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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1951
Page
3
U S scouts distribute bricks from the White House at the Seventh World Boy Scout Jamboree in Bad Ischl Austria. Arthur A Schuck calls the bricks a token of world understanding as American delegates host leaders from 47 nations with a breakfast of hot cakes and sausages.
The Ohio Turnpike Commission proposed the JE Greiner Co of Baltimore as overall consulting engineer for a 300 million dollar toll superhighway across Northern Ohio. The plan aims to guide design and construction for the project.
Four top ranking generals head the list of 11 mystery candidates for the $65,000 a year baseball commissioner job. Eisenhower MacArthur Taylor Vandenberg and Ford Frick are among the names considered plus five top industrialists. The 11 may be named to replace Chandler when owners meet in New York August 21. Del Webb says contract changes aim to give the commissioner more teeth and firmness.
The Whitacre Dailey annual reunion for Ernest Dailey and Lydia Dailey will be held August 19 at 12 noon in the Whitacre Community Hall. An organ recital at Redlawn Methodist Church Sunday at 8 p m by H C McMurtry of Winchester. Various local visits are recorded, including residents from Winchester Houston Cross Junction Berkeley Springs and Bolling Field visiting Whitacre, Dailey and Place households.
Revival services this week at Providence Methodist Church White Post Circuit begin 8 p m led by Pastor B E Hudson. Next Sunday there is an all day Homecoming with dinner and preaching at 11 a m and 2 p m. The pastor will also conduct a service in Paris next Sunday at 10 o clock.
Buddy Artrip and Jim Janney conducted a large estate auction at Ponds Point home of Col. Winfield Scott on Route 1. The 10 acre property with water frontage 20 miles northeast of Williamsburg sold with the house and contents fetching about 20 000 dollars and antiques totaling 21 000 dollars.
The Helping Hand Mission in Indian Hollow will close on Sunday as members attend the County convention at Gainesboro Methodist Church at 2 p m. The bus will leave the local bus station for Gainesboro at 10 o clock.
Mary Catherine Burks of 426 Haddox Row won the Vacation Jackpot last week at the Capitol Theatre. She receives an all expense paid trip to New York City with three days at the Hotel New Yorker, Radio City Music Hall tickets, a TV show appearance, and $50 spending money. Macy's Ladies Store sponsored the prize.
Peggy the talk ing crow at the Calgary zoo uses slang often greeting visitors with hullo and occasionally croaks you swine. Her favorite phrases include look what I found uptown and that's why.
Virginia Attorney General J Lindsay Almond Jr seeks federal permission to intervene in a suit by over 100 Negro parents from Prince Edward County challenging segregated schools. Almond argues Virginia’s segregation laws do not violate the federal constitution while backing the Prince Edward School Board in the case.
A court case questions whether tuition rules for pupils constituted discrimination by denying equal access. The defendant also denies that segregated schooling violated civil rights, arguing alignment with existing policy and legality.
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