Scientists Find New Way To Control Human Bot Fly
University of Florida researchers say DDT and Chlordane sprays or dusts could curb the human bot fly that infests cattle and can transmit parasites. Costa Rica tests showed rapid removal of grubs from infected animals and reduced reinfestation with extended use.
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Washington
Mexico
Central America
South America
University of Florida
United States
Costa Rica
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
John T. Creighton
William W. Neel
Arlington Officers Confiscate Truckload of Whiskey
Virginia authorities seized a $6000 truckload of whiskey bound for dry North Carolina after stopping the truck crossing a Potomac River bridge from Washington. Driver Henry Hattem 47 of Henderson NC posted a $500 bond and was charged with illegal transportation of liquor.
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Arlington
Virginia
North Carolina
Potomac River
Washington
Henry Hattem
Henderson N.C
Auction dates and locations for real estate and livestock
Sales directory lists August 11 at 1 pm Ida S. Anderson half mile east of Front Royal for valuable real estate and personal property. August 22 at 10 am E A Lindsey one mile north of Millwood Clarke Co on Clay Hill Lane livestock and farm machinery. September 5 at 10 am James Perks four miles northwest of Berryville at Marvins Chapel livestock and household goods.
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Ida S. Anderson
Front Royal
E. A. Lindsey
Millwood, Clarke Co
Clay Hill Lane
Liverstock
James Perks
Berryville
Marvin's Chapel
Livestock Chicago Hogs Cattle Sows and Sheep Prices
USDA Chicago market report shows salable hogs 500, total 2000. Barrows and gilts mostly 50 lower, sows 25-50 lower. Top 23.25, several weights with prices 22.15 to 23.25 for choice. cattle 500 salable with steady to higher stockers and feeders, prime steers 1245-1350 lb at 39.00, terms and ranges for heifers and cows listed. sheep mixed to higher with top spring lambs 33.00 and bulk 30.00-32.00 for good to prime.
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Chicago
USDA
Baltimore
Molly Pitcher born in Trenton New Jersey in 1754
Mary Ludwig, born October 13, 1754 in Trenton New Jersey, earned the nickname Molly Pitcher during the Battle of Monmouth for carrying water to troops from a nearby well.
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Molly Pitcher
Mary Ludwig
Trenton
N. J
Area Teachers Attend State Meet
Five teachers from this area attended the annual conference of State Vocational Home Economics Teachers at Radford College from Monday through yesterday. Attendees included Betty Nixon Emschler and Ruth McNeil of James Wood High School, Jane Funk of Leesburg High School, Loudoun County, and Sarah Sipe and Margaret Cepelka of Clarke County High School. Sipe chaired the interest group Developing Family Centered Projects. Emschler and McNeil were noted with Evaluating the Family Centered Homemaking Program, and Cepelka hosted a reception honoring guests and state officials. Funk joined beginning teachers for basic instruction. Dr. Evelyn Millis Duvall spoke on Growth of Individuals the Objective of Family Life Education and remained as consultant. Evening talks highlighted Home Economics in education by Dr. Dowell J. Howard and Dr. Walter Newman.
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Radford College
Betty Nixon Emschler
Ruth McNeil
James Wood High School
Jane Funk
Leesburg
Loudoun County
Sarah Sipe
Margaret Cepelka
Clarke County
Sipe
Emschler
McNeil
Duvall
Dowel J. Howard
Virginia State Department of Education
Walter Newman Presid
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Centenary Reformed To Resume Sunday Services
Centenary Reformed Church will resume services tomorrow morning after a brief vacation period.
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Centenary Reformed Church
Agricultural Dept. Daily Egg and Live Poultry Prices
Prices quoted for tomorrow by the county poultry bureau list Grade A Extra Large 60c US Grade A Large 88c US Grade A Medium vo 8 Grade B Large 48c US Grade C 85c Smalls etc. Live poultry in Winchester area includes No 1 fowl 1.0 b grower hens 4% lb and over 25c Leghorn hens Rock and Cross broilers 56c Red broilers 0 Heavy cocks 12c White No 1 breeder hens 35c White No 1 breeder toms 27c Young guineas 28c per lb Old guineas Ducks per lb and other lines.
