Robinson Funeral to Be Wednesday
Mrs May A Robison wife of Fred M Robison of Route 4 Coffman community died at City hospital at 2 pm after a three week illness She was 70 born November 7 1877 in Lewis county daughter of John J and Harriett A McDonald Powell She was a Mose Hill Methodist member Surviving are husband two sons Guy F and John J of Grafton Route 4 a daughter Mrs Margaret Shriver of Fairmont a brother Early J Powell of Bentons Ferry and three sisters Mrs Della Wood Bentons Ferry Mrs Mayme Gillette Dania Fla and Mrs Delle Satterfield Oak Ridge Tenn Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm from Bartlett Funeral Home with Rev W J Richard officiating Burial in Buemont cemetery
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May A. Robison
Fred M. Robison
Route 4
Coffman
City Hospital
Lewis County
John J
Harriett A. McDonald Powell
Mose Hill
Guy F
Grafton
Margaret Shriver
Fairmont
Early J. Powell
Bentons Ferry
Della Wood
Benton's Ferry
Mayme Gillette
Dania Fla
Delle Satterfield
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Bartlett Funeral
Bartlett Funeral Home
W. J. Richard
Kevin
Buemont
Evidence In Mandamus Proceedings In Grafton Field Case
Evidence in the mandamus proceeding of Louis H. Greenwald against city manager Curtis D. Decker before Judge W Merle Watkins at the Taylor County court has concluded its tak ing of testimony. The judge awaits a transcription for study as the case proceeds toward reinstating Greenwald as chief of the Grafton Field department.
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Louis H. Greenwald
Curtis D. Decker
W. Merle Watkins
Taylor County
Eee Court
Court House
Greenwald
Grafton Field Department
Three Men to Face Murder Charges in Sunday Shooting
Logan reports prosecutor Chauncey Browning will charge William Brooks Henry Smith and Charles Guthrie with murder in the early Sunday shotgun killing of Eugene Hays 23 at his Rita home. Hays died from shoulder and chest bullet wounds around 3 am yesterday as he stood on his porch.
Hardesty Reports 201 Campaign Expenses Today
Charleston May 24 State Senator C Howard Hardesty of Fairmont spent 201.45 in his campaign for re nomination in the 14th district. He reported no contributions. James Dailey of Martinsburg won the Republican nomination in the 16th district and spent 201.20 with no contributions disclosed.
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Charleston
C. Howard Hardesty
Fairmont
Hardesty
James 8. Dailey
Martinsbute
Senate
Oaths Sought From Labor and Management Negotiators
Rep Landis proposed a broader non communist oath for both labor and management negotiators under Taft Hartley expanding current rules that require only top union officials to attest non communism. The move comes as the Senate committee across the act opens hearings ten months after enactment. An employer could fire a worker deemed subversive if tied to an organization listed by the attorney general.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Rep. Landis
R-Ind
Landis
National Labor Relations Board
Senate Horse Watchdos
Anal
Attorney General's Office
Georgia Senator George Backs One Term President
Senator George of Georgia urged voters to elect a strong one term president who will end politics and reduce expenditures. He warned the nation risks 48 to 50 billion dollars in 1949 while noting he has not decided on a candidate and will watch party platforms and nominees.
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Jack Bell Washington
George
Georgia
Truman
Agld
Kcaans
Democraats
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Chicago
Columbia, University
Card of Thanks for Sgt Dailey Stockett
Our heartfelt thanks and appreciation are extended to our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy to the Rev Lois Luzader and Rev Harry Eckels for their consoling words to the United Brethren quartet to Bartlett Funeral home and to Mrs J H Davis at recent services for our beloved son and brother Sgt Dailey Stockett Mr and Mrs Z G Stockett Mr and Mrs Sherman Reed
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Lois Luzader
Harry Eckels
United Brethren Quartet
Bartlett
J. H. Davis
Dailey Stockett
Z. G. Stockett
Sherman Reed
Poppies Bring Aid To Needy Children
American Legion Auxiliary to wear memorial poppies on Poppy Day May 29 to aid war veterans' children. Mrs V O Poe says numbers of children needing aid rise, urging local generosity to support Legion Post and Auxiliary Unit in Grafton.
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American Legion Auxiliary
V. O. Poe
Legion Home
Legion
Grafton Council Sets Meeting For Tomorrow Night
The Grafton City Council will meet tomorrow night at 8 pm in City Hall to decide Ordinances 176 and 177 after second readings and a public hearing last Friday. Councilmen will review petitions and protests voiced at that hearing at the Taylor County Courthouse and give due consideration to them.
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Grafton City
City Hall
Charge Manslaughter In Accident Deaths In Logan
Logan May 24 Gilmer D Henlawson held for arraignment on manslaughter and drunken driving in the death of Connie Jeffrey 31 of Peach Creek late Saturday night. State police say Jeffrey was killed and Bill Lackey 20 of West Logan hospitalized when their car struck a pole. Henlawson drove the car and was uninjured. BABY SMOTHERS PITTSBURGH May 24 The order’s office reports three month old baby Messartx a girl was smothered by bed clothes yesterday at Versailles township. The mother found the baby while returning from church. The father was in the next room.
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Pittsburgh
Tordner’s
Taylor County Fair to Run Without Carnival on GHS Grounds
At a special Taylor County Board of Education meeting held last week the board allowed the Taylor County Fair Association to use the Grafton High School playground for a fair on September 9 10 and 11 17 with no carnival. Superintendent E G Kuhn said the event will be a strict exhibition affair without amusements concessions. The association had hoped to include a carnival to offset costs but recently decided against it to keep the venture profitable and allow future equipment purchases. A committee meeting is planned this week to choose a site for the carnival if pursued.
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Taylor County Board of Education
Taylor County Fair Association
Grafton High School
E. G. Kuhn
Air Association
Moscow sticks to hard line after US peace talks pause
Tass broadcast a sweeping Soviet refusal to accept Secretary of State Marshall’s proposals, accusing the United States of upholding a hostile stance toward Russia. American officials say the Moscow olive branch has vanished, returning to the familiar tar brush as charges reach from Greece to Korea and from Potsdam to the present.
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Moscow
Moscow Radio
Greece
Korea
Boy Admits Slaying Of Deputy In Missouri Shootout
An 18 year old youth, Norman Lee Blodgett, confessed to orally admitting the slaying of Deputy Sheriff J. O. Freeman and wounding two men during a failed attempt to free his sweetheart from a state school for the feebleminded in Marshall Missouri. Blodgett was arrested in Kansas City four hours after the shootings early yesterday. Authorities say he was a former patient at the school and hospital. The deputy was killed and a doctor reported they wrestled for a gun as Blodgett fired multiple shots leaving others injured.
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J. O. Freeman
Marshall
R. Q. Kelly
Kelly
Freeman
Andy Hitd
William G
Heart Injuries Reported After Attack On Dental Institute
The bulletin notes Trefz, a dentist at the institution, in critical condition and Charles Jaeckel, a school florist, struck by a bullet shattering his right arm at the elbow. A British dispatch mentions reexamining treaty aspects with the king and Bevin’s cautious stance.
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Trefz
Charles Jaeckel
Britain and United States Open Policy Differences
Britain and Washington clashed over strategy rather than the core policy, centering on the best method to obtain mice. The description frames their dispute as differences in approach rather than the trust issue itself, highlighting divergent views on policy execution.
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United States
Britain
Washington
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