Fire Chief Urges City to Hire Four Additional Drivers
Winchester fire chief Taylor Barr asked the city council to appropriate funds for four more drivers at a minimum annual cost of 7000. He said current staffing leaves the city underprotected on Sundays and limits mutual aid, proposing 24 hour service with one driver per company and improved life balance for current personnel. Barr noted 116 alarms this year and blamed a return to prewar fire habits for rising fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor Barr
Winchester
Barr
John Steck Jr
Steck
C. R. Anderson
Staunton to Annex Four Square Miles
Staunton moves to annex about four square miles of Augusta County to boost population from 13,337 to around 16,600. A three judge court approved the takeover of all requested areas and granted an extra 250 acres not initially sought. The added land includes Pointsville and Two Mile Hill communities, whose residents asked to be included in the annexation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staunton
Augusta County
Pointsville
Two Mile Hill
Exchange Club Sponsors Aid For Eurpeans
The Winchester Exchange club, designated by Mayor C R Anderson, will sponsor local participation in CARE for sending food and cloth ing packages to Europe. CARE guarantees delivery to 15 countries for a total of 10 dollars per package, with 22 lb food packages feeding a family of four for a month. Carl Haines leads publicity. Ralph Hardy heads the project and asks donors to make checks to CARE.
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Winchester Exchange Club
C. R. Anderson
Europe
Advisory Committee On
U. S. Department of State
Department of Agriculture
Truman
CARE
Ralph Hardy
The
Exchange
Britain
Eire
Hardy
Italy
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Zechoslovakia
Finland
France
Germany
Berlin
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
Poland
Rumana
Carl Haines
Fellowship Club Opens Headquarters Monday
The Fellowship Club of Winchester and Frederick County opens its Cameron Street headquarters Monday to coordinate Christmas season relief. Members adopt families, share food clothing and toys, with all contributions directed to needy families and audited by the City Auditor.
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Fellowship Club
Winchester
Frederick County
City Council Chamber
Fellowship
Cameron St
All-State Band Tryouts March Here Saturday
Handley hosts western division tryouts with 18 area high schools represented. 21 Handley students list includes Hilda Taylor Dick Kremer Peggy Long and others as judges assess tone rhythm on sight reading in a separated panel.
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Handley
Gaylen Strance
Les Walden
Luray
Handiians
Strance
Enzio Solomon
Marvin Hutchinson
Finis Danley
Robert Lindsey
Arch Jones
Radford
Gene Morelan
Woodstock
Flivver Fliers Complete Trip Round World
Cliff Evans and George Truman landed their two pint-sized 100 horsepower flivver planes at Teterboro airport completing a 5000 mile globe circling flight. They started Aug 9 and finished in 123 days showing it could be done in fabric covered planes. The tiny aircraft bore flags from 23 nations and a patchwork of insignia at 49 stops.
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Teterboro
N. J
Cliff Evans
George Truman
Truck Driver Fined Ten Dollars for Reckless Driving
Jesse Gardner of Thomasville North Carolina was fined 10 plus costs in police court for reckless driving after his 47 International tractor trailer rear ended a 1937 Oldsmobile at Braddock and Boscawen Streets. The car sustained about 80 dollars in damage and the driver suffered minor leg injuries.
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Jesse Gardner
Thomasville N. C
Braddock and
Boscawen Sts
Harold Crisman
E. Piccadilly
Paul McIntyre
National Ave
Gardner
Grubb Motor Lines
Nwc
Lovett’s Pre Christmas Shoe Sale Listed On Page Five
Elks hold Wednesday night gathering December 10 at Elks Home with all members invited. Special Christmas packages offered, seasonal fruit like Grimes Golden and Stayman apples priced 1.50 to 2.00. Butler's Packing House provides strap tag and ship services. orders welcome.
