County and Winchester Building Permits Reach $327 669
Frederick County issued 40 building permits in July totaling $327 669 with 28 new houses valued at $221 500 in the county and 47 permits in the city totaling $205 556. Major entries include a $75 000 Gibson School project and a $41 000 Winchester house permit to N Johnston.
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Frederick County
Winchester
N. Johnston
W. Piccadilly St
Hawthorne Drive
Rocky Vale Recreation Association
E. Pall Mall St
Hollingsworth Drive
Forest Hills
Crown Cork and Seal Co
Route 11
N. E. Harmon
Locust St
Pennsylvania Ave
Douglas Clevenger
N. Braddock St
Fox Drive
Malden Real Estate Co
Plainfield Heights
Kernstown
S. R. Kirk
Fairmont Ave
Nain
Cocoa Cola Bottling Works
Valley Ave
James Jenkins
Summit Point
W. Va
Stephens City
Douglas Orndorff
Hugh Coates
Woodchuck Lane
Clarence Braithwaite
Burning Knolls
Robert Trenary
Stephenson
T. G. Adams
Richard Hoover
Belleview Ave
Millwood Pike
Thomas Buterakos
S. Braddock St
Pineville
Frank Funk
New House
Clara Pursel
Alexandria
Edwards Sub
Albin
Robert Strumsky
Mountain Falls
Wilde Acres
Charles Wehmer
Catonsville
Wilde
Brucetown
R. L. Reid White
James R. Wilkins
Academy Lane
Green Acres
Jesse Winslow
Berryville
Greenwood Rd
Roy Rudolph
Myers
Guy Stanley
Tennyson Ave
Charles A. Baker
Gerald Cupp
E. T. Snider
Berryville Pike
Clyde Hershman
Dale Fleming
Curtis Money
White House Cancels Formal Social Affairs 1959-60 Season
The White House cancels its formal social affairs for the 1959 60 season due to President Eisenhower s heavy international schedule. State dinners are reduced though entertainment for foreign dignitaries on official visits will continue. Mary Jane McCaffree said cancellations allow inclusion of diplomats among guests. Tulsa businessman crafts free canes for the blind but hides his identity.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Mary Jane McCaffree
Giant six foot rubber bands stretch to eighteen feet
Akron Ohio firms use oversized six foot long rubber bands to secure carton stacks in warehouses and shipping rooms. President Clyde C DeLong of B F Goodrich Industrial Products Co says the king size bands will stretch eighteen feet to prevent slipping during loading.
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Clyde C. DeLong
B. F. Goodrich Industrial Products Co
de- Long
Cather to Speak at Salem Revival Services
The Rev. Morris Cather will be the speaker at a revival series at the Middletown Brethren Church from August 17 to 23. Rev. Arthur Carper said services will be held at 7 30 each evening at the church near Middletown. Cather is pastor of Hebron Baptist Church in Gore.
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Morris Cather
Middletown Brethren Church
Arthur Carper
Middletown
Cather
Hebron Baptist Church
Gore
New Ressie Jeffries School Opens for Inspection
Front Royal announces the Ressie Jeffries Combined School will be open August 15 for inspection by pupils families. Registration for Ressie Jeffries high school Warren County High School and U S Rhodes elementary runs August 14 15 and 17 from 930 a m to 5 pm weekdays and 1 pm Saturday. Each child must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to sign forms.
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Front Royal
Ressie Jeffries
Supt
Q. D. Gasque
Ressie Jeffries High School
Warren County High School
Riverton
Road Commission Awards Contracts in Virginia
The State Highway Commission awarded 18 road projects totaling 1.3 million dollars. Bids for permanent traffic signs on Interstate 95 Emporia bypass and resurfacing U S 17 between Tappahannock and Brays Fork on U S 360 were rejected as too high. Engineers said this would be the last large contract set until federal highway aid is clarified by Congress.
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Richmond
State Highway Commission
Emporia
U.S. 17
Tappahannock
Brays Fork
U. S. 360
Congress
Fredericksburg rolls out bag based garbage service
Fredericksburg introduces a unique garbage collection system using large paper bags that fit a 10 gallon can. Workers replace filled bags with new ones, eliminating the need to clean cans previously required by the service.
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Fredericksburg
Bi Yearly Virginia farm report shows grain stock shifts
The Virginia Crop Reporting Service notes higher half year stocks of old wheat and corn, with barley and oats down versus a year ago. Nationally, feed grains wheat and soybeans held record early-year levels. Virginia wheat up nine percent and corn up, while oats fell 44 percent and barley 49 percent from last year. Corn and wheat on farms rose from 2,526,000 to 6,707,000 bushels by July 1.
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Virginia Crop Reporting Service
Richmond
Virginia
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Ters
Boxwood
Edward Startzman
Permastone House
William Chellis
Siler
Ernest Carper
Peyton St
John W. Jones
Mosby St
J. F. Saline
Formstone Ao
William S. Sergeant
National
Kahler Craft Homes
S. Cameron St
Greyhound
Braddock St
Fred Nelson
National Ave
Vernon Shade
Orchard Ave
Kinzel Drive
Earl Madigan
Highland
Robert J. Pullen
E. Piccadilly St
Charles E. Tait
Academy Circle
Denzil Bolen
Herman Lilly
N. Kent St
Malden Real Estate
Maple St
Anthony Jagiello
N. Euclid Ave
Lucy Gaunt
Battle Ave
Winchester Outdoor Advertising Co
Hagerstown
Blind’s
Tulsa
Okla
Akron
Ohio
Salem Revival
New Warren School
Road Commission
Nehi Bottling Co
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