City's Top Hotel Scores Big Gains In Past Decade
Winchester hotels show 50 percent growth over ten years led by George Washington hotel and Hotel Jack. Attendance rose to 78 500 in year ended August 1949, while wartime rationing cut guests in 1942 to 42 600. Bonded debt was paid off after refinancing in 1943, payroll climbed to 120 000, with 90 percent of staff at the George Washington.
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George Washington Hotel
Jack
Eugene R. Branch
Winchester
Branch
George Washington
Emat
George Washington Ee
George W
Ashington Corp
Whit
Henry Ford
Babe Ruth
Maxim Litvinoff
George Washington Laundry
Death of Mrs Susan DeHaven Head of 5 Generations
Mrs Susan DeHaven widow of Alexander DeHaven died 6 30 p m yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs Bertha Miller 525 Fairmont Ave shortly after her 96th birthday She was born near Chestnut Grove Frederick County and married in 1872 to Alexander DeHaven There were nine children four survive including Stuart DeHaven Brent DeHaven and Mrs Etta Lee Loy She leaves 27 grandchildren 59 great grandchildren and 18 great great grandchildren Services are set for Sunday with 12 noon gathering at Omps Funeral Home and 1 p m at Chestnut Grove Cemetery Pallbearers are six grandsons
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Susan de- Haven
Alexander de- Haven
Bertha Miller
Fairmont Ave
John
Susan Whitacre
DeHaven
Frederick County
Chestnut Grove
Alexander DeHaven
Lawrence
Tull Ruble
Edmund
Talbert
Orville
Lawrence DeHaven
Omps Funeral Home
Police Work Training Ordered for Sheriffs Deputies in Virginia
Richmond Dec 16 Compulsory police work training for all Virginia law enforcement officers urged by the Study Commission in a report to the governor and General Assembly. Recommendations include expanding the State Police training school, mandatory attendance for deputies and sheriffs, state funding of costs, enhancing local coordination, a state fingerprint file, uniform crime reporting, and regional radio systems with age and education prerequisites for new deputy sheriffs. The panel also suggests transferring the former postmortem examination laboratory and chief medical examiner duties to the Department of State Police and increasing the investigative unit.
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Richmond
General Assembly
Virginia
Department of State Police
Commission On
General Fund
Medical Society of Virginia
T of State Police
Department’ of State Police
Virginia educator pledges full cooperation in education reform
Ma an Ma an tendent in Virginia expresses sincere hope for cooperation and constructive attitude to aid education reform in Richmond. Citizens recall his prior work in Winchester and his active role in civic and educational projects advancing public education.
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Tendent
Virginia
Richmond
Legisla
Howard
Winchester
France to receive U S aircraft carrier says Pleven
Paris December 16 France will get a United States aircraft carrier Pleven announced to the National Assembly budget panel He urged 1950 military credits of 1.2 billion dollars, about 18 percent of the total budget. He compared European shares and sought aid from Atlantis Pact nations for the air force while the army would shrink to 310000. He did not specify the carrier’s size.
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France
U. S
Pleven
A. Oat
National Defense Committee
National Assembly
Great Britain
United States
Holland
Italy
Russia
Sawyer Signals Possible Sabotage in Anti-trust Drive
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer plans a sweeping review of federal anti monopoly efforts to see if agencies inadvertently undermine the enforcement push. The forthcoming report will probe military procurement fairness, regulatory agency rate decisions, farm marketing exemptions, and finance loan and tax policies affecting competition.
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Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Truman
Congress
Kefauver
D-Tenn
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Celler
D-Ny
House Judiciary Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corp
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Winchester Hosts Free Chest X Ray Clinic for Workers
A four day mass screening examined 1796 workers from six Winchester plants using mobile equipment capable of over 100 chest pictures per hour. Participants included 982 from National Fruit, 472 from Virginia Woolen, 100 from Winchester Knitting Mills, 106 from Rockingham Poultry Marketing Coop, and 30 Warner Textile Co. employees. No charge. surveys funded by Winchester Tuberculosis Association and Health Dept. Reports to participants in January. return clinic scheduled January 24-25. proceeds from current Christmas seal sale cover costs. A similar free mass clinic for local citizens is planned next year.
