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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 17, 1950

Page

4

Grafton Sentinel Publishing Details and Rates

Grafton Sentinel a weekday paper published by The Grafton Publishing Company since 1903 with daily editions except Sundays. Offices on Latrobe Street Grafton West Virginia includes staff Eldora M. Nuzum and M B MacLeod and AP affiliation. Subscription rates show carrier 30 cents weekly mail year long 900 with regional variations.

THE Grafton Publishing Company, Inc Latrobe Street Grafton W. Va Virginia West Virginia

Milkmen Earn Pasteur Medals For Heroic Service

In New York a milkman’s night shifts bring unforeseen dangers and feats of courage. The Milk Industry Foundation awards Pasteur medals to several honorees this year, highlighting the dramatic incidents milkmen can encounter while delivering.

New York Milk Industry Foundation Pasteur

Milkmen Turned Heroes In Sudden Rescue Crises

Milkman F A Maple of Cellar City Creamery Troy pulled a boy from ice after he broke through on a pond using a rope from his truck while others pulled from shore. Morris Toll of Abbot Dairies Philadelphia captured a burglar fleeing a customer's home. Melvin Tracy of Long Beach California saved a man and wife in a gas incident using artificial respiration.

F. A. Maple Cellar City Creamery Troy Maple Morris Toll Abbot Dairies Philadelphia Melvin Tracy Long Beach California

Edgar Doll of Barberton Ohio Dies at 63

Edgar Warner Doll age 63 of Barberton Ohio formerly of Grafton died at home Monday. He was born in Grafton son of Edgar M Doll and Dora B Hefner Doll. Survived by son William Edgar Doll of New York brother Lewis R Doll Indianapolis and sister Isabel Gaston Keyser. He worked as an inspector for Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Akron for fifteen years and belonged to the United Brethren church and the Elks Lodge No 308 of Grafton.

Edgar Warner Doll Barberton Ohio Grafton Mr. Doll Edgar M. Doll Dora B. Hefner Doll William Edgar Doll New York Lewis R. Doll Indianapolis Isabel Gaston Keyser Doll Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Akron

Texas elects GOP candidate to Congress in surprise result

A Texas electoral surprise sees a GOP candidate win Congress as the Lone Star State shows it can produce a Republican. Other notes mention a 10-year-old cake-baking winner in Ontario and a Russian tribute to Mark Twain, with a final fragment about a praised author.

Central P. Democratic Texas Lone Star Ontario Mark Twain

Unclear Fragment Sparks Odd Image With Railway Talk

A garbled passage mixes literary references with a cow on a tree and a chim panzee. it shifts to Florida residents and a rail wage figure of about 50 million dollars. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine Men plans talks with the National Railway Mediation board to work out a new agreement.

Detective Shayne Escorts Blackie After a Narrow Confession

In a tense sequence on Biscayne Boulevard Shayne pressures Blackie as the suspect denies killing Mrs. Dustin and reveals fragments about a ruby bracelet and a busted fender. With a gun in hand Shayne plans a private interlude at his apartment lobby and contemplates turning Blackie over to the police while guarding his own payoff. The pair head toward the hotel and a police guard, setting up a dangerous confrontation that promises further revelations.

Blackie Shayne Mark Dustin Shamus Mickey's Eugene Poe County Causeway Biscayne Boulevard Suey Mrs. Dustin Mra. Dustin Heer Flagler Street Second Avenue Miami Jim Miss Hamilton Edmund Miss Naylor

President heads list of dignitaries at event

The guest list features President Truman and General George Marshall among the dignitaries. The formal gathering marks a notable display of leadership and alliance as chiefs and officials assemble for the ceremony.

Mr. Truman General George Marshall

Hydrogen bomb plans and Taft labor race in steady flux

The piece notes continued secrecy around a hydrogen bomb process possibly using tritium, with Hanford to produce it. Labor moves to defeat Senator Taft in Ohio, aided by Ferguson’s county networks and Lausche’s VP hopes, while Truman’s cross-country trip and the Taft-Hartley act debate shape political winds. Atomic allies discuss secrets and pools of information amid cold war tensions and international diplomacy with Lie and the Big Three meetings in focus.

