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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1952
Page
2
Tom Lee, a Memphis boatman known for saving 35 white passengers when the U S Engineers boat Norman sank in the Mississippi River on May 6 1925, died at 66. He earned a city job after his acts and retired in 1948 leaving a widow as the sole immediate survivor.
The average gray wolf measures about 12 feet from nose to tail and weighs around 80 pounds. In Alaska wolves up to 8 feet long have been reported. The gray wolf is not a fast runner, with speeds of 15 to 25 mph, but it makes up for it with great endurance.
Congress faces a split path for a $45 monthly combat pay boost for Korean War servicemen. The Senate backed a minor 3 percent base pay rise, while the House favored a larger 10 percent hike plus food and housing boosts, with a conference to decide the final package.
Southern Maid Inc of Bristol and Pet Diary Products of Johnson City Tenn sue the Virginia State Milk Commission in Richmond Circuit Court seeking to nullify orders setting milk prices for shipments to other states. The firms argue the commission exceeds its authority and violates interstate commerce clauses of the U S Constitution.
West Virginia University and Washington & Lee University will play their October 18 game in Cumberland at Fort Hill High School Stadium. The event caps a three day industrial exposition sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. Plans aim to double stadium capacity from 6 000.
Richmond Jay D. Patton resigned as a state printing technician effective May 1 to enter private business.
Nine men stranded on an Arctic ice floe near the North Pole were rescued after two near misses. Cmdr. W J Coley led a P2V landing within 10 feet of an ice wall and a ski buckle threatened a fatal takeoff. No one was hurt and 1,000 pounds of equipment were saved.
A letter with 1.4 ounces of a modern explosive was mailed from Amsterdam to the West German delegation leader negotiating reparations with Israel and world Jewry. It arrived at the German Embassy, was opened improperly, and officials credit the accidental open for preventing harm.
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons he is willing for another American to succeed General Eisenhower as supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty armies in Western Europe. He offered no hint when Eisenhower might resign to campaign for the presidential nomination.
In Indochina near Hanoi French union forces say a large Vietminh force is trapped between two streams about 60 miles southeast of Hanoi as part of clearing the Red River delta. Three thousand Vietminh dead and 1,318 captured are reported, with French losses described as slight.
Local police investigated two traffic accidents yesterday. Betty Bolton of Route 3 drove a Oldsmobile that overturned on Paper Mill road injuring Bolton with a head cut. Damages were about 350 dollars. A second collision at Gerrard and Cameron Streets involved a 1939 Mercury driven by Elmer Smallwood and a 1940 Buick driven by Donald Luttrell with damages totaling 140 dollars.
The Star and Charlottesville Daily Progress polls report Ike Eisenhower ahead in early voting totals with 486 and 1 001 votes respectively while Taft and Kefauver trail in different city results. Final Charlottesville tally shows Eisenhower 551 and Russell 102 with other candidates also listed. Alexandria Gazette begins week to week tallying votes.
Voters turnout was light across Virginal cities as Democrats nominated city councilmen. In Portsmouth and Newport News, Negro candidates faced incumbents in ward races with two in Portsmouth and seven candidates for three seats in Newport News. Petersburg also saw seven contenders for four seats, including James A. Jackson and Mrs Herbert A. Phillips. Charlottesville had a four person field for three vacancies with George E. Hardy among them. Alexandria led with fourteen candidates for seven seats, Lynchburg had one hundred (one incumbent) for three seats, Roanoke six for two nominees.
The second Quarterly Conference of the Stephens City churches will be held at Kernstown on April 15 starting at 7 30 p m. The Rev F B Oglesby District Superintendent of the Winchester District will preach the sermon and lead the business session.
The National Boxing Association suspended Johnny Bratton, Chicago welterweight, for failing to appear for a Montreal match last night. The move follows a contract Bratton had to box Pierre Langelis in Montreal, and it came at the request of the Montreal Boxing Commission, an NBA affiliate.
The text lists quiz answers including Oregon Methuselah Canada and a U S states sequence Maine to Connecticut. It notes no violins before the Middle Ages Albania and Taft with 330 pounds and mentions culture and a joke about sheep dogs and a quote about learning of an accident from a newspaper.
Staff officers delegated the Russian question to senior armistice negotiators for Korea. An armistice subcommittee will meet Thursday to decide if Russia should be named a neutral nation to police a truce, with other key issues including airfield repairs and prisoner exchange under discussion by staff and subcommittee groups ahead of a Wednesday session.
A sales directory lists auctions across April with times and locations from Duffields to Winchester. Items include livestock, furniture, antiques, farm machinery, real estate, and household goods. Auctioneers include Lewis Duvall Brumback Orndorff Snider Headley and others.
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