Kiger Medical Fund Drive Ends Subject To Reopen If Necessary
A community fund drive for Jeannine Kiger nears completion as doctors report the 19 year old recovering from a rare kidney ailment. The drive may reopen if more funds are needed to cover daily serum treatments while donors continue to contribute to cover costs and incidental expenses.
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Kiger
Kiger Medical
Sentinel
L. F. Rogers
Earl Miller
Marvin Rogers
Friends
Nell Fahey
N. W. Adlington
Eva Rogers
Chas. C. Campbell
D. Hinkle
Grace R. Whitescarver
Ray Parkhill
O. L. Cook
Frank W. Gregory
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Youth Fellowship
Fetterman
Luther Knotts
K. M. Orr
Jesse L. Bealle
Burl Curry
Blueville Methodist Church
George Lucas
Dorothy Lucas
Ira Reese
Lonnie Poling
First Baptist Church
Thomas Iman
Steve Skinder
S. B. Imes
Police Chief and FOP likely to clash at council
Wheeling police scene heats as Chief W Robert Kennedy and the Fraternal Order of Police prepare a confrontation at tonight's council meeting. The FOP protests Kennedy's Sunday order assigning nearly 170 percent of the 74 officers, a plan backed by City Manager W L Hunter. Sgt Alfred Sailer notes about 59 percent of officers are FOP members and the union will file grievances to city leaders.
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Wheeling
Robert Kennedy
FOP
Alfred Sailer
FOP. Ie
Firemen to Join Festival Parade in Elkins
The Grafton Volunteer Fire department will travel to Elkins Thursday night for the gigantic firemen's parade a feature attraction. Eighteen firefighters enrolled in the fire school which began last night.
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Grafton Volunteer Fire Department
Elkins
Whch
Two Hemphill Men Held In Beating Of Woman
State Trooper L. E. Hampton said two Hemphill men faced murder charges in the fatal beating of Emma Romas, 40, at the Salay home where she had been staying. Vincent Salay and Manuel Cardoza were identified as the accused.
16000 Firemen Take Fire Service Courses
West Virginia University extension courses have drawn 16000 firemen from West Virginia and nearby states since 1935. Assistant-Director Roscoe Hanna Jr. said the program will run in 25 centers across the state in 1949 1950, sponsored by municipal and independent fire departments and industrial concerns.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
West Virginia
Roscoe 5. Hanna, Jr
Truman to seek doubled atom bomb program funds
In a Nashville Tennessean report Truman will ask Congress to double the nation's atomic bomb production budget. At the Atomic Energy Commission’s request he seeks emergency funds before adjournment, boosting 1950 appropriations from 30 million to 60 million dollars for the current fiscal year.
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Ashville
Tenn
Truman
Congress
Russia
Nashville Tennessean
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
AEG
Russia as UN host urged for 1953
The New York Times reports Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky proposed Moscow as the United Nations general assembly site. At a Soviet delegation dinner, he said 1955 could work, then indicated 1953 was acceptable after Secretary General Lie pressed.
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New York
New York Times
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
United Nations
the Times
Carlos P. Romulo
Vishinsky
Moscow
Times
Trygve Lie
Mr. Vishinsky
Czechoslovakia scrapes Friendship Pact with Yugoslavia
Prague s Communist government scrapped its Friendship Pact with Yugoslavia and demanded the Yugoslav Ambassador to Prague be recalled immediately. It marks a major rupture in relations as Cominform escalation against Tito’s regime deepens.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Marshall Tito
Cominform
Ivydale Farmer Believed Struck by Freight Train
State Trooper R L Bonar said Golden Shaffer a 34 year old Ivydale farmer whose body was found on the itmore and Ohio Railroad tracks about a half mile from here was believed to have been struck by a freight train while crossing the tracks.
