Openings and schedules touch Cacapon Park and area sports
Cacapon State Park near Berkeley Springs will open its recreation facilities on June 1 with cabins mostly booked through August. Charles Town high school eyes Frederick Clarke Baseball League fixtures including Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs. Williams Grove Speedway opens April 14 with a 3000 dollar purse. Joe Louis Billy Conn title fight tickets start at ten dollars. Martinsburg high adds baseball and tracks for a large sectional meet, with Piedmont Keyser and Ridgely among expected entrants. Virginia High School League realignment fields Frederick and Clarke counties with Shenandoah and Warren counties. Stonewall and other local schools eligible for district meets in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cacapon State Park
Berkeley Springs
Charles Town High School
Frederick Clarke Baseball League
Berryville
Boyce
Panthers
Martinsburg
Front Royal
Martinsburg High
Pearl Harbor
Panhandle
Piedmont
Keyser
Ridgely
Handly
Frederick
Clarke County
Shenandoah
Warren County
Stonewall
Gainesboro
Gore
Stephens City
Middletown
Winchester
Veterans' Preference in Federal and DC Employment
Veterans' preference means benefits for men and women who served honorably on active duty in the U S armed forces. The benefits apply to employment in the Federal Government and the Government of the District of Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.L.S. A
The
United States
District of Columbia
Local Servicemen Updates and Promotions Across Units
A wave of Army and Navy letters details service members' statuses. Pfc Smoke of Mount Williams reports Korea duty and six months overseas, while Cpl Denver DeHaven in Japan writes all is well after arriving overseas. Tech Sgt Grim of Stephens City earns a promotion to technical sergeant in the Tropic Lightning. Apprentice Seaman Cochran trains at Norfolk with a cite for letters, and the 76th Division has returned to the United States and inactivated.
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Prc
Paul Smoke, Jr
Paul Smoke
Mount Williams
Korea
Pfc. Smoke
Cpl
Denver DeHaven
Denver H. DeHaven
Orlin DeHaven
Winchester
Japan
Cpl. DeHaven
Camp Lee
National Ae Product Company
T-5
Denver
H. DeHaven
A. 8
A. H. Truck Co
P. M
San Francisco
Calif
USA
Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Robert R. Grim
Stephens City
Grim
Camp Fannin
Texas
Donald M. Cochran
J. Clayton Cochran
Jefferson Street
Navy
Norfolk
Co. 99
Naval Training van
Naval Station
Winchester Servicemen Journal Notes Enlistments and Discharges
The column lists local youths enlisting in the U.S. Navy and Army for two years, including Howard Newton Carper Jr of 34 Jackson Ave who trained at Washington DC, Carl Junior Dovel of 117 East Pall Mall, Norman B. Sirbaugh, and Technician Fifth Grade Calvin G. Potts of Winchester. It notes Richard R. Anderson’s honorable Army discharge after 28 months and Burl V. Baker’s enlistment while stationed in Austria with General Clark’s forces. Potts plans to return to McCrory Store after discharge.
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Howard Newton Carper, Jr
Howard Carper
Jackson Avenue
Winchester
U.S. Navy
Navy
Washington, D. C
Carper
Stonewall High School
Clearbrook
USN
Dovel
Carl Junior Dovel
Alice Elva Dovel
East
Pall Mall Street
Camp Peary
Williamsburg
Washington
D. C
Dover
Handley High School
Richard R. Anderson
Pacific
Philippine
Luzon
U. S. Army
Richfield Oil Company
Cpl. Anderson
Burl V. Baker
Zella H. Baker
Route 1
Mark W. Clark
United States Forces
Austria
Vienna
Baker
Army
USA
Potts
Japan
Calvin G. Potts
1St. Cavalry
8Th Army
Nippon
77Th Division
McCrory Store Corporation
Camp Blanding
Fla
Hensley B. Potts
Atwell Avenue
Erb-Help advertisement promises relief from gas and bloating
An Winchester reader reports relief from upset stomach and gas after using Erb-Help. The ad claims 12 herbs cleanse bowels and act on the liver and kidneys, with the product sold at local drug stores.
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Winchester
Dreiser’s The Bulwark Added to Handley Library
The Bulwark by Theodore Dreiser is summarized as a family saga of Solon Barnes and his Quaker clan from birth to death in New Jersey. He is a devout yet unintellectual man who marries for love, accumulates wealth, and cruises between faith and business while five children grow up amid tensions and fate driven by the era’s greed. The novel is praised as morally clear with a defined struggle, marking Dreiser’s craft and intention. It may be borrowed from Handley Library.
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Theodore Dreiser
Oe Solon Barnes
Young Solon
New Jersey
Solon Barnes
Dreiser
Handley Library
Nylons for Butter Sale Prank Stuns Oakland Radio
Oakland radio host Jimmy Muir joked on air that a department store would offer 5,000 pairs of nylons on sale with a catch you must buy 10 pounds of butter per pair and specify butter color. The stunt led to a flood of 500 calls from curious listeners.
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Oakland
Calif
Jimmy Muir
Winchester and Frederick County Realty Transfers List
City and County transfers show multiple property deeds in Winchester and Frederick County. Listings include properties at Gray and Liberty Avenues, 686 N Loudoun St, Virginia Ave, Valley Ave, and Back Creek district with nominal 10 dollar considerations and larger parcels seven miles north west or two miles west of Winchester. The document names E B Clevenger, Harman, Calvert, Laign, H Homer Harlee, John Cammer, J H DeHaven, Richard DeHaven, E H Warmer, Archie Underwood, George D, James Trick, Jacob Spaid, Charles Carver, and others with parcel locations and nominal sums.
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E. B. Clevenger
Herbert F. Cain
Gray and
Liberty Ave
N. W
John D. Cammer
Valley Ave
Frederick County
J. H. DeHaven
Richard L. DeHaven
Winchester
E. H. Warmer
Edgar Kenneth Warner
Archie Underwood
George D
Sehseney Road
James Trick
Jacob Spaid
Back Creek
E. Earl Shade
Charles J. Carver
Winona
Raymond
Property transfers in Winchester area dealer listings
Burns et al improve property east of Stephens City. Albert F Unger and others sell to Wise Newlin and others the Harris Pike tract. Agreement price ten dollars. J Henkel Henry and others sell to Wm Ashby Martin and others a lot south of the city corporate limits. Price ten dollars. Bickers Realty Co Inc sells to Frank Lantz and others land on the west side of Paper Mill Road for three hundred dollars. June Fishpaw Hurst and others to Arthur H Weber and others thirty five acres of improved property three miles north of Winchester for ten dollars.
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Albert F. Unger
Wise Newlin Et Ax
Harris Pike
J. Henkel Henry Et Als
Wm. Ashby Martin
Bickers Realty Co. Inc
Frank Lantz
Paper Mill Road
Fishpaw Hurst
Arthur H. Weber
Winchester
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Gene Miller
Williams Grove
Half Mile
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Yankee Stadium
New York
McFadden
Louis
Conn
Gene Tunney
Sacred Heart Athletic Club
Erat and
FT Bae
Laken
Radio Sales & Service
E. Boscawen St
Wai Sens
Aina
Whitacre
Kermit C. Whitacre
Smithfield Avenue
Germany
France
J.T. A
Sirbaugh
Norman Sirbaugh
Norman B. Sirbaugh
Building 13
Treasure
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Playtex
Botter Vahueg
Burns
Eas
Sternato Eros
Phila
Sleuggett
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