Congress Passes Truman National Health Bill Plan
Washington reports the Truman national health bill would fund medical care via a three percent payroll tax and expand hospital construction education and public health programs. It includes grants for medical education, hospital projects, research, and nurses training, plus aid to farmers health cooperatives. Congressional hearings are planned with no action expected this year.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Mother and 3 Tots Die in Home Fire
Charleston dispatch reports an early morning fire killed Mrs. Henrietta Edwards 38 and three of her children. Father Thomas A. Edwards who found the blaze about 1 a.m. rescued two youngsters from the burning home.
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Charleston
W. Va
Henrietta Edwards
Thomas A. Edwards
Miners Begin Talks to Set New Soft Coal Contract
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers policy committee began framing demands for a new soft coal contract. The union aims for a 1949 bargaining pattern emphasizing better conditions and benefits, with ten general proposals including improved welfare, wages, shorter hours, safety, and pay for impurities. The current agreement expires June 30.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
Policy Committee
Cincinnati
Cota
Welfare
Court Rules Pension Plans Are Proper Bargaining Subject
The Supreme Court held that employers must bargain with unions on worker pension plans, but only for firms covered by federal labor laws that cross state lines. Unions must be eligible to use National Labor Relations Board machinery.
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Washington
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
U N Honor Flag Flown Prominently At Shenandoah Festival
The Four Freedoms of the United Nations flag will be displayed throughout Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival week under the United Nations club honor flag committee. Brooks Harding will provide flags to accompany U S and Iceland banners on the royal chariot for Queen Shenandoah XXII Margret Thors. The flag decor will appear at coronation events, the Grand Feature parade, the queen's Winchester residence, and the torchlight and Firemen parades.
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United Nations
Shenandoah
United Nations Club
Brooks Harding
United States
Iceland
Margret Thors
Shenandoah XXII
New Market
Win
Closed for weekend by Rosenberger firm
The office and plant of John W. Rosenberger & Co will be closed from Thursday noon until Monday morning this week. This notice appears in the New Fourth edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Rosenberger & CO
Chinese Nationalist Troops Withdraw From Nanking
Chinese Nationalist forces wounded and noncombatants begin retreating from Nanking as Communist units push across the Yangtze. Trains evacuate soldiers believed defeated after a sequence of losses, carrying many personnel away from the city yesterday morning.
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Nanking
Yangtze
Winchester issues permits for seven residential builds
City records show seven new residential permits in Winchester with total costs around 44 860 dollars. Projects include 11 2 story brick dwellings at multiple addresses, a 2000 dollar frame residence, and a 10 500 dollar veneer house planned for owner occupancy.
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Winchester
R. Wilson Wright
Valley Ave
Miller St
Virginia Ritter
Trial Justice Court
Montague Ave
Closing Notice for Local Firms and Sales
Local businesses announce brief closures from noon Thursday April 28 to Saturday morning April 30. Winchester Credit Corp Virginia Loan & Thrift Co Commercial Small Loan & Finance Co are listed. Also ads for after sales on Toppers and Coats at Lovett's Shoppe and spring apparel discounts. Garbage collection shifted to Tuesday May 3 for Friday April 29.
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Winchester Credit Corp
Virginia Loan & Thrift CO
Commercial Small Loan & Finance CO
Lovett’s Shoe
N. Loudoun
Margaret L. Hodgson
Service Clubs Plan Luncheon For Fete Queen
Exchange and Lions meetings scheduled for tomorrow have been cancelled. Members will join in a combined civic club luncheon meeting at 12.30 pm Wednesday at George Washington hotel with Queen-elect Margret Thors and Apple Blossom Festival officials as guests.
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Exchange
Lions
Civic Club
George Washington Hotel
Margret Thors
Charles B. Henry Dies at 80. Curb Market Owner
Charles B. Henry 80 lifelong Winchester resident and curb market owner died suddenly Saturday at 728 S. Loudoun St. Born in Winchester he was husband of the late Fannie Leight Henry and son of the late Alfred and Lucy Jones Henry. Services 3 p m Tuesday at Jones funeral home Rev Robert Whitten officiating interment Mount Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers Harold Brown Carl Cather George La Rue George Taylor Robert Lonas Chris Grubbs.
