Colder Weather Threatens Fruit Bloom and Easter Festivities
A special forecast warns of a light frost Sunday morning with 35 degree lows in Winchester and 28 to 30 degree readings in nearby towns. Growers prepare smudge pots as clouds and wind may limit ground heat, delaying late apple and peach blossoms ahead of Apple Festival.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Winchester
Berryville
Charles Town
Bunker Hill
Maryland
West Gee Wi
Vurday
Philly
Virginia 5 day forecast and local notices
A five day forecast for Virginia shows cooler conditions with a three to five degree dip below normal through the period. Showers are expected late Monday into Tuesday with total rainfall around three quarters of an inch. Separate listings include a 1946 Ford for sale, local real estate notices, and multiple small business advertisements and auctions in Winchester and surrounding areas.
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Virginia
Wedness
Ford
Mary (Mollie) F. Lindamood
S. Loudoun St
Winchester
Gore
Western democracies gain initiative in cold war Acheson says
Secretary of State Acheson told delegates that the Western world has taken the initiative from Russia over the past 18 months and must maintain unending diligence and courage. He noted recent Atlantic Treaty progress and Western Germany pact as signs of momentum in the struggle. He warned the final outcome will be a Western victory, reached through firm resolve and solidarity.
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Washington
Acheson
Russia
Council of
inter-American ,Defense Organization
United States
America
Britain
France
Germany
Retailers Eye Record Easter Sales Across Nation
Retailers forecast the biggest Easter season in history with profits likely above prewar years. Industry leaders note the postwar buyer surge and pressure for value and quality as Easter shopping tests the market. Comparisons to last year are distorted by Easter dates, with March sales mixed but improving into April.
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Rader Winget
New York
Nest
Esignt Stores
Oui Salt
SuMarae Aghistment
Hudson Co. Cuts Prices in Auto Market Parade
Detroit April 15. Hudson Motor Car Co joined the price cutting parade with $15 to $100 reductions across all models. It is the seventh car maker to cut prices. President A. W. Barit cited a 20 year sales record in three months and savings in material costs. Reductions include $15 off Super Six and Commodore six, $35 off Super Six convertible brougham, and $100 off Commodore Six convertible.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Co
A. W. Barit
Siamese Quintuplet Kittens Chewed Apart By Mother
In Greensboro on April 15 a black alley cat named Jonathan separated her quintuplet kittens, killing three. Two survivors, a tan and a black kitten, were found free to move. Clyde Davis' cat nursery drew about 50 visitors last night.
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Greensboro
N. C
Jonathan
Clyde Davis
15 Coach Train to Visit City for Apple Blossom Festival
Baltimore and Ohio officials bring a 15 car excursion train with about 950 passengers from Washington to Baltimore and Winchester arriving Sunday around noon. The visitors, first since before the war, will stay until 2 pm and may tour historic sites and nearby apple orchards in bloom, with local officials coordinating greetings.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Washington
Baltimore
Winchester
John D. Carrol
Division
E. E. Baker
Chamber of Commerce
Fliers Establish Endurance Record
In Fullerton California Dick Riedel and Bill Barris set a new world endurance record, surpassing 726 hours and aiming for 1000 hours. They reported feeling wonderful and the engine purring smoothly as they continued the flight after 30 days aloft.
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Fullerton
Calif
Dick Riedel
Bill Barris
Report to President Charges Monopoly Controls by Doctors
A Truman health plan report from the Nation's Health committee accuses medical societies of monopoly practices blocking comprehensive voluntary insurance. Dr. Channing Frothingham leads the group, urging removal of restrictions in 22 states and support for broader medical insurance initiatives.
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Washington
Truman
Channing Frothingham
Massachuetts State Medical Society
Murray D-Mont
Frothingham Group
The
American Medical Assay
American Assn
Frothingham
Friendship Co Orders $16500 Invader Fire Truck
Friendship Fire Co. places a 16500 cab ahead of engine Invader model American LaFrance truck order announced by Eston Tevalt secretary and committee member. Delivery expected around Aug 1 to replace a 1928 truck. inspection trips to Elmira plant planned. Winchester freight delivery.
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Elmira
N. Y
Winchester
George Eagle
Tevalt
Marion Anderson
Lawrence Shine
Raymond Campbell
Harold Spurling
A. Harold Rowe
W. E. Jones
William Newlin
Front Royal Fire Co
First Woman Registers For Bloodmobile Visit
By noon today only 14 had signed up for the Red Cross bloodmobile stop in the city Tuesday. Registration at the Red Cross office 113 E. Piccadilly Street continues through Monday with a goal of 140 registrants and 100 pints of blood hoped for.