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Winchester
National Fruit
Virginia Woolen
Winchester Knitting Mills
Rockingham Poultry Marketing Coop
Zeropack
Warner Textile Co
Winchester Tuberculosis Assn
Winchester Health Dept
Grace B. Kelly
Winchester TB Assn
O Dwyer to wed Sloan in Stuart Florida
New York City Hall announced Mayor William O Dwyer who is convalescing in Florida will marry Miss Sloan in Stuart Florida. The 59 year old widower and Miss Simpson a fashion stylist have been the subject of romance speculation for months.
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New York
City Hall
William O’dwyer
Five Day Weather Outlook for Virginia
A five day weather outlook for Virginia from Saturday through Wednesday notes temps near normal with warmer Saturday and mild Sunday. Expect colder Monday and Tuesday, then warmer Wednesday. Rain possible midweek with total rainfall around one to two tenths of an inch.
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Virginia
Plane Carrying 17 Missing Near Vera Cruz
A Mexican Aviation Co. DC-3 with 17 aboard vanished while flying from Mexico City to Merida. The craft disappeared near Vera Cruz en route, after leaving at 5 AM and failing to arrive by 6 30 AM.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Mexican Aviation Co
Merida
Yucatan
Mail Sets Record For Yuletime at Post Office Here
Post master Carl Campbell reports a Christmas surge at the Winchester post office. Since December 10 total cancellations reached 127 980, beating last year’s 118 380 for the period through December 25. To handle the load 29 extra employees and four trucks were added. Saturday hours extend with windows open until 6 pm for stamps parcels COD and registered mail and money orders until 2 pm.
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Carl Campbell
Ste
Winchester
Campbell
Handley Band Students Earn All State Honors
Handley band instructor H. Gaylen Strance announced that twenty Handley pupils qualified for the All State Concert Band and a separate twelve member workshop band will meet February 10 to 12. Qualified players include Virginia Marco Peggy Long Jim Marco Tommy Winn Joann Smith Sue Sybert Robert Kendall and others across flute clarinet bass clarinet French horn trumpet trombone and percussion. Also listed are workshop members Julia Dotson Bruce McFadden Ronnie Adams and more.
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Aulto Workshop
H. Gaylen Strance
Handley
Charlottesville
Woodstock
Alexandria
Strance
Virginia Marco
Peggy Long
Jim Marco
Tommy Winn
Joann Smith
Sue Sybert
Robert Kendall
Dorothy Hoagland
Lee Rathman
Betty Jo Halterman
Donald Good
Anna Fleming
Allen Slaughter
Ronald Johnson
Raymond Dick
Enzio Salomon
Robert Pickeral
Jim McFadden
Eugene Adams
Jack Sheetz
Julia Dotson
Bruce McFadden
Ronnie Adams
Sarah Shiley
Annette Masters
Donnie Kremer
Carroll Bridgeforth
Loma Good
John Pickeral
Richard Duncan
Phil Slaughter
Carl Shickle
Cain Sees Eisenhower In Three Way GOP Nomination Fight
Washington dispatch reports Senator Cain foresees a three man race for the 1952 Republican nomination with Eisenhower Stassen and Taft. Cain says Stassen would join Taft and Eisenhower down the stretch. Eisenhower denies any candidacy angle while others predict a Taft Eisenhower contest.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP
Cain
R-Wash
Eisenhower
Harold E. Stassen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Iugh D Scott Jr
Taft
Fort Worth
Texas
Fire Rips Lexington Stores Causing Half Million Dollar Loss
Early morning blaze in Lexington, Virginia destroyed Adair Hutton department store and J Ed Deaver and Son menswear. Two offices on the second floor of the Stuart building were gutted. Tolley's hardware and McCrum's drug store both damaged. Fifteen hundred homes lost phone service. two firemen injured. Cause undetermined. Fire teams from Lexington Buena Vista and Staunton fought subfreezing flames.
