Pope Not Expected to Heed Integration Halt Plea
Vatican sources say Pope Pius XII is unlikely to support New Orleans laymen who ask him to halt racial integration. They note the pope has spoken for equality but no direct ruling on segregation. Archbishop Rummel is leading efforts to end segregation in churches and schools, but no date is set.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
New Orleans
Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano
L’osservatore
Joseph Francis Rummel
Rummel
Pope Pius
Secretariat of State
Assn
Holy See
Bar association pushes air travel insurance reform at Virginia session
At the opening convention session Meade urged joint action by the association and the Virginia State Bar to seek legislation addressing sales pitfalls by insurance companies and to shield travelers from denial of liability. The gathering, with over 400 attorneys, noted 2,177 members statewide, the largest in five years.
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Association
Virginia State Bar
Meade
Meades
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia
Wiliam T. Muse
Richmond
The
Drought Endangers Timberville Peaches This Year
Timberville area and surrounding counties face a drought that could ruin late peach crops. Experts warn that without rain through mid August, Ambergem and Elberta yields will drop, with Timberville cannery and local packers reporting smaller fruit and downward revisions to 114,490 to 127,000 bushels overall. Local growers urge rain to salvage the season.
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Elbertas
Georgia Belles
National Fruit Product Company
Frederick County
Gore
Timberville
Timber Ridge
Frederice County
Valley
Rappahannock
Madison
Blue Ridge
Douglas Cater
Old Mill
Valley Avenue
Cather
Star
Rockingham County
W. M. Early, Jr
Early & Eddins Produce Company
Early
Timberville Corp
George Belles
Carmen
Navy to mothball 19 ships under economy drive
The United States Navy will end the year with no battleships in active status after ordering the Wisconsin and 18 others placed in mothballs by October 28. The Iowa also to be retired this year, part of a broader defense cut to 38 billion dollars, with additional reductions in petroleum purchases and a net fleet decrease from 967 to 928 ships by year end.
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Yates McDantel
Washington
U.S. Navy
Navy
Wisconsin
Iowa
Khrushchev Tours East German Cities After Berlin Speech
Nikita Khrushchev began a tour of key East German cities starting with Leipzig, where a torchlit welcome and a rally of about 100000 greeted him. He warned that no distance would shield any nation from atomic and hydrogen weapon effects as he backed East German leaders on a visit that mirrors tensions around the West German election.
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Reinhold Gensz
Berlin
East Germany
Nikita Khrushchev
Leipzig
West
Khrushchev
Walter Ulbricht
Communist Party
Anastas Mikoyan
Andrei Gromyko
Moscow
Otto Grotewohl
Mikoyan
Gromyko
Baltic Sea
Stralsund
Rostock
East Berlin
West Germany
Asbury Fellowship Offers Sunday Rides From Braddock Church
The Asbury Fellowship of Braddock Methodist Church will provide transportation to the 11 o'clock service each Sunday. Call the church office MO 2-4341 by 10 50 o'clock on Sunday morning to request a ride.
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Asbury Fellowship
Braddock Methodist Church School
Answers to How's Your I Q quiz questions
Listed quiz answers include Polka, London England, Jesus, Jane Addams, the plane used by President Truman, No it is a hoop skirt, small cucumbers, William and Mary, Yes, Poor man small peaches will make fewer bushels and less profits. Estimates place Virginia crop at 60 to 75 percent of normal without rains.
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London
England
Jesus
Jane Addams
Truman
William and Mary
Man
Virginia
Virginia Weather Outlook and Five Day Forecast
The Virginia region expects partly cloudy skies tonight with lows 55 to 60 east and 60 to 68 west. Saturday brings warm humid conditions with possible scattered thundershowers north in the afternoon. The five day extended forecast August 10 14 shows temperatures about two degrees above normal with widely scattered weekend showers and thunderstorms producing little rainfall.
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Virginia
Shawnee Fire Department Welcomes Twelve New Members
Twelve new members joined the Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department at its August meeting held at the fire hall. The names include Stephen C. Strawd erman James Fost Thomas Ritter Charles S. Crisman Jr Stanley E. McDonald L. R. Swartz Harold G. Cornwell Dennis T. Cole James DuBrueler Harold E. Ruckman Robert Lantz and Amos Ritter. Plans began for dances games and shooting matches at the hall to raise funds for the company with committees to be named soon.
