Ex Bradley Stars Have Sentences Suspended
Judge suspended the sentences of three former Bradley University players Gene Melchiorre George Chianakis and William Mann who pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix a 1949 game with Bowling Green at Madison Square Garden. They were among 31 former players from seven schools involved in point fixing with some others already sentenced or given suspended sentences.
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New York
Saul
Sen
University Basket
Mrediey
Gene Melchiorre
George Chianakis
William Mann
Bowling Green
Madison Square Garden
Streit
Owen
Aeapo A Adards
Ilinois
University
Peoria
Honolulu
Bradley
U S Hoboes Propose Low Level Talks With Russians
A group of 10 hoboes marched outside a New York UN realm demanding low level talks with the Soviet delegation. Signs invoked peace and mocked Stalin, including messages about vodka and beer and a caricature they called Boxcar Betty.
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U.S
New York
United Nations
Park Avenue
Betty
Stalin
Local advertisements and notices from a 1940s issue
Prominent classifieds include fuel and kerosene offers from W. Plumly Lumber Corp and F. Nelson distributors, plus a job posting seeking a bookkeeper and typist with Box 35 in Star. Also a notice for the Sarah Zane Fire Co monthly meeting on Friday December 7 at 8 p.m with refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Nelson
Dia
Sarah Zane Fire CO
Loryn M. Crabill
Oliphant Skips Hearing in House Tax Probers Probe
Former Bureau of Internal Revenue chief legal officer Oliphant, 42, who resigned amid a probe into irregularities and alleged cliques, failed to appear before House Ways and Means subcommittee. The committee seeks public testimony as tensions rise and a grand jury considers the matter.
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Washington
Charlies Oliphant
House
Oliphant
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Ways and Means
Abraham Teitelbaum
Chicago
Frank Nathan
Pittsburgh
Bert K. Naster
Holly Teitelbaum
Nathan
McGrath
King
Waste at Air Force bases prompts review by subcommittee
The Senate Armed Services subcommittee reported finding numerous examples of trivial waste at six Air Force bases Langley Carswell Lowry Mather March and Keesler. It condemned lavish dining hall furniture expensive dormitories and lavish recreational facilities plus misallocated personnel and high training costs.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Air Force
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Langley
Norfolk
Carswell
Fort Worth
Tex
Lowry
Denver
Colo
Mather
Sacramento
Calif
March
Riverside
Keesler
Biloxi
Iss
WAF
Virginia Weather Outlook Extended Dec 8 to Dec
Forecast calls for temperatures 5 to 8 degrees above normal. Warm Saturday followed by a trend toward colder air through Wednesday. Rain expected Sunday and again around Wednesday. Total precipitation of about one half to one inch.
Membership in Methodist Church Reaches Nine Million
The U S Methodist Church and its possessions report membership passing nine million in 1965, up from 8,935,647 in 1950. The statistic's head, Rev Albert C Hoover, notes the rise to 9,065,727 this year. Portable typewriters for sale by Kenneth E Henry Co at $64.50 with easy terms.
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Chicago
Methodist Church
U. S
Albert C. Hoover
Kenneth E. Henry Co
Pvt Carroll Missing in Korea
Mrs. Bertha Carroll of 359 National Ave reports her son Pvt Garland Carroll is missing in Korea. He attended Berryville High School and entered service in March. He went to Japan in August and was sent to Korea two months later.
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Bertha Carroll
National Ave
Pvt
Garland Carroll
Korea
Carroll
Berryville High School
Japan
Berryville Man Donates Blood 16 Times to ABC
Eustace Jackson of Berryville has donated two gallons of blood and earned a citation from Clarke County Post 9760 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. G. Kenneth Levi and Hugo Thaden each have 15 pints behind him as Jackson nears the top donor list. The club plans to publish names of other multiple donors and stresses the need for new donors to meet 1952 quotas. The first January drive in Clarke County is set for January 4.
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Eustace Jackson
Berryville
Jackson
Clarke County
Veterans of Foreign Wars
G. Kenneth Levi
Hugo Thaden
Berlin
Winter Storm Returns to Midwest with Snow and Tornado Loss
Wintry weather hit the Midwest with snow and strong winds and a tornado in Spring Valley Illinois killed one person and injured another. Falls of six to eight inches were reported in parts of Minnesota the Dakotas and Wisconsin as cold air moved in from the Rockies. Eastern cities set record highs with Cincinnati reaching seventy degrees.
