Winchester approves 650000 sewer bond set for northeast
Governor Tuck orders extra session as Winchester voters approve a 650000 bond for a new disposal plant and sewer extension by 722 to 131. Only 853 of 2000 eligible vote with canvass planned and bond sale expected while construction delayed by material shortages. precinct results show city hall and neighborhood totals.
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Winchester
Sarah Zane
Friendship
Rouss
City Hall
May Weather Shifts Toward December Norms
Forecasts indicate a brief, springlike spell for shoppers before cold air from Canada drives temperatures toward December norms. Northern Plains and Northeast expected to return to normal by tomorrow, Southeastern states cooler Friday, while New York City and Harrisburg set record warmth for December.
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Angela
West Tennnals
Canada
New England
Mid-Atlantic
New York City
Harrisburg
Middletown Council Concludes Rutine December Session
Mayor Fred J. Larrick reported that only routine matters were handled. The town water system project approved by a $25,000 bond issue last month faces delays due to high material costs and is not expected to begin before spring.
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Middletown
Fred J. Larrick
Wood for sale and assorted paper draperies offer
Wood for sale call 6414 at Oates Lumber Yard. Also listed shipment of paper draperies at 89 cents per pair from B Snider and Son. Located North Cameron area with date markers 12 10 1p 2t.
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Oates Lumber Yard
B. Snider & Son
North Cameron
Winchester Fellowship Club Benefit Picture At Capitol Theatre
The Winchester Fellowship Club plans a Sunday benefit at the Capitol Theatre starting 2 p.m. on December 15. Admission is non-perishable food, toys in good condition, clean clothing, or clean basket provisions. The event follows Saturday morning screenings and features a strong program to aid the charity. On Saturday, the Winchester JBT joins with Bundle Day, with residents urged to place bundles at the curb by noon for pickup at 1 p.m.
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Fellowship Club
Capitol Theatre
Winchester Jbt
Reserve Lt Col Leary G. Baker Promoted
Mr and Mrs Earl Baker of 311 Gray Avenue report the promotion of their son Leary G. Baker from major to lieutenant colonel in the U S Army Reserve. A Handley High School and VPI graduate, he is an industrial near Dan Cation Va veteran who married Burley Bowers of Harrisonburg. They have one child.
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Earl Baker
Gray Avenue
Leary G. Baker
United States Army Reserve
Dan Cation Va
Coast Artillery
Handley High School
VPI
Burley Bowers
Harrisonburg
Safety Patrol Formed For Clarke County Students
Clarke County Junior Board of Trade sponsors a School Boy Safety Patrol in Berryville under Lewis E. Hart with State Trooper H. W. Glasscock aiding. Patrol members wear white belts and badges and guide students at intersections to cross safely without directing traffic.
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Berryville
Clarke County Junior Board of Trade
Lewis E. Hart
JET Public Safety
Hart
H. W. Glasscock
McNarney lifts ban on GI marriages to German girls
General McNarney spokesman announced the ban on American soldiers marrying German women will be lifted within 15 days with reservations. Col. Kyster said unions allowed only as soldiers depart Germany, and German brides would face Nazi-sympathy checks before United States entry. Details to follow within 15 days.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Joseph T. McNarney
George S. Kyster
Europe
McNarney
Eyster
United States
Four Power Ministers Set Paris Pact Signing Feb Ten
The council decided that the five European satellite peace treaties completed here should be signed in Paris on February 10.
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New. York
Foreign Ministers Council
Paris
Norton Goes Wet In Beer Vote As Appalachia Falls Dry
Norton Virginia voters approved selling beer and wine while Appalachia voters rejected beer wine and other liquors by narrow margins. Wise County towns Big Stone Gap and Pound plan local option elections next Tuesday as county voters weigh liquor laws.
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Norton
Wise County
Appalachia
B. W. Hamilton
Tax Payers League of
Big Stone Gap
Pound
Horse Hero Frees From Parking Meter Escapes Crowd
A horse tied to a parking meter after a five cent deposit bolted free. The animal spooked by the gadget or crowd raced away and was not recaptured until reaching the Central Amoco Station, creating considerable excitement this morning.