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Red Cross
E. Piccadilly St
Ralph Whitmore
W. Boscawen St
Walter Bosserman Jr
Turtles Arrive For JCC Derby
Harry Carpenter the JCC derby chair notes about 75 turtles arrived and are housed in an old chicken house. They are fed vegetable scraps donated by Acme market. Sixteen new sponsors bring entries to 76. New sponsor Hallmark among others.
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Harry Carpenter
Chamber of Commerce
Acme
Carpenter
Pennsylvania Ave
Hallmark
Fifty-year Emblems Given Eddy Cooper By Va Masons
The grand master of Masons in Virginia A Douglas Smith Jr presented fifty year emblems to Winchesters prominent citizens C Vernon Eddy and William E Cooper during an official visit. Eddy is past grand master and Hiram lodge 21 secretary while Cooper is past master and a Hiram lodge trustee member. The event honored long Masonic service and included tribute to Eddy.
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Winchester
Masons
Virginia
A. Douglas Smith Jr
C. Vernon Eddy
Hiram Lodge
William E. Cooper
Eddy
Suspect Seized In Follansbee Bank Robbery
Morgantown WV April 15 Labraton man Roy Mann 26 is named a suspect in the Bank of Follansbee holdup as state police and FBI question him after arrest at a Sabraton house. Burnett and Klose, brothers in law to Mann, are being sought in the case as the Weirton police officers kidnapped earlier are found.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Don Adams
Labraton
Bank of Follansbee Adam
FBI
Roy Mann
Mann
Surburban Sabraton
James Burnett
Carl Klose
Pennsylvania
Follanebee Bank
Weirton
Ohio
Burnett
Latrobe
Penna
Hadock
Klose
Adams
Allen Russell
James Herman
Hanoverton
State Highway Patrol
West Virginia
4-H Baby Beef Show Scheduled Monday at Arena
The 4th annual Frederick county Baby Beef 4-H show is set for 11 30 a m Monday at the Farmers Livestock Exchange arena on Route 50 west judge Raymond I Hoover of Woodstock will oversee three classes Shorthorn Heavy Herefords and Light Herefords with prizes of 5 3 and 2 dollars per class plus ribbons grand champion owner receives 10 dollars reserve champion gets 5 dollars and each 4 H member gets 3 dollars per calf to cover transport costs Funds for prizes provided by Farmers and Merchants National Bank Exhibitors include Roxanne Rogers Ruth McCann Patsy Wolfe Sidney Rogers and Tommy McCann and several will take calves to Richmond for the Junior Fat Stock Show and Sale at the Atlantic Rural Exposition grounds Roxanne Rogers will show three steers Patsy Wolfe two Roger siblings plan to exhibit and sell six fat Duroc Jersey hogs with E Clay Rogers accompanying local exhibitors
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Frederick County
Farmers Livestock Exchange Arena
R. 50
West
Raymond I. Hoover
Woodstock
Shenandoah County
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
John Wolfe
Roxanne Rogers
Ruth McCann
Patsy Wolfe
Sidney Rogers
Tommy McCann
Richmond
Atlantic Rural Exposition Grounds
Roger
E. Clay Rogers
Public Sale Of Household Goods At 323 Fairview Avenue
Public notice advertises a household goods sale at 323 Fairview Avenue on Saturday April 1 at 1 PM. The chunked text references Flora LaFollette and miscellaneous items including Easter corsages and candy vendors, indicating a local classifieds notice with multiple items and vendors.
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J. W. Baker
S. Braddock St
Headley’s
Gale's
Brook's Pharmacy
Flora Lafollette
Fairview Avenue
Judge Orders School Board And Supt. to Appear for Sentence
Baltimore area report notes a contempt case requiring the school board and superintendent to appear for sentencing. The article diverges into an unrelated discussion of aging science by Dr. Vladimir Korenchevsky, who advocates aging viewed as a disease and calls for international gerontology research collaboration.
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Globe
Oxford University
Korenchevsky
Orexgeedeeph Bomsow
Brida Oe
Meen
Catterall Named To SCC By Governor Tuck
Richmond attorney Ralph T. Catterall will join the State Corporation Commission as interim member replacing L McCarthy Downs. Governor announces appointment pending General Assembly action. Downs to become president and general manager of Continental Life Insurance Co. of Washington.
