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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1956
Page
2
Arlington police yesterday halted a dice game among workmen in a building site area. Eight men were charged with gambling after officers, using a borrowed word blind, arrested them in the midst of the game from a laundry truck.
The record notes that twenty eight man hours are required to log, manufacture and distribute one thousand board feet of lumber. This fact highlights labor intensity and efficiency in early wood supply chains.
Peach demand remained fairly good at Appalachian shipping points with prices near last week. Elberta sales dominated in southern Virginia and Winchester Martinsburg, with U S No 1 stock at 2 to 3 dollars per bushel and hydro cooled fruit priced higher. Elbertas expected to run mid to late next week in Crozet and Roanoke areas.
Margaret Keller Sirbaugh 76 of 33 West Cork Street died at 5 21 p m in Winchester Memorial Hospital. She was born October 7 1879 in Hanging Rock WV, widow of James I Sirbaugh, and member of Capon Bridge Christian Church. Surviving: three sons Leonard B, J Alva, Versus K Sirbaugh. daughter Aubrey Smith. four brothers Alonzo and Harry Keller, Joseph and Homer Keller. four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 11 00 a m at Jones Funeral Home. Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery. Remains at Jones Funeral Home until service.
Astrology notes Virgos are discriminating practical modest intellectual and poised. They may lack compassion and should learn tolerance. Best careers include teaching law sciences writing business and public life. Virgo children are neat study focused and well behaved.
The Democratic platform pledges protection of individual rights while recognizing Supreme Court decisions. It calls for stronger non Communist alliances, support for Israel, access to the Suez Canal, and bold measures to aid farmers, workers, and the poor. It backs farm parity, labor reform, higher minimum wage, expanded Social Security, and greater public housing and education funding. It critiques Eisenhower policies, aims to curb government borrowing costs, and seeks more efficient government, veterans aid, home rule for D C, and faster congressional action.
Franklin County deputies guarded the West Side home of Mr. and Mrs. George Lawson after rocks were hurled and a kerosene soaked cross burned Tuesday night. Investigators said the act aimed to force the family to move from an all white area, and the FBI was to be notified about an anonymous threat.
The International Association of Machinists set August 25 as a strike deadline against United Airlines if wage talks fail. About 8,000 workers seek 27 cents an hour more, with current average pay $2.33. A national strike would disrupt United service coast to coast and to territories.
The Agriculture Wheel started February 15 1882 in an old Prairie County Arkansas log school house. Its parents were monopoly and oppression. The wheel symbolized agriculture as a moving force and echoed Ezekiel’s wheel within a wheel. From 7 charter members it reportedly grew to 500000 members in five years.
The report states that out of roughly 70 million licensed drivers in the country, about 20 million received traffic violation tickets, indicating widespread enforcement.
Hungarian Interior Ministry spokesman says Associated Press reporter Endre Marton will be released today with full clemency. Marton, convicted of spying for U S intelligence, was sentenced to six years. his wife Ilona got three years. Their daughters Kati and Julia live with a retired Budapest professor.
Multiple sale notices list auctions across Berryville Kernstown Strasburg Charles Town and Na in with items including horses cattle sheep hogs farming equipment household goods furniture and dairy equipment. Receivers and auctioneers named include John F Anderson W D Orndorff Headley's Auctions E T Snider and G E Vickers with dates from August 18 to September 51.
O'Sullivan officials announce the founder resigns effective immediately but remains on the Board of Directors. Catarella had been named president on October 1, 1949 and chairs the board since 1952. The Rubber Workers union demands repayment of misused employee bond monies while strike progress stalls with about 400 workers out since May 13.
The last union meeting with the company occurred Tuesday as O Sullivan turned down a union proposal that included a 5 cent per hour wage increase and the return of all workers to their former positions.
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