Frost Touches Virginia Orchards With Mixed Damage Report
Orchardists report minor damage to peach buds near Winchester and Clarke County while Red Delicious buds show localized losses in low spots. In J Kenneth Robinson’s orchard near Winchester a 22 degree sinkhole spot caused some bud damage, but overall the forecasted cool spell may not hurt the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Butler
Winchester
Stephens City
Deé
Butler
Mt. Williams
Jay
Clarke County
Robinson
Byrd
Berryville
Jefferson
Rosemont
Optometrist opens new Winchester office and hours
The Winchester office at 139 North Loudoun Street is now open for eye exams and visual training from 9 to by appointment, Monday through Saturday. Dr. Arthur M. Jackel operates the practice and provides contact details via phone 7256.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
North Loudoun St
Arthur M. Jackel
County School Board
County Court House
Leslie D. Kline
Nominations Open for Shenandoah Apple Blossom Queen 1949
One hundred eight nominations were received for Queen Shenandoah XXII to reign at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival on April 28 and 29. The process considers fitness personality poise and publicity value with marital status not a factor and queens hailing from Virginia England Belgium Czechia or Nicaragua among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Barr
Department of the Queen
Barr
Margaret O’brien
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shenandoah
Virgina
Winchester
England
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Nicaragua
Half Billion Cut From VA Funds
The House appropriations committee approved a $7.58 billion multi agency bill for the next fiscal year including $5.15 billion for the Veterans Administration. The Veterans Administration suffered the largest cut, with overall reductions totaling $734.68 million from the President's budget requests. The bill also funds $7.104 billion in cash and $472.315 million in contract authorizations. The committee rejected the Budget Bureau’s recommendations on hospital construction and even cut the bureau’s own budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Veterans’ Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Atomic Energy Commission
Yugoslavia Condemns Cominform Campaign Against Tito
Belgrade April 11. The third congress of the People’s Front of Yugoslavia adopted a resolution denouncing the Cominform campaign as lies and slander aimed at Premier Tito. Delegates said the campaign harms Yugoslavia and socialist countries and heightens tension in the Balkans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
People’s Front
Cominform
Marchal Tito
Yugoslvia
Scientists Track A-Bomb Survivors In Long Range Study
The Atomic Energy Commission will conduct a continued long range study of about 100 000 Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors to relate animal research to human effects of atomic energy. Dr Shields Warren said the effort seeks to understand potential harm and ways to mitigate it as years pass. The project includes 86 scientists and 100 non‑scientists with 70 Japanese investigators, costing roughly 1 1 2 million dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Japan
Shields Warren
Commission
House Appropriations Committee
Warren
W W Railroad Reelected Officers and Reports Record Revenue
Stockholders of the Winchester and Western Railroad Co reelected J. G. Fosbrink as president and heard a 1948 financial statement showing higher revenue and more cars handled. L. L. Shreck became vice president and Meriel E. Fosbrink secretary treasurer. Plans include expanding Gore mine sidings, repairing Gore shop, installing a pumping station, rust proofing bridges, replacing tile culverts, and a vacation for all employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester and Western Railroad Co
J. G. Foshrink
L. L. Shreck
Meriel E. Fosbrink
Virginia Glass Sand Co
Gore
Employment in Area Rises From February Low Point
Virginia State Employment Service data for Clarke Frederick and Loudoun counties and Winchester show a February unemployment peak of 970 due to declines in manufacturing construction and trades. In weeks since, orders rose and unemployment fell 26 percent to 736, with 68 percent in Winchester and 20 percent in Frederick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Clarke
Frederick
Loudoun
Winchester
F. W. Bailey
VSES
Bailey
Clarke County
Germans Object To Strict Terms Of Proffered Treaty
The Western Allies present Germany with an occupation statute granting limited self government while withholding full sovereignty. Berlin presses for broader freedom, criticizing Allied control of science and trade. The plan keeps disarmament, foreign policy, and Ruhr control under Allied oversight with a review after one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BOM
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
German Parliamentary Council
United State
Great Britain
France
Adenauer
Berlin
Sozialdemokrat
Social Democratic Party
Ruhr
Chinese Reds Push Peace Talks as Ultimatum Expires
Nanking reports say the communists postponed their deadline until Friday for the government’s reply to peace proposals. Red forces attack a bridgehead on the Yangtze six miles from Nanking as talks continue in Peiping with Mao Zedong taking an active role. Nationalist leaders weighed concessions on joint army reorganization amid artillery sounds across the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanking
