Major Traffic Violations Boost Assessments of Justice Edwards
In the Frederick County Trial Justice Court Judge W Erle Edwards imposed heavy fines over ten days, including nine over $100 for drunken driving and two each for hit and run and speeding. The period totaled 4 538 with truck over axle and gross fines dominating, plus 40 miscellaneous charges, and multiple appeals to circuit court.
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Frederick County
Jessie L. Stotler
Stephenson
Alvin Jefferson
Richmond
Robert H. Mollohan
Fairmont
W. Va
John D. Jenkins
Stephens City
Clifton E Dodson
Huntly
Frank Braithwaite
Cross Junction
Lena Lewis
Rodney G. Mauck
Robert Rutherford
N. Loudoun Street
Lester Carroll
Clinton R. Palmer
William B. Johnson
Martinsburg
John E. Gorshi
Portsmouth
R. C. Purcell
Bravetown
Llegal
Philip F. Easter
Route 3
Samuel E. Ewell
Manassas
Russell R. Goble, Jr
Clearbrook
William A. Grove
Stover C. Galliday
Middletown
Randolph E. Rodgers
Clifford Street
Harlan Hannum
Edward D. Graham
Pittsburgh
Raymond J. Pitcock
S. Kent Street
Charles W. Taylor
Hichland Avenue
Donald M. Bowen
Kern Street
Robert M. Lewis
George N. Ritter
George DeHaven
Albin
Harrison Urges Congress to Check Truman Steel Seizure
Madison Va Rep Burr Harrison denounces President Truman's seizure of steel mills as an unlawful overreach. He warns it signals state socialism and could enable broader confiscation of private property and control over banks and agriculture unless Congress acts to restore legislative power.
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Madison
Burr P. Harrison
Congress
Harrison
Truman
Britain Expected To Pledge Military Aid To EDC Members
Diplomatic sources say Britain may soon guarantee automatic military assistance to West Germany and other six-nation group members. The pledge, due next week around April 15, would bolster support for the European Defense Community tone while not changing the current force levels in West Germany.
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Britain
London
West Germany
New York Times
Paris
W. Germany
Europe
West
Germany
Six Nations
European Defense Community
France
Netherlands
EDC
Weekend Visitors Call on Neighbors Around White Post and Winchester
Sunday guests included Calvin and Hazel Borror and family of White Post, Glenn Borror, and Alvin Ruble families. Carl Funkhouser, Daisy Alt, and several other locals visited relatives in Winchester Mount Pleasant Moorefield and Front Royal Pike areas. Additional calls involved Kerfoot Baker, James Russell, Roy Miller and Braithwaite sisters with local families.
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Bufflick Road
Calvin Borror
Glenn Borror
White Post
Alvin Ruble
White Hall
Melvin Godlove
Raymond Funkhouser
Daisy Alt
Winchester
Orville Vanmeter
Sally Kerfoot
James Russell
Mount Pleasant
Taft Russell
Nancy Russell
Felix Miller
Fabius
W. Va
Roy Miller
Nancy
Betty Braithwaite
Delores
Shelva Jean Miller
Waiting Game Continues in Korean Armistice Talks
In Munsan Korea United Nations and Communist negotiators met briefly with both sides delaying proposals. Maj Gen William K Harrison said the waiting stance is serious and the talks have produced only short sessions totaling 33 minutes. Key issues remain Soviet police of a truce and preventing new military airfields in North Korea.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
William K. Harrison
U. N
Harrison
U. S
Red
Russia
U. N. Command
North Korea
Rebel Victory Claimed in Bolivia Amid Power Grab
Bolivian rebels claim success in overthrow of the military regime that seized control 11 months ago. Hernan Siles says he will govern until Victor Paz Estenssoro and the MNR return to form a cabinet. An election is reportedly planned within five months.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Hernan Siles
Victor Paz Estenssoro
National Revolutionary Party
MNR
Arica
Chile
Former Sheriff Pays Fine for Slapping Official
Truman Fleming of Clintwood pleaded guilty to slapping Referee Sam Lawson after the March Group II District 8 basketball tourney final in Norton. He paid a $25 fine plus costs and publicly apologized. He had been a sheriff in Dickenson County and was fined by Trial Justice George L. Taylor.
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Applachia
Dickenson County
Truman Fleming
Clitwood
George L. Taylor
Sam Lawson
Norton
St. Paul
Clintwood
Brave 12 Year Old Saves Girl From Beaver Creek
Dotty Church, two, tumbled from the riverbank and was carried about 200 feet downstream by swift water. Steve Spangler, twelve, leaped in and pulled her to safety, averting a tragedy near Bristol.
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Bristol
Dotty Church
Beaver Creek
Steve Spangier
Dotty
Flowers of the Forest played at King George VI funeral
The tune Flowers of the Forest, an old Scottish song, was used at the funeral of the late King George VI. Original words are largely lost, Jane Elliott provided lines in the mid 18th century, and the commonly sung words are by Mrs. Cockburn around 1765. The Forest refers to a Selkirk and Peebles district and its young men. the ballad mourns Flodden battlefield losses.
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George VI
ECWA
Jane Elliott
Winchester Area Unemployment Up in Early Spring
Unemployment in the Winchester area rose slightly by end of March from a year earlier but remained below two years prior. First quarter figures for 1950 1951 1952 show January February and March totals with about half of unemployed being female and most men in unskilled work. An Armed Forces Security Agency interview day is set for April 15 at the local office for job seekers aged 18 plus. The Employment Service offers tests to gauge proficiency for office clerk and typist roles to avoid unnecessary travel.
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Winchester
Virginia State Employment Service Office
Armed Forces Security Agency
W. Piccadilly Street
F. W. Baliey
Rejected radio script spurs suicide attempt in New York
A 38 year old Voice of America writer Anthony Osovnik attempted suicide in New York after his Easter Sunday Slovene script critical of Yugoslav Titoists was rejected. Police said he slashed his wrists and opened gas jets, leaving a note of dismay. He was jailed by Titoists in 1946 and later released. He is single and born in the United States.
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New York
Voice of America
Anthony Osovnik
The
Voice
State Department
Overseas Radio Information Agency
Keer
Africa
Yugoslavia
Marshal ‘Tito
Osovnik
United States
Greatest racing greyhound of today Beachcomber
8. M. A. Beachcomber is named the greatest racing greyhound of today. He has won more races than any other greyhound and has been in the money more times as of 1950.
Main Street Sounds Will Be Carried To Fighting Men
America's fighting men overseas will hear Main Street USA through a vast voluntary effort by radio stations and the Armed Forces Radio Service. AFRS collected hometown sounds for the Way Back Home program, with 556 stations sending taped recordings and many including personalized greetings to kin. GI preferences will be polled and shared with local stations for broadcast.
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Hollywood
America
Main Street
USA
Armed Forces Radio Service
AFRS
Easter Sunrise Service and Brucetown Charge Schedule
Rev Emory Elimore announced a Sunrise Service at 7 am on the lawn of Mrs L O Dick in Clearbrook with Methodist Youth Fellowship participation. Additional morning services at all charge churches, lay speakers, mission offerings, baptisms, and evening service at Brucetown Methodist Church with musical numbers and a sermon by Rev Ellmore.
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Emory Elimore
Brucetown Methodist Church
Ellmore
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