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Parm Bureau
U S
Winchester
Local Market Prices at The Star
Local markets list daily corrected prices for flour corn meal and grain products. Entries include 5 to 25 pound bags of corn meal white and yellow, white and yellow corn per bushel barley feeds and mixed feeds, cracked corn, and wholesale butter and butterfat.
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The
Star
The Star Newspaper Vacation Delivery Program
The STAR offers a vacation edition delivery option through the phone line 3424. Subscribers can request compact news summaries and essential notices while away, ensuring they remain informed during holidays or travels.
Fruit Growers Meet Saturday
The Fruit Growers Association holds its monthly meeting at the National Fruit Product Company plant on Saturday at 10 a.m. The morning program includes a plant tour and a peeling demonstration comparing apple sizes, followed by an afternoon program with talks on the economic situation and fruit outlook, the apple marketing program, and actions. Speakers include Don Ruble of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and A. H. Teske, Horticulurist, among others. A box lunch will be served at noon by the National Fruit Product Company.
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Fruit Growers’ Association
National Fruit Product Company
Don Ruble
Deciduous Fruit and Vegetable Section
East Berlin L Doors Closes for Youth Festival Parade
The Soviet controlled Railway Administration shuts 30 subway and elevated stations around East West Berlin to enforce the parade route for the World Youth Festival. More than 1.9 million Free German Youth members are slated to march down Unter den Linden, while Western observers report hundreds of thousands crossing to view prosperity and endure police barriers.
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Berlin
East
West Berlin
Unter den Linden
Free German Youth
FJD
Dr Magill to Speak at Wickliffe Service
Dr Robert P Magill rector of St John s Episcopal Church in Lynchburg will conduct the annual service at Wickliffe Church Clarke County tomorrow morning at 11 o clock The Rev Henry G Lane rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Berryville invited Dr Magill to serve in his place.
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Robert P. Magill
St. John's Episcopal Church
Lynchburg
Wickliffe Church
Clarke County
Henry G. Lane
Grace Episcopal
Support Grows For Honorable Discharges For Cadets
West Point reports increased backing from a lawyer and officials for granting honorable discharges to many of the 90 cadets accused of cheating on exams. Such dismissals would allow leaving the Academy without the stigma of other discharge forms. Cadets themselves seem eager for honorable discharges rather than continuing to contest suspensions.
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West Point
N.Y
Truman advocates dispersal to protect defense plants
Rep. Truman argues dispersed defenses are essential as air power can reach scattered plants. Rep. Rains, who pushed dispersal into controls law, says new prosperity will flow to the South and Midwest with defense contracts going to regions with dispersed facilities.
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Rep
Rains
D-Ala
South
Midwest
Unmarried Clerk Charged in Twin Baby Deaths at Arlington
Ruth Alive Beverage 25, an Arlington Hall Army Signal Corps clerk, is charged with murdering her newborn twin daughters. Autopsy found one smothered and the other strangled. Police plan to question the serviceman boyfriend while noting he may not have been present.
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Arlington
Ruth Alive Beverage
Washington
Athens
Ohio
Miss Beverage
Arlington Hall
Army Signal Corps
Walter Kadel
W C. Welburn
U N Planes Hit Red Supply Base Near Hungnam
U S Eighth Army reports 15 B 29s bombed a Red supply base near Hungnam on the east coast of Korea with over 2000 100 pound bombs. Fifth Air Force crews logged 2700 sorties in the week, destroying 296 supply vehicles and damaging 500. Marines and Air Force bombers also spotted over 2000 enemy vehicles on Red routes last night.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Redheld Hungnam
North Korea
Okinawa
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Red
U. S. Marine
Ai Force
Navy Officer Shot by Worried Wife in Arlington County
Lieut. Edgar O. Robinson, 38, was shot in his home by his wife Marian Eyleen Robinson after she said she feared being separated due to wartime conditions. She was jailed on felonious shooting charges. Robinson was treated for chest and arm wounds and moved to Bethesda Naval Medical Center. their 7-year-old daughter was at home.