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ELKS
Big Ree
Butler's Packing House
Winchester Council Approves Major License Tax Increase Plan
The Winchester council ratified a December ordinance raising most licenses except mercantile ones to boost revenue by about $20,000. The measure, effective January 1, doubles many fixed licenses and adds new taxes for theatres doctors lawyers and barbers among others, with ongoing debate on auto tag policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Fred L. Glaize Jr
J. Glaize
Glaize
Allen Hawthorne
C. R. Anderson
Anderson
W. W. Dellinger
Infant Thrown from Car Survives with Bruises
A six month old baby, hurled from a car near R. 50 six miles west, escaped with bruises after the vehicle left the highway at 3 20 pm. The Bell family, in the car driven by Robert Lloyd Bell, suffered minor injuries. the mother Elizabeth Bell had cuts, and a five year old son was unharmed. The car demolished several fence posts on the Hunter Bayliss farm before rolling over.
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Robert Lloyd Bell
White Post
J. 8. Fant
Lewis Moseley
R. 50
Here
Hunter Bayliss Farm
Rodent Control Experts to Visit Berryville
W. K. Dykstra district agent and John C. Jones assistant agent of the U S interior department will meet Berryville and Clarke county leaders at 3 p m next Tuesday in the Berryville courthouse to discuss a rat eradication program.
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W. K. Dykstra
U. S. Interior Department
Boston
John C. Jones
Washington
Berryville
Clarke County
Court House
Bulgars Transfer Government to New Constitution
Nikola Dolatovehev, Bulgarian representative to Britain, said Bulgaria’s government resigned as a formality under the new constitution but would be reconstituted immediately with Georgi Dimitrov remaining premier. He added most former ministers would return and a presidium was elected yesterday by the General Assembly.
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London
Nikola Dolatovehev
Britain
Georgi Dimitrov
General Assembly
New Union Wage Demands To Pose Difficulties for Business
James Marlow reports that organized labor plans a two-pronged push in 1948 political and economic strategies. CIO AFL and railroad brotherhoods mobilize for elections and wage demands while AFL and CIO PACs target Congress. The end of wartime controls sparked price rises, intensifying labor’s push for higher wages and political influence.
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Congress
Washington
CIO
AFL
Railroad Brotherhoods
Brotherhoods
Roosevelt
Cio-Pac
Boston
Jack Kroll
PAC
William Green
League
Railroad Labor
GOP Leaders Outline Four Point Anti Inflation Plan
Republican leaders Taft and Halleck announced a four point program to curb inflation. It includes voluntary industry wide price restraints with temporary antitrust relaxation, expanded export controls, higher gold reserve requirements for Federal Reserve banks, and tightened control of critical transportation assets like boxcars.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Steering Committee
House
Halleck
Indiana
Federal Reserve Banks
Fedral Reserve
U S Demands End to German Reparations in East Europe
In London Secretary of State Marshall urged Russia to halt reparations withdrawals from Eastern Germany by January 1, arguing ongoing payments impede European recovery. He pressed for a clear answer from Molotov on paragraph 22 of a British proposal prioritizing German recovery over further reparations.
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London
Marshall
Russia
Germany
Council of Foreign Ministers
United States
Molotov
Mrs. I F Stine Elected Head of Winchester Girl Scouts
Mrs I Fred Stine was elected commissioner for two years by the Winchester Girl Scout council succeeding Mrs Herbert Solenberger. Others named include first deputy Mrs Lemuel Brown second deputy Mrs Solenberger recording secretary Miss Elizabeth Kern corresponding secretary Mrs E P Browning and treasurer Mrs Roy Cather. The council reports 315 registered Girl Scouts in the community.
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I. Fred Stine
Winchester Girl Scout Council
Herbert Solenberger
Lemuel Brown
Elizabeth Kern
E. P. Browning
Roy Cather
Robbers of Diner Still at Liberty
Clarke county police report no new developments in the armed hold up at the Paris Diner. Sgt. F L Woolf suspects the trio may be the same men sought in Rockingham for slugging and robbing a Staunton truck driver near Harrisonburg yesterday.
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F. L. Woolf
Paris
Clarke County
Rockingham County
Staunton
Harrisonburg
Gunfire Used to Cure Wife's Hiccups in Great Falls
Stanley J. Take 21 said three shots from an automatic pistol outside a tavern were used to cure his wife's hiccups. He asked the justice court to refrain from disturbing the peace. the court deferred decision.
