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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1940
Page
4
Grafton community prepares for Memorial Day ceremonies with parade and cemetery tributes. The paper discusses wartime defense, Allied aid limits, and national leadership, urging prudent planning and continued readiness while weighing fiscal and security implications.
Oley Spencer recalls June 11 1892 when Graf ton machinists met at S J Willhide marble shop to form Machinists Union No 618. John Caveney led as president with Thomas E Joyce and Frank Keane as officers, among charter members including Thomas H Cather W I Rowland and others. Cather later became a prominent Grafton figure, guiding town improvements and resisting costly utility changes while modernizing the city.
Clarksburg Telegram reports the president’s order sparks strong pushback from the Air Line Pilots Association. The group's pilots, tasked with mission safety, challenge the order's impact on safety and public welfare citing gullibility and political manipulation.
In a melodramatic setup, Gayle Dixon is hired by Benjamin Merrifield to woo Jeremy Tucker, a Merrifield grandson and archaeology student, while six girls including Tempe Hyde assist. Bill Bailey orchestrates the scheme, while Gayle's mother Mrs. Dixon weighs the ethics and plans a careful, natural approach as the plot threads begin to unfold.
A reading stresses incompetence in early air transport under the Department of Commerce and praises the Civil Aeronautics Authority for reducing fatalities. The speaker cites 473 losses and 146 pilot crashes before reform, asserting politics harmed travel safety and urging removal of politically appointed incompetents.
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