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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1955
Page
2
Cantor Lonas of 328 E Piccadilly St brings a one pound two ounce tomato to the Star. The fruit measures 14 inches in circumference and grew in his small garden at the listed address.
Answers list includes Simon, Billions, Empire State, United States December 1830 Cosmopolite Mum No Ohio Cleopatra No Andrew Jackson.
The Senate GOP Policy Committee’s memo mocks Democrats as desperate for a 1956 candidate. It suggests the “little green men” sighting are desperate Dems and notes splits over Adlai Stevenson versus Harriman, Kefauver, and party mood ahead of the election.
Sales directory lists numerous auction dates from August to September across Frederick Clarke and Jefferson counties. Properties include houses and lots on Paper Mill Road Front Royal Road and Kerns Town along with cattle tractors farm equipment and personal property. Auctioneers include W D Orndorff Horst Wagner and E T Snider with dates from Aug 26 to Sept 17.
The Jefferson School of Commerce of Charlottesville plans a local branch opening September 15 under its extension program. Bogardus Worth, registrar, is at the George Washington Hotel receiving enrollment applications. The local site is undetermined, equipment and teachers to be sent from Charlottesville.
Sultan discussions on a Council of the Throne aim to craft a broadly representative Moroccan government and negotiate limited home rule with France. Grandval plans a visit to Faure, while Paris denies any resignation of the resident general. French forces hunt 6000 Smaala Berbers linked to the Oued Zem massacre as many tribesmen vanish into the Atlas highlands.
W Fred Stinson of 418 Millwood Avenue was named chairman of the Winchester Frederick County Chapter Red Cross Blood Program succeeding Marvin Gore. Stinson, manager of Leonard Electronics, has served as a donor and Rotary donor recruitment member. The chapter's blood drive began in 1942 and has since donated 11 430 pints, with a value of over a quarter million dollars if bought commercially.
In Vienna two doctors were injured as strikers clashed with employees at nonstriking clinics on the second and final day of a nationwide walkout by Austria's doctors and dentists. Protesting a plan to expand national health insurance, the strikers only allowed emergency calls. Several hundred doctors at Vienna city clinics ignored the strike.
Spreading wildcat stoppages left 25,000 workers idle in West Germany today. Two major shipyards in Hamburg and the Henschel locomotive works at Kassel shut down. Building in the Lueneburg area was hit by a 1,500 worker union supported strike demanding higher pay amid rising living costs. Government ordered an inquiry into charges of Communist leadership.
Each family should tailor a budget to its own spending pattern and income. A common rule of thumb uses general percentages as guides, with taxes and Social Security shaping the plan.
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