Truman Atomic Energy Commission Hanford Taft Robert A. Taft Ohio Joseph Ferguson AFL CIO Railroad Brotherhoods Ferguson Onis Frank Lausche Lausche Congress Edward Martin Pennsylvania Democratic Congress Martin United States Great Britain Canada United Nations Trygve Lie Kremlin London Britain

Inside the Miami hospital Shayne faces danger

In a Miami hospital room detective Shayne reviews a kidnapping case with nurse Miss Naylor and a nervous rival, while Blackie guards Lucy Hamilton. Edmunds suspects a call may reveal the culprit, and plans to arrange a test by telephone. Lucy awakens, recognizes Shayne, and identifies the tension surrounding her recovery.

Try and Stop Me In a cemetery in darkest Brooklyn

A grief struck man sits over a grave for three days, beating his breast and asking why he died. An attendant consoles him, asking if the deceased was a relative. He replies the man was his wife's first husband. In Worcester a bookseller receives a letter about a dictionary with no index and only index received.

Brooklyn Worcester

Services Thursday For Mrs C McBee

Funeral arrangements are set for Mrs Dilder ann McBee 81 of Morgantown who died yesterday in Morgantown. A Taylor county native daughter of Andrew and Harriet Carrothers she is survived by husband Caleb N. McBee two sons W Gay McBee and Brady D McBee four daughters Dulcie Smith Mary Riggs Leslie McBee and Grayce Gillespie one sister Martha O Kiefee five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Morgantown Dilderann McBee Taylor County Andrew Harriet Poe Carrothers Caleb N. McBee W. Gay McBee Grafton-Morgantown Brady D. McBee Milldale Pennsylvania Dulcie Smith Mary Riggs Leslie McBee Wheeling Grayce Gillespie Camden New Jersey Martha O'Kiefee Whitman Nebraska

GRAFTON Students Take Chesapeake Bay Tour

A group boarded special buses Saturday morning for a Port Baltimore excursion. They enjoyed a three hour tour aboard a large boat on Chesapeake Bay and viewed points of interest during the conven tion as part of their program continuation.

Page Ouetion Port Baltimore Chesapeake Bay

Fragmentary Names From Grafton Social Note

Readable fragments list individuals including Mr and Mrs T C Gough and Mrs Alex Carroll among others from Grafton social notes. Separate lines mention Louisville Kentucky named for Louis the sixteenth of France.

Grafton And T. C. Gough W. J. Hussion Alex Carroll George Norris Louisville, Ky Louis XVI of France

Obituary notices for Edgar Warner Doll details funeral

Obituary notice for Edgar Warner Doll shows a Thursday service at Bartlett Funeral Home at 2 p m with Rev exend C V Tate officiating and interment at Blue mont cemetery. Calls for viewing at Bartlett Funeral Home. Second note announces BPOE ritualistic service and details for Mrs Dilderann McBee with service Thursday at 2 p m and interment at Mount Calvary Cemetery under Dering Funeral Home.

Edgar. Warner Doll Bartlett Funeral Home C. V. Tate Bluemont Cemetery Dering

Classified rates and ads fragment for sale list

Classified page details rates for insertions and mentions multiple ads. Includes 88 acres with house and gas wells, two Brownlow Park lots on a bus line, a doodle bug, and GI loan note. Contact numbers and Morgantown VA loan line are given.

Brownlow Park

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M. B. MacLeod Eldora M. Nuzum Associated Press AP News National Representatives Inland Newspaper Representatives, Inc East 42Nd Street Edgar Doll Beech Walnut Streets West Grafton Ess Moscow Massachusetts Zadok Dumkopf Florida Sunshine State Flore Page One Ness the Union—The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine Tional Railway Mediation Board Indie Washington Toft Gsti Brett Halliday Edmunds Mr. Diffingham Lucy Angel Shane Biscite Bennett Cerf Harry Thompson la Rochefoucauld King Features Syndicaty C. McBee Bartlett Funeral Homes Dering Funeral Home Sentinel Sase Maple Avenue H. P D. L. Outright Fetterman Wiseman Denver Blueville Pb.oy Dodge G. L Loans G. I Shale, Incorporated Walnut Street J. P Grafton Sentinel Grafton Dam Cook Grafton Bene Finel Waitress
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