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Washington
Navy
Arlington County
Edgar O. Robinson
Navy Medical Center
Bethesda
Marian Eyleen Robinson
C. Burns Pressley
Robinson
Iin
Lightning Kills Soldier at A P Hill Reservation
Fort Meade Md Fourth Army HQ announced Chester M Durden 28 of Fawn Grove Pa was killed by lightning during a training program yesterday at A P Hill Military Reservation in Virginia. Four other soldiers of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment were stunned and reported in good condition at Fort Belvoir Virginia. one discharged from the station hospital.
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Fort Meade
Second Army
Chester M. Durden
Fawn Grove
A. P. Hill Military Reservation
Virginia
Third Armored Cavalry Regiment
Fort Belvoir Va
Government does not redeem counterfeit money
The government does not reimburse citizens who turn over counterfeit bills. Counterfeit currency is contraband and confiscated by the United States upon discovery. Such property is disposed of per Treasury Department directions.
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Secret Service
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Truth Drug Clears Man in Wife's Death
Abner Hatley 26 of Blytheville Ark was released after a coroner's report said a truth drug test suggested he may have sleepwalking at the time his wife Betty 23 died. Betty Hatley was found dead in a rural schoolyard on July 15 from a ruptured liver and broken ribs.
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St! Joseph
Mich
Abner Hatley
Blytheville
Ark
Betty
Joseph E. Killian
Hatley
Cate
Three Women Hurt In Fairfax County Crash
A car ran off Columbia Pike near the Fairfax Arlington line and overturned, uprooting a tree that fell on the vehicle. Rescue squads and police freed three occupants, Miss Clarissa Cunningham, 29, Falls Church, Mrs Ruth Olson, 48, and Miss Mary Fedele, 29, Washington, D C. Cunningham had a broken shoulder. Olson and Fedele were treated for facial and head cuts and released.
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Fairfax Va
Fairfax County
Columbia Pike
Fairfax Arlington County
Clarissa J. Cunningham
Falls Church
Ruth H. Olson
Mary Fedele
Washington, D. C
Cunningham
Jewish Twins Leap To Death in Hungary
Geza and Josef Szucs prominent Hungarian Jewish leaders leaped to their deaths at dawn in Budapest along with an 84 year old aunt who died by poison. The trio’s suicides occur amid reported state evictions of alleged undesirables under the Communist regime, many of whom are Jews from upper and middle class backgrounds.
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Budapest
Hungary
Geza
Josef Szucs
Daughters of the American Revolution Oppose Morgan Disinterment
Carolina Historical Society and Fort Loudoun Chapter D A R oppose removing General Daniel Morgan’s body from Mt Hebron Cemetery in Winchester to Cowpens South Carolina The case filed by Cowpens and Mrs Callahan seeks a court order for reburial of Morgan in Cowpens with 21 days for the Cemetery Company to answer
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Ty Historical Society
Fort Loudoun
Daughters of the American Revolution
D. A. Rs
Joseph Emmerth
W. Nelson Page
Mt. Hebron
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Winchester
Cowpens
S. C
Washington
Morgan
D. C
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Trenton
Virginia
Winchester Star
Cowpens Emmissaries
General Morgan
South Carolina
Josephine Neville Callahan
Poliakoff
O’nealn
Elliott Marshalls Corporation Court
Cemetery Company
Virginia Officer Killed In Korea
An Air Force officer from Virginia, First Lt John R. Burtis, is listed among latest war casualties in Korea. He was married to Mrs. Mary K. Burtis of Newport News. Two Army servicemen were wounded: Sgt Ed Nichols Dalas and Cpl Carleton T. Phillips, with home addresses listed in Nathalie and Roanoke.
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Washington
Air Force
Korea
Defense Department
John R. Burtis
Mary K. Burtis
Huntington Ave
Newport News
Ed Nichols Dalas
Lee V. Dallas
Rt. 2
George Phillips
Greenbrier Ave
Roanoke
States Weigh Child Labor Laws Across the Nation
Department of Labor reports all states have enacted child labor laws but provisions vary by state. Differences in ages work permits and enforcement show nonuniform coverage across the country.
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Department of Labor
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