Time capsule buried at Grafton marks Bicentennial observance
Community leaders buried a 75 pound concrete prosthesis time capsule at the Mother's Day Shrine flagpole to close Grafton Taylor County Bicentennial events. The container holds documents, ads, magazines, maps, church bulletins, photos, and assorted memorabilia from 1975 to 1976. A bronze plaque will mark the capsule site, to be opened in the distant future by civic officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Byrd
Grafton
Harry T. Rowe
First Baptist Church
Eugene F. Klug
St. Augustine Catholic Church
Ken Godwin Jr
William Manley
Donald Shaffer
Manley
Shaffer
Ellen Jane Wiseman
Thomas Keys
Alice Compton
John Bartlett
Wilbert Burial Vault Company
Bartlett
The
Mountain Statesman
Taylor County
Grafton City Directory
Grafton Telephone Directory
Daily Sentinel
Men’s Clothing
West Virginia
TV Guide
Time Magazine
Ladies Home Journal
Penthouse
4 Corners
Blueville Bank
Mother's Day
St. John's United Methodist Church
Grafton Senior High School
Glenn Sapp
Nancy Fowler
Charles Burke
Carter appointees quit private clubs
Washington AP two top Carter administration appointees say they will quit private clubs that exclude blacks or women. Five nominees for cabinet posts and OMB head plan to resign from those clubs, while three others keep memberships. Carter noted he would not force action but would not join discriminatory clubs himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter
Defense
State
Treasury
White House
Office of Management and Budget
Griffin Bell
Thomas
Bert" Lance
OMB
Atlanta
Savannah
Nohe
Emergency runs in Grafton reflect Taylor squad activity
Taylor County Emergency Squad reports Thursday calls in Grafton area. Shady Poe at 620 Luzadder St. transported to Grafton City Hospital after 8:35 p.m. Grover Barnhart of 221 Fanny St. sent to hospital at 5:17 p.m. Mabel Poling, 117 Lincoln St., to hospital at 11:17 a.m. Maude Loar, 11 St. Charles St., returned home from hospital at 8:30 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Taylor County
Shady Poe
Luzadder
Grafton City Hospital
Grover Barnhart
Fanny St
Mabel Poling
Lincoln St
W. Main St
Maude Loar
St. Charles St
Ozite Corporation
Country Club Road
Rex-Hide, Inc
Chessie
William F. Howes Jr
Fanny Street
Effie Abel
Rt. 4
Luzadder St
Raymond McDaniel
Rt. 1
Lynn Faulkner
W. Knotts Ave
Marguerite Behan
W. Washington St
Simpson
Twila Green
Marsha Poling
Flemington
Roy Moyer
Cather to Leave Taylor County School Board After a Decade
William L. Cather, president of the Taylor County School Board, ends nearly ten years of service this month. County leaders drop plans for a countywide reappraisal as Assessor James Sevier says the task cannot finish before the Board of Equalization convenes in late January. In other updates, murder suspect Louis Avery Harris Jr faces psychiatric evaluation, and Rebecca Lois Williams, 18, of Bridgeport, dies in Taylor County's fifth traffic fatality of 1976 after a 3:30 p.m. crash in Clarksburg.
