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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1957
Page
1
Mostly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers in the west. Highs 80 to 84 north and west, 72 yesterday, 68 to 70 today. Thursday partly cloudy and warm with scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Temperatures show 24 hour highs around 72 and 70, with recent lows near 55 to 59.
Public obituary from Paoli Indiana reports Arthur Exntley longtime leading intellectual died Tuesday night at age 86. The piece mentions memorial day luncheon plans in Paoli with details on arrangements, gate passes, and local officials coordinating the event. It notes luncheon after the Memorial Day parade at the Grafton Hotel with co chairs Arthur G Yates and George Vogel managing tickets from Friday onward via the First National Bank or Prosecuting Attorney Richard Bord.
Former Harrisburg tax collector Stephen C Pastrick nominated for justice of the peace on the Democratic ticket faces trial today on charges tied to a $64000 tax money anomaly alleged during his tenure.
Unconfirmed reports say a petition opposing a proposed 5 capitation tax circulated in Taylor County to fund education. Observers note broad county resistance. The Board of Education plans a June 3 hearing at 8 pm to discuss the levy as state law requires an election if 10 percent of qualified voters sign. With 10,286 registered voters, about 1,000 signatures would be needed to trigger a vote.
The Baltimore and Ohio case to discontinue two daily passenger trains 543 and 344 between Wheeling and Grafton may reopen after a second Public Service Commission hearing in Fairmont. Investigations focus on discrepancies between railroad evidence and protest testimony, with a potential reopening if January rider counts prove unreliable. Both sides will file briefs as the PSC considers the matter.
Mrs. Edna MacDonald of New Delhi and her son John are jailed with two others on $13,000 hold up charges. Indicted by a Staten Island grand jury, the four allegedly planned the crime to fund a marriage. MacDonald reportedly carried a pistol in shawl.
Summers County grand jury indicted ex boxer and evangelist Rev Clarence Jones for breaking and entering and attempted burglary. Trial postponed due to mental tests. Jones, 40, is under Monroe County conviction and Kanawha County indictment. bond renewed to remain free pending the next term.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad car shops in Keyser will issue indefinite furloughs effective Friday midnight. Officials cited a business decline. The plant once employed about 601 workers, now to be reduced to 220.
Rotary International announced at its 48th annual convention in Lucerne that Paul M. King of Ripley West Virginia governors District 753, covering 19 counties and 23 clubs in central and northern West Virginia, and F. H. Mansfield of Richwood West Virginia heads District 755, with 16 counties and 37 clubs in the southern area. King operates a hotel and Mansfield is an automobile dealer and Nicholls County civil defense director.
Temperatures will average 2 to 3 degrees above normal with a warm Thursday and Friday. Cooler conditions arrive over the weekend. Showers are expected today and Thursday and again Saturday, bringing total rainfall to about one inch.
The AFL CIO halted hearings on Teamsters corruption to allow a self-cleaning move. Secretary-Treasurer John F. English and several vice presidents planned talks with a possible ouster of President Dave Beck before September elections. Beck ally Brewster and two others sought a six month delay in contempt trials, with Judge Bolithe J. Laws giving 24 hours for arguments.
The United States Weather Bureau reported the nation's low this morning at Leadville Colorado with 19 degrees and the high Tuesday at Laredo Texas reaching 105 degrees.
President Eisenhower said a tax reduction is off the table until a larger budget surplus is seen and the 1957 budget remains in the black. He blasted a recent $2.59 billion defense cut, warning half the cut would hit key programs, and urged Congress to restore it. He touted public support shifting toward his foreign aid and budget stance.
Two river pirates Arthur Kerner and Robert Ferrise robbed the Mounds Illinois bank of forty thousand dollars then fled toward New Orleans. A Kentucky riverbank posse and FBI agent tracked them after a Cairo Illinois chase, leading to their capture. they face questions about further riverbank robberies and admitted a tavern theft in St Paul Minnesota.
Fremont and nearby towns reel after a swarm of tornadoes flatten the 207 population town of Fremont. Desloge and Van Buren report deaths, with nine and eight respectively, while Dexter area sees high winds and uprooted trees. Refugees moved to Winona with Red Cross aid.
Four men convicted of spying for Israel were hanged in Amman Nablus Hebron and Tulkarm in the first executions since martial law was imposed. Egypt hailed Mollet and Nasser as winners while U.N. Security Council debated Suez and British PM Eden faced cabinet crisis over the Eisenhower Doctrine.
Berkeley County Board of Education reported no definite suspension for two Martinsburg High School students after they and others allegedly tied three junior high boys with rope and threw them into a water-filled quarry near the school. City police arrested the 15 and 16 year olds. The younger boys were rescued minutes later.
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