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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1950
Page
1
The Kefauver committee plans a nationwide general study of about 50 billion dollars in shady holdings and operations. Senators O Conor Hunt Today and Wiley join Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver in leading the probe into organized crime and illicit wealth.
Taylor county board of trade announced at a morning committee meeting that 17 stores will close Wednesday afternoons during summer, while 15 will stay open. Closures run June 7 to August 31 except July 5, with reply cards sent for confirmation. many were not returned. Open on Wednesday afternoons: A V Cuppett Grocery Leonard's Grocery Pure Food Market Builder's Service Supply Wilson Florist West Virginia Farm Supply Roberts Hardware Evans Hardware Western Auto Mountain State Sport Center Walnut Variety Delaney's Electrical Appliances Russell's Radio Sales and Service Turners LeAnn's Ladies Shop. Closed Wednesdays: Archdeacon's Men's Store Pettrey's Shoe Store Loar Jewelry Skaggs Jewelry Caplan's Jewelry Grafton Jewelry Heflin's Style Shop Costolo Electric Supply Seidler Furniture Lee Bennett's Paint Store J Lee Evans Furniture Co W R Lear and Son Photographers J C Penney Monongahela Power Style Fort Pitt Shoe Singer Sewing Center McCrory's 5 and 10 Woolworth's 10c
Convicts at the Huttonsville state medium security prison attempted a mass escape last night. Four prisoners broke free briefly before guards, led by Warden Ira E. Briers, recaptured two and pursued three others. Names include Leonard McCoy and Dons, both 19, with Harry Williamson and Everett Ware, 18, still at large. The dormitory escape from a 50-man block near the Tygart River prompted rapid roadblocks and a plan to weed out ring leaders.
Bright red poppies bloom at the Taylor County Post of The American Legion as preparations proceed for Poppy Day on May 27. The flowers arrived from Martinsburg and are being counted for volunteers who will distribute them citywide. Poppy Rally at the Legion Home on May 26 will hand out coin boxes and poppies to volunteers. Each poppy is handmade by disabled veterans at the Martinsburg hospital.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2389 was instituted yesterday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the local lodge hall with Ho H. Chinn of Charleston as instituting director. The Morgantown degree and drill teams led the ritual. Madam president Mrs Gladys Blair Morgantown presided. The Grafton chapter is the 14th auxiliary to be instituted in the state. A 4:00 p.m. luncheon followed. Guests from Fairmont, Kingwood, Morgantown and Philippi attended.
Five Grafton High School girls are chosen to attend the eighth annual Rhododendron Girl's State camp at Jackson's Mill the week of June 11 to 17. Sponsored by Elks, 40 & 8, Business Girls, American Legion Auxiliary, and Moose, the students are judged on character leadership citizenship and scholarship. Mrs Roy Burnside is wart chairman of the activity, with chaperones and a full, active week ahead.
Washington reports a quake in Cuzco Peru with at least 50 dead and 178 injured. An emergency airlift brings doctors and supplies as 30 percent of buildings fell and Santo Domingo Cathedral towers collapsed. City camps, no electricity or water, death toll expected to rise. In Germany, Gelsenkirchen mine blast toll climbs to 1 with eight additional deaths and 2–3 of 22 injured not expected to survive as officials plan mass funerals. Investigators blame firedamp gas buildup for the explosion.
In Lynn Massachusetts GE workers will elect a representative union this Thursday. Labor secretary Maurice Tobin and CIO president Philip Murray urged a vote against the UE union headed by Albert Fitzgerald, citing concerns over communist influence.
The Saturday Sentinel ran a caption error on page one depicting a fortuitous event. Early copies misnamed the figure as Communist. the corrected caption identifies Lee Mortimer, Broadway columnist and crime expert for the New York Daily Mirror, as the harmed party in a beating at the Riviera Night club in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Investigators in Berkeley Springs pursue a lead that a red haired woman found dead near the city two weeks ago may be Ruth Maugher of Baltimore. A Baltimore suburb resident asserts the victim matches Maugher, but Morgan County Prosecutor Helsley cautions that several prior identifications proved false.
Taylor County Board of Education allocates up to 1000 dollars for summer playgrounds for local children. Randall McKinney will chair the program again, with details still being finalized by the Taylor County Youth Planning Council. The grant funds equipment purchases and supports at least ten playground installations in the county.
E M Cassel of Grafton and Mr and Mrs John Dunnington of Ironton Ohio spent Friday in Gettysburg to attend graduation exercises at the Lutheran Theological Seminary. Robert E Cassel, son of the Cassels, was in the graduating class. He was ordained by the West Virginia Senate at Jacksons Mill on May 15 and will become pastor of Mt Calvary Lutheran Church on June 1.
President Truman accused the Soviet Union of wilfully flouting the United Nations charter by walking out of UN meetings over Chinese Nationalist delegates. He blamed Moscow for blocking progress on a world atomic plan and armament reduction, while urging UN universal inclusion and accountability for actions affecting peace. The remarks praised UN work in India, Palestine, and Indonesia.
Local politics begin to warm up in 1950 as C. C. Whitescarver, Taylor County Education Board attendance director since 1943, and former constable now running a collection agency, join the race for the Democratic nomination for Taylor County's House of Delegates seat. W. D. Serpent of Blueville, a former state trooper and local business man, filed on Saturday.
Mrs. Jo Alice Raper admitted her husband’s kidnap report was fiction after a 21 hour disappearance. The scam prompted a city search and a later home reunion with her police officer husband on the vice squad. Senator Wherry announced impounded Washington records on undesirables in government jobs, citing security risks and potential blackmail by Reds.
F Ray Power executive officer and director of the West Virginia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation will address the Grafton Kiwanis at tomorrow’s dinner meeting at 6 15 p m. His topic Brazil Land of the Future. Power, a Shepherd College and University of West Virginia and Columbia alum, has held many WV school posts and now leads state vocational rehabilitation.
L. P. Morgan who held the city garbage collection contract from July 1 1948 to June 30 1940 is the low bidder on the new contract for collection of garbage and refuse and hauling to the city incinerator. Morgan bid $14 000 at Saturday’s bid opening, with Charles Dalton $14 400 Fred J Williams and J Layton tied near 15 300 others higher. The one year contract begins July 1 and covers hauling to the Si Niner See A Wee Hon. MORGAN page 4
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