Girl Reserves End Season With Park Picnic
The Grafton Senior High Girl Reserves closed their term with a park picnic at Grafton Park yesterday afternoon. Activities included a hike and swimming followed by a light lunch. Senior sponsor Miss Gladys Hickman received a gift from the club. Guests included Clara Jean Kines, Evelyn Golden, Joe Staley, Crystal Wooddell, Kathryn Gainer, James Shafferman, Paul Waggoner, Norma Faule, and many others. a full guest list was not available. Later, a party at Crystal Wooddell’s Maple Avenue home featured music and dancing.
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Grafton
Grafton Park
Gladys Hickman
Clara Jean
Paul Rohrabaugh
Alice Bolyard
Mary Jo Francis
Anna Johnson
Betty Weaver
Mary Lou Bolyard
Anna Knight
Frances Newton
Norma Walls
Gladys Murphy
Eunelia Skinner
Crystal Wooddell
Maple Avenue
Ten top graduates listed by Grafton Senior High principal
Principal Kenneth Haun announced the top ten of the class of 1947 at Grafton Senior High. The ten ranking students include Terry Heironimus Betty Deets Dorothy Young Alan Yoho Vera Alice Klepfel Mary Moats Paul Rohrabaugh Arvie Lockard Howard Hunt and Irene Andrews who excel academically and participate in many extracurricular activities.
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Grafton Senior High School
Kenneth Haun
Terry Heironimus
Betty Deets
Dorothy Young
Alan Yoho
Vera Alice Klepfel
Mary Moats
Paul Rohrabaugh
Arvie Lockard
Howard Hunt
Irene Andrews
WVU student wins essay prize for better West Virginia
A $100 prize donated by Monongahela Power company was awarded to Joanne Mahaney from Walton Roane County for the best essay on What Can I Do To Help Make A Better West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
Monongahela Power Company
West Virginia
Joanne Mahaney
West Virginia University
Walton
Roane County
May 28 Meetings From Local Organizations
The American Legion auxiliary will meet at the home at 8 p.m. for a business meeting. The Judson Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church will hold a regular meeting and install officers at the church at 8:30 p.m. The Ladies of the First Baptist Church will sew at the Red Cross rooms from 1 to 4 p.m.
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American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion Auxilary
Judson Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Ladies of the First Baptist Church
Red Cross
Washington Street parade lineup for National Cemetery tribute
Parade will form on Washington Street led by parade committee chair Thomas Moran and senior marshals Captain James Holt and Lieutenant James Flanagan. Veterans groups, school bands, and armed forces units participate. At the National Cemetery master of ceremonies Tor Nock Rasmussen presides as students decorate graves and a massed bands concert follows.
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Pare One
Washington Street
Thomas Moran
National Cemetery
James F. Holt
Army Reserve
James V. Flanagan
USN Reserve
A. A. Miller
Comander
City Police
Holt
Flanagan
Edgar T. McKee
Leland Price
Salem High School
M. P
U. S. Army
Ft. George G. Meade
G. M. Johns
Armed Forces
James Cope
Paul A. Groach
Kenneth Haun
Grafton High School
High School Girl's Athletic Association
Kenneth Daugherty
Morgantown
St. Augustine
Parkview
Blueville
Harry 8. White
Roosevelt Wilson
East Grafton
Pruntytown
Fred D. Robinson
Flemington High School
West Grafton
Howard A. Walls
Riverside
First Ward
Grafton Junior High
Tor‘Nock Rasmussen
Grafton
Visiting Parents and College Students Return Home
Harold West and family return from a Birmingham vacation while Mrs. West visits her parents in Prunty town Pike. Dorothy Boice, a junior at Alderson-Broaddus College, accepts a summer college position. Gym Cassell, finishing at Potomac State College, Keyser, is home briefly to visit family and friends.
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Harold West
West Union
Grafton
Morgantown
Birmingham
Alabama
Dorothy Boice
Alderson-Broccidus College
Philippi
Cassell
Potomac State College
Keyser
Memorial Day events lineup across city venues
Second U S Army Troops from Fort Meade will present Taps and Memorial Day remarks by Congressman Love. Star Spangled Banner by massed bands, with Rev A F Shomo giving the benediction. Services on St Mary's bridge at 1:30 pm, at the War Memorial on Route 50 Lincoln Street at 2 pm, and at the VFW monument near the new City hospital at 2:30 pm. Regular Army recruiters show World War I films at 8:30 pm on the city lot at St John and Main.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Army
Ft. Meade
Congressman Love
A. F. Shomo
St Mary's Bridge
W. C. Pembroke
War Memorial Monument
U. S. Route 50
Lincoln Street
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
V. F. W. Monument
New City Hospital
St. John and
Main Streets
Army budget cuts target civilian and officer staff
A congressional committee rejected the Army’s stated budget minimum and pushed substantial reductions, aiming to free 293.9 million dollars from civilian and officer personnel. They propose trimming civilian job holders by 74,631 and officer personnel by 20,100, including 2,600 warrant officers, while preserving enlisted strength and key medical staff. The panel questions the need for 146,000 officers, arguing the peacetime total is excessive and citing past testimony.
