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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1950
Page
11
Taxpayer suit challenges a $10 000 city appropriation to the Industrial Committee saying the payment was a subterfuge. Attorney Jacob L Morewitz contends the funds were spent to advance Newport News interests in attracting new industry.
Lieutenant Colonel R E McCabe directing Army reservists at A P Hill Sanitary Reservation spots a white devil among camouflage. He tells an aide to commend him and withdraw until the war ends.
Harrisonburg resident Dee Garber 71, a former Republican congressman and state legislator, filed as a candidate for Congress in the Seventh District. He will face incumbent Democrat Burr Harrison in November. Seventh District GOP Chairman Karl Jenkins certified Garber’s candidacy to the State Board of Elections.
The Petersburg gathering hosts 175 members of the Petersburg Junior Chamber of Commerce. The conference runs through Sunday with rating of conferences and planning sessions to generate ideas and projects. An executive meeting opens the event tonight.
The article praises chambers for their outstanding work on various projects over the past year. It highlights collaboration with local groups and acknowledges efforts that boosted community development and civic engagement.
Major James T. Lakin 31, of the Legislative Liaison Division, Office of the Army Chief of Staff, was shot in the chest and left arm as he knelt in his Arlington home. Detective Walter Kadel said five slugs from a burp gun fired at close range caused the injuries. Lakin had expressed worry over debts, per his wife Evelyn. He served in Europe in World War I, left service in 1946, rejoined in 1948 in D.C. He was born in Salt Lake City and graduated from Colorado State College.
Norfolk dockworkers refuse to unload crabmeat from the American manufacturers ship amid boycotts by longshoremen in Boston New York and Baltimore totaling about 200000 pounds. Local IL A vice president says the action is spontaneous and not union directed. Captain Patterson says the cargo may be returned to Glasgow.
Richmond state general fund income in July rose by more than a quarter of a million dollars versus the same month last year, signaling a stronger revenue position for the state. The report details the improved intake across key categories and notes the variance from prior-year figures.
The treasurer reports total revenue of $277,678 from eleamel fund collections and 9439.09 month jump in personal income and corporate taxes rose by 68,977 while estate taxes fell nearly $500,000 offset gains from interest dividends rents and licenses across the month last year.
Richmond postal district plans to move about 2,250,000 pounds of daily mail by truck if the 6 am Monday railroad strike goes ahead. The system serves five railroads including the RF&P, Seaboard Air Line, Southern Danville, and C and O with routes to Washington Hamlet Phoebus Clifton Forge and Sanford. A highway post office between Richmond and Sanford would operate if needed.
Mitzi Gaynor, a 19 year old 20th Century Fox hopeful and ballerina, will reign as Queen Lorelei ITI at the National mee Festival in Virginia's Hampton County September 14 to 16. Andy Roberts will play King Neptune in the three day frolic with coronations opening at Hampton High School Stadium.
Bert Sauls a Jacksonville Beach locksmith specializes in opening cars houses and boxes for people who locked keys inside or lost them. He says safe crackers fail for lack of time but admits a door once swung open without a lock after he leaned on it. Often he finds another entry already open or unlocked.
John Jay McDevitt of Wilkes-Barre earned the nickname Millionaire for a Day after accepting 2500 to withdraw from the ticket in 1912. He traveled to New York on January 12 with a entourage to pursue the offer and later wrote a book about the episode.
In St Louis suburban parishioners report a girl named Joan Rosso showing stigmata at Mass with marks on her palms and backs of hands described as blood splotches and red sores. Witnesses say she faints during elevation and speaks Latin in a 20 minute coma, while family and church officials decline further comment.
Berryville Roy E Potts president of the Bank of Clarke County is much improved after illness at his home since last Saturday He was feared to have a minor brain blood vessel issue and ordered to rest and keep quiet He has been up for two days but remains under doctor orders not to return to work
Halifax report notes William S Purvis, Nova Scotian born head of a Bermuda firm, says many Bermuda leaders favor Bermuda joining Canada as its 11th province. He cites broad support and views it could be beneficial for Bermuda.
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