Congress Plans Naval Probe Sims Refusal To Pay Pensions Upheld
The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously upheld Auditor Edgar B. Sims in denying supplemental pensions to 34 retired university instructors. The university sought court order to release April and May 1949 payments funded from the university salaries account to supplement state retirement benefits. Assistant Attorney General W C Marland argued the supplements are needed to attract teaching staff, while Sims said beneficiaries must still render some service to the university.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Edgar B. Sims
West Virginia University
University
W. C. Marland
Sim
Sims
Marland
Another Contract Talk Between UMW Operators Begins
BLUEFIELD West Virginia reports that United Mine Workers and coal operators open new talks at 4 p m amid repeated stalemates. John L Lewis may attend, risking renewed bargaining to end a strike that halts 400 000 soft coal miners. Negotiations include Southern Coal Producers Association and union negotiators, covering 97 million tons yearly.
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Bluefield
United Mine Workers Otherals
John L. Lewis
UMW
Unioh
Southern Coal Producers’ Association
Lewis
SCPA
Kiwanis State Convention Endorses Rehab Plan
Kiwanis in West Virginia endorsed a district wide plan for rehabilitating delinquent youths. Each club should study ways to aid inmates at the Industrial School for Boys as they reenter public life, stressing personal member responsibility. James B. Huyett became governor, with Homer Hoskins as treasurer and Jack E. Cruise as secretary.
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Kiwanians
West Virginia
Grafton Kiwanis Club
Industrial School For Boys
Reform School
Clarksburg
Buckhannon Youth Begins Prison Term
A 14 year old boy from Tallmansville named Jerry Riggs started a one to five year term in the state prison at Moundsville for voluntary manslaughter after a jury verdict. He shot his father Harry Livingston Riggs with a rifle on August 9 when denied a bicycle. The judge overruled a defense motion to set aside the verdict. The boy was transported to the prison by deputy sheriffs. The trial heard that the boy may have been mentally ill according to hospital officials.
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Buckhannon
Moundsville
Jerry Riggs
Tallmensville
A. Jerome Dailey
Higgs
Harry Livingston Riggs
Weston State Hospital
Women's Republican Clubs Meet in Huntington
Delegates from West Virginia's 55 counties gather for a three day meeting of the West Virginia Federation of Women's Republican clubs. Speakers include U.S. Senator George Malone Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington national federation president Robert B. McDougle Parkersburg committee chair Cecil Underwood Sistersville West Virginia Young GOP leader.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Virginia Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs
U.S
George Malone
R-New
Joseph R. Farrington
Washington,d.c
National Federation
Robert B. McDougle
Parkersburg
Verdict Over $11 000 Favor Plaintiff In Civil Suit
A jury returned a verdict exceeding 11 000 dollars in favor of West Virginia Tractor Equipment company in a suit against C B S Coal company. The case arose from repairs on a tractor owned by the coal firm with a full award for the first repair and about 1000 dollars for a second repair. Juvenile court convened this morning and another civil jury trial is set for Thursday afternoon.
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West Virginia Tractor Equipment Company
C. B. S. Coal Company
Coal Company
Indictment in 33-Year-Old West Virginia Shooting
Raleigh county grand jury indicted Dean Young, 62, in a 33 year old killing case stemming from the 193? shooting of Fletcher Fox in Terry West Virginia. Young was arrested in White Sulphur Springs last summer on an assault charge and had been sought for decades for the Fox murder.
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Beckley
Fletcher Fox
Terry
W. Va
Dean Young
Raleigh County Grand Jury
Young
White
Sulphur Springs
Fox
Planned power outage near Lewellan Hill area
Monongahela Power company announced a 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM power interruption affecting Lewellan Hill from the hilltop to the boat dock area at Tygart Lake. The cut is described as a planned service outage for maintenance in the Lewellan Hill zone.
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Lewellan Hill
Monongahela Power Company
Tygart Lake
High Officers Show Deep Concern Over Low Navy Morale
Washington reports reveal a secrecy bound set of papers by three top admirals warning that Navy morale is at a low ebb and may threaten national security. House Armed Services Chairman Vinson vows a thorough investigation alongside the ongoing B 36 bomber inquiry. The documents, signed by Admiral Louis Denfeld, Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, and Admiral A W Radford, surfaced via an unnamed Naval source, with possible propaganda motives noted and a probe into who leaked them.
