Group To Appear At GHS This Week
T B Cain president of West Virginia Business College Clarksburg will address Grafton High School students at 9 30 am Wednesday May 11. He will be spied by the Flying Squadron business college troupe. Pictured are Martha Sue Price Mary Lou Price Emma Lou Crawley Cain and Richard Cummings. The group has appeared before Rotary Kiwanis and Lions clubs and many high schools recently.
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T. B. Cain
West Virginia Business College
Clarksburg
Grafton High School
Business College
Martha Sue Price
Mary Lou Price
Fairview
Emma Lou Crawley
Richard Cummings
Weston
Rotary
Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
Truman Non Political Stroll Draws Sparse Crowd in Chicago
President Truman took a five minute non political walk from the Blackstone Hotel at 6:30 a.m. with Mrs. Truman and Margaret asleep. Reporters and photographers waited as guards escorted him past traffic, then back to the hotel by 7. The Third Armored Division, led by Maj. Gen. Roderick Allen, includes Pvt Moats a Grafton High School alum who served in the Spearhead role through the St Lo breakout into Germany.
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Chicago
TruMan
Blackstone
Secret Service
Charles Leonard, Jr
Army
Pvt. Moats
Grafton High School
Third Armored Division
Roderick R. Allen
St. Lo
Germany
Pvt. Kenneth E. Moats Finishes Leaders Course
Private Kenneth E Moats son of Mrs Olive C Moats Grafton recently graduated from the Leaders Course at Fort Knox Third Armored Division The eight week course trains potential leaders noncommissioned and commissioned officers in Army procedures to ensure the highest caliber in the field
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Fort Knox
Kentucky
Kenneth E. Moats
Olive C. Moats
Grafton
Third Armored Division
Grafton Welcomes Newest Citizens
Three babies welcomed by Grafton over the weekend with parents Clifford Wood Tunnelton and Alfred Slodd 315 East Main Street Donald E Pifer 333 West Francis Street. First child born May 13 at 9 12 a m weight seven pounds two ounces. Mothers Day May 14 son eight pounds three and a half ounces born at 2 55 a m. Sunday another son born at 12 50 p m weighing eight pounds eight ounces.
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City, Hospital
Clifford Wood
Tunnelton
Alfred Slodd
East Main Street
Donald E. Pifer
West Francis Street
Mixed historical notes from a fragmented page
The fragment recounts a travel tale where 22 more passengers than capacity were aboard a ship as two American flier prisoners were admitted after approval, plus notes on ice industry employment and a 18th century Mason-Dixon survey. It mentions a captain and Chinese Reds with varied topics.
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Ywuhuinued
Finnie
China
U.S
Travel Expert Visits Grafton for Free Vacation Help
Greyhound travel expert George Blackburn will visit the Greyhound Terminal in Grafton during May to answer travel questions and promote low cost vacation opportunities. The service aims to help take advantage of affordable travel options and budgets.
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Grafton
Winky
George Blackburn
Greyhound
Greyhound Lines
Fire devastates three Philippi buildings in weekend blaze
A weekend fire destroyed the Harsh apartment building on Beech and Walnut and the two story Vannoy building housing Talbott Plumbing. Firefighters fought the blaze into early Sunday. the cause is unknown. About 60,000 to 70,000 dollars in damage alleged. Red Cross aid expected. A political note follows about Truman and Dirksen with a Japan sheep statistic cited.
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Philippi
Beech
Walnut Streets
Vannoy
Jesse Vannoy
Talbott Plumbing Shop
Vanney
Philipp
Red Cross
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Columbus Drive
Malone’s Drug
Arsenal
Ivan
TFA
Onl, W. Yo
Picture of Happiness
Elizabeth Taylor
Conrad Hilton, Jr
Dell Monte Lodge
Pebble Beach, Cal
Charles Mason
Jeremiah Dixon
Panama
Jey Harsh
Illinois
Everett Dirksen
Dirksen
GOP
Japan
Esso
al-Grewrs
Esso Standard Oil Company
Wiles Esso Service Center
U. S. Route 50
West Main St
Sergent’s
Esso Station
Beech Street
Steinbeck
Blueville
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