Halloween Pranks Grow Destructive in Charleston Area
Police report several acts of vandalism around Charleston as Halloween approaches. A boy narrowly avoided collision on a hill as pranksters veered away. An east end theater window was broken by a rock tossed at the screen. Desks were overturned in a schoolroom. Dozens of smaller incidents precede a changing trend from tricks to tricks then treats as youths roam neighborhoods.
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Charleston
East End
Hallowe'en
McPhail Quits City Attorney Post Here
Attorney Hugh R. McPhail has resigned as city attorney of Grafton, a council spokesman said. He announced the decision at the council’s monthly meeting Tuesday night, succeeding John K. Burdett several months ago. The council has not yet named a replacement.
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Hugh R. McPhail
Grafton
Elks Plan Services For E L Willey Sr
The Grafton Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will meet at the Lodge home at 7 30 p m to go in a body to Bartlett Funeral Home for ritualistic services at 8 p m for Edward Lawrence Willey Sr the late serviceman
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Grafton Lodge
B. P
Elks
Bartlett Funeral
Edward Lawrence Willey
WV Farmers urged to vote in county committee elections
West Virginia farmers across 55 counties and about 400 communities are urged to participate in upcoming farm committee elections. In Taylor county voting for community committeemen is set for October 27, with announcements posted listing voting times and locations at Booths Creek, Hepburn Grade School, Court House Community, and County AAA Office. Delegates chosen will meet October 28 at the county seat to form the county committee administering the program.
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West Virginia
Yugoslav Russian strife looms as votes edge to UN seat
Local briefing notes a new flare of Yugoslav Russian word strife in Europe tied to Yugoslavia's postwar stance. Premier Spametto accuses Russia of massing troops amid warlike gestures. Polls hint India may win on first or second ballot for Canada’s UN seat. voting shifts to UN style blue and gold at Flushing. Reports of violence include a bucket dousing of a body and a 12-year-old boy hit by traffic as page one ends.
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Yugoslavia
Cominform
Communist Information Bureau
Spametto
Russia
U. N
Flushing
Canada
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India
Ecuador
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Coroner's Inquest Into Child's Highway Accident Ends
Ona C Jefferys county coroner presided over the inquest into a coroner's child tumbling into a highway and in the path of a vehicle. Jury members were C. C. Whitescarver M. S. Robinson E. F. Clark A. L. Swisher Grant Williams and Ww T Robinson. The father owns a West Graf ton radio shop. The child leaves two brothers and four sisters, with paternal grandparents James A Preston Wendell and maternal grandmother Mrs J H Willis Webster. Corporal G F Randall and Deputy Sheriff Ray Matthews assisted in the investigation.
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C. C. Whitescarver
M. S. Robinson
E. F. Clark
A. L. Swisher
Grant Williams
Ww. T Robinson
Ona C. Jefferys
West Grafton
Raymond W
Charles Lee
Genevieve
Alfreda Mae
Linda Lou
Carol Sue Preston
James A. Preston
Wendel
J. H. Willis
Webster
G. F. Randall
Ray Matthews
Youths found under guard after hitchhiking incident
Unclear fragments indicate unidentified youths were held and then returned to authorities after an incident involving Jeston Upshur and Dilley. Police report Riggs told investigators that the youths were offered a ride to Char–, with guards watching them at Readington State Hospital.
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Jeston
Dilley Arriv
Readington State Hospital
Char
Riggs
Proust Swanns Way Rejected by Gide Turns to Remembrance
In 1911 Marcel Proust completed Swanns Way the first part of Remembrance of Things Past and submitted it to a Paris publisher on Andre Gide s advice. Gide later confessed the rejection remains a poignant regret while Proust responded with polite wit. A separate anecdote recalls a shop encounter with a woman claiming one condition about a wrap and the saleswoman.
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Marcel Proust
Swann
Paris
Andre Gide
Proust
Gide
Bennett Cerf
King Features
Man shoots father over bicycle dispute in Kansas
After his father's death, Bowles said he shot him because he would not buy him a bicycle. Bowles, arrested on a breaking and entering charge at Tad, Kan swha county, was committed to the hospital at his mother Mrs Catherine McCartney of Charleston's request.
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Dilley
Bowles
Tad
Kanswha County
Catherine McCartney
Charleston
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