Horticultural Meet Danes Winchester Delegation
A Winchester area delegation will attend the State Horticultural Society conference in Roanoke starting Wednesday. Attendees include Mr and Mrs Walker McCo ad Kenneth Robinson Mr and Mrs Joseph E Butler Mrs H W tier Sr treasurer of the ladies auxiliary Mr and Mrs Sherry Lupton Mr and Mrs Grace Browne Mr and Mrs Her on Stine Leary Baker Roy Rather G R Green and Earl of White Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
State Horticultural Society
Roanoke
Walker McCoad
Kenneth Robinson
Joseph E. Butler
H. W. Tier Sr
Adies’ Auxiliary
Sherry Lupton
Grace Browne
Heron Stine
Leary Baker
Roy Rather
G. R. Green
A. . Earl of
White Post
Numerous For Sale Classified Listings With Contact Details
Many items offered for sale including farms houses tractors and barns. Listings mention 45 acre farm with two houses streams wells a big barn and electricity. Other items include a 1935 Ford sedan a 1946 model 4 ton pickup truck sewing machine radios safes and various household goods with phone numbers and addresses for contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry H. Willis
Baker & Anderson Electrical Co
Singer Sewing Machine
Joseph L. Jenkins
Stephens City
Salem Church Road
Zenith
A. R. Mayhew
Gore
N. Loudoun
Cedar Creek
E. D. Funkhouser
Canaries
Braddock St
Studebaker
Cameron
Royal
New Motor
Whitacre’s
Martinsburg Pike
Chevrolet
Virginia GOP plans 1949 platform and loyalty dinner
Virginia Republicans empowered state chairman Robert H. Woods to appoint committees for a comprehensive study of Virginia government to draft a 1949 platform. The central committee also voted to hold a loyalty dinner on Lincoln's birthday February 12, likely in Richmond. The report notes among member groups describing the ro dent family as porcupines and beavers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Virginia
Robert H. Woods
Central Committee
Lincoln
Richmond
Pan American Plans To Absorb Overseas Airlines
Pan American World Airways and American Overseas Airlines announce a merger creating the largest consolidation in American aviation. American Overseas routes to eleven European countries and assets would transfer to Pan American in exchange for stock, after which American Overseas would be dissolved subject to shareholder and Civil Aeronautics Board approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pan American World Airways
American Overseas Airlines
American Overseas
Europe
Pan American
Civil Aeronautics Board
American Airlines
U. S
Howard Hughes
Trans World Airline
Travelers Tower in Hartford Height and Light Details
The Travelers Tower rises 527 feet with 24 stories. It uses six lamps in each of four windows, each lamp at 12 000 candlepower, producing bluish white light. The lamp spectrum shows 11 percent violet blue, 98 percent green yellow, and .89 percent orange red.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Travelers Tower
Public Sale of Personal Property At Winchester Home
The undersigned will sell at public auction starting at 1 PM on Saturday December 18 1948 at the late home of Orpha H Lockhart 12 Greenwall Avenue Winchester Virginia. The sale will list the following personal property. The event is a quasijudicial notice of disposition following the deceased owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpha H. Lockhart
Greenwall Avenue
Winchester
Virginia
M Clarre Returns From Okinawa After 22 Months Overseas
Capt Harold A McClarre of Maurertown comes home on leave after 22 months overseas with the Army in the Far East. He has served as commanding officer of the 583rd transportation truck company at Okinawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold A. McClarre
Maurertown
Army
Far East
583Rd Transportation Truck Company
Okinawa
Former OPA Director resigns as ADA national chairman
Leon Henderson, former director of the Office of Price Administration, has stepped down as national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. He remains chief economist at the Research Institute of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
OPA
Leon Henderson
Americans For Democratic Action
The
Research Institute of America
South Korea asks United Nations membership
Paris December 13 The Republic of Korea requested United Nations membership as it controls the southern half of the former Japanese Peninsula and claims authority over the entire country. The United States occupies the south while Russia holds the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Republic of
Korea
United Nations
U. S
South Korea
Russia
Greenland whale noted as giant whalebone producer
The almost extinct right whale also known as the Greenland whale is the largest of the whalebone species and can yield as much as 3 500 pounds of baleen.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jrowers
N. Braddock St
Tommy D. Lockhart
N. Loudounst
Winchester's
Kent ST
Capitol Restaurant
E. T. Pavey
Heatwolk Motor CO
Your
DeSoto
Plymouth
Kelly Miehile
Kluge
Linotype
Territory
West Virginia
Maryland
Winchester Evening Star
J. G. Hollinger & Son
Rouss Ave
Gune
Winchester Furniture CO
Chesappeake & Potomac Telephone Company
Florida
Parkers Hardware
F. A. Shryock Co
Funkhouser
Marboro Rt
Loudoun
Handley Library
Peyton St
E. W Armstrong
N. Cameron &J. Winchester
Waynesboro
Front Royal
Winchester Servce
GOP
Equipment Pine Motor CO
Pan American Co
Overseas ‘Airlines
Travelers Tower
Hartford
Conn
Heatwale Motor Company
W. E. Edwards
L. J. Wright
Orpha H. Lockhart Coleman Dunn
Jacobsen
Miller’s Hardware
N. Main St
East Water Street
Winchester, Virginia
M’clarre
ADA
U. N
John M. Hepfer
E.L. Bowen
Winchester Motors
N. Kone St
Wards
Tacoma
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