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Great Falls
Mont
Stanley J. Take
Wanted Experienced Saleslady for Church Supper Job
Help wanted for permanent position at Redland Methodist Church Whitacre Virginia. Cather and Moling advertise a chicken and oyster supper to be served at 6 PM on Friday December 12. Local you are invited to attend or apply for the role.
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Cather and Moling
Redland Methodist Church
Whitacre
Wallace Predicts Third Party in Presidential Race
Henry A. Wallace told reporters in Ithaca New York that unless U S foreign policy changes there will be a third party in next year’s presidential race. He declined to say he would head it, adding he would help if possible. He spoke during an upstate New York tour aimed at confirming his theory that people north of the Bronx are open minded to world changes.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Henry A. Wallace
America
Wallace
New York
Bronx
General Strike Called by Labor in Rome Area
Rome area workers vote a general strike effective at midnight in the Rome province. Government reports say Premier Alcide De Gasperi offered about 18.65 million dollars for city and provincial public works to avert the walkout. It serves as a protest message from labor.
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Rome
Chamber of Labor
Alcide de Casperi
Christmas Bonus Approved by Winchester Council
Winchester council approved a $470 payment from the contingent fund to 47 city employees as Christmas bonuses, a practice of about 10 years. The omission from the current budget was not explained.
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Winchester
Stephens City Girl Wins Apple Contest
Miss Ruth H. Boyer of Stephens City won one of ten $10 prizes from Appalachian Apple Service for best apple use in Southern home cookery programs. The contest reached about 32000 home economists and instructors through the growers association.
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Ruth H. Boyer
Stephens City
South
Appalachian Apple Service
The
Growers’ Association
One Man Seen At Burned Site By Search Craft
A U S Army Air Transport Command DC-4 carrying 29 crew and 19 passengers crashed near Goose Bay Labrador just after takeoff. One survivor possibility seen waving from wreckage. rescue teams from Goose Bay and allied aircraft scoured the icy wilderness. Officials reported a missing C-45 with four aboard crashed at sea. three deaths noted in separate incident. ongoing efforts to locate survivors and assist.
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Associated Press
U.S. Army Air Transport Command
Goose Bay
Labrador
Air Transport Command
Laborador
Westover Field
Mass
Goose River
Rome
Okla Ee i Lechtas
Federal Reserve to Raise Rediscount Rate Soon
Federal Reserve Chairman Eccles announced that the rediscount rate will be raised from 1 percent to about 1 1/4 percent, indicating a tightened monetary stance. The statement was made in Washington on December 10.
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Federal Reserve
Washington
Liner
Eccles
Council Prepares For Legislature
An ordinance has been introduced by title only to adjust city rules if needed when the General Assembly convenes next month. No changes are anticipated, but it is standard practice to bring up such an ordinance before each session.
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General Assembly
Farm Conservation Committeemen Named
Elections for community committeemen and alternates in Clarke and Frederick counties were announced. Frederick officials meet Friday at the ACA office in Winchester to elect the county committee led by J L Hershman. Members and alternates include E W Adams Jr Roy Triplett Harry LaFollette and others across Back Creek Gainesboro Opequon Shawnee Stonewall Battletown Shade Moore Greenway Longmarsh and nearby areas.
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E. W. Adams Jr
W. H. Bierer
Frederick County
Back Creek
J. L. Hershman
Roy C. Triplett
Harry LaFollette
Robert Muse
N. B. Fout
Gainesboro
E. W. Adams
G. T. Yeakiey
Kade R.gomuant
Clarke
Battletown
W. B. Claggett
R. L. Fowler
Chapel
Shade Moore
Greenway
Nam
A. C. Buckley
Geren
W. R. Thompson
L. T. Larrick
Longmar
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Exchange Club
Eurpeans
N. Cameron St
L. and F
Ladies’ Home Market
Capitol Theatre
Lovett's
Clark County
BY James Marlow
San Francisco
Labor
GOP
U.S
I.F. Stine
Girl Scouts
Snowy
Stephens
Council
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