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Amoco Station
Blatt's Cleaners Seeks Experienced Spotter in Virginia
Job listing seeking an experienced spotter for a dry cleaning plant at Blatt's Cleaners in mburg Virginia. Includes basic duties and location cue.
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Blatt’s Cleaners
Mburg
Rockefeller Offers Gift to Secure U.N. Permanent Site
John D. Rockefeller Jr. offers 8.5 million dollars to acquire midtown Manhattan land for a permanent U.N. headquarters. The property lies between First Avenue and Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and 42nd to 47th streets. NYC pledges to provide balance and riverfront bulkheads for unrestricted U.N. use. The gift would be tax free with action required within 30 days.
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Lake Success
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
United Nations
Manhattan
U. N. Permanent Headquarters Committee
Warren R. Austin
United States
Rockefeller
First Avenue
Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive
Forty-second
Forty-seventh Streets
New York
U .N
New York City
U. N
East River
42Nd
48Th Streets
Midtown
Three Children Die While Seeking Stepfather in Woods
WASSAIC N Y December 11 three children David Murphy 12 Clarence 10 and Mary 9 disappeared with a collie puppy yesterday near West Mountain. They were found in Ten Mile River today alongside the puppy. Deputies and troopers dragged the river locating all three bodies near the farm home they left to meet their stepfather who went to cut Christmas trees.
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Wassaic
N. Y
West Mountain
Ten Mile River
Collie Puppy
David Murphy
Clarence
Mary
C. Fred Close
Dutchess County
Christmas Carol Service at Brucetown Methodist Church
A Christmas Carol service is scheduled at Brucetown Methodist Church on Sunday evening December 15 at 7 30. The program includes selections from six Brucetown Charge churches with pantomimes and vocal numbers led by Kenneth Strowbridge assisted by Mrs George Yeakley at the piano. The public is cordially invited.
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Brucetown Methodist Church
Brucetown
Rae Deen Sao Zer
Kenneth Strowbridge
George Yeakley
Thieves Crack Car Then Escape After Police Recovery
Three unknown intruders entered a car in Galesburg and crashed it into They Stole it from the home of Policeman Henry Bocox. They then damaged it at Policeman C. E. Bertiaux’s home. Police recovered the vehicle but the thieves fled the city.
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Galesoes
Henry Bocox
Pol
Attention dairy men increase milk with apple pomace feed
Dairy producers urged to raise milk output by feeding apple pomace products. Contact Mr. McKay at 5939 Ridgewood Frui Industries, City, for details and supplies.
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McKay
Ridgewood Frui Industries
City
Earl Bunting to Speak at Shawnee NAM Meeting Dinner
Newly elected NAM president Earl Bunting will address the Shawnee District annual meeting and Scoutmasters and Cubmasters appreciation dinner. The event, his first address since taking NAM leadership, starts at 6 30 PM at the First Baptist Church.
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Earl Bunting
National Association of Manicturers
U S. Denies Transit of Bombers to Persian Army
Washington denies delivering 40 four engine bombers to Iran, countering a Russian report. Tehran papers and Moscow dispatches reference U.S. arms transfers and Iranian troop movements as martial law spreads in northern Iran amid clashes near Mianeh and Zenjan.
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Washington
State Department
United
Moscow
United States
Tehran
Iran
Mianeh
Azerbaijan
Ahmed Qvama
Zenjan
Tabriz
Kurdistan
Azerbaian
Zirab
Mazendaran
Caspian Sea
Gov Gre
Moscow Radio
Dad
Search for Three Children In New York Mountain Swamplands
In Wassaic New York a joint search by two airplanes soldiers state police civilian volunteers Boy Scouts and schoolchildren scours swamplands near West Mountain and Ten Mile River for David Murphy 12 Clarence Murphy 10 and Mary Murphy 9 who vanished after school while walking with their dog toward their stepfather in the woods. The hunt began at dawn with aircraft from Stewart Field and the U S Military Academy Airfield and a deputy sheriff’s plane joining the effort.