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Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department
Stephen C. Strawderman
James Fost
Thomas Ritter
Charles S. Crisman, Jr
Stanley E. McDonald
L. R. Swartz
Harold G. Cornwell
Dennis T. Cole
James DuBrueler
Harold E. Ruckman
Robert Lantz
Amos Ritter
Arlington Negro student seeks admission to white Virginia school
Sadie, the first Black student to apply for admission to a white Virginia school, says she will seek NAACP aid and federal court if denied. Her siblings also seek transfer to Stratford Junior High. The case hinges on 1956 state law and potential state funding cuts tied to desegregation.
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Sadie
Virginia
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People Naacp
NAACP
Phillips
Elizabeth
Bowles
Stratford
Braun
Richmond
Washington - Lee
Arlington
General Assembly
Stanley
Prince Edward
Charlottesville
Newport News
Norfolk
Albert V. Bryan
Arlington County
DeHaven Named District Director By Sheriffs Group
Frederick County Sheriff Robert L DeHaven returned from Roanoke where he attended the Virginia Sheriffs and City Sergeant Association annual meeting. He was elected Seventh District Director with Warren County Sheriff Francis Slaughter as assistant director. The August 6-8 gathering at Hotel Roanoke elected officers S S Hall Jr president Walter M Riddle first vice president H E Valentine second vice president J Frans Culpeper treasurer Edgar L Winstead secretary.
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Frederick County
Robert L DeHaven
Roanoke
Virginia Sheriff's and
Francis Slaughter
Warren County
S. S. Hall, Jr
Fauquier
Walter M. Riddle
Danville
Dearing Attends Knights Templar Training School
Eugene Dearing representing Winchester at Virginia’s first independent Knights Templar school held at Longwood College Farmville. He is District Deputy Grand Commander and former Winchester Commandery 12 commander. School runs Sunday through Thursday and covers all Templar activities. KnightsTemvar may bring wives and children to be entertained during the event.
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Eugene Dearing
Winchester
Knights Templar
Virginia
Longwood College
Farmville
Knights Temvar
Templar
Estate and household auction notices across Frederick and nearby towns
Listings show auctions and sales for August with details on owners, locations such as Charles Town Paw Paw and Frederick County Court House, times from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., items including dairy cattle real estate furniture antiques and three Front Royal Road lots, with auctioneers named W D Orndorff T E Snider and Ralph L Schuchart.
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George W. Hough
Charles Town
W. Va
W. D. Orndorff
S. C. Curl
Prederick County Court House
South Braddock St
G. G. Santymire
Paw Paw W. Va
T. A. Taylor
O .M. Lloyd
Old Charles Town Road
Richard N. Brooke
Frederick County Court House
Front Royal Road
William R. Garver
Littlestown
Ralph L. Schuchart
Merger announced for Loudoun Times-Mirror and Blue Ridge Herald
The 158 year old Times-Mirror and 68 year old Blue Ridge Herald announce a merger to form Loudoun Times Mirror and Blue Ridge Herald. Hubert Phipps remains president and publisher while John Eisenhard becomes managing editor. Fitzhugh Turner gains substantial interest and is named vice president. The merged paper will be published in Leesburg at the Times-Mirror Plant.
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Leesburg
Loudoun Times - Mirror
Blue Ridge Herald
Hubert Phipps
Times- Mirror
John Eisenhard
The
Herald
Eisenhard
Fitzhugh Turner
Phipps
Mirror-Times
Turner
Times-Mirror
Purcellville
Rhinoceros Beetle Brought to Star
A male Rhinoceros beetle was brought to Star by Mrs. Beulah McAdoo of 312 E Picadilly St. Found by neighbor Donnie Mason the insect, described by Winchester Fruit Laboratory as a beneficial scavenger of the Scarab family, measures almost two inches and is pale grey with black spots and two long horns on its head.
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Beulah McAdoo
E. Picadilly St
Donnie Mason
Winchester Fruit Laboratory
Minor brush fire in railroad yards near scrap company
Firefighters responded around 11 a.m. to a wooded area behind the Southern Scrap Company in the Pennsylvania Railroad Yards. Two residents Friendship and Sarah Zane assisted as crews noted likely campfires by tramps had not been fully extinguished. About 20 by 40 feet burned with no reported damage.
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Southern Scrap Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Friendship
Sarah Zane
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