Grafton Rally To Save 19 Year Old Girl’s Life
Nationwide steel plant closings spur local fundraiser for Jeatmine Kiger a 19 year old Grafton girl facing nephrosis doctors say a rare kidney ailment The Graf ton Sentinel reports 72250 raised in under a day from individuals clubs and groups to cover the cost of a drug hoped to save her life funds continue to pour in as the community honors Paul A Kiger missing father who sacrificed in Cold War II and remains absent to aid his child
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Grafton
Grafton Sentinel
Jeatmine Kiger
Paul A. Kiger
Tenn. inmate gains week of freedom for cantata in Big Spring
Frank Grandstaff a 49 year old Tennessee life term prisoner released for a week to attend Big Spring Texas centennial celebration and hear his ten page cantata performed. His escape from prison walls was inspired by the town history written by Earl Shine Philips and approved by Governor Gordon Browning.
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Frank Grandstaff
Tennessee
Grandstaff
Enius
Big Spring
Texas
Earl
Shine) Philips
Gordon Browning
Boys Die in Russian Roulette Tragedy in Portland
In Portland Oregon a boy was found dead in a grassy lot after a game of Russian roulette. Detectives say three ten year old youths fled home Wednesday. Elvin Moraski allegedly carried a seven shot revolver and died on his first turn. The other two boys later told investigators of the fatal act.
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Portland
Ore
William Browne
Elvin Moraski
Himi
Moraski
Browne
Hothe
Taps For Berlin Airlift Ends After 15 Months
Berlin marked the end of the airlift with the last C-54 flight from Frankfurt to Tempelhof. Maj. Gen. John K. Barr drew the final coal sack, as Americans and British completed over 275000 flights delivering more than 2300000 tons to Berlin.
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Frankfurt
Berlin
Tempelhof
John K. Barr
Air
Third Fire Victim Expires At Elkins
A mother and her two young sons died in a house fire near Elkins yesterday. Mrs. Juanita Jane Daniels, 39, died from burns after a cook stove exploded when she used gasoline to light it. Her sons Roger, 2, and Clifford, 3, perished as flames spread. Eddie, 6, and Donnie, 5, were recovering in fair condition. Fire Chief Ed Bright said the blaze started when gasoline ignited clothing during the attempt to light the stove. Firefighters faced fuel from a rain swollen creek to combat the fire.
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Elkins
Juanita Jane Daniels
Roger
Clifford
Ed Bright
Daniels
Plan For Clearing Atomic Commission Causes
A proposed report clearing the Atomic Energy Commission of alleged mismanagement triggers a partisan clash in the Senate House Atomic Committee. Senator Hickenlooper accuses the panel and Chairman Lilienthal of whitewashing, challenging the chair’s stance that no management changes are needed. Lonnie Workman dies after a fall from the Woolworth building frame in Charleston.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate House Atomic Comittee
Hickenlooper
Iowa
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
McMahon
D-Conn
Commission
Charleston
Woolworth
Lonnie Workman
Buffalo
Putnam County
Grafton Records First Frost of Season
Grafton logged its first frost last night, with a 31 degree reading as heavy frost covered the grounds at Blueville station by 8 p.m. Today at 10 a.m. the temperature was 60 degrees and yesterday’s high reached 69.
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Grafton
W. D. Myers
Blueville
Stanley Friedman Heads Law School Class at WVU
Stanley Friedman, son of Attorney and Mrs. Harry Friedman of Maple Avenue, has been elected president of the freshmen law school class at West Virginia University. A World War II veteran, he has been an active university leader since enrolling after the war.
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Stanley Friedman
Harry Friedman
Maple Avenue
West Virginia University
Billie Burke An Ageless Girl in Talk at Sardi's
HAL BOYLE profiles Billie Burke age 64, noting a glittering film and stage career from 1907 to 1940s. The ageless star chats at Sardi's with Milt Berlinger, finishing a Columbia film and seeking a Broadway comeback, while described as restless and energetic.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
John Drew
Ophelia
John Barrymore
Hannet
Flo Ziegfield
Milt Berlinger
M.W.E.A.B
Billie Burke
Berlinger
Milton Berle
Restess Greyhound
Billie
Baby
Columbia Pictures
Cho Golden
Nation Has Just Two Civil Defense Agencies In Event Of Attacks
Washington report notes the U S civil defense framework rests on two federal planning units totaling about a dozen staff with no binding authority. States and cities have their own plans, while the NSEB study unit and a small defense department liaison office handle federal guidance. The Truman directive ended the Forrestal era civil defense office and shifted duties to the NSEB, with no congress action since. A Russia atomic test may accelerate national civil defense steps.