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Washington
Vinson
D-Ga
House
Armed Services Committee
Louis Denfeld
Naval Operations
Gerald F. Bogan
A. W. Radford
Navy
Army
Air Force
Yugoslavia Readies to Defend Itself Against Russia
Belgrade Premier Marshal Tito harshly accused the Soviet bloc of endangering a small people and warned Yugoslavia is prepared to defend the country to the last breath. He told army officers that Russia has been forging its rows against its former Communist partner and urged unity against any attack.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Russia
Soviet Bloc
Tito
Escape Artist Bennett Nabbed After Jail Breaks
Kanawha county jailers close watch on William Bennett known as Slick, an escape artist aged 21. He fled McDowell county jail on September 1 and Pearisburg Virginia jail Sunday, was captured in Margate last night by Chief Pilant McMillin and Capt. Glen Aitley after a restaurant sighting. Bennett overpowered a guard at Pearisburg awaiting transfer to Virginia State prison for a four year forgery sentence. He was earlier picked up in Princeton after fleeing a McDowell jail break in which six others escaped, and had bank check books bearing two Bluefield bank names on him at capture.
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Charleston
Kanawha County
William
Slick) Bennett
McDowell County
Pearlsburg
Marmet
Pilant McMillin
Glenatley
Bennett
Pearisburg
Virginia
Princeton
Liberty
Giles County
McMillion
Bland County murder case involving brothers in Virginia
Ralph A. Newberry, 37, sentenced for the murder of his wife Katheryn S. Newberry, 37, who was decapitated. Samuel L. Newberry, 31, faces trial for the same crime. the body was found headless on a mountainside near Mechanicsburg. Trial delays expected during jury selection.
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Bland
Ralph A. Newberry
Samuel L. Newberry
Bland County
Ralph
Samuel
V.L. Sexton, Jr
Grant
Katheryn S
Newberry
Mechanicsburg
Houston hit by hurricane with one missing
A Gulf born hurricane smashed into Houston early today with 90 mph winds. Debris toppled, glass broke, and rains flooded streets. One person was reported missing as the storm spread toward east Texas after brushing Galveston and Port Arthur. Local damage focused on cotton and crops. total losses awaited official estimates.
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Houston
Texas
Gulf
Matagorda
Freeport
Here
Port Arthur
Galveston
Palestine-Lufkin
New Orleans
Truck Sideswipes Auto on West Main Street
A truck traveling without lights sideswiped an automobile in the 890 block of West Main Street last evening, causing extensive damage. Paul Shaw, 23, of Francis Street, was booked on a charge of driving without lights and fined $10 plus costs. Paul Knight, 623 West Francis Street, drove the 1948 model car. Police Chief Joe Tt reported both drivers were intoxicated.
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West Main Street
Paul Shaw
Francis Street
Paul Knight
West Franrcis Street
Higgar
Joe Tt
Milk Producers Meeting Tuesday Evening At GHS
A meeting of all milk producers will be held Tuesday at 7 30 in the Vocational Agriculture room at the rear of Grafton High School to discuss the milk code and host a round table on problems in milk production for public consumption. Harvey E Hooker sanitation Ralph Pike county agent and Mr Heebink dairy extension specialists from West Virginia University will attend.
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Vocational Agriculture Room
Grafton High School
Harvey E. Hooker
Sanitarion
Ralpht Pike
Mr. Heebink
West
Virginia ‘University
Prized Collection Number 70 Clocks In High Demand
Everett Lowther, 60, a Baltimore and Ohio railroad employee, keeps 70 clocks at his 710 Luzadder Street home. His collection spans 150 year old weight clocks to cuckoo and eight-day pieces. He aims for accuracy, works on repairs, and relies on a newer clock to stay punctual for work. He is married to Luella Swiger and has a daughter, Mia Regina Swiger, a nurse.
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Everett Lowther
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Lowther
Luz
Adder Street
Mr. Lowther
Harrison County
Luella Swiger
Mia
Regina Swiger
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Kiger Medical Fund
the Sentinel
Naval
Grafton Club
Kiwanis
William R. Faggitt
Bctions Committee
Tindict
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