore. The ceremony was at the Presbyterian church May 7 or 8 with Rev. F. Carl Davis officiating. Mrs. LaPorte is a Grafton High School graduate and has worked in Baltimore. Mr. LaPorte served 32 months overseas in the U S Army, in multiple campaigns. The couple will reside in Baltimore after July 1.
The Lois Luzadder class of the Evangelical United Brethren church held its regular meeting and Mother’s Day program. Mrs. Miriam Nester presided. Refreshments were served by Leoma Zumbro and Marian Gough to Dorothy Burnside, Mary Alice Deakin, Virginia Lake, Miriam Nestor, Ellen Tingler, Pauline Glover, Mabel Cunningham, Lucy Hileman, Mary Margaret Ward and Rev. Harry Eckels.
The Challengers Class of the Nazarene church held a monthly covered dish dinner at Mrs. Helen Grey's home. A short business session led by president Mrs Anna Boyles decided to publish the class history as a book. A large birthday cake honored six May birthdays. Members present included Mr and Mrs William Glover, Mr and Mrs Edward Breedlove, Mr and Mrs Paul Boyles, Mr and Mrs Wallace Ludwick, Mr and Mrs Glen McDaniel, Mrs Rosalyn Fawcett, Mrs Evelyn Jones, Mrs Helen Grey, Charles and Lonnie Ludwick, David McDaniel, and Nancy Grey.
Rail lines announced the lifting of embargoes by 88 class one railroads on perishable foods and livestock. Thousands of workers in California and Florida fruit and vegetable sectors and shipping agencies will be recalled. Prices in wholesale markets are expected to stabilize with resumed shipments as strikes and seizure orders shape industry responses.
Mr and Mrs W R Jackson of 1208 West Boyd Street and Mr and Mrs Latimer Bradley of Country Club Road spent Sunday in Frostburg Maryland with friends and relatives. Mrs W A Clark and Miss Manule Spiker of Pennsboro visited there to see their brother O L Spiker a patient in City Hospital.
Government mediators pressed to avert the 75,000 worker walkout at Chrysler as talks with CIO United Auto Workers near deadline. The union seeks 30 cents hourly raise, Chrysler offers six cents. both sides cling to original positions. Emil Mazey leads the UAW delegation amid the ongoing bargaining. Canada doubles chemical production since World War II.
Big steel mills and coal mines announced furloughs for the strike duration as industries scramble to cope with depleted coal stocks and reduced operations. Workers faced layoffs while plants curtail output amid ongoing labor action.
The hospital will host a tour in small groups with Red Cross Nurse's Aides as guides. Department heads will be present, and equipment displayed. Guests may request explanations. visitors cannot enter patient rooms. A general cleaning underway as Nat Hospital Week displays go up at Evan's Furniture Barton's and Marinello Beauty Shop. James McKelvey Jr now administers the 66 bed facility which cared for 2,137 patients in 1946, with a $500,000 value. 1946 payroll $44,751.85 and expenditures $107,228.24. Two hundred ninety four babies.
Police report 14 year old Ervin Ingle a Bryan Junior High student admitted shooting a person after saying he wanted their car to drive to the high school dance. Authorities describe the incident as a double bill event.
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