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Midwest
Rocky Mountain
Minnesota
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Iowa
Rockies
Laramie
Wyo
Gulf States
Cincinnati
Spring Valley
Illinois
ABC Stores Open on December 24
Virginia ABC liquor stores will operate normally on December 24 but close for Christmas Day and December 26. Governor Battle's four day holiday includes state workers. Christmas Eve is now an official holiday. Stores reopen December 31 and close January 1.
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Richmond
Virginia
ABC Board
Battle
Rouss Fire Company
Robert Legge
Public safety incident near Sunnyside on Route 522
A 1 P.M. incident occurred December 8, 1951, one mile northwest of Winchester on Route 522. The report notes a warm building used to shoot from vrata and Chickens with Buck McDonald referenced.
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Sunnyside
Winchester
Vrata
Buck McDonald
Soviet Bloc Fails to Seat Red China at UN
The United Nations General Assembly rejected a Soviet bloc bid to seat Red China and replace the Nationalists. Russia threatened a fourth veto on Italy's bid for UN membership while a new standby group would replace the on the spot Balkan commission. Big Four disarmament talks were slated for late today with little hope of agreement.
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Paris
United Nations General Assembly
China
Security Council
Italy
U. N
Russia
U.N. Trusteeship Council
Somaliland
U N
New York
United Nations
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U.S
Philip C. Jessup
Selwyn Lloyd
Preach
Jules Moch
Percy Stewart Elected President of VPI Alumni Chapter
The Northern Virginia Chapter of the VPI Alumni Association held its bi annual dinner meeting last night in Front Royal. Norman Ochs, outgoing president, oversaw the election of Percy Stewart as president and Fred Brumback as vice president for Frederick County. John Hutcheson, former president and current VPI chancellor, spoke on VPI efforts to attract industry investment in college research. He noted VPI grew from 700 to 5000 students and that 80 percent of engineering students in Virginia study there. A film of the Virginia Tech–VPI football game was shown.
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Northern Virginia
VPI Alumni Association
Adorn
Norman Ochs
Front Royal
Percy Stewart
Fred Brumback
Frederick County
John Hutcheson
VPI
Hutcheson
Virginia
University of Virginia
Richmond Area Transit Strike Vote Set
Bus drivers and maintenance workers in Richmond Norfolk and Portsmouth will vote next Tuesday to authorize a strike against the Virginia Transit Company.
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Richmond
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Virginia Transit Company
City Board Votes Dismissal Of Paneled Communist Teachers
The City Board of Education voted unanimously to dismiss teachers found to be members of the Communist Party or any other subversive group.
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New York
City Board of Education
Communist Party
Adult Attention On The Upswing Says Santa Clauses
New York department store Santas report a rise in adult attention on their laps with several anecdotes. One elderly man weighed about 200 pounds, asking for photos to prove Santa and Claus existed to his nieces, while a young woman in her 20s sat for a picture to show her boyfriend in Japan. Another Santa recalled a woman returning seven times seeking a knee sit, noting she was the lonesome type seeking Christmas company.
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New York
Santa
Claus
Japan
Wisconsin Primary Seen Deciding GOP Nominee
Senator McCarthy predicting the April 1 Wisconsin primary will shape the 1952 Republican nomination. He says Wisconsin Republicans mirror party sentiment and whoever wins the primary will likely become the GOP standard bearer.
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Wisconsin
Washington
McCarthy
Wis
Los Angeles
R. A. McCannon
Senate
Dewey
Carthy
210 Couples Get Marriage Permits
County and City clerks logged 210 marriage licenses in Windsor during November. The year to date total reached 2 809 licenses, 34 more than the first 11 months of 1950. Peyton J. Marshall issued 134 licenses to brides from multiple states, while Lee N. Whitacre licensed 76, including entrants from Pennsylvania West Virginia Virginia Ohio Maryland Tennessee and Florida.
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Winchester
Peyton J. Marshall
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Florida
Lee N. Whitacre
Ohio
Tennessee
Maryland
Large Apple Storage Figures Show Over A Million Bushels Stored
As of December 1 Frederick and Clarke County report 1 027 123 bushels of fresh apples in storage, 22 percent of the Belt’s total. Virginia holds 55 percent of Belt stocks, while Pennsylvania 24 percent and West Virginia 17 percent. Between November 15 and 30 about 400 000 bushels were moved out, with overall holdings in decline from last year. Stayman apples comprise about 23 percent of stored fruit, followed by Rome York Winesap Delicious and others.