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Taylor County
Grafton
William L. Cather
Cather
James Sevier
Board of Equalization
Louis Avery Harris Jr
Bridgeport
Rebecca Lois Williams
Route 3
Clarksburg
St. Mary’s Hospital
Obituaries for George W Reese and Ora Bell Mole
George W. Reese 100 former Grafton resident dies in Seminole Florida after a long illness. Born October 31 1876 in Taylor County he leaves two daughters two sisters two brothers and several relatives. Interment at Sylvan Abbey Florida. Ora Bell Mole 88 of Grafton dies December 24 at Grafton City Hospital. Survived by four children two half-brothers four sisters and several nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements by Knotts Funeral Home pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Reese
Grafton
Maria Manor
Seminole
Florida
Grady Creek
Taylor County
Gibson
Tabitha Reese
Delphia Hossman Reese
Lula Brestel
Lillian Carpenter
Tampa
Ivy Reese
Monroeville
Pennsylvania
Laura Elder
Clarksburg
Charles
Lewis Reese
Fairmont
Ella Lambert
Etta Lucas
Thomas
Ernest
Benjamin
Ashbury
Walter
B and
Seminole Beach Memorial Chapel
Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park
Clearwater
Ora Bell Mole
Fanny Street
Grafton City Hospital
Harlan Alkire
Mary Jane Haymond Alkire
William Mle
Lela Mole
Morgantown
Maxine Baldwin
Everett Mole
Hubert G. Mole
Knotts Funeral Home
Grafton City Hospital Admissions and Discharges Notice
List of admissions and discharges across multiple towns including Grafton, Simpson, Flemington, Preston Memorial, Tunnelton, and others. Names span patients and staff with dates around December 1976. Funeral notice for David Claude Grimm At Carpenter Ford Funeral Home with Lt. William Payton officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Lansburry
East Main Street
Grafton
Howard Tood Campbell
David Claude Grimm
Agnes N. Louk
Tunnelton
Preston Memorial Hospital
Ida Sinclair
Grimm
Carpenter-Ford Funeral
William Payton
Salvation Army
Matthew Cemetery
Salem
James
Governor grants holiday clemency to 59 percent of inmates
West Virginia Governor Arch A Moore Jr announced Christmas clemency actions affecting 59 percent of inmates at state penal and correctional institutions. One full pardon was issued along with 14 conditional pardons, parole discharges for 11 previously released inmates, and three sentence commutations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
Arch A. Moore Jr
Raleigh County
James Young
Lynchburg, Va
State Penitentiary
Larry F. McDaniel
Barbour County
Taylor County
Michael H. Ghiz
Kanawha County
Huttonsville
William R. White Jr
Roane
August Duncan
Kanawha
Wade H. Chester
Beckley
Terry Mitchem
McDowell County
Grafton
Andrew M. Rees
Berkeley County
Marion County
Dewey Fox
Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Ethel Hardman
Lindsey Blair Jr
Cabell County
Roy West
Fukuda Denounced as New Japan Prime Minister in LDP Victory
71 year old Takeo Fukuda, conservative economic expert, elected prime minister after acclamation as LDP president. He succeeds Takeo Miki amid party factionalism and fallout from the Lockheed bribery scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Takeo Fukuda
Liberal-Democratic Party
Japan
Fukuda
Takeo Miki
Liberal- Democratic Party
LDP
Miki
Maiyoshi Ohira
Masumi Esaki
International Trade and Industry
Toshio Komoto
Policy Affairs Research Council
Socialist Party
Tomomi Narita
Kakuei Tanaka
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Shrine
GHS
Tygart Lake
Lodge
Florence Hamilton Wilkinson
Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist
Court House
Layne
H. Ford
Grafton Sentinel
Gene W
Ada Haldeman) Ford
J. Lee Evans Furniture
Tygart Dam
Grafton High School
Layne H. Ford
Philippi
Economic Development Act
Preston County
Kingwood
Terra Alta
Mrs. Ora Bell Mole
Ho Grafton City Hospital
Spital Register
Martha Copeman
Ruth Metheney
Nancy Knotts
Daisy Sanders
Anna
Broaddus Hospital
Issions
Wee
Mattie Robinson
Verona Goode
Montrose
Solomon Poling
Belington
Violetta Findley
Moatsville
Brady Newman
Druzella Kennedy
Joyce Freeman
Volga—Kappaki
Dorothy Snyder
Philippi—Adyce
Sta Inaker
Gordin McGee
Webster Springs
Julie Hoover
Michael Talbott
Ruby McDonald
Buckhannon
Eva
Griffith
Neva Blake
Brownton
Josephine Foster
Clarksburg Admissions
Anna McCartney
West Union
Frances Adcock
MT. Clare
Marion Suan
Anna Watkins
Perry Plumley
Dale Rule
Thomas Ayoob
Minter Queen
Marshall Rucker
Alfred Swiger
Lula Ayers
Velma White
Blanche Depoy
Larry Martin
Margaret Vargo
Moses Biffle
Earl Brane
George Benedum
John Miller
John Flanigan
Margaret Steed
Johanna Jenkins
Halie Carder
Anna Hinton
Hickory Inn
Parkview
MANOS
Tomori
E. Main St
Lee al Tee
Gea Cnc
Arimuam
Cenilmorsel Ing Release
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