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Lexington
Adair Hutton
J. Ed Deaver and Son
Virginia State Highway Department
Comen
Stuart
Tolley’s Hardware
Mce Crum
Adair- Hutton
E. P. Tompkins
Strike Threat Looms Over Soft Coal After Christmas
Soft coal operators urge President Truman to halt the three day work week imposed by John L. Lewis amid peak winter fuel demand. They argue the schedule is a partial strike endangering the economy and press for anti trust action against Lewis and the United Mine Workers.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Divide
Cold snap dips to 10 degrees with frost in county
The region saw a hard freeze as temperatures fell to 14 degrees last night and may drop to 10 degrees tonight. Forecasters expect a slow recovery with warmer conditions and increasing cloudiness by Saturday while ponds iced over and heavy frost appeared across the county.
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Virginia
Winchester Research Laboratory
Growers Approve Cotton Tobacco Controls in State
Virginia sun-cured growers and cotton farmers back crop production controls and the accompanying government price support guarantees. In two referendums, Virginia voters approved one-year quotas for cotton with a 1890 to 657 majority and authorized 26 million acres this year. The Virginia quota will be reduced from 32 000 to 28 000 acres. Quotas on sun-cured tobacco are new though Virginia tobacco rules have varied since 1938 for other types. Over 3000 growers in 29 central Virginia counties were eligible.
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Virginia
Dry Friday Seen Working For New York Water Plan
New York reports the one day water savings from the dry Friday effort shows a 26 percent drop in flow from the prior Friday and a 13 percent decline from yesterday. Edward J. Clark, chief city water engineer, notes the main reservoir flow at 8 am reflects significant reductions.
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New York
Edward J. Clark
Metropolis
Conference Forms Church Union Body Aims for Organic Unity
Greenwich Conn December 16 A new Conference on Church Union formed to pursue organic unity among Protestant denominations in the United States. Delegates from 16 million members join the rest of the 47 million Protestants to promote a formal union with an executive committee led by Bishop Van Lee Holt of St Louis. The group plans to meet again early 1951 and advocates a federal union style national structure linking autonomous synods.
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Greenwich
Conn
United States
America
van Lee Holt
St. Louis
Methodist World Federation
Methodist Council of
Conference On Church Union
Holt
Leong
President Declares Friendship with Eisenhower
A presidential statement asserts friendship with General Eisenhower and notes a cabinet meeting planned at the House at 10 a.m. next. The record emphasizes the allied stance and scheduled session.
B-29 Crash Kills Five in New Mexico Windmill Collision
A B-29 returning from a training flight struck a windmill near Roswell and crashed. Five airmen were killed and three injured as crews freed survivors from wreckage after a two hour rescue effort. Names of the dead and injured are listed, with hometowns including Harteford Connecticut, Ferndale Michigan, Port Worth Texas, and others.
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N. M
Penge
Beebee
Richard 8. Leggio
Harteford
Conn
Robert van der Muellen
Ferndale
Mich
Charles A. Whitlock
Port Worth
Tex
Roybal
Pecos
Robert L. Eyman
Tallahasse
Pla
Camelia J. Cannata
New Britain
John Richard Simonson
Glen Howard Stoddard Jr
Omaha
SiSnet
Adria L. Edgell
Bristol
W. Va
Estate of Ida Thwaite Valued at 85382 in Frede rick County
The late Mrs Ida Thwaite widow of a pioneer Frederick County orchardist left an estate valued at 85382. The estate was appraised by H M.
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Ida Thwaite
Frederick County
H. M
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