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Frederick
Clarke County
Appalachian
Virginia
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Belt
Apple Service
Stayman
Rome
York
Winesap
Delicious
Golden Delicious
Pippin
Jonathan
City Police Nab Pen Escapee In 1 Man Crime Wave Here
The report notes a Panmunjom briefing quoting a Communist correspondent about missing Americans in Korea. Allied truce negotiators opened talks on policing an armistice and rejected joint Communist inspection teams. Early troop withdrawal was ruled out.
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Munban
Korea
Panmunjom
U. N
Chu Chi-Ping
Chu
Red Jets Refuse Bid to Battle
A news brief reports Allied jets hunted Reds in Manchuria as weather limited U S Air Force flights to 103 by evening. Communist infantry probed southwest of Kumsong while UN posts repelled four of five probes. remaining Allied units held positions. Snow covered fox holes on the eastern front.
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Seoul
Manchuria
Korea
U. S
Kumsong
United Nar
Eighth Army
U. N
Australian War Bride Bags Deer
An Australian war bride, Mrs. Theo Clem of Sydney now living near Rock Gap, West Virginia, bagged an eight point 145 pound buck early in the deer season. She killed the deer with three shots from a .30-30 rifle a few hours after the season opened on Monday.
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Berkeley Springs
W. Va
West Virginia
Theo Clem
Sydney
Rock Gap
Nervous Women Made Over Bridge Table Not Wash Tub
California diagnostician Dr. Earl O. G. Schmitt told the AMA that more nervous women are created by the machine age than by domestic chores. He described today’s nervous woman as scared and lonely needing friendship, asserting work is a good medicine.
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Los Angeles
California
Earl O. G. Schmitt
San Jose
Calif
American Medical Association
Cannery Apples Show Loss for Fourth Year
Growersaveraged less than cost of production for apples sold to processors in 1950 per 100 pounds. Appalachian Apple Service figures show cost of production at 2.53 and grower return at 2.32, a 21 cent loss per hundredweight, despite a 3.25 price scale the highest since 1947.
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Appalachian Apple Service
Fourstate Belt
Two U S Planes Missing Over French Terrain
Report says two U S military planes are unaccounted for in seille France after a C 47 twin engine plane from Tri Poli could have crashed in mountainous terrain. Another aircraft is due at Kindley field at 10 a m Thursday.
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Seille
France
Tripoli
Kindley
Priday
City Swelters In Springlike Weather
Weather across the city stayed unseasonably warm for the period with temperatures in the 60s and a high near 78 by noon. Shoppers shed coats and scarves as springlike conditions continued, while forecasts hinted at cooler weekend relief and a return toward the 50s later.
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John
New Trial Date Set in Huyett Damage Suit
A six member jury failed to reach a verdict in the Winchester County Court case of Wilbur E. and Grace E. Huyett against Howard Shockey and Sons. Judge Elliott Marshall set January 30, 1952, for a new trial. Plaintiffs claim their Cecil Street home suffered blast damage from an explosion on October 37, 9. Attorneys Harrison Benham and Thoma represent the Huyetts. J Sloan Kuykendall represents Shockey and Sons. Jury members listed include Robert L. Anderson and Edith F. Reardon among others.
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Winchester
Wilbur E. Huyett
Grace E. Huyett
Howard Shockey and Sons
Elliott Marshall
Cecil Street
Harrison
Shockey and Sons
Robert L. Anderson
C. B. Shickle
B. H. Hamman
J J
Carl Germelan
B. A. Grayson
Edith F. Reardon
Achilla Lazanzera
Sam
Gillis Bray Place
White Post Road
Fugitive Linked With Car Theft and Break-Ins
A suspect described as 40 year old Woundelile Eugene Jackson is tied to a string of crimes including car theft and multiple break-ins. Police reported entry gained by cutting a door screen at a residence, with $21 in cash stolen from Mrs. Marple’s home, and several packages of cigarettes missing.
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Woundelile Eugene Jackson
Tharp
Weekly enemy casualties rise to 1.48 million
A battle casualty report shows total enemy deaths and injuries reaching 1 483 962 on November 7 20, up 11 087 from the prior week regionally tracked by officials.
Virginia Tech approves new master degree at Blacksburg
The Board of Visitors approves a new master degree at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. President Walter Newman announced the decision today.
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Blacksburg
Board of Visitors
Virginia Tech
Walter &. Newman
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