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Charles B. Henry
Curb Market
S. Loudoun St
Winchester
Fannie Leight Henry
Alfred
Lucy Jones Henry
Grace Lutheran Church
Hattie Taylor
Lucy Goss
Lou King
Front Royal
Jones Funeral Home
Robert Whitten
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Harold Brown
Carl Cather
George la Rue
George Taylor
Robert Lonas
Chris Grubbs
Byrd Questions Acheson on Europe Rearm Vote
Senator Byrd asks Secretary Acheson whether a vote for ratification of the North Atlantic Security Treaty commits him to back a foreign arms program. He supports ratification but may not favor the State Department plan to provide 1130 million dollars in military equipment to the eleven signatory nations.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Acheson
Congress
State Department
United States
Senate
British Warships Reinforced After Yangtze Shelling
Britain orders reinforcements to the Far Eastern Fleet after communists shell four ships on the Yangtze River near Shanghai and Nanking. Two aircraft carriers and submarines will join, with no details given on origins or arrival. Winston Churchill demands full explanation in Commons as 44 British lives are lost.
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London
Great Britain
China
Yangtze
Admiralty
Hong Kong
Amethyst
Shanghai
Nanking
Black Swan
Winston Churchill
Yantze River
Attlee
House of Commons
Festival Ticket Sales Rise For Apple Slosaom Pageant
Miss Kilian Johnson reports brisk sales for the Apple Slosaom Festival pageant with about one quarter of 2000 seats pre booked. Parades pace slower but a sellout is expected. bleachers will be set at the courthouse Presbyterian church Cork Street Acme Safeway Washington and Piccadilly for about 2200 total seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilian Johnson
Miss Johnson
Court House
Presbyterian Church
Cork St
Acme
Safeway
Washington and Piccadilly St
Death ends Stephens City couple long marriage
Joseph Dudley Snapp 85 died at his home near Stephens City on Marlboro Road after a marriage that began December 28 1898 in Winchester ended at 12 50 yesterday. Survived by widow Lelia Rickard Snapp 72. son-in-law and daughters not listed. two brothers Luther Snapp Philip Franklin Snapp a sister Edna Snapp and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral 2 p.m. tomorrow from the home with Rev. H S Roane officiating. Burial Green Hill Cemetery Stephens City.
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Joseph Dudley Snapp
Stephens City
Marlboro Rd
Lelia Rickard
Winchester
Mr. Snapp
John William
Margaret Snapp
Frederick County
Luther Snapp
Relief
Philip Franklin Snapp
Edna Snapp
H. S. Roane
Green Hill Cemetery
Stephens Ty
Communists Close on Shanghai as Nanking Falls
April 25 dispatch reports Red forces driving south from the Yangtze aim to trap 300,000 Nationalists below Shanghai while Nanking fell after a brief siege. Communists since captured Nanking’s government buildings and embassies as Taiyuan blazed in flames. Shanghai residents waited tensely as the advance neared, with uncertainty over exact positions and the fate of the great port.
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Shanghai
Hangchow
Nanking
Dio Bb Pe
Festival Bus Lines Boost Service for Apple Blossom Crowds
Winchester prepares for Apple Blossom Festival with extended bus service. Greyhound and Potomac Motor Lines raise runs from Freder ick to Winchester, while Blue Ridge Martinsburg and Trailways plan hourly service. B&O adds trains on festival days. closing hours set at noon. festival notices include bank closure and event ticket sales.
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Winchester
Gable Coffey
Greyhound
Potomac Motor Lines
Frederick
Charles Town
Coffey
Blue Ridge
Hagerstown
Martinsburg
Trailways
Front Royal
Baltimore and Ohio RR
Baltimore
Washington
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
Peaceful coexistence urged by Soviet scientist at world congress
In Paris on April 25 V P Volgin vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences told the world congress for peace that capitalism and communism can live peacefully side by side. He backed a Saturday statement by O John Rogge former assistant U S attorney general that the United States is not threatened by the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union is not threatened by the United States. The remark drew cheers from the congress audience.
