Word: grafton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Field paper this week announced a $10,000 name contest, signed up its first features (William Shirer's best-selling Berlin Diary, Samuel Grafton's daily column, I'd Rather Be Right), picked a slogan ("An Honest Newspaper"). Already signed for U.P. and the Herald Tribune's Washington and New York wires, Publisher Evans may have a hard time signing up with A. P. The spare Chicago morning A.P. membership (formerly held by the Chicago Herald & Examiner) is owned by Hearst...
...Hampshire work camp, five Harvard students and 18 other college undergraduates constructed a stone and concrete dam which will provide the town of Grafton Center, New Hampshire, with a 68 acre pond...
...town of Grafton Center was naturally pleased with PBH's offer to establish a work camp there, for the restoration of the dam and pond would mean increased real estate and perhaps industrial, business there, on a small scale at least. The town fathers there fore appropriated $1200 to pay for the cost of material. The remaining costs of the project, totalling a little less than $1000, were taken care of by PBH! American Defense, Harvard Group, and the participating students themselves...
...nearby towns, visits to local factories, etc. On the side the members of the camp played baseball with the town team, and even found time to put on two vaudeville shows and three plays for the benefit of the townspeople. Relations between the work camp and the town of Grafton were ideal and left nothing to be desired...
Other committees also do valuable work. The Summer Jobs Committee studies during the winter opportunities for worthwhile vacation occupation for undergraduates in settlement houses, summer camps, and work camps. Last year it helped recruit workers for the Grafton Center Work Camp, sponsored by American Defense-Harvard Group and Brooks House. Every year it offers financial aid to worthy students interested in constructive projects...