Red
Yangtze River
Yangtze
South China
Mao Tze-tung
Peiping
Mao
Chang Chih-chung
Chamber Appeals B and O Over Train Schedule Shifts
Winchester chamber of commerce forwarded a letter to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad noting local public sentiment after the firm discontinued the only passenger train serving the city. The letter, written by Eugene P. Sakers with chamber approval, asks for better connections in schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Eugene P. Sakers
Conservation tour highlights Virginia farm soil practices
Garden Week tourists are urged to visit contoured farms in Virginia’s Winchester Clarke and Piedmont districts. Listings include Guest Estate near Front Royal and farms at Mt Jackson Toms Brook Strasburg Sperryville Massies Corner and Stevensburg with contour strips water conservation ponds and improved pastures under a federal soil conservation program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Garden Clubs of Virginia
Club
Thomas E. Thorne
H. B. McCormac
Federation
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Winchester
Clarke
Piedmont
Front Royal
Culpeper
Guest Estate
Raymond Guest
Hilldale
Highway 12
Warren County
R. L. Sowers
Turkey
Knob
Mt. Jackson
Swartz
O. F. Swarr
Toms Brook
Strasburg
Hill Top Farm
W. B. Dolph
Massies Corner
U. 8
Ben Venue
Clover Hill Farm
J. Hill O’brannon
Woodville
U. S
Sperryville
Mt. Vernon
J. Clifford Miller, Jr
William J. Smith
Stevensburg
Taft and Ives Draft Amendments to TH Act Repealer
Washington April 11 congressional allies and foes clash over repeal of the Taft Hartley Act. Senators Taft and Ives plan amendments to win Senate support while labor leaders urge faster action. A National Emergency Strike section would allow a 60 day cooling off with possible injunction or plant seizure.
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Washington
Cionions
Senate
Capitol Hill
House
House Rules Committee
Taft
Ohio
Ives
CIO
Philip Murray
Battle outlines 57 million plan for school construction
Virginia candidate for governor, Charlottesville's John Battle, proposes a four point program to fund school building with 57 million immediately from state funds plus 15 million annually, contingent on no severe recession. He backs local conditions, aims for universal quality education, and calls for shared teacher salaries financed by state and localities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Virginia
Washington strike halts papers again
About 200 mechanical workers walked out against Washington four daily newspapers after an 11th hour mediation failed to end a wage dispute. The strike halted publication of the Evening Star Times-Herald and News for the second time in a week, with pickets at plant entrances and only the Post and Times-Herald editions unaffected for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Steretypers
Evening Star
Times-Herald
News
AFL Internatioal Typographical (Printers) Union
CIO Newspapers Guild of
The
Post
Sentioncrs
Junkman Indicted In Death Of Boy In Baltimore
Baltimore April 11 A Junkman Louis Elsner Barker was indicted on sodomy and murder charges in the death of a four year old boy. Barker who came from Boone County West Virginia was ordered held without bail after the grand jury returned the indictment. He was 35 days old? defendant arrested Thursday. The boy Lawrence Darrell’s body was found in a furniture van.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Louis Elsner Barker
Barker
Boone County
W. Va
Criminal Court
Lawrence Darrell
Rescue by Volunteers Reaches Entombed Girl Kathy
In Marino California on April 11 a 50 to 60 strong volunteer crew dug a 100 foot shaft to reach entombed Kathy. Veteran sandhogs and cesspool diggers led the grisly work while Bill Yancey the former Navy Seabee remained below ground for hours sending up buckets. The story notes the selfless effort and danger faced by all involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marino
Calif
Kathy
Bill Yancey
Yancey
Kathy Fiscus Tragedy Ends as Child Found in Abandoned Well
In San Marino California on April 11 the body of three year old Kathy Fiscus was recovered from a 100 foot deep abandoned well after 82 hours of rescue work. Her death is ruled drowning. Volunteers and officials recount the prolonged effort, the failed well cap, and the family’s grief as the tragedy attracts national attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathy Fiscus
David
Alice
San Marino
Calif
Kathy
International
Alice Fiscus
Little Kathy
O. A. Kelly
McCullock
Bill Yancey
Piscus
Agary
Kelly
H. E. Blickensderfer
Handley Nets District Forensic Winners
Handley high school took two district forensic contest trophies at Harrisonburg on Saturday with Julia Dotson winning spelling and Catherine Stephenson taking poetry. Both advance to the state meet in Charlottesville, while Gainesboro competitors James Robinson and Patricia Sutherland won boys prose and poetry readings at the same event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handley High School
Harrisonburg
Julia Dotson
Catherine Stephenson
Charlottesville
James Robinson
Patricia Sutherland
Gainesboro
Chevrolet
Bess
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Campbell
Rob't
Eagle Property
Hillyard's
E. Piccadilly St
Taft and
Battle
Richmond
John
Junkman
Boy
California
Handley
Pine Motor CO
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