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Eisenhhower and Patterson
War Department
Air Corps
Army
House Military Committee
President Truman Visits Grandview After 12 Day Vigil
President Truman continued his visit from page one as he left a 12 day vigil at his mother’s bedside in Grandview Missouri. He told reporters at the airport his mother had a good night and was on the mend. He said he received assurances from his sister Miss Mary Jane Truman before leaving his hotel that his mother is going to get along all right. He added I hope so. Also noted are Presidential Secretaries Charles G Ross and Matthew J Connolly and the president’s military aides.
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Grandview
Mary Jane Truman
May 30 Observance Donators Named By VFW Committee
Doggy Cross, representing the VFW and the organizing committee, released a list of local contributors for this year’s May 30 observance. Gratitude was expressed for support enabling the parade and program, with numerous business and civic names named. Also noted are statistics: automobile industry consumes 18 percent of American steel output, and California produced 92 percent of U S grapes in 1946 totaling over 2.12 million tons.
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Turner's Store
Union Drug Company
McCrory’s
Barton's
American News Stand
AmVets
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
H. A. Appel
Siehler Furniture Company
Malone’s Drug and Chemical Company
the Cue Club
American Restaurant
Mountain State Sport Center
Evans Hardware
Musprave’s Wholesale
Taylor County Union Club
Boston's
Archdeacon's
Empire Market
Leonard's Grocery
Sayres Market
Piggley-Wregley
Bonafede's
Grafton Taxi
Quality Market
Taylor County Labor Club
Skaggs and Company
Ronay’s
Haller's
Blen Avon
Glass Bottle Blowers’ Association
B. P
Elks
Grafton Lodge
L. C
California
U. S
Truman to attend 35th Division reunion in Missouri
President and naval aides accompanied Mr Truman will return to Missouri Friday June 6 to attend the annual 35th Division reunion in Kansas City and address its session Saturday night June 7 He will also check on his 94 year old mother’s condition The trip contrasts with his May 11 flight when his physician Brig Gen Wallace M Graham warned of alarming illness in the mother
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Truman
Missouri
Kansas City
Wallace M. Graham
Alarnang
Miner’s Body Found on Rosemont Lawn in Death Probe
John Novak aged 72 retired miner of Polish birth found dead on his Rosemont lawn about 6 p m. coroner cites heart failure due to under nourishment. He immigrated March 18 1912 from Bozencan Galleyz Austria born June 1875. Wife and three children unnamed. citizenship papers filed July 1942. Neighbor Mary Bobella found body. no inquest planned. Funeral concert listed.
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John Novak
Rosemont
Ona C. Jefferys
America
Bozencan Galleyz
Austria
Julia
Anna
Stanislaw
Mary Bobella
W. H. Canfield
Jefferys
Flemington Event Highlights Graduation and Music Night
Break and Dance of the Stars feature Mrs. Talbot playing the procession number at the piano. At Grafton hish tomorrow night Arthur G. Yates, chairman of the Taylor County Board of Education, will present the diplomas. Principal Kenneth D. Haun will present the 164 graduates. The Rev. J. B. Staley will give the invocation and the Rev. Harry Wilson the benediction. The band, directed by Paul W. Shahan, will perform.
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Etta L. Francis
W. S. Phillips
Walnut Street
Walter Poole
Main ST
Seememong
Jone
Charles G. Ross
Matthew J. Connelly
Baldwin
RCA Victor
Coun
Holto
Gitson
B. Fawley Music CO
Stigh St
DIAL
W. Va
Miner
Ona Jefferys
O'Neill
Grafton High
Mildred N. Cleavenger
Ruth Batten
Robert C. Sloan
Virginia Davidson
Charleston
Gankition
Weston
West Fork River
Flemington
Pearle Gawthrop
Parm Bureau Mutual Fire Inns
Columbus 16
Oble
Bigrfeli Bridge Company
Jacksonville, Illy
S.A
OLD Crystal Ice CO
Beech Street
Qaemer
Lew Bartlett
Gulf Station
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