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Paris
V. P. Volgin
Soviet Academy of Sciences
World Congress For Peace
Volgin
Congress
O. John Rogge
U. S
Rogge
United States
Soviet Union
Soviet Academy
Family of Nine Killed in Crash Near Carthage Tenn
A freight train struck a truck carrying Sunday worshippers near Carthage Tennessee killing ten, including nine members of one family, injuring survivors. Ruth Robinson, the sole survivor, was hospitalized with serious injuries while others were burned and trapped. The group was returning from church services to Hogan's Creek.
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Carthage
Tenn
Tennessee Central Diesel
Hogan’s Creek
Ruth Robinson
Neal Sa i
Bennet’s
John Overstreet
Neal
Clay urges Western Europe pact with Germany for peace
Gen Lucius D Clay asserts the path to peace lies in an association of free Western European nations including Germany. He told AP luncheon reporters that integrating Germany would stabilize Europe and blunt communism, strengthening the Western front.
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New York
Lucius D. Clay
U. 8
Germany
Free Nations
Western Europe
Lee
Europe
Clay
Associated Press
J. Wes Gallagher
Harold E. Milks
Navy ex chaplain called to Cork Street church
Rev Paul Drumheller of Bloomington Illinois has been extended a call to the Cork Street Christian Church and is expected to begin his pastorate around June 1 succeeding Rev William Hadden Jr The congregation approved the call in a session after the eleven o clock service Drumheller delivered a trial sermon April 3 in Winchester He is a Bedford Virginia native with degrees from Lynchburg College and Vanderbilt University Divinity School He served in the Navy during World War II.
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Paul Drumheller
Bloomington, Ill
Cork St. Christian Church
William Hadden Jr
Drumheller
Christ Church
Bloomington
Winchester
Claude Grove
Single
Bedford
Lynchburg College
Vanderbilt
West Germany agrees on constitution amid party talks
Konrad Adenauer announced that the Parliamentary Council drafting the West German constitution has agreed with a large majority expected soon. General Lucius D. Clay said differences with the Western Allies are reconciled and predicted a Bonn approval by May 14 with elections for the new government shortly after.
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Konrad Adenauer
Parliamentary Council
Adenauer
Social Democrats
Christian Democratic Union
U. S
Lucius D. Clay
Western Germany
Clay
West Germany
Bonn
Visitors Arrival Sparks Traffic in Winchester
Traffic through Winchester drew a crowd as visitors arrived around 12 24 with Arthur William Beamand of New York City and Joseph Thomas Bailey of Berryville leading the procession. Total damage was about 225 dollars and a large crowd gathered to greet the event.
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Winchester
Thomas Boyd
Arthur William Beamand
New York City
Joseph Thomas Bailey
R. 1
Berryville
Health inspection rules apply to Winchester eateries
Tourist Homes Eating Places State Inspected units are reported in excellent condition. Concessionaires and temporary stands must comply with city law and State Board of Health rules. Health permits issued as licenses are sought. Inspections will occur when business starts, led by Smith with A. P. Miano Homer K. Ball and R. L. Albinson on the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
State Board of Health
State Health Department
Smith
A. P. Miano
Sanitarian
Homer K. Ball
Harrisonburg
R. L. Albinson
Fredericksburg
Float Builders Race to Create Original Apple Blossom Floats
Recher and J E Recher Co lead craftspeople in finishing twenty five orders for Grand Feature parade giant crepe paper apple blossom floats. They plan two floats per unit, each needing 90 to 100 yards of foil paper, with future commissions listed for Winston Salem Annapolis Greensburg and Weirton parades.
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Recher
George Lindsay
Bob Hope
Lindsay
Winston Salem N. C
Annapolis
Greensburg
Weirton
W. Va
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W. Boscowery
Lovett's Shoe
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Care Star
Morgan St
Tom Halterman
R. W. Walker
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Molden Electoric CO
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