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Washington
National Security Re+ 1
Defense Department
Truman
Office of Civil Defense Planning
Secretary of Defense
James Forrestal
NSEB
Office of Civil Defense System
Russell J. Hopley
Omaha Telephone Company
Congress
Inj
Russia
A P Defense Against Monopoly Charge Declared
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company releases a defense against antitrust charges amid widespread protests. The company provides figures asserting it is not a monopoly and cites endorsements from housewives farmers manufacturers and labor leaders along with testimonies from 110 000 employees to protect jobs and pensions. See A P page 4.
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Electric wire kills worker at Princeton project
Cobel Mead was fatally electrocuted near Loup Creek in Princeton when a high voltage line fell onto him during construction yesterday. A local crew and authorities investigated the incident as a workplace accident.
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Mount Hope
Cobel Mead
Princeton
Loup Creek
Coal stockpiles higher than last year despite strike
The nation’s coal strike is two weeks old yet stockpiles exceed last year’s level. The Bureau of Mines reports a 48 day supply on hand, matching 1948 but likely to extend beyond. The strike curbs steel output, while John L Lewis signals partial returns of 80,000 bituminous miners and 22,000 western miners. Anthracite workers in eastern Pennsylvania walkout joined by others as wage talks stall. 32,000 workers idle on coal carrying rails and Heyden Chemical plans 25 percent cutbacks at Morgantown ordnance works to save coal. Virginia Emergency Fuel Commission seeks a 50,000 ton coal see page 4.
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Pittsburgh
Bureau of Mines
John’ L Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Pennsylvania
UMW
White Sulphur Springs
Heyden Chemical Corporation
Morgantown
West Virginia
Clarksburg Teens Held In Service Station Robbery
Five teenagers, two girls and three boys, confessed to robbing the Quinn Cooper Service Station in Clarksburg and to breaking into a Burlington store, with total taken about 115.03 dollars. They were arrested at a road block near Elkins after the report. A second item notes Reverend David F. Wyrick, 70, Princeton, was struck and killed by a vehicle in Knoxville while seeking directions.
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Uites
M.F. Jordan
Washington, D.C
Quinn Cooper
Burlington Mineral County
Elkins
Cooper
Jordan
Washington
North Carolina
Knoxville
Tenn
David Franklin Wyrick
Princeton
Walkout Cripples U S Steel Industry Across Nation
In Pittsburgh CIO steel workers strike for free pensions and insurance, idling 53 steel plants and 50 iron ore firms across 23 states. The first steel walkout since 1946 follows a coal strike, with about a million idle including 400,000 soft coal miners. President Truman mediated previously, but the recent move ended 76 days of delay.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
America
United Steelworker
Philip’ Murray
Efven
Truman
Murray
Weston State Hospital Escapees Held On Theft Count
Glenville reports two escapees from Weston State Hospital are jailed on grand larceny breaking and entering and illegally carrying weapons charges. They were nabbed nearby after admitting to breaking into several area stores in the past few days. One of the four escapees captured. one remains at large.
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Weston State Hospital
Glenville
Gilmer County
Todaay
Rob Holbert
Holbert
Postman Tosses Child From Top Floor Of Building
A Huntington postman 44 tossed his five year old son from a 14 story building then leaped. Claude S Hatton and David Hatton died on the crowded downtown sidewalk, witnesses say the boy suffered severe injuries. Hatton had been off work for illness, a doctor’s note for indigestion noted in his pocket.
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Huntington
Claude S. Hatton
David
Hatton
Helen Adkins
Barboursville
Post Office
Seven Soldiers Parachute From Flaming B 25 Plane
In Chattanooga Tennessee a flaming Army B 25 crashed after seven soldiers parachuted to safety as onlookers watched. Pilot Captain William E Blair of Houston remained with the aircraft to steer it away from a crowded area and his body was later found near the wreckage on a wooded hillside. One soldier reportedly fell about 6000 feet without a parachute and likely perished.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
William E. Blair
Houston
Texas
Morgantown Plant Cuts Operation To Conserve Coal Stock
Heyden Chemical plant in Morgantown will cut operations by 25 percent starting Monday to conserve coal during the soft coal walkout. Officials said about 40 to 50 of the 1,000 employees would be laid off during the reduction.
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Morgantown
Heyden Chemical Corporation
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