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Richmond
Ralph T. Catterall
State Corporation Commission
L. McCarthy Downs
Commission
Tuck
Catterall
Williams, Mullen and Hazelgrove
Catteral
General Assembly
Downs
SCC
Continental Life Insurance Co
Washington
Down
New York
University of Richmond Law School
Richmond Bar Assn
Virginia Bar Assn
Judicial Council of Virginia
Hit and Run Charge Yields $100 Fine in Police Court
Roger Dudley of Senseny Road was fined $100 and costs and given a 30 day suspended jail sentence yesterday in police court on a hit and run charge involving property damage. The arrest stems from an accident Thursday on North Kent Street damaging a car owned by Glenn Coffelt.
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Roger Dudley
Senseny Rd
Dudley
N. Kent St
Glenn Coffelt
Double Slaying Reports In Buchanan Home Shooting
In Buchanan Virginia on April 15 two Negro school teachers and a garage worker were killed in a home shooting. The deceased are Silas Pran 35 a teacher of Six West Virginia Red Reid 32 Pulaski a motor company employee and Leth Rasby 23 a teacher from local school. Deputy Sheriff J J Robertson said Silas and a girl were on a sofa when Silas shot the girl in the head. Reid tried to escape and was shot through the body as he stood with his back to a door. Silas then killed himself.
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Buchanan
Leth Rasby
Pulaski
Red Reid
Pran
Silas
W. Va
J. J. Robertson
Reid
VA Seeks $100000 Recovered From VMI Tuition Fees
The Veterans Administration says VMI owes about $100,000 refunded to veteran students. Of the $500 paid per veteran, $200 covers laboratory and essential education items while $300 is not a reimbursable item under GI rights. VMI does not charge Virginia residents tuition for resident students.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
VMI
Virginia
First Wave Sailor Sails Sea Duty From Pearl Harbor
Lt. Clarice Pierson of Oakland becomes the first Wave reservist assigned to sea duty aboard the General H. W. Butler. After authorization for women training cruises came through she promptly applied and sails to Pearl Harbor.
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San Francisco
Navy
Clarice Pierson
Oakland
Calif
H. W. Butler
Pearl Harbor
Greek War Flares In Grams Gramsos Clash In Greece
Fighting erupts across Greece with government reports of 107 communist led guerrillas killed and 114 captured. One of the fiercest battles of the civil war rages in the Grammos region of northwestern Greece.
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Athens
Greece
Grammos
Compromise on Labor Bill Looms Larger in Congress
In Washington on April 15 lawmakers moved toward a compromise on the Taft Hartley era dispute. A Republican Dixie bloc offered a substitute Wood bill with fewer union curbs, while administration allies discussed amending the Truman bill to resemble Taft Hartley. Debate set to begin April 26 with signs of convergence among factions.
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Washington
House
Rep
Wood
D-Ga
Equalization Injunction Not Obeyed in Gloucester Case
Federal Judge Sterling Hutcheson schedules sentencing for May 4 in Richmond for Gloucester County School Board and Division Superintendent J Walter Kenney on contempt of court related to a January 13 ruling. Areas of discrimination and delays loom as officials weigh funding options with a State Literary Fund loan pending and no new action set.
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Richmond
Sterling Hutcheson
Gloucester County School Board
J. Walter Kenney
Charlies Ford
George DeHarditt
Federal District Court
Oliver W. Hill
Martin A. Martin
Spotswood W. Robinson 3d
Tuck
Supplior Public Instruction
G. Tyler Miller
Stanley T. Gray
Gloucester
Gray
Labor Board to Hear Arguments on Union Shop in Coal Fields
The UMW policy committee of about 200 miners will meet in Washington on April 25 to frame demands for a new contract as the current pact expires June 30. The union shop provision faces legal scrutiny after a 1946-47 dispute with steel firms over captive mines and a Taft-Hartley Act challenge.
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Labor Board
Ers
Lewis
UMW
Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
NLRB
William Ringer
Lull In China Signals Communist Advantage In Civil War
In Nanking on April 15 a quiet along the river front suggested Communist predominance in the ongoing Chinese civil conflict. Observers viewed the lull as evidence that Nationalist delegates at Peiping were seeking peace concessions, reinforcing the view that the Communists held the strategic advantage.
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Nanking
China
Peiping
W. B. Snider & Sons
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Winchester Florists
N. Loudoun St
Arthur M. Jackel
Hodgson and Brown Purchase
Hemisphere
U.S
Hudson Co
Wes Carroll
Clyde Schlieper
Long Beach
JCC
Cooper
Va. Masons
Berryville Ave
Follansbee
Hunt
Arena
Vladimir Korenchevsky
Toscc
Richmond Lawyer
L. M. Downs
Bente
Molden Electric CO
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