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Wassaic
N. Y
West Mountain
Ten Mile River
Stewart Field
U. S. Military Academy
Newchurch
Poughkeepsie
C.S. Brown
Green Haven
David Murphy
Clarence
Mary
Charles Hitchcock
Spaak Proposal Divides U N Assembly Powers
In Lake Success on December 11 a key U N disarmament committee reportedly dropped Sir Hartley Shawcross’s plan for a worldwide weapons count. The move aimed to break a deadlock in the General Assembly as eight-nation talks prepared to report back to their chiefs and the 20-nation sub committee. The measure, urged by Paul-Henri Spaak, hinged on acceptance by the United States Great Britain and Soviet Russia.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Committee
United Nations Assembly
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Hartley Shawcross
Economist Says Nation Flirting With Collapse
Washington December 11 economist Robert R Nathan a former top government economist warned the nation is flirting with collapse unless industry raises workers pay or cuts prices. Nathan now a private consultant prepared the CIO background to support its wage hike drive noting profits could support up to 25 percent raises without further price increases. Oscar Gass co author and Nathan warned wage growth must outpace price gains or the economy will slip into a low mood.
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Washington
Robert R. Nathan
Nathan
CIO
War Production Board
War Mobilizer
The
Eee
Ae Nathan
Oscar Gass
Doctor Kau Joins Winchester Memorial Hospital Staff
Dr. L. 5. Kau, an American citizen born to Chinese parents and a graduate of St. John's University Shanghai, is named full time pathologist and laboratories assistant at Winchester Memorial Hospital. He joins the medical staff as the newest member.
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L. 5. Kau
Winchester Memorial Hospital
St. John's University
Shanghai
Kau
Government And Lewis Attorneys Sign Agreement
Federal Judge T Alan Goldsborough approved a stipulation staying all further action in the United Mine Workers contempt case until ten days after the Supreme Court hears arguments on the Lewis union appeal set for January 14. The government and UMW attorneys signed the agreement which covers litigation deferment and possible actions after the court hearing.
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T. Alan Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Goldsborough
Supreme Court
Lewis
John F. Sennett
Welly K. Hopkins
Joseph A. Padway
Lewis Union
Supreme Court of the United States
United States of America
United Mine Workers of America Et al
Doctor’s Statement On Baldness Sparks Hollywood Talk
Hollywood reacts to Northwestern University doctor Herbert Rattener’s claim that baldness signals supermasculinity. Celebrities including Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Cedric Hardwicke weighed in with humor and skepticism about toupees and baldness affecting appeal and opportunities.
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Hollywood
Bill Shakespeare
Herbert Rattener
Northwestern University
Jack Benny
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Bing
Cedric Hardwicke
Virginia to call extra session over teacher pay crisis
Governor Tuck announced an extra General Assembly session to address Virginia public school salaries amid an emergency in funding. He suggested raises could come from existing revenues or other sources without new taxes and cited a case of a teacher earning 155 dollars a month after expenses. The session opens January 6 1947 in Richmond with leaders from both parties and education officials in attendance.
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Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
Tuck
Anot
Nows
Amouth
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
Virginia Advisory Council
Commonwealth
L. Preston Collins
House
G. Alvin Massenburg
Hampton
G. Tyler Miller
John S. Battle
Charlottesville
Senate Finance Committee
C. Co. Louderback
Community Christmas Carol Sing Scheduled by Winchester Groups
The Winchester Recreation Department and the Junior Board of Trade co sponsor a Community Christmas Carol Sing at Rousseir Hall Monday night December 23 at 8 o clock. Local musicians will lead singing and copies of carols will be available for attendees. A pre event program of Christmas music begins at 6 45 with various locations across the city.
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Winchester Recreation Department
Junior Board of Trade
Rousseitr Hall
McTiwee
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Mary S. Yeakley
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U.N. Assembly
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